box me out
Years ago
Glen Saville
I am a BIG fan of the Wollongong all-round Small Forward, i am sure many of you also are. Proving himself season after season as a worthy leader for the Wollongong Hawks, i find it interesting how things are beginning to crumble by round 3.
After being named captain for the 2006/2007 season, the hawks have gone down twice in marginal losses and debatably received no real impact from Sav.
Our very own Mark Nash had a role to take Saville out of the game in round 1 36ers V Hawks in which he did so, quite successfully i might add. But if our number 7 or 8 man can take a player with such experience and expertise out of the game, what chance do Wollongong have?
Now the discussion is moving Sav to play the 4 spot. If he isn't cutting the mustard in the 3 spot (now, it's only been 2 games i have great faith he will bounce back), how can you expect him to dominate against opponents with a bigger body build and size. Although he has athletesism i feel in the number 4 spot a player requires more then just speed, otherwise there wouldn't even be a 4 spot because guys with smaller frames can play it just aswell if not better!
But how will he out-rebound, out-muscle, and out-body Harvoth, who is the 36ers power forward for instance (or Brett Wheeler, whoever you would prefer from our starting 5 of the two. One of them is centre the other Power Forward).
I find Glen an honest player, a Jason Kidd if you like, but in the role of a Small Forward. If he isn't dominating points one night, he should be focussing on rebounds or assists to help his team out in another area. Although he isn't the highest of scorers (15-20ppg roughly), to me he seems like the closest 'triple-double' basketballer Australia has breed in the last 5 or so years. It's a shame to see very flat stats for 2006 so far in all departments.
Basically this is an open discussion. He seems to be a talking point on everywhere but hoops. Your thoughts please :)
(P.S. This is very important to chew up work hours. As you can see i DO have alot of time on my hands by the length of this post)
