I says to few games next to penney when he's played the same amount as homicide...How come he made it!! (especially when you consider his turnovers and his teams record)

I put in 'too few games' as that was the general thrust of the writer's commentary for Penney. He suggested that with more games under his belt, Penney would very likely make one of the teams.

i reckon Wilkinson for the Breakers deserves to be in there too

All-NBL First Team
Gary Ervin
Ayinde Ubaka
Alex Loughton
Glen Saville
Julian Khazzouh

All-NBL Second Team
Damian Martin
Thomas Abercrombie
Mark Worthington
Adam Ballinger
Luke Schenscher

All-NBL Third Team
CJ Bruton
Michael Cedar
Gary Wilkinson
Russell Hinder
Shawn Redhage

Rod, don't want to push the family angle too much over your home side, but Hinder (9 and 7, team 5-3) in front of Forman (16 and 8, team 7-1)? ;)

Ballinger does not appear in anyone's teams, and in my view does not even come in to reconing at this stage - has not been his best season to date.

That was thrown in for this very reaction... and my hometown bias ;)

Rusty's my boy!

In fact i have loved Oscar's game since I saw him play the 4 for Australia in the Stankovic cup last year... he REALLY impressed me then and all of the games I've seen the Gong play on TV.

Why is Lisch in everybody's team? He's in terrible form IMO.

Probably because so many others have been in terrible form too?

Redhage is definately team 1 !

All-NBL First Team
Gary Ervin
Ayinde Ubaka
Alex Loughton
Shawn Redhage
Julian Khazzouh

All-NBL Second Team
Damian Martin
Thomas Abercrombie
Oscar Forman
Glen Saville
Luke Schenscher

All-NBL Third Team

Daniel Dillon
Michael Cedar
Mark Worthington
Matt Knight
Luke Nevill

Having Homicide in any of the teams is a joke.

1st Team:
J.Khazzouh
O.Forman
S.Redhage
D.Martin (as usual the lack of quality SGs means we have to be flexible)
G.Ervin

2nd Team:
A.Ballinger
A.Loughton
G.Saville
T.Abercrombie
A.Ubaka

L.Nevill
M.Worthington
M.Vukona (far ahead of Wilkinson)
M.Cedar
A.Gibson

First Team
Ervin
Martin
Forman
Redhage
Khazzouh

Second Team
Ubaka
Gibson
Saville
Worthington
Ballinger

Third Team
Braswell
Bruton
Abercrombie
Wilkinson
Schenscher

COY Gordie McLeod
MIP Oscar Forman (duh)
MVP Gary Ervin (also duh)

lol just realised I put 4 Breakers in the third team - maybe replace Bruton with Michael Cedar

Really interestign to see the low profile of imports in people's choices. Re-inforces everyone's points about the relative quality of imports and local players these days, over past years.

I know people have posited that is because the Australian standard has risen. However, I think there's a strong element of the Australian market being less attractive financially than other leagues, moreso than used to be the case. The number of top echelon Australian players playing overseas rather than in Australia supports that argument, as do the results for Australian teams internationally in the last few years.

I'm interested in whether money is more of a factor in the relative standard of imports vs local players in the NBL or whether it truly is that the local players are that much better than was the case say 10 years ago?

First Team
Ervin
Ubaka
Forman
Redhage
Khazzouh

Second Team
Gibson
Martin
Saville
Loughton
Wilkinson

Third Team
Bruton
Cedar
Worthington
Ballinger
Nevill