Get the Wildcats too get it sorted this sort of thing is right up their alley... loopholes baby!

Maybe High Greenwood would like to play for us.

I just realized that we don't have a naturalized player, and haven't for a while （who was the last one, Fisher?）. Well the Philippines got Blatche sorted pretty quick with zero linkage. Young will be married to a national. If he wants to play （assuming his tweet is legit） and is willing to jump through the necessary hoops ー why not.

its pretty funny that if Nick Young came over and played in the NBL , people on here would lose there stuff......

and yet people dont want him to play for Australia...interesting

Billyhoyle the difference is he would be great for the National league within Australia as would most NBA players coming here as imports, but mediocre at a International level... big difference.

If anybody can replace Gibson, yes please.

All assuming it's in any way possible...

I reckon do it for the hell of it, chucker or not.

17.9 PPG season before last. His shooting percentages over his career are not miles off Kobe's. Worse FG%, better 3P%, quality FT%. Not much besides scoring though.

He's not going to make the US team, so might as well see if he's actually keen to play at the Olympic level and go from there. If he's just mucking around, haven't lost much.

I doubt he is serious, but if he was it would absolutely be worth the punt. If he doesn't pan out, we've lost nothing, but if we could get him focussed he would be a major upgrade to our perimeter scoring for at least the first few years of the Ben Simmons era!

He want be married to an Aussie. Once he marries Iggy her citizenship is revoked and her passport burnt. We don't need him, or her

Won't even

I feel that if he came here, he would bring the wrong attitude. He would want to be THE option on offensive, and would throw up some ridiculous crap. Please, No.

His wife is part aussie, part American. The American parts being in the chest & facial areas.

She's Australian when she needs to represent bonds. How the hell did that ever happen too. Pat Rafter to Iggy, nice work bonds

I just realized that we don't have a naturalized player, and haven't for a while （who was the last one, Fisher?）

Thanks koberulz.

No way would he be up to speed with the international style and Boomers style in time for Rio, but if he's actually serious it would be silly not to give him a run in some practice games after that.

He's a chucker of the highest order, and not a great one. His style doesn't suit international basketball at all.

Besides all that, marrying someone doesn't mean you get to play for the national team.

Baynes was one of the leading scorers of the tournament in 2014. Ingles too, has shown he's a more than capable scorer in international competition. Andersen is one of the best offensive big men we've ever had. Patty led the last Olympics in scoring. We don't need a chucker

Again.

1) He doesn't qualify. Marrying someone doesn't qualify you to play for their national team.
2) His skills, as a chucker, ball stopper, poor defender and someone who never passes are at complete odds with what works at international basketball.

Even if he did qualify I'd much rather forget the sideshow of the Iggy/Swaggy relationship that could end at any time (celebrity relationships are generally everlasting though I know) and concentrate on what is our best group of players ever coming through.

Young, last season, had the worst assist ratio of any small forward, 2nd worst (just) if compared to SGs, and only 18 players in the whole league were worse overall (all bigs).

JR Smith looks like Steve Nash by comparison.

Kyle Korver, James Jones, Danny Green. These are all guys who are MUCH better passers than Young.

This isnt exactly an aberration either. He's had several seasons that were even worse than this one (and a few that were better, but still awful).

He's just not cut out for international basketball where making the extra pass is gold.

If this isn't a joke or momentary desire, I agree with Paul: give Young a run in some of our practice games and/or invite him to training camp.

Despite his offensive talents, like others I highly doubt he has the team-first mentality or game habits to make the final cut, but it couldn't hurt to gauge his performance against quality international competition in the appropriate setting.

Paul, you wrote an article earlier this month about the Boomers electing to field our most 'talented' group of players in favour of what might be our best 'team': Young's potential inclusion for 2016 would be the ultimate test of your theory!

835, do u even basktball?

Indeed it would Playmaker Mo!

But Lemanis is clearly big on selecting a team and building it. He didn't do trials this year and picked 10 of the 12 from last year's WC for the Euro tour, with the only two missing being unavailable.

I can't see him rocking the boat with only a few practice games and a couple of camps between now and Rio.

I think Lemanis's selection process might be different if we have fewer commit to the Olympics (for whatever reason), but nonetheless you make a good point, Paul.

I doubt anyone with Young's swag would work his way up to final 12 contention from our 'B-team' in a Sino-Australia Challenge, or equivalent lead-up tournament anyway.

Perhaps we'll see Young in green & gold for the next "World Cup", but probably (overwhelmingly) not.

Lol to some of these people. Nick Young could walk onto our Boomers team. I mean, Goulding is a homeless mans version of Nick Young

People are underestimating how far ahead of other leagues the NBA is. Of course Nick Young would make the Boomers. Swaggy P would bring a lot of zip and pizazz to the side.

Young isn't ready to play the international style of offence or defence, has no idea about what the Boomers run at either end, and I doubt he's ready for the intensity of the top international sides at the pointy end of the Olympics. He would disrupt more than he would benefit.

Jick, if anything people overestimate the difference. Nick Young might be an NBA player, but he isn't the type of player who would excel internationally. Plus, I would rather if we didnt have some chump who decides to be Aussie without a real true love for the country. If any American should be playing for Australia, it should be James Ennis - He has come to Australia in each off season and shown a true love and appreciation for the country. He has nothing to gain out of returning to Perth, yet continues to. If he wants to naturalise and play for the Boomers, I would be all for it. Nick Young just wants to expand his own name.

"People are underestimating how far ahead of other leagues the NBA is. Of course Nick Young would make the Boomers. Swaggy P would bring a lot of zip and pizazz to the side."

is that why the Boomers NBA players smashed NZ's NBL hacks off the court in both games from the get go and never looked like breaking a sweat?

When someone starts talking about what domestic league international players are from, you know they probably don't know much about international basketball.

It's whether you can perform a role in the intensity of an international tournament, and whether you can be a positive contributor to your team at both ends of the court that counts.

It's not about what they could do in the NBA, it's about what role they can fill in the international game and whether that helps the Boomers.

Young would struggle to be ready to play the likes of Spain, Lithuania and US etc at the intensity of an Olympic Games, to learn the defensive rotations and change ups, to learn the Boomers style of play and figure out how to defend international opponents in time for Rio.

Give him practice games after that where some poor offensive decisions, defensive breakdowns and chemistry issues can't cost you any chance of a medal.

The NBL is irrelevant in this discussion, so is the NBA, we're talking about the Olympics and hence player's ability to fill a role in the international game.

How?

Nick Young is an undisciplined chucker. It doesn't matter what league he plays in, he is not going to be a great addition to the team. He also has no real loyalty to the country. Yes, his girlfriend or wife or whatever she is from here, but that doesn't make someone actually care. If there is one American who has both the talent and the loyalty to play for Australia, it is James Ennis.

You can compare careers between Ennis and Young and say Young has done more, but Ennis is actually a more versatile player who has a bit more control.