That's a good question Camel. I think we have a lot of good bigs, but perhaps not a lot of guys who complement each other's skills, and not a lot of mobile guys. You can only take three or four genuine bigs and one or two mobile bigs, so you have to balance the skill sets right. No point having three guys who do the same things.
In Bogut and Maric we have a very good starter and a solid backup if fit. In Jawai we have a guy who can present a level of power we havent had. Obviously Andersen is around and was better in Turkey than in previous tournaments, particularly on the boards and defensively - more at home at the C spot. He prob only has one tournament left in him though as one of our best.
Nevill is a guy who could be handy as a 12th man as insurance for injury foul trouble, but that's about it - he really isnt skilled enough for any significant minutes. Ogilvy is skilled but what does he add?
For mine there are two very important things we need to do, and one is replace Matt Nielsen, who you would imagine will retire from international basketball after London, possibly before if his body starts packing up. Nielsen is the guy who will do anything to help his team win, particularly the dirty work, and the only guy I can think of to replace that at the PF spot is Matt Knight. Is he up to it? A real shame we didnt see him in the last two games.
The second thing is to replace Chris Anstey, whose three point shooting and defence were very handy in Beijing. None of our young big guys shoot the perimeter shot that well, nor do they have the versatility of Anstey. The one player who shows a bit of that is Khazzouh, but of course he has a way to go to be the defensive player Anstey was, and he needs to get in the gym. Once again, a shame we didnt get to see him play last weekend. Davidson is another who can shoot but he isnt really on the radar. He needs to be better mentally too.
For the moment we need to focus on NZ though, and we dont need lots of big guys against them. Some height to exploit mismatches is good, but we also need to be able to handle Vukona who is a very good international PF.