Well... tournament is now start of September. An extra month.

21st - 28th August - Boys - Iran
5th - 11th September- Girls - India

India, what a great choice for a host nation for an international girls basketball tournament

Still no update and 17 days away.
Boys were in camp last week.

It seems Australia and nz have forfeited this tournament.

Pretty disgraceful by BA when they knew well in advance the tournament could be held in iran.


Groups are now

A
Iran
Japan
Lebanon

B
China
Korea
India

C
Taipei
Phillipines
Syria
Korea



https://www.fiba.basketball/asia/u18/2022/news/groups-and-schedule-confirmed-for-fiba-u18-asian-championship-2022

Pretty disgraceful to force a Country to send under aged athletes to Iran. No matter the timing, fully support the stance of both BA and New Zealand.

Not when the venue could have been changed months ago via fiba approval.

You don't know what conversations have been going on behind the scenes. Not something they'd talk about publicly.

To assume BA just pulled this team last minute without ever raising concerns is not very likely.

They did pull out last minute, they even listed the final 15 players on fiba.

Beatty
Bradtke
Condon
Dent
Elliot
Gerovich
Hawke
Henshall
Kobatchev
Mcdowell white
Papacostas
Proctor
Toohey
Yates
Zikarsky

Don't bag BA people, the decision was made by the Australian Government to not send the Emus...

Australia's involvement in this tournament has been up in the air for a long time. Yes they ticked off all the FIBA administrative requirements but it was obvious from a long way out they were never attending.

If you know well in advance where the tournament will be held and it is deemed a security risk back then, the venue can be moved to a different location. Either poor admin by BA or they've done a deal which oceania teams auto qualify for next year.

The girls side should be fine given the tournament is in India on the 5th September.

FIBA control where the host venue is not Australia

Thankyou, I'm aware of that but requests for change of venue can be made if security is a factor. The Aus government has deemed Iran as a security risk for sometime, ba long ago could have suggested jordan which were the previous chosen hosts before it changed to iran. Given india qualified and Jordan did not they could have also held both mens n womens tournaments at the same time.
Will be interesting to see what BA say if and when a statement is made.

If you knew anything about the current climate the Asian countries do not want Australia nor New Zealand in the FIBA Asia zone so they are hardly going to accommodate any request for change of venue.

Yes I see on other forums that they are happy, obviously it increases the chances of them making top 4 and the WC.
Still don't know the back room deals that have been made by nz/Aus.

Girls team for u18 asia cup

https://australia.basketball/u18-womens-fiba-asia-cup-team-named/


Isobel Borlase - South Australia / CoE
Sophie Burrows – Victoria
Jayda Clark– Western Australia / CoE
Ella Gordon – Queensland / CoE
Summah Hanson – Queensland / CoE
Tess Heal – Victoria/ Santa Clara, USA
Isla Juffermans – New South Wales / CoE
Dallas Loughridge – Victoria / CoE
Rose Nelson – New South Wales
Jessica Petrie – Queensland / CoE
Nyadiew Puoch – Victoria / CoE
Saffron Shiels – New South Wales / CoE



I see that Auto selections for 04/05 Coe once again.
The BS continues...

Rotunno
Moffatt
Kay
Henderson
Pitman
Dart*
Brazel
Fearne*
Simons
Foy
Ananiev
Crawshaw
Knight
Mason
Jacobs
Little
Ohara
Hassett
Griffiths


Did not make it

FIBA U18 ASIA BOYS RESULTS

Suprise winners...

GOLD - KOREA
SILVER - JAPAN
BRONZE - CHINA
4th - Lebanon
-
5th - Iran
6th - Phillipines
7th - Chinese Taipei
8th - Qatar
9th - India
10th - Syria

Top 4 go through to next years u19 WC.



GIRLS tournament starts September 5th

Girls roster has now changed, 4 days out.

COVID?

Who's in/out?

Loughridge - Heal - Rotunno
Borlase - Shiels
Puoch- Burrows
Petrie - Hanson - Nelson
Juffermans - Gordon

For some reason Rotunno replaces Clark.

Little depth given what other 04/05 talent is outthere.

Out
Clark - ?
Brazel - inj




Interesting no one else from nationals or NBL1 or school champs.

Twidale
Dart
Simons
Foy
Peacock
Ananiev
Crawshaw
Jacobs
Hassett

Thought Clark did well for 17's.

Was down at Nationals and besides Foy and Hall, no one else really stood out.

Hassett is in the states at college.

"School nationals"

Not sure why you wouldn't take triple bottom ager hall...
They took 1999 Magbegor in 2015 for the u19 wc.

Probably bigs physically can handle playing up at an inter tail level more than guards....just a guess and generalisation

Don't think so. Hall would outplay both heal n Rotunno, no question.

I agree

Better defender, lightning quick. Offers so much more.

Pg Rotunno replacing a g/f in Clark is odd. Shiels was the pg at u17 WC so you have 3 pgs in this side already. thought Ananiev would get the nod as a wing or recall Twidale, the u17 sg.

Assume Clark n Brazel are locks for next year but not sold on Hanson rotunno or nelson.
Will be good to see how the latter 2 go. Word of mouth over actual results/stats seems to be apart of the selection criteria.

Pretty Good start to the tournament.
Defense not great.

Game 1
Aus (116) vs India (49)

Game 2
Aus (111) vs Nz (44)
Backup centre Gordon appears to have had a serious injury

Game 3
Aus vs Korea
A win here qualifies us to the u19 WC in 2023.
A loss here likely puts us up against China in an elimination game for a WC spot.

Game 3
Aus (96) vs Korea (66)

Both teams tired as fk, Herbert only using 2/3 of the squad.
No time for Hanson or Gordon(inj), not many minutes for nelson and Rotunno.
Probably should have given more time to burrows and Shiels, 12-14 mins.
Puoch and Loughridge playing 32mins each, Borlase 28 min, too much with a 30 point win.

Australia qualify for 2023 WC as a top 4 side, straight to the semi final.


IMO on performance so far

- should make the WC
Loughridge
Borlase
Burrows
Shiels
Puoch
Juffermans

- 50/50 WC
Heal
Petrie
Gordon

- Doubtful will make WC
Rotunno
Hanson
Nelson

Nz beaten by Taipei. 67 - 77

Chinese Taipei vs Australia semi final.

Heal has been solid from what I've seen Weedy, I’d have her as a lock for WC’s

Heals been ok, wouldnt lock her in though just yet.
Inj g/f Clark, g/f Brazel and cg Twidale to come back I'd say...
cg Hall is also someone I’d add for speed and defense, along with an elite rebounder.
C Juffermans has accumulated most of the rebounds, avg 10+ a game with contributions from sg Borlase and sf Puoch.

That’s 5 roster changes I’d make, just my opinion.


Aus beat Taipei 70-61.
Aus through to final vs China who won a thriller vs Japan 54-51

Australia comfortably beat China in the final 81-55.


Final standings

1-Australia-gold
2-China-silver
3-Japan-bronze
4-Chinese Taipei
5-Korea
6-NZ
7-Indonesia
8-India - relegated to division DB

Malaysia promoted to DA from DB

All star 5

Yokoyama-Japan
Li- China
Borlase-Australia
Hsiao-Chinese Taipei
Juffermans-Australia + MVP

Loughridge ACL, most likely out for world champs

Late July is next years tournament.

I think Loughridge would need a bit of luck to rehab a torn ACL by July next year. Hope her rehab goes well.

Not sold on heal or Rotunno as the next best options either. Twidale and Harvey are other options.
I'd have triple bottom ager hall over them all though.