Mate!

You beat me to it. i was just about to post this story also. All good mate.

Does anyone have any names or knowledge about it?

Darren Ng might know.

Maybe you have to remember that the news of Darren Ng was not highly published in Singapore and maybe Bob Turners message is directed at the people in Singapore .

Not everyone are as up to date with all the changes in the teams as most of the people who are on this website .

What is more interesting is who will be the 2 new imports and who is "the giant " ?

Is it......SPADGE!

By the way it will be interesting to see what Turner calls " a new giant center "..... Remember last years center was Chris Cameron at 211 cm and 121kg ++ so who ever it is got to be a big boy and most likely more of a monster than Cameron . Any ideas ?

I think a clue was given when he said 'Firepower'. Its Hinder..........

Didn't comeone say Jordy was heading up there?

I mentioned Dodman on here from a Boti article, saying he'd had a good offer from Singapore.
Don't know whether he'd go there now. Reckon we need him here.

i'd say that castro will be finalised by next week, as the asian import! further, could it be matty nielsen? or even damien ryan?

rumours on other boards sites say mottram, but i think that is bs! further, helliwell is a possibility, but he is getting good $$$ in italy atm!

Some people say that Mottram already before last season had shown some interest in joining Singapore .

The star most likely is Darren but would you consider Mottram to be " the giant ' ?

Darren is not the star, BT is a realist!! motts would be good but he aint no giant

Hope you are correct Marco re the star. I doubt it will be Matt Nielsen for several reasons. Damien Ryan would be nice but most likely they would have promised Darren Ng the SG position so ....

Could the giant center be Horvath ?

Pretty sure Horvath is contracted to South?

http://www.nbl.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=74762

NBL lists him as Undetermined as of 17 april.

If not Horvath then who ? At least the Slingers have no problems with the points should it be Horvath .

BTW the big fella is SAM HARRIS...

At 221 cm Sam certainly is tall - but how good is he ?

Found Sam Harris's stats from Old Dominion University ......maybe he is tall but hopefully you are wrong SouthernPremiers08.

I wonder what Singapore mean by "Australian" player. Technically Horvath is neither Australian nor an import. Up until a few days ago he was an import and now is a New Zealand citizen. Does this make him "Australian" because as a New Zealander you are a local player in the NBL?

7 foot 3. I'd have to stand on the roof of my car just to chest poke him. That's a big unit.

2006/07 Started in 2 of 32 games. Scored 8 points vs Georgia State.

Further down it did go on to say during the summer he played for AIS and had games with 28 and 20 points. I don't know if that means he only played two games......

I doubt it is Sam Harris .

The Slingers are looking for more experience than they had last year with Chris Cameron and they are specifically saying they want somebody to bang the boards and take a lot of rebounds . That is not Sam Harris .

" Harris is just a space eater who makes his greatest contributions filling up the lane on defense." according to http://www.techsideline.com/news_archive/showArticle-3347.php

sam harris most likely

They should get Kenny George from UNC Asheville (I think that is the right UNC). Now I'd pay to see him play.

In hindsight Bob Turner has always had a good eye for marketing and having Sam Harris on board should give the Slingers more visibility off the court as long as he wears his Slingers uniform everywhere !

Seriously Gordie has an ability to to get the best out of young players so time will tell how well he performs if he becomes a Slinger. Assuming he will come off the bench and that the Slingers will still aim for a big import to start as the center.