Patty Mills delivered one last iconic Olympics moment for Australia, but for all the Boomers' effort and guts defeat to Serbia in their quarterfinal represented a missed opportunity, and a repeat of familiar failings.
The underdog Australia ns, who had scraped into the Olympic quarter-finals by the skin of their teeth and with a losing record, were blowing Serbia off the court.
It was also, sadly, unsustainable. And in the hour that had passed since then Serbia had steadily found their feet and Australia had started to get scrappy. It was a ridiculous, remarkable shot. It dragged Australia to overtime, the latest in a long list of lifelines it had received at these Olympics.Mills's moment deserved a better end result, as there will now be the risk that one of the most clutch shots in the history of Australian basketball will now be forgotten
Just like that, the campaign was over. Somehow the Boomers were genuinely worthy of credit for showing grit and fight in losing a game they had led at one point by 24.
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