Assessing the Tall Black result vs China in relation to Gilas

I’m not really too worried with the Tall Blacks result vs China and using it as a comparison to the TB game vs Gilas.  If I learned anything the last thing I would do is do “Bahrami” – “if team A beats team b and Team B beat C  therefore how can team C beat A”, basketball doesn’t work that way.

But the thing to note if you watched the games (Tall Blacks vs Gilas and China) is asses how the teams competed when they had their best players on the court.  The Tall Blacks start and finish (if the game is close) with- Kenny, Webster, Te-Rangi, Vukona and Franks,  BJ Anthony and Bartlet and maybe Salt are the only other worthy players of significance if you want to assess competitiveness,  If you noticed when the Tall Blacks started with this line-up vs Gilas, we outplayed them at least in the (1^st qtr) start, the end game (4^th was a draw), when they used the same line-up vs China last night ,  the Tall Blacks out played China. (let me just qualify this, I really don’t know if China played with their full team as well) . Guys don’t make much of the blowout stretch run China had (17-1 etc) or when Gilas played significantly better in 2 to 5 minutes stretches (The Tall Blacks were basically playing with High school boys during those stretches-  Izayah, Jordan , Salt , wala yun )..  those guys won’t get game time when we play Australia,  their really there simply for future long term development.  For Australia 14 and 16 August, Pledger and Abercombrie are coming in,  and next year (World cup) expect- Adams (Tall Blacks will pay his NBA insurance) , Penny, Fortu, Tait and Tai Webster. (A totally different team ),  basically the Tall Black team you have now is the B- team , or the 2^nd unit with cadet players.