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Message: [QUOTE="UConnCat, post: 2232414, member: 15"] Well it's useful to me which is why I restated it. I agree that one or more younger guards should be on the 2018 team and I believe will be on the team. Part of the discussion here has looked back on why younger guards weren't on the 2016 Olympic team and these quotes tell us why that didn't happen. Of the group of available young guards not one emerged worthy of a spot on the Olympic team and the investment that selection represents. Both Geno and Dawn spoke of USA BB's approach to investing in and grooming young point guards to eventually lead the team. That is the logic and it seems pretty sound to me. The problem lies not with USA BB's logic but rather with the play of the available young guards. USA BB looked and didn't see the future. It's important to mention that the comments by Geno and Dawn were during the February 2016 training camp, the last camp before selection of the Olympic team. Neither Diggins nor Sims attended that camp. Both were in the US but said to be "rehabbing injuries." If one or both were healthy enough to play a few months later in Rio, they essentially took themselves out of the running by not attending camp to watch, listen and learn. The young guards who did attend were McBride, Loyd, Vandersloot and Danielle Robinson. USA BB didn't seen the future point guard in either Vandersloot or Robinson and that decision seems pretty sound to me. The next USA BB training camp will probably be late September so we'll get a look then at the pool of young guards who could make the World Cup team. [/QUOTE]

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