Cell
Years ago

Adidas Nations

Adidas Nations camp is on at the moment in Los Angeles, 2-8 August. Thought id make a topic to post updates on team Australia and the 2 kiwis on team Asia.

Team Australia 2013 Roster:

Ben Simmons
Joshua Derksen
Mirko Djeric
Nick Duncan
Dante Exum
Owen Odigie
Darcy Harding
Emmett Naar
Andrija Dumovic
Jonah Bolden
Jack McVeigh
Gerard Martin


Team Asia 2013 New Zealanders:
Michael Karena
Tom Vodanovich

Steven Adams is also there playing as a college counselors.

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Cell  
Years ago

Team Australia beat Team USA 2013 Red 74-72.

USA 2013 Red included 7 players in the ESPN top 50 including Kasey Hill #6 ranked and Chris Walker #7 ranked.

Jonathan Givony tweeted about the game

"Total team effort for the Australians knocking off a team full of top-50 US high school recruits. Dante Exum the orchestrator"

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LC  
Years ago

Great result for the Aussie team! Exum will be able to choose which college he wants to attend one would think...North Carolina looking likely

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Cell  
Years ago

Should be interesting tomorow he matches up with USA Blue 2012 point guard Nate Britt who's signed with North Carolina

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Anonymous  
Years ago

How did Duncan and Naar go? Anyone got a boxscore?

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Cell  
Years ago

Dante Exum had 17pts. 5-6 from the field and 7-8 from the foul line.

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sircreate  
Years ago


Nbadraft.net did a write up of Day 1

http://nbadraft.net/2012-adidas-nations-day-1

International Standout

Ben Simmons -- Australian SF Ben Simmons just turned 16 and he's already standing out against American players two years his elder. He is a lefty with a sweet shooting stroke and tremendous feel for the game. Along with teammate Dante Exum, the Aussies pulled off the win against the 2013 red rising senior American team (which included Kasey Hill, Chris Walker and Brannen Greene) he wowed scouts on hand with his tremendous leaping ability and all around skills. He started the game off flashing his tremendous vision and passing skills. He also pushed the ball up the floor in transition showing advanced ball handling ability. Additionally he shows a first step to get by opponents off the bounce. He had one play towards the end of the game where he rose up from outside the circle and dunked over a defender. He was the guy receiving the most buzz after day 1, as scouts were raving about him as a potential future top 5 pick. This kid has a chance to be special.

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LC  
Years ago

Nice write up of Simmons!

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Anonymous  
Years ago

http://www.adidasnations.com/2012-stats/

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Anonymous  
Years ago

I notice Thon Maker is playing for the african team.

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Cell  
Years ago

Australia Beat Team USA Blue 2014 on day 2, 83-61.

Exum - 13p 7r 3a
Odigie - 18p 3r 3a
Simmons - 18p 7r 3a

Box Score:
http://www.adidasnations.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/u14b-aus.htm

Thats another good win. Also Thon Maker was playing for the USA Blue 14 team.

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Cell  
Years ago

Team Australia beat Team Africa 56-44 on Day 3.

Duncan 14, Simmons, Exum 12

Box Score-
http://www.adidasnations.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/afr-aus.htm

Also Here is an interview with Ben Simmons-
http://www.nbadraft.net/boy-wonder-down-under-ben-simmons-interview

And a piece on Exum
http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1392524

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Anyone know the boxscore for the win over Asia? When you click on it on the official site, it gives you the boxscore of another game :/

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LC  
Years ago

Adidas Nations interview with Australian coach Ian Stacker...

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LC  
Years ago

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LC  
Years ago

I tracked down the Australia vs Asia box score...

Official Basketball Box Score -- GAME TOTALS -- FINAL STATISTICS
ASIA vs AUSTRALIA
8/5/12 10:15am at Next Level Sports - Garden Grove, CA
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VISITORS: ASIA 0-3
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
10 Wei Zhengxian....... * 2-7 2-6 2-2 0 1 1 0 8 0 3 0 1 23
23 Wang Tong........... * 0-1 0-1 0-0 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 1 0 23
32 Michael Karenea..... * 4-5 0-0 2-4 3 2 5 0 10 0 3 0 0 22
66 Guo Kailun.......... * 5-14 3-7 2-3 0 3 3 2 15 0 5 0 5 33
7 Yu Dehao............ * 2-9 0-3 1-1 0 0 0 5 5 8 5 0 5 33
12 He Zhongda.......... 2-4 0-0 0-0 2 2 4 2 4 0 0 0 0 11
16 Thomas Vodanovich... 4-8 1-2 0-0 2 2 4 1 9 0 1 0 1 24
2 Wang Xu............. 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2
25 Lu Yiwen............ 0-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 10
28 Hu Mingxin.......... 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 4
30 Lin Lixing.......... 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
5 Sun Minghui......... 0-2 0-0 3-4 0 0 0 1 3 0 2 0 2 11
63 Zheng Qilong........ 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
TEAM................ 1 3 4
Totals.............. 20-54 6-19 10-14 8 15 23 13 56 10 23 1 14 200

TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 11-28 39.3% 2nd Half: 9-26 34.6% Game: 37.0% DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 4-9 44.4% 2nd Half: 2-10 20.0% Game: 31.6% REBS
F Throw % 1st Half: 4-6 66.7% 2nd Half: 6-8 75.0% Game: 71.4% 3,2

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HOME TEAM: AUSTRALIA 4-0
TOT-FG 3-PT REBOUNDS
## Player Name FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA OF DE TOT PF TP A TO BLK S MIN
12 Mirko Djeric........ * 2-5 2-4 0-0 0 3 3 3 6 2 7 0 0 25
16 Dante Exum.......... * 6-10 0-0 4-5 2 1 3 1 16 2 0 0 1 16
24 Andrija Dumovic..... * 2-4 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 0 4 3 0 1 0 18
37 Owen Odigie......... * 7-8 0-1 1-4 2 1 3 3 15 1 1 0 2 18
54 Ben Simmons......... * 5-11 0-1 0-0 3 1 4 0 10 2 1 0 3 16
18 Jonah Bolden........ 1-4 0-3 0-0 2 5 7 1 2 2 1 1 2 20
22 Nick Duncan......... 0-3 0-2 0-0 1 3 4 0 0 2 2 0 2 15
47 Darcy Harding....... 2-3 1-2 0-0 1 0 1 1 5 2 1 0 2 8
59 Jack McVeigh........ 4-6 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 0 8 1 2 0 5 13
6 Emmett Naar......... 2-4 1-3 0-0 2 0 2 0 5 2 1 0 0 19
75 Gerard Martin....... 3-6 3-6 0-0 0 3 3 1 9 2 0 0 1 19
98 Joshua Derksen...... 2-5 0-0 1-2 2 3 5 4 5 0 3 0 0 13
TEAM................ 2 3 5
Totals.............. 36-69 7-22 6-11 19 27 46 14 85 21 19 2 18 200

TOTAL FG% 1st Half: 20-35 57.1% 2nd Half: 16-34 47.1% Game: 52.2% DEADB
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half: 4-7 57.1% 2nd Half: 3-15 20.0% Game: 31.8% REBS
F Throw % 1st Half: 4-7 57.1% 2nd Half: 2-4 50.0% Game: 54.5% 2,1

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Officials:
Technical fouls: ASIA-None. AUSTRALIA-None.
Attendance:
Score by Periods 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
ASIA.......................... 15 15 16 10 - 56
AUSTRALIA..................... 22 26 20 17 - 85
adidas Nations 2012 - Pool Play Round 3

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Latrentis  
Years ago

Ballislife has just created a mixtape on Ben. Getting major exposure over there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBQ00wjXGV4

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sircreate  
Years ago


Does anyone know what the deal is with Owen Odigie and what his plans are? Just a little confused since he was a development player for the tigers or something? Yet he still is touring with the AIS

There's some mystery recruit for the Gaels next season and was wondering if it was possibly him, since if he didnt recieve match payments as a tiger he'd still be eligible(Im just taking a shot in the dark here since I have no idea who it could be heh)

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Back on the 1st Aug 2013, anyone know where?

http://www.adidasnations.com/category/recaps/2013/

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Vart  
Years ago

Los Angeles

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Anonymous  
Years ago

in a tweeter conversation about the adidas nations ben simmons isn't going this year (1-5 aug) as he will be in a boomer camp, but maybe gerard martin is

Gerard Martin ‏@gerardmartin
@BenSimmons25 will you be at nations?

Ben Simmons ‏@BenSimmon
@gerardmartin42 nah I'm doing boomers camp

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Anonymous  
Years ago

So our boys fly out on Tuesday morning. What an opportunity for them. Good luck and have an awesome time, go Aussie.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Do you know who is going/playing? this is a really good level of competition and a great way to get a name out there in US circles..

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Anonymous  
Years ago

A couple who have been there before, a couple of bottom age boys and some of the under 17 Aus squad that played at Oceania in December I think.

From what I hear it is a strong group with some good size. How they gel will be interesting as they would never have played as a team.

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Balls  
Years ago

Adidas Nations 2013

Abi Akintola VIC
Jonah Bolden NSW
Kyle Clark TAS
Harrison Froling QLD
Jayden Hodgson NSW
Isaac Humphries NSW
Gerard Martin VIC
Jack McVeigh QLD
Dejan Vasiljevic VIC
Jacob Pupavac VIC


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Anonymous  
Years ago

There should be two more?
whats up with Perry and Madol

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Ten going this year, Perry apparently broke an arm so he is out for a few weeks. Hope he has a speedy recovery.

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pg24  
Years ago

How does gerard martin continue to make these teams?

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paul  
Years ago

I think Martin will turn into a very handy pro.

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Rex  
Years ago

no Will White ?

That Froling name just keeps on opening doors.

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