Rocci/Conti
Shelley/Mclean
Horvat/Simmons/Simons
Bibby/Rowe
Magbegor/Aokuso/Mcspadden

Maybe?

Wehrung/Reid
Wallace/Yaegar/Brewster
Sharp/Woods
Froling/Dennis/Dufficy
Smith/Scherf

Possibly a couple of more local players.

Wilson, Mijovic etc

Anymore news on the uni games?

No Cochrane?

who else has been invited to uni games...whos coaching, they keep things very quiet

Cochrane is not available still

dangelo a little unlucky not to get at least a camp invite.

Those 00 born players will most likely be in the oceania squad if they don't make the gems team.

Shelley, Simons and goodchild.

Squad trimmed from 19 to 15.
Some big outs.

5'11 99 g/f Jasmine Simmons (injured?)
5'10 00 cg Miela Goodchild (likely to play oceanias Now?)
5'11 99 cg Cassidy McLean
6'2 98 pf/c Mackenzie Hoycard


Leaves
Rocci/Conti/Cubillo
Shelley/Simons/Yaeger
Horvat/Rowe/Maley
Bibby/Mcspadden/Pizzey
Magbegor/Aokuso/Brook

I see

Cubillo
Conti
Rocci
Shelley
Rowe
Simons
Horvat
Bibby
Maley
Aokuso
Mcspadden
Magbegor

As the final 12..
Yeager, Pizzey, Brook to be cut.

I'd say chambers will take up the reigns as interim HC for the opals come July.

Goriss not coaching Gems any longer.

Veal?

nah one of the assistants

Butler?

Gems playing well in seabl this week

Horvat 19pt, 10rbd
Maley 14pt, 14rbd + 14pt, 10rbd
Bibby 17pt, 4rbd + (game tomorrow)
Conti 9pt, 8rbd, 7ast
Mcspadden 8pts, 7rbd, 3 blk

COE girls also play tomorrow.

You know they won't even medal.

Why won't they medal?

USA is tough
Russia have superior front court.
Spain are always highly skilled.
France have a couple of decent players.
China are huge inside.

We are going to finish 3rd or 4th IMO.

USA final roster:

Bella Alarie 6-5 (Princeton)
Jeannie Boehm * 6-3 (Harvard)
Chennedy Carter * 5-9 (HS 2017)
Crystal Dangerfield 5-6 (UConn)
Tyasha Harris * 5-10 (South Carolina)
Ruthy Hebard * 6-4 (Oregon)
Joyner Holmes 6-3 (Texas)
Kayla Overbeck 6-1 (Vanderbilt)
Reili Richardson 5-10 (Arizona State)
Alecia Sutton 6-0 (Texas)
Megan Walker * 6-1 (HS 2017)
Christyn Williams 5-10 (HS 2018)

Squad named
http://basketball.net.au/australian-gems-name-final-team-for-fiba-under-19-world-cup/

Cubillo
Conti
Rocci
Shelley
Rowe
Simons
Maley
Bibby
Pizzey
Aokuso
Mcspadden
Magbegor



Umm no Horvat?

Yes, something nqr there - hearing she is shattered.

Not like the squad is all super gifted and the captain gets turfed?

If she wasn't injured, there's something really seedy going on.

She's easily in th top 3 and has had a great seabl season.

With vadeeva and musina out of Russian team, I don't understand why they would bring 4 bigs plus 3 other forwards who have been playing pf at international level.

Magbegor, Mcspadden, Aokuso, Pizzey +
Bibby, Maley and Rowe who have all played pf for u17 and u18 teams and are better suited there.

Yeah it's pretty bad. Dee butler, brown and mcaughtry.

Why wouldn't you take the coaches that have been with the majority of the team for months and months.

No simmons, no Horvat, no gold.

Horvat must have an injury surely.
No way in hell she shouldn't make this team. Is someone holding a grudge or something?

Joyce 2.0.

There is a better pg and pf out there in this age group than those listed.
Current Coe players will always be chosen first.

If you had a squad with few coe players, then the institute would look bad.

She's not injured. Simmons is though.

Simmons would have been on the team imo if she wasn't injured.

I wonder what Horvat was told? You're a better scorer, rebounder, defender, bigger, stronger, quicker, more athletic than those in your position. Oh.. and your shooting your ft's at 85%.
but you didn't perform well the last 2 days. Sorry kid...

what does Pizzey bring to the table?

Maley listed as a guard with Oregon, Horvat a guard at Ucla before they've started there freshman year.

Both are really small forwards.
Maley would be better as a small pf imo with her ability to bring down the boards.
Dribbling and perimeter defense are not her thing atm imo. Gets into foul trouble a lot.

I would have had.
Rocci/Conti/Cubillo
Shelley/Simons
Horvat/Rowe
Bibby/Maley
Magbegor/Aokuso/Mcspadden

20 mins
Starters
Rocci
Shelley
Horvat
Bibby
Magbegor

20 mins
2nd unit
Conti
Simons
Rowe
Maley
Aokuso

If required
Cubillo
Mcspadden

I can walk the sideline and say nothing too.

Cubillo-1
Conti-1-2
Rocci 1-2
Shelley 1-2
Simons 2-3
Rowe 3-4
Maley 3-4
Bibby 3-4
Pizzey 4
Aokuso 4-5
Magbegor 4-5
Mcspadden 4-5


Too many forwards.
Pizzey is not necessary and the least versatile. Horvat playing 2-3 should be there.

Someone didn't scout the other teams properly. Size isnt required this tournament.
Only 2 teams bigger than us in the front court. USA barely and china with there 6'9 and 6'7 centres.

Russia's best 2 players(and possibly worlds best 2 frontcourt players in this age group) are going for eurobasket. The same with Frances brightest young talent.
Spain are tiny, Canada are tiny, Italy also.

Someone was jealous I'd say.

Captain
Leading scorer at oceanias, Missed all star 5
2nd best performer for her age in seabl(Geelong)
Off to a top 20 college (Ucla)
Ranked 15 in the world by espn for 2017
Previous world u19 exp winning bronze.

....

Mind boggling.

Maybe she was distraught because she injured herself on the final day?

Doubt it though because olgun stated that she's an alternate.

Goriss wouldn't leave Horvat out,
Veal certainly would be on Horvat side.

Cough..

She is not injured people

no big deal. it's a ball game, not life and death.

Same thing happened with last UN19 team from memory a guard was left out that should have been in the team , her defence along might ha e got them the silver rather than the bronze

It comes down to coaches personal preferences if it's between two similar players , some coaches just get hung up on certain players

Nothing you can do about that apart from move on and prove them wrong

'Coaches personal preferences'

We have another Joyce on our hands.

What has dee butler done in her coaching career?
Not familiar with her.

I know she was u20 vic coach and won but what else?

DV state championship women coach.
Currently 10th out of 11 teams.

No Horvat through omission, no Simmons and Cochrane through injury leaves some very big holes in this squad.

There's a few girls in there very low in skill and basketball IQ that will struggle against the better teams.

IMO
Cubillo and Pizzey should not be in that team.
Not to take anything away from them, but they are not the best available.

COE has to make sure they go. The only ones not chosen are the ones who will get a second shot at u19s in 2019.

I'm certain theirs more to this story...
You can't be a captain and best performer at oceanias just 7 months ago, win u20 ajc and then also be in amazing form in the seabl against experienced women averaging 15 pts, 6 rbds, 86ft% for her not make a team where she is easily a top 3 player.

Goriss would have never had her as an emergency...
I would like to know what butler has to say about it.

I agree that McAughtry has been proven to be no good, lasted a month in his most recent attempt at head coach in NZ. To be fair to Dee Butler though, she's a former player who is now giving back by coaching, which we need more of, and she put her hand up to be an AC, has been forced to step up and take the HC role because Goriss has moved up.

Good luck to her and the team, hope they do well. Would've liked to see a Carrie Graf or Michele Timms as her mentor rather than another geriatric man in Phil Brown. If they were going to go old school male, they should've got the best Aus juniors coach, Ray Tomlinson.

Gems Seabl best performers.

Bibby-18/7 78ft%
Conti-16/4/5 70ft%
Magbegor-13/10 50ft%
Horvat-15/6 86ft%
Rocci-14/5/2 75ft%
Maley-10/9 75ft%
Shelley-9/4/3 81ft%
Aokuso-8/6 89ft%
Simons-8/2 62ft%
Mcspadden-7/6 73ft%
Cubillo-5/1/3 78ft%
Rowe-5/2 88ft%
Pizzey-4/3 70ft%

And Horvat is starting with opals Blicavs and Bunton....
Blicavs-23/8
Bunton-12/11

The oceania starting 5 was
5'3 Cubillo
5'9 Shelley
6'1 Horvat
6'1 Bibby
6'4 Magbegor


I'd say it's changing to
5'5 Conti
5'6 Rocci
6'1 Bibby
6'3 Aokuso
6'4 Magbegor

The oceania starting 5 was
5'3 Cubillo
5'9 Shelley
6'1 Horvat
6'1 Bibby
6'4 Magbegor


I'd say it's changing to
5'5 Conti
5'6 Rocci
6'1 Bibby
6'3 Aokuso
6'4 Magbegor


it will remain the same as Oceania, but Horvat will be replaced by Maley...why Rocci, Pizzey, Cubbillo are the ? in that team

as for the coach Butler is not ready for this role, great she wants to give back but just like playing she needs time to develop, not handed a plum role like this, AMc needs to retire from coaching, if hes not developed by now he is never ever going to

Umm no

you're saying..
Cubillo
Shelley
Maley
Bibby
Magbegor

it won't be that.

whoops thought the first one said Conti,
so

Conti,
Shelley,
Maley
Bibby
Magebor

id take wnbl dps tessari or elsworthy over Cubillo.

IMO

Conti
Shelley
Bibby
Aokuso
Magbegor

pretty sure you will find maley will be in starting 5

If that's the case it would make the selections even worse. Why have 3 post players sitting on the bench.

They took 4 bigs so they could play bigger in the front court.
Something like

5'5 Conti
5'9 Shelley
6'1 Bibby
6'3 Aokuso
6'4 Magbegor

5'6 Rocci
6'1 Simons
6'1 Maley
6'3 Pizzey
6'4 Mcspadden

5'3 Cubillo
6'0 Rowe

Had to take extra bigs as they are poor defensively.

Magbebgor is an active defender but often gets into foul trouble early trying to swat, McSpadden is a desperation selection, Aokuso defensively poor, Bibby not much chop on D and so on.

Bibby, Maley, Conti and Horvat and they can only take 3.
Conti was a lock because of her position.

COE is a program for the purpose of Aus representation.
The current Coe players were always going to get the nod over the others.
Left with 3 forward options in which they could only take 2, they chose Bibby and Maley,

The COE really ain't that grand. better options available now and you don't have to be there for years to get the same results.

Without simmons, Horvat or Cochrane I don't think we medal


IMO best squad possible would have been

Conti/Tessari
Shelley/Simons
Horvat/Simmons/Rowe
Bibby/Maley
Magbegor/Aokuso/Cochrane

Horvat scores 33 points and brings down 11 boards in today's lost to Hobart.