2012 2nd U17 World Championship

[pohani komarac]

Ante Nazor selected 19 man roster. Bruno Zganec unfortunally had hard injury and will miss championship

Paolo Marinelli (PG 190 95. Split)
Josip Gulam (PG 185 95. Jolly JBS)
Lovro Basic (PG 182 95. Zadar)
Ivan Jukic (SG 195 95. Split)
Filip Palac (SG 194 95 Susedgrad)
Josip Baljkas (SG 195 95. Jolly JBS)
Leon Tomic (SG/SF 196 96. Cedevita)
Frano Beslic (SG/SF 198 96. Cedevita)
Mario Hezonja (SG/SF 202 95. Zagreb)
David Skara (SF 201 95. Zadar)
Andrija Coric (SF 199 95. Siroki)
Domagoj Bosnjak (SF 202 95. Siroki)
Lovro Mazalin (SF 202 97. Cibona/Petrinja)
Dorijan Jelenek (SF 201 95. Cedevita)
Nikola Roso (SF 202 95. Trogir)
Tomislav Gabric (PF 201 95. Jolly JBS)
Karlo Zganec (PF 205 95. Fenix)
Ivan Bender (PF 206 95. Split)
Marko Arapovic (PF/C 207 96. Cibona)

Frano Beslic injured

Markus Loncar (C 210 96. Cedevita) and Marko Dojkic (PF 205 95. Cedevita) are in team

[carlo]

Lithuania cut it to 15 players.

Lukas Grabauskas
Ernestas Serkevičius
Pijus Mykolaitis
Rytis Pipiras
Lukas Motiejūnas
Norbertas Giga
Žygimantas Ūselis
Edvinas Šeškus
Deividas Kumelis
Karolis Ražukas
Gediminas Žalalis
Žydrūnas Jurgutis
Haroldas Saprykinas
Paulius Šakinis
Erikas Kubilius

Kavaliauskas is out, he probably didn't recover from previous injury.

[serbianhoops]

Jabari Parker (MVP at the 2011 U16 Fiba Americas), Theo Pinson, Jahlil Okafor, Justin Jackson, Tyus Jones, Stanley Johnson, Johnathan Williams were among the best of the 2011 U16, besides team's high scorer Aaron Gordon. Dakari Johnson, Trey Lyles, Shaqquan Aaron from the USAB Developmental Team and many other excellent prospects could also participate.

Indiana University commit Trey Lyles (PF 208 1995), who is 1 of the top prospect in the class of 2014, will play for Canada at the U17 World Championship. He was born in Canada.

[carlo]

Indiana University commit Trey Lyles (PF 208 1995), who is 1 of the top prospect in the class of 2014, will play for Canada at the U17 World Championship. He was born in Canada.

Right, see also: http://forums.interbasket.net/showth...732#post703732
He's in the invitees roster for the U18 Fiba Americas but could play in the U17 World's as well.

[carlo]

18 players will compete in the next days to earn a spot in Spain NT. Ilimane Diop and Marc Bauza are also engaged respectively with the U18 and U16 teams and will join the other players on June 18. Spanish team will test Argentina during its preparation and then will participate to the Gran Canaria tournament with Australia, USA and Latvia just few days before the start of the World's championship.

http://www.feb.es/NoticiaDesarrollo....dNoticia=42609
http://www.feb.es/Documentos/Archivo...17MVERANO2.pdf

[carlo]

French NT is currently in Czech Republic to play three exhibition games with host team, and won the first one 80-62.
France roster of 15 is still not definitive and the final 12-member team will be selected after two further exhib games to be played with Lithuania on June 18 & 19 in France.
http://www.ffbb.com/_actu/page_m.php...p=actu&id=8609

[carlo]

Another convincing win of France over Czech Republic 66-43, in preparation of the World's championship, where both teams will meet in the opening day.

[carlo]

Czech Republic team named:
http://www.cbf.cz/reprezentace/nominace-muzi-u-17.html

CZ lost 3 exhibition games with France.

[CKR13]

Theo Pinson is leading the charge of the U-17 squad of Team USA.

http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/u1..._training.html

[Mojado]

Indiana University commit Trey Lyles (PF 208 1995), who is 1 of the top prospect in the class of 2014, will play for Canada at the U17 World Championship. He was born in Canada.

...while his mother could be Croatian, judging by her first name...

[carlo]

Indiana University commit Trey Lyles (PF 208 1995), who is 1 of the top prospect in the class of 2014, will play for Canada at the U17 World Championship. He was born in Canada.

Lyles is already in the Canadian junior team finalists roster of 17 preparing for the U18 Fiba Americas tournament (16-20 June). He and young superstar Andre Wiggins were the best scorers of their respective teams recently scrimmaging during the try-outs.
http://forums.interbasket.net/showth...675#post705675 #11 and 18.

Of course both Lyles and Wiggins are age-eligible to participate to the U17 World's, but afaik no team was announced yet.

In the meantime, Lyles has disappeared from the U17 US developmental roster list...he officially withdrew.

[carlo]

Canada basketball has invited 18 players to the training camp to be held June 13-18.
Players basically come from the 2011 U16 team (plus 7-2 Thanveer Bhullar), interesting to see if big calibers Wiggins and Lyles will later be added.

[CKR13]

Mondial de Basket de Douai U-17 Tournament (June 21 to 24) in France. Argentina, China, Canada, Croatia, Egypt and France will participate.

Group A: China, Canada and France

Group B: Argentina, Croatia and Egypt

[Jokinen]

Argentina roster for the U17 World Championship:

4- Aristu Matías (SF, 6' 4")
Club: Libertad de Sunchales (Santa Fe)
Nacimiento: 14/02/95

5- Reinaudi Lucio Tomás (SG, 6'2")
Club: 9 de Julio de Río Tercero (Córdoba)
Nacimiento: 16/06/95

6- Vaulet Juan Pablo (SF 6'5")
Club: Hindú Club (Córdoba)
Nacimiento: 22/03/96

7- Deck Gabriel (PF 6'7")
Club: Quimsa (Santiago del Estero)
Nacimiento: 08/02/95

8- Giarraffa Joaquín Federico (SG 6'4")
Club: Boca Juniors (Capital Federal)
Nacimiento: 01/06/95

9- Vildoza Luca (PG 6'2")
Club: Quilmes de Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires)
Nacimiento: 11/08/95
Puesto: Base

10- Merlo Alvaro (PG 5'11")
Club: Ciclista Juninense (Junín, Buenos Aires)
Nacimiento: 01/10/95

11-Haag Rodrigo Ezequiel (SG 6'3")
Club: Echagüe de Paraná (Entre Ríos)
Nacimiento: 23/01/95

12- Gargallo Lucas Hernán (PF 6'5")
Club: Boca Juniors (Capital Federal)

13- López Guillermo (PF 6'5")
Club: Banco Nación (Federación Capital Federal)
Nacimiento: 14/08/95

14- Vallejos Facundo Eduardo (C 6'8")
Club: Boca Juniors (Capital Federal)
Nacimiento: 25/09/95

15- Caffaro Agustín (C 6'10")
Club: San Martín de Marcos Juárez (Córdoba)
Nacimiento: 06/02/95

[carlo]

From USA Basketball it's confirmed that Aaron Gordon is unable to participate to the trials because of an injury (broken toe) that has sidelined him since more than one month.
http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/u1...mp_begins.html

All other members of the 2011 U16 team are back, but Gordon's absence is a big blow for the squad as he top performed for last year's team.

[pohani komarac]

We played today first prep against BiH U-18. about 20 + for us. K. Zganec 20, Arapovic 14, Bender 11

[NorCal]

From USA Basketball it's confirmed that Aaron Gordon is unable to participate to the trials because of an injury (broken toe) that has sidelined him since more than one month.
http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/u1...mp_begins.html

All other members of the 2011 U16 team are back, but Gordon's absence is a big blow for the squad as he top performed for last year's team.

Huge loss for our team- he was extremely impressive last year, just manhandling guys down low.

[carlo]

Australian Team named:

Joshua DERKSEN
Mirko DJERIC
Nicholas DUNCAN
Dante EXUM
Matthew JACKSON
Fabijan KRSLOVIC
Michael LUXFORD
Darcy MALONE
Gerard MARTIN
Jack PURCHASE
Benjamin SIMMONS
Felix VON HOFE

Head Coach: Guy Molloy

A strong team indeed, with some interesting talents like Exum, Duncan, Djeric etc.

[sagenas]

Lithuania's roster reduced to 13 players.

Lukas Grabauskas
Ernestas Serkevičius
Pijus Mykolaitis
Lukas Motiejūnas
Norbertas Giga
Žygimantas Ūselis
Edvinas Šeškus
Deividas Kumelis
Karolis Ražukas
Gediminas Žalalis
Žydrūnas Jurgutis
Haroldas Saprykinas
Paulius Šakinis

[carlo]

USA Basketball named 14 finalists, following several try-outs sessions.
Eight players are back from the fine 2011 U16 team (Gordon has been unable to attend this year) and six are new. Quite surprisingly, Theo Pinson and Justin Jackson (both highly ranked in the 2014 class) didn't make the cut.
The final team should be announced around June 20, at the end of next days practice.