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Bear

Years ago

Could Cairns make the playoffs next year?

It always annoys me that a team which places bottom has so much negative social media from so many opinionated and subjective fans, essentially!

Only one team can actually win the competition, no one needs to start throwing the bath out with the bath water here, Cairns is a unique place that deserves an NBL team.

As long as the fans support it and sponsors stay on board, the NBL should never allow such a team to fold and people should ignore that rhetoric.

Can they improve and be more competitive next year, of course, it's every team's plan to do so, things happen and plans don't always come off but I for one want the NBL to consolidate and grow, with the Taipans not without them...

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Thunder Jam

Years ago

How long is a piece of string Wendy?

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Anonymous

Years ago

Not saying it isn't a somewhat futile scenario, but the best chance of Cairns having players stick around long term is to have them start their careers there and develop there

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Anonymous

Years ago

Yeah but we need college kids to become men in the league so our team can have some semblance of direction in the future

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Anonymous

Years ago

Sobey
Gliddon
McCarron
Weeks
Steindl

All names we had but now have not. Would Norton and Kay have been likely to come here? I think so.

Hope our ability to recruit from college wasn't lost with Fearne. Are thefe any legitimate college kids we can sign next season?

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Isaac

Years ago

Let's not forget the fact that Cairns have had several overtime games and 6 losses by 8 or less points.

We used to say this in Adelaide during the Marty Clarke era.

They have a few good pieces, but they are too far from being a strong roster and you wouldn't favour a remote/community team turning it around that quickly. One import is strong, the other two are inconsistent. Jawai is contributing well and Loe has looked good, but after that there's Loughton, Walker (rotation player I guess), Young (had enough chances and isn't quite there), etc. If they had one of McCarron or Gliddon, yes, but otherwise I don't know where they'll get players from. Maybe hope Adelaide explodes and pick the carcass?

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proud

Years ago

Of course they can, Jawai is looking younger and fitter than he has for years and he seems to love Coach Kelly so he is a great starting piece and you can build around the team from there.

The issue is how many will be playing for the Bullets next season?

Overall it's still really hard to win in Cairns and with no Townsville in the league, it's by far the most humid trip in the NBL and if you can win say 10 home games and a couple vs wooden spoon team and sneak a few more then 15 wins has them in the conversation

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Anonymous

Years ago

As much as they want to brand themselves as a 'rebuilding' team, they are all old. The only young/youngish guys are Trimble, Newbill, Hall and Kuany. Two of those guys are imports.

Jurlina, Krslovic don't seem ready to really grasp an NBL job, so I don't know where their talent will come from unless they buy it. Wigness is the only local. We'll need to rely heavily on the college scene to find a potential Aussie or two whom we can build around. McCarron was a prime candidate

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Luuuc

Years ago

haha yeah no one is buying this wendy BS

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Melbourne Boy

Years ago

No Manu, no chance

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Anonymous

Years ago

MAYBE 19 20
Loughton retires
Hall leaves

Trimble signs
Get a better 3 import
Charles matthews draftee Michigan 14 PTS 5 REBS
Jordan murphy senior 6 6 240 14 pts 12 reps

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Luuuc

Years ago

Definitely not. I mean just look at their 2019/20 roster and compare it to all the other teams' 2019/20 rosters and tell me how it is better than 5 of them. It isn't. Even Ray Charles can see that. So obvious. Silly question.

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