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Josh Green headlines Emu’s squad for 2019 FIBA U19 Word Cup

Starting 5 will be

Lee
McDonald
Green
Bowen
Froling

Yes. Havent you noticed they have been qualifying for every world tournament.
They finished second in qualifying to champions Serbia.

Latvia, emerging?? Really?

We are in group B with Mali, Canada and Latvia.

Tough group, Mali the strongest African nation, canada(2017 champions) and an emerging euro powerhouse in Latvia.

Exactly.

Women's team will probably be named after u20 ajcs.

Why announce the squad one week before the U20 National Championships?

Even if you are pretty sure that you have identified all potential players, surely it would be better to wait until after U20s and just see who turns up to play!

Serbian teams avg height is 6'9

2014 was u17s WC. We have done well in u17s. 2 silvers in 5 tournaments.

U19s, when the body fills out, we have sucked. 1 gold, 1 silver in 13 tournaments. Last medal was 2003...

Think we will find it difficult to make it in the top 5. Maybe not even top 8.

We struggle to compete with the USA, Canada, Serbia, France and Lithuania at this level.

The rise is of The african nations too means we will have a very tough tournament.

As someone who doesn't usually follow or care for the junior level Boomers, I think this is massive and I'll definitely be tuning in to watch them.

Josh Green is obviously a massive in, going to be so much fun seeing him in the Boomers uniform, particularly in a junior setting where he can be featured and show his stuff.

But on top of that, so many young guys that I think have genuine potential - Wigness, Travers, Wani, etc.

July mate, it's out of ncaa season. All college players will be available.

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Women's squad should be announced shortly too.
We've got a great group but with butler at the helm, not sure we will make top 5 for a second straight item.

They can still play even though they are not in camp.

Williamson was one of the best performers for u17 team, but this is a big step up.
Really need makur with the lack of bigs we have.

Williamson just is not that good. He has moved to Dandenong now too, for those interested, so he is no longer at Sandringham. But he gets dominated a lot. He is big, and would serve a purpose, but I am not totally sold on him being ready for this team. I do like Travers though. Krause is a big time scorer.

So you think Krause(00) over travers(01) and leaupepe(00) over Williamson(01)?

Wigness is double bottom age and will be apart of the next u19s too.

No Maker unfortunately...


I'd say

Lee/Wigness
Ducas/Macdonald/Travers
Green/Stattman/Robertson
Bowen/Williamson
Froling/Dalton

Missing out imo

Armstrong
Krause (Reserve)
Bairstow
Buluk
Clarke
Goodrick
Tattersall
Kunen
Leaupepe (Reserve)
Bannan
Hayes brown (Reserve)

Boomers take on Russia tonight in a game that is really for pride only as quarter final positions are set.

I hope the Boomers keep the roll going and therefore into the USA game as well!

Game is at 6:00pm AEST (5:30pm in Adelaide).