This weekend, we saw one Utah Jazz’s players finest moment in international competition and another Jazzman’s worst moment all in one shot. After falling to USA Basketball in their first of two exhibition bouts, Joe Ingles and the Aussie Boomers beat Donovan Mitchell and Co. in what was Australia’s first-ever win over the Americans.
Not only that: it was Team USA’s first loss in FIBA play since 2006. That’s a streak of 78 games without an L snapped in front of a hostile crowd of more than 52,000.
After the contest, Ingles, who scored 15 points, dished out seven assists and snagged four boards in the win, was surprisingly businesslike in looking back on one of the biggest wins in Boomers history —
“We can keep building or we can think we’re on top of the world now after one win.