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Ricky Davis Collector
I have followed the NBL ever since I can remember and I have seen some great players and teams play befour my eyes. After watching the game last night it just hit me that Basketball in Australia is going no where and soon is going to struggle to get people to fill the stands. All the talent in Australia end up going to play in Europe or College ball in America and not many players want to come play in the NBL because of the weak salaries and how it’s run. Rick Burton was a real pro and was actually really getting the NBL running in the right direction until just last week he leaves to be on some Olympic committee. It’s just operated by a bunch of morons with no idea and they all seem to think the NBL is just like pee wee basketball or something.
Brian Goorjian can’t be in charge of the Australian team anymore, he is the most biased person in terms of selecting the Australian team it’s not funny. We will continue to go no where with this guy in charge selecting like 5 players from his Sydney Kings side to play in the Australian/New Zealand Series. Russell Hinder and Luke Kendall quite simply should not be in the team, you can easily get better players to fill their spots even with all our stars out injured. I was impressed with David Anderson but his footwork skills need a lot of work, very slow at pivoting and posting up.
I would love to see the NBL scraped completely and started from scratch like what Soccer did with the A league. The old professional Australian Soccer league was lucky to get 100 people to the games and they canned it and got some wealthy and successful people to head the new league that would become the A-League. Not only is the League starting to become absolutely massive with huge fan base followings and marquee signings but it has just been included in the upcoming FIFA 08 game. You couldn’t honestly say that would ever have happened 5 years ago.
If they canned the NBL, re named the league, teams, fantasy drafted players, get people with loads of money behind it like Eddie Groves and start promoting the game better; it will draw international players to come play here and will put basketball back on the map. It just infuriates me to see Basketball in Australia continue to go no where and just how the league is run.
My team the Bullets used to pack the Entertainment Center with massive crowds of upwards of 8,000 and now they play in the Library where they are lucky to get 3,000.
Their has been many clubs fold over the years because of money and it will continue to be like that for years.
Something needs to be done as we have some good players coming up the ranks who are playing all over the world and we need to have a league that can co-exist with all the football codes and cricket and be just as successful.
Brian Goorjian can’t be in charge of the Australian team anymore, he is the most biased person in terms of selecting the Australian team it’s not funny. We will continue to go no where with this guy in charge selecting like 5 players from his Sydney Kings side to play in the Australian/New Zealand Series. Russell Hinder and Luke Kendall quite simply should not be in the team, you can easily get better players to fill their spots even with all our stars out injured. I was impressed with David Anderson but his footwork skills need a lot of work, very slow at pivoting and posting up.
I would love to see the NBL scraped completely and started from scratch like what Soccer did with the A league. The old professional Australian Soccer league was lucky to get 100 people to the games and they canned it and got some wealthy and successful people to head the new league that would become the A-League. Not only is the League starting to become absolutely massive with huge fan base followings and marquee signings but it has just been included in the upcoming FIFA 08 game. You couldn’t honestly say that would ever have happened 5 years ago.
If they canned the NBL, re named the league, teams, fantasy drafted players, get people with loads of money behind it like Eddie Groves and start promoting the game better; it will draw international players to come play here and will put basketball back on the map. It just infuriates me to see Basketball in Australia continue to go no where and just how the league is run.
My team the Bullets used to pack the Entertainment Center with massive crowds of upwards of 8,000 and now they play in the Library where they are lucky to get 3,000.
Their has been many clubs fold over the years because of money and it will continue to be like that for years.
Something needs to be done as we have some good players coming up the ranks who are playing all over the world and we need to have a league that can co-exist with all the football codes and cricket and be just as successful.
