The Boomers are still in the hunt after seeing off Lithuania in their quarter-final match.
The men's team was able to see off the Lithuanian team with ease, defeating them 90-64.
They will play either Croatia or Serbia in the semi-finals for the chance to reach a medal match.
"Because we believe, we believe we can beat teams," he said.
"It comes with our mindset, we’re a resilient group that plays hard. I’ve been on teams where we say all that but there’s still that doubt there.
"We’ve had a lot of success individually – Delly [Matthew Dellavedova], Patty [Mills] and myself have won a ring [in the NBA] and been part of what it takes to be at the pinnacle in this sport.
"And we have a lot of guys who play hard and enjoy being around each other and when you have that it works wonders for you."
The Boomers' win keeps hopes alive for Australia to gain another team sport medal after the Opals were eliminated in a heartbreaking 73-71 loss to Serbia and the elimination of Australia's hockey, water polo and the men's rugby sevens team from the medal rounds.
The women's rugby sevens gold remains the only team sport medal Australia has won in Rio.
Athletics
Brooke Stratton has finished seventh in the women's long jump final with a best jump of 6.74 metres on her Olympic debut.
Australia's first decathlete since the Sydney 2000 Games, Cedric Dubler, has finished his first day of competition in 12th position.
The first day of the decathlon saw the athletes compete in the 100 metres run, long jump, shot put, high jump and the 400 metres.
Tomorrow he will do the 110 metres hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and the 1500 metres.
The athlete with the most points at the end of the 10 events wins the gold medal.
Brett Robinson has made it through to the final of the men's 5000 metres in ninth position.
Patrick Tiernan and Sam McEntee did not make it through finishing 20th and 35th respectively.
In the women's 800 metres, Selma Kajan will not move through to the semi-finals after finishing seventh in her heat and 54th overall.
Joshua Robinson and Hamish Peacock both failed to progress to the men's javelin final, finishing 13th and 25th respectively.
Sailing
The men's 470 medal race has been postponed until tomorrow due to a lack of wind.
Mathew Belcher and Will Ryan was due to contest the race with hopes of adding to Australia's sailing medal tally after yesterday's gold and silver medals, but will now have to wait.
BMX racing
Caroline Buchanan has finished second in the women's seeding round of the BMX cycling.
Fellow Australian Lauren Reynolds has finished tenth and both of them will move through to the semi-finals, to be held on Friday, Rio time.
In the men's seeding race, Sam Willoughby finished third, Bodi Turner finished 13th and Anthony Dean finished 20th.
They will head to the quarter-finals tomorrow with the hope of progressing through to the semi-finals.
Taekwondo
Safwan Khalil has been eliminated in the semi-finals of the men's 58 kilogram taekwondo.
Khalil won his first round bout against Belgium's Si Mohamed Ketbi, demolishing him 8-1, however he lost his second round match, against Tawin Hanprab of Thailand, 11-9.
He then progressed to the repecharge round where he lost to Korea's Taehun Kim 4-1.
Canoe sprint
Australia's Ken Wallace and Lachlane Tame have qualified first for the final of the men's kayak double 1000 metres.
They will race for a medal tomorrow.
In the men's kayak double 200 metres Daniel Bowker and Jordan Wood will finish their campaign in the second final and out of the medals after finishing last in their semi-final.
Naomi Flood got through to the semi-finals of the women's kayak single 500 metres but was then eliminated and will not progress to the finals.
But Ferenc Szekszardi was eliminated in the heats of the men's canoe single 200 metres after finishing last in his heat.
Diving
Both Melissa Wu and Brittany O'Brien have qualified for semi-final the women's 10 metre platform diving.
Wu will move through in fourth while O'Brien qualified in 17th, with the top 18 athletes moving through to the semi-finals, which will be held tomorrow.
Water polo
The women's water polo team have defeated Brazil 11-4 in the fifth versus eighth place match.
They will now play Spain to decide fifth and sixth position.
Golf
Australia's Su Oh and Minjee Lee have teed off in the first round of the women's golf.
At the end of the first day Lee is sitting two under par in equal 11th and Oh is at even par in equal 26th with three more days still to play.
Equestrian
Edwina Tops-Alexander and Matt Williams have qualified for the final of the individual show jumping.
Top-Alexander is sitting in equal 23rd position and Williams is in 36th.
Technically only the top 35 riders can progress to the final, but only three riders from each country are permitted, which saw two riders pushed out of the final.
Wrestling
Japanese wrestler Kaori Icho has become the most successful Olympic wrestler of all time after winning her fourth gold medal in the 58 kilogram freestyle wrestling.
She is the first wrestler to win four gold medals and the first woman to win for individual gold medals at four straight Olympics.
India has won it's first medal for the Rio Olympics.
Sakshi Malik won bronze in the women's 58 kilogram freestyle wrestling against Kyrgyzstan's Aisuluu Tynybekova.
India's first female Olympic gymnast, Dipa Karmakar, also qualified for the women's vault apparatus final and finished in fourth place.
