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Bye Bye 2006-2007 36ers

I have never seen either play but would Kirsten and Seehbohn be worth a spot in the 10 next season??? if so i say sign them up instead of either Ng, Majstro or Sutton as yes im sure the SA public dont want to see any other great local talent getting away. Is there any news on wether Hill is intending on sticking around??

lol oops meant think, i cant type!!

I was just watching some of the 98 Grand final series and was thinking if there is a way of building a team in that mould, if Phils going to be the coach id say that would be the best bet. All going wel recruiting wise i think a team like this would compare ok
98 team 07-08 team
C Rees C Schenscher or Moore woud be ideal, id settle for Cooper in that role if they have to

PF Brooks PF Import (NBL guys id chase for this spot would be Dave Thomas, Jayson Wells, Ballinger,Abney, or get another ex NBA guy like KB

SF Cattalini SF Newley or Saville (if Cat or Mackinnin was available go after them, Boodnikoff could be a option if we cant get any of those guys)

SG Maher SG Maher

PG Mee PG wouldnt mind getting Mee himself back, but this spot can be used on a import i wouldnt mind guys like Kavossy Franklin, Wayne Turner or Cortez Groves getting a look at this spot, if we get Mee we could use the 2nd import spot on the C position and maybe retain Horvath, also if we did get Newley we could go a Newley-Maher backcourt and have 2 import forwards

Bench
6 Rillie (back up combo guard) - Hill

7 Davis (back up big guy) - Cooper (aslong as we get a decent starting C if not go for the best Centre available for the money left to fill this spot or go for a college guy)

8 Sapwell(back up combo fwd) - Majstrovich

9 Brogan (young fwd) - maybe Dodman or a ABA fwd like Hambour or someone but wouldnt mind us giving a college guy this spot like a Matt Knight or Stefan Blascynski or Josh Wood or one of the many others over there)

10 Ninnis - Darren Ng

11 Bauer - Matt Sutton

12 Williams - Another young guy like a Ryan Kirsten if he wants to come back from college or another young ABA/College guard)

I think that gives us a good 8 deep team somewhat in the mould of the 98 team with the last 4 spots used on younger players who can fight it out for the 9 and 10 spots on the main roster.

What do people thing???

Yea. along with the obvious prime targets of Newley and Schenscher i would love for us to target and hopefully get guys like Saville, Mee, Damien Ryan, Derek Moore, Bradtke???, Boodnikoff, Dave Thomas and Tucker, Mottram, Melmeth, Knight, Abney, Rush, Harvey, Groves, Ballinger, obviously there is no way we can get them all, but i think we need another starting guard along side Maher, i dont mind if its a PG or SG, and atleast a starting SF, and a PF aswell if we dont retain Horvath and i think we need a starting C as Cooper is better as a back up, but id rather have Cooper starting C than Nash or Majstrovich starting in the Forward spot so i think the Guard and Forward spots should be the priority and what ever cap space we have left we give to another big. I think we should also go after one of the many college kids, especially if they are from SA like Kirsten but Matt Knight, Stefan Blascynski are another 2 guys i think would be worth a look, along wiht many guys listed on aussiehoopsamerica.com, so yea i think the 36ers need 4 new starters if we dont retain our imports and my priorities would be Newley, Saville, Abney or Dave Thomas (both would be even better) and Schenscher to join Maher in the starting 5, but i would be happy if we got any of the players i listed above.

GONE: Timmons, Wheeler, Smyth, Ng, Farley, Cooper

KEEP: Horvath, AJ, Copes, Maher, Hill, Sutton

Lineup next year.

PG: Maher/Sutton
SG: Hill/Copes
SF: Import/AJ
PF: Horvath/Nash
C: Schensher/???

Yea i agree with most of that, i personally would probably keep Ng over Nash, but that would require buying out Nashes contract.
I was just thinking is Groves too much like Farley??? in style of play?? do we need a different type of import if we are replacing Farley?? like a pure point Guard or small forward or somethng?? but yea i personally wouldnt mind seeing Groves (or Farley) in a 36ers singlet.
We desperatly need a good starting SF Aussie or import if Saville, Mackinnon, Cattalni are off contract throw everything we can at them. Also need to chase Newley and Schenscher with everything we have, get some of the good SA players back and repair some of our errors of the past in letting many of our locals go, and also make sure we retain Maher.
I reckon a starting 5 of
PG Maher, SG Newley, SF top aussie or import, PF top aussie or import, C Schenscher would be ideal!! I guess if we got a Groves, Newley (Maher,Groves, Newley,import,Schenscher) could play SF, very interesting times ahead i think, hope the 36ers regain top 4 status next season!!