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Goorj shouldn't even be coaching anymore. Got the Adam Simpson treatment after winning bronze at the last Olympics.
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Why is Australia unable to produce a shot creator?? All our guys seem the same, great D, good team guys, some can hit an outside shot but we don’t seem to produce shot creating scorers…
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I agree. Watching the Opals they look way more organised on offence then the Boomers and the Opals dont even have their Olympics coach with them currently.Goorj shouldn't even be coaching anymore. Got the Adam Simpson treatment after winning bronze at the last Olympics.
Behind Giddey and Landale, Matisse Thybulle would have been my next choice as a lock. This team is not good enough to out score the teams we will be playing at the Olympics just to get out of our group. Our only chance was to defend hard. He is the best defender in the squad by a country mile.I knew Delly be on the plane. But I didn’t think it would be at the expense of Thybulle. What a joke
I think it's more the type of players we've produced. Simmons*, Exum, Giddey, Daniels are all big and/or athletic guards who would've had no reason to work on a functional jump shot playing against fellow Victorian juniors. Then what do you know, once they make it to the NBA, they get exposed and don't reach the level we hoped.I do think there’s an element of that, but that doesn’t explain why we get players into elite pathways and coaching as teens, as every single one of our boomers / fringe boomers / nba players were, and still don’t develop scorers.
I can create space , cross over and step back and create off the dribble and I’ve never had any coaching (just lack size and athleticism).
It’s unfathomable to me that players in elite systems can’t.
What are they just running laps 50hrs a week and touching a basketball on the way out the gym?
I do have a suspicion from the outside that we done our identity as a “team” culture and our coaches buy into that so much they ignore skill development.
I can’t see any other reason our players could have access to years of professional coaching before they even get to college and can’t learn to execute scoring skills.
Tbf, Delly was coming off a serious neck and concussion injuries. Agreed he was poor and probably shouldn’t have been there as he wasn’t fit but that’s not the case now.
On another topic, it’s crazy that the Opals have their prep without their head coach, that’s fair from ideal.
If Thybulle was on the fringe, my main question is this - Why tf didn’t he play on Thursday?
Genuinely none of it makes sense. Reports he put together a “relatively impressive camp”, looked pretty good Tuesday, then sat out Thursday in what everyone assumed was a rest… To get cut.Think we’re still gonna be debating this well after Paris.
See the bombers fly upThybulle getting cut was just the start of a shit day. It just makes zero sense.
Also far from ideal is that there are 7 players still active in the WNBA atm, most/all of whom will be in Paris.
But they've been forced to run things this way for a few years now so they're used to it. The assistant coaches know the drill.
Mentally preparing myself for the traditional roll out of all the same old names again when the Opals 12 is announced shortly.
And re. Delly, yeah I think he's clearly a better player today than he was then, so I'm not outraged that he's in the team.
The day got better.Thybulle getting cut was just the start of a shit day. It just makes zero sense.
Yeah exactly. It's time for a new coach and new ideas. Goorjan has hs favourites and that shouldnt be part of his job description.If Thybulle was on the fringe, my main question is this - Why tf didn’t he play on Thursday?
Yeah exactly. It's time for a new coach and new ideas. Goorjan has hs favourites and that shouldnt be part of his job description.
Andrew Bogut formerly of the Bucks and Warriors and Lakers and Cavalier has made his thoughts clear. He has Cooks in the team, but wished to make it very clear that its not about sydney kings bias.
Opals Team:
- Jade Melbourne
- Sami Whitcomb
- Kristy Wallace
- Isobel Borlase
- Tess Madgen
- Steph Talbot
- Bec Allen
- Alanna Smith
- Cayla George
- Ezi Magbegor
- Lauren Jackson
- Marianna Tolo
Gangurrus 3x3 Team:
- Anneli Maley
- Alex Wilson
- Lauren Mansfield
- Marena Whittle
Opals clinging on for dear life to the past, but thankfully Melbourne & Borlase have made themselves impossible to omit.
Major overhaul coming after Paris.
We still have enough quality here to do some damage though.
Looking likely we’ll have to deal with Giannis instead.No Doncic at the olympics. By the look of it, he can go back to spending the rest of the off-season with Zion. campaigner looked like he’d put on 5kg since the end of the season