By Ade Adepitan Paralympian and TV presenter

The BBC's Ade Adepitan gives his guide to Great Britain's basketball rivals at the 2004 Paralympics.

Canada
The Canadians probably possess the best player in the world - Patrick Anderson.

ATHENS MEN'S DRAW Pool A: Canada, Great Britain, Australia, France, Brazil, Italy Pool B: USA, Holland, Iran, Japan, Germany, Greece The lowdown on the GB team

He is an awesome player. When you play against Canada you have to think of how you are going to deal with Anderson.

They also have other great players such as Joey Johnson and Dave Duerpos.

They are an experienced team and have been high up in the rankings for a long time. However, they took a serious blow when they came third at the World Championships.

Australia
Australia have a very good young team. Their strengths are in their forwards, Troy Sachs, Justin Iverson and Brad Ness.

That trio would easily rank among the top eight forwards in the world.

France
The French team are like the French in any sport - you do not quite know what you are going to get. Sometimes they look as if they can beat any team in the world and on other days they can look pants.

They are going through a bit of a transition stage. Their best players are getting on a bit now.

Brazil
The Brazilians are the best up-and-coming young team in the world.

They are very talented and I am not sure quite what to expect from them.

Because of their inexperience they might be overawed by the situation.

Italy
Italy are the reigning European champions. However, it is funny how all the characteristics of these teams match up with their respective able-bodied counterparts.

The Italians are great at home having proved so when they won the Europeans in Italy - but they do not travel well.

We face Italy in the first game of the tournament and it is vitally important we do well against them. They are a big team and well organised.

Ade's player guide

Great Britain
Well, what can I say? One of things with Team GB is we've always been known in the world for having very quick, good shooting guards, especially in the 2.5 position.

However, we've always struggled to find big tall forward players because we're not a tall country.

One of the important names selected for Athens is Stuart Jellows. He's about 6'5" and gives us some valuable height in that position.

For Athens, I think we are good enough to get a gold medal but as with team sports you need a lot of things to go your way.

USA
The US are the world champions and the best team in the tournament.

Ade was part of the British team which lost out to USA at Sydney

However, I have heard that four of their key players from the World Championships have not put their names forward for the Athens Games.

There has apparently been a few problems in the camp. But they are the world champions so I expect them to recover in time for the Games.

Holland
They have got two players who are probably the best one-two match-up in wheelchair basketball seen in the last 10 years - Gert-Jan van der Linden and Koen Jansen.

There is no great depth in their team but they do have two superstars, which may be enough to see them do well in Athens.

Iran
I do not know much about them.

Britain have never played them at international level so we will not know what to expect.

Japan
Japan are another up-and-coming team and are yet to make it at international level.

They are not a big side, but they are quick.

Germany
The Germans are very efficient. They are a tough team to play.

We played them in a friendly and beat them easily, but they prepare well and I do not think it is wise to underestimate them.

Greece
I do not know much about the Greeks.

Apparently the team had been put together after Athens had heard they would be hosting the Paralympics.