2015/16 NBL Season/Off-season news/Boomers

[king neptune]

Boti Nagy mentioned this morning that Dereck Kickett, centre for Melbourne United is likely to sign with Brisbane for next season

What does Daniel Kickert think about that?

[Brodlach]

Boti Nagy mentioned this morning that Dereck Kickett, centre for Melbourne United is likely to sign with Brisbane for next season

What does Daniel Kickert think about that?

Just a little difference between the two

[Gozu]

Unfortunately now confirmed that Anthony Petrie has quit the 36ers despite assurances he was going to exercise his option to stay.

Heading to Brisbane supposedly.

[Brodlach]

Adam Gibson officially leaves the 36ers. Frees up alot of $$$$

[Gozu]

Big day for signings.

Daniel Kickert signs with Brisbane for 2 years

Adam Gibson signs with Brisbane for 3 years

AJ Ogilvy re-signs with Illawarra for 3 years

Jason Cadee re-signs with Sydney for 2 years

Also speculation Cedric Jackson is set to sign with Melb Utd and that Kirk Penney is going back home to the Breakers.

[king neptune]

So long Gibson. Thanks for your occasional fantastic performances. Hope your more frequent lame and ineffective performances are on display regularly at the Brisbane On again/Off agains.

[Gozu]

Now official that Kirk Penney has signed with the NZ Breakers for 3 years and Alex Pledger has also re-signed with the Breakers for 3 years.

[valleys07]

NBL have confirmed that the Townsville Crocodiles will not field a team for the 2016/17 season.

[Gozu]

NBL have confirmed that the Townsville Crocodiles will not field a team for the 2016/17 season.

Unfortunate but expected news with the Brisbane Bullets coming back next season.

http://www.nbl.com.au/featured-news/tow ... alls-time/

Also today the Sydney Kings announced they've re-signed Tom Garlepp to a 2 year deal.

[saintal]

Disappointing. Always liked the Crocs (and Suns..)

Another one bites the dust...

[Gozu]

I agree Townsville were always my 2nd favourite team after the 36ers. My first NBL game I saw live was a 36ers/Suns game back in their Ricky Jones/Rimas Kurtinaitis days in the early 90's.

The Crocs went into voluntary administration last offseason and with the Brisbane Bullets a lock to come back once Larry Kestelman took over the NBL the Crocs fans needed to turn up this past season to give them any chance of hanging around beyond this season. They didn't and the Townsville public started to turn their back on the Crocs about 4-5 years ago so they've got no one to blame other than themselves.

The NBL made the decision it was more important to get a team back into Brisbane a big city of 2 million people rather than bother keeping a team in a distant regional town like Townsville that the locals didn't even care to support anymore. Essentially replacing Townsville with Brisbane was also meant to be a big part of the TV deal with Fox Sports. Much more potential for growth in Brisbane and much easier for Fox to televise games there than the cost of doing games up in Townsville also with small crowds and minimal atmosphere which doesn't look good on TV.

[king neptune]

The revolving door continues. My local rec centre league has more stability.

[saintal]

Good summary Gozu. Have read on other forums that management of the club haven't done themselves any favours the past few years. Seems as though the writing has been on the wall for a while now.

Rucker, Rose, Reidy, Rillie (something about surnames beginning with R ) are some of the names I think of when I recall the Crocs.

Although I don't follow the league intently anymore as my club was one of the many that have folded, you can't help but have a soft spot for the likes of Townsville (well no longer..), Cairns and Illawarra that have managed to survive. I think that was one of the appealing aspects of the league in its heyday, that these small market/regional clubs could mix it at times with the Wildcats, Sixers, Tigers etc. Ultimately though most of them have been forced to shut their doors which perhaps was always inevitable (Hobart, GC, Newcastle/Hunter, Geelong to name a handful more..)

[Gozu]

Today the Brisbane Bullets announced the joint signings of former Perth Wildcats centre Tom Jervis to a 3 year deal and former 36ers PF Anthony Petrie to a 2 year deal.

http://www.nbl.com.au/featured-news/bri ... additions/

Also the Illawarra Hawks have announced they've re-signed guard Rhys Martin to a 2 year deal.

[Gozu]

The Perth Wildcats have announced they've re-signed Matt Knight to a 2 year deal and Jesse Wagstaff has signed a 2 year contract extension keeping him at the club until the end of the 2018/19 season.

[mighty hounds]

The Perth Wildcats have announced they've re-signed Matt Knight to a 2 year deal and Jesse Wagstaff has signed a 2 year contract extension keeping him at the club until the end of the 2018/19 season.

All these clubs are doing business and all we've done is lose players. Are we signing anyone?

[Gozu]

The Perth Wildcats have announced they've re-signed Matt Knight to a 2 year deal and Jesse Wagstaff has signed a 2 year contract extension keeping him at the club until the end of the 2018/19 season.

All these clubs are doing business and all we've done is lose players. Are we signing anyone?

We're pretty much not even getting mentioned in rumours. We should've learnt from that last offseason.

[Gozu]

The NBL in it's plan to expand into Asia have announced an NBL All-Australian all-star team it will be sending to China next month to play three games against their national team.

The NBL All-Australian team will be coached by Boomers coach Andrej Lemanis and play China in Nanning on May 6, Guangzhou on May 8 and Beijing on May 10 with China's CCTV5 televising all three games to a potential audience of over a billion people.

Melbourne United players Todd Blanchfield and Majok Majok have been named on the NBL's 11-man roster, along with free agent Dave Barlow and Daniel Kickert who left Melbourne to join Brisbane Bullets next season.

The NBL is in talks with Australian channels to find a local broadcaster for the series.

NBL All-Australian side to tour China: Daniel Kickert (Brisbane Bullets), Lucas Walker (free agent), Jason Cadee (Sydney Kings), Jesse Wagstaff (Perth Wildcats), Mitch Norton (free agent), Majok Majok (Melbourne United), Todd Blanchfield (Melbourne United), David Barlow (free agent), Clint Steindl (free agent), Tom Garlepp (Sydney Kings), Adam Gibson (Brisbane Bullets). Andrej Lemanis (coach), Mick Downer (assistant coach), Nick Harrison (physio).

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/basketball/ ... o9q1c.html

Also the Cairns Taipans have announced the signing of former Illawarra Hawks guard Jarrad Weeks to a 2 year deal and the Hawks have also announced they've re-signed guard Kevin White for 2 years.

[Gozu]

The pillaging of Townsville's roster begins with the Illawarra Hawks signing former Crocs captain Mitch Norton to a 2 year deal.

http://www.hawks.com.au/featured-news/h ... ch-norton/

The Hawks have also re-signed forward Cody Ellis for 2 years.

[king neptune]

Keeping Randle was the top priority but jeez will he have 4 other guys to play with? Got point guard and centre sorted with Johnson, just about every other position needs filling.