Pretty disappointing. Surely Lucas won't get another gig after this. As for the team they picked, terrible. Heads should roll at BA now.

Just a bad coach, should have gotten Heal and Joyce, they would have picked better "international style" players, and are far better game day coaches, and they could have made BA a few dollars on the side as well. The only better pairing would have been Peter "Bucks" Buckle and Marty "master coach" Clarke, or a couple of parents from the next age group down.

Agree Paul. So many better players not selected and as for the coaching staff...well BA should hang their heads in shame.

The tournament means nothing. Gold means nothing.

Finally managed to watch a replay of the game last night via Eurosport's, though almost half the game was no shown, what was clear from the parts that were , was that Japan given a couple more minutes would have run over the top of thevAussies, theirvspeed and ball handling and ability to get to the rim far outclassed our Aussie ladies, if Japan had been blessed with a big like Scherf think it would have been a very different outcome.
Taking nothing away from the win as the girls played hard, it did shine a light on what the future of our women's team is going to need, lightening quick guards that make smart passes and can play defence.
To japans credit they play quick tough smart basketball, we saw that at Worlds too, seems their new style of play is one the rest of the world may have to take note of.
Before their loss to Australia. Japan's smallest winning margin for the tournament was 20, we were lucky to come off with that win I think.

Lucas has proven several times he's a winning coach, think his biggest flaw is possibly his people skills in the past, but that could also be a clash of personalities or he just doesn't suffer BS from parents and players.

Regardless he got the job done and showed those un19 gems coaches Just how it's done, UN19s is two years away , he could easily coach that without interference to his WNBL commitments, I mean if we can have an Opals coach who lives on an entirely different continent coaching a WNBA team and puts that first before her national commitments, I can't see how a WNBL coach couldn't be considered for a junior team position.

Same can be said of Panousis and Clydesdale though, considering Lucas is their WNBL coach he didn't rely on them too much, Panousis in particular.

Going to be very interesting to see how the lightening roster plays out, Clydesdale gave up a starting 5 pg captaincy at Dandenong, hope she's not going to regret it.

Clydesdale gave up nothing at Dandy.. what other starting PG/Captain in the league averages only 27 minutes a game with the back up logging 23 min.

Clydesdale gave up nothing at Dandy.. what other starting PG/Captain in the league averages only 27 minutes a game with the back up logging 23 min.

Well let's hope this glimpse of Lucas and his coaching choices is not reflective of the coming wnbl season , or her 27min average might be halved lol

Every chance Lucas will go with Novosel at the point like he did at times in Townsville.

You blokes are wingers. Win gold and then complain about it? Very ordinary in my opinion

Women's ball for Aus killing it again. But always the hate comes after no matter what.