Karl Beston, lol.

Giddey getting cut would be no surprise though.

I'm surprised. I thought normally you take at least you guy for the future, especially one that appears as good as Giddey.

It's a good choice, he needs 3 years of development, he can’t defend or shoot. This is a level above nbl

Green is a young bloke, he's only 20.y.o and like 20 months older than Giddey.
Giddey has lots of flaws and has never faced opponents higher than nbl level.

Agree, with me, whoever thinks like that is stupid. Especially with all, the qualification games and other tournaments in lead up.

Green plays day in day out against nba players and get 5 mins a game in the nba.
Giddey is just a prospect, he may be a complete bust, he cant defend, he's not quick, he can’t shoot. He has little hops both at the rim and on his jumpers. Atm we know he has good size, 6’8-6’9 and good vision plus ambidextrous passing.

"Karl carries a mouth guard on him at all times on the off chance he'll bump into Andrew. Best be prepared."

What does this mean

You can guess all you like, anthony Bennett was the next Lebron and what happened.
We won't know a thing until months after his drafted.

ME, the blooding for the future isn't as ridiculous as it may sound. We’ve heard the likes of bogut, mills, ingles and delly all say how important it was to be involved at younger ages so next go around they are firmly prepared. It’s more of the whole integrating the young guys into the boomers culture. Not saying you take like 3-4 young guys, but especially under the lemanis run it was a decent point when people brought up, 'what’s the point in picking 2-3 guys who won’t play in the tournament and who’ll never be a major part of the boomers, when instead you bring a young guy to help them learn from the vets of the program.’ It came across a lot of the time of lemanis trying to squeeze nbl guys in and say some rhetoric for people to buy into with ‘this isn’t an all star team’ and was often demeaning towards younger players when he’d say things like ‘doesn’t understand the system’ when it’s his job to teach them. Other then coming up short (sometimes his fault, sometimes not) I think what BA was probably more concerned about was unless you were starter quality, Lemanis had very little time for younger players. It was one of the first things you saw goorj go on about when getting the job about how important it is to ingrain the young guys, which considering bogut has been on record as saying he was basically begging goorj to take mills in 06 for that purpose, I think he’s seen the error he once made and is choosing to not repeat it. It won’t ruin a young guys career by any means, but considering how Simmons hasn’t played for the boomers yet, it’s a decent point to bring up, if he take him in 14, then we’re not worrying about his commitment now. Ultimately at a national tournament teams end up playing 10 guys max, so there’s no harm in bringingat least 1 young player.

When it comes to giddey, unfortunately delly, and exum have the pg spots taken, and then mills and ingles will still do a good chunk of ball handling, and when going with take a young guy, green will take that spot as he’s just better and won’t need the ball in his hands to be effective, whereas giddey depends on that.

ME, neither did gliddon, sobey, or Barlow^ (In terms of doing so in meaningful minutes)

Why the olympics though, why not asia cup, WC qualifiers?

#893 same reason you don't only use preseason for development, you don’t have to play the younger guy or 2, but for them to be there in that big stage at a wc or olympics is a great experience in general and to be apart of the boomers program as been told by the likes of ingles, mills and delly

And which young guy did the USA take for experience? Or France? Or anyone...

Anyone who thinks culture is instilled within a space of 6-8 games should not be around the team.
If goorj thought that, he'd be chosen. I’m grateful his not an idiot.

Giddey is reserve and will travel with the side.

You take best available, if Giddey has not performed that well at the camp as well as others he's out. No point taking him, if an injury happens the bench guys have to fill the spot.

France and the US have always had typically better on paper teams then us so there was no need for them to do so (from there perspective). But just discredit the words of our current boomer core they're opinions mean nothing apparently #896

So that 8-6 games is what like 2 weeks roughly throw in the training and whatnot before hand is a good amount of time. Or the likes of our current boomer core and what they say means nothing and instead let’s keep bringing the likes of martin, lisch, gliddon etc for them to only sit on the bench and then the nbl to put out a press statement about 'woah we have 5 nbl players in the team’ just to give the league a pat on the back like it’s a small child #898

Good point dazz, if we take Simmons in 2014 then we likely don't have the hassle we do now with him, you don’t have to like it but that’s the reality these days in terms of returning the favour, and ultimately we want our best guys there

Aus Boomers Instagram have been putting things since the camp started and they just posted a video of a scrimmage and giddey is still there. Unless it's from a few days ago then he hasn’t been cut. I will say tho looking at all the pics and videos I haven’t really seen creek, whether he was cut or just unlucky to not get a good camera shot idk

Cut doesn't mean leave. They all,stay there.

Giddey will be going to Vegas with the team as a backup in case someone gets injured

Someone said Mitch creek photos removed from boomers Instagram is this true

Maybe has something to do with drug texts.

Will Giddey feature in the warmup games? My understanding he was never going to Olympics but was to play the warm games as his pre-workout prior to draft.