Hoops

Round 2 Excitement

Jack Toft
I know where you are coming from
Had a friend who once worked in a restaurant ( thankfully only short term)
He had/has attitude problem and responded badly when a customer sent a steak back for ‘re-cooking’ as not served well done as requested.
We never complained when he cooked a BBQ after hearing that
Say no more

Hanging Around, once you have working in a fast food restaurant, you don't want to eat there.

My then 16 yo wife was working at KFC, a tray of freshly cooked items got knocked and spilled on the floor, scooped up and straight into a bucket.....mmmm tasty
A mate of mine was at Dino's dial a pizza. A 20 odd litre bucket of mushrooms got dropped in the storeroom.... you know what happened next....
He also said, never, ever, ever be rude to the person taking the order. You don't want to know what extras went on that pizza. I could say, but common decorum prevents mention, even on a site like Hoops.

Isaac
How could you watch 24 hours of ads on making Whoppers (don't need 2 hands like the first batches).
My son worked at HJs as a kid and has not eaten there since -lol

BUT great to see them sponsoring the league

I think paul was merely agreeing with the quoted posts.

Fox Sports had the red button option about 10 years ago, which enabled muting of the commentary while retaining other audio. Don't think I used it much, though.

I find it way too difficult to watch games on mute, it's too difficult to follow some of the things that go on (doubly so when the score graphics are absent or wrong), and it's hard to get invested if you can't at least hear the crowd. Watching the 4OT game on mute would've been awful - the on-screen clock is out of sync, so it'd be difficult to know if shots were made on time, there were several reviews that would've gone unexplained, and without being able to hear the excitement of the crowd and the commentary team it would've seemed really flat.

This...

"Sometimes when watching basketball, I just want to concentrate and watch the game and I find commentators distracting."

and this...

"I'd definitely be up for a "no commentator feed" option, but ya need the sounds of the court and crowd."

Speaking of Slow TV channels how good was that one SBS did recently of the Ghan train ride from Adelaide to Darwin?

https://tvtonight.com.au/2018/01/sbs-to-screen-17-hrs-of-the-ghan-trip-after-all.html

I watched the original 3 hour version and tuned in a few times to the 17 hour version. The 3 hour version was the highest rated show on SBS for 12 months.

Frank Walker is doing the voice over for the next round of First Ever adverts.

Yeah, I can appreciate that seeing the same ad over and over is boring (happens all the time on on-demand apps for main channels/shows) and that the First Ever ad is underdone (or they should've created 3-5 variants to mix it up), but the eternal complaints are just about as boring. After it's annoyed you, hit mute. I only really watch Netflix, so I can't stomach ads on TV and mute by default. No loss to the advertisers - already like Hungry Jacks, no interest in MGs or First Ever, distrust and dislike supplements/etc.

I would probably watch quite a lot of a roast chicken channel though.

I'd definitely be up for a "no commentator feed" option, but ya need the sounds of the court and crowd

You can always turn the sound off

I watched Adelaide vs Sydney, and had sound off for most of it

Sometimes when watching basketball, I just want to concentrate and watch the game and I find commentators distracting.

There used to be a cable channel in Canada that was just 24 hours of rotisserie chicken.

Sure, you can do other things during the ads, but it doesn't make them any less annoying. The same ads over and over again, even if it was a good one, would get annoying. And those first ever ones aren't good. I saw bits of 3 games over the weekend and it was enough to give me the shits.

Don't people mute ads and do something else like talk to whoever they're watching with, check Twitter, get food, etc?

(I like Hungry Jacks, so I could probably watch a 24 hour slow channel that just showed Whoppers being prepared.)

Id rather Frank Walker from National Tiles ads on repeat then those shitty lastever ads

Can't wait for the new First Ever ad featuring the models eating Hungry Jack's Grill Masters burgers while laying across the bonnet of an MG ZS American Beauty style like when the rose petals fall down on her, but with clothes on obviously. Mustard and ketchup dripping all over the clothes... I shit I'd never get tired of that ad.

As Free Agency is approaching, i thought it would be interesting to see what people would do if they were 36ers GM/Coach in regards to next seasons roster.

Try to be realistic with salary and within the points cap, what would your line up look like, including imports, for the sake of the argument lets say D-leaguers and others around various NBL-level Euro leagues are gettable, and college seniors, who would you target.

For the sake of the argument lets say guys like Cedric Jackson, Gary Ervin, Donta Smith, other top level imports who are no longer in the NBL (or likely to demand big bucks elsewhere ie Jackson) are unavailable, but D-leaguers are guettable as they only earn something like 30k (i think).

My team would be

STARTERS

C - Schenscher (SA born and bread, been one of the better players on playoff teams his whole career, including college)

PF - Johnson (people say he is internationally a PF like Nielsen and Andersen, so happy to play him at PF, he is quick enough to play PF also imo, not a great defender but could fill the Ballinger type role as a jump shooting, fairly mobile big)

SF - Weigh (could easily start Creek here, but guessing the coaches will start Weigh, was one of our better rebounders needs to step it up offensively and gain more consistency/confidence in his shot or Creek will overtake him very quickly)

SG - Anthony Goods (IMPORT),gone with a import shooter, as we will need some shooters with our big guys inside, played D-league with a stint in Italy, shot the 3pter at above 40% in the 2011-12. His Career D-league averages are 14.6 pts, 2.2 assists, 3.3 rebounds, 39.8% from 3pt range. 6'3 not huge for a SG but big enough for the NBL IMO, Lisch is around that size from memory. Could have easily gone with a import big, to rebound, but decided we needed the shooter more as Schenscher and Johnson will play the bulk of the big man minutes anyway.
Anyone seen much of him?

PG - Curtis Stinson (IMPORT), was 2011 D-League MVP, his career D-League averages are 14.9pts, 8.1 ast, 5.4 rebounds, judging from a few quick youtube vids and stats, appears to be a fairly athletic, drive and dish PG, offensively similar to a Jackson, couldnt tell anything about him defensively but hopefully can hold his own, good size at 6'3, doesnt seem to take many 3-pt shots given his career average this is a good thing. 29 years old, so may be happy to take a 150k import salary instead of tinkering around the D-League. If nothing else he is bigger than Warren and would definitely average more assists and be a better play maker. Anyone seen him play or know much about him?

BENCH

C - Trueman (offer him a few more mins and $$ if available than he is getting in Perth, seems to be a hard working inside player, who will be a good compliment to Schenscher and Johnson)

PF - Dowdell (Another hardworking player inside, good team man, not likely to demand huge $$ or mins), if we have the $$ or points available chase Larry Davidson instead as our 3rd big, playing most of the back up mins (obviously Truemans role would change if we got him, but went with Dowdell as not expecting to be able to afford much else.

SF - Creek, play atleast 20 mins sliding between SG and SF, push Weigh for starting spot, given the toughest defensive assignment when on the court.

SG - NG, another shooter and good to have another SA local on the team,

PG - Crosswell, good veteran playmaker


Anyway thats how I would recruit and think it would be a fairly strong team, depending on how good the imports turn out.

What do people think? What would your line up look like?