Anonymous
Years ago

U19 gems worlds in 2 weeks.

Thoughts on the squad?
Our group opponents...
And who might medal in the tournament.

5'11 Wallace/5'6 Pirini
5'9 tupaea/5'10 Seaton/6'0 sharp
6'0 maley/6'0 horvat
6'3 froling/6'3 smith/6'2 Dennis
6'5 scherf/6'4 magbegor

Playing Brazil, Korea and Serbia in the group stage.
Finishing top of our group means that we will likely play Spain in the 1/4s and the usa in the semis.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Might meet Usa in the final. The semis we could face Canada, France, Russia or the Dutch if we can somehow beat Spain.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Big ask to get past Spain with that line up but hopefully Spain has a bad game and our Aussie gems are firing ( as they can at times)but they will get knocked out by USA for sure if they meet in semis their line up is way to good for ours this time

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Yeah, for Spain... salvadores, Quevedo, carzorla, Flores, lopez etc etc

Usa- Dangerfield, Samuelson, collier, cox, anigwe etc etc. huge team...
Starting 5 might have 4 girls above 6'3.

Russia's another big team and has performed quite well of late.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

I think gems will go small.
Wallace, tupaea, horvat/sharp, maley, froling as starting 5.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The Dutch will surprise a few teams...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

We will Medal, have most positions covered I think

Wallace
Tupea
Sharp
Froling
Smith / Sherf

With a deep bench, the ability to press , trap, zone and run the ball. Inside presence with Magbegor as well, very tough match up for most teams

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Anonymous  
Years ago

No way sharp starts over maley.
Pirini will be a problem. Ok at running the show but not a great defender or scorer.
Probably won't be on the floor unless she has Wallace, Seaton or tupaea by her side.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Sharp / Maley / Horvat

Can't go wrong, They are all good don't you think ? We will see who the staff starts but it will be a very good team. Let's see how they go and support them ALL

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Maley is the defender, rebounder and has more hustle than the other 2.
Sharp is the shooter. Solid but not special in a particular area.
Horvat is the penetrater, get to the basket type. A mix of both sharp/maley.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Maley is NOT. A defender,

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Australia lose to usa 85-82 in u19 warmup.

Wallace with 23 pts and froling with 20. Maley leading rebounder with 9.
Scherf will probably joining squad shortly.

usa"s best player Katie Lou Samuelson will not be competing in world champs.
Aja Wilson leading scorer and rebounder with 30 and 11.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

It says Katie Lou will be missing at the Spain invitational due to family issue. Probably will still be at worlds.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Aussie gems lose again to Canada in warmup. 67-60.
Wallace with reduced minutes.
Everyone else 15-20 mins.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Rested Players.....

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MRT  
Years ago

How are posters above following the warm up games. If there are any links pls share. Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Just a reminder....
Gems play at 10:15 pm on fibas YouTube channel tonight against Serbia.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Brazil are a nice team. We are going to have a tough time against them...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Starting lineup.
Wallace, tupaea, sharp, froling, smith.

Plz next time...
Wallace, tupaea, maley, froling, scherf.

Defence has been terrible.
Pirini, sharp looked clumsy.
Magbegor foul trouble early... But dam what a talent.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

55-31 halftime lead.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Yes defence is non existent, and overall standard is terrible, let's hope it improves, they are just very lucky serbia can't shoot.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Belgium, Brazil and France looked better Imo.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Great start by the girls

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Clumsy... What a joke

Both those kids are very good .

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The score looks good.
The performance wasn't great.
Poor handles, turnovers, travels, rebounding. Everything needs improvement.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

I have no doubt they will
Improve over the next few games. Staff will be all
Over it and kids will respond.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Pirini and sharp are good, I'm not saying their not.
Just in the 1st qtr, all over the place...
Wallace struggled with ball handling tonight also. Almost looked like the ball needed a pump up.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Spain v usa should be a good match.
Especially when usa are missing there best player.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Russian team looks very very good.
Particularly the post players.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Scherf should definitely start along with maley.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Rage building...

Defence non existent.
Over stepping your man.
Unnecessary fouls.
Cant dribble the ball.
Can't penetrate.
Can't move the ball.
Missing lay ups.
No post moves.
Sloppy passes.
No hustle.

Halftime...
Rage subsiding...

Hopefully a better second half...
Cmon gems!

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Staff Know best

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Anonymous  
Years ago

That was a joke..yeah?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Seaton injured or something?

Agree?
Wallace, tupaea, maley, froling, scherf as starting lineup.
Followed by..
Pirini, Seaton, horvat or sharp, smith, magbegor.
Dennis when required.

This 2 pf, swapped out for 2 c's is not working.
Seaton needs to be used 15 mins or more at sg. Much better, ball handler and shooter than sharp or horvat.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Well they finally started to handle Brazil's pressure near the end of the game but,

They were being out hustled and muscled by Brazil (they really went in to the game hard to unsettle Australia and it worked but they should have been called for more fouls) and there is a real lack of composure needed to execute the final play that highlights the CoE girls are not getting enough games (to learn how to handle pressure and adapt) in the development process as the talent is there in this team.

This was also evident with the mens U19. TIme for BA to review & refocus the develop process (as well as get more money) towards more games and exposure to a higher level of competition as well as a greater diversity of playing styles.

Its so very interesting now that you can see all the games at all the FIBA WC's

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Absolutely no energy or organisation on the court, no defence and no team chemistry happening. Why is Sherf NOT starting, seaton would not have handled the pressure Brazil was putting on ball handlers, wallace does not look comfortable running the point.
Just really poor standard they all look flat footed, with the exception of Smith and Maley

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Anonymous  
Years ago

wallace looks real tired. So many uncharacteristic mistakes...
Very long season for her.

No doubt scherf should start. Not just her height, but her size/strength is needed.
Sharp imo has been terrible apart from a few good rebounds and her ft shooting.
Start maley at sf followed closely by horvat and insert Seaton as 2nd sg behind tupaea.

I don't think Dennis was required and would have had another guard/shooter who can defend like antoniadou or woods or at least another strong big like milisic or fareo, hellessey maybe.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Was skinner injured?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Horvat 3mins...
Magbegor 4 mins...
Seaton 0 mins...

= stupid.


Wallace 25 / Pirini 15
Tupaea 25 / Seaton 10 / sharp 5
Maley 20 / horvat 10 / sharp 5
Froling 20 / smith 20 / magbegor/Dennis if required.
Scherf 20 / magbegor 10 / smith/froling 10


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Anonymous  
Years ago

Wallace cannot carry the load, and agree they needed another good defensive /shooting/ball handling guard, in that mix, Antoniadou would have been a handy addition.Skinner wasn't even suited up only had 11 tonight so maybe she's sick.
This is only the second game and they are looking spent already, games are only going to get harder, though Korea should be an easy one for them.
Let's hope they find thei mojo sooner rather than later, they need a motivator out their someone who can Bri g some much needed energy to that team

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Sharp - 13 pts 9 Rebs in 14.30 mins yesterday .... Well that is poor

Defends ... Doesn't lay off and take a breather ...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

haha parents...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The Brazilians applied loads of pressure on Wallace bringing the ball up the court on all occasions. The Aussies could have another small guards on court and moved Wallace into the two spot to switch things up.

Wallace became frustrated as the game progressed and her decsion making suffered, she is very good whe she is on but did not play well yesterday.



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Anonymous  
Years ago

I thought Tupea and Maley were the saviours against Brazil. Tupea controlled the floor and took the right shots at the right times. Maley's rebounding has successfully transferred to the world stage, hopefully her offense follows...

Smith was clutch down the stretch.

I think the referring was appalling.

Loving watching online.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Although smith has been the better pf.

Froling works better with scherf. Scherf can seal/box out players and froling can get it to her through high/low.

If smith gets it. She almost always heads to the basket. Magbegor is a great follow up with great rebounding and shot blocking ability. Moves her feet real well too. Needs to be used a lot more.

We are getting a little extra from maley than we are sharp. horvat, I would like to See more of along with Seaton.

Tupaea is doing quite well.

Against Brazil, Wallace aprt from a few good moments, Passing and shooting. She has been pretty poor. Ball handling has been loose, decision making not great, not her normal self on defence either. Looks frustrated.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

funny how we all see different things, I didn't think Tupaea made good shot choices at all, or controlled the game well, but then don't think any of them did, so maybe she was the better out of those guards. Wallace has not been running as PG or even SG at Baylor, they have used her mainly for defensive pressure but with plenty around her to help, which she's not getting here, and to sit on the wing and wait for a pass (which isn't usually forth coming)in the few games I watched. She has way more to her game than that. She looks very flat, probably overloaded, and playing against tougher opposition she needs help which is just not there in this group.
Hopefully the girls can rest up a bit and get the wins for the next two games, but then it is just going to get harder and tougher the further they advance.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

I would have added antoniadou and skinner and taken out Dennis and 1 of sharp/horvat.

Seaton needs to play a whole bunch more. Is she injured?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

maley would be great at netball to I reckon.
Goal defence maybe.

Surprised netball Australia hasn't tried to pinch her.
She has that type of game.

Needs to improve her dribbling, her defense and her poise around the basket.
Misses a lot of simple put back layups after she rebounds the ball on the offensive end.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Wallace has regressed. Thats sometimes the risk of playing in a very strong NCAA team.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

What will you lot say if they drop a game?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

It's looking like we will face Mali and then Spain if we beat Korea.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

They get a rest day today which might help.
Wallace certainly isn't playing her usual game
Agree Antoniadou and skinner would have been better additions but they have to now work with what they have.
Hopefully they can at least finish in the medals or close to

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Wow. Belgium looking good. I see them making the 1/4s.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Wouldnt mind tupaea taking the ball over the half court and then giving to Wallace to create. Lighten the load....

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Few too many individuals in this group unfortunately and they need shelf starting not coming off the bench

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Yeah. Starting 5...

Wallace, tupaea, maley, froling, scherf.

Seaton, horvat and magbegor more minutes plz...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Tupea appears to still be a "pass only if no other choice" player, with poor D - just like u17s sadly. In fact she would rather travel, or take a a very bad shot attempt than make a good assist.

Wallace looks like a player who has a few moments where you say "see she can play, the selectors are right". The rest of the games you have your head in your hands.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Wouldn't be taking smith out of starting 5 , I'd rather see froling coming off the bench , smith is way more mobile and consistent her only issue is she's not much into passing lol
Agree tupaea looks the same as she did in un17s unfortunately.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Painful to watch...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Korea don't look great, so Aussies should get the job done and finish top.

Why does Maley feel the need to bedazzle her uniform all of the time?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Nice work Ezi!

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Anonymous  
Years ago

A lot of bedazzling...

Scherf showing she should start and that Ezi and horvat should get more minutes.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Finally some nice ball movement and good decision making!

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Annoy  
Years ago

There defence and tempo was great in the 3rd good sign

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Nice finish!

Horvat a lot of good energy.
Seaton deserves more minutes.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Road to victory?
Mali-China-Russia-usa...

Most likely a bronze or 4th placing.

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new order  
Years ago

watched china vrs spain - china are fired up to do well. should win v mali - but the rest will have to bring their A game

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Anonymous  
Years ago

If you can stop wang (the pg).. .That'll really slow China down.
Good shooting side by the looks of it.

We defiantly need to improve. 3rd and 4th qtr we did much better against Korea.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Russia and usa look 2 be far ahead of anyone else.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

this was no competition to beat a team by that much at a world champs, wait till they get a real challenge

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