An interesting side note: Adelaide squad member, 7'4" centre Sam Harris, made the national news last night on channel 10. He was quoted as being Australia's tallest athlete and was shown shooting hoops at an Adelaide training session.

I'd just be curious to know whether Sam Harris
who at 26 years can be signed as a 36ers Development Player - for there's a YAP U24 rule in the 10,
from there, I'm a litle confused by NBL wording on DPs

Sorry if this has already been posted on here somewhere.

This was posted on Twitter the other day:
Sam Harris throws down a dunk at Sixers training

Man that's some tall timber. Is it travelling if you are touching the ground whilst dunking???

First footage I've seen of Harris, he looks a lot more nimble than I expected in those 14 seconds, I was thinking he'd be more like Kenny George or that 7-8 Chinese (or is he Korean?) guy who keeps popping up.

Have I missed something? Why can't he lock down a spot in a league where he's got 6 inches on all but a couple of players? Would he not be a better back up big than Dowdell?

like it like it - i anyone can get him going it will be marty.

In the tall department, there's a few young local lads who need to be considered. Here's just 3.....
I'm not too sure if he is on the DP list, has dropped off the Sixer's radar, or even qualifies as a DP, but Chris Molitor seriously needs to be on that list. He will be 22 this month and has had a pearler of a season for West. 16.8 ppg @ 42.7%, 5.8 rpg, 1.6 apg average around 30 mins/game. Seriously underplayed last NBL season really only playing junk time, Good at getting frisbees as well by all accounts.

19 yo Jan Warbout has put his hand up, but needs to improve on 38% shooting to be considered as a tall.

Another young gun who should be considered in the mix is 17 yo Daniel Carlin. Only doing about 11 mins/game, 5.6 ppg @ 53.7%, 2.6 rpg, 0.3 asp. Might be a bit young, but one player to keep on the radar and has certainly not disgraced himself this season.

The Sixers could be a bit guard heavy, but 18 yo Corey Maynard is another young gun to be considered in DP. Averaging around 30 mins/game for Sturt, 10.9 ppg @ 44.8%, 5.4 rpg and 3.8 apg. Pretty handy figures.

19 yo Tom Daly is another: 14.7 ppg @ 47.7%, 5.0 rpg and 3.4 apg.

If the Sixers had a youth team and that was the starting 5, they would be a formidable line up. In fact, here's my challenge for Friday afternoon, if you had to pick young guns from ABA to be a Sixers youth team, who would you?

Other young guys are Peter Hooley, Rhys Elliot, Josh Bond, Lachlan Prest (all U/20 State players as were Daly, Maynard 7 Warbout)- not signed but training

Which of those U20's mentioned will be off to college?

Corey Maynard leaves shortly. Others are considering options.

Billo, Harris averaged 2ppg in college over 3 seasons he also tried with multiple NBL clubs. If he was talented enough he would be in a team but unfortunately for him he isn't at this stage. Height alone isn't good enough.

I dont necessarily agree KingJames. Harris is only 26, and there is no reason to think his best basketball isnt ahead of him given his size.

It would be nice to see him get a few consistent minutes (5-10 per game), and this season against Schenscher, Crosswhite, Nevill, Helliwell, Pledger and Behrendorff might be a good time to start.

There are plenty of Players around Adelaide that have the potential to be apart of the Adelaide 36ers club.
Tom Daly would be among the one with most potential out of all of them, and central district players such as David Humphries and Daniel Carlin, even though Humphries missed out on the 2009 ABL season, im sure he will be fired up to play the next season and would be a good player to keep an eye on.

players like Josh Bond, Rhys Elliot and Peter Hooley are not quite talented to be on an NBL squad.

thats my opinion.

Sam's issue have been that coaches have picked him because of his size but in fact the only times coaches have given Harris a chance to play decent minutes and hence to develop have been at the AIS and in Singapore with the Slingers .

Give him a chance to play regular minutes and he will show that he can do much more than just being a training partner . Great bloke

DWG you took the words out of my mouth.

Kurt Phillips has impressed me these last two weeks. At twenty years of age he has good size and a nice shot. Has played well in two pressure games and stuck the knife into any hope Norwood might have had in the final 30 seconds with a big 3

What happened to Sammy Gazzo he was at there camp

Gazzo is currently in the training squad. It looks as though Daly will get one Development squad spot and the other one is still up for grabs with a darkhorse being Jan Warbout...