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Years ago

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NBL MVP
Williams 92 votes
Ballinger 80 Votes
Worthington 72 votes
Mckee 70 votes
Redhage 69 Votes

NBL all star teams
All-NBL First Team
Corey Williams (Townsville)
Kirk Penney (New Zealand)
Tywain McKee (Wollongong)
Mark Worthington (Melbourne)
Shawn Redhage (Perth)

All-NBL Second Team
Adam Ballinger (Adelaide)
CJ Bruton (New Zealand)
Anthony Petrie (Gold Coast)
Adam Gibson (Gold Coast)
Ayinde Ubaka (Gold Coast)

All-NBL Third Team
Julius Hodge (Melbourne)
Glen Saville (Wollongong)
John Gilchrist (Adelaide)
Cameron Tragardh (Wollongong)
Larry Davidson (Wollongong)

2010 NBL Coach of the Year - Voting
Geordie McLeod 59
Trevor Gleeson 28
Rob Beveridge 29
Joey Wright 22
Aaron Fearne 5

2010 Best Defensive Player Voting
Dillon Boucher (NZ) 42
Damian Martin (Perth) 29
Adam Gibson (Gold Coast) 28
Mika Vukona (Gold Coast) 21
Tommy Greer (Melbourne) 8
Brad Robbins (Perth) 6
Rolan Roberts (Townsville) 5
Glen Saville (Wollongong) 3
Thomas Abercrombie (NZ) 1
Aaron Grabau (Cairns) 1

2010 NBL Most Improved Player Voting
Anthony Petrie (Gold Coast) 32
Daniel Johnson (Melbourne) 28
Larry Davidson (Wollongong) 27
Chris Goulding (Gold Coast) 23
Thomas Abercrombie (New Zealand) 13
Stephen Weigh (Perth) 10
Rhys Martin (Wollongong) 8
Kerry Williams (Cairns) 1
Damian Martin (Perth) 1
Michael Cedar (Townsville) 1

2010 NBL Rookie of the Year Voting
Jesse Wagstaff (Perth) 59
Tim Coenraad (Wollongong) 47
Chris Molitor (Adelaide) 24
Tommy Ammar (Gold Coast) 9

2010 Sixth Man of the Year Voting
Erron Maxey (Gold Coast) 33
Mika Vukona (Gold Coast) 29
Phill Jones (Cairns) 25
Tony Ronaldson (NZ) 14
Brad Williamson (Townsville) 13
Thomas Abercrombie (New Zealand) 7
Stephen Hoare (Townsville) 6
Jesse Wagstaff (Perth) 5
Daryl Corletto (Melbourne) 5
Rhys Martin (Wollongong) 3
Nathan Herbert (Adelaide) 3
Dave Gruber (Wollongong) 1

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Moses Guthrie
Years ago

I'll admit I don't follow the NBL that closely but what's with the Rookie of the Year voting? Read Boti's article on Thursday - stop embarassing the kids and don't be stupid. Molitor got 24 votes. What the?

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Jack Toft
Years ago

Agree Moses,

I think he played about 24 mins of game time for the season in total

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LC
Years ago

No real surprise winners for mine.

Observations:

- Ballinger not first team despite 2nd in MVP voting?
- Molitor in running for ROTY - this is a joke

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Jack Toft
Years ago

BTW,
Ballinger runner up.

People may be critical, but sometimes in a bad team, the best player attracts more MVP points than they would if they were in a better team

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Jack Toft
Years ago

Hate to sound like I'm drinking from the bitch cup, but can anyone tell me how many COTY votes Scotty got?

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Isaac
Years ago

Molitor got votes because everyone did a 3-2-1 vote and people couldn't vote for their own team. e.g., Molitor got various one votes and he or Ammar had to get 1-2 two votes.

The clubs have to put forward nominations. Molitor was eligible (one of few this year it seems) and was nominated. How might he feel if his club didn't even nominate him? (Not sure if he was eligible, but the Breakers didn't nominate Abercrombie!) I don't think Molitor or the club would ever dream of him being a chance of winning it, but it was right to put him forward since he was eligible. Might even be a bit embarrassing for him, so why rub it in and call it a joke? Why hate for hate's sake? Just congratulate a worthy winner and overlook the awkward bit.

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Melba
Years ago

How is Saville 2nd team? he had such a down year. The NBL awards is a joke. I remember a few years ago where a player finished runner up MVP and didn't even make and all nbl team.

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Jack Toft
Years ago

I don't know if people are having a go directly at Chris. And yes, the situation is not ideal. Personally, I would like to have seen him have more court time last year and have said this here many times.

He still qualifies for the U23 spot next NBL season. Would like to see him have another shot at it.

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william 34
Years ago

melba - sav third team. still a pretty good call tho, he didnt have a good one.

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Moses Guthrie
Years ago

Isaac, you raise a good point but to answer your question ..... How might he feel if his club didn't even nominate him? ..... I would think the more pertinent question is ..... in a league that brought in an Under-23 rule to promote young players etc, where the heck are the rest of the "eligible" nominees? I find it hard to believe there were only four first-year players in the league. If this is the case then shame, NBL, shame. Change the Under-23 rule to an Under-20 rule or something.

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Isaac
Years ago

Moses, there were lots of young guys who'd already played in the league - Goulding, Weigh, K Williams, the younger guys in Melbourne, Abercrombie, Hill, etc. Remember that with only eight teams (down from a few more in the last couple of years), teams consolidated and a lot of U23 spots went to players with a bit of experience. If Hill had been slightly younger, I don't think we would've had an eligible rookie at all. A lot of young guys would be in development spots too.

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