Hoops

How people see the Wildcats

The author also thought Beal was having another great season - Credibility completely gone

The only Perth player I consider to be a bit dirty is Redhage.
He used to be real bad at poking his elbows out when setting screens on smaller guards.
He either doesn't do it as often or a don't notice it as much with Ced Jackson being taller and more agile than CJ Bruton.
He just flops and exaggerates contact these days which is what most of the leagues best players are doing so no big deal.

I don't think a lot of Greg Hire as a player, nothing he's done I just don't rate/like him.

Wagstaff, Knight, Jervis and Damo are all great players whom I'd be stoked if they played for NZ.

Let's call it as we see it, I hate seeing Redhage flop as much as anybody and think Wagstaff would be a much better player if his mindset was more like Vlahov in he doesn't wanna show weakness to the opposition... But that isn't why Wildcats win and why fans go the their games. As fans we want to see our team play hard and play smart, if they do that's then it's all good.

Wildcats win games because they rebound amazingly well and take care of the ball above average too, if you beat Perth on the boards and force them into turning the ball over then their poor shooting will show them to be an average team.

Referees have a lot to answer for and its almost to the point of good man management to rest your stars in the first quarter and bring them on after the refs have stopped calling the fouls that could ruin the game for a team... For proof of this just look at the Sydney vs Adelaide game and how much Khazzouh not being there for the last 5 minutes of the game meant to the result...
But none of that has anything to do with dirty players does it

I saw that article this morning. I thought it was pretty embarrassing stuff so I didn't even bother linking it here.
I'm all for opposition fans serving it up to the Cats and their fans when it's warranted, and I'm the first to admit that it is regularly warranted, but that effort would have been punching above its weight just to be a decent blog entry IMO.

Nate Jawai uses his considerable bulk to, often illegally, send opponents sprawling

[Jesse Wagstaff] was of course the catalyst for Sydney import Josh Childress' infamous retaliatory strike at Perth Arena last season which went viral across the globe.

Kings players laughed among themselves that Wagstaff has not set any more screens on Childress in their subsequent meetings.

Despite an ageing roster and a hiccup late in the pre-season when former Boomers guard Hugh Greenwood opted to leave an international sport for one which has no resonance outside of this country, the Cats are still genuine contenders.

"The Wildcats don't seem to realise the perception among other teams is they have been dishing out hard fouls for many years and, for the most part, getting away with them at little cost."

Hmm clearly a total misrepresentation of the true affection that teams, players and coaches across the nation have for the Perth " hard bun-hair men" who are actually regarded as cuddly powder puffs with hearts of soft gold.