Well at least now its official.

In isolation, its great to see. Good to have him back playing NBL, and stoked its at the Cats.

NOW the challenge is to scrounge some points and find SOMEBODY to fill that guard spot.

Will be VERY interesting to see how they line up, and what role Prather plays.

We've got about as much chance of CJ Bruton filling the last spot as I do of scoring a root with Scarlett Johansson.

Ain't gonna happen holmes

Can't be unhappy with that signing.

great to see Knight at of where he should be playing all along

^pf

Knight, jawai, cp, dollar and damp not had five for me. then wags,redhage, hire and Jervis. I like it, the wall is back!

^damo

You know, if you just put a little more effort into thinking about what you're going to post, you probably could have done that with one post instead of four.......

I'm back! did you miss me? where is my mate Jack? great to see 36ers are on the pension list wit centre link

I winter school but it didn't help

went

Sucks that one of my favourite players plays for the Wildcats. Have to tip my hat to Marvin for that pickup. I think Jawai will come in and dominate if the refs don't punish for his size advantage.

If Nate can get himself in top shape again he will be a dominate player once again and could be a sneaky chance for Rio

Going to be interesting seeing us go to this kind of big-man heavy structure, we've been pretty small ball in recent years.

Knight, jawai, cp, dollar and damo not had five for me. then wags,redhage, hire and Jervis. I like it, the wall is back!

If Prather is any good at all, that's a massively stacked team.

And it will be a massively stacked defence against them unless some guys step up their perimeter shooting from last year.

Hopefully they had Damo practicing his shot over the off-season in every spare moment.

If Prather can be a scorer then hopefully Beal will free up and be the 3 point threat he was in his first season. Otherwise Gleeson is going to have to come up with an effective to way to break a Zone defence that doesn't involve jacking up 3's.

It also means that at times we'll see Perth run with a big front court; Jawai (or Jervis off the bench) and two of Redhage/ Wagstaff/ Hire.
At others, just two big post players; Jawai and Knight, with Beal & Prather on the wings.

When Martin has shot close to 50% on threes in the regular season Perth have won two titles from two attempts. If he shoots that well again this season they will be mighty hard to beat.

As for Jawai not being a good fit, in case you hadn't noticed NBL teams can't be too choosey. When somebody of his calibre wants to come back to the NBL, you GRAB him.

Knight has always been a PF filling the centre role. The Cats showed last year that starting Jervis at centre and Knight at PF not only worked but was hard to defend. Plus you have to consider that Knight is injury prone and not getting any younger, and Redhage is nolonger the scoring machine he once was. The Cats' lack of depth was exposed by injuries last year. They made the playoffs but couldn't put a competitive team on the court. They not only needed to boost their front court, but needed to do it with somebody that could actually play quality minutes and make an impact. Another "random" big guy on the bench wasn't going to work.
I don't KNOW whether they had already had talks with Jawai, but i think having Lewis Thomas train showed the direction they were heading.

I was puzzled with the direction they took with Prather, but I assume they had already looked at the local market and determined that it would be easier to find PF types than guards or a swingman.

Daniels was brilliant in the open court (a lot of players are) but he wasn't strong enough inside, and he he didn't have have outside game to compensate. Remains to be seen, but Prather SHOULD bring that outside game, and he looks good in transition. Now Nate will bring his inside presence. Win-Win.

"I long for the day the Cats grab a top Australian swingman again."

Who was the last one?

Trevor Torrance

Full page ad on today's paper for the Nate signing. Not an article. An advertisement.

No doubt they are behind, not sure how much, but I'd expect the numbers to rise again with the roster now complete. Getting off to a good start, and Prather playing above the rim will also help.

Perth will get blown away -Beal is cold under pressure Prather is not Ennis - Not even A Ness and The forwards are pedestrian - will get owned by every team - except Adelaide - Adelaide are looking at Bruce Bolden to replace Ebi Ere (similar ages)

"Perth will get blown away -Beal is cold under pressure Prather is not Ennis - Not even A Ness and The forwards are pedestrian - will get owned by every team - except Adelaide - Adelaide are looking at Bruce Bolden to replace Ebi Ere (similar ages)"

Nice to see that as down as Adelaide supporters are on us, they're still saltier about their own team.

Prather is no me that's for sure

^
God, the standard of trolling is plummeting lately.

So is the standard of Perth's recruiting - hit the mark with Ennis - Epic fail with DeAndre (worst recruit since Vince Hinchen), fail with Earnest Ross, fail to retain Drake U'U

You've got a long memory if you recall how Vince Hinchen did in Perth, but a short memory if you've forgotten all the dud imports after him.

I don't know that failing to retain UU should be a key point when trying to prove that the Cats recruiting is poor.

@A.Ness - Pointing out a few of the failed imports does not validate your point that Perths recruiting is bad. Recruiting imports for any teams are hit and miss. You can look at any team and say the same thing.

Which teams are recruiting better than the Cats right now?

You've got a long memory if you recall how Vince Hinchen did in Perth, but a short memory if you've forgotten all the dud imports after him.

Sounds like someone is talking out of his A Ness.

Why are you LOLing at koberulz?

Jawai is a great signing, I think most are happy to have him back in the league, but no one really happy its at Perth. Props to them for recovering so quickly from the Greenwood situation, even though considering Marvin was involved and the history he has, I still find it all a bit fishy how smooth it went down. So people attacking their recruting are just annoyed for the sake and looking for anything. But they remind me of the Yankees in the MLB, no one outside of Perth wishes this team any good. Its just this season, a few will wish one particular player very good me included! Good luck to Nathan Jawai, never too late to make amazing things happen!

Ok Perth champs - so -
Daniles was a flop
U'U didn't want to return so how effective was recruiting him for three seasons
Muo? Ross? Why weren't they re-signed if they were worth recruiting in the first place
I said Daniels was worst RECRUIT since Hinchen (not worst import) (I get it in WA that you will read it properly 2 hours after the rest of Australia)
Jawai is like Brian when he went to Geelong in teh VFL (Past his Peake)

A Ness who do you support?

I think you are talking out of your A.Ness. Lets talk about your teams recruitment and finals records shall we ?

And as mentioned in another thread U'u left to talk up an opportunity with the Kings in the NBA.

Cant think of any 1 team that has never made a disaster of a signing, in any league in any sport... so my point is wrong tree to bark up!

NZ Breakers - we speak for ourselves - name an import who was a dud - so good other teams grab em
And how's our finals record - Perth have been in the league 386 years (33) for 6 Flags
Breakers 12 years for 4 (and 5 this year)
Perth debacle signings - need I remind you
Dan Hickert (Big Centre) Jeff Allen (Big Centre) Gavin Vanderputten (Big Centre) Paul Kuiper (Big Centre) (whose signing is so bad its off your wikipedia page) Luke Schenscher (Big Centre) Dewey Michaesl (Bi Centre) Mike Brown (Big Centre)
Recurring trend anyone
Also bumbled with CJ Bruton and his career (should have played 300 games at the Cats
The only time the big centre has worked is Paul Rogers
And have you had a 3 peat yet? What's that 4 rings in 5 years - no?

Awvee Storey was a dud... replaced by John Rillie.

Also the Breakers cut Redhage, so point is all teams make great and bad calls on players. Some how dont think that logic will sit well with you...

Well they are, but this individual is a bit off centre with the attack. All been there all passion no substance haha

A.Ness - while you dropping player names how about some of the legends of the game Perth recruited. Ricky Grace, James Crawford, Scott Fisher, Andrew Vlahov, Paul Rogers, Kevin Lisch , Shawn Redhage, James Ennis.

Your trying to argue a point at least try to open the other eye while your doing it.

Glad your proud of your team though, and so you should be. They have been one of the best dynasties ever in the NBL but atleast pull your head out of your A.Ness for a bit of fresh air every now and then.

Point 1 - You have had 33 years to get it right - still can't
Point 2 - We cut Redhage - have won 5 rings since - he's won two - maths for west australians - 5 is better than 2 - unless its a ness poundings - like the breakers have given to the mildcats
I think you have had 2 league mvp in all your recruiting - how many have we had - so who is getting it more right?
Again - how have big centres worked out? How many titles did Dunigan win?
And look at Oscar, Kirk, Ibewickery and Redhage - our scraps are your stars

NZ have won five championships now?

5 on the way
And Penney is a star - hence the breakers in the league a third as long as perth can get recruiting so right that other teams want our imports
Good comeback anusnonymous

Didn't the breakers miss the playoffs all together 2 seasons ago ? Recruiting wasn't too good there was it lol . Oh but that's right the NBL and Marvin were conspiring to make sure the Breakers didn't win again lol

Rest of the competition has caught up now mate, it's no longer a one ir two horse race. Don't count your kiwis before they hatch.

I'm starting to doubt that 100% Pure ad campaign as far as NZ's water goes.

Definitely something fishy in that water these days.