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The Sydney Kings thread.

Haha, love the BTTF reference.

KNoCk kNOcK ThInK McFLy. STFU.. Perth got smoked by cairns by 30 in Perth!

They beat Cairns in Cairns which looks a good result now, yes they haven’t played Perth so until then we will hold fire. You obviously haven’t watched Sydney this season either as there bench has been very very good, time will tell though.

Just watched replay from there last game, they are very team first, there bench is also good. Brisbane no so good so far, long way to go though.

Considering Moller plays a lot with the bench and not a lot with Tate or Bogut, that’s an excellent plus minus. The coaches are clever in using their bench players to their strengths. Moller is a rebounding defender that doubled his scoring this season and doesn’t need plays run for him.

Casper Ware, now Melbourne must be weeping every time they have to play defence without him and he’s running the offence in Sydney with Bogut better than even at Melbourne. It’s a long season but these two certainly look like good acquisitions to Sydney

Check out how many guys are in the positive for the +/- Sydney Kings over their first 5 games. Playing team basketball. Will be a good test for when they play Melbourne and Perth in the next few weeks.

Tate +58
Bogut +52
Louzada +45 (3 games)
Moller +31
Newley +28
Lisch +25
Ware +23
Kickert +13
Bruce +13
Kuany +9
Walker +1

They're very clearly the real deal unless Bogut gets injured. Perth, Melbourne and SEM should all give them trouble but they're a good chance of coming first.

What's their weakness exactly? I'd say its a lack of a proper backup for Bogut. Aside from that, they don't really have weaknesses for now, especially w Lisch to return.

What I've taken from this thread so far is that the Kings need to sign a backup for Bogut and Lisch needs to be instructed to only take baths.

Sydney bench lot better than most giving credit, yes the five spot is a weakness if Bogut goes down but overall one to nine is very solid. Kickett, Moller Bruce, Newley most likely when lisch back. Next weekend could tell us a lot more.

Still too early i feel. Yes they have won 5 in row, but they have had arguably one of the easiest schedules so far.

Not trying to use that against them, just stating a fact. I do think they are the team to beat however, but that will have to be proved over the next few months.

Impressive start, but they have had a fairly easy draw so far. Cairns/Brisbane looking like bottom 2 contenders, and their other wins have been NZ x2 and 36ers which were both off the back of NBLxNBA trips. Hard to get an accurate read still on the Kings imo.