Boomers not ruling out Rocky-like miracle
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Boomers centre Andrew Bogut dunks during the win over Lithuania. (Getty Images: Jamie Squire)
Boomers coach Brian Goorjian says his team is capable of causing a massive upset in tonight's "David and Goliath" quarter-final against the United States.
Australia progressed to the knockout stage by winning three of its five group matches, including an impressive 106-75 victory over Lithuania, while the US advanced without dropping a game.
The Boomers lost by 11-points to the US in an Olympic warm-up match but Goorjian says they are capable of turning around that result tonight.
"I'll be damned if I'm going into this game not believing we can win and everybody's got to feel the same," he said.
"The first thing I've tried to do over the last 48 hours is show my team how we can win, and to leave the meeting last night with the belief that we can win.
"The game plan would have to be played perfectly but to just say 'yeah we've got the possibility of doing this, yeah we can do it'."
Goorjian says a Boomers victory would be one for the history books.
"You could make a movie on this if we won this game. It's David and Goliath, it's Rocky," he said.
Opals captain Lauren Jackson added: "If the boys beat America that would be awesome. I think I'd run around the village naked like five times."
