Luke Kendall……welcome back
Posted by Ashley Proud on October 17, 2008
Well everbody is hugely concerned with how basketball in Australia is going and I am another one to add to that list. It seems that the basketball community at Ozhoops are also very concerned. This fantastic site has so many dedicated fans who are genuinely concerned about how the league will look in the future. Many a post on the boards have been dedicated to this topic. My concerned is that the best players need to be playing in our league. The whole Luke Kendall scenario has been a ridicolous scenario and thank god that the last guy who missed out on our Olympic team is back in our league. Even though he is playing for the evil Perth Wildcats, he is still better off playing NBL than playing for Kilsyth in the ABA! John Rillie on the OT had some interesting things to say about this topic.
On another topic (this is my first go at blogging…….please forgive my lack of blogging knowledge!) how much are the Gold Coast Blaze stinking it up at the moment. Surely some changes have to be made. Lets look at their lineup:
C: Ben Melmeth – career underachiever. Left Utah because he couldn’t hack it with Ric Mujareus and missed out on playing with Keith Van Horn and making it to a national title game.
PF: Luke Whitehead – they bought this guy in to replace Hawkins last year and he was stinky then and still stinks now. He has been slowed by injury but I wouldn’t expect much from him. He is a pretty good athlete.
SF: Jaquin Hawkins – solid veteran guy who is not worthy of an import spot in my humble opinion.
SG: James Harvey – love him. He is a bit of a gunner but can light it up.
PG: Shane Heal – cops a lot of crap but is a competitor. Has slowed down a little (he is 38 years old) but still a solid player at NBL level.
The problem is the bench. Daniel Joyce is the most critiqued player in the league. Tyson Demaos rarely gets on. Scott McGregor and Pero Cameron are both slow 3/4 men who just can’t get it done. Casey Frank is the only positve off the bench.
Big Shoot Joey from Ozhoops has the following to say:
Some very good constructive ideas have been put forward, but the reality is all these awesome ideas are going to fall on deaf ears…..listen carefully ladies & gents
The Board and the coaching staff are not going to make a move, they’re not even thinking about making a move…….they’re not even thinking about thinking about making a move
There are many reasons for this, obvious ones being, points cap, current salary, contract length, and other current contract issues. But the current people in power want to tough it out with the current roster, rest assured next year there will be wholesale changes.
Maybe just maybe when we reach 0-20 and the crowds fall under 1000 people then our wishes for some kind of change will be considered.
If this is the case, Gold Coast Blaze fans are in for a very very long season. My mail tells me that they could have signed Chris Goulding to their roster. He is a local SE Qld boy who would have loved to have stayed home. He had a huge SEABL season. Now he is in Perth and only time will tell if the Blaze have made the right move.
How long will Brendan Joyce keep his job for?
October 27th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
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