2019-20 NBL Season + Off-season news

[Gozu]

The awards winners tonight were:

Most Valuable Player: Bryce Cotton, Perth
Runner up: Scott Machado, Cairns

Coach of the year:Mike Kelly, Cairns
Runner up: Will Weaver, Sydney

Defensive player of the year: D.J. Newbill, Cairns
Runner up: Will Magnay, Brisbane

Most Improved player: Will Magnay, Brisbane
Runner up: Dane Pineau, SE Melbourne

Rookie of the year: LaMelo Ball, Illawarra
Runner up: Kouat Noi, Cairns

Sixth man of the year: Jason Cadee, Brisbane
Runner up: Daniel Kickert, Sydney

All-NBL First Team:

Jae'Sean Tate, Sydney
Nick Kay, Perth
Scott Machado, Cairns
Bryce Cotton, Perth
Lamar Patterson, Brisbane

All-NBL Second Team:

Cameron Oliver, Cairns
Andrew Bogut, Sydney
Scotty Hopson, NZ Breakers
D.J. Newbill, Cairns
Casper Ware, Sydney

[DOC]

No surprises there for me,

The improvement in Cairns reflected in the awards.

[Gozu]

Basketball Australia has announced the Boomers team for the Asia Cup qualifiers starting this weekend which doesn't include players from teams in the NBL Finals and will be coached by interim coach Will Weaver.

Australian Boomers team for FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers:

Kyle Adnam - South East Melbourne Phoenix
Todd Blanchfield - Illawarra Hawks
Jason Cadee - Brisbane Bullets
Cameron Gliddon - Brisbane Bullets
Sunday Dech - Illawarra Hawks
Sam Froling - Illawarra Hawks
Josh Giddey - BA Centre of Excellence
Angus Glover - Illawarra Hawks
Daniel Grida - Illawarra Hawks
Matt Hodgson - Brisbane Bullets
Dane Pineau - South East Melbourne Phoenix
Nathan Sobey - Brisbane Bullets

The Boomers play New Zealand on February 20 and Hong Kong on February 23 both games in Brisbane.

[Gozu]

Most Improved player of the year Will Magnay has re-signed with the Brisbane Bullets to a 2 year deal. This season the 21 year old broke the Bullets regular season record for most blocks in a season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/will-magnay-re- ... ne-bullets

[Gozu]

The Tall Blacks upset the Boomers tonight in the Asia Cup qualifier in Brisbane next up Hong Kong.

New Zealand 108 (Ili 21, Te Rangi 21, Loe 19, Ngatai 19, Kenny 10, Prewster 10) def Australia 98 (Blanchfield 17, Gliddon 13, Sobey 13, Adnam 12, Cadee 11, Hodgson 11)

[Gozu]

The Boomers bounced back today with a big win over Hong Kong in Brisbane.

Australia 115 (Gliddon 21, Glover 16, Grida 16, Adnam 14, Giddey 11, Sobey 10) def Hong Kong 52 (Leung 16, Reid 14)

In NBL news last night Daniel Johnson won his fifth team MVP award at the 36ers end of season awards night apparently Joey Wright wasn't in attendance and Brett Maher, Mark Davis & Phil Smyth were inaugural inductees into the club's Hall of Fame.

[Brodlach]

Joey Wright and the 36ers officially split. New coach required

[Gozu]

A disappointing end for Joey Wright's time as Sixers coach but we did make it to two GF's in his 7 years here.

http://www.adelaide36ers.com/news/artic ... -part-ways

Joey Wright and the 36ers officially split. New coach required

I hope the rumour of Gaze to be his replacement is nothing more than scuttlebutt now that Jeff Van Groningen is the GM.

[Gozu]

I missed this last week, NBL attendances increased for the fifth consecutive season in 2019-20 up 21% on last season.

The Perth Wildcats drew 181,634 fans to RAC Arena, at a league high average attendance of 12,974.

The Sydney Kings attracted 140,168 fans to Qudos Bank Arena, an increase of 17%, including the biggest ever crowd for an NBL game of 17,514.

Melbourne United drew 117,349 fans to Melbourne Arena, including six sell-out crowds of 10,300.

The Adelaide 36ers enjoyed a 19% increase in attendances with 104,775 fans flocking to its new home venue the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

The SKY Sport New Zealand Breakers had a 37% increase in crowds with 81,638 fans attending their games in NZ.

South East Melbourne Phoenix enjoyed the biggest attendance for a first year team in NBL history attracting 75,179 fans to their home games.

Cairns Taipans had 61,917 fans attend games at the Cairns Convention Centre, a two per cent increase on last season as they rose from bottom of the ladder to the finals.

The Brisbane Bullets had a 19% increase in crowds with 55,297 fans attending their home games at their new venue Nissan Arena.

The Illawarra Hawks enjoyed a 10% increase in crowds with 48,124 fans attending WIN Entertainment Centre and AIS Arena.

https://nbl.com.au/news/big-jump-in-att ... -jacks-nbl

Hungry Jack's have also renewed their naming rights sponsorship for another three seasons.

[Gozu]

Semi-Finals games live on SBS Viceland:

Fri 9pm Game 1 Cairns at Perth

Sat 7pm Game 1 Melbourne at Sydney

Sun 4:30pm Game 2 Perth at Cairns

Mon 7pm Game 2 Sydney at Melbourne

[Brodlach]

Listening to Joey, he blames his imports and their lack of effort for the crap season

[MW]

Listening to Joey, he blames his imports and their lack of effort for the crap season

And the owner for not giving him more to spend on players

[Brodlach]

Listening to Joey, he blames his imports and their lack of effort for the crap season

And the owner for not giving him more to spend on players

Fourth highest amount spent

[MW]

yeah and that got us those players?

[Brodlach]

Perth spent less, 20 odd gif finals instead row

[beef]

Randle was always a terrible pick up, good highlights but terrible defender
Moore is done as a player but a typical Joey Wright import - older guy who defends and is just a role player
Griffin showed glimpses but way too inconsistent and foul prone
None of these should be back next year, DJ another MVP without playing D and most other players have gone backwards in their development.
Joey Wright was a good coach but hasn't adapted to the modern game, blokes who can shoot 3's and perimeter defense doesn't happen in his system.

[Gozu]

Perth spent less, 20 odd gif finals instead row

No way Perth spent less on their roster than we did. Perth have always been one of the highest spending teams with Jack Bendat as their old benefactor they have to to get players to move over there Cotton & Kay are on big money. Sydney, Melbourne & Perth would all be comfortably outspending the Sixers.

That leak a month or so ago that the Sixers have the fourth highest roster spend in the league (which was dismissed by Joey as complete BS) was to try and make Joey look bad as the club wanted him to quit but had no intention of paying him out the last two years of his contract. So I wouldn't take that as gospel as it was coming from the owner the same owner who saw fit to give Eric Griffin a $400k contract despite playing for three teams last season and couldn't guard a stobie pole so had to come off of the bench. On top of the Randle signing a week before the season. And the Creek shit.

If you saw the extended Joey interview with John Casey on Channel 7's Facebook page you could see how much he did for this club behind the scenes like in the early days here paying for team meals out of his own pocket, he and the players collecting empty bottles after games to cash in, holding quiz nights etc and although he and the club did need to part ways we're not going to find a better coach than Joey Wright.

[Brodlach]

No doubt Perth paid players out of the cap, Stephen Rowe said the NBL commissioner showed them the paperwork that Adelaide were the fourth highest spending team so I’m not sure who is not telling the truth

Joey hand picked his imports, he said that. Never heard that the owner picked Griffin

Plays Teys as a starter, no other team would do that. Same with Obi

Joeys gameplan has zero defence, not just this season but seasons gone past.

They big roster turnover each year, who is responsible? Who is the last SA junior to come through the ranks and play for Adelaide?

No doubt Joey has been awesome but 7 years without a champion is giving him enough time.

[Booney]

Here you go lads :

[MW]

Just seeing this now...wow