Luka Doncic

Being from NSW:

Boy. Steve Markovic. Absolutely unstoppable in his junior days

Girl. Rachel Watman (now Lisch). Toughest kid I've ever seen of either sex

Jack Watts, wonder how far he could have gone if stuck with it.

2xMcKinnons

Brad + Sam

"Aaron Trahair"

He was an awesome junior, he had so much potential.

Sadly he was lazy and didn't put in the hard yards (I also don't think he has ever eaten a healthy meal in his life) to become a successful pro

Great thread.

Brandon Mann or Andrew Gooche or Adrian Dartnall

All brilliant juniors

Derek Cooke Jr better than Jerry Evans Jr imo

Definitely Lauren Jackson. Just on another level to those around he as a 13-14 year old.

Hugh Greenwood was very tough back in the day.

I played a mixed scrimmage against Lauren Jackson before I knew who she was, I would guess she was around 14 at the time. Definitely knew who she was following that.

Best junior I've ever seen though is probably Matty Nielsen. I think he dropped 50 points on us in high school, although it felt like 100.

Jonah Bolden - saw him play for NSW at the nationals in Brisbane few years ago... was like watching men vs boys, just a beast

Played with Rhys carter in u/14s. He was the height he is now back then, absolute freak. The coach we had also coached trahair for vic country I believe. I remember at the time He said trahair was the best junior he had ever seen and carter was the 2nd.

Brad Robbins dominated through juniors, was a manchild.

Brad Newly at the AIS was the best ais player I ever played against.

^^ Is your name Nic Campbell?

Luke Mackay.

Flat out scorer. Absolutely destroyed Teams. Gave Anthony Stewart 50 when playing for u20 WA State Team versus a Wildcats squad (no imports or big names)

Averaged over 40 a Game in WABL in u18s. Led Nationals in Scoring in 18s and 20s too I believe.

It depends on how you define Juniors. If you consider it to be the best junior at the highest level of competition for juniors, i.e. Nationals, then it must be Patty Mills surely. The structure of National tournaments and Aus basketball doesn't necessarily facilitate high volume scoring, but Patty single-handedly carried ACT when he played, dropping 30+ easy. Perhaps there were better juniors before him but he is the one that stands out in recent memory.

Going back even further 4 time Olympian and Australian captain over many years, Phil Smyth, was a very handy junior. He once carved up the Warnambool tournament featuring a handful of Olympians and Australian players........ as a 16/17 year old!

Sam Johns then daylight. 31.6 PPG U14 Club Nationals 2008 Man among boys.

Sam Johns was an animal!
As a junior his offensive wrath knew no bounds!

http://websites.sportstg .com/comp_info.cgi?client=11-5668-0-120259-0&a=STATS&sgroup=scoring&sgstat=Pts

I was there for the playoff for 7th and my word!
All the Eagles could do was cower as Sam gave a 24 point clinic!
They don't build them like they built Sam

First saw this kid at Dandenong, wasn't even the tallest and wasn't very good. Almost a decade later he was almost 7 ft and dominating at a Sandringham tryout. He's still in the NBA now...

Sam johns was playing QBL this season

Wassim Arabi

^ never heard of him

One time ago I played a bitta juniors ..
There were a few Vasljevics , Jonavicacass , Jonutass , Akermaniss playing sa state juniors pretty good..
(i was in the squads , but not quite good enough for the teams... )

One time ago I played a bitta juniors..
Jonjunutas , Jonavicias , Vasljevic , Akermanis..
best sa state juniors , at that time..
(i was in the squads .. not good enough for teams....)..

...it was state juniors , and hugh greenwood shot 33 points....
..in a quarter.....