From SA:

SA Metro:
Alex Mudronja Sturt Sabres Basketball Club),
Biar Garang (Centrals)

SA Country:
Harry Mills Eastern Mavericks/Willunga),
Ky Matthews-Hampton (Eastern/Strathalbyn)

Good result for SA! Some real talent coming through on boys too now.

Thanks, but that wasn't the question. Anybody have the full squad?

It's on the BA website

http://www.basketball.net.au/emus-squad-announced-pre-worlds-camp/

Thomas Wilson
Dejan Vasiljevic
Tanner Krebs
Jack White
Jack McVeigh
Jock Perry
Jordan Hunter
George Blagojevic
Harry Froling
Deng Gak

Kyle Clark
Geremy McKay
William McDowell-White
Rhys Vague
Angus Glover

Would be much better with Adel, Simmons, T Maker, Humphries amongst others

I think the last post is confused it's the under 17 Squad for Australia not the 19's that this post is about.

Be better with Bogut and Mills too, unfortunately they missed the age cut off.

Correct, my apologies that list is the under 19 Emus, disregard those names. Anyone care to list the 17's, go for it.

Yes I also paid for the under 18 National games, my messages and phone calls have not been retuned, what's going on ??

Matthew Johns Vic Country in, only Vic Country boy I believe.

Any other names is this 99
& 2000 how many of this kids are bottom age any one know

Should be mostly top age ?

Probably half a dozen kids still in u16 who would be at the camp I'd guess. Hampton, Dalton, Frolling, Dent, the Vic Country guard.

Good to see some SA names this year

Nothing posted with the list of names where would we look & how was this team chosen

I'd say this is the makings of the team for the 2016 u/17 worlds, so athletes born 1999 and later. Basically the cream of last year's 16's nationals crop.

http://www.basketball.net.au/17-squad-assembled-morwell-camp/

m, actually you are wrong. 1999 or later.

The Under-17 squad for the Churchill camp: Brady Armstrong, Patrick Bines, Mate Colina, Callum Dalton, Lauchlan Dent, Dragon Elkaz, Benjamin Fakira, Samson Froling, Tom Fullarton, Biar Garang, Jason Gregg, Bailey Griffiths, Kye Hampton-Matthews, Jamie Hepburn, William Howell, Matthew Johns, Jhonny Lutula, Harrison Mills, Moses Mojok, Alexander Mudronja, Aiden O'Carroll, Ryan Runndles, Jordan Starr and Kyle Zunic.

Does anayone know when the women's squad is being announced? Hearing rumours about girls that have been told they are in.

Thought the list came out last week ?

Some of these girls most likely...
Magbegor, Simmons, lehmann, McLean, mcspadden, Rowe, McKay, Cochrane, Bourne, mole, Abel, Cubillo, fuiava, George, fisher, Satie

Axam, pizzey < not sure if these girls are too old?

Like to see some SA Girls after having won a silver and bronze at nationals

When will this list officially come out on Basketball Australia's page does anyone know it's seems like a long gap from the boys team announcement

What u17 girls pg's do we have?
Seems like the only position we don't have a lot of depth in....

Can Abel or Simmons run the point?

Can someone please post the names of the chosen girls is it just bottom age 18 girls or will it be the 2000 girls too

U17 born 99 or 2000.

This would be descent.

abel/?
Simmons/lehmann/George
Mole/Bourne/McLean
Mcspadden/Cochrane
Magbegor/pizzey

Great start but wouldn't it be around the same amount as the boys squad of twenty four or five

what about Eliza Joynes?

people were commenting on her potential earlier. (& no I'm not related or have any involvement)

on the mens side I'll be really interested to see how
Mate Colina, 6'10
Callum Dalton, 6'9
Samson Froling, 6'9
Benjamin Fakira, 6'8 go because this side was initially lacking a bit of height but with these 4 its looking better

others I'll be interested in seeing
Tom Fullarton, he seems to be fitting in really well at the CoE
Biar Garang, can he add scoring to the athleticism
Dragon Elkaz, looks to have grown taller
Jordan Starr, living in the US and playing AAU
Kye Hampton-Matthews, can he continue to be a lead scorer

Yes it will be interesting I'm not sure if all the 2000 kids will get through considering it's u/17s I witnessed some really great athletic talent from the 18 Nationals why would they all be bottom ages ..,

How many girls chosen

Probably read the comments that were posted by BA when the squad was announced would indicate who's looking like good prospects lots of 99 comments out of 18 nationals

There will be some great talent at the U16 Girls Nationals as well. Hopefully some of those girls are kept in mind.

The squad isn't announced yet although lots of girls have been notified they are in. Nearly all 99 born kids that I have heard.

Should be mostly 99 kids in both boys and girls a big difference in strength and maturity there could be almost two years difference in ages

Should be mostly 99 kids in both boys and girls a big difference in strength and maturity there could be almost two years difference in ages

If you are good enough, you are good enough. There are soem 2000 born stand outs so hopefully at least some will be selected.

Batish, Cochrane and magbegor in the front court of vic metro u16 squad.
Pizzey is an emergency...

Given the lineage, I would assume Froling will be part of the final group even as a bottom ager. Of the four children, he's probably the one with the highest ceiling.

Is Shyla heal the best pg prospect coming into the u16 tournament?

No, she isn't.

Lineage? Who your family are should be irrelevant to the selection process. Shame it often is more important than talent though.

I don't care if she's shanes daughter...
Who is a quality pg from that age group?

There will be plenty turn up, you will have to wait until Nationals.

6 months, 12 months players can chnage incredibly if they get some good coaching and work hard.

Very talented girls will miss out everywhere unfortunately. Given the Tigers girls missed the state team, going to be tough for them to make a national one I'm guessing.

Heal was the by far best the guard at the last national competition she featured in. Tough to say if she is right now. I would say her counterpart is a better PG though. QLD South are likely to have the best backcourt at U16s.

As for lineage, not only were Sam's parents ballers, but so were his siblings who are still involved in the program, and have proven to be quality assets.

You might not like the fact that someone's surname might give them a leg up but it helps the selection group to better assess what they might have.

And there it is.

I would argue the opposite.

Children of famous sports people can often be coached within an inch of their life when very young, so can stand out in the early years.

Often better athletes fly by as they get access to good coaching and start to understand how it all works.

That is not a comment on any of these individual kids by the way.

And QS don't have a monolopy on PGs, but we will have to wait for Nationals.

If by 'early years' you're including U16s U18s and U20s, then yeah I guess we agree. Bolden Simmons Exum Froling(s) have all stood out in those 'early years' and continue to do so despite being born from 'famous' basketball parents.

You would have to think on talent alone HEAL would be invited to a camp at least. Queensland South will have a talented back court.

Shyla Heal was arguably the best player in the U14 nationals competition last year.

Jess McDowell-White was the starting point guard as a bottom age player in the team Queensland South team that finished second.

Victoria Metro will show some talent with Isobel Anstey, Lana Hollingsworth etc.

Regardless of age, they need to select the best players to compete for positions.

Will be a great U16 nationals.

Very strange post.

Steph Curry and Klay Thompson have something to say about the relevance of lineage...

There are unquestionably talented kids whose parents were not great basketballers or even great athletes. But to suggest that a kid's record of achievement should be taken with a grain of salt if he has a famous last name? Please.

Correlation does not imply causation.

What is going on lately I am so emotionally constipated I haven't given a shit in days.

Need more interesting threads people

Ahlise hurst and jazmin Shelley are 2 other pg's that you can add to the list.

Apply this:

"The style of play I want to adopt is not built around one or two people, it's going to be about a whole team effort at both ends of the floor and I want to be able to play a pretty quick style of basketball.

“I was definitely looking for athleticism as well as kids who have a high level of skill and are smart players. I think that will be the strength of this group, having multiple talented players on the court at once. Now the challenge is to get those players to work well together and be able to gel as a team."

To this:

Rebecca Abel (Tas) Penguin
Ella Batish (Vic Metro) Sandringham
Callie Bourne (ACT) Norths
Lucy Cochrane (Vic Metro) Sandringham
Abby Cubillo (NT) Darwin
Najvada George (Vic Metro) Dandenong
Hannah Lehman (SA Metro) Forestville
Cassidy McLean (NSW Country) Newcastle
Lara McSpadden (NSW Country) Newcastle
Ezi Magbegor (Vic Metro) Coburg
Tayla Mole (Tas) Wellington
Rebecca Pizzey (Vic Metro) Bulleen
Darcy Rees (SA Metro) Forestville
Kiera Rowe (Vic Metro) Bulleen
Jazmin Shelley (Vic Country) LaTrobe Energy
Jasmine Simmons (NSW Country) Bathurst
Samantha Simons (SA Metro) Forestville

If he sticks to approach, should be interesting to see who makes the final 12.

add Chelsea Deangelo(think that's how its spelt) to that list

ah, no

D'Angelo is not at camp nor going to Oceania qualifiers but she is in the overall 23. FIBA won't be announcing venue for worlds till early 2016

Correct.