Hoops

Australian Boomers qualifiers in November

Martin
Cadee
Lisch
Mccarron
Goulding
Sobey
Creek
Newley
Kickert
Anderson
Hodgson
Humphries

Reserves
Norton
Gliddon
Blanchfield
Kay
Brandt

Lemonass = Lemanis is a lemon.

Good try but it is actually Lemanis

It's Lamenis not Lemonass. WTF is Lemonass LOL

@koberulz, you are in great form on this topic. Love your style.

Anons, in general, you need to understand that it's not a matter of whether the Simmonses, Exums, et al, should be picked for this squad. THEY ARE NOT AVAILABLE. You would be stupid to pick them for the Australian team for this tournament, because you'd turn up to play, and then wonder why they weren't there.

Back on the original topic of this post, I don't understand why so many people seem so keen for Humphries to be part of this team. He hasn't played much College ball, and hasn't played one minute of NBL. Guys with much better credentials abound, even if Lemonass has pretty much made it clear that he wouldn't pick some of them if they were starting NBA players (and WERE available).

I'd go with:

Martin, Lisch, Norton
Goulding, Sobey, McCarron
Newley, Creek
Andersen, Johnson
Ogilvy, Hodgson

I know a lot of people have listed Cadee, but I think the team needs at least two pure PGs. Cadee and Lisch are both combos, and arguably are more SGs than PGs. Cadee would be my injury replacement guard.

Sobey and McCarron both have the ability to swing into SF, and Creek is versatile enough to play SF or PF. Kickert would be my injury replacement forward; with Blanchfield instead if a SF went down.

I think this team has a very good balance of defence and offence, as well as veterans and youth.

What, you didn't hear about your call up?

Koberulz, Simmons, Exum and Maker are playing for nba teams

BA are disgusting.

Doncic isnt old enough to be drafted.

I agree with player selections. aussie selectors have been very poor.
Especially at junior level..
Just look at the farce that was the World u19s.
Boys didn't even qualify and women's team finished 6th after some baffling omissions as well as those not selected.
Imo u16 team for Asia and possible next years worlds also questionable.
A lot of boys not even making the camp and girls who have never contributed at club level let alone state level and end up making the national team.

Too many players chosen on potential and it really hasn't worked out for BA.

Senior sides are the same.
Brondello likely to field a side full of vets.
World Cup qualifiers for men will not include ogilvy even though he has been the standout center the last few seasons.

Etc etc.

australian coaches are way way too conservative with their team selections. They are not going anywhere with their crap team selections.

Australian coaches have no idea. Go and see how they do things in Europe.

Koberulz, Simmons, Exum and Maker are playing for nba teams, Doncic is not.

I'm even older than Simmons, Exum and Maker are. Lemanis has never even invited me to a camp. What a joke!

will McDowell white has arguably the same level of talent like doncic, but he is no where near the boomers team. The boomers selectors should hang their heads in shame.

If doncic is an Aussie, he
would be a development
player for the Sydney kings and no where near the boomers squad. Laughing my ass off.

Reality, that is just bull.
Maker, Simmons, Exum are
3, 4 years older than Doncic and some people reckon they are not ready for the boomers. LOL

Simmons is a better prospect than Doncic anyway. He should be the key player for the boomers right now.

Lol, some people.

" You left out Bogut he's not an NBA player " ~ Zodiac

Bogut has just signed for the LA Lakers. Lol

An 18 year old has just helped Slovenia won the European championship gold medal. He played major minutes and was a key player for Slovenia . The 18 year old was also named in the all tournament 1st team starting 5.

If the 18 year old is an Aussie, you can bet for your life that this kid would be no where near the boomers squad. Instead, he would most likely be a development player for an nbl team with plenty of DNP~CD next to his name.
This is how conservative, lame and useless the Aussie basketball selectors are.

The starting 5 will probably be

Exum
Mills
Simmons
Maker
Bogut

Adel and bolden likely in the 2nd unit.

not ready, LOL
let's pick Adel, Bolden, Simmons, maker when they are 30 plus in 2028 Olympics.
what an idiot.

not ready my arse. Kobe Bryant, Jordan started playing for the USA when they were 19.
If you are good enough, you are old enough.
The squad in the opening post is obviously
not good enough, that is why none of the players are playing in the nba.

Lol. Not ready...

Aussie (and a few others) all keep nominating Bolden, Maker, Simmons, Exum etc), fine players BUT not they are just starting out and you want to put them up against hardened players with international experience first up. Let them at least prove themselves at senior level and then see if they are still good enough for international comps. They are good but no where ready.

Why? Please explain.

Ogilvy and Johnson? Even if those guys won NBL first team Lemanis wouldn't consider them...

PG
Martin
Cadee

CG
Lisch

SG
Mccarron
Goulding

SF
Sobey
Creek

PF
Kickert
Johnson

PF/C
Anderson

C
Ogilvy
Humphries

Plus whoever is running hot in the NBL at the time.

Ah so THIS is why there's a random week off in the NBL Schedule!

The pieces have come together...it all makes sense now. haha.

haha

Exum
mills
ingles
simmons
maker

Delly
adel
bolden
matur maker
bogut
landale
Acuil

Here we ago again. They WILL NOT be available

Exum
mills
ingles
simmons
maker

Delly
adel
bolden
matur maker
bogut
landale
Acuil

6'1 Martin (6'1 Norton)
6'2 Cadee
6'2 Lisch
6'3 Mccarron
6'4 Goulding (6'5 Gliddon)
6'4 Sobey (6'7 Blanchfield)
6'6 Creek
6'7 Newley
6'10 Kickert
6'11 Hodgson
6'11 Anderson (6'9 Kay)
7'0 Humphries (6'10 Brandt)

You left out Bogut he's not an NBA player ;)

Was just mentioned on Triple M, but they didnt say who or what for?

Anyone know?