Hoops

Crosswhite to quit Kings?

With Crosswhite leaving, surely we'd want an import PF that could help cover the 5 instead of the other way? I know with Madgen out it leaves us without some scoring punch, but long term, Crosswhite is the bigger hole to fill, surely? Otherwise it's just AJ and Garlepp to fill that position...

Never said he was better and never said he was good.
At the end of the season he was training with the kings and they attempted to get him on the roster.
He is talented but weak and he does get pushed around him really only Tom Dawson.
Heal loves him, as for better big in QBL maybe, but look at Iti heal doesn't like him.
Remember heal is his own man, I would be looking at Luke Overs not sure if his still playing in the waratah league but a very strong 4 man and only 26yrs old. He won the league MVP 2 yrs ago.

Nerrr to Allsop, good for waratah but needs to be posting star numbers there to even be considered.

All respect to Ross, but didn't he do fairly average OS and while his numbers in Waratah league are fairly good, it IS still the Waratah League...

Maybe possible backup quality, but there's no way that he's starter level quality, which is the player that we need...

Bad mouth a retiring player all you like, anon, but truth of the matter is he was a quality player for us and he'll be a big hole to fill...

Watch this space - Ross Allsop will be signed
College big forward who went to Europe and when came back at the start of this year to Sydney was training.
Soft big man but highly talented

Not surprised - Crossie during many Taipans functions was quite candid with us fans saying he only had a couple of years left in him (last year with Cairns) as he still wanted to pick up his kids/work the farm without a broken body. He wanted to finish his last season with the Taips back with the Kings but they still had Kazzough so he stayed a little longer so he could finish back at the Kings.

Signing Ogilivy, his post bball plan and the thought of another hard preseason probably made the decision easier. Good bloke, will miss him play NBL.

Chatting with him after games I got the feeling last season that he was glad to have come home to finish off his career, so hopefully it's just a case of his body getting banged around a lot as he was playing with niggles for most of the season, and not feeling quite into it any more and wanting to get on with life outside basketball...

At least I hope that's the case... I just hope it's not a blind side for the team, and that he's already given them a longer notice heads up...

Just looking up Jerai Grant's stats from over at Brindisi last season (as I was hoping that maybe he'd developed a decent outside shot), but they're most unimpressive, I wonder what the go was there...

A disappointing turn of events, but if your heart isn't in it, at least we've got enough time to do SOMETHING about it... Hopefully...

Not sure how anyone else filling in at that position would work with AJ though... Maybe we cut our losses, put AJ in full time at the 5 and then find a proper 4?

Yikes! Not good...