you know you are in with a trouble when the club cant even spell your name right.

Brook Rusoce is a 6"2 combo guard from NZL. Played for Auckland in the NZNBL alongside Luke Martin.
Very good scorer, but slightly undersized.
Avg 16 ppg at 2009 FIBA World Championships.
Averaged just 4.6ppg in 10mpg this season in the NBL.

Alot of potential! But serious questions about his size (not a PG, and short for a SG--Very much like a Greenwood type).

Guess that means Holmes is definitely gone then.

At one point , Sam Harris and the Peros were coming
Change of plans , by the look of it.
One of the guards must look a bit like Mills
I wouldn't recognise most of the others.

When you see a player running around wearing one of his old tops, bit like rubbing his nose in wee wee.

Marty is keeping his powder dry, but I would have thought a couple of other young guns in the league would be on his radar.

It just struck me kinda funny , not seeing Holmes at training anymore
and Shannons old top.

Isn't Hooley going to college?

Whether Clarke's Boomers duties made/makes any difference to what is happening , not sure?

I don't mind handing you a brick , or a tile
if you're building something.
But what are you building? A wall? A house?
I cain't just throw bricks into the air and hope that someone will catch them and build something with them.
I want to know where the bricks go.

Why are we trailing more PG? Doesn't male sense IMO

Masunda is worth looking at - but do the 36ers need more guards ?

Tim Lange is a big body with potential - but why not look at Chris Cameron instead he is a smart mobile big man with a stand out season in SEABL .

Yes Hooley is going to America (In the next few weeks i believe)

Also, why are the trying PG's? I would prefer Daly to remain in the squad as Development player, he showed a lot of potential and also commitment to the sixers instead of running off to college. They should reward his loyalty to the team and state, and the fact that he deserves to be in the squad.

what about Daniel Carlin?

I don't think Clarke is interested in getting another guard at all at the trials but rather it was just a chance for more guys to come out and have ago.

Usef Qaafow should never be allowed in the NBL again. He has no game.

Carlin is going to College otherwise I reckon they would definitely get him.

Lang was average playing for the Tigers (if I remember correctly) but played last season in Germany so might be better now.

I am surprised Greg Vanderjagt isn't there giving it ago.

Former 36er centre Neil Mottram also trained for part of the session and Clarke said he also had been in contact with other roster "possibles" such as Pero Vasiljevic, Sam Harris and Greg Vanderjagt.

Some SEABL links for those interested:

McMillan - averaging 13 and 7:
Season boxscore

Tim Lang, 15 and 9:
Season boxscore

McFarlin, 17 and 16, racks up some TOs:
Season boxscore

Crosswell, 11/3/6:
Season boxscore

Jeffers, 16 and 9:
Season boxscore

Vanderjagt, 15 and 11, %ages not great:
Season boxscore

McCallum, 5 and 5 in limited minutes, does better with more time:
Season boxscore

Harris, 12 and 5, might avg about half a game?
Season boxscore

Masunda, 10/3/2
Season boxscore

Qaafow averaging 15/5/3 in BigV
Season boxscore

And just for Camel, Adrien Sturt averaging 12/8/2 in BigV
Season boxscore

Thanks for that Isaac.

Great to see all those assist by Crosswell's name!

Vanderjagt shoots fg at 49% which is good enough but his free throw shooting is horrid at 57%. His 3's is not really a concern as we don't really want him shooting that many if he was to play with us.

McFarlin looks to be a beast on the boards but perhaps undersized for the NBL as someone mentioned he is only about 6'6.

Aryn McMillan - Forward - Kilsyth is horrible! I'm sick of these Kilsyth people like Rod Popp talking this kid up! Got no game and is a bad team guy! Always has and will be all about himself!

Mills lookalike is Tiri Masunda.

Hah, we have a history of not spelling names right. Just ask Joe Ingles.

Nice one Bobby Tables! :)

Auryn Mcmillan's sporting pulse picture makes him look like a drunk version of Dirk.

Daly seemed pretty right as the DP Guard , last season
One game , in particular , very,very good.
Still, - Tiri Masunda will be worth looking at , then.
Sam Harris's performances at training were absorbing,
last season.
Adrien Sturt would rock the place silly.

21 players - Mark Radford would be busy.
Might be two (2) assistant coaches helping.

KJ, I think 49% for a centre at that level might be about 5% low.

Clarke is here , with 36ers.
Not with the Boomers , in China.
That's interesting.

You're a tough man Isaac! None of those forwards/Centers in that list (besides Sam Harris 52%) shoot at over 50% from the field. DJ is about 49% and Jacob at 40%.

Bobby Tales beat me to it. B@stard.

I reckon if you want a centre to shoot 49% in the NBL, then he needs to shoot at least %54 in the SEABL.

If Ivan McFarlin made the NBA Philly 76ers roster on his post up game and rebounding, then 6'6 is tall enough for the NBL 36ers I reckon.

Clarke has been quoted as saying the import needs to be a Mark Davis type, so Ivan McFarlin and Lester Stong fit the description. Strength more than size, good rebounders with post up and mid post game.

But that back up Ausi centre will need to have size. I think that's the plan anyways.

True - I suspect that NBL players push their game a bit more at ABL level and might see their FG% suffer as a result. A guy like Vanderjagt might be 4th or 5th defensive priority at any given time on court at NBL level, but 1st or 2nd in an ABL game. Should've allowed for that.

A low FG% is not unusual for Holmes or anyone relying on repeated inside attempts.

I don't think we need to get too caught up on the height - someone like Rosell Ellis is not that much taller than me but played a serviceable import role for one of the top teams last season. They just need to get it done.

As a complete guess, Lang and an import sounds OK to me. If an import was solid, then that final spot could go to a younger project but with DJ already filling that sort of role, I don't think Marty could survive another year of blooding players through a spoonish season. He has the three year deal, but there'd be performance requirements in the contract and the natives are restless.

As for Chris Cameron (if that's who people are referencing), Lang is a late '85 and Cameron went through AIS with Oscar who's an early '82 - might give Lang the advantage there if all things are otherwise equal.

Cameron has been playing great ball, I'd be looking at him as a back up. He might be older than this others mentioned but he us still a better pick up as Marty doesn't have time for "Another" one to develop!

A lot of the guys paid there own way to come and tryout

I don't really like Qaafow either but presuming that many players paid their own way, you might as well see them train.

Get ready.....

Here he comes.....

Who?

Him.

Some things are too hot to touch.
The human mind can only stand so much.