Anonymous
Last month
Teams starting to get announced
SA METRO
Girls
Awur Ajak
Isobel Borlase
Tayla Brazel
Maddy Hinton
Ellie-Rose Janssen-Holton
Yasmin Nairn
Paige Padroth
Kaitie Rowe
Jess Simons
Mia Walker- Roberts
Boys
Ben Carlson
Noah English
Noah McDonald
Cooper Osborne
Sean Stock
Sam Tosh
Marco D'Annunzio
Jack King
David Rinaldi
Jackson Tucker
SA COUNTRY
Girls
Olivia Bradley
Gemma Broadwood
Tara Bryant
Tia Dahlitz
Chloe Harding
Layla Harris
Taylah Moffatt
Emmy Roach
Bianca Stasinowsky
Amelie Webb
Boys
Noah Brown
Dominic Carter
Joshua Clifton
Trasen Pickett Carbine
Louis Schell
Jack Sullivan
Isaac Warhurst
Thomas Welk
Charlie Whyatt
Benjamin Young
Any of those teams going to do well? Medal chance?
Don't think so, too many missing from metro boys.
Other states 04/05 too strong.
Metro women don't have the depth from previous ajcs
What's the likelihood of this going ahead? Or will it be postponed to later in the year?
Also 20's???
Agree, SA metro women have 3 top line players and their 2 bigs are unplayable vs the top teams. Small ball is their best hope and they need Borlase to stay healthy.
Vic Metro - 1st
Vic Country / SE Queensland - 2nd or 3rd
NSW Metro / SA Metro - 4th or 5th
SA Country / NSW Country / North Queensland- 6th and lower
The rest
Sixers
Last month
"Don't think so, too many missing from metro boys"
Yak and who else?
Sixers
Last month
Actually Rasmussen was the previous year, so not him.
Combining 04 from 19' and 05 from 20’ chosen side, vic S5s will probably look like
Metro
5’9 Heal
5’9 Wickstrom
6’0 Burrows
6’2 Puoch
6’4 Ohara
Country
5’5 Loughridge
5’9 Granger
5’10 Koopmans
6’1 Ananiev
6’2 Knight
Nsw metro and qld sth have a shot.I think.
Isaac
Last month
Please keep in mind the forum guidelines on naming U18 players. OK to name them in team lists as done so far, but please refrain from posting about individuals (whether positive or negative). Please report posts that contravene this. Thanks.
If they were on previous years teams lists, what's the difference?
The u16s will be super competitive, very evenly matched across aus.
Red84
Last month
For the girls, the team that could surprise this year is NSW country. Fantastic bigs, I mean really good.
u16 Girls wont be the least bit competitive Vic Metro will smash everyone, even if they select the team badly, which they will.
I thought metro had the bigs and country just had 1.
U16 are 06/07.
Qld are stacked, wa will also suprise
https://www.bnsw.com.au/news_notices/spp-2021-u18-u16-metro-country-announcement/
Metro bigs? Who else?
Nelson / Kayrouz
Leasuasu / Coburn / Quigley
Country bigs? Who else?
Foy /
Hassett / Juffermans
Its going to Kill the selectors not being able to justify picking anyone from Bulleen in the girls u16!
U18 Qld north and south final state selection this weekend. Their teams should be named soon.
I don't think the girls teams will change much from 2019 u16 team.
';'
Last month
Under 18 girls is just the Sturt 18 Div 1 team with the Sturt coach as head coach
Not sure what ya on about, they come from many clubs.
This tournament is also for the selection for the next u17 (05-2022) and u19 (04-2023) Aus players,
What state are you referring to "I don't think the girls teams will change much"
U18 Qld north and south final state selection this weekend. Their teams should be named soon.
Why so many Sturt players in the 18Boys Metro? They just scraped into the finals on the back of Brennan and flopped, bombed in the State Champs, have never actually won anything.over the years
Hugely over rated and over hyped and they make up 50% of the team!
Surely there are better players out there?
Anon
Last month
You answered your own question, its because they are Sturt and the HP coach is Sturt
910, maybe because you are talking about last year's team, when these guys were all bottom agers? Completely irrelevant.
Sturt and Norwood are maybe the best two teams this season.
Who is the guy coaching them?
Never heard of him.
*
Last month
just depends where the best players are at the time - can recall some very good Forestville girls teams 5-8 years ago that made up 6 or 7 of the state u16 and 18s - and they did very well at the national level. North in the early 2000s had a high % of female state reps.
Better coached? Their 18 1s coached has never coached in SA.
Expect 2 states to announce teams next week or week after.
And then expect it all to be "postponed"...(cancelled).
2.5 months away, don't think it’ll be cancelled if people are going back to work in feb.
Red84
Last month
I think the U18 champs have a better than 50% chance of going ahead. The biggest threat arises from an individual state closing its border. Clearly if Vic does this - then - yeah - the champs are off. But if a state other than Vic decided to impose restrictions, then the champs could probably work around an absence and still stage the event.
One workaround fix could involve fielding a Vic Metro "B" side in place of a missing NSW, Qld, WA, SA or Tas team. This team would be more than competitive - in fact defeats they would inflict on other states could be embarrassing. But I'm all in favour of it.
I think if Vic metro put in a B team it would likely be rather embarrassing for the selectors. Given how badly they generally select their teams the B teams might well beat the A teams!
No Vic = no Nationals
In any age group, at any time.
Victoria is the heart and soul of basketball in Australia.
The rest of the country can say what they like, Victoria's results speak for themselves.
Every other state is playing for second place.
Red84
Last month
497 writes "Every other state is playing for second place". This is a case of trying to beat your opponent before the contest begins. I see it a bit differently. Imagine the pressure on those VicM players NOT to lose. And - conversely- the kudos earned by the interstate team that knocks off VicM. I'd rather play to win than play to avoid losing.
Sa metro girls u16 06/07 have 3 really great players. They could very well win the champs this year.
716, haha!
1 very good player from Forestville, decent guard from West and another decent forward from Sturt.
Need more than 3 players to win Nationals, Vic Metro have 10 good players year in, year out plus others that miss out all together!
Keep dreaming....
Pg ?
Sg 06 Forestville
Sf 07 Forestville
Pf 06 Forestville
C ?
Vic lists for sdp are out.
https://basketballvictoria.com.au/2021-state-development-program-female-athletes-announced/
https://basketballvictoria.com.au/2021-state-development-program-male-athletes-announced/
The Vic lists for SDP make for interesting reading purely on the numbers selected to be involved. Just looked at the girls lists with over 80 U18 Girls and well over 100 U16 Girls listed in these Vic SDPs. My home state of SA would be lucky to have 80 girls playing in each of the entire Div 1 comps for U18 and similar in U16 so every Div 1 player from all teams would make the SDP list if SA had the same sized SDPs. Just puts things in perspective a bit and shows how well some of the SA teams do to be competitive nationally.
Also shows 716's comments about '3 really great' U16 players and having a chance at Nationals to be really quite quite laughable from both a depth perspective and how you perceive "really great" talent in a national context. Good luck to those SA girls but not sure the evaluation is all that accurate in the bigger picture.
I have seen the talent in all states is why I can make judgement on who will do well at nationals.
The 06s in vic are not that strong.
I'd argue wa and qld have more talented 06s than vic in the girls. It may not show at u16s but will as they go up in the age groups.
The Vic SDP lists make even more interesting reading when you compare the kids that made those lists compared to kids from the same club who didn't. Frankston have a kid in NPP but they have another player who is just as good, if not better and she didn't make SDP (maybe because she hasn't chosen to go to Rowville, every kid at the trials who goes to Rowville made that list!). Knox's best top age u16 player is not there also, both these kids should be chances of Vic Metro. If Vic Metro don't toy with everybody it will be because of inept High performance Coaches and corrupt selection procedures, not talent.
None of the npp players are on the sdp list.
Always some players that skip these programs.
5 of the 10 players per team at nationals play 75% of the minutes.
If you have 3-4 great players its enough to win the champs. It has happened many times before.
Red84
Last month
VicM has long enjoyed a dominant position because its administrators have done a better job over many, many years. The VicM comp is over twice the size of NSWM and 3 times the size of SAM. High quality venues. And they consistently produce the best coaches and run superior systems. This last point is key. If NSWM or SAM or QLD were to have any hope of knocking off VicM their coaches must run systems that are as well thought out, as well drilled and are well suited to the strengths of the playing group. Having seen many AJCs over the years i do not believe that a S5 VicM player is better than their counterparts in NSW, Qld or SA. But they are better drilled, particularly in defence, and they are much less likely to be hero ballers.
WA
https://basketballwa.asn.au/2021-western-australian-u18-state-basketball-teams/
Well Read
Last month
"Having seen many AJCs over the years i do not believe that a S5 VicM player is better than their counterparts in NSW, Qld or SA. But they are better drilled, particularly in defence, and they are much less likely to be hero ballers."
100%, Red.
TAS
Boys
https://www.facebook.com/BasketballTasmania/photos/a.472362379525233/3694324993995606/
Girls
https://www.facebook.com/BasketballTasmania/photos/a.472362379525233/3691285980966174
https://www.bnsw.com.au/news_notices/state-teams-u18-team-announcements-2021/
NT
https://www.facebook.com/NorthernTerritoryBasketball/photos/a.167862463249042/3680516218650298/
https://www.facebook.com/NorthernTerritoryBasketball/photos/a.167862463249042/3680385231996730/
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