
United v Hawks Feb 8
Is Blanchfield quality enough to start, he’s hasn’t played well at Melbourne or Sydney and odd good game for hawks.

Hawks for me next year
Import / Narr
Dech / Glover
Blanchfield / Grida
Import / Coenraad
Import / Froling/ AJ
Froling to play in 4 / 5
PG scoring import
PF scoring import
C that can rebound & defend

Get two solid imports.
Keep Naar, Dech , Glover and Froling.
Andersen to retire. Coenraad keep as cheap veteran. Allow Ogilvy and Blanchfield to explore open market.
That would be a good start for Illawarra.
Keep third import spot available for later use in the season.

Players signed next year for Hawks I believe
Dech 1 year remaining
Glover 1 year remaining
Froling 2 years remaining
Narr team/player option ?
Blanchfield player option ?


Froling (2 years left)
Blanchfield (player option?)
Naar (player option?)
Ogilvy (team option?)
Dech (team option?)
Glover (team option?)
Coenraad, Grida and Andersen are FA's.

United fans acting like they've just won a Championship.
Pathetic.
These Hawks would be right down there with the 88 SuperCats.

Hopefully no body, there young players are not as good as there reputation and there old blokes are old. Start with new owner and offer a few players minimum contracts with incentives re game wins. They don’t play or defend as a team. Rubbish.


Except Illawarra supposedly have a shaky ownership position?
Who from their roster are signed for next year?

Where to for Illawarra ? The only positive I can think off is that Cairns were in a similar position last season.

And the reffing? Shit as well?
United just seem to be going through the motions to win. I’m not sure if it’s confidence or arrogance, but they’re playing like they expect to win the next two and that that will be enough. (I’m on mute, so maybe the expert commentators have something interesting to say about the reasons why.)


Why is Prather sitting on the bench? What are the rules?
Why wouldn't he be? He's out injured at the moment they're still paying him he signed a 2 year contract.


Homicide legitimately has no idea how plus/minus works.

Good point Angus, the bias to United is disgusting. Homicide and Heal can you believe it, woeful.

"Why is Prather sitting on the bench? What are the rules?"
Hopefully we get another lengthy discussion on this topic.

Feels like I'm watching NBA TV with the local commentary team.

Hopefully the Hawks don’t keep persisting with Hobson & play the younger guys. Hawks may still lose but a lot better for the future by playing them

United are capable of dropping this one, but I think Long will be huge with no big body to keep him out of the paint. United by 10-15.


Hawks on 8 game losing streak, average margin 17
United by 15
That'll put their percentage right alongside NZ's. Should be a good finish to the season.

2 rounds to go, who you got for the all NBL teams?
First:
Jackson
Madgen
Redhage
Forman
Crosswhite
Ervin
Deleon
Scott
Johnson
Knight
Hard to squeeze out a few players like Vukona, Pledger and Damian Martin but these are my 1st and second teams
