Ummm...missing a lot of up and coming players! Australia compared to NZ has depth at every spot coming up through the ranks...the only concern would be the 3 spot IMO but I think we will be OK as I expect Creek will more than fuill that gap over the coming years.

Here is a brief summary...all players I list below are under the age of 23 and whom I consider a chance to one day pull on a Boomer singlet. And yes, I may have missed one or two players, but this is a good start.

Point Guards
Patty Mills (Portland, NBA)
Matt Dellavedova (Saint Mary's, NCAA)
Jason Cadee (Gold Coast, NBL)
Jorden Page (Saint Mary's, NCAA)
Nate Tomlinson (Colorado, NCAA)
Jackson Aldridge (AIS)
Mitch Norton

Shooting Guards
Anatoly Bose (Nicholls State, NCAA)
Hugh Greenwood (AIS)
Ryan Broekhoff (Valparaiso, NCAA)
Christian Salecich (Saint Louis, NCAA)
Anthony Drmic (AIS)

Forwards
Joe Ingles (CB Granada, Spain)
Code Ellis (Saint Louis, NCAA)
Brock Motum (Washington State, NCAA)
Mitch Young (Saint Mary's, NCAA)
Mitch Creek (AIS)
Ater Majok (Connecticut, NCAA)

Centres
AJ Ogilvy (Besiktas, Turkey)
Matthew Hodgson (Southern Utah, NCAA)
Shane Harris-Tunks (Colorado, NCAA)
Andrija Dumovic (AIS)

And there are plenty more players I could add that miss this list by just 1-2 years...

Also, you missed big Kiwi centre Steven Adams who hs committed to Pittsburgh in the NCAA.

PS: Great to see you have faith in the New Zealand sides of the future, but I really do think the Aussies have you well and truly covered across pretty much every position.

Jackson Alrdidge committed to Butler University just a few days ago. By all accounts, their 2011 class is supposed to be really strong, so he could be part of an NCAA tounry run right from his freshman year.

Steven Adams is a beast; 6"11 and he is just 16 years of age.
Dominated the NZ age group stuff, but I want to see him go up against tougher competetion with guys his size..He was going up against 6"4/6"5 centers in NZ so of course he was going to dominate.
We tried to get him into our JTB team for the upcoming FIBA series; He would easy dominate Trist, Thomas, Sinclair

ok point well seen. i have missed out alot of young players in the aussie program. joe ingles being the big one i think.

AJ Ogilvy is a very good player but disapointed with his lack laster effort against the tall blacks last time they played and so was Jawaii.

i think the shooting guard postion and also the small forward position goes to the kiwis.

I saw the webster play against them the aussies growing up and he had no problems. He never went against patty though which will be the true test.
Also was in Adelaide to watch ruscoe againt Christian Salecich and Jorden Page. He scored at will because he is one of the quickest players i have seen and also has deep range.

Also i have seen Adams play in person and i was wrong to miss him off the list and he will be a tall black very soon.
In his national final he had 36 and 20 boards. apprently he averaged 37.8,18.9 and 5.5 bloacks the whole tourney. VERY athletic for a 7' footer BUT needs to learn the game more. he is young tough


Kiwis also have BJ anthony NZ breakers
and a you PG to back up Webster and Ruscoe at the PG he plays for the Nelson Giants.

Sorry for boasting the N.Z team but i think we need to watch out for them.

imagine in 4 years

Mills vs. Webster (aus)
Ruscoe vs. Salecich (50/50)
Ambercrombie vs. ingles (aus)
Loe vs. Majok (n.z)
Perkins (if avalible) or adams vs. AJ Ogilvy (n.z)

i like this conversation,

aussie is to good though i think?

Patty mills is by far a level above. NBA bound and the brightest future we have

For the next 8 years at least, a full strength Boomers lineup would be looking at the following players IMO:

C: Bogut / Maric / Baynes / Nevill / Ogilvy
F: Jawai / Motum / Majok
F: Ingles / Barlow / Worthington
G: Newley / Greenwood / Bose / Salecich
G: Mills / Martin / Markovic / Gibson / Dellavedova / Cadee

And plus, these guys will be pushed by the younger ones coming through as outlined earlier.

If the Aussies field anything close to full strength, the Kiwi's have no chance.

I agree that Australia is very deep across the board in every position. The difference in population size guarantees this.
New Zealands main strength is that we play with passion and we play hard, especially against Australia.
With all these top quality guys coming through in the next few years the only thing we can guarantee is that the series in the future will be just as tough as they are now.

use are idots. have you not seen us lately vs new zealand. our names on the back of our shirts dont get us through.

they play for the symbol on there heart when they play us.

They aint scared of our names, clowns

Beat Australia once Anon?

hahah pretty certain that for the majority of the last decade NZ had been very competitive with us. Sure we had more 'talent' but they had a better team.

That one win looked pretty good from where I was sitting and it was enough to win the series and give NZ the #1 qualifying spot for Oceania.
As for the we didn't have our best players cop out comment, were NZ @ full strength? No