Fiba 3x3 Youth World Championship (Rimini, Sep 9-11)

[JGX]

FIBA is really obsessed with this 3-on-3 thing. They've changed the rules so that 21 points are required to win instead of 33, so it's no longer known as "FIBA 33".

Boys' participating teams: Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Guam, India, Italy, Jordan, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Nepal, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, South Africa, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, USA and Venezuela.

Girls' participating teams: Angola, Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Germany, Greece, Guam, India, Italy, Japan, Netherland, Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, USA and Venezuela.

http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/FIBA/fibaProg/3on3/p/newsid/48508/arti.html

[CKR13]

FIBA Streetball. I'll ask around which players are being sighted for USA.

[sinobball]

Is there a qualifier or quota of some sort? 36, 24, numbers too perfect to happen by chance.

This is a good thing because youngsters from certain countries don't otherwise get a chance to compete with the best in the world. e.g. Guam, Nepal.

[JGX]

I don't think there were any qualifiers. Originally it was going to be limited to 24 boys teams and 16 girls teams but apparently there was enough demand that they expanded the tournament.

[kaiziken_pinas]

We're not participating? NO WAY!

we placed 9th in the Youth Olympics and yet... >_<

[carlo]

USA girls team named.

4 members of the U16 Fiba America golden team have been selected:

Rebecca Greenwell, co-MVP at the U16 tourney
Kaela Davis, 2013 class #1 overall (ESPN)
Linnae Harper, #3 guard
Taya Reimer, #1 forward

See:

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/basketball/womens/story/_/id/6862724/recapping-week-recruiting-world

2nd headline.

No announcement on USAB page so far.

[sinobball]

USA girls team named.

China will be the same 4 girls who won gold last year. With the exception of Jin Jiabao, all the other 3 played in U19 this year. If any is injured, the replacement will come from the U19 team as well.

[carlo]

Then China girls should be a strong contender, as they played already 3on3 together and are all 17-18y.

[carlo]

Australia has announced its women roster:

http://www.basketball.net.au/index.php?id=302&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=2161&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=cd65b91b3b

Both Tessa Lavey (G, 5-7) and Olivia Thompson (G/F, 6-1) are from 1993 and played with 2010 Australian U17 team at the World championship, averaging ca. 2 and 4ppg respectively.
They are joined by two 1994 less known athletes, G 5-11 Casey Samuels and F/C 6-1 Darcee Garbin, who represented Australia at the 2010 Oceania Youth Tournament (gold).

[seigle42]

why sbp the philippines did not join? weeewwww!

[JGX]

Canadian teams:

http://www.basketball.ca/en/hm/inside.php?sid=1&id=5365

Men: Dyshawn Pierre, Patrick Steeves, Jordan Whyte, Marko Pirovic.

Pierre was a standout at the U19 WC and Steeves played for their U16 team.

Women: Paige Crozon, Isidora Purkovic, Dakota Whyte, Taijah Campbell.

Crozon and Purkovic played at the U19 WC, Whyte played at the Youth Olympics in Singapore last year.

[JGX]

USA Men's roster. Like the women it is a U16 team:

http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/3x3/roster.html

Price-Martin made the U16 NT but missed the FIBA-Americas tournament with an injury. The other three were at the U16 tryouts but not selected.

Nepali team, also mentions the format for the tournament:

http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Hoopsters+picked+for+Youth+World+C%27ship&NewsID=299012

[carlo]

From the "U16" USA boys Shaqquan Aaron is just 2014 class and Malik Price-Martin looks the highest in ranking (2013 PF #4 by Rivals).

Dyshawn Pierre presence in the Canadian team should add international experience and is expected to be one of the most interesting athletes performing in the boys tourney.

[CKR13]

USA Men's 3X3 Team is quite tall. I am eager to see Shaqquan Aaron's performance.

[tmlouk]

why sbp the philippines did not join? weeewwww!

because the would withdrawn their team again after losing some games like in the universiade.