2016 4th FIBA U17 World Championship

[Kings]

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Group A

23/06 USA 119 TPE 45
23/06 TUR 71 EGY 61
24/06 EGY 88 TPE 71
24/06 USA 84 TUR 66
26/06 USA 104 EGY 57
26/06 TUR 76 TPE 56

Group B

23/06 ESP 86 MLI 55
23/06 LTU 74 ARG 57
24/06 MLI 56 ARG 47
24/06 ESP 65 LTU 61
26/06 ESP 59 ARG 49
26/06 LTU 96 MLI 73

Group C

23/06 FIN 65 CHN 58
23/06 CAN 81 CAN 78
25/06 CHN 90 AUS 72
25/06 CAN 92 FIN 68
26/06 AUS 77 FIN 62
26/06 CAN 105 CHN 54

Group D

23/06 KOR 90 FRA 84
23/06 BIH 84 DOM 59
25/06 KOR 77 DOM 71
25/06 FRA 84 BIH 65
26/06 BIH 105 KOR 85
26/06 FRA 78 DOM 48

1/8 Final

28/06 LTU 80 EGY 65
28/06 FRA 60 FIN 38
28/06 CAN 79 DOM 52
28/06 TUR vs. MLI
28/06 AUS 75 BIH 72
28/06 ESP 112 ESP 60
28/06 USA 109 ARG 56
28/06 KOR 75 CHN 70

9th to 16th Place

29/06 FIN 84 EGY 73
29/06 DOM 74 MLI 70
29/06 BIH 105 TPE 75
29/06 CHN 80 ARG 74

13th to 16th Place

30/06 TPE 77 MLI 61
30/06 ARG 76 EGY 73
02/07 MLI 61 EGY 38
02/07 ARG 67 TPE 64

9th to 12th Place

30/06 BIH 96 DOM 73
30/06 CHN 77 FIN 57
02/07 DOM 65 FIN 56
02/07 BIH 88 CHN 84

1/4 Final

30/06 TUR 80 CAN 74
30/06 LTU 73 FRA 72
30/06 ESP 74 AUS 63
30/06 USA 133 KOR 81

5th to 8th Place

01/07 CAN 96 AUS 58
01/07 FRA 119 KOR 61
03/07 AUS 83 KOR 76
03/07 CAN 99 FRA 68

1/2 Final

01/07 TUR 83 ESP 79
01/07 USA 98 LTU 70

3rd to 4th Place

03/07 LTU 81 ESP 63

Final

03/07 USA 96 TUR 56

[BiHBasket]

So Spain will probably have a chance for a revenge at home after we eliminated them in the semifinal thriller with two overtimes in the FIBA U - 16 European Championship. Now that would be one intense game

[JGX]

Asian participants have not been determined yet.

[judasmartel]

Asian participants have not been determined yet.

South Korea and Chinese Taipei are the first two Asian teams to qualify for this edition of the FIBA U17 World Championship.

The final slot will be decided between China and Japan.

[carlo]

With the victory of China vs Japan, the participants field is now complete.

[carlo]

Event is scheduled 22 June-3 July, venues will be decided by the end of the year (four candidates are: Costa del Sol, Galicia, Madrid and Zaragoza).

http://www.fiba.com/news/undefeated-three-time-champs-usa-lead-set-field-for-2016-fiba-u17-world-championship

[carlo]

Don Showalter will again coach US U17 team. This is the eighth straight year he will lead a cadet NT, with a cumulative record of 43-0.

http://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2015/12/2016-mu17-coaches.aspx

[mojo13]

Don Showalter will again coach US U17 team. This is the eighth straight year he will lead a cadet NT, with a cumulative record of 43-0.

http://www.usab.com/news-events/news...7-coaches.aspx

Anyone ever come close to beating the US Cadet team during that 43-0 run?
The only thing I can think of Canada leading in the 4th quarter at this years U16 FIBA Americas only to collapse under the US depth and pressure. Australia kept it within single digits in the 2014 Championship game - but I dont think Oz was ever really threatening to win.

[Mika Hakinen]

If Bosnia will play with all their stars and good chemistry, they may beat USA! Something like 40%-60%.

[BiHBasket]

If Bosnia will play with all their stars and good chemistry, they may beat USA! Something like 40%-60%.

Well, final game vs USA is far from a sure scenario. There are few teams perfectly capable of eliminating us. Our players should not really bother thinking about potentially clash vs USA, they are just one of the teams in the tournament, and they aren't only tough opponent there.

But I belive in this team, they will do fine. As for chemisitry, well there is a much more chemistry in the starting five of this team than in our senior national team. Those players are really complementary to each others. I'm happy to see that most of them are doing fine in their clubs. At the time they won a U - 16 European Championship, none of them played first team basketball, just for youth teams. Since then, all of them debuted for the first team. It's a great experience for them.

So, in today column "Where are they now?", I'll write about coach and starting five of our golden team from the U - 16 EC 2015(of course, maybe it will not be our starting five in the Spain next year, even the same coach isn't sure thing):


PG - Sani Čampara

His role: Čampara is the best shooter in this team. He really needs only a millimeter of free area to make a three point shoot. He is a scoring - first PG, but from time to time can make really nice assists.

What he is doing now? Čampara is playing for the first team of SPARS in Bosnian league. It's one of the best teams in the league so he isn't playing a lot, but he had some flashes.


SG - Džanan Musa

His role: Leader of this generation. Best scorer, but at the same time best creator for other players.


What he is doing now? Džanan plays for the first team of Cedevita. In the Adriatic league he is already getting huge minutes, and he also debuted in Euroleague.


SF - Emir Čerkezović


His role: The coach's favorite. Always on the right place to grab a offensive board or score. Makes smart fouls. Plays with great effort. Doesn't take a lot of shoots. Player that know his place in the team.

What he is doing now? He is actually playing importanr role for his club Sloboda Tuzla in the Bosnian league. It isn't a great team now, so there is a plenty playing time for him and opportunities to make plays like this.

PF - Lazar Mutić

His role: Mutić doesn't really contribute in the offense. It's hard for him to make even a free throw. But, he is a athletic power forward with strong body, best defender and rebounder in team. Someone have to do a dirty job.

What he is doing now? Mutić is a player of spanish third division team Torrelodones. He is rarely in the first team roster and played only a couple of minutes so far, but I don't have doubts about will he do his work in the national team.

C - Njegoš Sikiraš

His role: Force in the paint. Can shoot for three. Without him, this is a solid team. But with him, it's a great one.

What he is doing now? Njego is injured so he didn't played much so far in the season for his Stellazzurra Academy. I hope that we will see him healthy and 100% prepared for U - 17 World Championship, because in that case he is easily 20 + 10 player on that level.




Coach Josip Pandža: Young coach(28 years old) had a great year. After he won a U - 16 EC, now his club Kakanj is doing great in Bosnian league, they are the biggest suprise so far. And he was also awarded as "Bosnian coach of the year".

In the other hand, he said in interview that till now nobody offered him a job of U - 17 national team coach for the World Championship. He also criticized basketball Association for inactivity. Pandža claims that he already made a plan of many gatherings of potential candidates for this team(except starting five, nobody from U - 16 2015 team doesn't really have a secured place in 2016 U17 team), but even if he stay as a coach of this generation, he doesn't see that Association is willing to provide funds for so many testing of candidates and long and quality preperation, as he had in mind.

[JABroy]

There are updates about these players, that may be interesting "power forward/pivot" for U17 Bosnian Team?
(I was not able to quote another discussion, but thank you to SERBIANHOOPS user for this interesting information)

"
Verdran Mirkovic and Timur Ocvina (both 6'7") are typical example of precocious puberty, (early developed, quite strong but undersized post players). Their growth spurts are likely over.
6'10 C Galib Palo is a joke of a player while his 6'9" teammate versatile PF Erwin Gutic ('00) is a far better prospect. Both are said to be still growing.
6'11" C Semin Burko has size and could develop into a decent big man.
6'10 Anes Softic ('99) who will play next for croatian side Sibenik (Darrusafaka's farm team) is the mystery man and could be the next sensation produced by Ozren Seleskovic who is known to be Mirza Begic, Alen Omic and Jusuf Nurkic's personal skills development trainer.
"


They are having good seasons? where they play?

[tallwestman]

There are updates about these players, that may be interesting "power forward/pivot" for U17 Bosnian Team?
(I was not able to quote another discussion, but thank you to SERBIANHOOPS user for this interesting information)

"
Verdran Mirkovic and Timur Ocvina (both 6'7") are typical example of precocious puberty, (early developed, quite strong but undersized post players). Their growth spurts are likely over.
6'10 C Galib Palo is a joke of a player while his 6'9" teammate versatile PF Erwin Gutic ('00) is a far better prospect. Both are said to be still growing.
6'11" C Semin Burko has size and could develop into a decent big man.
6'10 Anes Softic ('99) who will play next for croatian side Sibenik (Darrusafaka's farm team) is the mystery man and could be the next sensation produced by Ozren Seleskovic who is known to be Mirza Begic, Alen Omic and Jusuf Nurkic's personal skills development trainer.
"


They are having good seasons? where they play?

It seems like there are at lest 3 players are 6'10+. And Verdran Mirkovic and Timur Ocvina were 201 cm last year when they attended U 16. Have they grown taller these days?

[serbianhoops]

Being an U17 World Championship finalist twice in a row should make Australia a legite contender to reach again the title game or at least the podium.

PG - Lachlan Dent ('00) - 6'0 hardnose defender (very good on-ball defence) with nice court vision and distribution. A smaller poorman's version of Dellavedova
SG - Dragan Elkaz ('99) - 6'5" long range bomber with a killer instinct worthy of his fellow Serb and newly Miami Hurricanes' commit Dejan Vasiljevic.
SF - Tom Fullarton ('99) - 6'6 all-around swingman with elite athleticism. The team's go-to-guy and main facilitor.
PF - Sam Froling ('00) - 6'9" big-time lefty prospect born into a basketball dinasty (his parents are NBL and WNBL veterans, while brother and sisters played respectively for Australia at the last 2014 U17 WC and at the 2013 U19 WC for women) who will likely end up being 7 feet tall.
C - Mate Čolina ('99) - 6'10" late bloomer of Croatian ancestry with pretty good fundamentals, former two-sport athlete (australian football and basketball, like Fullarton btw) who decided to fully focus on basketball since he made the Australian U16 squad last summer.

With 6'2" scoring combo guard Patrick Bines* ('99)*, 6'6" combo forward Matthew Johns ('99) **, 6'5" California-native point forward Jordan Starr ('99) and 6'8" center Benjamin Fakira ('99) set as the main bench options.

* First back up option outside.
** As face up four when Australia has to play small ball.

[serbianhoops]

Karma strikes again!

6'9" PF Njegoš Sikiraš ('99) will likely watch the 2016 U17 World Championship on TV.

[JABroy]

Karma strikes again!

6'9" PF Njegoš Sikiraš ('99) will likely watch the 2016 U17 World Championship on TV.

I'm not update, are You saying that Sikiras was injured seriously (Last Sunday he played six minutes, he was injured in the game???) ?
I'm so sorry in this case, I cheering Bosnia (at youth level!!!) and I hope that "San Musa" will do more miracles, there will really need in this World Cup ...