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Greatest NBL team of all-time?

Wrong again, Cattalini was in his third season, and was already playing big minutes, as part of a 4-man frontcourt rotation.

But you didn't, you had to be a smart arse and claim "Cattalini and Hansen were never on the same team."

But did he once score 4 touchdowns in a High School game?

Come on now, Matt Earp hit a half court buzzer beater that one time. Legend.

"The 95 Wildcats started strong, but the were only six and a half deep"

They had Cattalini and Stewart on the bench, that's a kick-arse 7-man rotation.

In 1995 Hansen was used as an injury replacement for Scott Fisher, thereby playing on the same team as Cattalini.

One of the shortest but talented rotations ever.

I've been watching since 1979. 2011-2016? I wish I could forget. The Breakers only had to contend with Perth. Everyone else was too busy trying not to go bankrupt.

Pretty good standard if my memory serves me well
brisbane had loggins sengstock bruton and etc....

"Worst period in the NBL was 1979-1996."

Wow, you're dumb!

That Breakers team were clutch. So many away games won by really close margins.

I agree that the Breakers had most success in the worst period in NBL history. Hard to know how to place them.

The team the Breakers had when they first won a championship is deceiving on paper as we have seen a much larger body of work from Abercrombie and Pledger so we immediately think 'wow they are deep' but they were still getting minor minutes and weren't stars Yet and that is why all these arguments are fun because when we look back retrospectively we look at a players career as a whole and whether they were a star or not and their best season won't necessarily be that championship year.

That is why I feel it should go on gut instinct and who you feared the most when you were playing them next.

That's why I say a Brian Goorjian led Magic team are mine without giving specific year as they were awesome in 1993 and by 1995/96 they had Anstey, McKinnon, Smith, Drmic coming through and it clouds how great they were as they were stacked and stealing court time from each other.

Why the 2006 Tigers team is not on this list? Broke Sydneys reign of a 4 peat. Just saying

2012-13 was poor. Hate people on here who constantly perpetrate the myth that early-2010s were good. They were trash and an all time low point for the league.

The 1995 Perth Wildcats were a pretty good side:
Cattalini, Crawford, Fisher, Grace, Hansen, Stewart, Trahair, Vlahov

The 2012/13 season was strong. Gold Coast, the 3rd placed team from the year before, had just dropped out and most of their players went to other clubs in the league.

won all games by big margins .... history became a lie 2 games 'lost' on time clock errors

most likely 1986 36ers , arithmetically speaking...

1995 Wildcats. They won bronze at the Club World Championships.

I'll always have fond memories of the 86 36ers. Great players and such an exciting team to watch every time they hit the floor.

For the Wildcats are best performing team was 91, went 26-5 for the season.

They would have to be in top 3 teams IMO.

86 36ers and 2007 Bullets are hard to split.

I didn't see the 36ers, but the numbers are ridiculous, so I'll go with them by a hair.


1997 Tigers aren't far off either. Gaze, Copeland, Bradtke and Timmons all in their primes- nice! Won 17 games in a row, I think it was? Including one 111-74 walloping of the Magic in Game 1 of the finals.

Boti - it's time to retire. You're past it. Wildcats 2017 bwahahahahahahha.

Of the 8 championships Perth has won, Boti picks the worst one of them all as the best of all time?

Did he forget that the 15-13 wildcats had the worst regular season record in history to win a title, beating a 15-13 Hawks team that was probably one of the worst opponents in a GF and they only won it on the back of Adelaide's stunning choke and end of season recruit in Bryce Cotton.

Although in his write up he barely mentions that team at all, which is odd.

I don't understand the hate on Gaze, The Tigers came back that year after losing to Magic on 92.

Lost the plot, that is.

Boti has officially lost it.

I remember the feeling I got when North Melbourne and South East Melbourne merged to form Victoria Titans and how the Magic were getting D-Mac... ultimately it lead to grand final losses and nothing more significant and their roster was only 8-9 deep but my memory of all that was that they'd be unstoppable and I've never felt like a team would be so dominant again.

I think the Sydney Kings and even Melbourne United suffer from the fact that the competition is so strong so their dominance will be greatly reduced and perception will decrease as season progresses.

It's a fun argument but will beaten grand final sides ever be thought of as being great ie West Sydney Razorbacks that lost in 5 games, had that been different could they be remembered more favourably?
Same with North Melbourne Giants of 1995, won game 1 and lost the remaining 2 but they were great and Chris Jent was an incredible talent.

Gaze must have misunderstood the question.

Not convinced by the argument for the 2013 Breakers, either. I wouldn't even have them as the best of the Breakers' three-peat teams.

Few things disinterest me as much as toe-the-line sports interviews so I quite enjoyed this article interviewing Bogut about leaving the Bucks, his injuries and that injury-prone tag, his new team, etc. He's very open about everything.

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