Team Australia

Dejan VASILJEVIC
#4
Dejan
VASILJEVIC
Guard

187cm
6'2"
Centre of Excellence AUS
26/04/1997
18

Angus GLOVER
#5
Angus
GLOVER
Point Guard

190cm
6'3"
Illawarra Hawks AUS
08/09/1998
16

KREBS
#6
Tanner
KREBS
Guard

198cm
6'6"
Centre of Excellence AUS
04/01/1996
19

Thomas WILSON
#7
Thomas
WILSON
Point Guard

191cm
6'3"
Centre of Excellence AUS
24/06/1997
18

George BLAGOJEVIC
#8
George
BLAGOJEVIC
Small Forward

202cm
6'8"
Centre of Excellence AUS
18/10/1996
18

William MCDOWELL-WHITE
#9
William
MCDOWELL-WHITE
Point Guard

190cm
6'3"
Southern District Spartans AUS
13/04/1998
17

Jack WHITE
#10
Jack
WHITE
Guard

194cm
6'4"
Centre of Excellence AUS
05/08/1997
17

Kyle CLARK
#11
Kyle
CLARK
Small Forward

199cm
6'6"
Wynard Wildcats AUS
03/03/1997
18

Jack MCVEIGH
#12
Jack
MCVEIGH
Small Forward

200cm
6'7"
Centre of Excellence AUS
27/06/1996
19

Jordan HUNTER
#13
Jordan
HUNTER
Center

208cm
6'10"
Northern Suburbs AUS
30/01/1997
18

Deng GAK
#14
Deng
GAK
Center

205cm
6'9"
Centre of Excellence AUS
12/05/1998
17

Geremy MCKAY
#15
Geremy
MCKAY
Forward

200cm
6'7"
Melbourne Tigers AUS
09/03/1996
19

Early indicators are that our lack of size and rim protection may be an Achilles Heel. 5 minutes in and we are down 4-8, struggling to get open looks.

McDowell-White and Mcveigh both starting on the bench. Will be interesting to see the rotations. Also, is there a reason we always seem to wear shorts a few inches shorter than opposition at these international underage comps?

Not sure our shorts are gonna do it, we need to play much better than that first quarter. Everyone got a run and we are down 8-17.

If Canada had not missed several shots they should have got we'd be in big trouble.

This u19 team trains together at AIS unlike teams like canada and still lose. Waste of taxpayer $$

lack of size ?!! it is rather lack of game and skill. Where are the ballers who can create ??? BA wasting public money with their only size matters mentality

At the moment we are playing like individuals with huge egos, turning it over in stead of passing to an open team mate. Hope we can get it together before we are out of it?

Time out with 7.23 to go in second quarter 12-17, we got a couple of lucky shots in and Canada also buggered up some moves to score. Bit cautious from both teams at the minute.

That would have to be unfortunately one of the worst quarter of basketball I've ever seen an Australian representative team play absolutely no strategy and zero execution. it is a real shame that basketball Australia decided to save money by using aid caporn as a coach. He has very very limited on court coaching experience and has had no experience as an assistant at world Championships it shows up very badly in his choice of team and the way they are playing.
Hope things get better quickly as there is enough class in this team to win.

Since when does Kyle Clarke turn down an open look and pass to Dejan who jacks up a useless off balance 3 bomb that doesn't even get close?

WTF??

Canada missing some easy ones in second quarter giving us a chance to close the gap. 18-19, game on again!

Froling should be there for 1 of McKay or glover.

Another time out with 1.49 to go in the half, we down 26-28 but have a game on our hands.

Two things I have noticed, one is that William McDowell-White is a talent and belongs. He is our best PG for sure.

Two, if we can't defend the rim we need to block their run or they will dunk the crap over us.

Not sure why we needed glover. So many guards already..
Needed an excellent rebounder in froling.

30-30 at half time, Jack White with two opportunities to dunk near the siren, blocked then fouled but no call. I will take that score line, both teams had their chances and their problems but we can improve more than Canada, I hope.

Have to agree, no reason at all I can see Glover being of any use in this team, too young and we have plenty of shooting guards, just a strange choice but nothing personal, he is a great kid.

Wmw beats anyone of the dribble with ease. Shame he doesn't have any decent size to finish. Might be wise to give Gak some gt with him.

Anon^ he is 16-17 years old, he has great size for his age!

I meant to finish his dish's on his drives, not him.

Our backcourt length started to trouble Canada towards the end of the half.

I don't think it's necessarily a lack of height in the frontcourt that is hurting us as much as it is a lack of strength and physical development, which is to be expected when you bring over such a young side.

Start of second half, Gak gets a great opportunity to finish an ally-oop but goes one handed and messed it up, why not grab it with two hands brother?

Some sweet move to the rim by No. 12 for Canada, who is he?

Team Canada

#12
Justin
JACKSON
Forward

201cm
6'7"
Findlay Prep High School USA
18/02/1997
18

Is a player for sure.

finishing at rim is NOT only a function of size..its a skill

He's UNC bound right?

Well, it hasn't been a classic by any stretch, but we are only down by 4 points at the last quarter. Would have been more if we stayed with the guard duo of DJ and Tom Wilson, we need Will Mc-White on court to win this or at least have a chance.

It may come down to who hits a couple and who misses a couple. Canada stepped out of bounds twice in that quarter, lost chances to score so we need to step it up and continue to fight it out.

9 minutes to go and some great Delly tactics being used by the Aussies to grind this down to a war, not pretty at all but maybe our only chance.

First we take out No.12 now it looks like No.13 is injured, keep it up boys, they are getting softened up by our toughness!

Time out 7.35 to go we down 55-53, but we are not out of it yet.

Minute and a half to go, time out and we down by 6 points.

Couple of points to make, whether we lose or perform a miracle (unlikely).

Guards DJ and Tom Wilson are not as good as Will Mc-White, neither is Tanner Krebs.

Next point is this, agree with anon^, we are going to rely on our outside shooting to win games and it has not won us this game, so we need a better plan.

Good luck boys, you can play better!

55 seconds left and DJ hits a 3 ball to make it a 3 point game, guess where the assist came from, that's right Will Mc-White!

A three point loss 71-74, but we had to grind it out to even get that close. We are not a bad team though, we just need to start better and be more consistent, play with more confidence and be less selfish.

Should be an easy fix really!

Can we beat Italy or are we done?

Can't let any team at a world's get that sort of lead in the 1st qtr and hope to win. Really need some more points from the bigger players. It's no surprise that DJ, Wilson & McDowell-White were our three leading scorers.

However, can't play all three together as we'd be way too small.

Agree with the post above about Clarke giving up an open look. Take the shot son. That goes for them all, if you're open, then shoot.

We had our chances - couple of fouls went against us, we didn't shoot great from the 3 or the FT line. Hopefully, they'll identify those and make some adjustments.

It is important to get a lead and maintain it. Not having to play catch-up. Hopefully they'll learn from that.

Serbia, Greece and Dom Republic we all be difficult to teams to play in the next round.

Interesting to see the court time for both teams.

Appears to me like Canada knew who their best 4 or 5 players were. Whereas, it would appear, we're still trying to figure out who our best players are.

Starting 5.
W.white / t.Wilson
D.vasljevic / t.krebs / a.glover
J.mcveigh / j.white
K.clark / g.mckay / g.blagojevic
J.hunter / d.gak

would have been nice to see a few of these guys.

Simmons sf/pf
Humphries c
T.maker pf/c
M.maker sf/pf
Bolden sf/pf
Adel sg/sf
Perry c
Froling pf/c

That result alone is justification for how wrong the selections were. Why you wouldn't pick Froling or Vague at the expense of one of the guards is absolute madness

Agree. Glover and McKay were not necessary.
Froling and vague were the better choices.

As much as you budding coaches all have opinions - but how about some support for the team. Aren't we all Australian.

The team has been selected. Most of those named in one of the posts above either were unavailable or made themselves available. So that's history, we need to look forward. No point moaning about what if's, because they won't happen!

Bear - Unfortunately turnovers happen every game. I know coaches don't like them, but they happen. Players, like coaches make mistakes. I'd like to see/hear the first coach that admits he made a mistake and benches himself for 1/2 a qtr because of his mistake! We had 15 turnovers, Canada 25. I can live with that. So in that context we were OK.

I must say I agree Froling should have been picked. His height and size would have been an asset. Also, %wise he is a better 3pt shooter than DJ and he doesn't mind shooting it from there either and he's got some fight in him.

Canada ran good oofence which set up players We played a lot of one on one There are alwyas going to be more turnovers when you want players to make something happen rather than use an offence to create an opportunity.