2010/11 NBL season & off-season news

[Gozu]

Round 21 results:

New Zealand 66 (Penney 20, Wilkinson 12, Bruton 11, Vukona 10) def Townsville 65 (Schenscher 16, Blalock 15)

Cairns 75 (Loughton 21, Dorsey 19, Crosswhite 12, Rychart 10) def Adelaide 70 (Ballinger 14, Johnson 13, Hill 11, Shannon 10)

Wollongong 87 (Forman 19, Ervin 18, Davidson 17) def Townsville 77 (Ellis 14, Schenscher 14, Crosswell 12, Crawford 11, Hinder 11)

Sydney 95 (Khazzouh 28, Madgen 22, Knight 18, Gilder 14) def Melbourne 86 (Corletto 24, Williams 22, Walker 11, Lewis 10)

Perth 83 (Knight 21, Lisch 14, Martin 13, Weigh 12) def Cairns 60 (Loughton 14, Ubaka 14, Dorsey 11)

[CK]

Not sure what else to say about Adelaide after thinking about it for 48 hours. May just stay silent.

Not far from time for the All-Star Five selection, this year's looks a bit easier than usual. Would think something like:

Gary Ervin (Woll)
Ayinde Ubaka (Cairns)
Julian Khazzouh (Sydney)
Kirk Penney (NZ)
Gary Wilkinson (NZ)

Thoughts from the regular NBL fans here?

I'd go:

Ubaka
Ervin
Penney
Clark
Khazzouh

Yes, that fifth spot is a tough one. I thought about Clark also, but just plumped for Wilkinson for his work on the boards this year. Could easily make a very good case for Clark also, though.

[Gozu]

36ers coach Marty Clarke is back as an assistant coach with the Boomers replacing Shane Heal.

[Brucetiki]

36ers coach Marty Clarke is back as an assistant coach with the Boomers replacing Shane Heal.

Talk about rewarding mediocrity, but then I guess Aurelio Vidmar got a promotion after taking Adelaide United to the wooden spoon.

[Gozu]

Pretty sure Boti Nagy will be on Overtime tonight (Wednesday night). It's on Ten at 11:30pm & One HD at 11:40pm (oddly enough).

[Gozu]

Sounds like Kirk Penney will be the guest on the show tonight and Boti will now be on next week's show.

[Gozu]

This weekend on One HD:

Fri 7:30pm-Hawks at Blaze
Sun 5:30pm-36ers at Kings

Also the first game of the 36ers road trip at Wollongong will be on NBL Radio on Saturday night.

[CK]

This weekend on One HD:

Fri 7:30pm-Hawks at Blaze
Sun 5:30pm-36ers at Kings

Also the first game of the 36ers road trip at Wollongong will be on NBL Radio on Saturday night.

Great. Another opportunity to watch the Kings surge toward the 100 point barrier against a team marking time for 2011.

The Friday night game, though, will be a cracker. Two teams fighting it out for a finals berth, should be a ripper.

[Gozu]

Agreed, CK. Really looking forward to this Hawks/Blaze game tonight.

[Gozu]

36ers at least putting up a decent showing at half-time against the Kings after the dreadful performance last night in Wollongong.

[Gozu]

Round 22 results:

Wollongong 80 (Saville 21, Ervin 18, Davidson 16) def Gold Coast 68 (Gibson 16, Clark 14, Hudson 10)

Townsville 100 (Crawford 20, Schenscher 16, Crosswell 15, Hinder 12, M. Cedar 11, Williamson 10) def New Zealand 92 (Wilkinson 22, Abercrombie 18, Penney 13, Bruton 12, Braswell 10)

Wollongong 87 (Forman 16, Ervin 15, Saville 14, Campbell 11, Davidson 10) def Adelaide 60 (Ballinger 16, Shannon 13)

Cairns 79 (Ubaka 16, Jones 14, Dorsey 13, Rychart 10) def Melbourne 63 (Williams 19, Burston 18)

Sydney 76 (Gilder 20, Khazzouh 20, Sanders 13) def Adelaide 72 (Ballinger 13, Johnson 12, Hill 10)

Perth 102 (Knight 21, Weigh 17, Lisch 16, Brown 13, Martin 11) def Gold Coast 81 (Harvey 25, Garlepp 13, Gibson 12, Clark 10)

[Gozu]

Boti Nagy on Overtime tonight (supposedly).

Also the kings have re-signed coach Ian Robilliard and the Hawks have picked up the option on Oscar Forman's contract for next season.

[CK]

Another night, another Sixers matchwinning lead coughed up

Up by 7 at 3/4 time, overrun by the Tigers again, to lose 79-76.

Becoming embarrassing, quite frankly.

The bright spot being 31 points, 13 rebounds and three steals to Daniel Johnson.

Across the country, Perth's Matthew Knight looks to have suffered a concerning neck injury against Townsville. He was driving to the basket when bumped off his shot as his head hit the court hard. Play stopped for around 15 minutes while he was being placed in a brace and taken off the court. Fingers crossed for the lad, it didn't look good at the time.

[Gozu]

Round 23 results:

New Zealand 91 (Wilkinson 28, Penney 26, Vukona 16) def Sydney 86 (Gilder 30, Martin 18, Knight 12)

Melbourne 79 (Corletto 22, Williams 20, Lewis 13, Walker 10) def Adelaide 76 (Johnson 31, Carter 11, Bruce 10)

Townsville 72 (Crawford 17, Blalock 14, Schenscher 12, M. Cedar 10, Hinder 10) def Perth 71 (Tovey 15, Knight 11)

Cairns 68 (Jones 19, Ubaka 10) def Wollongong 67 (Ervin 15, Saville 13, Campbell 11, Forman 10)

Gold Coast 82 (Clark 23, Gibson 12, Goulding 12) def Melbourne 81 (Williams 25, Walker 18, Corletto 13, Burston 10)

[FOOTY TALK]

36ers coach Marty Clarke is back as an assistant coach with the Boomers replacing Shane Heal.

obviously no expectations to improve the boomers.

[FOOTY TALK]

Adelaide 36'ers total clean out top to bottom.Been to long down the bottom.Players like holmes,hill,dowdell & the rest no good keep ballinger and start again thats if ballinger hasnt had enough of this crap and goes.Marty Clarke not up to it ,dont know what his thinking is when i hear that it was his decision to let go schensher because he was to one dimensional,luke wanted to stay.

[Brucetiki]

Adelaide 36'ers total clean out top to bottom.Been to long down the bottom.Players like holmes,hill,dowdell & the rest no good keep ballinger and start again thats if ballinger hasnt had enough of this crap and goes.Marty Clarke not up to it ,dont know what his thinking is when i hear that it was his decision to let go schensher because he was to one dimensional,luke wanted to stay.

Wasn't Schenscher released during the Ninnis days?

[FOOTY TALK]

Adelaide 36'ers total clean out top to bottom.Been to long down the bottom.Players like holmes,hill,dowdell & the rest no good keep ballinger and start again thats if ballinger hasnt had enough of this crap and goes.Marty Clarke not up to it ,dont know what his thinking is when i hear that it was his decision to let go schensher because he was to one dimensional,luke wanted to stay.

Wasn't Schenscher released during the Ninnis days?

what i meant to say is luke wanted to return to adelaide but clarke didnt want him,so adelaide could of got him back.

[CK]

Former 36er listed player and Sydney King Ben Madgen has been ruled eligible for the Rookie of The Year award by the NBL, after an appeal by the Kings. Despite suiting for Adelaide 18 times, Madgen never played a minute with the 36ers, so common sense prevailed here.

Could be a unique situation looming here. If Adelaide win one more game than Sydney in the last two rounds, they can climb off the bottom, sending Sydney to the cellar. It is entirely possible that the Kings will have the amazing situation of finishing last, yet supplying the Rookie of the Year (Madgen) and the MVP (Julian Khazzouh). For the latter, can only see Gary Ervin (Wollongong) and Gary Wilkinson (New Zealand) seriously challenging him for MVP status.

[Gozu]

IMO Khazzouh will beat out Penney & Ballinger. Shouldn't happen that a guy like Khazzouh could win the MVP coming from the wooden spoon team despite being the best player this season it should go to someone from a playoff team. The votes are given out after each game regardless if that player is from a good team or not and due to the lack of talent around him Khazzouh should be a shoe in.

I also think Penney will be up as the best player on the best team although missing the first 4-5 games of the season should rule him out of actually winning it and I think Ballinger will finish around 2nd or 3rd for similar reasons to Khazzouh. If my memory serves me correctly Ballinger was runner up for MVP last season even though the Sixers finished bottom.