Hoops

NBL v NBA

I think the whole gaze talk is like a legend that keeps growing and people believe what they are told. Fact is gaze's college numbers were not even good

LOL yeah, for a game or two. By god... seriously. Is that what you're going to say to debate the point. He's played basically all his career in the NBL. He's playing in the NBL now. But you're going to point to a couple of games last year and say he's an NBA player.


Idiocy.


So that applies to gaze too, he only played a couple of games and was never NBA standard yet people keep calling australia's best. What a joke gaze is not even in the top 10 for australia.

OKC also got a bucket in that game due to one of the Melbourne players forgetting the cylinder goaltending rule.

"The difference is probably more like 40~50 points. These nba teams did not play their best team for most of these nba v nbl matches. Most guys who hit the court play for their summer league teams or are end of the bench players."

OKC played their starters more minutes than Melbourne, played fewer players than Melbourne and won by a point. At the end of the day, United spread the minutes because they had to with travel, injury prevention etc, whereas OKC used it as a dress rehearsal for their season opener.

I preferred anonymous when he was Dave or Makur, because I would not even bother to read there biased rubbish because we new they were f.king idiots.

One of the issues is the NBL teams just treat it like a practice game, and they have to because of the NBL draw, or else they are just sacrificing the start of the season that actually matters. For it to be worthwhile their needs to be better accommodation for it in the draw back here.

Actually, isn't there supposed to be one year out of every four that doesn't have any FIBA windows in it? That gives you an extra couple of weeks to delay the season as a whole, and do the NBLxNBA thing before round one.

The biggest issue for me is that we couldn't get the series on TV this season, and nobody even mentioned it at all until Friday. The hype is well and truly gone. Games are scheduled in-season, which disrupts the schedule and the teams involved, and we've now had two results worse than the Wildcats' result back in 1995, when they were all hung over and Matt Earp played decent minutes.

It needs to be something that happens every two or three years IMO.

BTW anon, Sydney v LAC was not a blowout, from memory that was a two possession game pretty late in the contest.

Agree Cram. Going in my thoughts were there was about a 20-point gap on average, it's a little above that, but if the games were in Aus the margin would probably be a little south of that.

It's certainly not a reason to call the games off to save embarrassment! I would say most games have actually shown the NBL in a good light considering the difference in size and athleticism.

So the NBL is 0-12 with an average losing margin of 26.75 (or median of 23). I think that's a fairly accurate representation of the talent discrepancy right there.

Since the NBLxNBA kicked off in 2017, there have been as many results in single figures (3) as there have been by more than 30.

The hysterical reaction after yesterday is typical for some, but the numbers show most of the time NBL teams are putting up a decent performance, pretty similar to what Euroleague teams do in the US (with the exception of the 3 big blowouts).

Houston d Perth by 44 (1995)
Utah d Sydney by 25
OKC d Melbourne by 1
Phoenix d Brisbane by 21
Philadelphia d Melbourne by 20
Utah d Perth by 58
LAC d Sydney by 19
Phoenix d New Zealand by 5
Toronto d Melbourne by 38
Denver d Perth by 8
Utah d Adelaide by 30
Utah d Adelaide by 52

What people aren’t factoring in is the NBL stars like Drmic don’t take these games seriously recognise its only a preseason/exhibition game. He’s saving his best for the 19/20 NBL season! Just like Teys being out, focussing entirely on tearing it up back in Aus this year!

Goulding was big for the Boomers, Kay played well too.

Could be worse - imagine a PBA v NBA game.

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There are a number of other prizes including ESPN gear, NBA 2k13 games, NBA DVDs, etc

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