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Blanchfield joins Hawks

Was Ogilvy known to be struggling with injuries over the past 2 seasons, or is that just speculation to explain his rapid decline?

If AJ becomes 2015-16 Ogilvy and Blanchfield is 2014-15 Blanchfield, with 2 decent imports this team will be very competitive and might surprise. Any team with Bevo has a chance of regularly defeating more talented opponents, but if these two guys recapture old form that will help a lot.

Ogilvy is 29 and Blanchfield 26, so you never know.

He signed for 3 years with the Hawks because he enjoyed his time living in Melbourne.

I don't think it's been mentioned in here but TB signed with the Hawks for 3 years too. I have to give him credit because I did think he would just use the opportunity with them to sign a bigger deal somewhere else the following season.

He's genuinely got his heart set on getting back into the Boomers conversation and that wouldn't have happened if he stayed at the Kings.

It's been a noticeable decline over the past two seasons for AJ.

2015/16 - 31 games 16.4 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 1.7 bpg, 1.5 spg, 54.5% fg

2016/17 - 34 games 11.1 ppg, 7.6 rpg, 1.5 bpg, 1.0 spg, 46.4% fg

2017/18 - 22 games 9.5 ppg, 5.5 rpg, 1.4 bpg, 0.8 spg, 51.3% fg

AJ was injured for a significant part of the season, before that he was NBL 1st team so I am willing to give him some grace.

With all the AJ disappearing talks, I wonder if they adjust the calls by letting the bigs play, how would he cope?

What happened to Clarke? He has regressed.

Some might view it as Conger took away from the team being a ball dominant player but IMO he was busy keeping that Hawks team afloat. Clarke seemed to go into his shell a bit, Ogilvy all but disappeared and the local core aged and fell away.

It was understandable to bring most of that team back given they made the GF the year before but I've said before I think they had quite a bit of help from the 36ers getting into that GF and were then put to the sword by Perth.

They went on a year too long with that group combined with AJ entering the witness protection program and Clarke either struggling to hit a shot or then reluctant to take them saw Conger doing the vast majority of the heavy lifting on that team.

Team = teammates

Conger took a lot away from the others on his team imo

Conger took a lot away from the others on his team imo

Nothing against Blanchfield but he is a significant drop off from Conger.

This means that Hawks have to really catch up in the Import PF position as their frontline doesn't look great.

On what planet is Rhys Martin playing minutes at the 2?
Import/Martin/Naar earlier on and hopefully import/Naar/Martin by the end of the season.

Great signing considering the past three weeks for the Hawks.

Would love to see Bevo play him at the two and recruit imports into the PG,SF & PF spots. If they can nail the imports and land either Jervis or Andersen off the bench they could be very competitive. Hopefully Ellis returns also, he fits well into Bevos system.

NBL superstar. Great signing

Recently on here there was a comment about the captain having to start the game. The Tigers have Greer as captain and he has not started recently. What exactly is the rule?