Captain obvious here ^^^^^^^

I think it is fair to say we all just roll our eyes and move on at this situation.

When all is said and done with basketball hope it all works out for the kid.

Unrelated but are any scholarships going at PAC?

SA metro team under performed at 16s AJC horribly. And the individual your referencing definitely did not
Have his best tournament but neither did a certain kid son so go figure. I wouldn't of picked anyone from SA metro for aus camp based on AJC’s

This boys u15 team imo seems like the least talented we've put together for some time. Early days but Schueller will have a hard time even making the WC I think.

The girls will struggle too again once they reach Asia champs, the coaches still haven't learnt that you don't need traditional 5 s in these tournaments. We simply cannot keep up with the pace of Japan and sometimes china and Korea. Nz are always getting better too.
We need speed and mobility + one o n one defense over size.

Referring to the Winter season just gone, yes 7 state reps in GF winner and 3 Australia reps in the team that didn't make it and no one mentions the TEAM that took it to the 7 state rep team with 5 to go equalising but going down by 10 due to 1 players efforts on the 'superstar team’. The Metro team played off for 8/9 at Nationals. The TEAM no one mentions had 2 Country state reps that made 4th at nationals, 1 country reserve state rep thats highly undervalued being a defender. 1 metro state reserve despite consistently being one of the top scorers and rebounders in the state, a SCC player who did not make NITP, 2 Tiger former lower div players,ex South liwer div player and 2 ex Sturt div 3 players who could not get a shot at the Sturt team that also had many state team members and they beat them in the Semis in a thrilling 1 hour 40 minute junior game. Those players moved for opportunity and it paid off. This TEAM improved under a coach who worked to improve and develop himself as well as the boys, give the boys an opportunity and most if all play as TEAM. They punched well above their weight against these star studded team. That to me says that the formula and leadership of state teams in SA has some issues and that with relationships at National level may also extend further. Interesting season to analyse and could have been an opportunity to really break down the success and failures to change direction in this state. This 2003 age group should be one of the strongest in years with a lot if size and guard talent along with the 2001 year. And that age group also has some interestibf selections.

Settle down Mrs Vivian

Congrats to the 2 boys from SA who made the Aussie team for Oceania , great to have a couple of 15 yo olds representing SA

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No it really shouldn't matter. Of course some kids will dominate their local comp: particularly when they're more physically mature than their opponents.

What matters is how their skills transfer to higher levels of competition i.e. nationals, and international competition.

Some of the kids that missed out from SAM clearly didn't have what it takes, despite them dominating the local comp. Not all though: I thought one of SA's guards was hard done by not to make the ADC.

The relevant point is that local form will generally not get you to an ADC , COE coaches select players from nationals not the local HP manager
I agree the metro guard was unlucky , a classy performer with composure and class , probably poor team performance hurt his chances !

Oh. So why do we have the HP Manager again then?

What a stupid comment , perhaps look at his JD and work it out , Every state team announcement , NITP, Futures and like everything in SA basketball under resourced, underpaid and overworked .

Oh I see. The role is to make announcements? Fair enough thanks for clearing that up.

Hope they can raise the budget for the role so we can maybe expand out some of the scope and depth of it. I guess it is tough to attract strong candidates with it being so underpaid too. Makes sense. Thankyou.

Is that why he has to moonlight at PAC???

Yes that is right and to be the "model of success". I'll let your process that a little bit, do some analysis and figure out the failure that has occurred this time.

You will need to join the dots to figure it all out.

Oh wait , don't distract me I’m still trying to connect the dots !