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Joey Wright named 36ers coach; three year deal

A good decision.

In these times a safe, stabilising decision is needed, not a high risk decision that could pay off. A coach with proven success at the level is a safe decision, but the correct decision.

Going to Sydney would be best for Daly.

I can't imagine him getting many minutes under Wright, given his strong relationship with Cadee (which is unfortunate because in the games I watched last season, in the short game time Daly did get, I didn't see any drop off in talent between him and Cadee).

You're right "BigSexy", with Gibson the team will be on 44 points (confirmed with league office). He's contested points but I doubt he'd get dropped back to 9 (taking the Sixers to 43). 44 points means they can get 2 imports and retain Daly and Pero. Fits point wise, might be hard to manage $ wise.

Full story here

http://www.36reasons.net/2013/04/wright-on-time.html

You right anonymous should listen more.

So what is Joey's 3 year plan, and how long will we take to "gel"?

;)

Best news I've heard in 3 years. Just purchased two season tickets and can't wait until the start of next season. Just what the club needed. Don't mind if Joey lets boys have a couple of froffys. It's better than the low fat, diluted, powdered soy milk that Marty was feeding everyone or Radords fatty breast milk. Can't wait to watch a team with some freedom and personality who look like they actually enjoy playing basketball but with the discipline to get the job done. An exciting import wouldn't hurt either!

Congratulations Joey Wright.

Not The Points its the $$$

Toxic Town to Party Town, every player gets a VIP Pass to any Bar in Town as a bonus. Yeah Baby Joey is Back!!!

Anyone know who Joey will go with for assistants? is Maher going to be brought in??

Woops, forgot about DJ's contract (8).

I wonder what happened to all those anons that claimed that Phil Smythe/Brett Maher had the job? Never mind the fact that Smythe didn't even apply...

Hopefully Joey can convince Gibson to stay, and Daly is offered a reasonable deal as well.

Assuming these two are resigned, by my calculations we should only have used 48 player points on Gibson, Johnson, Schenscher, Petrie, Cadee, Creek and Daly given that Cadee(5) and Creek(4) are still under the same contracts and maintain their old player points, no?

That leaves room for a (cheap) import, with plenty of options remaining under the cap. Wright should have enough flexibility to put together a playoff team, IMO.

Could not be happier - best move the club has made in YEARS.

Will purchase 4 x season tickets ASAP. Very excited.

Good choice ,sixers ,now get right players and we will have more wins.
Get an American point guard and a swing man ,weigh out ,we will go to 8 deep.looking forward to next seasons first game.

This is a great choice given his track record with the now defunct Gold Coast team.
That given, he know the lows in which he played for the Geelong Supercats, so I am quite sure we will see an exciting brand of basketball in some 5 months from now.

Yep, great choice

Hmmm, I'm not sold on Deleon so far. He is a known quantity at least, so the Sixers would be getting an upgrade on the PG play they've endured for a long time, but I hope Joey is able to pull out someone better, who can match Cedric Jackson.

Hopefully he is the man to revive the Sixers. I like that they have gone for a coach with successful NBL experience and his existing relationships with Gibbo and Petrie will hopefully ensure both remain at the Sixers long-term.

Interestingly, Wright says that if he retains Gibbo, that'll put the team at 54 pts. Not sure how he came to that figure, but if true it almost certainly would force Weigh to move on, given 10 pts will go on an import.

So who is signed at this pt?

Schenscher
DJ Petrie
Creek
Cadee

Surely that can't be more than 40 pts? Would have thought less even? If it is 40 then add Gibbo and an import and you have 10 pts to round out the roster. Hopefully enough for a cheap import or perhaps Weigh if his pts aren't too high.

That would give us 8 good players, with the remaining slots going to development players like Daly and a young big man