Hoops

Was this the best NBL season ever?

“Best ever”? Nup - Tigers v Magic beats them easily, especially when you have 15,000 fans screaming their lungs out.
Standard kind of exaggeration these days, aimed at casual viewers rather than the hard-core loyal fans.

Was it gripping? yep.
Quality players? yep.
Reffing quality? Just okay.
Presentations at the end? Pretty poor and low-key
Entertainment? Painful, to a hard core Tigers fan like me. If we have to go THAT far to fill stadiums, then God help the game long-term.

I agree with LV I thought last season was probably the best ever but that could be a bias towards the Sixers cinderella season, predicted to finish near the bottom and finished top then choked in the playoffs. Last season's GF was ordinary but up until then it was an absolutely enthralling season.

When Melbourne loaded up this season adding Prather to an already formidable lineup the season did have a fait acompli feel about it. They were always going to win the title unless they buggered it up themselves. I'm just glad the Sixers took them to the distance despite losing Childress in Game 2, an incredible team performance.

In the presentation they said this was the best GF series in the NBL's 40 years.

Pure hyperbole- Tigers vs Kings 08 was easily better as a standalone series, and also had added spice of being another instalment of a great rivalry.

In terms of the whole season, last year hard to beat.

Overall talent just as good, if not better this year but last year's season was better. Then, this year's playoffs easily better than last year.....

Summary

Top talent
Good season
Very good playoffs, not great though

I actually think the series was over-shadowed by the off court nonsense, and the obvious home court advantages that both teams had from the whistle blowers. There is nothing epic about one team shooting more free throws than their opponents actual score, or a week-long sook by a head coach. Goulding’s flopping against Drmic was pathetic, even worse that it worked, but not as pathetic as the league trying to play hardball after the fracas but getting the punishments completely wrong.

Most games not close or exciting so this ranks ok for going 5/5 games but not among the best series

Any season where Adelaide loses is the best ever.

No.

Not as many close finishes as past seasons and the final four had become a race in five from about a third of the way into the regular season. Top two were effectively settled with just over a month to go in the regular season.

Semis were exciting but neither series went the full distance. GF series was exciting as a series but each game lacked uncertainty of result after the first quarter, maybe apart from the last minute of G3 and the last quarter of G4.

The regular season had the most blowouts (38 games won by more than 14 points) of any season in the last 5. It had fewer close finishes (24 games won by less than 5 points) than all but 2 of the last 5 seasons.

However, the home team advantage was less this year, compared with the past two seasons. It was back down to 59% of games won by the home team, same as 2013-14 and 2014-15. Last season that percentage was 62% and in 2015-16 it was 70.5%.

Oh, and the 36ers didn't win the championship. So no.

It was the worst ever national anthem in history that's for sure!

Has to be best season ever because i got to watch those GRUBS(Adelaide)make all the way to game five in the grand final only for them to watch someone else lift the trophy.That was the best viewing ever.

Can’t remember better, so best ever.

Rubbish anon, a great season and final season best for many years.
Lucky to go to 3 of GF including last in Melbourne and the attendance and atmosphere was huge .
Sixers shooting let them down in last,but standard been amazing and the depth in both GF teams as strong as ever been.
Good to see the revival of our NBL

I start many threads.

2018 playoffs were weak as, semis over in two games and even though GF series went the distance each away team was anemic. So disappointing.

Just buzz off and stop using the name "anonymous", you don't like my post just buzz of and truck on and get lost. If you don't like it don't post, why don't you put some posts up and start a thread instead of just cry and whinge..

Not even close.

Oh, and stop posting.

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/basketball/nbl-holds-ground-on-tigers-20111216-1oyou.html

the nbl fail to accept responsiblity yet again someone should lose there job over the error made. imagine an AFL game going to a video replay and they got it wrong. gaze said on one hd coverage last night the ref can only judge under FIBA rules on video replay if it is a 2 or 3, or if the game clock expired and that you cant determine on replay because of a shot clock violation. this has massive implications for betting agencies and repercussions on the ladder with the log jam in the middle with teams could miss on playoffs head to head ratios. not just the tigers what about the 36ers who will be in a battle with cairns to make the finals granting the taipains a win when they shouldmt have could be the difference at seasons end