Hoops

36ers put offers to Newley, Dench

Ben Pepper?? i read in a post about townsville, and they are apparantly after ben pepper, and someone mentioned the 36ers are working him pretty hard, does anyone know if this is true??? Pepper would be a good pick up, if we could get him, and if we got Pepper and Dench, that would be a even better bigman rotation than i was expecting

Dench did start as a rookie along side Melvin Thomas, Glen Saville, Matt Campbell and Charles Thomas, they had Matt Garrison off the bench for them,and he has several NBA trials after that season, and outside of Rogers, Pepper, Melmeth and Anstey i dont think there are many Aussie bigs better than Dench, (id put him and Derek Moore at a similar standsrd) so i think he would be a good pick up, providing we cant get one of the others. He has career averages of 10ppg, 5rpg, which is better than some one like Reesy or Coops or even Wheeler. We may also be able to pick him up cheaply with the Tigers having to pay out his contract for next season. I would be happy if the 36ers signed either Dench or Moore, and if we could get them both that would be even better, as along side Cooper and Ballinger that would make a pretty good big man rotation

Yea Dench would be a good pick up in my opinion, and is still one of the better Aussie bigs going around and would start at most teams except for if they have someone like a Anstey, Melmeth or Pepper, he did start for Wollongong and won the title as a rookie. I also think he would fit the 36ers offence well and him and cooper would balance each other out, with Cooper being limited offensively and good defensively and Dench basically being the opposite, so i wouldnt be too un happy with a Cooper/Dench centre rotation, especially since the 36ers hardly rely on having a dominant centre. if we get Dench and the right import SF, Tucker would be ok IMO, but i wouldnt mind a fresh face, we should be a decent team, with a bit of luck who knows how they will go, if we get lucky and land Newley aswell, that would be AWESOME and would put us right up there for title contention.

If we can get them both plus a import, that would give us a great team

C Dench/Cooper
PF Ballinger
SF Import (Tucker)/Copeland
SG Newley/Ng
PG Maher/Davidson/Sutton

A pretty small bench but Cooper and maybe the import can also back up the PF spot with Newley also being able to play SF so i could see that line up working and doing pretty well.