Why isn't Daniel Johnson in the team?

DJ too soft? So is Kickert though.

DJ is a lot better than Kay too.

Brandt and Hodgson are different types of players to DJ, so not comparing like for like. Maybe they decided they want two big units on the inside. Fair enough.

But no way should Kay and Kickert be ahead of DJ. Kickert's also 5 years older than DJ- shouldn't they be prioritizing players who could contribute to the Boomers program for the next 3 years?

Ogilvy?

Adnam over Cadee on current form too

Can't believe they picked Cadee over Gibson. (Chuckle)

Doesn't really look like anyone was brutally overlooked other than the usual DJ and AJ.

I will be interesting to see if and how the squad changes next year with injury/availability.......e.g. guys going OS to play that are in the current squad.

Norton, Adnam, Gibson all more deserving than Cadee.

If not Cadee, who?

Norton?

It is time to call it on Cadee , Newley , and Martin .
Serves no purpose as they are not future full team Boomers . Cadee is a joke !

And majok majok?

Are aussies in college not good enough or does it clash?

No Moller? What an absolute joke...

The reason that Martin, Newley and Kickert are on the team is probably primarily leadership/experience. Take them out of the team and you have a pretty inexperienced (especially internationally) team.

I don't like Cadee being in this team, on his NBL form, yet he has a tendency to bring it in international ball. The team will have two extremes at the PG position, with Martin pretty much a non-threat on offence, but (did you guys know???) he's a demon on defence; whereas (I don't need to state the obvious) Cadee is the opposite.

If you want to talk about players who have used up their time in the Boomers team, Gibson leads the list, for mine.

It is interesting that Martin is the only true PG on the team. All of Cadee, Gliddon, Sobey and McCarron can/do play some PG for their NBL clubs, but none of them are designated in that role (well, I think we all agree Cadee shouldn't be). Norton is probably the best of the rest of Aussie PGs, but he's also a bit of a Martin-lite, so it wouldn't help the team balance for him to be there.

I don't think you will ever see DJ or AJ in the Boomers line up with Lemonass as the coach. He doesn't like them; probably DJ because of his lack of rebounding and defence (hello Kickert), but IDKW he is so down on AJ.

Newley was the worst omission for the Olympic Games team, and should definitely still be there.

Otherwise, I think the team is pretty right. You could make a case for Majok, I suppose. I don't think he's shown all that much improvement in the last couple of years, though. Certainly not in comparison to Brandt, and to a lesser extent, Hodgson. Brandt will be the best Aussie centre for quite a while, I think.

Lemonass could run with a small ball line up of Martin, Goulding, Sobey, Creek and Kay. That would be fun to watch, and a pretty good balance of defensive pressure, running the floor, penetration and outside shooting.

I think I've said enough. Ciao!

Humphries not ready.
Cadee a joke.

Let's say for the sake of it Newley, Martin and Kickert are " too old".
Cadee is a spud and while Lemanis is coach Ogilvy won't be considered who would you bring in there place?
Norton instead of Martin and Adnam in place of Cadee. Gibson at nearly 31 is too old apparently.

Drmic in place of Newley and Daniel Johnson in place of Kickert.

It doesn't matter who is selected this team should win very comfortably.

Still a good team just inexperienced at Point Guard.

Bolden is unavailable obviously. Humphries is not good enough yet and I wouldn't get rid of Martin I was just making a point about over 30s being too old.
Would like to see Martin cap off his Boomers career with a Commonwealth Games gold medal.
And yes I know its only the " Commonwealth Games "

Brandt has certainty earned his way into the team

Lemonass is a high school nickname from his days at Essendon Grammar, Anon #652931.

Both games (Friday night @ Chinese Taipei, and Monday night vs Japan in Adelaide) are showing as live broadcasts on my Foxtel tv guide :)

Looking forward to seeing what it's like playing an away tie in a place like Taiwan. They can be pretty big on their hoops there, although with some of their veteran guns moving on the national team may not have the same prominence ATM.

Also interested to see how well the Boomers can just gel together. They did that pretty well at the Asia Cup without warm-up games. I'm guessing they'll go with the same starters as in Lebanon - Brandt, Kickert, Creek, Gliddon, Cadee.