2011/12 NBL Season/off-season news/Boomers

[Gozu]

Round 7 results:

Cairns 85 (Warren 21, Wilson 18, Loughton 12, Grabau 11, Dowdell 10) def Sydney 67 (Khazzouh 17, Grant 13, Madgen 13)

Melbourne 87 (Ubaka 23, Tragardh 22, Dorsey 18) def Perth 82 (Knight 24, Robbins 13, Wagstaff 11, Bartlett 10)

Gold Coast 87 (DeLeon 21, Petrie 16, Goulding 12) def Townsville 75 (M. Cedar 14, Gill 13, Holmes 13, Crawford 12)

Adelaide 95 (Weigh 24, Simpson 18, Warren 16, Johnson 10) def Melbourne 89 (Mills 32, Tragardh 18, Dorsey 14)

Cairns 80 (Loughton 22, Warren 21, Wilson 20) def New Zealand 78 (Abercrombie 21, Corletto 15, Wilkinson 11, Jackson 10, Vukona 10)

Perth 86 (Redhage 18, Knight 14, Robbins 12, Tovey 10, Wagstaff 10) def Wollongong 70 (Glover 12, Forman 11)

[Gozu]

Yeah very disappointing news about Patty Mills leaving the NBL and signing with Xinjiang Guanghui Flying Tigers in China.

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/2011 ... tty-mills/

At least Adelaide fans were able to see him in his last game on Saturday night with a very healthy crowd of 6,175 at the game.

[Gozu]

Supposedly the Tigers are now making a run at Andrew Bogut!

[Johno6]

whos paying the insurance now then?

patty mills?

[Gozu]

A bit of speculation in the Sydney media today that Kings coach Ian Robilliard could be facing the chop.

[Gozu]

NBL legend Brett Maher will be chatting live on Adelaide Now at noon on Thursday:

HERE'S your chance to learn from the best - Brett Maher will be online to talk basketball and help young and not-so-young players to hone their skills.

Join Brett from noon on Thursday and tap into the experience of an NBL and Boomers legend.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/bas ... 6203441124

[CK]

Townsville leading NZ 47-35 at half time.

In New Zealand

[Johno6]

Nz dominate last quarter and win by double digits.
Crazy

[Gozu]

NBL games coming up on One this weekend:

Friday night: Sydney @ Melbourne at 10:30pm (also live on NBL Radio)

Saturday night: Gold Coast @ Adelaide at 10:30pm (replay on Monday night at 12:30am)

Sunday night: Sydney @ Perth at 10:35pm

[Brodlach]

Gee I hate Thursday games, always forget to update my dream team

[Gozu]

The Tigers have promoted Tim Lang to their playing roster to cover for the injured Matt Burston.

[Johno6]

just read gurber from wollongong broke his hand at training also

[redandblack]

What's the attraction the coach has with Stephen Weigh?

Poor effort again, by the look of it.

[CK]

What's the attraction the coach has with Stephen Weigh?

Poor effort again, by the look of it.

Headed along last night, and one of the more annoying experiences I've had in recent times. Won't bore everyone with a lengthy dissection of the night, but things that stand out:

- Good point on Weigh, R&B. Close to 32 minutes game time for 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 6 points and a near complete inability or refusal to defend anyone.

- Either Ballinger was sick/injured or something is up there - 12 minutes gametime for 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 points. He spent inordinate time on the bench while some others were given lengthy free reign.

- The amount of times Gold Coast strolled through no traffic to an uncontested basket was incredible, not to mention the uncontested jump shots with miles of space to move. A deplorable defensive effort on the night.

- Our foul shooting is Amateur Hour. 8 from 17 says a lot about how easily we missed golden opportunities.

- Thank heaven for the imports Diamon Simpson and Chris Warren. Head along to see Simpson while you can, he may not be around much longer, snapped up elsewhere. Great rebounding effort, with 13 boards, on a night where Adelaide was utterly smashed on the offensive boards all night. The shot would bounce off and Gold Coast would often have three players waiting under it to walk it out with ease. Some of Warren's solo efforts were great to watch, however.

- This is from Marty Clarke's press conference: "We are not getting distracted by wins and losses when you know you're building something," he said.. Probably about time to start getting distracted by wins and losses, because blowed if I know what is building there. The coach looks to have clear favorites who get amazing amounts of court time, while others languish waiting for brief cameos. The game plan coughs up the biggest average score of all NBL teams for the season and has major defensive lapses in the paint. Clarke has been given plenty of time to build this time, but if someone here can name me two areas of clear improvement in that time, I'd love to hear it.

[wristwatcher]

I went last night and i have heard good things about the Johnny Gastev look-a-like Chris Warren but last night he was pantsed by Deleon IMO it didnt seem to help him much that when he made offensive drives his team mates didnt seem to find dangerous positions for the off load.
The foul shooting was a joke. Under 50%. Even at the Royal show with the rings that are the wrong size and shape and height i can hit 50% There is no excuse for it being that low.
Im not a huge basketball fan but i was looking forward to seeing "Balls" Ballinger play and gotta say i was fairly dissapointed by his lack of game time and impact. I assume he was carrying some sort of injury.
Down by about 11 points early in the last and we got a run on with Ng hitting 3 3 pointers in a row (He came on with 24 seconds to go in the first quarter btw ) to draw within 2. Ng wouldnt get the ball in his hands again until the lead blew out beyond 10. Now im no basketball expert but surely you give it to the man with the hot hand
As mentioned in previous posts the defence certainly didnt match the passion of the chant for defence inside the stadium. A couple of times i think it was number 43 for Gold Coast was just left on the 3 point line by himself with no-one going near him...he drained them each time it occured. There was also a few uncontested lay ups that left the fans in disbelief.
I went with some season ticket holders and they seemed resigned to the fact that the 36ers season is going to reek of sucktitude

[Gozu]

What's the attraction the coach has with Stephen Weigh?

Poor effort again, by the look of it.

The coaches pet. Not sure if this is still the case but I remember Boti Nagy saying a couple of weeks ago Weigh was not only leading the team in minutes played but the whole league!

CK, that's pretty poor spin by Clarke. There is no rebuilding in the NBL unlike the AFL or NBA there is no draft.

Still he's not going to come out and say the club isn't spending as much as he'd like on the roster so we have to continually put up with the "we're rebuilding, it's not about wins & losses" crap.

[CK]

What's the attraction the coach has with Stephen Weigh?

Poor effort again, by the look of it.

The coaches pet. Not sure if this is still the case but I remember Boti Nagy saying a couple of weeks ago Weigh was not only leading the team in minutes played but the whole league!

CK, that's pretty poor spin by Clarke. There is no rebuilding in the NBL unlike the AFL or NBA there is no draft.

Still he's not going to come out and say the club isn't spending as much as he'd like on the roster so we have to continually put up with the "we're rebuilding, it's not about wins & losses" crap.

To be perfectly honest, I don't believe Clarke is the man to coach the club, and we have had a pretty good look at him now. The gameplan is terribly flawed; as you mentioned, he has a real "coaches pet" thing going on, not just with Weigh but others, and the squad is the wrong mix overall.

[Gozu]

To be perfectly honest, I don't believe Clarke is the man to coach the club, and we have had a pretty good look at him now. The gameplan is terribly flawed; as you mentioned, he has a real "coaches pet" thing going on, not just with Weigh but others, and the squad is the wrong mix overall.

I agree, for mine it was evident about half way through last season he wasn't up to it. It's one thing to look good coaching kids at the AIS where the main aim is development not wins & losses but in pro-sport that guff doesn't wash. I can't stand his substitution patterns where it's "every kid win's a prize" sharing minutes around, taking guys off when they're hot etc but at the same time force-feeding Weigh minutes.

[Gozu]

Round 8 results:

New Zealand 88 (Abercrombie 19, Wilkinson 18, Corletto 16, Jackson 11) def Townsville 74 (Holmes 21, Crawford 17)

Sydney 89 (Madgen 26, Khazzouh 22, Grant 19, Bruce 14) def Melbourne 80 (Tragardh 28, Ubaka 17, Dorsey 15, Rush 10)

Gold Coast 95 (DeLeon 25, Worthington 20, Goulding 17, Harvey 11) def Adelaide 82 (Ng 20, Johnson 19, Simpson 14)

Perth 103 (Redhage 23, Nevill 17, Robbins 15, Lisch 14, Knight 10) def Sydney 92 (Bose 22, Grant 20, Khazzouh 16, Bruce 15)

[Gozu]

Adris DeLeon got the NBL player of the week award for his performance against the 36ers on Saturday night.