I think you've misrepresented the piece a little as the summer-winter mention is pretty brief and at the tail of the article.
On that topic, in my opinion, and as they say in some fields, 'correlation does not imply causation'. Same goes with Goorjian and teams going out of business, for what it's worth.
On imports, here's Bernard's line:
NBL imports should improve the NBL and the teams. Cal Bruton, James Crawford, Ricky Grace, Lanard Copeland, Darryl McDonald, Rob Rose, Al Green, Scott Fisher and Leroy Loggins got people to games.
Now we've got Mark Tyndale, Dusty Rychart, David Gruber, Isiah Victor and Rick Rickert. Say no more.
That's an awful way to make an argument. For every one of those past imports, there was a terrible, short term failure in another team, I'd bet. It's almost like saying Melbourne are better because they have Anstey while we have Burdon!
In the second group, it's rough including Rickert and Rychart as both are favoured by their team's fans. And at least two of the other three are players we probably won't see again in this league - we had the same in years past.
Why list Tyndale and Gruber when you could list Ballinger, Williams, Ere, Grizzard, Groves, Redhage (pre-naturalisation), Thomas, Abney, etc? To develop some fanciful argument.
It's not all about imports or season timing. The games are still, for the most part, really entertaining. It's more about the timing of games during the week, this lame-league loser-sport culture and a lack of positive unified marketing to correct that.
