Would like to see Thon Maker, Jonah Bolden, Deng Adel,
JO Acuil included to the new boomers squad.
Motum, bairstow, goulding and Martin are not good enough.

What about the opals squad also?

We have a real problem at the pg spot.

Mitchell, Whitcomb, jarry, ohea, Allen, George all in WNBA and many players playing overseas will mean a super young squad from home will be chosen. Maybe some college players too.

Motum and bairstow are too slow and lack
athleticism. If the boomers want to
Play at a higher level, they should draft in
players with higher upsides, such as bolden and Jo Acuil and Adel.

My boomers squad would be

Delly/ exum
mills / ingles
Adel / bolden / duop reath
simmons / deng gak
Maker / jo acuil / humphries

These girls will get a look in.
Maybe not in the short term though.

5'11 CG Wallace
5'11 SG Brewster
6'1 SF Sharp
6'3 PF Froling
6'4 PF/C Smith

Thread was about the Boomers.

Opals fans of 18 year olds not good enough to be on the team, trying to hijack it like its international women's day or something... get your own thread.

good one anon 497. This person has become a pest with his/her ridiculous opals suggestions lately.

Delly/Exum
Mills/Goulding/Sobey
Simmons/Adel
Maker/Bolden/Cooks
Landale/Gak

Oh crap.

Forgot broekhoff... he replaces one of goulding or sobey.

Revised..

Delly/Exum
Mills/Ingles
Simmons/Broekhoff/Adel
Maker/Bolden/Cooks
Landale/Gak

The people saying Gak, Landale an alike, yes they are very good and in the future may be great international level players, but right now they are not even close to being ready for the upcoming International qualifiers etc.
I'd assume many if the people posting know the names, but have not even seen them play. Playing high school and college in America against kids the same age is very different to national team men from other countries

Heal, gaze, Mckinnon, Ronaldson were around
19, 20 when they started playing for Australia.
THE likes of Bolden, Adel, Maker, Humphries, Acuil
are ready to play for the boomers.

Asian cup in late august.

College kids start in early September.
Unlikely to have college dudes.

NBA season is October to June.
Unlikely to have Simmons or bogut...

Some NBA and home grown players should be available.
Maybe...
Delly/Exum
Mills/Goulding/Sobey
Ingles/Broekhoff
Maker/Bairstow/Motum
Baynes/Ogilvy

Who is this person who keeps saying Brewster......have you seen the conference Utah play in, its crap, she would be having a great productive college career in that team, very little strength at all, same as Froling( the one that stayed at SMU, but both Frolings plus Sharp Smith and Wallace will always get a consideration, like all ex AIS players they are already on the"list"

The reality is the next Olympics is still a long way off, and depending on just who ends up coaching either team, the roster will have plenty of changes in that lead up.

I'm aware that Utah state is in a shitty conference.
We will see in time.... but Imo she has potential.
Just a sophomore don't forget.

Is Creek far down the list of 3 men?

Creek is way off if you include college players.

Anon #630514, read the question, it's about the players' ceiling not what they are capable of right now...

Hold on, so you're saying creek isn't as good as these college kids right now? Wow, please watch basketball more!! Creek is on the cusp of NBA weather you believe it or not. He has options on the table, which I know of first hand.

Playing against men, is a totally different environment. Look at McDowell-White as an example.

ANON:

Theres no way in the world they'll have 9 black guys on the national team.

Sorry thats not happening

" Theres no way in the world they'll have 9 black guys on the national team. " ~ anon

Why not ? Black players are the best basketball players in the world. Just look at the nba, which is made up of 90% black players! Black players also provide australia athleticism we never had before. For a change they can jump and move faster.

The only reason you dont like them is because you are racist. You pick your best team regardless of skin colour. If your best team is made up of 12 black players, so be it.

I would welcome black players joining the boomers
with open arms.

I am sick of the sight unathletic guys like motum and bairstow moving and jumping like 50 year olds,

Spot up, give me a Bolden or Adel before creek any time !

duke fan, for every unagile larry bird, there are 50 athletic players like michael jordan, isiah thomas, shawn kemp, alen iverson and penny hardaway.
The nba is 95% made up of athletic and explosive players.

duke fan, motum and bairstow are not even good enough for the nba d league. They is a reason why they could not make it into an nba team, thet are simply not good enough!

Young guys like Bolden, humphries and Adel will most likely make it in a nba team.

Aussie, Exum should be a lock for the team as well

Yes, 2 years sitting at the end of a nba
team bench and basically got DNP~CD every match.

Aussie, I would pick Ferguson ahead Broekhoff.
We have already picked teenagers like exum and simmons.

Gaze, heal, Mckinnon, Vlahov were only 19 when
they started their international careers

Aussie, some nba coaches play youths more minutes than established veterans. For example, Brandon Ingram is only 18 but is playing more minutes for the Lakersthan established vet nick young.

FIBA Asia Cup soon, about time we were in a better confederation and finally get to rip Asia a new one!

aussie, we are going to play asian teams. We would still beat them convincingly with 3 or 4 young rookies plus the veterans.

There is harm to play them against weaker opponents so they gain more experience.

ME, agree. Maker has to be picked for the next boomers squad.

I would also draft in Adel and Bolden, who will be main players for us for the next decade.

Agree with Aussie when it comes to the Olympics or World Cup but we would definitely benefit from running youngsters in less important ganes and against weaker teams.

Such little understanding about the level of basketball! Deng Gak wouldn't even be as good as Nick Kay in the NBL right now! You can pick these future prospects now for qualifying! You have to pick the best team! Deng Adel is doing very well in college, but international hoops is different. The only one who may have a shot of that group would be Bolden as he is already playing pro.

Humphries has done very little and the NBA scouting report ain't that flash, why do people keep throwing him the mix, some of the other young players have also not proved much, just because you are at a US college doesn't mean a lot.

Please kill this thread! It's a headache to read these people put forth names based on nothing.

anon, it does mean alot !

most top college teams would beat any nbl team.
Most nbl marqee players / imports are / were also college players who could not make the nba.
If you are able to dominate division 1 college basketball like simmons, duop reath, adel, landale and Jo acuil, you are not only good enough for the boomers, you are good enough
for the nba.

anon, none of those players dominated division 1 college basketball !! Good players in their respective teams thats all, haven't won anything significant

College sides played I think Brisbane and Sydney at start last season and both Nbl sides did not have there imports and beat both college sides comfortably. They were UCLA and Washington I think and both sides had predicted top 10 draft picks. Men beat boys unless.

LOL WTF college teams come out to Aus every NBL preseason and get thumped by import amd star-less NBL teams by double figures.

the Mongolian b league has very strict import limits so that's not surprising

I say it again! Please kill this thread!

OK, let me lay it out for the 'college' lovers! Yes, most NBA players come from here, but they are not yet game ready the majority of the time. NBL teams would smack college teams mate. Men Vs Boys. You have no idea.

They have potential and may be very good, but not physically or mentally ready. please think before you speak

Apparently BA has sent out emails to potential future boomers making general contact with them to gage their interest in becoming boomers.

My mail is there are a number of high players waiting to see if lemanis is the 2020 boomers coach before they commit. If he remains the coach expect those players to
either not respond to BA or politely decline.

^^agree, useless thread, and agree re the "college" stars in their eyes devotees...... NCAA rules clearly state and adhere too , all players must be 23 and under that includes those on the scrimmage teams...that's for both men and women, high school kids are the same they can only play and/train against kids their own age and still in high school.
Unlike everywhere else in the world where if your a strong junior you get opportunities to play and train with and against mature seasoned players.
It's the hype that surrounds the colleg system that gets everyone over excited about the perceived ability of players.

It's not to say these players are not great players, but unless they are consistently playing/training with or against those mature bodies ( and mentalities) these college kids struggle when they first enter the senior area of the likes of the NBA/NBL and even more so the women.

Rarely if ever do college kids who have done their four years come into the higher levels of NBA/NBL or WNBA/WNBL and have an immediate impact, yet at college they may well have been killing it in that particular team and conference.

So they have even less chance of being trail blazers in a national team competing internationally.

You need to crawl before you walk and walk before you run

"My mail is there are a number of high players waiting to see if lemanis is the 2020 boomers coach before they commit. If he remains the coach expect those players to
either not respond to BA or politely decline."

Yessssss, best news I've heard re: Boomers in a while. Smart players, Lemanis got lucky when the Breakers org. got more professional in the middle of his tenure, esp. in import recruiting. He stunk before and after that, and doesn't know how to tank properly. We have real players now who need a real coach!

Nope, it's just a suggestion from Olgun Ulic the journo. He's speculating and scaremongering. I don't agree with him at all, as monstnif not all Aussies would never turn down the green and gold! And if they did, stuff them!
You can't hold the country to ransom as if you have already proven yourself. We don't want to pander to the attitudes if that's the case, sort of reminds me of the young tennis lad kicking up a stink all the time. On to the next one!

^^ I don't think Olgun has ever said anything like: '"My mail is there are a number of high players waiting to see if lemanis is the 2020 boomers coach before they commit. If he remains the coach expect those players to
either not respond to BA or politely decline."

That supposed rumour from an Anon is clearly an overreaction, and most probably not true.

Looks like all Olgun's said is that some of the players aren't fond of Lemanis.

Is that really that hard to believe?

Yep, I'd say getting the 'scoop' would make a journo feel special. Nothing to it.
Get of his n@@s.

"Not so long ago, the overwhelming majority wanted Lemanis to stay because of the Rio results. So are we now seeing newbies or trolls entering the conversation, cos there's been nothing since then which would justify a change of mind."

The overwhelming majority have no idea, including you going off of your comment.

That olgun uluc ...he's no journo lol, he is a wannabe, those college kids who don want to play for their country are the ones that got knocked back to begin with. They were not happy because at 18 yrs of age they thought they were better than seasoned men......

With Lemanis at the helm the Aussie men had their best ever result at any Olympic Games, and that's because he chose men not kids to play

^^^^^agreed!!!
He is losing real journo cred with trash like that. He acts like he gets all the 'scoops' and lacks full understanding of the sport. It's one thing to get fed info from a few agents, it's another to live, and know the sport well.
I've spoken to some good young college guys who told me the exact opposite of what he said. And they've been hit up for desperate stories at times too.

So, Olgun clearly does break stories. Saying he doesn't have 'scoops' or isn't a journo, is just demonstrably incorrect.

And, I'll go back to it, is it inconceivable that some players might not like Lemanis? No-one legitimate (including Olgun) has said anything about players not playing for the coach, just that they're not too fond of him. That's completely reasonable.

Based on no evidence

Lemanis isn't exactly inspiring, not a player's coach.