Yuraporn Joyrama
Years ago
Commonwealth Games
So basketball is in the Commonwealth Games for 2006 - about time too, those tiny South Pacific nations have been screaming out for years to be thrashed in yet another sport.
I say we treat this as a development comp, kind of like soccer at the Olympics. Ie we pick a 23 and under team with a view to picking the best performers for Beijing 2008?
You'd have Bogut, Schenscher, Newley et al all playing their guts out - and hands up who'd want to see Boy Goorj playing Jason Smith and CJ for 35 minutes against Tonga. It would achieve nothing.
And no, our team of youngsters probably wouldn't beat a full-strength NZ or Canada but you would have exposed the next generation to international senior ball which couldn't do much harm for 2008.
