Hoops

Ennis smashing the chair in Game 2

1. Nothing was going to happen between Ervin & Hire until everybody else came in and escalated it

2. Ervin's knee to the nuts didn't show class

3. Ennis is immature and is possibly only thinking of himself ( May be treating this stint with Perth as something to put on his resume, already getting an NBA mindset )

4. There's been plenty of arrogant imports in the past ( one former 36ers import would answer the phone with "speak" until his college coach rang and that changed quick)

5. We hate Perth and they hate us but there is still a mutual respect there for some of us( still laugh at Perth fans on twitter calling Gibson a cheat when he apparently knocked the ball out of bounds like he made the call )

6. Refs will never be consistent ( can't believe I said that with a alias like Rasheed30)

7. I must love using brackets ( ......)

"the offensive liability of Damian Martin that to the superficial observer is disguised by the fact that he never takes a shot when he isn't wide open with his feet set."
Yes, not taking bad shots is an excellent indicator of a poor offensive player. Given that he has such non-scorers as Redhage, Beal, Ennis, and Knight on his team, he really should be getting a lot of shots up.

"As a side note. Damien Martin is a defensive wiz,but far out, surely a pro basketball works on his shot to get some consistency. Missed to many open looks. No team pays respect, nor should they. Big disappointment for me."
He was the third-best three-point shooter in the league this season, if you exclude Gleeson and Schenscher, who only had six attempts between them. Even if you include them despite the useless sample size, Martin is still fifth, shooting 44%.

How much better do you want him to be, exactly?

Whereas I DO want show ponies in the league. The more players we have in the NBL that aren't "vanilla" the better, and I'm not talking about race.
Players who arouse people's emotions are a good thing. I never wanted Homicide on my team, but I always loved that he was in the NBL. His presence was good for the league.
Ennis is not the perfect player, but he has been damn good for the Cats and damn good for the league. If he fouls out after shooting 0-20 tomorrow then he still will have raised the profile of basketball in Perth and brought tens of thousands of extra people through the turnstiles, and that's a good thing.
Only 1 club can win a title each year, but if every club filled its stadium every season then basketball would be in a damn good place.

I appreciate the hell out of the Damian Martins and the Rotnei Clarkes of the league, but I wouldn't want a league full of just them. I'd still watch it, but if no one else did and the league died as a result, then I would no longer be able to watch it.
So I also appreciate the guys like Ervin and Ennis who might be less than perfect but who create drama.

He might go nuts tomorrow, but I for one don't want show ponies in the NBL. Great players YES! But he wanted the MVP cos he was good at dunks and 360 moves which earlier on in the year were travel calls, but not against him. Nah, look after him and wipe his backside says the NBL. Good riddance.
The MVP if the league Rotnei Clarke deserved it way more. Plus the tool would have probably sold his trophy at cashy's/

Look at the replay for those who think that was a block.
All Ennis has to do was keep going right and he was straight to the basket. Instead, he deliberately went left and charged full bore into Teys, simple as that. The contact was un-necessary because if he had been going towards the basket he would have scored.

When confronted with players who like making deliberate contact to try to draw a foul, best to move just at the last moment so they have nothing to fall into and they fall on the ground. Makes them look like fools.

Steven, the thread is actually not that silly. There is an accusation of him "losing it" with a chair. I presume this is after being fouled out, or after the game. There is also an accusation of him throwing a trophy into the Yarra in a fit of disgust after the NBL awards dinner.

All jokes aside, that pattern of behaviour, if true, is pointing to a sportsman who is in urgent need of a mentor or other help before things get worse.

That poor defenceless chair never even saw it coming. I take solace in the fact that it died almost instantaneously from the impact and did not suffer.

No? When did it happen?

Were the broken pieces sub sequentially fashioned into a hook to retrieve things out of the water?