Interesting to see that the majority of Heal's points from 3pt range. Hitting 6/10.

Would James Harvey had made much of a difference to the Blaze line up?

From what I can gather the Sixers should have been chasing Seebohm, now the Dragons have Ingles, Seebohm who are going to be outstanding in the near future.

Blaze were also missing Pero Cameron and Casey Frank :) so while the result doesnt look overly impressive there should be a bit of improvement when the full squad is together.

Was about to add that they were missing Pero and Frank but you beat me to it.

Concerned at all by the performance of the imports? Jason Crowe was 1/13 FG and had 7 assists with 8 turnovers.

What league/college did Crowe come from? Could the way our game is played/officiated had an impact on his FG's and Assist to Turnover Ratio?

Bizzy, came from the NZ NBL. Hard to draw too much conclusion from one boxscore, and I didn't see stats from their game against the Tigers, just that Crowe didn't score well then.

Report from the Dragons game was that the Blaze imports weren't great. Might need some time to adjust.

Whilst Blaze had Harvey/Casey/Pero and lets not forgte SOJ to add.

Drags had no Imports at all.

Good out come for dragons, but shows reliance on Heal firing.
Horvarth and grooves will remove that pressure a lot.

Doubt Blaze mising would of made a diffrence unless Imports sat on bench

Isaac - yes concerned about imports - 1/13 isnt good no matter how you package it up and Hawkins will need to a lot more productive as well!
In saying that - I am optimistic (probably blindly) that the group - when all together - will mesh together well and put a competitive product on the floor - every night!

......and as for all the constant sniping at Daniel Joyce (more on OzHoops than here) how about we give this talented 19 year old (yes only 19) a chance to play in his 2nd season before we contantly can him as only in the league cause his Dad is the coach!

Whats got up your nose?
all that was said was they didn't play

KC Gone - as mentioned more to do with comments on OzHoops than on here - he is quite an easy target for smart comments and IMO at this stage its unwarranted and uneccesary.

KC, I think it might've been our use of the adoring "SoJ" term that reminded Statman of the kid's usual reception on OzHoops from a few of the Hawks fans!

Got it in one Isaac - while quite a clever nickname thats bound to stick I just think he should be given a bit of a break as he is still so young!

Sure he may end up being a complete bust but I for one and giving him a bit more leeway at this stage.

Hmm does it show that I have my membership and courtside seats to the Blaze already and am starting to get itchy feet for the first game.....

OK DJ from know on this site.

Jason Crowe had a massive game! almost double double in missed shots and turnovers!

The reason why Joyce Jnr has received so much criticism is not to do with his potential, but because of the elevated opportunities he has had 'playing for dad'. It may be that he will deserve to be playing 20 minutes a game even this year, but he certainly didn't deserve to last year.

I seem to recall similar criticisms directed to S Black back in the day, it didn't really stick for long (once he stopped playing for his dad anyway).

"I just think he should be given a bit of a break as he is still so young!
"
No one deserves a break in the big time. If you're not good enough you shouldn't be there!

The kid has arms the size of a 12 yo girl..

Go away and come back when you can compete at NBL level.