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Sobey opens up on his reason for leaving the Sixers.

Pollies, but probs police too.

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That might be so, but sport these days is all about the spin. All AFL teams employ a journo as media manager. As do more senior polices. I know one of them, and he has years of experience in tv, print, radio and on-line/ new media. I’d doubt that any NBL team could afford him though. This might be one area in which a partnership with AFL/ NRL teams might help. Imagine Nic Nat being shown in a pre-season Cross-Trading workout with Perth, or Greenwood with Adelaide. Even if it was just a charade for a 5 second video grab for the media.

Sobey spun a positive story to explain his departure. Why would the team or coach offer any alternative narrative?

To Adelaide fans/ residents: Just accept it as a classy explanation for the sake of your team.

How little you know about your own team.
110% Joey is the reason he left.
Have a dig around about training incidents....................

From Brisbane.

Did Brendon Teys move to Brisbane? Saw him at the gym today.

From that article, I interpret that Sobey is coming to Brisbane on the agreement from Lemanis that working on his point skills will be a priority.

In which case, he obviously will play plenty of point in-season, so what happens to Cadee? He is suited to being a spark from the bench, but could see Lemanis running this pair as the starting backcourt and both sharing handling duties evenly :/

I think the split is as amicable as can be and all parties were classy about it.

As above, we wish him all the best.

I hope Sixer fans don't boo him on his return.

However truthful it may or may not be, at least he's had the class to come out and act like a professional. Instead of resorting to a twitter war like some.

Like a lot of such moves, we'll never now the true story 100%. At a rough guess, I'd say it was a combination of more money and Boomer aspirations, but who knows.

I do find the stated reason, development as a PG, to be a little thin. He's certainly not going to see any more time at the point, and possibly less if Lemanis insists on giving Spudee quality minutes.

By the time he is 36-37 he should be a gun at PG.

Wow didn't realise he was 28 and turning 29 before next season. I thought he was like 26-27

"Sobey — Adelaide’s reigning two-time defensive player of the year — says the major factor behind his decision to leave is to develop himself as a point guard."

He will learn from the best playing behind Cadee...

As a Sixers fan, we thank you for your service, we wish you the best of luck at your new team, but we wish that you throw bricks when you play Adelaide. May we feast on the Hungry Jacks cheeseburgers you provide.

(nothing personal, just business)

Sobey has moved on there is no story here tbh.

Anon, it puts it to bed because there is no more to it. Get over it and move on. You must be bored if this is still something you’re thinking about.

Seems some truth to it. Sobey was awesome playing up tempo basketball at the 36ers, but when the game slows down he did struggle occasionally.
Maybe he does want to work on his half court game and in joeys system it’s run and gun. Last year Sobey kept us in a lot of games but I can remember twice he lost us games in the last 90 seconds with his decision making. C.J. Bruton was always poised under pressure so will help Sobeys game.

Also Sobey has a better shot of being an Olympian playing under Lamanis which would’ve helped his desicion.

I say good luck to him

Going to learn to be a point guard under Bruton and McKinnon. Moving to develop his game? I thought Joey was the best developer of talent in this country? What a BS fluff piece. Doesn’t put anything to rest.

Can Adelaide just let Tippet walk out? I think that they can play just as good if not better without having to give up so much money for his soft ass.