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How will teams go about filling their rosters?

...hence openly complaining another team won't pick him up, as if it's their duty.

Thanks Steve... With Pineau signing with the Kings last week, seems Hill is out of Sydney options at least...

Players now openly whinging their home town club won't sign them. Come on, get real Jeromie. Why are you entitled to a spot on a roster just because it's your hometown?

Paywall? Well, Gerrans wrote in the article that "Hill and his management are continuing talks with the Kings, optimistic a new deal will be struck for next season, but he was left disappointed by the Taipans decision."

“I suppose I am not what they are after,” Hill, who came through the Cairns Basketball program, said.

“Cairns is one of the places I would love to play at but it is a bit disappointing Fearney (Taipans coach Aaron Fearne) does not want me to come up and play."

Anyways, Jeromie should be a natural stretch four, certainly has the ability to defend bigs and have the ballhandling/shooting to stretch opposition. Just need more opportunity and have the coaches focus more on him in training.

Paywalls for news articles, I just don't get it... So going to have to assume what it says and even though from post-game pressers it was sort of clear that Gaze was still a fan of Hill, but that still never translated to more than maybe 20mins of game time for the season...

There's a new video out of Copes discussing what he and the coaching staff have said they were after for next season... A big 5 who can rebound, a stretch 4 and a back up guard... No mention of import (or otherwise) PG, so it looks like Gaze will be persisting with not having a proper PG... Hoepfully they get the other parts right that help cover for this, otherwise it's going to be another long season...

http://www.cairnspost.com.au/sport/local-sport/knockback-spurs-hill-on-to-make-statement/news-story/2d00a84b1cb48fc01a6bae830da8019c

So it does look like Jeromie will stay in Sydney after all. I've always felt he was underutilised, particularly last season.

Not many bigs have his skill set and I wondered why Gaze used him mainly at 5 with no license to shoot it from outside. He was an ok 3pt shooter as a big in Texas-SA.

Does anyone have any concrete evidence that the Hawkies have resigned Foreman & Coenraad?

I'm assuming we've stayed loyal, but really want to know! : )

"The season before that it started on the 13th Sep, yeah way off."

LOL yeah which was 2008-09, you said "last season" originally which was 2015-16. Eight years is way off in my book.

They changed it ages ago because the start of the NBL season was being lost in the media among AFL and NRL finals. Not much better since until this year.

The season before that it started on the 13th Sep, yeah way off.

Even back in 09-10 and before it was always the last week of September. So you are way off.

Okay maybe the league has moved to an October start date permanently now but the way it had been for a long time was the season started in early Sep unless an Olympics or WC was on then those seasons it would start early Oct.

The last time a season started in September was 2009-10.

So did the previous season...

Last season started in October not September.

But last season wasn't pushed back by a month. What are you on about?

This offseason will be shorter than last though with no Olympics or WC pushing back the start of the season by a month.

Yeah, off topic but the season is too short.
And the playoff semi's need to be best of 5 series too....

LK will fix it!

We have a pathetically short season.

ugh... our off season is too long... want answers now...

If Boone is coming back I can't see how the Khazzouh rumour could be true unless as I hypothesized that Andersen is gone. Majok & Moller are under contract too.

so the only one looking a bit behind the eight ball is Sydney.

Kings fans definitely fretting about that empty frontcourt and not many local FA bigs out there.

Kings to announce college signing soon

@693/696 - I wasn't aware of that change in the newest CBA. No need to be assholes.

Yes that's right about the Tigers player. Rest assured if he was any good he wouldn't be in Australia.

To make it easier to speculate, I'll summarize each team's remaining slots, assuming they're going for 3 imports.


ADELAIDE: 3 import spots. Chasing Ramone Moore?

BRISBANE: 2 imports.

CAIRNS: 3 imports, 2 locals (Damon Heuir re-signing rumour).

ILLAWARRA: 2 imports, 2 locals.

MELBOURNE: 3 imports (Josh Boone rumoured to have signed), 2 locals (Daniel Dillon? Julian Khazzouh?).

NEW ZEALAND: 3 imports, 1 local.

PERTH: 3 imports.

SYDNEY: 3 imports, 3 locals.


If you assume the rumours are all true, its really only 7 local spots left to fill (Cairns 1, Illawarra 2, NZ 1, Sydney 3). Some are probably already in verbal agreements so the only one looking a bit behind the eight ball is Sydney.

Kings fans definitely fretting about that empty frontcourt and not many local FA bigs out there. They will most likely have to rely on import bigs or returnees. JVG was in Europe though, so he may be scouting there a bit.

One interesting thing I came across was Joey's in Singapore scouting for possible Asian import. Maybe to replace Jacobsen? Probably ends up getting one for a DP spot. Everyone's encouraged by NBL to get one in their roster ala the Kings and Bullets.

Speaking of which, Gaze managed to recruit 2 new Chinese players into the Tigers to 'replace' Bo Liu. The interesting one of the two is Ming Zhao, a 7'2" kid who weighs around 130kg. Supposedly have a very nice touch but only 17 years old.

LOL at asking for a source for an already announced change.

Don't think a source is needed for old news .... Go read the CBA

"With NBA teams going to a 17 man roster"

Source?

Don't read too much into it. A lot of guys have likely reached verbal agreements. It's still early in the process .. Can't announce them , since they are playing in other leagues

just heard that magic might be moving to the parks community centre,is this true?If so ,i think its a good idea to move out of st clair and get away from the warriors.