Few men missing in that camp imo.

My prediction:

Shelley/Conti
Simmons/Simons/Goodchild
Mole/rowe
Cochrane/Pizzey/Bourne
Magbegor/mcspadden

Dent/zunic
Elkaz/MacDonald/stoddart
Fullarton/bines
Froling/johns/Bowen
Colina/dalton

women have a serious shot of getting a medal for the first time.

I don't think the men will do so well. top 6 maybe.

Unfortunately one of the countries best male point guards was ineligible, due to nepotism keeping him out of the National 18's.

Who's that?

As a Victorian, I was pleased to see young Macdonald in the squad. He looked very composed and ended the week with handy stats. Congrats to all of these seriously talented athletes!!

I hope those Vic metro boys can behave themselves when they go overseas

I don't think heal will make the squad. She can still make the u17 squad in 2018 I believe.

In my opinion she is not even close to being the best player in her position for her age.

You mean the best pg for 02 born athletes?

Just look at the u16 state rosters. Very deep in all positions. We are going to have an excellent u17 side once again in 2018.

Heal, manumaleuga and obah alone in qld Sth squad.
Ripper squads in both nsw, sa, and vic teams also.
Some promising bigs coming through too I might add.

Be interesting to see how they all go in July.

Topic has nothing to do with state squads so no I wasn't talking about that at all.

Not sure what nepotism you mean about Matt Day not being selected? The four guards who were selected all did a very good job at Nationals and proved they were selected for a reason. Matt Day is a good young kid but at the end of the day he was overlooked along with many other solid guards...

Anyone know where I can watch the boys and girls fiba Oceania u16s from last year?
It was on nz tv, but it's not on YouTube or anything.
A few mix tapes out but I want to watch both games in full.

Men's team chosen...
Final squad is:

Dent
Zunic
MacDonald
Stattman
Elkaz
Bines
Fullarton
Johns
Bowen
Dalton
Froling
Colina

Starting 5?
Dent
Elkaz
Fullarton
Johns
Froling

2nd unit?
Zunic
Stattman
Bines
Bowen
Colina

Extras
MacDonald
Dalton

Solid squad. Anyone know when U19s squad is announced?

In comparison to 2014 u17 squad who won silver. How does it match up?

6'0 L.Dent/6'1 K.Zunic
6'5 D.Elkaz/6'2? K.Stattman/6'1 S.Macdoanld
6'7 T.Fullarton/6'6 P.Bines
6'7 M.Johns/6'7 K.Bowen/6'8 C.Dalton
6'9 S.Froling/6'10 M.Colina

V

5'11 M.Owies/6'2 J.Hodgson
6'2 D.Vasljevic/6'5 J.White/6'4 T.Mcmullan
6'4 T.Wilson/6'6 K.Clark
6'7 K.Noi/6'9 H.Froling/6'6 A.Akintola
6'11 I.Humphries/6'9 D.Gak

Reply #586197

re: U17 worlds squad camp

I hope those Vic metro boys can behave themselves when they go overseas


What sort of comment is this??!!!

Maybe ask the place where they stayed in Adelaide that question anon?

Sapphires squad announced..

Shelley
Conti
Cubillo
Goodchild

McLean
Simons
Simmons
Rowe

Pizzey
Magbegor
Mcspadden
Cochrane

Great squad, looking forward to seeing how they go.

Mole, Bourne, dangelo, Clarke were the ones cut it looks like.

Rees & Heal too

Starting 5's for the both boys and girls? Iyo...

Imo
Pg Dent
Sg Elkaz
Sf Fullarton
Pf Johns
C Froling

Pg Conti
Sg Shelley
Sf Simmons
Pf Cochrane
C Magbegor

Conti starting for Aus but not Vic Met? I kind of liked her in that role off the bench.

I think Shelley would be better at the 2. Conti at the 1.
2nd unit with goodchild at the 2. Cubillo at the 1.

But, more than likely Shelley will start at 1 with 1 of Conti or cubillo as backup.

There are at least 6 players who are 1 or 2 guards in the squad:
Simmons
Shelley
Cubillo
Conti
Goodchild
McLean

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they ran 3 of these at the same time with two of Magbegor, Cochrane & Pizzey on the court.

Simmons is better at the 3 imo. She isnt as great of an outside shooter in comparison to some of the others, but she's got a nose for the ball and a great rebounder, passer and defender.

Height/born/name/position
5'3 99 Cubillo 1
5'4 99 Conti 1
5'8 00 Shelley 1-2
5'9 00 Goodchild 2-1
5'10 00 McLean 2-3
5'11 00 Simons 2-3
5'11 99 Simmons 3-2
6'0 99 Rowe 3-4
6'3 99 Pizzey 4
6'4 99 Magbegor 5-4
6'4 99 Mcspadden 5-4
6'5 00 Cochrane 4-5

99' McLean

Reply #586917

re: U17 worlds squad camp


Maybe ask the place where they stayed in Adelaide that question anon?


Maybe get your facts correct before sprouting off... Why are you excluding the other 4 teams that were staying there?!

Why bring this rubbish up, I don't see how it helps anybody.

Yeah nah. This is about how the kids compete against the best in the world not how they go playing at Country Cup.

Simmons is probably the best 2 in the squad, but WAY too small to play 3 in the big time.

5'11 is too small? Huh?

5'11 at the the 3 spot is plenty big enough. The majority of the teams we will be facing are much smaller. Much smaller...

We are bigger than Mexico, France and China. (Our pool games)

Infact, only 1 team bigger than us across the board in the tournament and that's the USA.

and I'm 7'2"

The USA is who are the world's best I would have thought?

by the way. 5'11" is way too small for the 3

You trippin. These are u17 girls...

Nope. The game changed, did you miss it?

Even though they lost against China u19, Croatia u19 and Lithuania u20 teams and beat Chinese u17s.

I would still alter the side if it was up to me.

Add hulland and stoddart.

Have to guarantee Coe players?