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Rhys Martin Departs Hawks

The third signing was Kevin White who was announced first out of the three and i can understand why you missed it cause it's not really big news.The bloke is TRASH,Rhys Martin is better on one leg than White.

Simon Stratford had three announcements

veteran in David Andersen
Rockie in Daniel Grida
Who is the third one?

Lols at the NBL useless post when you throw in a championship winner who had 40 point and 20 rebound games.

Petrie also played for the Boomers and was a very tough cover at his position.

I swear the only thing I said to him at the store was to go to Advanced Hair yeah yeah to get the bald spot worked on.

I would of kept Martin as he would guide the younger guards more so what White could offer.White would only teach tell on how to be a dickhead.

When Rhys Martin arrived in 2008 he had played for Australia in juniors and we waited expectantly for his input. Year 1 he struggled in the men’s game with junior habits and an undeserved swagger. He certainly was not a fan favourite.
Over the past 3 seasons he has come off the bench and on his night was capable of turning a game and smart at both ends of the court.
Remembering he came as a junior and now unfortunately needs to step aside for the new school of youngens.
Overall he has been a great team man for the Hawks. Good luck Rhys

Shout out to the Brett Rainbow mention, at least he's good for warmups, but Kevin White is somewhat useful on D, my team.

Allen
Gynes
Christopherson
Teys
Doyle

Martin's not useless and at least Rainbow could do big dunks. Excluding DP's I would have:

PG Doyle
SG Teys
SF White
PF Hire
C Ben Allen

Anon #039 Melb have Hooley and Dillon as backups

Jett and Conklin signed yet

FYI Rhys Martin has played for the Boomers so gets more respect than a bench role player IMO

I would consider Kevin White the 'Greg Hire' of the Hawks. He doesn't offer much other than a good locker room presence where as Martin still has a little bit of game left but with age not on his side and an obvious dip in form last season they probably want to get a bit quicker at the point i.e. Naar.

I think he could still play another season but what's the point of uprooting your family for one final season it's highly unlikely he could play another two years. If the Kings aren't interested and they likely wouldn't be with Adnam & Wilson as back ups so that's pretty much it.

I'd rather him at the Sixers than Doyle but Doyle's a homegrown product and still has two years to go on his contract so not really doable.

The Greg Hire of the Hawks.
At least the Hawks were smart enough not to re-sign him. Adelaide’s move next with Teys.

Xavier Thames would be a good replacement ? Plays in New Zealand for Canterbury
20pts 3.8 ast 4 rebs and is owned by the Toronto Raptors

He's definitely a better player than Kevin White but I guess they are taking his age into account.

Got two teams to grand final series...

Sydney Kings are definitely already full

*Randle / Adnam
Lisch / Wilson
Newley / Local or *cheap import
*Wear / Kickert / Pineau
Bogut / Deng (shared with Kickert)

Adelaide will most likely go with an import point, however if they don't get a quality local big (like Motum)they may need to use the import slot at the 4... in which case Martin could be a possibility. However very unlikely.


*Import / Doyle
Sobey / *Moore / Teys
*Import / Drmic / McVeigh
Motum (?) / Deng
Johnson / Froling

Adelaide have Sobey, Moore and Doyle to run the point. I'd add one more, but they now have to cover for the loss of Creek. And if you were adding someone, it'd probably be an import rather than Martin.

Martin is obviously very experienced, but as much as he's unremarkable, Doyle has always seemed quite steady to me.

This decision from the Hawks might've pushed him into retirement. Hard to uproot family now (his wife works in radio there) and the Kings have his position covered.

I think Rhys Martin is done. No other team has room for a point guard. You'd have to think that Cairns will be opting for an import point guard:

Cairns Taipans

*Import / Kenny
*Import / Kernich-Drew / Kuany
*Import / Local
Walker / Loughton
Jawai / Loe


Illawarra Hawks

Ogilvy / Local
*Conklin(?) / Andersen
Blanchfield / Conreaad / Grida
*Import / White
*Jett(?) / Naar

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