He might have had an 'off night'. I think he works very hard to get where he is. Let's give him a chance eh?

If you had a first time visitor to the game last night and asked them to pick any players who had played in the NBL i dont think they would have got it right.

The guy has not even put the singlet on and the knives are out. Ease up and see what he can do, Ninny surely would not have picked him just to make up the numbers

How's he gone against Norwood's frontcourt in previous games?

Interesting you bring that up Isaac because the times he has played against Norwood that i have seen he has struggled.

6pts 6 rebs
4 pts 11 rebs
0pts 3 rebs

There Hobans stats from the last 3 matches against norwood.

very interesting....

He didn't have a great game saturday night but still people forget he hit the shot that 99 times out of 100 would have won his team a championship....very unlucky not to have been the hero of the night!
He deserves his 36er spot...don't think anyone would argue that. He is definately better than other former 'young' bigs (Hambour, Dodman, Lalic, Breheney) that have trained with the 36ers over the years.

Its that 99 times out of a hundred that Forestville banked on to win the game, hence no Forestville player going for the rebound in the last 3.5 seconds. They thought it was already over. It would have been very disappointing for Hoban to be credited with the Hero of the Night title for his efforts in the last few seconds of the game when he did little else for the rest of the game. Webber had already worked his butt off for a stand out game before he hit the last shot on the buzzer.

bit harsh on the Forestville players for not rebounding...the last thing they wanted to do was give up a foul on the rebound like Norwood did last week and give away free throws...not at any time had the eagles boys thought it was over. Quite clearly when your only up by 2 your not safe and to say they thought that is unfair!!!

do it, I don't agree, it was a must for Forestville to pick up that last rebound. There was only 1 Forestville player(Oakley)remotely close to the hoop after Hobans free throw missed and he made no attempt to go for the ball. They clearly had not banked on Norwood making a final 3 pointer with only a couple of seconds to go. Whether you think they did the right thing or not, I bet they've learnt a valuable lesson from this and that is not to take things for granted.

EC, they eagles didn't take anything for granted....Norwood were always going to get off a shot from around the half way line wether Hoban hit the free throw or not...the chance of the eagles getting the offensive rebound over Cooper and Krause was very, very slim, and they obviously thought that an extra man back would be the way to go to try and make Norwoods last shot as tough as possible....as it was, Webber hit a three that was alot closer to the half than it was to the three point line, he was also hugged up against the side line and heaved it over Sullivans two out stretched hands, with Sutton in the vacinaty also!

Apart from hitting their free throws, not to sure what else the eagles could have done....in fact I think if they had it over they would do exactly the same....and the next 98 times after that and would come away with a Norwood miss and a Forestville win every time.

It really was just won of those things....thats what our game of Hoops is all about!

Hobo will do fine as a development player and will be upto him if he progresses to more than that.
He reminds me of Hambour when he started with the Sixers. Good luck to him

See what he is like after training with big bodies for 12 months or so then judge him. Bit early to make any call on the guy surely???