Basketball and everything in between

 I was watching Harry Potter the other day and some how got thinking about Brendan Joyce.  For those who are not familiar with the Harry Potter series, Moaning Mrytle is a ghost who is always complaining about how nobody cared about when she died.  She doesn’t have a lot of friends and is always complaining about something.  Check out this You Tube package to see what I mean

This is similar to Brendan Joyce.  In interview with him he talks about how his team and the crippling draw that has affected his team. He also was blaming the ’schedule’ in this interview after the 102-85 loss against the Taipans. He constantly mentions ‘double headers’. Come on Brendan! In this interview after the Hawks game he failed to mention double headers and actually didn’t blame the schedule for his loss. It seems like that I am a Brendan Joyce basher. This is my second post that his team will feature in. In first one, I outlined their roster strengths and weaknesses When it comes down to it, they just are not very good. Every man and his dog know that Daniel Joyce is playing to much and now that they are thinking about dumping Hawkins due to injury  Hopefully they will turn the corner. In this interview Joyce states the following:

“We need a player who can play off the dribble and rebound. That is what Hawk used to be able to do. The vision I had for (fellow import Luke) Whitehead was not the position he is playing right now. He is playing in the three again when we wanted him in the four spot.”

Can anybody say Julius Hodge? Do they have the money for him? Do they have the desire to get him? The last thing the NBL needs this season is a Gold Coast team to go 0-30 or 2-28.

Other thoughts:

- I love John Rillie’s blog.  It is banned at my work and I had the day off yesterday.  I read it and was very impressed.  He is a role model for all us other bloggers.  I am looking forward to listening to the 7th episode of his podcast. Carl Ward was always a favourite of mine in the ABA.

- Great to see that my new found support of the Sydney Spirit lead them to a victory against the Hawks. I am sure that it was all of my moral support. Got to love this interview with Liam Rush and this one with Matthew Knight

- I am a huge fan of iGoogle This program basically allows you to RSS feeds of different websites to your own personal page. One basketball blog that I have on my page is Schibz Speil His latest post is titled New NBL: Reforming against the economic grain It is an interesting read and well worth looking at.

- Boti Nagy really wants the 36ers to get rid of Mark Tyndale. He goes to school on him and there management in this article. I loved this quote from Scott Ninnis:

“Obviously Mark’s not playing well,” 36ers coach Scott Ninnis said.

“But he’s no orphan in that.

So that is that! I am going to start reviewing all of my basketball books very soon. I am trying to make this blog interesting and thoughtful. Please leave a comment. I am attempting to see if people are actually reading this and what they would like me to discuss