Canada found out Saturday who they'll be competing against at the FIBA World Cup, but those answers just scratch the surface of the challenges facing new GM Rowan Barrett. (michaelgrange)
In China the first goal is to advance to the round of 16 as all the teams that make it that far are assured of a spot in one of four winner-take-all Olympic qualifying tournaments in the summer of 2020.
To do that Canada would need to finish with the second-best record among the teams from the Americas, keeping in mind that Team USA – undefeated at the World Cup and the Olympics since 2006 — is the prohibitive favourite to win their seventh straight global gold. But there are a lot of questions that need to be resolved before then. Some of them are logistical – what shape will Canada’s training camp take, what kind of exhibition schedule they’ll play and and where will the money come from to pay for the most expensive undertaking the program has ever envisioned?Some of the issues are even more pressing, the biggest in the short-term being hiring someone to coach what should be the most talented men’s team the country has ever assembled.
Among the candidates are coaches with long ties to the program and others from outside the Canadian basketball orbit.
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