New era Boomers can win medals: Ingles

Australian basketball great Joe Ingles believes the new-look Boomers are capable of anything as they set their sights on Olympic medals in Los Angeles and Brisbane.

Ingles, a veteran of five Olympics and four World Cups, is yet to completely shut the door on his own Boomers career.

But after returning to the NBL with Melbourne United following 12 seasons in the NBA, the 38-year-old is realistic about his prospects of featuring in LA in two years time.

Regardless of whether he gets there, Ingles is adamant a group now led by NBA stars Josh Giddey and Dyson Daniels, alongside Jock Landale, Matisse Thybulle and Josh Green, can do damage on the global stage.

The Boomers are set to head to next year's FIBA World Cup and the LA Olympics under new head coach Adam Caporn - a Washington Wizards assistant and former NBL guard - who has taken the reins from coaching legend Brian Goorjian.

"Talent-wise they're up there with everybody," Ingles told AAP.

"You've got a bunch of NBA players and not just any NBA players - starters and $US100 million guys. These guys are pretty impactful in the best league in the world.

"With a mix of the young guys, and Jock's kind of taken the reins as the old guy now, and you throw Bryce (Cotton) in there ... they've got a hell of a squad."

American-born NBL legend Cotton has finally ended his drawn-out Australian citizenship saga and will debut for the Boomers at the World Cup qualifiers in July, adding another scoring threat for Caporn to utilise.

Ingles was part of Goorjian's Boomers outfit that ended Australia's long wait for a first Olympic men's basketball medal when they beat Slovenia for bronze in Tokyo in 2021.

But an evolving team failed to back it up in Paris, where Ingles hardly saw any court time and the Boomers threw away a record lead in a heart-breaking quarter-final loss to Serbia.

Ingles, who has signed a two-year deal with Melbourne United, admitted frustration at his personal situation in Paris but is at peace with where his international career sits.

"I've always said that I would never hang on too long," Ingles said.

"I would never say never, but I also am very well aware of where the team is at with who they've got and the age of the guys they've got coming through.

"If that's my time with them done then I was lucky to go to five Olympics and four World Cups, and play a pretty big part in us bringing home a bronze medal."

Landale is among the oldest of the Boomers' key pillars and in the best form of his career after a stand-out NBA season with Memphis and Atlanta.

The 30-year-old, who is now an NBA free agent, insists Caporn's emerging group is capable of adding further international accolades to the Tokyo bronze in the near future.

"There's a huge changeover from the old to the new going on at the minute and there's been growing pains associated with that," Landale told AAP.

"But we're all really stepping up and enjoying the expectation that comes with that, and enjoying the challenge.

"Guys like Giddey and Dyson, Johnny Furphy, Matisse (Thybulle) - all these boys are doing such a good job of picking up that slack.

"We just hope to keep growing as a unit and build towards a medal either at LA or Brisbane.

"That's the ultimate goal, and how good would that be - winning a medal on home soil in 2032?"

Landale took positives from the last-eight finish in Paris and is hell-bent on future success.

"We blew the biggest lead in Olympics history, but I think that just speaks to how close we were to being back in top-four contention," Landale said.

"(A medal) is definitely something that is attainable for us and we're all looking forward to the opportunity to prove we're up to scratch."