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Suggestions for 'Welcome Back Hodge'

Marty,
"out of all the teams he joined, he picked one with one of the biggest fan bases in the Country, not to mention a fan base with the best basketball knowledge in the Country; and managed to do a screwjob on the team."

One question to ponder. Is Julius smart enough to deliberately do that?

Anon, out of all the teams he joined, he picked one with one of the biggest fan bases in the Country, not to mention a fan base with the best basketball knowledge in the Country; and managed to do a screwjob on the team.

The problem isn't the fact that he was disputing pay problems with the club; that's fine. The problem is the guy didn't turn up to the game regardless of the situation. He could have at least sat on the bench and watched.

You wouldn't get away with that in any league for any team. *IF* Hodge has been with the Tigers instead and *IF* the same thing happened, you'd still have this post going up, just on the Gaze website, or another forum.

While it's good to have a high calibre player in the league again; if he knows what is good for him, he'll make sure to be more of a professional and not try and pull that again. If he ends up doing a similar job to the Tigers, then he has basically flipped off two of the biggest clubs in the league and probably won't see a job here again.

Another Song Suggestion: Song For The Dumped by Ben Folds

"Give me my money back you bitch"

Who cares? you seemed to care a few posts ago when you used it as a counterpoint vs. Gilchrist.

Hodge is only going to be good if everything is run through him. If Worthington and Anstey grab all the boards, and Croswell and Kendall do all the passing, Hodge ain't nothing but a scorer; and even then the 4 names i've mentioned can all do that.

A player is as good as the team makes him and a team is as good as all the players make it. Don't expect him to just light up on the first night so your wet dream can come true.

911 is a Joke - Public Enemy

Banner idea..

"Julius's iPod playlist:
C.R.E.A.M
Paid in Full
Mo Money Mo Problems
Who Shot Ya?
Money Money Money"

I have heard that Julius has been concentrating exclusively on his jump shot all off-season and has changed his action to something a little more orthodox. He now shoots the ball better than Michael Jordan ever did.

You heard it here first... then you will hear it from the great Jules over and over again.

lol X.

Even "where is the love?" would be good.

Anon, there were quite a few complaints about his Jump-shot. Most of the people around me at the games were yelling each time her threw one up.

Even if they sank, there was always a call to "Never do that again".

Well... obviously yes they do.

They look like normal jump shots, and seem to go into the net like a jump shot should.

Aw - I'm from the 60s..

Anyways - What an intriguing night the 5th will be,
reading the banners and seeing if he can drop 30.
I'd guess Groves will guard him and has the ability to cut him down a bit and Hodge not a defensive player. Fascinating.

Isaac - I understand what you have written.
But don't know what "llRC" means ? Sorry.

How about:
NO HODGE, YOU STILL CANNOT USE THE DOME'S FACILITIES!

Jeffey has the one. Money - Pink Floyd & it will inspire Hodge to a triple double in front of 8000 screaming croweaters!!

Hah, if Hodge were a decent player, he could have at least turned up and sat on the bench in casual clothes rather than no-showing period.

Also, from my recollection, the payments had gone through, Hodge's manager just hadn't checked the accounts soon enough.

ESP, are you a Tigers fan? Any Tigers supporters that are critical of the criticism made by Adelaide supporters should realise that Adelaide have experienced Hodge. Good luck to the Tigers for picking him up, we are not jealous. Atleast if this leopard hasn't changed his spots, it will be Melbourne that will suffer the consequences this time.

giant rubber cheques is a good call and C.R.E.A.M !!!
give it to him all night

Huge rubber check signed by Mal

Play Carly Simon's song You're so Vain. Dracula's suggestion of Abba's song Money Money Money is right on the money.

Skip, this is your show, make it a good one.

Giant novelty cheque comes to mind.

NBA.com has its Rookie Rankings online, and of course Andrew Bogut fares pretty well.

Here's their top ten: CP3, Frye, the Foetus, Bogut, Deron Williams, Sarunas, Calderon, Salim Stoudamire, Diogu, Nate Robinson. Under "noteworthy" come Granger from IND, Lee from the Knicks and Petro from the Sonics.

Bogut's statline includes the best rebound and block counts of that group, and he goes pretty close in FG% too.

Chris Paul has injured his thumb and will miss about two weeks of action -- if the injury hangs around, it could certainly throw a spanner into the ROTY works.

Bogut's full statline: 27.6 MPG, 8.9 PPG, 7.5 RPG, 2.1 APG. 0.77 SPG, 0.94 BPG, 53.1% from the field and a dodgy 59.1% from the stripe.

Anyone else feel that Bogut would put up numbers to rival Frye and Villanueva if the Bucks made more use of him?