Based on who the Argentinians are sending, probably more about blooding youngsters with an aim to helping narrow down who will make the final spot or two on the WC team.

Good to see Greenwood making the squad - he deserves his chance based on his form with the Emu's over the past year.

I'm really intersted to see how Markovic goes as we have not really seen nor heard anything since his NBL days.

Cadee and Delly going head to head with Mills, Martin and Gibson would be a good test for them and a chance to prove their worth in trying to secure a backup role. A good chance for the coaching staff to weigh them up against one another.

PS: Maric is still unavailable as he is currently playing in the Serbian Leage grand final series. He starred in the game 1 win.

They're certainly blooding a few, would have been nice to see them give Goulding a chance.

No Anatoly Bose?

I haven't seen him play and don't know exactly how good he is, but supposedly from word of mouth a player with an amazingly bright future

Bose is an unknown commodity to be honest.. hes put up some terrific numbers in the NCAA, but the problem is he plays for a so so team in a low major conference so he really hasnt faced good competition.

I wanna know wheres Jawai and Anderson :p

No disrespect to the talent on show; but this Boomers series is starting to become a disappointment. Good to see Bogey involved with the commentary; but I was certainly hoping for some bigger International names to be involved.

Still a great lineup for us; but I was hoping for Scola at least to play in the lineup. Good to see Delfino is still going to play.

I see that Bose has also withdrawn his name from the NBA Draft, would that have an impact on his availability for this series, due to NCAA rules?

yeah we'll definitely need 6 point guards...

seems very light on in bigs -
plenty of guards and not much experience
wouyldnt be nbetter to look for more size mobility

where is andrew bogut!

"Curious" - he is on the 7pm Report

extremely weak in the centre position......absolute joke that majok is in this squad........

I'm very disappointed to see Jawai missing from this selection. He was one of the main reasons I purchased a ticket. Hopefully Mills will be good to go and stay injury free in the other games to allow us to see him. Worst case thought of course.

touche "hanging around"

brett brown has always had a love for gaurds.

guards.
a mills, markovic combo would be good.

Whilst it would be great to see all our best players on court in this series, lets take a step back and look at the big picture. Argentina are sending their development squad with none of their bonafide stars and locks for the WC team.

Argentina are sending 12 of the 14 players for their tour of Australia:
Gustavo Nicolas Aguirre
Facundo Campazzo
Jonatan Alberto Treise
Nicolas De los Santos
Matias Nocedal
Carlos Leonel Schattmann
Mariano Fierro
Sebastian Ernesto Vega
Pablo Espinoza
Federico Matias Aguerre
Nicolas Romano
Diego Leonardo Romero
Alejandro Martin Alloatti
Pablo Martin Orlietti

For heavens sake, the Argentinians are not even sending their head coach on this tour! Instead they are being guided by their assistant coach.

I like the fact that Brown and co are treating this series as a development opportunity - as that is what it really is given the team they will be playing against.

If or one would love to see Jawai and the rest of our big names in action together as a team in the lead up to the WC's, but the fact remains some of our best players are unavailable either due to team commitments, injury, or due to them taking a short break after a long season.

I know for one that Jawai recently participated in the same training camp as AJ Ogilvy is currently part of in LA as he prepares for next week's NBA draft. Maybe he is shopping himself around to ensure he remains in the NBA next season?

Couple of injuries are apparently keeping out a few key players some might have expected to have played.

Goulding , Ballinger would have been interesting,
with the big names missing.
As would Clarke , Bevo.

Isaac, is one of those injuries Barlow? I understand the absence of Bogut, Andersen, Nielsen, Jawai, Bruton and Maric, but Barlow hasn't played a competitive match since the end of April. I would have thought two months to be a nice rest before having a hit out with the Boomers.

Can't say.

Intriguing!

I dont mind the squad, would just like to see Matt Knight and Larry Davidson in there instead of Baynes and Majok, who both had their chance last season.

I would also like to see Ballinger given a chance, but this seems to be a youth squad which isnt a bad idea. Hopefully Balls gets an invite to a later camp.

I could see, with this line-up, the Aussies going even smaller in the starters: -

Gibson
Newley
Ingles
Worthington
Nevill

Worthington is pretty strong and could handle the 4 spot, especially in a Zone D.

Newley is a pretty good rebounder for a 2 as well, so wouldn't miss a lot there either.

If it's about blooding the young, I would have liked to have seen Goulding there too (but I am biased).

I hadn't even heard of Greenwood until now?! Can anybody provide a brief insight into what type of player he is and what he can offer the national program?

I saw Jawai at sydney airport today.. looked like he was in shape... skinny lets hope he will be playing this series...

Greenwood is at AIS and a very talented SG. averaged 14.0ppg, 5.8rpg, 1.8apg in SEABL as a starter.
Starter for the Emu's as well at recent Albert Schweitzer Tournament that won gold medal, being named to the all-tournament first team.

Here is the link to his BA profile: http://linky.com.au/9pogj

The Argentinian team set to plasy in Australia has lost all of their games in a lead up games against China by around 20 points each...

Also, Aleks Maric was named Serbian League MVP - that's a fair effort! His team also won the title, and Maric got involved in a fight in the last game of the series!

That Serbian game may have been the one where only 3 players from each team finished the game , after the fight. The other players were all sent off.

I just read that Sydney's Luke Cooper has been added to the squad, can anyone confirm this? was anyone cut or injured to allow Cooper in?