sweeettt....im huge on this guys game.
He brings it at both ends.

Tigers are assembling a very tough inside team, it is become a joke how the 'top teams' are signing whoever they want - they should scrap the points rule as it only seems to be affecting the 'struggling teams' who are the same teams that are affected by the slaray cap.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23520441-10914,00.html

You can read all about Grizzard's signinga nd the Tiger's drafting intentions.

DJ, interesting idea - bottom three teams get points cap concessions? I think when this has come up before, the problem is how to allow them to retain that team in the future once they're not a struggling team and do have to abide by the points cap?

Were the tigers not happy with Lampley then?

What the hell?

If Lampley is leaving and being replaced by MacKinnon, OK. 10 points, one for the other.

If Thomas is leaving and being replaced by Hodge, as rumoured, OK. 10 points, one for the other. Or they manage to keep Thomas....OK.

How the hell do they fit Grizzard in? Is Anstey leaving and no-one knows about it yet?

As far as I know, they don't have another 10 point player to sacrifice.

The points system was meant to stop teams doing EXACTLY this with their rosters. Won't even mention the salary cap. With what Grizzard would be worth, plus what Hodge is asking and MacKinnon would be looking for. Add that to Anstey and your salary cap is already gone.

Surely they can't get Hodge, Grizz AND Mac and make that work? Can they?

Skip, no, there were a lot of suggestions that Lampley was not overly loved by teammates actually. Strange since Seamus was wanting to lock him up for three years soon after he first signed.

Dicko, they're losing DMac, potentially Stiff also, keeping some rookies, signing that college kid, and I think Corletto is quite low once deductions are applied.

This is from memory, so might be wrong:

Anstey 10
Hoare 8 (loyalty?)
Barlow 8
Crosswell 7
Corletto 3 (possibly?)
Greer 1
That new kid 1
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38 points

Leaves 30 to come - SMac and two imports.

Remember the bottom two teams were allowed to run 3 imports for a season to help out and all that did was bankrupt the Cannons even quicker.

Hoare would be capped at 5 under the old rules so they may have even more points up their sleeve to work with than what you suggest Isaac.

its a disgrace and makes a mockery of the points system.

How is Barlow an 8? He is in the top ten Australians in the league and sure to be a Boomer in Beijing.
How can Barlow & Cooper be the same value?

I just don't see it.....but, hell, I'm 100% confident that the NBL will make sure the Tigers aren't doing anything untoward.

Good thing you don't need a PG to get the ball to those guys.

I dont see what the issue is re the points cap apart from questions over player rankings as has been discussed already.

The league has set a known points cap limit and the Tigers are working within that.

The team they are putting together suggest they are very confident in grabbing either Aaron Bruce or Adam Gibson for a guard spot or happy enough with Corlettto and Crosswell.

What they are paying these players is anopther thing all together at least the points cap can be monitored and objectified.

To me it is like the tax system, dont break the law just understand the rules and do what you can within them.

Agreed. If the biggest issue you can find is that Barlow is an 8 when maybe he should be 8.5 or 9 (tops), things aren't too ridiculous and certainly not a "disgrace".

I agree that Barlow would be a 9 tops, but do you think that Cooper should be and 8? or more to the point that they should be the same rating?

OK what if any NBL team did this?

Anstey
Tucker
Worthington
Mackinnon
Bruton
Jawai

Rookie 1
Rookie 1

Hoare 5 or equivalent loyalty discounted player like Maher etc

and 5 points to go on any other player say Dann, Trahair, Caporn, Martin


apart from blowing the cap up this team is points legal.

You have tied up 5 of the 10 players who are locals and rated 10 points. This leaves 5 big names to be fought over amongst the other teams and note one of those is Horvath.

You have killed the intent of the points cap to spread the talent throughout the league and in doing so also made your self teh strongest team in the league.

Then you lose Jawai and Worthington overseas, Maher retires and you're the equivalent of Miami in the next season because you don't have on-going loyalty deductions. Players favouring certain cities and bidding wars would prevent it happening to quite the extent you've outlined.

True Isaac, what i am highlighting is that it could be done.

Championship guaranteed team.

Skip, Cooper should be a 7 - still just a single point off.

The 2nd import would run the point when Crosswell isn't on the court (Hodge or other).

tigers arent getting hode ive alredy asked em

tigers arent getting hode ive alredy asked em

First of all, Smith hasn't signed with the Dragons.

Second, I'm not really suggesting that everyone else is under the cap, I'm just sick of the Tigers going about things the way they do.

I mean, seriously, these rules are meant to be about parity.

This is the championship team replacing Thomas with MacKinnon and Lampley with Grizzard. They are 2 serious upgrades, in my view.

Parity? Crap!

And Westover must LOVE his job.....security and an owner who's making enough money to give him every player money and points can buy. And still has enough left over to eat damn well, apparently.

Tigers new "young Australian" player Daniel Johnson was strong with 33 points and 12 rebounds aghainst Sandringham in the Big V on the weekend.