LC
Years ago

2012 Albert Schweitzer Tourney (7-Apr): The Emu's

The Emus will be competing in the 2012 edition of the FIBA Albert Schweitzer tournament being held in Mannheim, Germany from 7th-14th April. This is the same tournament that we won in 2009.

The Emu's roster:

Anthony Fisher (VIC)
Bosko Kostur (VIC)
Jack Lopez (NSW)
Laurence Mifsud (NSW)
Emmett Naar (NSW/AIS)
Joshua Oswald (VIC)
Greg Page (VIC)
Dane Pineau (VIC)
Michael Rowley (NSW)
Joel Spear (SA)
Jayden Walsh (VIC)
Dougal Weir (NSW)

The preliminary groups for the Albert Schweitzer Tournament are as follows:

Group A
Israel
Italy
France
Argentina

Group B
Turkey
Brazil
Germany
New Zealand

Group C
Australia
Spain
China
Russia

Group D
Serbia
Denmark
USA
Greece

For the first time, the final two days of the tournament will be streamed live online via the AST website of the German Basketball Federation (www.ast.basketball-bund.de).

In addition, the ABT media team will be conducting live broadcasting each night via DBB-TV (www.youtube.com/thedbbtv).

Go Emu's!

Let's keep all the talk and reasults contained within this thread.

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Vart
Years ago

Apparentely Emmett Naar and Dane Pineau are the guys to watch on this team. I must admit that I havent been super impressed by Pineau though. Has anyone seen him play much?

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LC
Years ago

Sorry, I have not seen any of him myself.

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Help me
Years ago

Not quite the talent from the 2009 team....

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shaggerhislop
Years ago

does anyone know what time the game begins tonight against russia AUS time?

also how to get the feed working?

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paul
Years ago

They lost the first game to Germany by a point.

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shaggerhislop
Years ago

First actual tournament game is tonight against Russia

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LC
Years ago

Australia lost to Russia 57-59.
Naar 17pts, Pineau 13pts

Australia defeated China 80-71.
Fisher 23 pts, Lopez 14pts

Australia lost to Spain 57-78.
Fisher 14pts, Oswald 10pts

Finish round-robin with a 1-2 record and in 3rd place in Group C.

Now move into the bottom half of the draw (classification 9-16) and in Group H with Greece, Denmark and China.

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LC
Years ago

Tonight Australia takes on Denmark.

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LC
Years ago

Australia defeated Denmark 73-42.
Lopez 16pts, Pineau 11pts & 10reb

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LC
Years ago

Australia defeated Greece 87-75.
Lopez 20p, Naar 19p & 7a, Pineau 18p & 9r, Rowley 12p.

We now play off for 9th place...that 2 point loss to Russia in the opening game was a tournament killer!

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Vart
Years ago

Good to see Naar have a solid game. He had a lot of hype around him coming in, but hasn't really performed. Lopez, Pineau and Fisher have been solid throughout.

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LC
Years ago

Australia defeated Israel 83-67 to finish 9th.
Naar 22p, Lopez 17p, Pineau 15p & 15r.
Australia lost to the Gold Medallist Spain (21pts) and eventual 6th placed Russia (2pts). That loss to Russia in game 1 hurt badly. In the second phase (bottom 8) Australia was never really challenged apart from in their playoff for 9th game where we came from behind to win.

Here was the breakdown:

Gold Medal Game
Spain defeated Serbia 76-69

Bronze Medal Game
Turkey defeated Germany 90-85.

Playoff for 5th
Italy defeated Russia 69-68.

Playoff for 7th
United States defeated France 87-81.

Playoff for 9th
Australia defeated Israel 83-67

Playoff for 11th
China defeated Sweden 78-63.

Playoff for 13th
Argentina defeated Greece 55-42.

Playoff for 15th
Denmark defeated New Zealand 81-62.

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Anonymous
Years ago

The best of the bottom aged athletes will make up the bulk of the 2013 World group (think Deric, Exum, even Ben Simmons at double bottom age).

This tournament (as dictated by BA) is for the top aged athletes only because it falls in the Under 17 year.

The Emus program won't have access to these athletes until after they are finished with their 2012 Under 17 commitments in the middle of this year. Then they will bring them in. It will make the team much better than the 9th place they got at the AST.

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Anony
Years ago

Hey, didnt realise this but great to see SA had a player in the Emu's team for this tournament. Good sign for the future that we at least had 1 rep!

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