USA Men's Developmental National Team (U16,U17)

[CKR13]

I agree carlo. Gordon will need to work on his freethrows. Also, at times, his over aggression in attacking the rim or making a fancy pass can be refined and tuned to a better team game.

I look for Gordon to be in the mold of Blake Griffin or Shawn Marion.

[CKR13]

They should also add Keith Frazier. A 6-4 shooting guard that can really shoot and is the probably the best shooter in the class of 2013.

[CKR13]

USA Developmental National Team
Mini-Camp
Oct. 14-17
Colorado Springs, Colorado

[carlo]

USA Developmental National Team
Mini-Camp
Oct. 14-17
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Same players?

[CKR13]

Same players?

I have no idea as well. Normally USA Basketball would announce the roster. But alas nothing yet.

[Quylac]

Re:

Good to see Jaskin and Frk in the roster.

[carlo]

USAB has announced a 29 players roster for the mini camp that opens on Oct 15.

http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/u17/three_athletes_added__usa_ba_2011_10_14.html

Three new players have been added, PG 6-0 Joel Berry, SF 6-7 Dwayne Morgan and SF 6-5 Justise Winslow, all of 2014 class.

[NorCal]

USAB has announced a 29 players roster for the mini camp that opens on Oct 15.

http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/u17/three_athletes_added__usa_ba_2011_10_14.html

Three new players have been added, PG 6-0 Joel Berry, SF 6-7 Dwayne Morgan and SF 6-5 Justise Winslow, all of 2014 class.

Hey Carlo, do you know why a few of the other top rated guys in the 2013 class aren't on this team? Do they miss the birthday cutoff I'm guessing? In particular Julius Randle and Nerlens Noel.

[carlo]

Yes, I too guess they aren't age eligible, though I don't have their exact bios.
Other two 2013 class missing big names are A&A Harrison, while a highly ranked center, Kennedy Meeks, was in the very first Developmental Team of 2010, so his absence this year isn't due to his age.
Anyway, I'm sure that several age eligible 2013 top players are missing just because they weren't available or they were simply left out by USAB.
On the "new" additions, Justise Winslow is actually a come back, as he was already listed in the 2010 Developmental Team roster.

[carlo]

Don Showalter was named co-Developmental Coach of the Year, sharing the recognition with Jill Rankin Schneider, for the excellent results achieved by the U16 USA teams in the 2011 Fiba Americas qualifiers.

http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/u16/11_coy_dev.html

[CKR13]

A new batch of prospects are called up for both the men's and women's side.

http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/u16/12_mdnt_oct_mini_camp_invitees.html

[carlo]

Looks promising, based on the 2015 Top 25 ESPN ranking, out of 24 players (obviously excluding #1 Karl Towns) 18 have been called to the new developmental team.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/class/2015/view/super60/sort/rank/order/true

[carlo]

Some more coverage on the new Developmental team:

http://www.maxpreps.com/news/7Q-DIfxYv0uqaK1WRvCAcw/usa-basketball-welcoming-in-next-wave-of-talent.htm

[CKR13]

Here is my take for the U16 Team if it were up to me to select the players of the team's composition.

CKR13's Team

Perimeter

Derryck Thornton
Jayson Tatum
Malik Newman
Joshua Langford
Eric Davis
Bryant Crawford
Harry Giles
Josh Jackson
VJ King

Post:

Daniel Giddens
Ivan Rabb
Diamond Stone

In case of injuries incurred, I would tap either Malik Monk and Henry Ellenson.

[carlo]

Interesting, but not easy to choose on paper, it looks anyway that post or big players are several and at very high level. Jessie Govan and Stephen Zimmerman are other highly ranked bigs.


Edit: Just adding some easy ranking refs, by ESPN 2015 class and by Prospect Central 2015 and 2016 .