I play for the 16's metro. But couldn't make that game... I was told that We won though (metro)

I am one of those selfish bigs for the metro team... You have a problem? Those country guys are just bogans, they have no skill, I am 6 foot 2 inches. So there is your result we won 110-72. So you think they are good think again...

I was talking about alst years game I scored 20 points of the 110 and we dominated.

**balla** - you're from NSW. This game was SA, as this site is run (and contributed to) by SA people and talk generally about local basketball.

Yeh I was talking about NSW metro vs Country and I am 6 foot 2 inches.

who cares if your 6 foot 2 i am 105 kilo step into my turf and see how you go

balla do u have to loosen your shoe lace to think ???

In the 16 girls, did the girls who have been on the injured list for their clubs, for what seems like decades, all play?

Does this mean metro were missing some when they beat Country? Maybe the 40 point turn around was due to players available. How do we expect these to finish at Nationals?

Both would have to play out of their sox's to medal and realistically 5th or 6th would be good. Country have looked to the future with several good first years and metro have put all their eggs in the, all second year basket.
If metro click , who knows what they might do but they have put a lot of faith in some players who drop the ball a bit and two players who have to do the bulk of the scoring.
Bottom line is we don't mind which of these groups representing SA bring back some silverware.
God luck to both teams.

If that's the case then country will reap the rewards next year. Metro 18's went for a lot of first years too but metro 16's have vitually said we can win it with all second years.
Unless metro 16's do win it they have made a huge mistake not blooding some first year talent for next year.

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Yes, putting lot of faith in first years and some of second years with not much experience. Surprising some of the experience that got cut. Hope it works well for them.

who are the selfish gaurds from u16 metro boys? wat club and number? Im curious

Why do we need a metro & country team? Cant we send our best 10-12 kids to the nationals and give them a better shot at finishing higher, rather than divide and weaken the talent? Im sure the question has been asked before, but what is the answer.

If the answer is because Victoria and NSW do it, then IMO we are doing it for the wrong reasons. They probably have the populations to send 3-4 teams each to the nationals, lets send our best and see what we can achieve.

Sending 2 teams enables more players to attend and gives them exposure. Somebody who makes a team as a 14 year old might not perform well enough to win a National title. But this player might improve enough to play for Australia in the long run du eto the experience.

Also, country players have a deferent set of needs tham metro players.

If would be impossible for some country players to make all the trainings that metro kids do. this would mean that some kids might not make it to the AIS of Australian Junior teams if the lived in the country.

Somebody like Luke Schensher might never have gone to a Nationals if this were the case.

The answer is simple , it is to give the widest number of young people the opportunity to play at the highest level.
By sending two teams, instead of the 4 teams about to take part in the U16 and U18 nationals, twenty kids would lose that opportunity.
Would we send significantly better teams if they were mixed, in most cases only marginally as evidenced by the cojoined Metro/Country in U20's.
Rather than criticise the number of players going, we need to determine if the players going are the right players, coached by the right coaches and in turn if the coaches are selected using the the right process.Should the state coaches coach in the age group they take to the nationals?
Very different methodology has gone into each selection and its difficult to discern a credible process in place. In the 16 girls they either think they'll win it or that all the first years are substandard because they have gone for all second years. In the 16 country girls and 18 metro girls its a very different situation with lots of first years which says that either the second years in these respective ages are not up to scratch or they have red hot teams or simply they're building for next year. Running through the boys is just as big a headache with certain selections.
Is it time to make a policy of selecting only second years for the Nationals, clearly the answer is no in my view, but would it result in stronger, better teams which was your point?
Is it time to have a policy of always having 2 or 3 first years in a team? Again how could you do it when each year the talent pool is different?
Is the aim of teams going to the Nationals just competition because results tell us that in most cases winning it is not a possibility? How do we make our teams more competitive? How do we make district more competitive?
State coaches are on a hiding to nothing because despite who they select it will always be wrong and their only vindication is to medal.
I can't think of any guidelines that would work for selecting state teams other than ability and as that is subjective, we find ourselves back to square one.
So I'd keep sending the 40 kids each year (till the 20's) and hope the selectors get it right.