Not sure why Walker is on this team, looks like he couldn't give a toss.
Where's Blanchfield?

You would think given the opportunity to play for Australia, you'd put the effort in.
Hard to watch.

Hard to stay awake.

Creek ain't making the WC squad with his effort today.

He is currently leading the team in points, boards and assists so I'm not sure what more you want from him

Grida, 3 minutes, Wilson 27 minutes. Creek never even started, looking like a training run.
Is Wilson going to afl as the rumour is and is this an effort to keep him in basketball??

Creek shows his leadership qualities by calling out unnamed people on social media for choosing not to represent the country...

LC you forgot to mention Jock Landale at Partizan.

Also, for those of you that are not aware, travelling to Iran is not liked by the USA. Players have been advised by BA to get new passports so the Iran entry/exit Stamp no longer appears in their Passport. Additionally, players who held current USA Visas of any category have been advised these may no longer ensure entry to the USA.

So, taking the above into consideration, this was a massive effort by the players who have been playing in the USA - Creek & Humphries and any of the others who hold USA Visas & are hoping the play summer league or go to any try-outs.

Having said that, why so much hate for the players, coaches & BA? These are Aussies, representing their country. All of us on here would pay a high price to represent out country, wouldn't we?

It is an honour & privilege to be asked to represent your country.

The NBA aussies were never going to be available for a number of these FIBA qualifier windows, and it will be similar in future qualifiers, so we all just better get used to it. BA have for some time now informed the NBL & all key stakeholders that this window will, generally, not feature Aussie NBL players who will be participating in NBL finals as clearly this would be a distraction and also risk injury.

Unfortunately we can’t tell FIBA where to go, so we do the best we can. Sure BA could have included some other NBL players, more deserving on performance this year, but, as they had already qualified, BA had the luxury of 'blooding’ some young talent.

The ultimate results of these two games did not really matter and it has provided the powers to be with an insight into who may or may not be worthy of investing some more time, energy & opportunities into.

It was never going to be easy for this team in these games, they were on a hiding to nothing, win and we scoff at the weakness of the opposition, lose and we throw the baby out with the bath water. These players had to endure:
1. Extensive travel in a compressed time period.
2. Sleep deprivation, because of the compressed travel schedule.
3. Playing away, in a foreign country, with unfamiliar accommodation, language, food, etc.
4. They were always going to be compared with the results of the previous Boomers teams in the previous window games. As an example Australia thumped Japan in Australia, but lost in Japan.

Playing away, with the travel et all, is a far more challenging proposition, period.

Scoff at these reasons if you want to, but it was never going to be easy. Few other high performance athletes have to endure this sort of schedule, maybe the Men’s & Women’s FIFA football teams do?

For me, well done to all who were lucky enough to go, you did your country proud!

NB. Nobody held a gun to your head to force you to get up or stay up and watch. If you didn’t like it, then go to bed or channel surf.

I really don't care if Wilson goes to footy or whether the so called rumours contain any truth or not. It is his life and his decision.

However, to suggest that his selection was to to keep him in basketball and to compare his court time with Grida’s is, in my opinion, scandalous and clearly made by a Grida supporter.

If you bothered to watch both games, especially the 2nd I for one am saying, glad we had Wilson.

That is not a knock on Grida, Wilson got an opportunity and showed what he was capable of on the big stage. In both games he was a more than valuable contributor, that is all I am saying.

Just because you are a Wilson supporter doesn't mean you are right, most coaches would take Grida in an instant over Wilson. You might be glad he’s there but he hardly earned his spot, kings never played him, played Adnam in the guard spots and Bowen in the three ahead of him.
It was a strange squad and considering no other finals team players went, why Wilson.

Just looking at it objectively and what played ou over the last 4 or 5 days.

I don't think it is about Grida or Wilson. Right or wrong, It’s a coach’s decision. They play different & play different positions - Grida a 2/3, Wilson a 1/2.

But remind me, who was Grida coached by in SEABL last year?

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TBH, as others have indicated, & IMHO apart from Creek, none of these players 'earned' their selection.

Wilson started in the three. As already said above, a lot strange selections.

rjd, we play in the Asia conference, do you want us to ask to play in the European conference?

I don't think FIBA would allow it & given we don’t have access to our NBA players for the majority of qualifiers, I think it would be very tough to qualify.

It is what it is.

Agree, a lot of strange selections.

But, R u going to answer my question about who coached Grida last year? Or does the real truth hurt that much that you can't bare to put it in writing?

If you won’t I will. Adam Caporn was his coach. Who coached the boomers against Iran? I’ll help you out again. Adam Caporn.

You want to make it about the players. As I said it is nothing about the players. It is coach’s decision, that’s all. I am not saying one is better than the other. It was great that these two up & comers along with the others were afforded the opportunity.

Who knows, maybe none of these players will ever get another opportunity?

Koberulz, during this same window last year the games were in Melbourne. Also, we weren't assured of a World Cup squad either.

So hardly a fare comparison as the travel, disruption, etc are far less.

What I always wonder is given they have FIBA rankings anyway, why dont the top 32 at any given time regardless of region they are from just make the World Cup,

And still have the FIBA Aisa Cup, Euro Basket, AfroBasket, etc to have teams play each other regularly.