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Mystro

Years ago

Tall Blacks vs. Boomers in up and coming years

That one win looked pretty good from where I was sitting and it was enough to win the series and give NZ the #1 qualifying spot for Oceania.
As for the we didn't have our best players cop out comment, were NZ @ full strength? No

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Mystro

Years ago

Beat Australia once Anon?

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Mystro

Years ago

I agree that Australia is very deep across the board in every position. The difference in population size guarantees this.
New Zealands main strength is that we play with passion and we play hard, especially against Australia.
With all these top quality guys coming through in the next few years the only thing we can guarantee is that the series in the future will be just as tough as they are now.

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Years ago

For the next 8 years at least, a full strength Boomers lineup would be looking at the following players IMO:

C: Bogut / Maric / Baynes / Nevill / Ogilvy
F: Jawai / Motum / Majok
F: Ingles / Barlow / Worthington
G: Newley / Greenwood / Bose / Salecich
G: Mills / Martin / Markovic / Gibson / Dellavedova / Cadee

And plus, these guys will be pushed by the younger ones coming through as outlined earlier.

If the Aussies field anything close to full strength, the Kiwi's have no chance.

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MACDUB

Years ago

Jackson Alrdidge committed to Butler University just a few days ago. By all accounts, their 2011 class is supposed to be really strong, so he could be part of an NCAA tounry run right from his freshman year.

Steven Adams is a beast; 6"11 and he is just 16 years of age.
Dominated the NZ age group stuff, but I want to see him go up against tougher competetion with guys his size..He was going up against 6"4/6"5 centers in NZ so of course he was going to dominate.
We tried to get him into our JTB team for the upcoming FIBA series; He would easy dominate Trist, Thomas, Sinclair

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Years ago

PS: Great to see you have faith in the New Zealand sides of the future, but I really do think the Aussies have you well and truly covered across pretty much every position.

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Years ago

Ummm...missing a lot of up and coming players! Australia compared to NZ has depth at every spot coming up through the ranks...the only concern would be the 3 spot IMO but I think we will be OK as I expect Creek will more than fuill that gap over the coming years.

Here is a brief summary...all players I list below are under the age of 23 and whom I consider a chance to one day pull on a Boomer singlet. And yes, I may have missed one or two players, but this is a good start.

Point Guards
Patty Mills (Portland, NBA)
Matt Dellavedova (Saint Mary's, NCAA)
Jason Cadee (Gold Coast, NBL)
Jorden Page (Saint Mary's, NCAA)
Nate Tomlinson (Colorado, NCAA)
Jackson Aldridge (AIS)
Mitch Norton

Shooting Guards
Anatoly Bose (Nicholls State, NCAA)
Hugh Greenwood (AIS)
Ryan Broekhoff (Valparaiso, NCAA)
Christian Salecich (Saint Louis, NCAA)
Anthony Drmic (AIS)

Forwards
Joe Ingles (CB Granada, Spain)
Code Ellis (Saint Louis, NCAA)
Brock Motum (Washington State, NCAA)
Mitch Young (Saint Mary's, NCAA)
Mitch Creek (AIS)
Ater Majok (Connecticut, NCAA)

Centres
AJ Ogilvy (Besiktas, Turkey)
Matthew Hodgson (Southern Utah, NCAA)
Shane Harris-Tunks (Colorado, NCAA)
Andrija Dumovic (AIS)

And there are plenty more players I could add that miss this list by just 1-2 years...

Also, you missed big Kiwi centre Steven Adams who hs committed to Pittsburgh in the NCAA.

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