Thats great. So he (hopefully) signs with Cleveland and then is assigned to the NBDL Canton Charge and continues to work on his game and become more familiar with their systems and guarding fast guards. then when either Kyrie or Jack is injured Delly might get some minutes?

Dellavedova has another fan in Cavs coach Mike Brown, who more than likely will be keeping the point guard on the roster, even if he spends some time with the D-League affiliate in Canton.

"He's played well for us,'' Mike Brown said. "He's tough. He's smart. He's a leader. He's done a nice job taking care of the basketball, especially for a rookie, because he kind of got thrown into the fire a little bit with Jarrett being out. He's played major minutes for us and he's done a nice job. ... I can't ask for much more than that.''

Dellavedova even has played with All-Star Kyrie Irving, handling the point guard duties while Irving shifts to shooting guard.

"For the first time in my first three years I can actually play there comfortably now,'' Irving said after Monday's game. "I know all the positions on the floor, especially from the 2-spot. It allows me to not exert so much energy dribbling the ball, especially at the top of the key. I get to come off some screens. It's something we go through every day in practice. Me being at the 2-spot just opens up the lane for our bigs and our shooters in the corner.''

That's great news, although did I miss something with the "with video" stuff? I can't see one...

Countries like Spain, Brazil & Argentina and even France would also need to stop developing and producing NBA caliber players on the regular for your best case Boomers scenario to play out Anon.

The future is bright for the Boomers with that young talent coming through but unfortunately they don't count up which side has the most "NBA players" then hand out the medals.

Rumour has it Lebron and Durant are shaking in their boots

Don't forget Baynes. Could have as many as 6 NBA players on Rio 2016 team. Agree with mystro just having NBA players in your team doesn't guarantee you a medal (unless your USA) but we are a chance for a medal along with France,Spain etc.

Even Canada will have more NBA players then us next Olympics.

patty is killing it right now he is in career best form. u saw him absolutely kill it last olympics just watch him at the next.

Let the hater have her say. We are all entitled to our opinions

Canada should bum mount us in the future. They have some players coming through.

every country has new exciting players coming through the ranks and every country aspires to medal. some just have more chance than others.

I'm not saying Australia doesn't have a chance to medal either as you can produce some very talented players and have a great Coach in Lemanis.
It just isn't going to be easy.

Let's not downplay the Argies of 2004. Good players lead by Ginobli in beast mode.

We will have our best players and the greatest depth ever for the next World Championships and Olympics. The problem is that there are a number of other countries who are getting much better. There have never been so many elite teams. As previously mentioned Canada haven't even been on the radar for 20 years till recently but are now overflowing with potential NBA all stars.
Any of the teams that get to the top eight other than the USA will be a chance to compete for a Silver or Bronze. We just have to be playing at our best to be any chance. Our coaching may make the difference either way.

Canada didnt qualify out of a weakened Americas this year. It doesnt matter how many NBA players you have if you dont have a good team.

I think we do have a good team, and potentially some very good talent in it. Much more importantly than what role they play at club level, we will have a lot of good international experience.

Making top eight is always an achievement, hopefully we can go that one extra step and make the medal round, but world basketball is so tough now that it will take a bit of luck.

Definitely had a shocker 0-6 fg and 6 turnovers in 28min. Hopefully he has already done enough prior to this game to earn a full contract. Jarrett Jack made his comeback in this game.

"NBA players are the best in the world"

The best NBA players are the best in the world, no doubt, but outside of that, once it comes to the international game, other NBA players are no better than the top guys outside the NBA.

In fact, guys like Spanoulis, Navarro, Fernanadez, McCalebb, Gelabale, Penney, Lavrinovic, Huertas etc have performed at the level of some very good NBA players in FIBA play.

If some of our guys develop into top NBA guys that's a great sign for the national team, if in terms of our guys who are fringe NBA it doesn’t tell us nearly as much as their international form does.

Are you trying to claim Mills is as good as Spanoulis or Navarro?

Paul, you picked up that? I liked the claim Mills would 'flat out destroy' the NBL. Surely we have actual empirical evidence we can rely on in that regard, like, say, from his ACTUAL time in the NBL?

You're drawing a long bow there XY, trying to extrapolate actual NBL performances into hypothetical NBL performances. You have to admit that's pretty loco. Next thing you'll be trying to do the same with other fringe NBA players like Anstey, Bradtke & Heal.
Anyway I guess we will never know for sure, so all we can do is speculate.

Yeah, it's not like he actually played against teams like Perth and New Zealand to see how he would go, so we just have to assume he would destroy them given he is in the NBA I suppose. That's fair enough.

When you lead a competition in shot attempts, by a reasonable margin, as Patty did in the Olympics and NBL, you have a good chance of leading it in scoring. It's a good effort, but it doesnt really make you the best player.

I would have to agree that Mills destroyed a part of the NBL, the bottom three teams, he averaged 25 points at over 50% against them. Very impressive.

Against the rest of the league he averaged 13 points at 32%, which wasnt quite as impressive.

Anyway, this isnt about that, it's about Delly, who has some of the same great traits that make Spanoulis one of the top players in the world, and that's great news for the Boomers.

Depends on if you are playing the real rules of the game which favour teamwork and IQ or the NBA rules which favour athleticism and individual talent. To almost completely discount anything outside the NBA as some have done on here is folly as it is evident at Olympics/WC that the gap between even the best of the NBA and the best of the rest is not huge once teamwork comes into play.
Of course a team made up of 14th men would probably win a NBL title, but what is more relevant here would be the question, "would they beat the Boomers even without Bogut?" I would say an emphatic NO to that. We would have only 2 NBA 14th men on our team and no other NBA players.
So there is 12 NBA players V 2. I think that illustrates the argument of people like Paul.