Hoops

Shannon Shorter

Sixers will have to hit a home run with imports like Cairns did, local cupboard is very bare. Had the luxury of DJ, Creek and Sobey so could go with a Moore to come on and be a role player. They will have to average close to 20 for Sixers to have a chance unless they pick up a big local name wanting to escape Europe for a year or find a sleeper that will pick up slack. I wonder if Henry did his homework on how much up shit creek they are. ATM our marquee local is a 30 something perimeter big man that is allergic to defence. Next on the depth chart could be Teys FFS, McVeigh a gunners who's done nothing and hasn't even had a chance to improve in NBL1.
Any local FA linked to Adelaide, nope. Should be picking over bones of Hawks.

if he was an import in his own right, would've been sent packing.

Alan Wiggins

Who? Don’t remember this

I was one of those who was pretty hard on Shorter and called for the club to upgrade on him (although we did sign Childress later that season and went to the GF) however he looks pretty good compared to the other imports we had under Joey.

The Joey Era (2013-20)

Gary Ervin
Jarrid Frye
Jamar Wilson
Daequon Montreal
Ebi Ere
Kenyon McNeail
Jerome Randle
Terrance Ferguson
Eric Jacobsen
Shannon Shorter
Ramone Moore
Ronald Roberts
Alan Wiggins
Josh Childress
Jacob Wiley
Adris De Leon
Demitrius Conger
Eric Griffin
Deshon Taylor
Jerome Randle (again)

Spatial Jam for the last five seasons of 36ers players has Shorter 4th in scoring at 13.4 PPG. Only imports ahead of him are Randle (21.2 PPG) and Griffin (14 PPG). For a guard, Shorter's 5.1 RPG is reasonable. Change it to three seasons and Creek and Sobey push ahead.

Other imports in those years have been Randle, Moore, Jacobsen, Ferguson, Wiley, Griffin, Ere, Childress, Conger, Deleon (9 games), McNeail (3 games) and Wiggins Jr (1 game). Randle is Randle, Moore is a roleplayer, Childress was good. Shorter is no worse than the rest though.

In his year. across the league, his 3P% at 35.1% was better than Rotnei Clarke, Drmic, Gibbo, Loe, Blanchfield, Sobey, Ware, Abercrombie, Weigh and Steindl (who all were attempting a reasonable number of threes or are known to have the ability). His RPG was ahead of Pledger, Abercrombie, Brandt, Edwu, Jervis, Kickert, Newbill, Humphries, Carrera, Loughton, Hodgson, Petrie. 4th in the league in assists behind Randle, Trice and Ware which is solid guard company.

Like a few others, I thought he was overly criticised and thought he was a handy import option on a team with some quality locals. Appreciated his ability to defend bigger players.

Also just signed in Israel, throwing plenty of money around that competition.

The Sixers' defence that year (childress, Shorter) was amongst the league's best in Defensive Efficiency, since then (Randle) we have not repeated that important aspect of winning basketball.

Wasn’t Shorter the cubbawubba who struggled to move on defence for most of the season?

Yes Shorter was certainly effective but got caught up in flexing and arrogance that came under Joeys coaching, which gets you away from what you’re on about and it hurt his form.

And everytime he threw an off target pass always found a way to blame his team-mates for not being able to get it, and then turns to Joey as if to say "why can't these bums catch? It's busting up the play"

Might have been because you threw the ball no where near the guys shot pocket Shannon and the defence was able to close out and contain by the time the guy controlled it.

I liked him overall however, in that group. Was good in the post for a reliable bucket against other point guards.

Although given we've got Ili and McCarron and CG hasn't signed yet, that's getting ahead of ourselves a bit.

Shorter was an important part of that Adelaide team.

Quality defender, physically big and strong for a point guard, could get to the rim and could also hit a three. Attacked the glass. Brought aggression, physicality and played hard. A lot to like.

Plenty of attributes that would compliment CG43 as a backcourt partner at United, actually.

Shorter was a quality defender. Could hold his own against bigs in the post. Got plenty of steals. Read the play well. Don't forgot his team was only now win from the championship but for a couple of things not going their way against one of the better teams we have seen on paper.
Not sure that many starter imports would ever come cheap.

He was on $300k?

he wasn't a 'cheap import'

underrated at $300k yeah right

so just to clarify - new one not available til 19.00.

and before that you have to pay to get into old carparks / old car parks are pay all the time now.