Basketball: Andrew Bogut gives his thoughts on the surprise omission of Matisse Thybulle and the inclusion of Matthew Dellavedova in the Boomers Olympic team.
This round of cuts was always going to be tricky but few people were expectingas Brian Goorjian finalised his 12-man Boomers squad for the upcoming Paris Olympics.
But Thybulle had improved as a 3-point shooter in his past season at Portland and given the Boomers seemingly want to play a fast-paced, up-tempo offence at Paris, you would think getting stops on the defensive end will be important to realising that goal. “I think his shooting and the ups and downs of his shooting was a concern and how I think in the last campaign I wouldn’t say he disappeared but he struggled with that when his shot wasn’t falling.”HOW ABOUT XAVIER COOKS?
It definitely would have been a particularly tough call for Goorjian to leave him out given how much the Boomers coach praised Cooks at last year’s FIBA World Cup while he is also going to be Cooks’ coach at the Kings next year. McVeigh’s versatility likely won him the role in the end, although you could make an argument Australia needs all the shooting it can get and so there could have been space for both players.
You only have to look at what Dellavedova did in the lead-up to the World Cup last year when he found out he wasn’t even part of Goorjian’s 17-man squad. “But it was probably a tough thing for . He’s been an integral part of the national team.”Source: Getty Images Bogut, meanwhile, revealed that from what he saw and heard at Boomers camp, Dellavedova left Goorjian with no choice but to recall him.“People will look at that and say how did Delly make it? How did he get back in? His squad didn’t lose a practice,” Bogut said.
Dellavedova will likely not see many minutes in Paris and, as Bogut alluded to, could even be a DNP for a few games but the great thing about the veteran guard is the fact he will always be ready if his name is called.First, they defended the island and won their first NBL championship. McVeigh, who put on a shooting clinic in the first warm-up game against China, sacrificed honeymoon plans in Bali in the hope of instead booking a ticket to Paris.McVeigh will be a key spark plug off the bench while Magnay likely won’t see many minutes.
Ingles sent Goorjian a reminder of his value as a playmaker running the second unit in Thursday’s warm-up game against China and should be valuable in that connective role off the bench at Paris. “I think where Joe was really good and has been really good for the Boomers and throughout his career is he’s a slow down pace where he can create out of the pick-and-roll and he comes out of it really slowly, he can find whoever he needs to find... is he going to have 15 to 20 minutes? I’m not sure.
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