Great Britain - Seven stars in GB basketball side
Seven of the players who helped GB win Paralympic wheelchair basketball bronze are in the squad for next month's BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester. But coach Murray Treseder has also chosen to blood several new players. GB face a re-match with the USA, who they beat to a medal in China, as well as Paralympic champions Australia and Germany, who were fifth. "The tournament has been good for us in the past and hopefully we can have more success," said squad member Jon Hall.
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Seven of the players who helped GB win Paralympic wheelchair basketball bronze are in the squad for next month's BT Paralympic World Cup in Manchester.
But coach Murray Treseder has also chosen to blood several new players.
GB face a re-match with the USA, who they beat to a medal in China, as well as Paralympic champions Australia and Germany, who were fifth.
"The tournament has been good for us in the past and hopefully we can have more success," said squad member Jon Hall.
"We've won it before and been second and third over the last two years.
"And with a young squad this time it will give players exposure to the big-game atmosphere of international basketball."
Dan Highcock, Ghaz Choudhry and Ian Sagar, who were non-travelling reserves for Beijing, come into the squad.
Playing against China in front of a sell-out crowd on my Paralympic debut was an amazing experience
Jon Hall
Lee Fawcett returns after representing GB in wheelchair fencing in Beijing while Matt Sealy is another newcomer.
Coach Treseder is without Andy Blake, who retired after Beijing, and Matt Byrne, who is recovering from a shoulder injury.
Meanwhile Jon Pollock and Terry Bywater were ineligible because their Spanish clubs refused to release them for international training.
"With four of the top five finishers from the Beijing Paralympics competing, the matches will be most competitive," said Treseder.
"During 2009, which is a critical development year, we plan to give international experience to 20 players and the Paralympic World Cup is a key event."
Having been involved in Beijing, Hall, 27, is keen to cement his place in the GB squad as they build up to the European Championships in Turkey later this year as well as the 2010 World Championships in Birmingham and London 2012.
"Beijing was without doubt the best thing I have done in my life," he told BBC Sport.
"Playing against China in front of a sell-out crowd on my Paralympic debut was an amazing experience.
"It will be good to try ourselves out against the other teams competing in Manchester.
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"I think Australia and America will also be trying out new combinations but whatever teams they put out, we will try to play to the best of our ability.
"My first Paralympic World Cup gave me great international exposure but there are some players this year for whom it will be their first major international tournament and it will be important for them.
"Manchester is a great tournament and the competition is always first class so hopefully we can do well."
GB squad: Joe Bestwick (Wolverhampton Rhinos), Dan Highcock (Vikings), Simon Munn (Milton Keynes Aces), Ghaz Choudry (MK Aces), Ian Sagar (Oldham Owls), Jon Hall (Rhinos), Ade Orogbemi (Rhinos), Matt Sealy (MK Aces), Peter Finbow (Oldham Owls), Simon Brown (MK Aces), Lee Fawcett (Newcastle Eagles), Abdi Jama (Rhinos)