Official Team Canada Basketball Thread

[MikelArteta]

Don't think we have one

@thatrapsfan dropping that info

Nick Nurse to coach Team Canada this summer at World Championships - TSN.ca

nursing to a olympics brehs

 

[thatrapsfan]

Huge upgrade for us breh. I think this will guarantee we get more commits than usual. Jamal already said he’s playing but maybe everyone else will opt in now. I know Wiggins didn’t like Triano. Rowan Barrett is GM so we know RJ will be in the mix eventually.

Plus we will add 4-5 more pros this draft. Brandon Clarke wants to get his citizenship soon.

Good times for Canadian basketball

 

[MikelArteta]

Brandon Clarke

breh he was born in vancouver he has it already, i'm pretty sure

yup just googled he was born in vancouver

 

[Box Factory]

We have a really tough draw. Ended up in the group of death With Australia, Lithuania and Senegal


Hopefully Murray, Barrett and Wiggins are there

If they show up the roster ahould look something like

Bigs - Tristan, Olynyk, Powell, Birch and Ejim

Perimeter guys - Cory, Murray, Wiggins, Brooks, Stauskas, Shai and RJ


If any of them don't show up you're probably looking at Pangos and the Scrubb brothers taking their spots

 

[thatrapsfan]

breh he was born in vancouver he has it already, i'm pretty sure

yup just googled he was born in vancouver

NBA Draft 2019: The world may not have known it, but Brandon Clarke has always been a proud Canadian | NBA.com

Your right. He says here he wants to play for the NT in the Olympics and it’s a work in progress.

 

[MikelArteta]

Huge upgrade for us breh. I think this will guarantee we get more commits than usual. Jamal already said he’s playing but maybe everyone else will opt in now. I know Wiggins didn’t like Triano. Rowan Barrett is GM so we know RJ will be in the mix eventually.

Plus we will add 4-5 more pros this draft. Brandon Clarke wants to get his citizenship soon.

Good times for Canadian basketball

Olynyk
Thompson
wiggins
barrett
murray

birch, boucher, brooks, joseph, powell, lyles, gilgeous-alexander, clarke

 

[MikelArteta]

We have a really tough draw. Ended up in the group of death With Australia, Lithuania and Senegal


Hopefully Murray, Barrett and Wiggins are there

If they show up the roster ahould look something like

Bigs - Tristan, Olynyk, Powell, Birch and Ejim

Perimeter guys - Cory, Murray, Wiggins, Brooks, Stauskas, Shai and RJ


If any of them don't show up you're probably looking at Pangos and the Scrubb brothers taking their spots

We better than those bums
aussis goign to roll out a bogut/baynes/ingles/mills/ simmons we better that that

the roster should be all nba players dont want to see a ejim, pangos, scrubb, wiltjer etc.

 

[thatrapsfan]

We have a really tough draw. Ended up in the group of death With Australia, Lithuania and Senegal


Hopefully Murray, Barrett and Wiggins are there

If they show up the roster ahould look something like

Bigs - Tristan, Olynyk, Powell, Birch and Ejim

Perimeter guys - Cory, Murray, Wiggins, Brooks, Stauskas, Shai and RJ


If any of them don't show up you're probably looking at Pangos and the Scrubb brothers taking their spots

Ejim has been great for the NT, definitely deserves a big role. I completely forgot about Shai. Hope he shows up.

I’d be surprised if RJ plays. Teams seem to rather have their rookies play in Summer League lately. Then again his dad is GM so maybe it’ll be an exception.



We may have up to 5 guys picked in the first round this year. Lot of on the cusp guys appear to be killing their workouts. The competition for the Olympics will be tight.

 

[thatrapsfan]

Didn’t even know about this guy but he’s shooting up draft boards:

Mfiondu Kabengele | NBADraft.net

 

[MikelArteta]

Ejim has been great for the NT, definitely deserves a big role. I completely forgot about Shai. Hope he shows up.

I’d be surprised if RJ plays. Teams seem to rather have their rookies play in Summer League lately. Then again his dad is GM so maybe it’ll be an exception.



We may have up to 5 guys picked in the first round this year. Lot of on the cusp guys appear to be killing their workouts. The competition for the Olympics will be tight.

summer league ends july 15

world championships start august 29th

Barrett should be signed and ready to go by then

 

[Box Factory]

We better than those bums
aussis goign to roll out a bogut/baynes/ingles/mills/ simmons we better that that

the roster should be all nba players dont want to see a ejim, pangos, scrubb, wiltjer etc.

Yeah hopefully they dont have to go to those guys but it's always hard to predict who's gonna show up.

Newly drafted rookies rarely get clearance to play in intl tourneys, and if anybody is a free agent or just signed with a new team that usually prevents them from playing.

Lyles hasn't shown any interest in playing for Canada in a long time. Would be dope if he came through though


On paper we're the deepest team outside of the US in the world

 

[thatrapsfan]

Glenn Grunwald at the helm probably helped with the Nurse hire ( if confirmed). Program was always run like a nepotistic junior team and it’s slowly changing.

 

[MikelArteta]

Glenn Grunwald at the helm probably helped with the Nurse hire ( if confirmed). Program was always run like a nepotistic junior team and it’s slowly changing.

thank goodness, wonder where they getting all this money from though

 

[Flex Grossman]

Did Murray commit? He kinda just said he might play in the exit interview after the playoffs.

I wanna see Murray and Jokic leading international teams. Makes the offseason not feel so long.

 

[thatrapsfan]

thank goodness, wonder where they getting all this money from though

They’re probably banking on a deep run to get major sponsor commitment. It’s very possible. Raps run will have casuals interested and they won’t be competing with anyone in August.