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SRT070

Years ago

NH: Eddy Groves gets lucky break

With all the talk at the moment aboutbringing in Timmons instead of playing another SA junior and looking at recruitment for next year, I thought I would take a bit of time to go through all the teams rosters and see how many teams have "Home Grown" players!
Now let me start with clarifying "Home Grown"- A player who is born in the state that they play.
Now I know this will upset a few people but without going through background checks and contacting Sensis, this was the easiest way!

Adelaide- Starters-2, Bench-3
Brisbane- Starters-0, Bench-1
Cairns- Starters-0, Bench-0
Melbourne- Starters-2, Bench-5
NZ- Starters-1, Bench-0
Perth- Starters-0, Bench-2
Singapore- Starters-0, Bench-2
South- Starters-2, Bench-2
Sydney- Starters-1, Bench-2
Townsville- Starters-1, Bench-3
W/S- Starters-1, Bench-2
Wollongong- Starters-0, Bench-1

I found these figures to be quite interesting.
1. Adelaide has 5 "home Grown" players in it's roster only second behind Melbourne. Now considering Melbourne is the "Mecca" of basketball in Australia, that's pretty good.
2.Besides Melbourne, the top five teams have no more than 3 "Home Grown" players!
3.Besides overseas players, Victoria have the most current NBL players, yet Adelaide don't have one Victorian in it's team...WTF?
4. Singapore and NZ, both of which are trying to sell the whole Basketball/ NBL concept still to their countrymen have 2 and 1 "Home Grown" players respectively!

What I get from this.... We don't need home grown players to be successful. Most home grown players are simply filling spots in teams and why the hell isn't Phil over in Victoria recruiting instead of simply watching 1989 higlight tapes to recruit from!!!!

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