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Best five-man team for each NBL club

Grace
Cotton
Fisher/Redhage
Vlahov
Crawford (James, not Peter)

How do you separate Fisher and Redhage though?

Mystro

Ronaldson?
Sek henry?
Henare?
Really?


Here's mine

Cedric (in his prime)
Penney
Hopson
Vukona (in his prime)
Big red

Centre the hardest to pick. No clear stand out

Second

CJ
Chappell (in his prime)
Abercrombie
Powell,
ibekwe

Say what you like about Powell, he could ball

No one ever mentions steve carfino in their kings teams!

Unfortunately had to retire young but in his prime he was a scoring machine and a regular in the all star first and second teams.

Jason Smith for the kings was a premiership captain, far better than Keogh ( well overrated ) or Madgen who was allowed to shoot every shot under Heal. Yes Childress was excellent on very poor teams.

LV - Henare & Bruton’s jerseys hang from the rafters for good reason. It was tough to leave Cedric out with the success he bought but he also left NZ for more money in Melbourne where as the other 2x retired as Breakers.

Firstly I agree that Kay isn't a better Wildcat than Fisher, Vlahov and Crawford but he is already better than Redhage and Ronaldson and I think he'd be equal and about to pass Rogers too.

I'd have to find a spot somewhere for Marcus Timmons, I liked him at Hawks and loved him as a Wildcat and he was still quality as a Tiger... very underrated NBL career.

Secondly the team I'm most intrigued by is Brisbane, their 1,2,3 would be absolutely phenomenal as you pick between Rucker, Heal, Bruton, Bruton, Woodberry, McLain, Loggins, Patterson, McKinnon and Ere. Every single player was worth the price of admission for sure. I'm sure I've forgotten some too. Their bigs would be interesting too, would anyone include Marshmallow man Daniel Kickert in this squad?, he played really well for the Bullets on average teams.

As for Sydney would everyone take Jason Smith over Damien Keogh and Ben Madgen? Childress deserves a mention too as he done everything in a Kings jersey.

Breakers

Mika Vukona
Scotty Hopson
Tom Abercrombie
Kirk Penney
Cedric Jackson

[Honourable mention to Aaron Olsen & Cedric Jackson]

Did Cedric Jackson make a pass at your missus?

Breakers

Bruton
Penney
Abercrombie
Boucher
Ronaldson

2cnd team

Henare
Webster
Jones
Vukona
Pledger

Honourable mention to Aaron Olsen & Cedric Jackson

All import

Cedric Jackson
Sek Henry
Scotty Hopson
Carlos Powell
Gary Wilkinson

Old rivals perth and adelaide i would love to see this match up:


Grace Green
Cotton Maher
Ennis Rose
Fisher Davis
Crawford Bradtke


Difficult decision between Fisher or Vlahov so go with Fisher because of his two league MVP wins.

Tigers and United are not the same club. You can't start afresh because a majority of local supporters hate you, but then pick and choose some parts of your history to bring along.

^ me

[Tigers and United are not the same club.]

Yes, they are.

"Melbourne United is an Australian professional basketball team based in Melbourne, Victoria. United compete in the National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home game at Melbourne Arena.

The team made their debut in the NBL in 1984 as the Melbourne Tigers, as an extension of the Melbourne Basketball Association (MBA)."


"On 20 May 2014, the franchise was re-branded as Melbourne United.[14]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_United


[You can't start afresh because a majority of local supporters hate you, but then pick and choose some parts of your history to bring along.]

I agree.

CJ
Smith
Newley
Nielsen
Bogut
Goorgian coach.

Heal
Carfino
Worthington
Williams
Roland Roberts

Tigers and United- since United was the continuation of the same license and the same club, albeit with a name change

1st team:

Anstey
Simmons
Thomas
Copeland
Gaze

2nd team:

Bradtke
Timmons
Barlow
Goulding
Ware

3rd team:

Boone
Hoare
Tucker
Corletto
D-Mac

4th team:

Stiff
Worthington
Giddey
Gordon
Tomlinson

5th team:

Kickert
Walker
Lampley
Ere
Crosswell

That's in 5 mins off top of head.... may have missed someone. Saw a few games in the 90s, way too young to remember the 80s

A quick count showed near 20 names throughout the Perth teams. They spanned near 30 years of NBL.

So many of those players are All Star 5's for the league, when they played.

Same goes for other line-ups, all have some greats, and other teams still to post, but no-one has a 30 year spread of greats like Perth. No wonder Perth has such an amazing record of finals.

Cadee
Creek
Rees
Mee
Green
my best double "ee" Sixers team

Grace
Cotton
Vlahov
Fisher
Crawford

CJ Bruton
Carcinoma
Williams
Nielsen
Bogut.

There’s no way a Perth team can include Nick Kay, whom I love as a player. There’s Crawford, Vlahov and Fisher in front of him.

36ers
Mee
Maher
Rose
Davis
DJ (longetivity)

The centre spot troubles me. DJ has been great in an ordinary era. Rees is my fave, and floored Goorijan, Bradtke is the best ever player we had at centre but we didn’t get the best of him.

I’d love to put Cattalini, Darryl Pearce and Al green in there.Cat was a beast. Al was a machine and Ice was one of the greatest shooters I’ve ever seen.

St Kilda Saints

Rocky Smith
Danny Morseu
Ken Epperson
Larry Sengstock
Mike Slusher

CJ Bruton
Carcinoma
Williams
Nielsen
Bogut.

Melbourne United all time 5.

Patty Mills
Andrew Gaze
Lanard Copeland
Mark Bradtke
Dave Colbert

Wildcats first 5:

Grace
Cotton
Vlahov
Fisher
Crawford

second 5:

Martin
Lisch
Ennis
Redhage
Dunigan

A Perth team without Ricky Grace? come on man

^ not my club btw, I’m just listing them

Perth would have a handy team:

Cotton
Lisch
Vlahov
Fisher
Crawford

Adelaide - Import Scream Team

If I put up the 5 worst Sixers players Isaac would get the lawyers letters, however, that team would probably be coached by Marty Clarke.

A few imports to choose from here who have been unable to deliver on the goods. I would have been happy to use Chris Fuss's money to send them home.

Adelaide - "Fluro 5"

Brett Maher
Darryl Pearce
Peter Ali
Mark Davis
Mark Bradtke

Basically all the 80's Sixers. Davis and Maher auto picks but Maher not especially a PG. Darryl Pearce for his shooting. Peter Ali was a great performer, and of course I don't think the Sixers saw the best of old mate Bradtke

The Fluro 5 - 80's combo

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