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Chuck Long - Nbl option

At best he'd be a 8-10 burst guy unless he worked hard on his fitness!

His horizontal work ethic wouldn't be questioned - as his 1 on 1 rep is quite solid!!

Word is that CJ will naturalise (his kid was born here) very shortly.

I disagree that CJ knows nothing about the word defence - this season more than ever he is guarding the perimeter threat on opposition. Working pretty hard at it is the word out of Knox.

He should have had a look in previous years and there is no denying that he can go.

@Anonymous I would put the loss to the thunder down to the age-ing roster playing massive minutes in double-header travel scenario as opposed to anything else (and the lack of faith shown in the bench by the coaching staff despite the fact it was them who pegged the defecits back to respectable margins) and would argue that if there was more faith shown in players like Aver & Hare that the effectiveness of CJ's numbers would improve. Who wins the game - the team who scores the most yeah? ;)

If you were really looking for an import out of the SEABL surely you would look at CJ Massingale - the bloke is in the SEABL 30 year anniversary team, multiple MVP titles, multiple scoring titles, multiple big-game shots made. Forget the one game by Chuck Long, CJ has done it every year for the last 8!

Long's was a one off as well!!

I thought Chuck Long was a strategy to speed up the game. Silly me.

I have a friend who's played nbl & with Chuck for a few years. He's basically said that Chuck needs to be a little more disciplined away from the game (ie diet, fitness) & then you have the on-court things to work on, as the previous poster mentioned - shooting. I would say that at nbl he'd be a sf, so would have to work on his dribble too.

Having said that, I wish a few more nbl teams wlld take risks with the aba guys, there have been some great players who've made the step up when given the chance.