2012/13 NBL Season/Offseason news

[Gozu]

Jonny Flynn press conference with coach Chris Anstey ahead of his NBL debut against the 36ers on Friday night:

[Gozu]

NBL games coming up on TV this weekend:

Friday night: Wollongong @ Sydney at 9:30pm (One)

Sunday afternoon: Perth @ Adelaide at 2pm (Ten)

Friday night's 36ers @ Tigers game will be shown through iinet's Freezone for all iinet customers and of course all NBL.TV subscribers.

http://freezone.iinet.net.au/vod/freezo ... l-tv/14946

[Brodlach]

Read somewhere that he turned down $1.3 million a season to play for less here.

[RoosterMarty]

Read somewhere that he turned down $1.3 million a season to play for less here.

Was that in China? If so, it might have something to do with their refusal to include an NBA release clause in their contracts. A lot of players ran into that problem during the lockout.

[Gozu]

Yeah that was from a team in China but I thought they only refused the NBA out-clauses last season because of the lockout and just assumed that it was because the NBL is actually a better standard league?

[Brodlach]

I doubt he would be on more than $150,000 here

[Gozu]

Pretty much $150K-$200K I would think at the absolute max.

[RoosterMarty]

Being a better standard reason would be the reason then. He's still young and wants to get back into the NBA, if he fails at that he can always take a big pay day elsewhere.

[Gozu]

Thats right plus the big Euro/Chinese dollars will always be there next season if after this season he looks to have fallen out of the NBA loop. I think he's made over $10 million in the NBA so far so unless he's got Antoine Walker type spending habits should be all good.

With China they're able to attract better quality imports (some NBA guys last season were on $2-$3 million) but the locals are for the most part crap so it's generally considered an overall inferior league to the NBL due to our locals being of a lot higher standard.

I remember last season JR Smith had a 50 point + 20 rebound game over there, Patty Mills averaged 26ppg over there last season compared to 18ppg in the NBL before he left and Stephon Marbury who's been out of the NBA for four years now averaged 45ppg in the chinese league Grand Final series last season.

[Gozu]

Qtr-time

Tigers 19
36ers 14

[Gozu]

H/T

Tigers 43
36ers 32

[Gozu]

3-Qtr time

Tigers 71
36ers 48

[RoosterMarty]

3-Qtr time

Tigers 71
36ers 48

That is ugly.

Jonny Flynn almost has a triple double but is 4/16.

[Gozu]

Final

Tigers 96
36ers 66

Pathetic.

[RustyCage]

comment of the night from the courtside announcer, 'he loves his hair colour so much he is going off for the blood rule' referring to luke schenscher

[Gozu]

Flynn ended up shooting poorly 4/17 but had 12 pts, 8 rebs & 7 ast on debut.

[Brodlach]

36ers beat the Wildcats 77 - 65

[Gozu]

Crazy turnaround lose to the Tigers by 30 on Friday night and then beat the Wildcats by 12 on Sunday afternoon!

[Gozu]

Round 6 results:

Melbourne 96 (Goulding 24, Scott 18, Flynn 12, Walker 10) def Adelaide 66 (Petrie 15, Johnson 12, Cadee 10)

New Zealand 81 (Corletto 19, Abercrombie 15, Jackson 14) def Townsville 72 (Ervin 18, Crawford 12, Blanchfield 11)

Sydney 65 (Henry 19, Crosswhite 12, Madgen 12) def Wollongong 51 (Martin 15, Hurdle 11)

New Zealand 73 (Jackson 20, Hudson 14, Pledger 11) def Cairns 54 (Tragardh 16, Wilson 13)

Adelaide 77 (Massingale 18, Johnson 17, Petrie 11) def Perth 65 (Knight 21, Lisch 12)

[Gozu]

In NBL news today Townsville Crocs CEO Ian Smythe has stepped down, the Breakers Cedric Jackson was named NBL player of the week, the Kings Ben Madgen was named NBL player of the month for October and the Hawks Gordie McLeod was named coach of the month too.