Hoops

Hawks re-sign Dan Grida for two years

Goorjian is American, so I mean any professional coach in Australia

445-174 record, 72%

As a comparison:

Craig Bellamy 313-2-141, 69%

Wayne Bennett 524-14-308, 62%

Alistair Clarkson 219-2-137, 61%

Bellamy the only one who's close, and he's benefited from coaching Cameron Smith his entire career, plus Cooper Cronk and Billy Slater until the last couple of years

6 championships and 7 runner ups in 22 seasons

In 15 of his 22 seasons, finished top 2 at end of regular season - 10 minor premierships and 5 2nd place finished

21 seasons in a row with a regular season winning percentage of 58% or mpre (after his first season was 11-13)

20 seasons in a row finishing top 4 in the regular season.

He coached 5 different teams, and 4 of them for 4 seasons or more- and achieved massive success everywhere

It's simply an unbelievable record- has there been any other Australian coach of any Australian sport with a comparable record?

Yea Goorj will build something special like always. Go Hawks!

[This side has spoon written all over it.]

A Goorj team winning the spoon?

I'll believe that when I see it....

Isaac White ? , good luck with that

638 word out of the inner circle of Hawks camp is another very good scoring PG with the name White is joining the roster and not McDowell-White. If what I heard is true we will be in for a great addition.

I'm hoping it's more like

IMPORT / Naar
Adel / Grida
IMPORT / Deng
Bairstow / Coenraad
AJ / Froling <--- Next Star

After losing our soul with Glover, I hope we can keep Timmy. 10th, 11th man, who cares, we need some link to locality, even though the NBL seems hell bent on breaking that.

I think with what’s left this is the best they can do.

Hawks-Goorjan

(I)/6’5 Mcdowell-White/6’1 E.Naar
6’5 D.Newbill/6’5 D.Grida
6’7 D.Adel/6’8 D.Deng
6’9 C.Bairstow/(NS)
6’11 A.Ogilvy/6’11 S.Froling
DP

Maybe if Ogilvys gone they can put Bairstow at c and get Motum at pf.

I trust this puts to bed any suggestion that teams have broken the 'amnesty'.

We left the Hawks Grida.

Saw January suggested as a possibility.

Grida was expected to miss the whole season but with the season now being pushed back a couple of months he'll probably be able to return later in the season.

The Pioneers-Supercats game would have been a great game to watch with Mt Gambier flying home from 15 points down with just over 3 minutes to play to get within 3 points. Looks like they had some chances to level the scores but the Supercats held on for a close win.

They always seem to be able to do just enough at the right time to win the close ones - mostly due to experience I'd imagine.

Geelong (9-2) top of the East Conference with Bendigo (7-3) stringing 6 wins in row to keep the pressure on the Supercats. Frankston (6-4) have climbed the ladder into 3rd after a horrow start and have won 4 of last 5 games despite injuries.

Dandenong (5-5) finding different ways to lose games they should be winning. Canberra (6-6) will win fair share of games but are probably one player short to be a real finals threat.

Mt Gambier (8-4) head the South Conference but have been up & down over the last month while Hobart (6-4) have stepped up after a slow start to be second. Both these teams will probably finish 1-2 but I expect Hobart to finish top.

Kilsyth (5-5) have improved with a couple of wins in recent weeks along with NW Tassie (5-5).

Ballarat (5-7) having started the season red hot have gone mysteriously cold since Lucas Walker joined the Miners - I did wonder if his inclusion would help or hinder the team. Perhaps having Walker-Hanson-Young all on the court is not a good balance for Coach Flint.

Knox (3-8) have gone totally missing with the injury to CJ - hope he can return soon or else the season may be over for Raiders.

Both the East & South Conference Top 4 teams could change in another month so we will have to see who is more determined to play SEABL finals after queens birthday weekend.