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Years ago

Ballinger out 5-6 weeks

Yeah, I always get a tear in my eye when I think of how tough it must be to be a professional sportman being paid $100s of thousands of dollars for six months work playing the sport they love. How dare anyone expect a level of professionalism or hard work to go with that? My sympathy is endless in this regard.

Goorjian required players to buy into his system too, and reportedly ran some of the toughest training sessions around. Some people even blame his trainings on the drop off of his teams in finals. But his record speaks for itself, and he changed the way the game was played in Australia. Apparently Marty is 'more relaxed' this year whatever that means, but the way I see it no matter how good they are a player has to be prepared to play for the coach, not the other way around.

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Big Marty

Years ago

My concern beyond that is Herbert surviving the pre-season intact.

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Years ago

Isaac, a conspiracy theory is always more fun:

This is clearly further evidence that Marty doesn't want Ballinger on the team so Marty has engineered it so that Balls will be on the injured list and miss all of pre-season training. OMG, the fact that my theory is somewhat outlandish only lends it credibility. If the Sixers now deny it, you know it must be true!

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Ballinger out 5-6 weeks

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