Hoops

Predictions on 2nd import

As far as i can remember the only white imports to play in the nbl in the last 2-3 years were Horvath, Low, Rychart, Gruber, Redhage, Ballinger, DeVries and Owens,

given its a SG or SF that pretty much narrowes it down to DeVries or Low, who are both SG's, as the others are either bigger or signed, if you add in HSH the main names i could think of are Ratszch, Thalo Green, Riley Luettgerodt,

out of them Low, Devries, Green, are the only ones who have played NBL, if its out of them i hope its Derrick Low as he was the best out of them from my memory, or if its a fresh face from HSH id be happy with Ratszch i enjoyed watching him play.

So for those who know is it either Ratszch or Low?

Tremmell darden

didnt ellis have a heart attack or something.

Are you saying its Low, Hinson or Devries, Low and Hinson are combo guards, both can score and Devries was a shooter from memory, i think he was around 6'5 so could prob play SG/SF

I just found a few youtube clips of Ellis and found an old crocs game with him playin against the 36ers (one of Tyndales first games i thnk), and if it is Ellis i would be happy (assuming he hasnt lost his game), he is athletic, runs the floor well both hards, rebounds well, defends and hsutles and can play in the low post and seems unselfish.
He probably is more of a 3/4 than a 3/2 which i was hoping for, but it may be handy having a 3/4 as if Johnson turns out a bit inconsistant, he is quite young, he could help out inside and him posting up would also alow ballinger to step out and play his mid range game on offence, whilist still having a good strong low post presence.
Aslong as he hasnt lost his game ala Cortez, he should be a fairly solid signing if thats who we are getting, and given the clues that have been in the paper and on this site, he is now my guess, id also be happy with a Darden, Bowen and even happier if we some how landed Donte Smith or Ebi Ere.

my guess was either Darden, Newson or Bowen as a SF, but i didnt think of Rossell Ellis, i always thought of him as a undersized PF/C not a SF,

do people think he has the quickness and perimiter skills to play SF, i think he would atleast have to have a good mid to out range shot and be able to penetrate to be a good SF, i cant remember him playing well enough to think if he had those attributes, but i do remember him being fairly well regarded for defense, hustle and put up fairly good numbers in his times in Australia. Age is a concern though given our lack of success with Chappell and Groves in recent years,

Aw it's not Bowen ( reading other thread/s)
Ellis sounds pretty good to me.
Do you think ? ( 35 ? ) - I wonder.

I doubt it is Tremell Darden, he has signed with a French club (check out his Facebook page).

I wondered if it might be Bakari Hendrix, in the mould of a small forward but playing in power forward/centre positions during his brief NBL career.

Bakari had passion, just ask Casey Frank.

Bowen is a name becoming quite popular on that other thread