Hoops

Possible NBL starting line-ups for 2012/13

small and fast paced is always is always exciting, and all teams look reasonable, soon as a a big man on one of those small teams goes down, they will struggle to match up:

Say if cairns loose Tragardh or loughton
backing up them is rychart and edwards against the like's of schenscher, johnson, or even johnson, petrie, Pledger, vukona or pledger, hudson could cause big problems.
But in saying that our league has always been relatively small line-ups and teams have done ok. I have always like the traditional line-ups.
I would even like to see tragardh play more a pf role and have a big c backing him up, think he would go up another level, great in offense but struggles sometimes in d with the bigs.

Deleon in a hawks singlet this season, if their guards can work together well, davidson stay injury free and has a better year they should be ok.

Cheers Mick.

With Edwards, loughton probably will play more c now, probably start edwards in the pf role too, and loughton back up c.
If their young new recruits( steindl, gliddons) are decent and both their imports step up (wilson was very good last year). Cairns look pretty good if also stay injury free.

Also look for Bruce to get more minutes if Williams doesn't step up to the plate fast. Shaun is right there!

Expect Loughton play more C than Trig - Loughton played C for Perth before he left for Europe.

Sydney look like finishing bottom

Towns-ville's team have reasonable players at all positions except the point, Forte may surprise me but i see him more at the 2 or 3 posy, leaving Norton and cedar. Norton's from college so he might develop but certainly wont spin heads straight away, and may need to be nurtured in which just leaves the cedars and one of them is more sg. So if Forte isn't a genuine pg they will struggle against the rest of the league pg's in the league.

As a player in the South Australian ABL league next season, I wish to express my frustration over the "additional 3 minutes warm up after the National Anthem".

It is totally unneccessary and I believe the players and more importantly, the crowd, would benefit more from the atomosphere if the teams went straight to the bench after the anthem, leading shortly after that to tip off.

I trust every ABL player agrees and I ask for your support to remove this additional 3 minutes from the schedule.

My question now is:
How can we achieve this????

Cairns
Tragardh, ?, Loughton
Loughton, Rychart, Andronicos
Steindl, Grabau, Hill
Hill, Gliddon
Wilson, Williams, Bruce

Townsville

?
?
?
?
?

Sydney
Crosswhite, Garlepp
Lazare, Dann
Magden, Harvey, Smith
Bruce, Magden, Harvey
Henry, Martin

only because harvey is injured at the moment or would he start a sf and magden sixth man.

Wollongong
Davidson, MacMillan
Forman, Gruber
Coenraad, Jackson
Saville, Demos
Hurdle, Martin, delaney

or
Davidson, MacMillan
Forman, Gruber
Saville, Jackson, Coenraad
Hurdle, Coenraad
Martin, Hurdle, Delaney

Melbourne
Scott, Burtson
Ballinger, Walker
Greer, Rush
Goulding, Lewis
Braswell, Tomlinson

started all last season, why change it, will start but after first changes, likey go to bench as we only have 2 wing men sf, massingale hasen't proven himself yet a nbl level, coming off the bench might make it a easier transition for him. without high expectations he should do ok, towards the middle or end of the season who knows if he's playing well starting might be a better option.

Breakers
Pledger, Hudson
Vukona, Boucher
Abercrombie, Henry
Corletto,
Jackson, Bruton