Could there be a better soundtrack to the Boomers watershed bronze-medal moment in Tokyo than AC/DC?
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A band formed by a couple of battlers from Burwood, a few born elsewhere, that became a global phenomenon in a style quintessentially Australian.
They even had naturalised Aussie up front. That's about all Boomers coach Brian Goorjian has in common with Bon Scott, but he well and truly understood how important it was to have Acca Dacca blaring from the boombox in the locker room.
When it wasn't Bon or Brian Johnson, it was Jimmy Barnes and Cold Chisel. It carried a clear message - we're doing things our way; the Australian way.
"The music was such a huge part of it," Goorjian said.
"You walk into the gym and it's Cold Chisel, Sunnyboys, AC/DC, We Are Australian. It's blaring in locker room, out the back of the bus after games.
"You come into the locker room, you've got the flags, the Aboriginal flag, Torres Straight Islands flag, Australian flag. There's all the slogans the guys had created over the course of 12 years.
"It was all there. From those first two days at the start of it, I learned this 'gold vibes only' thing they were pushing wasn't the medal, it was the standard.
"Everything, the ball, the training court, the uniform, everything had to be gold standard. There was no fear, no nerves, we'd just go to the same place we were at every day, where every effort was a gold standard effort for or country to see."
It was something he saw the seeds of when he coached a 19-year-old Patty Mills and a 20-year-old Joe Ingles at the Beijing Olympics. A 22-year-old Andrew Bogut as well.
It was part of a changing of the guard for the Boomers, who'd seen the likes of Andrew Gaze, Mark Bradtke and Luc Longley hang up the Nikes after the 2000 Olympics.
Phil Smyth wore the brunt of the rebuild phase, missing qualification for the 2002 world championships.
He was was replaced by Goorjian ahead of the London Olympics. He still had skipper Shane Heal, but it was a national program very much in a transitory state.
The music was such a huge part of it. You walk into the gym and it's Cold Chisel, Sunnyboys, AC/DC, We Are Australian. It's blaring out the back of the bus after games.
- Brian Goorjian
As Athens loomed, Goorjian described the task as starting all over again.
"When I came to the Boomers, everybody had retired at the same time after the Sydney Olympics," Goorjian said.
"Gaze, Bradtke, Longley, they'd all played extra [years] to play at those Olympics. I don't think it was any fault of Phil Smyth when he took over, I just don't think he walked into a great scenario. We weren't at our best at that time.
"When I walked in there was no culture, no standards because most of the guys who'd driven that weren't there anymore. A lot of guys stepping in had never been a Boomer before.
"It started in Athens with Bogut, and then I had Patty and Joe [in Beijing] and it moved a long way culturally.
"There was a direction there and now I've walked back in 12 years later and where they've taken it is incredible. There's no comparison."
Putting last week's bronze medal win aside for a moment, it was remarkable enough that Goorjian was there at all.
The NBL bird appeared to have flown, the six-time championship-winner flat-batting all efforts to lure him back to Australia over his 12 years in China; and there were plenty.
If shifting back to Australia and the NBL, with the Hawks of all clubs, was utterly unbelievable, the odds of a return to the national team were astronomical.
Yet, with then Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown resigning, to door opened. Hindsight says it was the right call, but the 68-year-old admits he had to overcome an initial reticence.
"As you get to my age, and being in China I had opportunities come up, you know right away 'nope, nah, it's not for me'," Goorjian said.
"My mindset was never to go back into the NBL again. I thought 'why go back into that box and put all you've accomplished at risk?'.
"When the Illawarra job came up, it was a new franchise, China was winding down. There was so much [enticement], it's a great place to live, great community, being an underdog, building something.
"The Boomers [opportunity] was very different. When I got offered it my immediate reaction was 'no, don't want to do it'. The Boomers job was [about taking] that next step and nothing else was acceptable.
"Walking back into that cauldron...it's a hard job to walk into."
In the end, walking into training camp in Irvine California was nothing like his first stint in charge of the Boomers. As an old baseball guy, he discovered he didn't need to be a lead-off man, just a closer.
"I'd been with Patty and Joe in Beijing and, when I got the initial call, I spoke to them," he said.
"There was this short window, Brett's not doing it, they made me feel like 'I'm needed right now'. I got there and, from the time I walked in the door, I knew I was right for this.
"The first two days in Irvine I didn't say a word. Everyone was wondering 'what's he's here for' but I just watched how they use the music, how they interacted with each other, how they communicated.
"It ran on its own the first two days and it built from there. I had Patty and Joe, they're NBA guys, I mean who are you going to listen to [as a player]?
"I just knew if I did it right, it would get to certain points where my voice was needed and I'd have their attention. It was nothing like how I operate with the Hawks."
Keeping his powder dry until after a crushing defeat to Team USA in the semi-finals paid off, his words prior to the bronze-medal playoff against Slovenia enough to get the Boomers over the hurdle at which they'd fallen countless times before.
"The whole country was watching us and I said 'it's no good if what I'm saying to you is in the locker room and it's touched 15 people'.
"There was a drive to let all of Australia know what it means to be a Boomer and what a Boomer is. The biggest thrill is what it did for our sport in an environment where basketball is number one.
"In Australia it's Australian Rules, it's cricket, it's rugby league, but at the Olympics everyone knows 'that's Kevin Durant, that's Damian Lillard'. It's the same thing with Patty and Joe in that environment, who's more high profile [globally] than them?
"To showcase all of that in an environment where basketball is number one... this particular moment in time will change basketball in our country."
Most importantly, if there's one thing Mills, Ingles, Bogut and co. have ensured over the past 12 years, it's that the Boomers program will never have to start all over again.
"It was very important to Patty and to Joe that Mattise [Thybulle], Josh Green, [Josh] Giddey, [Xavier] Cooks all came to Irvine and experienced that," Goorjian said.
"If they hadn't been, it'd be like what I walked into after Sydney. This culture would be another eight years of work.
"What was huge for this is now Mattise, Josh Green, Duop [Reath], Giddey, Cooks, Nic Kay, Jock Landale, all those guys are going to carry it on."