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00:01As I'm sure you know the Olympics are coming and we could really appreciate
00:05going up against some players with experience otherwise we're gonna get
00:09thrashed. When the Australian Olympic Committee selected their the team they
00:14invited us to scrimmage with them and play games with them. We just couldn't
00:18have asked for a better situation with them. In Australia our religion is sport
00:24and if you want to connect with Aussies well then you do it through sport. During
00:28halftime you know it's kind of normal for a basketball team to go in and have a
00:32little chalk talk but we didn't do that. We went out among the the audience who was
00:38there and answered any questions that they may have. I don't know a great deal
00:43about your church but I do know those boys are some of the finest examples of
00:48basketballers in this country. The reception was just tremendous.