Isaac
Years ago

NBL award nominations revealed

The players nominated for the Most Improved Player, Best Sixth Man, Rookie of the Year and Best Defensive Player awards have been announced. The eventual winners will be named at the 2012 iiNet Basketball Australia MVP awards dinner in Melbourne at Crown Casino next Monday night (26 March)

Each of the NBL's nine teams were able to nominate a maximum of two players from their own roster for each of those four award categories. In all, six players were nominated by their club for Rookie honours, 13 for Best Sixth Man, 13 for Best Defensive Player and 12 for Most Improved.

Voting for the award winners was conducted at the conclusion of the regular season, with the Head Coach, one Assistant Coach and one Captain from each team having the chance to cast 3-2-1 votes for their preferred choices. Voters were not allowed to vote for players from their own team in the final balloting process. The player who receives the highest vote total when all ballots are counted will be declared the winner.

Here they are:

Rookie of the Year
Everard Bartlett (Adelaide)
Greg Hire (Perth)
Ben Purser (Perth)
Patty Mills (Melbourne)
Anatoly Bose (Sydney)
Chris Cedar (Townsville)

Sixth Man of the Year
Nathan Herbert (Adelaide)
Aaron Grabau (Cairns)
Stephen Hoare (Gold Coast)
Jesse Wagstaff (Perth)
Brad Robbins (Perth)
Daniel Dillon (Melbourne)
Liam Rush (Melbourne)
Alex Pledger (NZ)
CJ Bruton (NZ)
Graeme Dann (Sydney)
Todd Blanchfield (Townsville)
Michael Cedar (Townsville)
Joevan Catron (Wollongong)

Best Defensive Player
Mitch Creek (Adelaide)
Ian Crosswhite (Cairns)
Adam Gibson (Gold Coast)
Damian Martin (Perth)
Cameron Tovey (Perth)
Ronald Dorsey (Melbourne)
Tommy Greer (Melbourne)
Tom Abercrombie (NZ)
Mika Vukona (NZ)
Jerai Grant (Sydney)
Eddie Gill (Townsville)
Peter Crawford (Townsville)
Tyson Demos (Wollongong)

Most Improved Player
Daniel Johnson (Adelaide)
Aaron Grabau (Cairns)
Adam Gibson (Gold Coast)
Jesse Wagstaff (Perth)
Luke Nevill (Perth)
Cameron Tragardh (Melbourne)
Alex Pledger (NZ)
Tom Abercrombie (NZ)
Ben Madgen (Sydney)
Todd Blanchfield (Townsville)
Jacob Holmes (Townsville)
Rhys Martin (Wollongong)

NZ didn't nominate Jackson for DPOTY?

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Anonymous
Years ago

First thing I thought when I went through the list too.. Almost everyone had Jackson in their predictions for Defensive player

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alexkrad
Years ago

I will add my username for the second post of my double post.

And Patty Mills for rookie? Surely having played at least half the season should be a requirement?

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Anonymous
Years ago

Wagstaff would have 6th man in the bag would he not. Martin for Defensive player would be a lock aswell

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Tornado
Years ago

ROTY - Bose
6MOTY - Wagstaff
DPOY - Martin
MIP - Johnson

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Big Marty
Years ago

Tornado hit the nail on the head with his selections. Nuff said.

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jacib
Years ago

what tornado said

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XY
Years ago

I thought someone who had played professionally was disqualified from rookie of the year - two years in the NBA should disqualify you in any event - you aint no rookie!

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FM
Years ago

DJ's improvement has been good but not successful.

Put that against Jacob Holmes this year that now sees his form from the start of the season have Townsville in the finals.

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HoldenV8
Years ago

Ok I know he's an Aussie who before this year had never played in the NBL but if Patty Mills is a candidate for RotY then why can't imports who've never played here be eligible?

Imports like Diamon Simpson and Jerai Grant are every bit the NBL 'rookie' that Mills was so what's the difference??

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Flinders80
Years ago

What kind of awards need the clubs to nominate players. How hard is it for NBL to say ok here is the entrie list of registered players. Right who do we think should form the squad for the rights to ROTY -
6MOTY -
DPOY -
MIP -

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greg
Years ago

ROTY could be based on the number of NBA games played.
That is the criteria for som eof the State Leagues anyway.

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Mystro
Years ago

Even Alex Pledger couldn't believe the Breakers didn't nominate Jackson for DPOTY

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