Perth
New Zealand
Melbourne
Adelaide
Gold Coast
Townsville
Wollongong
Cairns
Sydney

Probably only NZ in NZ could beat Perth. Other then that I think they could go close to being undefeated. Even with a crappy coach that just doesn't get it, we still have a good team and will start to get wins soon.

Love the optimism King james, but i doubt Adelaide will finish as high as 4th, they will hopefully have one good run of games in them this season, but wont be consistent enough to make the playoffs. Id love for my presumptions to be wrong!!!

Perth
NZ
Gold Coast
Townsville
Melbourne
Cairns
Woolongong
Adelaide
Sydney

Havnt changed my opinion on Perth finishing first.
NZ are showing they will be fine without Penney.
Still think Gold Coast should have what it takes to finish strong.
Townsville are playing well without some key players and their imports looked good on the tv the other night.
I think Melbourne will be better when Patty Mills goes. Yeah he could win them games, but could also lose them, would rather see him being apart of the team rather than jacking up 3s all game.
Cairns are winning games everyone though they wouldnt, Playing with a B level team. Bring Loughton back in and they will only get better and prove everyone wrong. Maybe not enough to make finals though.
Woolongong will have a good record but not enough to push into the top 4.
Adelaide and Sydney will be fighting it out for the wooden spoon. Sorry guys but I dont know how you could place them ahead of any of the above teams.

We have Ballinger to come still and imports to be fully settled still i think the 6ers could be even a number3 seed team

I also believe Adelaide will come right with all their pieces to play with even though the coach likes benching people when they heat up.

I'm still keeping the faith. Once we get balls back it will make a big difference then hopefully we can make a run. Can't afford to lose to Sydney or we will probably be 0-5 with Perth and New Zealand in the next few weeks

Perth and NZ will definitely fight out the top two spots.

Sydney still look underwhelming and Adelaide could have one of those seasons where we start staying "if we won that game...", or "if we had the split on.." If we are 0-5, then changes must be made.

Cairns are looking pretty good with Hill fired up. Jacob seems to have grown an extra leg at Townsville, although I haven't seen him in the shower....

There should not be much between 3 and 8.

The Gold Coast Blaze look like the most unfit team in the league again this year.

In the First game against the Breakers they were outscored 34-20 in the final quarter.

In the 2nd game against a very weak Cairns team they were outscored 24-16 in the final quarter and did not score a single point for the last 4:19 of the game!

I think Joey needs to be looked at..He must be doing something wrong.

A quality roster like that should be performing much better. Although Warren caught fire in the Cairns game, the Cairns roster is terribly weak and their commitment to defence is non-existent.

They have given up an average of 96.5ppg.
I reckon Joey needs to start teaching some defence..

Hey Kingjames why do u think Lemanis is crappy & doesn't get it?

Melb
Perth
NZ
Gold Coast
Tv
Wgong
Cns
Syd
Adel.

Gleesons got a way of starting slow & getting his side to peak at the business end. Perth probably cant play any better. No Penney will be a factor down the stretch. Joey can coach - don't write him off yet!

I'm not revising anything. It's only 2 games into the season and we're yet to have our strongest team on-court. I'm willing to give it a bit more time....

However, last quarter fade outs like we saw in the last 2 home games of 2010-11 and on Sunday at the 'Gong are getting a bit hard to deal with especially considering we had good leads at three quarter time of each game.

And what gives with Herbert playing 25 minutes, going 0/5 from the field, only pulling down 2 rebounds and giving away 4 fouls? How did those numbers give him that much game time when the likes of DJ (21 mins) and Mitch Creek (who sat out about half of the entire last half in a game which included shooting 2/2 3s and 7/9 from the field) played only 22 yet scored 18 with 3 rebounds and only 2 fouls. Bizarre way of running things IMO and from what we've seen, not overly effective.

I predicted Adelaide to come 4th or 5th but as it stands right now things don't look to bloody good.

HoldenV8, good point "we're yet to have our strongest team on-court"

So far in the two games, we've never really been firing on "all V8 cylinders"

still a few teams trying to get a full strength team onto the court fit and healthy so until then I won't be making to many predictions

orbit I was talking about Clarke. Sorry for the confusion.

Top 2
Perth: Haven't seen anything to suggest they will be beaten.
New Zealand: Form of Jackson makes them very hard to beat again.
These are the only 2 I can place with any real confidence.

Wollongong still need another import. Have a fairly proven lineup.
Adelaide have been running with 8 men. Ballinger should make a difference. Haven't seen enough of Simpson to properly judge. Hasn't been too pretty so far.
Sydney set to drop Ratzsch, so remains to be seen how they go with the replacement. Can't see them being top 4.
Melbourne really need to get it together. Plenty of talent, but they don't play as a team enough. If Burston or Tragardh get injured they will seriously struggle.
Cairns have had a couple good wins without Crosswhite and Loughton, so may have underestimated them. Warren was good last week, but can't see him lasting too long.
Gold Coast have a talented lineup, but have already lost 2 home games. Hard to come back from that.
Townsville had a good one last week. Schescher to come back. Holmes seems a good fit. Gill and Mims are a handy combination.

I picked NZ, Perth, Gold Coast and Wollongong as my top four. I am still happy with that, but Cairns going 2-1 without their two bigs tells me they will be very close.

As for the order of my bottom five, I wasnt confident before the season and am no clearer now!

perth
nz
townsville
cairns
gold coast
melbourne
wollongong
adelaide
sydney