Hoops

Should Mitch Creek Be Starting?

There's a creeping consumption in the place and it begins with these Frye haters. They ask nothing and receive nothing. Forgiveness is not in them. They scorn the widow and abuse the child. I'm glad they are not in charge of the young man's destiny.

BJ looks a little like Frye.
Of the two at training, I'd have Frye.
Creek likes to do the flashy specky showey things and we gotta wait for him to finish.
Fans are too despotic. Once in love with weigh's big minutes, they expect Frye, playing half a game in the second team, to be replaced.

Play the anti-hero 16mins and your guy 21mins,then, in a short game over in the blinking of an eye with acrowd deprived of minutes

Well said, Isaac.

Isaac, just watch Joey's rotations at the end of the games, he rotates Frye on to get defensive stops then rotates on other players when the Sixers are in offence.

Agree Proud especially as CJ Massingale least had a outside shot which would be handy with our current team.

I've been wanting to say this for some time... Ubaka has been the worst import this season followed by Jarrid Frye (yep even worse than Lazarre) and for a bloke to spruik before the season that he would dominate Ennis and now what? He has an awful jump shot, doesn't trust himself to drive enough and YES he takes time off Creek... Send him home. If Creek gets tired bring in BJ and give the opponent a more physical cover.

I watched as Kevin Tiggs missed a couple of dunks live as the hawks got destroyed by Perth, but something about him excited me and he has produced later in the season and been tremendous fun to watch... When will Frye impress?

I'm sorry to rant but he plays in a team choc full of confidence and had the 36ers been losing more this season then he'd be on a plane quicker than CJ Massingale

End rant

"Mitch Slap" hahaha I like that!

Minutes are the key. JF is a predominately defensive player and I imagine he starts to keep a lid on the opposition and wear them down a bit, them BAM! out comes Creek to "Mitch Slap" the opposition.

Creek should be playing 30+ mins every game, especially to fast track development.
Think of it from opposition point of view. He is a hard match up. Cadee, Creek, Gibson, Johnson plus imports would be a very formidable combination and this is the core group to build around for long term success. Spend your money on these guys plus imports run a cheap bench and forget stupid rotation policies.

It's not just about starting your best players. Chemistry, team balance and match ups are also taken into consideration. Being labelled a 'starter' is overrated - how else did '6th man' become such a popular concept and saying?

Creek's minutes, however, is another matter altogether...

Questions regarding the 'New' NBL

1. Who are the panel of eight who are the ones in charge of taking the new league in a better direction?

2. Ive seen it said that an 8 team league would be ideal by Worhtington (not that his opinion is important) and someone else (can't remeber who). Isn't that a bit ridiculous, i mean youd have to think cairns, adelaide, townsville, tigers, sydney team, another QLD team, perth would all be locks if the league were to go that way, so does this mean the dragons, hawks, breakers etc are just gonna get kicked out of the league? If so my appreciation of the nbl would go lower than it currently is (off the court) and this would generate yet more bad publicity for the league with more teams leaving.

3. this so called asian premier league in 2010 sounds a bit silly too. The wooden spoon favourites Sydney 'Lacks' Spirit played a japanese team (which as far as i know pays its players similarly to here) in a pre season comp and killed them. Cant the NBL sell say 3 licences to teams to start up in asia, like in Manilla, Singapore would rejoin league, Taiwan, hong kong, guam, KL, jakarta, whatever. Fill these teams up with the best asian talent available, player drain wouldnt be bad, plus asia is the biggest boom area for basketball.

12 teams in oz & NZ and 4 in asia seems fairly straight forward to me. The NBL cannot simply do what the A'league did and hope crowds increase 3 fold with less teams.

4. The NBL publicly stated that its going to suddenyly spend money on promotion - well done for the person who came up with that idea, this 'magical idea' shows how much this league has been run by chimps for so long.

5. Any news on change of season, length of season, length of games, import restrictions, salary cap etc?

Lotsa love Curtley