2022-23 NBL Season + Off-season news

[Gozu]

36ers lost to SEM 103-98 in overtime.

[Brodlach]

Have that win away

[Gozu]

Round 5 results:

Brisbane 86 (Sobey 22, Cadee 13, Froling 13, Johnson 11) def Illawarra 61 (Deng 11)

NZ Breakers 99 (Brantley 22, Brown 22, Le'afa 15, McDowell-White 10) def Adelaide 70 (Sotto 16, Cleveland 14, Franks 11, Randall 11)

SE Melbourne 91 (Creek 22, Broekhoff 18, Williams 12, Kell 11, Browne 10) def Perth 90 (Cotton 27, Travers 19, Thomas 14)

Melbourne 106 (Rathan-Mayes 32, Humphries 20, Goulding 13, Tucker 13) def Illawarra 100 (2OT) (Froling 27, Harvey 21, Siva 14, Mathiang 11, Swaka Lo Buluk 10)

Sydney 106 (Cooks 18, Bruce 17, Noi 13, Vasiljevic 12, Walton 12, Hunter 11, Galloway 10) def Cairns 103 (Hogg 27, Waardenburg 20, Pinder 18, Deng 14, Kuol 12)

NZ Breakers 94 (Brown 24, Pardon 15, McDowell-White 13, Brantley 11, Vodanovich 10) def Tasmania 62 (Doyle 22, McVeigh 11)

SE Melbourne 103 (Kell 24, Williams 18, Broekhoff 17, Creek 16, Browne 14) def Adelaide 98 (OT) (Randall 28, Johnson 16, Drmic 13, Dech 11, Franks 11)

Melbourne 94 (Rathan-Mayes 25, Tucker 16, Goulding 13, Humphries 10) def Perth 77 (Cotton 19, Blanchfield 13, Thomas 13, Norton 11)

[Spargo]

The pro Hawks commentary tonight is only missing Sixers hater Steve Carfino.

[Gozu]

Sixers beat the Hawks 96-80 without Randall.

[LaughingKookaburra]

Sixers beat the Hawks 96-80 without Randall.

Illawarra are dead set terrible. The NBL standard this year has gone up another notch apart from them. The Sixers just need to gel.

[Gozu]

The Brisbane Bullets have released import Devondrick Walker.

https://nbl.com.au/news/bullets-make-ro ... t-released

[Gozu]

Wildcats beat the Sixers 94-89 ending Perth's five game losing streak.

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Wildcats beat the Sixers 94-89 ending Perth's five game losing streak.

In front of Adelaide’s biggest crowd ever!

[Gozu]

Round 6 results:

Adelaide 96 (Johnson 28, Franks 25, Drmic 16, Dech 11, McCarron 10) def Illawarra 80 (Harvey 25, Swaka Lo Buluk 12, Siva 11, Mathiang 10)

Tasmania 85 (McVeigh 22, Magette 18, Doyle 15, Kelly 12) def Perth 77 (Cotton 26, Wagstaff 13)

Cairns 97 (Kuol 18, Pinder 18, Hogg 17, Ayre 16, Scott 13, Deng 10) def Melbourne 72 (Humphries 17, Goulding 12, Maluach 10)

Brisbane 74 (Baynes 16, Sobey 14, Johnson 13, Harrison 12) def Tasmania 72 (McVeigh 17, Doyle 12, Macdonald 11, Magette 11)

Perth 94 (Manek 25, Webster 18, Cotton 15, Thomas 12) def Adelaide 89 (Franks 24, Cleveland 22, Randall 13)

Sydney 81 (Cooks 13, Simon 13, Soares 11) def NZ Breakers 77 (Brown 22, Le'afa 15, Pardon 11, McDowell-White 10)

Melbourne 110 (Goulding 30, Humphries 20, Ili 15, Okwera 13, Rathan-Mayes 13, Tucker 12) def SE Melbourne 85 (Williams 30, Creek 24, Browne 16)

[Gozu]

Now with the FIBA break the NBL ladder after six rounds:

Sydney 7-2
NZ Breakers 6-3
Cairns 5-3
SE Melbourne 5-4
Tasmania 5-5
Melbourne 5-5

Perth 4-5
Adelaide 3-4
Brisbane 3-5
Illawarra 1-8

[Jim05]

Randall released immediately
What a deadset rabble of a organisation Adelaide is

[amber_fluid]

Randall released immediately
What a deadset rabble of a organisation Adelaide is

He clearly didn’t like starting on the bench Saturday night.
No idea why he did anyway.

Rumours coach and him didn’t get along too well.

[Gozu]

To be honest I'm surprised they took this long to cut Randall he was clearly a major issue with how much of a hog he was. There was even talk when we were over in the US that the Sixers were even considering cutting him then. None of his teammates liked him either.

You could just see in the Blitz games how much of a problem he was going to be. Treating the games as his personal showcase his teammates and winning be damned. That's how meaningless big scoring numbers are in the G-League it's a garbage league where wins and losses are irrelevant and it's all about NBA teams developing their young guys and individuals trying to showcase themselves. Randall was putting up big numbers in the G-League last season but not one NBA team signed him which rang alarm bells for me. Even after the Phoenix game still no NBA contract, again it says a lot.

Players like this guy don't understand he's never going to score his way into the NBA, those teams aren't looking for scorers from lower leagues they've got plenty of those already they're looking for guys that can play a role and help fill a niche that's missing on their team like defence or 3pt shooting or veteran leadership. That's why guys like Delly & Jack White are now in the NBA or in Delly's case back in even after a mediocre season in the NBL but players like Randall are overlooked.

This team is far too talented to be having massive 25-30 point losses at home. It was clear something was rotten in the team those kinds of results with a team this talented are protests. Players were just going through the motions pissed that they're rarely ever seeing the ball on offence. Randall was too much of a black hole offensively when he would get it that would be it it was always going up no matter what the ball wouldn't move, players would stop moving it was horrible to watch, in the SEM game he tried to jack up a 3 when double teamed and got stripped. You can't have a guy like this on your team if you're serious about winning games.

I thought by finally bringing him off the bench last game Randall wouldn't like that he played badly and now here we are.

Official announcement:

https://nbl.com.au/news/adelaide-drop-b ... star-guard

DP Nick Marshall gets elevated to the roster for the time being with a replacement import expected to be signed.

[amber_fluid]

Nice post Gozu.

Having said that, Bruton brought him into the team and would have known alot of what you have said but didn’t appear to try change any of it.
He could obviously play so the issues must be bigger than it appears here.

[Gozu]

Nice post Gozu.

Having said that, Bruton brought him into the team and would have known alot of what you have said but didn’t appear to try change any of it.
He could obviously play so the issues must be bigger than it appears here.

Totally agree this was also weak coaching by CJ that helped to create the problem. Randall should've been told from the start to reign himself in or he would find himself coming off the bench or even released. CJ as the coach allowed this situation to fester by hoping Randall and his teammates would work it all out.

Franks & Cleveland have both got two-year deals meaning neither of them can be cut unless their contracts are paid out in full for the rest of the season so the imperative wasn't there for them to pull Randall aside, the local players on the team don't really have the balls or cache to do it either it's the coach's responsibility to deal with a problem player.

Honestly Randall should never have been signed in the first place. I was a bit surprised when his signing was announced because the last thing this team needed was even more offence. DJ, Franks and to a lesser degree Cleveland are already big scorers in the NBL and guys like Drmic, Dech and McCarron can have their moments too.

What this team needed out of that third import spot was a big guy willing to play defence inside, rebound and not be too concerned about getting his points, like Pardon at the Breakers he would've been perfect. Then there is also the fact we never signed a back-up PG too. We let Dufelmeier leave and never replaced him. We've got one point guard in McCarron and if something happens to him we'd be screwed as we're playing Dech out of position as the back up PG.

[Gozu]

Overnight the Boomers locked in our spot at the World Cup with an Asian Qualifier win in Kazakhstan. The Boomers were also set to play Iran in Iran during this window but due to the unrest there BA refused to go ahead with it.

Australia 97 (Froling 18, Vasiljevic 13, Brandt 10, McVeigh 10) def Kazakhstan 50 (Kuanov 9)

[Gozu]

Melbourne United have announced they've signed import Marcus Lee as a replacement for Jordan Caroline who has been released. He's a 6'10" F/C who had been playing in Spain.

https://nbl.com.au/news/melbourne-unite ... mport-move

Also in Melbourne United news centre and former 36er Isaac Humphries today announced he's gay becoming the first ever NBL player to do so publicly and sadly spoke today about his attempt to take his own life a few years ago.

https://nbl.com.au/news/isaac-humphries ... r-you-want

The piece Humphries has written for CNN:

http://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/15/opini ... index.html

As well the Tasmania JackJumpers have announced they've signed their captain Clint Steindl to a two-year contract extension putting him under contract until 2025 and he is expected to make his season debut Friday against the NZ Breakers.

https://nbl.com.au/news/jackjumpers-cap ... nded-stint

[Gozu]

36ers beat Melbourne 91-86.

[Gozu]

Breakers beat the 36ers 89-83.

Also the Illawarra Hawks have released import George King who had been ruled out for the rest of the season with an ankle injury.

https://nbl.com.au/news/george-king-rul ... for-season