damn! just as i was hoping it wasnt something massive. could this be an opening for Harris??

Oh well, best to keep him out for the season then rather than try and rush things.

Best of wishes again.

It seems out list of shooters is wearing thin..

Aww damn it :(

Here's to a speedy recovery.

This season and the last have been trying times.

8 - 12 weeks seems a bit long. Maybe a bit of hypobaric treatment can cut that down.

I hope we take Harris instead of Bruce. Rhys Carter will be back after this next game. We are covered in the guard spots and I think Ron will perform now knowing that not only is his time in the NBL depending on it but his time anywhere.

This is a terrible blow and one I was hoping not to have. Let's let Darren rest and recover properly instead of rushing back.

Has anyone else noticed it's all our guards who are going down with the big injuries?

36ers should go after Demos.
He had a great game last night, and IMO he is an upgrade from Darren Ng.
He is more versatile than Ng--He can stroke the 3, Get to the rack with a quick first step and he plays excellent in your face defence.

Demos is a really tough cover. Problem with Ng is that he is one-dimensional--When he isnt stroking the 3, he isn't doing too much else.

Would rather just keep Herbert.

8-12 weeks, that's pretty much the season. You would imagine they would look to keep Bruce. Why open up the door for another club to grab a talented young Aussie who seems to want to play in Adelaide?

Now Now anonymous, no need to abandon any member of your immediate family in the hope someone's family with an average IQ above 30 will take them in, I'm certain not all of them are as genetically damaged as you are.

I'd keep Bruce also.

Lure Schenscher back to Adelaide or even Khazzouh.

Go with just one import at the start of the season and keep the spare one up your sleave if required.

Schenscher / DJ
Ballinger / Holmes
Herbert / Hill
Import / Ng
Carter / Bruce

^ your an idiot

^ Agree!

Dct, you forgot Creek.

Would love to see the Schench back in a sixers uniform but not sure if he would fit in with the points system and salary cap.

If you go with only one import, the points and salary should be ok. Going on the standard of 36ers imports this season, Schenscher would definately be an improvement.

Back to Ng, not only a blow to the team but a huge personnal blow to Ng. He had stepped up the last few games and was playing alot better than I think he ever has. This injury could really affect the momentom he was starting to build in his career. Hopefully he can recover strongly and maybe work on some upper body strenght while he is off his feet!! Goodluck to him

I agree Skud, I have never personally rated Ng, until this season. He has improved with each game. Heres to a speedy recovery.

I agree that Ng has improved this season but all sixers fans must come to the reality that the sixers will NEVER win a championship with Darren Ng and Brad Hill playing major minutes for our team.
They are at very best both 8 and 9 men in a championship rated team.
They are both simply too inconsistant to be rated any higher.
If we are looking at building a championship contending team, the roster next year should bascially look like this.

Bruce / Carter
Import / Greenwood
Import / Herbert / Creek
Ballinger / Dowdell
Big Luke / Johnston

Sorry but if we serious about being a legimate contender than there is absolutly no room in this team for Holmes / Hill / or NG.

3 pointer, Greenwood is signed to go to University of New Mexico next year.

Ok take greenwood out and replace him with Hill.

and Hill only plays 5-8 mins a game. We need to be giving both our imports major minutes!!

Perhaps there are those that could play more of Ngs minutes on Sunday, like Howard
and that might be his last one here, with Carter about a week away.

3 pointer, Ng has been 9th or 10th man in for the 36ers this year (my dad has been paying specific attention and letting me know).

Ushiro, might still perturb a few fans to go with one or no imports, but surely this season has shown that save for a handful of decent ones, the import game is now a bit of an expensive gamble. Also, as I've said before (though in the context of centres), signing locals prevents them falling into the hands of other teams. e.g., swap two Adelaide imports for Schenscher and Petrie and you impact two other teams in the process.

If we could lure Schensch back I would be happy for us to run with only the 1 import.

Will Schensch come back though? What length contract did he sign with the Crocs?

Just the one year.

It's no surprise that most of the guys people consider the top imports play on the best teams with the best performing local talent (Ervin, Ubaka, Wilkinson, Braswell, Lisch), the only exception is probably Williams and he is an exceptional player. Adelaide the past few years hasnt had the Aussie talent to make life easier for the imports, and underperforming imports have been the result.

But even the best imports arent better than the top locals, so if you can sign a gun Aussie that should be the preferred option. Sign imports to fill the gaps in the roster.

The other important thing is to sign imports who give you something you dont have. For Adelaide recently that has been frontcourt athleticism/defence and decision making/leadership. In Shannon the latter has been solved, but either guys like Worthington, Vukona or Petrie are needed or an import with similar traits to those guys.

Here is a lineup for next year I would like to see

Big Luke/Johnson
Ballinger/Majok
Import/Creek
Import/Herbert
Bruce/Carter

I think this should fit under the points cap as other than your imports and the two redheads everyone should be 6 or less.

Bruce will take Ng's spot. Carter may not be back for a couple of weeks if at all anyway so hopefully Howard will get some extra minutes to prove his worth.

Difference being that Paul Rees was a veteran who knew how to defend every other centre in the league.

Thats good point Isaac re defence with Harris but how well have Balls and Holmes been doing along with DJ and Dowdell .
Not sure he can help but cant get much worse although Holmes works his butt off way way to small against 6-10 - 7 footers etc.
Thought Adams defence was getting better but last 2 games 2 games welllll

Put Marcus in Darren's shirt and get him on the court!

It'd be a shame to have a decent center not reach his full potential due to lack of faith and court time.

In completely unrelated news, we can all see what a solid Aussie center looks like when Garlepp comes home this Sunday.

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*ahem*

At 6"8' he'd qualify for the 5 spot here.

Isaac, about that Anon button...

Reesy could teach Harris to surf.




On Brad Davidson :p