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PG Toni Katić (185 92. Split)
PG Roko Rogić (187 92. Cedevita)
G Štefan Zadravec (186 92.Zagreb)
G Alex Percan (188 92 Pula)
SG Josip Surina (192 92. Kvarner)
G/F Ivan Benković (199 92. US HS)
G/F Marin Kukoč (201 92. Penn state)
G-F Dario Šarić (207 94. Zagreb)
SF Marko Ramljak (201 93. Zadar)
SF Franko Šango (204 92. Zadar)
PF Boris Barać (206 92. Široki)
PF Josip Matić (202 92 Split)
PF Marino Kučan (200 92. Kvarner)
PF Josip Mikulić (211 93. US HS)
F/C Filip Najev (205 92. Split)
F/C Dino Repeša (200 92. Benetton)-only because father
F/C Boris Topalović (205 92. Široki)
C Franjo Marasović (215 92. Zadar)
C Petar Madunić (211 93. Nikola Vujčić bb academy)

bold ones should be sure

[Raze Lupin]

Sagenas, on 18 March 2011 - 04:54 PM, said:

There is chance that I will be seen by Lithuanian basketball coaches and they see how good I can be and ask me to play for senior national team but for chance like this I would give 0,000000000001%

Sagenas You have good sense of humor. This made me laugh. :-)Jonas Valanciunas and Deividas Pukis will no doubt be key. Will you post a list of other young Lietuva players that might be at 2011 U19 WC?

Who elese on this roster will be great?
http://www.fibaeurop...0&roundID=7323


I plan on making a profile of the young American players. It would be nice if everyone would do this for their country. Then we can compare and contrast and discuss.

This post has been edited by Raze Lupin: 18 March 2011 - 07:33 PM

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pohani komarac, on 18 March 2011 - 06:06 PM, said:

bold ones should be sure

pohani komarachis This seems like great list! Will you give analysis and information of players. for example G/F Marin Kukoč (201 92. Penn state) Marin looks promising. Dario Šarić is playing with older guys and dominatiing. In Euro U18 he averaged 12.8 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.3 Assists. There is no reason why he will not do well in the U19 tournament.

U18 Croatia page:
http://www.fibaeurop...0&roundID=7323

I'm going to do a roster profile for USA soon like I did for Canada. Everyone can discuss the great talents in this world.

[Sagenas]

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn....I wrote such a long and informative post and my browser restarted oh well....I'll write it later...bshit.

[Black Urum]

What browser do you use? Afaik firefox saves your text even in case of a crash.

[pohani komarac]

Raze Lupin, on 18 March 2011 - 06:32 PM, said:

pohani komarachis This seems like great list! Will you give analysis and information of players. for example G/F Marin Kukoč (201 92. Penn state) Marin looks promising. Dario Šarić is playing with older guys and dominatiing. In Euro U18 he averaged 12.8 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.3 Assists. There is no reason why he will not do well in the U19 tournament.

U18 Croatia page:
http://www.fibaeurop...0&roundID=7323

I'm going to do a roster profile for USA soon like I did for Canada. Everyone can discuss the great talents in this world.

i don't know much about Marin as he lives in US...but his father says he is not that much in basketball, he is more focused on school. I guess that's why he went to Penn

here is my personal opinion on our most important players

Dario Saric
+ phenomenal bbiq and feal for game, methal toughnes, loves to take big shoots and be a leader. passion for game, toghnes, hard worker, very active on glass, can do almost evrything and play all positions, great ball handling for size and extra creativity, ok athleticisam, very unselfish
- poor one on one defense against smaller faster players, makes lot of turnoves and ofensive fouls, can get very nurves, talks a lot with refs, poor latherall quicknes, must woork on his shooting

trully is our best prospect since Kukoc and Petrovic. NIKE already singed him and that says much. Already good in Croatian A1 league

Boris Barac
+ great fundumentals, very good shooter, can play inside and outside, not afraid of contact, plays with good confidance for kid
- bit undersized (even tough judging by his brother he could get few cm more as he growe latter), average rebounder, avreage athleticley

Euroleague level prospect, plays in very good adriatic league and didn't disapoint. Had some very good games there

Toni Katic
+ Speed, good playmaking abilitys, fundametals, drives, not afraid, love for game decent creativity
- Average ballhandling, shooting touch, defense, turnovers ball a lot

Euroleague level prospect by my opinion. Among the best players in Croatian A1 league wich is week league, but for young player still decent competition. Let's say top 10 players could play on averege europian lavel imidatley

Marko Ramljak
+ dose bit of evrything on court, good athletic abilitys and long arms
- very mechanical in his moves, does evrything but dosen't stand out in anything, shooting

Euroleague prospect, but such a type of player rarley make's it.

Filip Najev
+ strong and athletic body, good shooting touch with feet set, great timeing for blocking shoots
- udersized, bit limited ofensevly, runing away from basket to much, lacks of fighting spirit, questionable atitude

he could develop in good euro player, but must impruve a lot wich will be hard judgig by his atitude

Roko Rogic
+ can shoot like crazy when hot, good scoring ability, good charater
- lacking of playmaking and athletic abilitys.

born backup in some average clubs at best

rest players won't be much in rotation but i'd like to add two players that shows a lot of promise that could bloom latter

Franko Sango...very taleted player that he is able to play 1-4 position. Has almost evrything but somehow he never figures out how to totaly use them on court. He had some grat stats on loan in Croatian A2 league this season tough, so I'm hoping he impruved

Josip Mikulic....typicall tall PF with great shooting abilitys. Big upside, but raw. I haven't see hime since he left to US, but I guess he is dooing good as he already commited to North Carolina state. Probably won't be in team tough

This post has been edited by pohani komarac: 18 March 2011 - 08:16 PM

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Black Urum, on 18 March 2011 - 07:52 PM, said:

What browser do you use? Afaik firefox saves your text even in case of a crash.

I use many browsers but this time I used opera....in some other web sites it saves text but not here. Whatever....I'll post that again...

[Sagenas]

Ok, here's some information about those players who played past summer (about other possible candidates I'm going to write next time).

Renaldas Simanavičius PG 1.85 30.05.1992 KK Kaunas (LKL)
Deividas Pukis SG 1.94 10.01.1992 Christian Life Center High School (USA)
Evaldas Aniulis PG 1.88 24.01.1992 Wasatch Academy (USA)
Edgaras Ulanovas SG 1.99 07.01.1992 Žalgiris-Sabonio mokykla (NKL)
Dovydas Redikas SG 1.95 11.12.1992 Perlas (LKL)
Tadas Maželis SF 1.94 25.12.1992 Nafta-universitetas (NKL)
Egidijus Mockevičius C 2.07 01.09.1992 KK Akademija (NKL)
Tautvydas Sabonis PF 2.02 01.05.1992 Clínicas Rincón (LEB Gold), UNICAJA S.D (EBA)
Žygimantas Skučas PF 2.00 18.03.1992 Žalgiris-Sabonio mokykla (NKL)
Vytenis Čižauskas PG 1.90 16.09.1992 Nevėžis (LKL)
Rolandas Jakštas PF 2.00 28.09.1992 KK Kaunas (LKL)
Jonas Valanciūnas C 2.10 06.05.1992 Lietuvos Rytas (LKL)

We can say that we have only one SF but Maželis didn't get many playing time so our coaches used Redikas and

Ulanovas as SF.

I won't write anything about Valančiūnas because you know everything so...

Some other things, you may not noticed:
*Deividas Pukis at the start of this years suffered injury but it seems that he will play in coming WC.
*Few weeks ago Aniulis had enormous performance playing final state's game or something like that..he made

triple double - 13pts, 13reb, 15as, 3stl.
*Mockevičius didn't get many playing time past summer but right now he is the most efficient player in whole

NKL (second Lithuanian division) ...also he leads league's rebounding stats.

[Raze Lupin]

THIS IS NOT OFFICIAL but 2011 U19 NT Men's team will mostly if entirely made up of U18 roster. USA won gold in November 2010 FiBA Americas. Below are two rosters the first list is the U18 national team the second is the list from the tryout camp. Just in case their is confusion on abbreviation POS=Position HGT =height WGT=weight YOG=(year of graduation from High School). I will update more information later....

2010 USA Basketball Men's U18 National Team

NAME POS HGT WGT YOG HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGE / HOMETOWN
Vander Blue G 6-3/1.91m 185/84Kg 2010 James Madison Memorial H.S. / #Marquette / Madison, WI

Trevor Cooney G 6-3/1.91m 180/82Kg 2011 Sanford H.S. / Wilmington, DE

Abdul Gaddy G 6-3/1.91m 185/84Kg 2013 Washington / Tacoma, WA

Josh Hairston F/C 6-8/2.03m 210/95Kg 2010 Montrose Christian School(MD)/#Duke/Fredericksburg, VA

Kyrie Irving G 6-3/1.91m 175/80Kg 2010 St. Patrick's H.S. / *Duke / Elizabeth, NJ

Quincy Miller F/C 6-8/2.03m 200/91Kg 2011 Quality Education Academy / Winston-Salem, N.C.

Tony Mitchell F 6-7/1.83m 200/91Kg 2010 L.G. Pinkston H.S. / #Missouri / Dallas, TX

LeBryan Nash F 6-7/1.83m 215/98Kg 2011 Lincoln H.S. / Dallas, TX

Jereme Richmond F 6-7/1.83m 200/91Kg 2010 Waukegan H.S. / #Illinois / Waukegan, IL

Austin Rivers G 6-3/1.91m 175/80Kg 2011 Winter Park H.S. / Winter Park, FL

Amir Williams F/C 6-10/2.08m 210/95Kg 2011 Detroit Country Day / Detroit, MI

Pat Young F/C 6-9/2.06m 222/100Kg 2010 Providence School / #Florida / Jacksonville, FL

Head Coach: Jeff Capel, University of Oklahoma
Assistant Coach: Paul Hewitt, Georgia Tech
Assistant Coach: Reggie Witherspoon, University at Buffalo
#Signed a National Letter of Intent to attend and compete for the school indicated.
*Verbally committed to attend and compete for the school indicated.



2010 USA Basketball Men's U18 National Team Training Camp Roster

NAME POS HGT WGT YOG HIGH SCHOOL / COLLEGE / HOMETOWN
Tracy Abrams G 6-1/1.85m 175/80Kg 2011 Mount Carmel H.S. / *Illinois / Chicago, IL

Keith Appling G 6-3/1.91m 180/82Kg 2010 Pershing H.S. / #Michigan State / Detroit, MI

James Bell F 6-6/1.98m 220/100Kg 2010 Montverde Academy / #Villanova / Orlando, FL

Vander Blue G 6-3/1.91m 185/84Kg 2010 James Madison Memorial H.S. / #Marquette / Madison, WI

Trevor Cooney G 6-3/1.91m 180/82Kg 2011 Sanford H.S. / Wilmington, DE

Abdul Gaddy G 6-3/1.91m 185/84Kg 2013 Washington / Tacoma, WA

Michael Gbinije F 6-6/1.98m 200/91Kg 2011 Benedictine H.S. / #Duke / Chester, VA

Josh Hairston F/C 6-8/2.03m 210/95Kg 2010 Montrose Christian School (MD)/#Duke/Fredericksburg, VA

Mikael Hopkins F/C 6-9/2.06m 200/91Kg 2011 DeMatha Catholic H.S. / Hyattsville, MD

Kyrie Irving G 6-3/1.91m 175/80Kg 2010 St. Patrick's H.S. / *Duke / Elizabeth, NJ

Sheldon McClellan G 6-6/1.98m 180/82Kg 2011 Bellaire H.S. / *Texas / Pearland, TX

Quincy Miller F/C 6-8/2.03m 200/91Kg 2011 Quality Education Academy / Winston-Salem, N.C.

Tony Mitchell F 6-7/1.83m 200/91Kg 2010 L.G. Pinkston H.S. / #Missouri / Dallas, TX

LeBryan Nash F 6-7/1.83m 215/98Kg 2011 Lincoln H.S. / Dallas, TX

Jereme Richmond F 6-7/1.83m 200/91Kg 2010 Waukegan H.S. / #Illinois / Waukegan, IL

Austin Rivers G 6-3/1.91m 175/80Kg 2011 Winter Park H.S. / *Florida / Winter Park, FL

Desmond Simmons F 6-7/1.83m 215/98Kg 2010 Salesian H.S. / #Washington / Vallejo, CA

Amir Williams F/C 6-10/2.08m 210/95Kg 2011 Detroit Country Day / Detroit, MI

Pat Young F/C 6-9/2.06m 222/100Kg 2010 Providence School / #Florida / Jacksonville, FL

Head Coach: Jeff Capel, University of Oklahoma
Assistant Coach: Paul Hewitt, Georgia Tech
Assistant Coach: Reggie Witherspoon, University at Buffalo
Court Coach: Ken Ammann, Concordia University
Court Coach: Randy Bennett, Saint Mary's College
Court Coach: Francis Flax, Brown Mackie College
Court Coach: Brad Stevens, Butler University
Court Coach: Brooks Thompson, University of Texas at San Antonio
#Signed a National Letter of Intent to attend and compete for the school indicated.
*Verbally committed to attend and compete for the school indicated.

This post has been edited by Raze Lupin: 18 March 2011 - 11:12 PM

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Sagenas nice info I can't wait to hear more. It looks like 1992 year was a good year to have kids in Lietuva. Lol To contrast USA does not have any gold level players on the roster not like Jonas. We do have a roster full of silver level players.

pohani komarachis I couldn't find too much more on Marin. It's just like you said he cares more about academics than basketball. He was even looking to attend Cornell University before he changed his mind, Wow! He must be a pretty smart kid. Many of the NBA kids are like this though. It will be exciting to see what the Croats do in Group C. If they can beat Lietuva their confidence will be high.

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[Sagenas]

Candidates announced for all youth competitions. For U-19:
Nr.
Krepšininkas
Mokykla, klubas

1.
Vytenis Čižauskas
Kėdainių „Nevėžis“

2.
Renaldas Simanavičius
Kauno „Kaunas“

3.
Evaldas Aniulis
Wasatch Academy Tigers, JAV

4.
Deividas Anužis
Klaipėdos „Nafta-Universitetas“

5.
Lukas Kazlauskas
Anykščių „Puntukas-Dussman Service“

6.
Rokas Giedraitis
Šiaulių „Saulė-Aukštabalis“

7.
Dovydas Redikas
Vilniaus „Perlas“

8.
Deividas Pukis
Christian Life Center Academy, JAV

9.
Taurantas Tamošiūnas
Kauno „LKKA-Atletas“

10.
Tadas Maželis
Klaipėdos „Nafta-Universitetas“

11.
Modestas Masiulionis
St. Xavier University, JAV

12.
Edgaras Ulanovas
Kauno „Žalgiris-Sabonio mokykla“

13.
Arnas Butkevičius
Vilniaus „Sakalai“

14.
Eigirdas Žukauskas
Anykščių „Puntukas-Dussman Service“

15.
Paulius Sorokas
Kauno „Žalgiris-Sabonio mokykla“

16.
Rolandas Jakštas
Kauno „Kaunas“

17.
Paulius Vaitiekūnas
Jonavos „Triobet“

18.
Tautvydas Sabonis
„Clinicas Rincon“, Ispanija

19.
Ronaldas Rutkauskas
Stokholmo „Human Rights 08“, Švedija

20.
Žygimantas Skučas
Kauno „Žalgiris-Sabonio mokykla“

21.
Jonas Valančiūnas
Vilniaus „Lietuvos rytas“

22.
Tomas Urbonas
Kauno „LKKA-Atletas“

23.
Egidijus Mockevičius
Vilniaus „Akademija“

24.
Nerijus Barauskas
Kauno „Erelita-KTU“

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BUENOS AIRES (FIBA U19 World Championship) - With this summer's highly anticipated U19 World Champs only weeks away, Argentina have summoned a squad of 21 players for a training camp/tryouts, to begin on 5 May in Buenos Aires.

The squad includes 11 of the 12 members of the team that finished in fourth place at last year's FIBA Americas U18 Championship in San Antonio, USA securing the fourth and final Americas Zone ticket to Latvia, including promising point guard Juan Jose Giaveno.

Also in the loop, and among the younger members of this preliminary squad, are five players who participated in last year's FIBA U17 World Championship in Hamburg, Germany.

These include Tayavek Gallizzi, Patricio Garino, Federico Herrera, hotly tipped centre Luciano Massarelli and Italian based Matias Bortolin (Rimini).

The only other member currently playing his basketball abroad is Patricio Garino Gullota (Montverde Academy, USA).

Argentina have been drawn in Group B, which will be based in the city of Valmiera, and will face Australia, Chinese Taipei and hosts Latvia.

Argentina U19 preliminary squad:

AGASSE Sadi Nicolás. Olimpia de Paraná (ARG)

BASABE Emiliano Guillermo. Alma Juniors de Esperanza (ARG)

BOLÍVAR Mateo. San Martín (ARG)

BORTOLIN Vara Matías. Club Basket Rimini Crabs (ITA)

BRUSSINO Nicolás José. San Martín de Marcos Juárez (ARG)

BURGOS Valentín. Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia (ARG)

COMBA Joel Alexis. Gimnasia y Esgrima de Comodoro Rivadavia (ARG)

COPELLO Nicolás. Boca Juniors (ARG)

DELÍA Marcos Nicolás. Boca Juniors (ARG)

DÍAZ Lucas Ezequiel. Libertad de Sunchales (ARG)

GALLIZZI Tayavek Ismael. Quilmes de Mar del Plata (ARG)

GARINO GULLOTA Patricio. Montverde Academy (USA)

GIAVENO Juan José. 9 de Julio de Río Tercero (ARG)

GIORGETTI Franco Nahuel. Peñarol de Mar del Plata (ARG)

HERRERA Federico Hernán. Social Las Breñas (ARG)

MACHUCA Lucas Daniel. Sionista de Paraná (ARG)

MASSARELLI Luciano Nicolás. Ramos Mejía L. T. C. (ARG)

PAREDES Carlos Fernando. El Nacional de Bahía Blanca (ARG)

PÉREZ Pablo Ignacio. Sionista de Paraná (ARG)

PODESTÁ Fernando Ariel. Vélez Sársfield (ARG)

RESSIA Germán Abel. Bahiense del Norte de Bahía Blanca (ARG)

FIBA

[Raze Lupin]

The official website for the U19 WC is now up!! Go and support your team!

http://latvia2011.fiba.com/en

[Raze Lupin]

USA Basketball has announced 17 participants for USA U19 training camp. Appearently Austin Rivers is not on the list. USA chances of repeating Gold just went down significantly.

Web page
http://www.usabasket...g_invitees.html

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Seventeen Of Nation’s Top Players To Attend 2011 USA Men’s U19 World Championship Training Camp
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USA gold medalists Brad Beal (top left), Trevor Cooney (top right), Tony Mitchell (bottom left) and Patric Young (bottom right) will attend the 2011 USA U19 training camp in June (Photos by Sam Forencich and Ross Davis).Colorado Springs, Colo. • May 12, 2011

• 2011 USA Men's U19 World Championship Training Camp Roster

Seventeen of the nation’s top 19-and-unders, including seven possessing prior USA Basketball experience, have accepted invitations from the USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team Committee to attend the 2011 USA Basketball Men’s U19 World Championship Team training camp, USA Basketball today announced. The training camp, which will be held June 17-24 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., will be used to select the 12-member team that will represent the USA at the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship.

The USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team Committee, chaired by NCAA representative Jim Boeheim (head coach, Syracuse University), is expected to announce on June 19 finalists for the 12-member USA U19 World Championship Team roster. Training camp for the selected finalists will begin in the afternoon on June 19, with the official 12-member USA roster being announced prior to the teams’ departure for Europe on June 24. The 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men is being held June 30-July 10 in Valmiera, Liepaja and Riga Latvia.

“Between the coaching staff and the 17 players that will be participating in the USA U19 training camp, we believe we have assembled another outstanding group who should give us an excellent opportunity to defend our U19 World Championship gold medal,” said Boeheim. “The USA Basketball Men's Collegiate Committee again did an excellent job of identifying a very talented group of young players who will compete during the first three days of the training camp for a roster position on the USA Basketball U19 World Championship Team.”

Accepting invitations to attend the 2011 USA Basketball U19 World Championship Team training camp were: Keith Appling (Michigan State/Detroit, Mich.); Melsahn Basabe (Iowa/Glen Cove, N.Y.); Brad Beal (Chaminade College Prep/St. Louis, Mo.); James Bell (Villanova/Orlando, Fla.); Anthony Brown (Stanford/Huntington Beach, Calif.); Trevor Cooney (Sanford School/Wilmington, Del.); Allen Crabbe (California/Los Angeles, Calif.); Tim Hardaway, Jr. (Michigan/Miami, Fla.); Joe Jackson (Memphis/Memphis, Tenn.); Jeremy Lamb (Connecticut/Norcross, Ga.); Meyers Leonard (Illinois/Robinson, Ill.); Doug McDermott (Creighton/ Ames, Iowa); Travis McKie (Wake Forest/Richmond, Va.); Tony Mitchell (North Texas/Dallas, Texas); Richard Solomon (California/Los Angeles, Calif.); Josiah Turner (Quality Education Academy/ Sacramento, Calif.); and Patric Young (Florida/Jacksonville, Fla.).

Seven of the players possess prior USA Basketball experience including one member of the 2010 USA U17 World Championship gold medalist team and three players from the 2010 USA U18 National Team that captured gold at the FIBA Americas U18 Championship.

Beal returns as the lone member of the USA U17 Team that won last summer’s FIBA U17 World Championship, and he was also a member of the 2009 USA U16 team that won gold, as well as the 2011 USA Junior Select Team that captured a win in the Nike Hoop Summit on April 9.

Cooney, Mitchell and Young were part of USA Basketball’s 2010 U18 team, while Young was selected for the USA Junior Select Team that won the 2010 Nike Hoop Summit.

Other players possessing USA Basketball trials experience include Appling, Bell and Jackson.

Included on the roster are 14 student-athletes who attended a NCAA Division I school and three who finished their high school career this year. The University of California, with Crabbe and Solomon, and University of Florida, with Young and incoming freshman Beal, are the only colleges sending multiple representatives.

Lamb helped lead the University of Connecticut to the 2011 NCAA title and along the way was named to the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team after averaging 16.2 points and 4.8 rebounds.

Eight athletes listed among their NCAA conference all-freshman squads following the 2010-11 season, including two who were named their conference’s freshman of the year. Crabbe was named the Pac-10 Conference Freshman of the Year, and McDermott was named the Missouri Valley Conference Newcomer of the Year and Freshman of the Year. Additionally, Jackson collected MVP honors for the Conference USA Tournament, Lamb was named to the Big East Conference All-Tournament Team, and McDermott was also named All-Missouri Valley Conference first team.

Named to their respective conference all-freshman teams were: Basabe (Big Ten), Brown (Pac-10), Crabbe (Pac-10), Hardaway (Big Ten), Lamb (Big East), McDermott (Missouri Valley), McKie (Atlantic Coast) and Young (Southeastern).

Additionally, McDermott was named to the USBWA Freshman All-America second team, while Hardaway, McDermott, McKie and Young were each named to the 2011 CollegeInsider.com Freshman All-American Team.

Of the three incoming freshmen attending the training, Beal ranks No. 4 in the ESPNU Class of 2011 rankings, while Turner is No. 14 and Cooney is No. 64.

Recently named George Mason University head coach Paul Hewitt is head coach of the USA U19 World Championship Team, and Randy Bennett of St. Mary’s College and Cliff Warren of Jacksonville University are assistant coaches.

In addition to Boeheim, the 2009-12 USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Committee includes NCAA appointees Lorenzo Romar (head coach, University of Washington), Bruce Weber (head coach, University of Illinois) and Roy Williams (head coach, University of North Carolina); and athlete representative Jay Williams, a member of the 2002 USA World Championship Team.

FIBA U19 World Championship

Led by then University of Oklahoma head coach Jeff Capel, the 2010 USA U18 National Team secured the USA’s berth to the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship with a 5-0 and gold medal finish in its zone qualifier, the 2010 FIBA Americas U18 Championship, held June 26-30 in San Antonio, Texas.

Sixteen nations will battle for the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship for Men title June 30-July 10 in Latvia. The United States has been placed in Group D, along with China, Egypt and Serbia. The 12 remaining 19-and-under national teams were distributed as such: Group A includes Brazil, Poland, Russia and Tunisia; Group B consists of Argentina, Australia, Latvia and Taiwan; and Group C is comprised of Canada, Croatia, Lithuania and South Korea.

The U.S. squad’s preliminary round slate opens with a June 30 contest against Egypt, followed by Serbia on July 1, and the USA squad will conclude preliminary play July 2 versus China. The top three teams from each preliminary group will qualify for the preliminary second round, while the fourth place teams will qualify for the classification round to determine 13th to 16th places.

The twelve teams qualified for the second round, which will be played July 4-6, will be divided into groups E and F, with six teams in each group. The top three preliminary round teams from groups A and B will advance to Group E, and the top three from C and D will advance to Group F. Each team will play the three new teams in its new group, with the final scores of all games played in the preliminary round carrying over to determine the second round standings.

Teams finishing in first through fourth places in the two second round groups will qualify for the quarterfinals, with the opportunity to advance to the semifinals and finals. Teams finishing in fifth and sixth places in Groups E and F will play for ninth through 12th places. The quarterfinals will be held on July 8, semifinals are slated for July 9 and the gold and bronze medal games, as well as the 5th/6th place and 7th/8th place games will be contested on July 10.

Originally known as the FIBA Junior World Championship, the tournament was held every four years from 1979 – 2007. Starting in 2009 FIBA changed its calendar and now holds age-based world championships every other year. USA men's teams are 62-11 in the U19/Junior World Championships, and have won four gold and three silver medals, most recently earning the gold medal for the first time since 1991 with a 9-0 record in 2009.

USA U19 World Championship for Men Players of note include: Stacey Augmon (1987), Vin Baker (1991), Michael Beasley (2007), Dee Brown (2003), Vince Carter (1995), Nick Collison (1999), Seth Curry (2009), Stephen Curry (2007), Paul Davis (2003), Eric Floyd (1979), Jonny Flynn (2007), Ashton Gibbs (2009), Gordon Hayward (2009), Larry Johnson (1987), Stephon Marbury (1995), Gary Payton (1987), Sam Perkins (1979), Wesley Person (1991), Kevin Pittsnogle (2003), J.J. Redick (2003), Bobby Simmons (1999), Scott Skiles (1983), Tyshawn Taylor (2009), Howard Thompkins (2009), Deron Williams (2003) and James Worthy (1979).

[Raze Lupin]

So should we call this squad the B-Team jr?? It seems like USA U19 is at a definite disadvantage losing the bulk of its FIBA trained team members. I like the "B-Team jr" handle.

2011 USA Men's U19 World Championship Team Training Roster

NAME POS HGT WGT DOB YOG SCHOOOL HOMETOWN
Keith Appling G 6-1 180 02/13/92 2014 Michigan State Detroit, MI
Melsahn Basabe F/C 6-7 225 05/29/92 2014 Iowa Glen Cove, NY
Brad Beal G 6-4 195 06/28/93 2011 Chaminade College Prep/*Florida St. Louis, MO
James Bell G 6-5 225 01/07/92 2014 Villanova Orlando, FL
Anthony Brown G 6-6 200 10/10/92 2014 Stanford Huntington Beach, CA
Trevor Cooney G 6-3 180 08/01/92 2011 Sanford School/*Syracuse Wilmington, DE
Allen Crabbe G 6-6 205 04/04/92 2014 California Los Angeles, CA
Tim Hardaway, Jr. G 6-5 185 03/16/92 2014 Michigan Miami, FL
Joe Jackson G 6-0 175 02/08/92 2014 Memphis Memphis, TN
Jeremy Lamb G 6-5 185 05/30/92 2014 Connecticut Norcross, GA
Meyers Leonard C 7-0 240 02/27/92 2014 Illinois Robinson, IL
Doug McDermott F/C 6-7 210 01/03/92 2014 Creighton Ames, IA
Travis McKie F 6-7 205 10/23/92 2014 Wake Forest Richmond, VA
Tony Mitchell F/C 6-9 220 04/07/92 2014 North Texas Dallas, TX
Richard Solomon F/C 6-10 220 06/18/92 2014 California Los Angeles, CA
Josiah Turner G 6-3 175 07/05/92 2011 Quality Education Acd./*Arizona Sacramento, CA
Patric Young F/C 6-9 245 02/01/92 2014 Florida Jacksonville, FL




Head Coach: Paul Hewitt, George Mason University
Assistant Coach: Randy Bennett, St. Mary's College
Assistant Coach: Cliff Warren, Jacksonville University
Athletic Trainer: Tim Hansen, United States Military Academy Prep School (Fort Monmouth, N.J.)


*Signed a National Letter of Intent to attend and compete for the school indicated.

[straight forward]

Interesting tournament. Lithuania can expect fans coming to support, also Latvians could give some support. Now major question is Valanciunas, they expect to have him, but it is still under question. I wonder how physical this USA team is. We'll see.

[pohani komarac]

Itresting decision by Croatian basketball federation, at leas by daily paper edition of "Sportske Novosti". Don't know if it's credible, but I guess it is. They wrote wide roster of U-18 team and said some of thir players will join them after U-19 world championship (that's how they said). Šarić (SF 94. 207), Bundović (PF 94. 206), Brzoja (SG 94. 198), Ramljak (SF 93. 201), Buovac (SG/SF 93. 199), Junaković (PG 94. 185) and Mavra (SG/PG 94. 194) ....also there is info big cadet prospect Hezonja (SG/SF 95. 198) will also be there

I guess we are not going on result, but going more on developing (or better promotion ) of our most taleted players...tough all of them have expiriance playing senior A1 or A2 league...

well sure they can develope more playing with older players and 92. isn't very taleted with only few iteresting prospect (Katic and Barac only ones with euroleague potential), but also risking their injurys like it happend to Prostran and Babić playing 2 stright championship...and Prostran now sufring because that, missed almost full season

I gues from 92. Barać (206 PF), Katić (185 PG), Najev (C 205) should be safe to join them....and one of Kukoc or Repesa juniors

[Raze Lupin]

Lietuva to host pre WC tourney. Team USA practice begins in Colorado June 17- June 24th. The Lietuva tourney begins on June 24th. I dont see how team USA will prepared for this tourney. Article below:

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03/06/2011
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U18 European Championship symbolic five
PANEVEZYS (Global Games) - Lithuania is set to host the 2011 edition of the international youth tournament "Global Games”, where eight top teams hailing from four continents will come head to head, serving as the conclusion to the teams' preparations to the FIBA U19 World Championship for Men.

The Global Games will be held in Panevezys and Vilnius, Lithuania, from 24–28 June and includes U19 teams from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Latvia, USA and hosts Lithuania will take part, while Lithuania's U20 team completes the line-up.

Panevezys is the fifth largest city in Lithuania, located halfway between Vilnius and Riga – both of which will be hosting top international basketball, with EuroBasket 2011 and U19 World Championship games being played in the respective cities.

Lithuanian basketball legends, Olympic and World Champions Arvydas Sabonis and Šarunas Marčiulionis both studied at the Panevezys Sports School where they were taught by Raimundas Sargūnas.

Panevezys' Cido Arena plays host to EuroBasket group A, which includes the Lithuanian national team .

Global Games schedule

June 24, „Cido“ arena, Panevezys
16:45: U19 Australia - U19 Brazil;
19:10: U19 Lithuania - U19 Argentina.

25 June, „Cido“ arena
14:15: U19 Canada - U19 Latvia;
16:45: U19 Argentina - U19 Brazil;
19:10: U19 Lithuania - U19 Australia.

26 June, „Cido“ arena
16:45: U19 Canada - U19 Australia;
19:10: U19 USA - U20 Lithuania.

27 June, „Cido“ arena
16:45 p.m., U19 Canada - U19 Brazil;
19:10 p.m., U19 Argentina - U20 Lithuania.

28 June, „Siemens“ arena, Vilnius
19:10 p.m., U19 Lithuania - U19 USA

Tickets can be purchased at "Tiketa" box-office or online

[Sagenas]

This games will be broadcast by Lietuvos Rytas TV so you could watch it on-line. (probably only Lithuanian games)

[Raze Lupin]

Sagenas, on 06 June 2011 - 08:10 PM, said:

This games will be broadcast by Lietuvos Rytas TV so you could watch it on-line. (probably only Lithuanian games)

Is LR TV free? Do you have a website?