Sixers Fan: I dont know much about Jawai: what are his key attributes?

Interesting rumor.
Only way i could see him fit in is if Matt Knight moved to PF spot.

What's Jawai's point rating ? I would of thought he was rated 9. Cats only have 8 points to spend.

Will be interesting to see how he competes back home after all his health/physical issues. Can't see him being the force he once was though

I thought the salary cap was only 1million. So how do the cats still have 1.5 Million left in the cap even with the team!

Jawai was one of my favourite players in his rookie year - he was simply dominant for Cairns. But his Boomers play has me wondering why any team would want him really.

He might be okay as a bench centre, but he would need to lose about 10 kilos to keep up with the NBL pace.

Boti wouldn't say it if there wasn't any truth to it. Jawai would be a solid fit I guess.
Jawai / Jervis
Knight / Wagstaff
Prather* / Redhage
Beal* / Hire
Martin / Greenwood

Reads like a pisstake to me. I could be wrong of course, but there's been a bit of clever story generation this off-season, which is good to get people talking.

Lol. Knight and Jervis are already there, yes?

1.5mil?

Sounds like someone's telling porkies

GWB, Jawai would be a top 5 centre in the league. On the Boomers for a reason, even though he's on the chubby side he still is a solid athlete vertical wise but you are right about keeping pace but their are slower players out there.

Jawai will bring something unique to any team he is on. It is hard to guard that kind of size, but top 5 in the league? I don't know about that. I think he will just be a serviceable back up centre who is probably a touch slow for this league.

Backup centre? Are you serious? He is on the Australian national team. Would start on most NBL teams.

Anyone who thinks Jawai is a starter hasn't watched him play in the World cup and the warm up games thus far. He might be on the Boomers, but you could easily name guys just on the Wildcats who would perform better - even an undersized Matt Knight and even Tom Jervis (just my opinion).

The thing Jawai has is unique size. He used to use it very well and had nice touch, but he has been nothing but a walking turn over in every Boomers game I have seen in the past 2 years.

Anonymous, you have sparked my interest - what habits are these?

They can pay him in Cheeseburgers......

Unfortunately Nate might be closer to a poor mans Ontario Lett these days than to the young star who did so well as a rookie all those years ago.

As other have said looks like a piss take from Boti to point out the 6ers lack of big name recruiting.

Nate would only play for Fearney!!

I would much rather Mitch McCaron he fits the current roster a lot more.

Well mitch is playing SEABL right now, with presumably no other contract happening. Its baffling that he is unsigned to anywhere.

As for Adelaide not having a big signing, this off season has really been a head scratcher. Adelaide picked up Lucas Walker, who would give us the same things Mitch Creek does but is a number of years older. Then they picked up Sobey and that big guy whose name escapes me, neither were being chased by anybody, and are bench fillers at best, and then we get the Mongolian league MVP. I see all these big signings everywhere else, but it seems like Joey almost wants to be undermanned. The team could probably run and gun and get up and down the floor, but I want to see a big, good import to tie this in and make sense of the other signings Joey has made.

I respect Joey for taking us from last to second in a single season, but someone else needs to recruit imports for him - sometimes he scrapes too deep in the barrel looking for bargains.

fstos, why would it be a dig at the 36ers? Boti shows sympathy towards Adelaide and generally gives players/rosters benefit of the doubt before they've played.

I'd guess he's just commenting that the Wildcats had built their roster using the cap, assumed they'd be in the mix again, then saw that a few other teams have stepped up the pace a little. $1.5m is probably a dig at what they spent last year or what they profited - who knows. Imagine it's far too high as a figure for a past Jawai contract.

If they haven't used the marquee rule, I assume they can't use it unless they have $150k spare under the cap? Is that how it's supposed to work?

the Cats would be better off promoting Matty Neilsen to the playing roster rather than signing Jawai.

Agreed

He was fun to watch last time he played here but hopefully he's with Perth rather than either of my teams. I'm always surprised that he gets a Boomers gig as he seems to lack a bit of drive.

If he came good though, that'd be great. I remember that ASG where he was MVP - he can be very entertaining.

I think those days are long gone with Jawai. Stash him nice and deep on the bench and bring him in to set big ugly screens and foul opposition big men.

He had such great potential; having been drafted, the rookie of the year in the NBL (by a country mile) and the MVP of the allstar game, but he seems to just coast through life pie by pie without putting any effort into his shape and fitness - a prerequisite for professional athlete.

I feel that at merely 28, his best days are already behind him. He has gone from NBL star, to Euroleague player, to borderline useless before most big men even reach their peaks.

I can't believe the hate on here for Big Nate. It just shows how some posters are swayed so easily from recent games.

Um well yeah, if his recent games aren't good then people are going to question any signing, especially as he doesn't seem to have resolved his fitness issues.

Are you saying we should look at his games from 5 years ago to rate whether its a good signing?

And one more thing - STOP CALLING ANY CRITICISM OF SOMEONE "HATE"!

It's certainly not hate. And I'm not judging on just these four games, there is also the entire world cup campaign including the lead up to that, too.

Tom, why wouldn't you be influenced by recent performances? You aren't hiring 200x Jawai, you're getting 2015 Jawai.

Someone like Nevill struggles to stay in the league for a reason. Guys like Schenscher endure, and guys like Garlepp or Jervis have a future. Effort and court smarts so often trump physical ability.

Perth may be a great option to get Jawai back into shape and form. The club has great resources and a hard working culture and that may be the sales pitch they are throwing at him.

The last time I was impressed by Jawai he was wearing Cairns colors. Since then, whether it be NBA, Europe, or with the Boomers, I have been underwhelmed... particularly on defense. With the way fouls get called in the NBL, I think it would be tough for him to stay on the court too... but hey, he has size on everyone in this league, so who knows.

He can appeal based on the strength of the Euro league he is playing in. I'm going to guess that a top tier league in Spain isn't really something he can try and get appealed though.

He could try and appeal based on other comparable players eg Khazzouh.

"has Perth Wildcats reaching out to Nate Jawai" is the same chance as when I "reached out" to Jessica Alba!

At least he is in the country and not in the form of a crusty sock you keep under your pillow.

Perth would set him on a path where he's bound to lose weight

Daniel Dillon has signed in Poland.

I'd love to see Nathan in the NBL. Not sure we need ANOTHER big guy on the bench though???
Still waiting to see what kind of role Prather fills.
Maybe he's going o be more of a 2/3 6th man? In which case they probably could go for a massive front court???

If he hasn't signed with any club it would be worth them signing Jawai on an off court role/training partner and have him in the bank as insurance if Knight goes down with an injury.

Otherwise the only way I can see Jawai fitting in is as Dazz mentioned.