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36ers future - too much change

Kent, the sour taste of the last 2 years stays in your mouth for a long time. That's what the worry is about. There's also the worry that the last 3 road games, the 36ers showed nothing positive of what's to come as the season progresses. I wouldn't even make excuses for losing to better teams on the road because the preseason indicated that the 36ers were championship contenders, let alone making excuses that Sydney were stronger than expected. By your reasoning, which teams do you think the 36ers can beat? I can bet there's not many by what they have shown us to date. That must mean a 3rd year in a row where they don't even make the playoffs. Very little gained for the release of the previous coach. I think Ninnis is out of his league here. As an assistant, yes but not a head coach. You and others may be happy to give him time to prove himself, but myself and I am sure others as well are looking at Ninnis as the instant answer to the previous 2 year's problems.

Tyndale arrived , calling everyone 'Sir' and not understanding a lot of they way aussies talk.

( Davo and Bruce played with their problems- Boti )

I'm suprised that everyone is laying down the criticism on the players and nothing across the coach.

While 50% of the issue is players not communicating to teammates, or playing half-arsed, or basically lacking fundamentals in parts of their game; the other half is the coach not matching up his players, not rotating players to match the on-court situation appropriately, and not giving his team enough of a bollocking when they lose.

The Sixers have a title contender team and a have a deep bench. Last time I saw a decent Sixers team like this was back in 05-06 when Dusty and Big Willy were still playing, and you had players like Forman and Holmes off the bench. The whole excuse of a team not "Gel-ing" (jellying, jel-ing... whatever) dies in the arse as of the Hawks away game. Considering all teams do is Train and play, you have no excuse for not working together, especially with the talent we have this year.

perhaps lose is spelt with one o

I think the player turnover in all teams is what is wrong with the nbl. There is little loyalty to teams from players, so the fans loose interest.

I agree that players should be able to get what they are worth, but for the betterment of the NBL, I think, there needs to be some restrictions on player movement.