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Tacky Fall

Shut up you gangly nerd I bet you sit down to wee wee

Shut up you idiot. He made a simple mistake

Who the hell is tacky fall?

Tacky Fall

When I read the title I thought it was about terrible flopping.

Not certain Didi qualifies, his summer league is looking quite good, can’t speak a word of English though.

The Next Star rule sounds like a moving target, but keep in mind the original premise. It's designed for guys on the fast track to the NBA. I don't think Tacko really qualifies, notwithstanding that he has an exhibit 10 contract and may eventually make it.

Burrito Drop

"If the NBL are looking for side shows i hear Nick Kyrios thinks he could play some bball"

I stuck $1 on nick to play in the NBL at odds of like @301 a few years ago when he kept saying he wants to play basketball lol

Nacho Plunge could do worse than play 20 minutes a game in the NBL.

Burrito Drop is foul prone in Summer League, three fouls in 17 mins today. Youd reckon NBL refs will exacerbate that weakness.

Lol joshuapending, taking offence is not Timelords problem! It’s getting back on D and getting into the correct defensive positions in time that is the issue! He’s looked pretty clueless in Summer League, so I don’t have high hopes that he can be more than a third string centre this season. It’s a shame really, because his arhleticism is impressive.

Timelord takes offense.

Tacko Fall will play NBA one day

The way Tacko is playing in Summer League, he's going to make the Celtics roster! Already looks like a better basketball player than Rob Williams!

Out of interest - is Sydney doing this to put Didi under the salary cap?

Doesn't seem to be any indication they'll sign three imports (with Lisch naturalised), otherwise they'll have cap issues in fitting their non-marquees under the cap. In my eyes, Didi's salary will sit with the NBL, hence enabling Sydney to not have the same cap constraint.

I also wonder if they're treating Didi differently because he isn't a 4-year college player (see Devon Hall). Well, at least here's hoping.

Like last year...two clubs were never notified of his availability. Guess who...

Four Imports now allowed. How times have changed.

I love the alteration to the concept but doing it on the fly when some teams have followed the protocol in place is pure favoritism. There's a big difference between getting an 18/19 year old HS talent and potentially getting a guy who's 22/23 with four years of college under his belt.

Good for Cairns though as this might assist with filling out their roster - NZ too.

"Didi was nominated for the draft"

and he was drafted. Under the new Next Stars rule this is permissible. The NBL are trying to get some of the draft and stash guys that are usually sent to Europe. When/if the NBA gets rid of the one and done rule, the Next Stars program, as it was initially drawn up, would have become irrelevant. With the new rules, Jonah Bolden may have come to the NBL under the program had it been available the year after the Sixers drafted him and sent him to Europe but as Fall wasn't drafted, although he nominated for the draft, I believe that he isn't eligible under the Next Stars program to join the NBL and will have to join as an import if he is to come here.

I agree that the rules surrounding the program seem to be rather ambiguous but if it keeps getting talent into the league then I'm all for it.

RJ and LaMelo weren't nominated for the draft so while they technically were undrafted, they weren't in this sense of the word for the Next Stars eligibility. I doubt we'll see Tako Fall in the NBL and if we do I get the sense that he'll be way too foul prone to play meaningful minutes with the way that the NBL is ref'd these days.

Undrafted so can't be a next star