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heres a roster i think which wuold be able to be put together in worse case scenario, like if we couldnt recruit any top level aussie players. What do people think??
PG Maher (hope he stays)/Sutton
SG Hill/Copeland/Ng
SF Wells (or similar import)/Majstro
PF Ballinger (or sim import)/Oakley
C Cooper/Dodman or rookie (ballinger and Oakley to spend some time in the centre)
I personally think that would be an improvement on this year, but yea not sure how good it would be, i hope we can recruit a decent Aussie or 2, but yea i think that is basically a worse case scenario roster (providing Maher re-signs) for next season, so i think, which to me means we should be able to put a decent team on the floor! hope we can get a couple of the Aussies Boty mentioned like Saville, Newley, Mee or Rush, if we could get 2 of them and 2 good imports we are in for a good future i think!!

I wouldn't mind the Sixers chasing someone like Peter Crawford from Perth...Hustling do a bit of everything player...Like what Phil thinks Nash does, but Crawford can actually shoot, dribble and pass.

Shuttlesworth, that also looks like a good team and i also think it would be achievable under the cap. Yea maybe a 2nd import as the Doctor suggested, probably a 3/4 man, but id say it would be a cheaper import from the ABA or something as i doubt we would have the cap space for a high priced one if we sign, Mee, Saville and Melmeth but hey if they can do a Brisbane and get 2 top imports in with a stacked team i wont be complaining

Yea i know the team i said earlier could bust the salary cap, but the bench isnt exactly overly stacked, and Brisbane and Melbourne have similar teams so with some creative accounting, if that could be done it would be awesome! I also like King Jameses team, wouldnt be too upset if thats what we went with. How ever i reckon if you swapped Melmeth and Sheridan you may be able to fit Newley with a Roolie and use Rush in the power forward spot ala Catalini these days and keep say Horvath in the Centre, and maybe if you even swapped Rush and Oakley, would that be enough for a Import,even if its a cheaper import, maybe even a ABA one ala Redhage pre NBL days (my preference though would be Wells or Dave Thomas but i doubt those guys will come cheap) with another Rookie. As id personally rather see a well balanced 8 man rotation with 2 young rookies (or minimum guys) than a 10 deep team, as that seems to be the formula that has worked for us in the past (98 had Bauer, Williams and Brogan, 2001/02 had a young Holmes, Forman and Illman), so yea with those changes the team would be
PG Mee/Sutton
SG Maher/Hill
SF Newley/Rookie or minimum player/Hill
PF Import (Wells) or Rush/Rookie or minimum/Cooper
C Horvath or different Import/Cooper
Do people think that kind of line up is achievable under the caps??
I think that team has a good content of SA players and some veterans and some young guys aswell, espcecially if we do have 2 local rookies on the end of the bench.

well PEro wouldnt be my first preference, but say if we missed out on all the others i named earlier and Pero was alvailable, remembering what he was like last season, who else in the league would you sign??? I guess with the team i named before Wells was the only import so maybe you would sign Horvath (or another import) as starting centre, and yea he would be a siginficant upgrade on a Pero.
If Schenscher isnt coming back, and yea Rogers is pretty entrenched in PErth i reckon a 5 of Mee, Maher, Newley, Wells, Horvath would be good, and i think its some what achievable under the salary cap and points system, and somewhat realistic, if Mee and Newley are interested in coming back to Adelaide. Wells seems interested in coming to the NBL, with his name being on the FA list, the 36ers probably could have had him a few years back over Garrison and i think they even talked to him when it looked like Farley was going to leave prior to signing the 2 year contract a couple of years back so could be a genuine possibility and i think he would be a good fit to the 36ers.

Yea, Pero would be a good pick up if we cant get a real top centre such as Schenscher, a Cooper/Pero centre rotation would be good i think

Rogers goes through an injury cycle. He has been on a healthy part of the cycle this season and performed well. Knowing our luck, he will come to us and mark the beginning of the injury cycle again. A bit like Wheeler. Knowing Rogers' injury history, and the season we have just been through, I would not risk it. There are some great imports there...Franklin, Whethers, Ere, Tucker. I would take any of these over what we already have. Harvey would be a good pick up also.

Adelaide competitive, possibility of finals
Brisbane spoon
Cairns more than likely finals, need a good injury run.
Hawks as Adelaide
Melbourne top two
NZ top two
Perth looking weaker but again will probably make finals
SEM as Adelaide and hawks
Sydney should be top four depending on injuries. Didi and Moller need to be healthy.