Not long to go. August 14-17
Would expect a live stream if played in nz.
had one in Fiji last year....

U17 girls
Cubillo/Shelley
Simmons/Simons/george
McLean/Rowe
Mcspadden/batish/pizzey
Magbegor/cochrane

U17 boys
Dent/zunic
Bines/Elkaz/mudronja
Fullarton/Starr
Froling/johns/Griffiths
Fakira/Colina

Still can't believe they left out dalton in that boys squad...

When do they start playing

14th.

girls start a day before the guys.

yeah dalton missing is crazy

What position is Dalton, who goes out for him?

Dalton c/pf
You could take out anyone of the frontmen except froling.

Is Colina at the COE along with Ferguson from 18s

I heard the same thing, is Ferguson that 7' kid from WA?

Yes both at Coe.

How old is Dalton

Same as froling. 2000 born.

You can see the next under 19 men's team unfolding with those additions to the COE and these under 17 kids will also get some offers, isn't Froling going to join his brother there next?

Ain't much room available to add young guys in for next u19s in 2017.

1-2 potentially.... If all are willing and able.

98 and younger guys...

6'5 W.white/6'3 glover
6'3 Hadley/6'5 Kenyon/6'3 bines
6'6 Fullarton/6'8 cherry
6'10 h.Froling/6'10 m.maker/6'10 mading
7'0 Humphries/6'11 Gak

I'm still so confused by the age cut offs for worlds...

You would have to assume a lot of the u17 guys will come into the CoE soon as the original 2015 group currently have very little active members. That is 6 conformed (5 fit + Glover) as well as 3 injured. also surprised Vasiljevic, White & Wilson have not made clear plans for this/next season be it college or elsewhere, which will open up more..

Currently Fit
Dejan Vasiljevic 97
Jayden Hodgson 97
Jack White 97
Harry Froling 98
Tom Fullarton 99

Injured
Jock Perry 97
Thomas Wilson 97
Will Magnay 98


Added during 2015
Glover 98
Ferguson 98 ?? is it a scholarship position ??
Colina 99 ?? is it a scholarship position ??


Left for US college
Jack McVeigh 96
Tanner Krebs 96
George Blagojevic 96
Jordan Hunter 97

Left for US HS
Deng Gak 98

Who is Mading?

These guys are the future post players. Most likely in and out of the Coe over the next few years.

Colina
Ferguson
Fakira
Froling
Dalton
Runnalls
Johns
Griffiths
Bradtke

+guards/small forwards
Dent, zunic, lutula, mudronja, Elkaz, Fullarton, Starr, garang etc

Daniel mading from wa is over in the usa at a prep school.
He's a 6'10 pf/sf.
Couple of good schools after him like lsu and Connecticut.

Johns a 3 stretch 4, not a huge post threat like the others but very versatile.

How tall is Griffiths?

So u19 worlds is 4 years away for 2000 born players. (when they are top age players)

So double bottom age in 2017? You really think those boys will be eligible?

Any girls from 2000 a chance?

Great photo/s today via Justin schueller of the whole team...

https://twitter.com/JSchueller15/status/631251031372902400/photo/1



Looks like Bines, Elkaz & Starr are continuing to grow taller

The 2-3 position looks good with Fullerton, Starr, Elkaz, Bines (all look to be between 6'5 & 6'7)

Fakira is a big guy, as well as Colina & Froling,

Good luck in the matches coming up they should do very well.

With Dalton and Bradtke in future and sorting out the Garang issue this will be a great team

anyone have a pic of the women's squad of 12?

Runnalls should be in the mix for the future also.

Any games today

Mens - no links yet but this is the schedule from one of the team
Saturday Tahiti
Sunday New Zealand
Monday New Caledonia
Tuesday Grand Final before Boomers vs Tall Blacks

Womens
Friday New Caledonia
Saturday NZ
Sunday Tahiti
Final Monday before Opals V Tall Ferns

Have made a change to the squad, Batish out - Taylor Mole in.

About right?

Boys
Dent 6'2
Zunic 6'3
Elkaz 6'4
Bines 6'5
Mudronja 6'5
Starr 6'6
Fullarton 6'6
Johns 6'7
Griffiths 6'7
Fakira 6'8
Froling 6'9
Colina 6'10

Girls
Cubillo 5'3
Shelley 5'7
George 5'7
Simmons 5'10
Simons 5'11
McLean 5'11
Rowe 6'0
Batish 6'2
Mcspadden 6'3
Pizzey 6'3
Cochrane 6'3
Magbegor 6'4

Not really with the girls but why?

I'm curious are these heights taken with shoes on some heights ??

More than likely..

Yes for sure

Is it usual to have measurements inc shoe height

Seems asthough one of the girls is sick or injured.
Taylor mole from tassie has been called up to the squad.

U17's worlds will be in Spain with both boys and girls together

Yes earlier post says Batish is out.

Starts tomorrow. 5pm.

Does anyone know if these games will be live streamed

Just tweeted by Olgun Uluc. No live stream :(

https://twitter.com/OlgunUluc/status/631631135613677569

such crap...

they can livestream from fiji but they cant get one in new zealand?

i was looking forward to watching both teams...

It would have given the players who made the squads who missed this team selection a chance to watch the games

live stat links????

They voted and the sheep all said naaaaay to live stream!

Horses neigh

Cows moo

So I've herd

Dogs woof...

What does the fox say?

http://www.fiba.com/oceania/u16women/2015

How you doing..?

Didn't know Ezi was born in nz...
Mole is 1999 born I thought.

One Technology savvy fox...

Yes, Magbegor born in NZ, Mole 99 not 00.

Have there been any games played yet

5pm start

Anyone over there tech savvy enough to video the Aussie games and put them on YouTube perhaps?

5pm NZ so 3pm Australia for the girls today.

No Rotorua community Lifestream lol?

055 what a great idea how many supporters went surely someone can BA would also be filming

Girls very one sided game to start as expected

Shelley looking good...

Lol

Can some one put the scores up

2.30 to go in the last Aus 120 - New Cal 18

Magbegor under 10 mins....
Something happen to her?

Best Starting 5? (Without knowing ezis status)

Shelley
Simmons
McLean
Mcspadden
Pizzey

132 - 16 isn't even worth playing the starting five for any lengthy periods. Oceania is only two countries, I know we shouldn't exclude our island neighbours but who wants to see these score lines?

They did take teams out like Samoa and Fiji.

Should be a best of 2...

That doesn't even sound like a game scratch match would have been better

The small islands just aren't ready....
Give it 10 years...

Do you think they will throw both aus and nz into Asia and scrap Oceania?

That will give nz a shot at junior level.

I was at the game, can't read anything from it at all. It was like an u9 grading game for c grade domestic.

The Aussie girls were all great, Ezi is fine.

Who looked the most cool, calm, collected in the sapphires squad?

Who do the boys play today any ideas how they'll go

Ezi is fine just being rested for much bigger game tomorrow
Jaz Shelley top scorer. Starting 5 was Cubillo, Simmons, Rowe, Pizzey and Magbegor
Went back for recovery and training at 8 tomorrow morning. Their game tomorrow is 7pm NZ time which is 5pm Sydney time

Will someone stream the nz game?

Thanks for reading the stats, as helpful as yesterday's forecast. Game is 5pm NZ.

Other than that, great post.

Australia girls beat nz 84 - 54

Magbegor the standout with 25 points, 12 rebounds and 4 blocks.

Yep, she was very good.

I don't see cubillo keeping her spot. Shelley looks to be the better pg so far..
Maybe McDowell white for mid next year?

Any news on today's games who's playing well men and women

Australia boys beat Tahiti 108 - 33

Froling the standout with 20 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists.

Wow great stuff and would expect him to score at least 20/30 with those scores any one else stand out

Fakira 14 points, 7 rebounds, 3 steals.

Johns with 7 points and 13 rebounds

It is all irrelevant, the opposition is unfortunately so poor. Maybe the NZ games count a little. But the games against the island nations are fairly much about the hungriest guards running ahead of the play to get the easy lay up.

We only scored 108, that's not much?

Cubillo and Shelley will both keep their spots. Seebohm loves Cubillo and Shelley is playing very well too.

Very strange, would have thought you would need a left hand at this level.

Cubillo averages 6 turnovers a game....

Who's played well in the guards SF spots

Fullarton for the boys

McLean for the girls

Their is never much competition in these series the island nations just don't have the talent especially at the un17 level , NZ will be the only challenge so don't go reading too much into results. Those "standout" players often don't "standout" too much once challenged.

Another massive win to the Sapphires tonight against Tahiti. To their credit the girls from Tahiti had a heap of fun and the Aussie girls had a great time with them after the game.

Yeah that Aus team is all class. They do all the little things well even made sure after a 120 point win they still went through their normal recoveries. Again short time with the parents and back on the bus to get the job done again. Very close knit group looking from the outside. Staff have this team on track