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Philly's Matisse Thybulle a potential Boomer?

I don't rate Humphries.

Simmons / Dellavedova
Mills / Cotton / Thybulle
Ingles / Broekhoff
Landale / Maker / Kay
Baynes / Bogut


Goulding and Exum not in great form.
Exum will be dellys replacement in the future, green will be millsreplacement promoting cotton to starting sg.
Bogut and Baynes gone, Magnay, bolden, Humphries, mathiang the other options in the post.

You forgot Thybulle..

I'm not adding Cotton until we know for sure he is naturalised.

Simmons
Mills
Ingles
Landale
Baynes

Dellavedova
Exum
Goulding
Broekhoff
Kay
Thon Maker
Bogut.

Jonah’s actually a really nice guy. Boomers WC leadup aside his done a lot of good things outside of bball that you’ve got to respect.

Jonah shouldn't be in boomers discussions.
Thybulle a chance if Brown or Simmons can chat to him.
I don't see him getting an offer from team USA.

I think it will come down to whether Ben and Jonah like him rather than whether Brett does.

Also, would Brett have the cojones to select him if BA don't have a clue who he is?

Matisse Thybulle proud of his Australian roots

https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/76ers/matisse-thybulle-proud-his-australian-roots

If Thybulle really obtained citizenship in 2006, it's a bonus that his citizenship was obtained before age 16, so he wouldn't take up the naturalised spot. This would also allow for the inclusion of Cotton.

Thybulle is one of those rare players who gets defensive highlight compilations on YouTube. Inserting two excellent defensive players in Simmons and Thybulle, along with strong interior defenders (Bogut, Baynes), notable defensive guards (Exum, Delly*), and strong defensive wings (Ingles, plus add in Broehoff), the Boomers team is looking like a strong defensive team.




(* I have to put an asterisk next to Delly as I wonder if he has regressed significantly at the defensive end.)

Delly has always needed to be surrounded by the right players to be effective in the NBA. His spot on the Boomers team shouldn't be contingent upon his NBA minutes. Although going 16.7% on 3-pointers this season is a big worry. Is he still persisting with the new technique? His career 36.8% is healthy.

Thybulle would be an excellent fit on the Boomers. If he plays, suddenly we go from lacking depth at the 3 to having three NBAers at the 3, two that often start.

kay is too slow and unathletic, i rather have bolden in the team

I know there are some exceptions

In General, GLeague stats and NBL stats translate fairly well

Bolden is averaging 12p,3a,7r in 25 mins
Kay is avergaing 14p, 3a, 8r in 30 mins

So Bolden stacks up very well vs Kay who he would be competing with for a spot.

Bolden like Kay would be an excellent NBL player if he were playing in the NBL.

So hardly a failure or NBL1 level guy as some seem to think.

My Boomers team

Baynes
Landale
Ingles
Mills
Simmons

Maker
Bogut
Bolden
Broekhoff
Thybulle
Delly
Exum

Next in line if someone unavailable - Mathiang, Creek, Humphries, Adel, Green, Goulding, Kay, Motum, Bairstow

I didnt consider Cotton as he isnt currently a citizen,

I love Delly as much as the next person, but Exum is a very good defender and we're going to need that, at the expense of who I'm not sure though. Thybulle is a very good defender too, but until he confirms he would like to play for the Boomers we need Exum I think.

Hesitant to put Bolden in there. You don't need a guy deciding he doesn't get enough minutes and jumping ship mid way. If it were up to me he would've forfeited his citizenship that day

[
PG - Simmons
SG - Mills
SF - Ingles
PF - Baynes
C - Bogut

Bench
PG - Dellavedova
SG - Exum
SG - Cotton
SF - Thybulle
SF - Broekhoff
PF - Bolden
PF/C - Maker ]

Exactly the same team I would pick for Tokyo. Anon.
FFS, we don't need kay and goulding, too slow, unathletic and can't play defense.

and Bolden

"A potentially huge development. I'd be very surprised if Basketball Australia, Ben Simmons and/or Brett Brown haven't started a conversation with Thybulle about an opportunity to represent Australia, possibly as early as the 2020 Olympics."


No I am not that confident that Basketball Australia would have. They dropped the ball on Kyrie Irving until Kyrie himself looked into the possibility. I doubt they've asked Thybulle anything. Brown might not even know. It might even be up to the fans to educate them on the possibility, strangely enough.

"" This could be big news for the boomers but not so good for NBL boomer hopefuls "

Forget about nbl players, they suck"

I'm hesitant to say they suck but when you look at the best possible Boomers squad you tend to get about 10 NBA players plus Bogut, who spent most of his time there.

Ben Simmons
Patty Mills
Joe Ingles
Jock Landale/Jonah Bolden?
Aron Baynes
Matthew Dellavedova
Dante Exum
Bryce Cotton?
Ryan Broekhoff
Matisse Thybulle
thon Maker
Andrew Bogut
Chris Goulding

If this bloke was any chance of being in an Australian uniform, we'd have heard it by now.

so if Thybulle plays for the boomers can Cotton as well

" This could be big news for the boomers but not so good for NBL boomer hopefuls "

Forget about nbl players, they suck

This was addressed on draft day...

First reported and confirmed here today: Matisse's really an Aussie: Could we see Thybulle in Boomers green and gold beside Ben Simmons?

I hate it when people say things "indatically"

Pick and Roll published a story today on this.

A potentially huge development. I'd be very surprised if Basketball Australia, Ben Simmons and/or Brett Brown haven't started a conversation with Thybulle about an opportunity to represent Australia, possibly as early as the 2020 Olympics.

A snippet from the article re growing up in Australia....

"For starters, it’s a long-awaited homecoming to the country where he spent a portion of his youth.

The 19-year-old Thybulle, who was born in Scottsdale, Ariz., moved to Sydney, Australia with his family in 1998 when he was 2. They lived there for seven years before settling in Sammamish, Wash. in 2005."

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-basketball/uws-matisse-thybulle-gets-chance-to-develop-game-with-pac-12-all-stars-in-australia/

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