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by rbala on Jul 28, 2010 8:00 PM EDT
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Today we have the Senior Women taking it right at Sweden, lots of news on the FIBA side of the World Championships, Marc Trasolini, lots of high school events and more in this edition of Canadian Content ...
First we want to congratulate the Senior Women on handily disposing of Sweden last night in BC ...
Canada Basketball | SENIOR WOMEN DOMINATE SWEDEN IN EXHIBITION WIN
BCLocalNews.com - Sweden to hoop it up here Thursday
And you can catch the game in archives, including the two against Chile right here ... Canada Basketball
Here are some stories about teams that Canada will be facing in pool play at the Worlds Championships ... FIBA.com - Latest basketball news ... FIBA.com - Latest basketball news ... FIBA.com - Latest basketball news
And now for something on USA Basketball, which will have to go with a team more than superstar look this summer ... SLAM ONLINE | " Team USA Cuts: OJ Mayo, Gerald Wallace, Tyreke Evans? ... American Chronicle | USA Basketball embraces 'blue collar' image without star power
And remember that if you are in the Toronto area you can catch both Joel Anthony and Andy Rautins at Real Sports at the ACC tomorrow for a meet and greet to show your support for Canada Basketball. Get the details right here ...
On the Development Team front, we have a look on our feature boy Marc Trasolini ... Santa Clara University Athletics
Now for some great high school news ...
Remember that the Canadian Basketball Championships are happening next week at the University of Manitoba and you can get all the info here ...
And don't forget that the Flight Games are going on tomorrow at Ryerson University beginning at 6pm ... Hoopstars Canada
And the PHASE 1 All Canada Prospect Camp will be going on Friday and Saturday with the All Star Games beginning at 1:30pm ... Hoopstars Canada
Here's a great look at Junior Lomomba ... 'Time to play' for Lomomba
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Lomomba
The most exciting part of the Lomomba story, for a Canadian bball fan, was this quote:
“When I left Montreal to go to the U.S., my main goal was to go to college and make the NBA,” he said. “I wasn’t really thinking about the national team, but after the summer I just had, playing for your country with ‘Canada’ across your chest is an unbelievable feeling. It would be an honour to play in the Olympics one day.”
Canada’s junior national teams are definitely benefitting from the kids who go to the states and play prep ball. The great thing is that all these guys seem to be enthusiastic about playing for their country. Now if Leo and the old boys club can just avoid any more Kris Joseph situations, we should have a pretty good national team in a few years.
Regarding Lomomba, he sounds like a good kid and judging by the schools that have shown interest in him has a promising future.
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That is very good news. These guys that are heading down to play ball in the States are definitely benefitting from the competition.
This new pride in playing for Canada is apparently filtering down the line to the younger players and we should have more players publicly saying the same thing as Junior.
Ray Bala
CANadian BasketBALL Report
on www.raptorhq.com
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