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Mystro

Years ago

No Jawai or Andersen for Boomers

you would think the lock out and lack of insurance would stop guys like Parker and Diaw playing for France.
great to see NZ are not considered walk overs by the Australian basketball fans

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MACDUB

Years ago

"Are there any other international teams gong into olympic qualifiers that anyone knows of whereby 4 of their top players aren't available?

This is a problem IMO and Australia has to be one of the teams most hard done by."

Curtley, NZ is always hard done by when it comes to Olympic qualifying.
Because there is only one spot available, we usually always JUST miss out and have to watch the Olympics at home whilst teams like Iran, Angola etc. get to compete at them. Oh and having the top players unavailable for your team is a common problem..The Boomers aren't the only ones that are affected by it. Brazil (Barbosa, Varejao, Tiago Splitter), Italy (Bellinelli, Bargnani, Gallinari), France (Parker, Pietrus, Diaw, Turiaf) all experience the same problems --Hence why none of these teams qualified for 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Beantown

Years ago

Disappointing that Khazzouh is unavailable. I think he would do really well in the international game.

Good news that Matty Nielsen will be back for the qualifiers though. His defence was good last World Champs and he should be able to ensure we don't get burned in the paint by NZ.

Hard to argue with many of your selections there Paul. I think the only spots I'd contest would be the ones at the end of the bench:
1) Crawford - have never really rated him and his shooting against China was just abysmal. Never going to make an Olympic or WC team.
2) Gibson - you can argue he'd be stiff to miss out, but I just don't think there's room for him and Martin in the same team (same skill-sets). You go with one or the other.

After Greenwood's shooting performance at the U19 WCs I'd love to see him get the 11th or 12th spot. Outside shooting is one of the Boomers biggest needs and he clearly meets that. I thought his ball-handling and leadership oncourt was outstanding too.

I think Wagstaff is the other guy from that list I'd strongly consider for an end of the bench role. He'd be a useful body to throw at Vukona/ BJ Anthony if Wortho got into foul trouble and Matty Knight was finding them a bit too nimble.

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Anonymous

Years ago

If we lose to New Zealand we enter the pre Olympic qualifying tournament which is played about a month before the olympics and includes teams 6-10 from Eurobasket and a couple from Asia, Americas and Africa so all is not lost if we happened to lose to NZ...

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Beantown

Years ago

That's disappointing. I'd like to know too. Perhaps the Euro season starts around September when the Olympic qualifiers are on? We can't just throw any old big men out there and expect to knock off the Kiwis.

So far we are down Bogut, Andersen and Jawai. So who are we looking at playing?

I hope Khazzouh will be available, as I think he is the best centre playing in Australia by a long way and he would be a difficult matchup for the Kiwis, with Pledger not as mobile as him and Vukona too small.

Neville would be another option as he just played in the recent Chinese series and was pretty solid. His size would counter Pledger around the basket, though he might struggle with pick and roll defence a little.

Schenscher would be a like for like alternative to Neville.

Ogilvy would be a possibility if he came back to be part of the squad, but I suspect he might be in the same boat as Ando and Jawai.

I guess Baynes and Kickert played against China recently too, but neither were convincing enough IMO to entrust Olympic qualifying to yet.

Hopefully Wortho and Wagstaff will be available to counter Vukona at PF as well.

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Anonymous

Years ago

What are people's thoughts? I wouldve had Carlos Powell at number 1 ahead of Cortez.

CJ Bruton and D-Mac getting in ahead of Maher??? I'm sure they would justify this by saying CJ and D-Mac are on better teams and are surrounded by better players but if so shouldnt they be averaging a few more assists:
B.Maher:19,5,7
C.Bruton:15,3,4
D.McDonald:11,4,5

And I'm also surprised they couldnt find a spot for Horvath, Abney and Ballinger.

What are other peoples thoughts?

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