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Why aren't journalists calling for Gaze's sacking?

Give him time.Rome wasn't built in a day,give him all the time he needs to make this SHIT side even SHITTIER.I love how they sign former nba players and think they're the signing of the decade.Keep it up Kings i'm loving it.When is Anstey and McDonald joining the party.

Piss weak journalism in this country and even more so re: NBL. Luckily with online now we have forums and blogs.

I think coz they have started 1-4, but the four losses have all been on the road and it's acceptable to lose on the road early on in the season. No one deems it unacceptable to lose to Adelaide/NZ in there home backyard etc. And his one win this year was at home(pass mark). If the losses mount up at home then yes scrutiny will follow. But if Gaze gets an 70-80% winning record at home and say a 20% winning record on the road that is acceptable.. So he hasn't yet done anything wrong to not have a pass mark as losing on the road early in the season is standard procedure and acceptable..

Can understand basketball journos being careful of toeing the line especially when theres only 8 teams and not enough stories to write about, but theres no reason for MSM to not get serious about talking about Gaze or the Kings issues. That comes down to whether they think its important enough to write about. I think they dont.

Yes agree 97 was when the league started to wane and teams began folding, but i thought it was still a lot bigger then than what it eventually became several years after.

But that was back in 1997 when the NBL was still very popular so maybe teams could dictate what got written about them? Its a bad move though as any media attention is good publicity for the league. Even if its critical.

Gaze needs a lot more heat put on him than what hes getting, but does Sydney care enough about it to get more attention on it?

Theres not enough media attention for that to happen. NBL coaches hardly get grilled even by journos that focus on basketball.

We arent one of the football codes where every little thing gets scrutinised. However its good to see the Kings finally get the blow torch put on them for once. Long overdue and I hope it leads to some kind of a shakeup for the sake of the Kings and the NBL.

Another good win for the Boomers, 78-69, sneaking out to a lead with 3minutes to go thanks to two big Brad Newley triples and then holding their nerve down the stretch to close it out easily.

Newley (14p, 5/6, 3/3 triples and 4r) and Ingles (17p, 6/19, 6r and 4a) were the stars, while Matt Nielsen (10p, 5/9 and 5r) and Matt Dellavedova (12p, 5/11, 4r, 3a and 3to). AJ Ogilvy struggled offensively (4p on 2/7) but finished the game out with the above four, pulling in 10r and making some plays late including a big steal to set up an Ingles three point play to put it out of reach.

Crawford, Kickert and Gibson didnt play. Baynes and Martin had limited minutes.