Hoops

Cairns v Brisbane Jan 5th

Dayshon Smith: productive few minutes for him, maybe not so much for his teammates when he held the floor?
Looking back over his season, no wonder he's coming off the bench.
More mooch than scooch.

Is there a koberulz filter on these forums? If so how can I apply it. Dude's a cancer.

Who's to know what's actually going on, but Fearne's treatment of Scoochie is not out of the ordinary. Maybe Podge can shed some light, he seems to be inner circle.

But yeah, it is a flaw in Fearne's coaching. If a guy is hot, he's hot. Keep him in. He's killed the confidence of many an import with his hard nature. Performing and confidence is a two-way street, especially for kids. Fearne needs to be more nurturing. But he is getting better, I'll say that.

I agree with Duncan's questioning of Scoochie's minutes last night. His one stint on the court in the first half was very good and after 7 minutes of court time he had 10 points, had just nailed a 3 and was rolling but Fearne then removed him. In the 3rd qtr, Scoochie didn't make it back on court until there was less than 3 minutes to go and was removed at 3/4 time and was given no further minutes.

It seemed to me that Fearne got the shits with him about the last Taipans play of the qtr where Scoochie decided he would run down the clock and do an iso play which ended up resulting in no points for the Taipans and a 2 point lay up at the other end for Brisbane. He should of been brought back on at some point in the last quarter in my opinion as the Taipans were slowly letting Brisbane back in the game and Weeks was tiring after having spent the majority of the 2nd half on court.

I'm not sure what Scoochie has to do (and he probably doesn't know either). He was benched against Illiwarra and responded to the point he brought us back into the game in the 2nd half and had a big hand in keeping us in it, yet the next game against the Wildcats he didn't play huge minutes and last night he mostly did everything required of him, yet is given less than 10 minutes game time because the coach chucks the shits with him and we then go on to do our very best to lose the game.

I don't agree that Scoochie is a spark plug type of player and think that description fits Weeks better however we are all entitled to our opinions and I certainly don't claim to know it all where basketball is concerned.

I just think it is a major flaw in Fearne's coaching in that he can be so focussed on getting his point across to a player (generally an import) that he loses sight of the what is best for the current game situation.

But look man, I don't want to butt heads on the internet aight

Nah I just don't think you're self-aware

Pretentious

Pretentious again, Kobe. When the 'big' number is 15, it signifies eight seconds. Surely doesn't have to be spelled out for you.

"Standard issue" means standard issue. You're calling someone wrong for your interpretation of how the discourse should go. That right there bottles the mind, like when your thoughts are trapped in a bottle

Kobe in the US when the clock first shows 15 it's 8 seconds, here it's when 16 first shows.

And there is no standard hoop setup in the NBL, the clocks timing mechanism may be set the same as stated above but every venues display/support setup is different.

Pretentious, Kobe. Is that how you speak irl?

If they were standard issue systems, they would all be the same. Give an explanation as to why that statement is wrong.

Also, have a readback, I listed stadiums that don't go to decimals

The NBL doesn't have a standard issue hoop/backboard/shot clock setup, it's different at each venue

Something tells me the Sydney clock goes to decimals late in the count.

Manu and Melbourne Boy are right. The 24 second clock is essentially 24.9 ie it takes a second after its reset to hit 23, meaning that if the ball is in the backcourt and the clock hits 15, then its a violation.

"I'm also fucking sick of watching Jerry Evan Jnr and his 12.5% shooting tonight, his game is so one-dimensional he's in constant danger of folding up into himself and disappearing."

It's OK...Cairns can go begging to the corner newsagency and get one that shoots 15% instead.

From 24..

23
22
21
20
19
18
17
16

At the 16th second, it would have been 8 seconds from a fresh 24.

If the ball is still in the back court at 16, it is a violation, it hasn't crossed to the front court after 8 seconds.

Manu and Melbourne Boy are right. The 24 second clock is essentially 24.9 ie it takes a second after its reset to hit 23, meaning that if the ball is in the backcourt and the clock hits 15, then its a violation.

They don't.

Less than average bogan me thinks. How many years did you spend in Grades 4, 5 and 6 Manu?

Manu if you had any cred which you don't how many seconds from 24 is required to get an 8 SECOND violation? ie. 24 - 8 ='s how many? 15 would be the wrong answer. Arguably 14 is incorrect as well.

The shot clock needs to hit 15 to be an eight-second violation

Should just get Siri to commentate games going forward, maybe that would stop folks complaining so much.

Cairns by 3. Trice missed on the buzzer.

GOT

DAMN

This quarter has been a textbook example of how to let a team back into a game by Cairns.

At this stage of the game should Brisbane be running a halfcourt set where Trice just sits on the weakside not involved in the play?

No way Brisbane makes the finals. Too much of their offense is tough shots from Trice, and they aren't a good enough defensive team to stop the law of averages from kicking them in the behind more often than not.

Brizzy look to be dropping from finals equations.

Maybe it's selective memory, but I don't remember Loughton ever playing this well throughout his lengthy career.

Is Trigger’s commentary brief to sound as ocker Aussie as possible? “Wombat paw” uh.

Muted.

Bairstow was never coming back this season.

Jawai is a no go tonight, may return in NZ on Sunday.

Buford & Petrie both out for the Bullets. I guess we'll never see Cam Bairstow back? His brother doesn't seem to be a DP anymore either.

No news on Jawai returning yet.