When did Bradtke leave Adelaide in the context of his rise and the career of Davis? If it was truly a him-or-me, in hindsight, that could've been a significant moment.

Ingles and Newley were botched, but neither stayed in the NBL at the time for that long. Would either have tipped the club into championship territory?

Sobey's moment last season - unfair, but take that out and I think the 36ers win that series, maybe they're emboldened to lock in Creek right away and then either have him in the squad or a legitimate claim to a fee to spend on upgrading the roster.

I think this off-season could easily prove to be very damaging for Adelaide. From contenders in that series to potentially risking loss of coach and owner jumping ship. That's a wild guess though.

Some might say hiring Lemanis is a blunder for Brisbane.

Breakers would have been the Boucher - Frank Arsego issue with Boucher getting caught out talking smack about his then former Coach online or via text from memory.

Nothing else really springs to mind other than hiring Jeff Greene as Coach.

where do i start...

Perth has won 4 championships since letting Goulding go... Goulding has won one.

Don't think it's that much of a big blunder.

Would have been nice to keep him no doubt.

Sydney - Getting involved with that FirePower swindler.
Closely followed by hiring Gaze as Head Coach.

Souths Dragons - Leaving the league.

Perth - Selling the team to Vlahov & Longley, and the subsequent move to Challenge Stadium. (Just speculating, but maybe if Stoakes had kept the Wildcats, he might have kept the PEC open??)

Brisbane signing Te Rangi after the NZ fight club incident.

Canberra folding or letting Darnell Mee leave

Tassi folding or letting trimmingham leave

36ers - Christopherson

Would Marty Clarke come into the discussion for Adelaide?

I know this isn't a blunder but I want to mention it, I know that Perth had Ricky Grace and he is amazing and all but had the Wildcats kept CJ Bruton as a combo guard for his entire career then you have to wonder how the fortunes of player and club would have gone!

Brisbane has to be Eddy Groves, yes he did so much right but the history books say that they didn't connect with the fan base enough to keep the team alive and that can't be denied.

Townsville I'll mention too as it's a sad story of a club that sold out games and had a marvellous reputation and letting the casino use your car park during games, that I'm sure still stings those involved.

Sydney is easily the firepower wanker.

Adelaide... could the Super Sixers be considered a blunder ie whether they should have never went that/stayed the super Sixers?

Illawarra and Cairns, I'm going to say this in today's NBL and how we have a team trying to get a license after purchasing their own stadium... their blunder is not getting enough big wigs together to have bought the stadium they play at and live off numerous income sources (before I get shot down just think of all the rich owners Illawarra had even this century and combine them, maybe they could have got WEC.... also Illawarra - the snake pit was pretty awful and the lights going off and whatnot.

NZ - amazing club undoubtedly but their biggest blunder was getting everyone to see that putrid floor known as North Shore Events Centre, seriously WTF has everyone been thinking to not have moved from there sooner or to redo the floor.

Last thought, did we avoid a massive blunder by not allowing Nathan Tinkler to get an NBL team (which I feel they deserve) which would have crashed and burned and made us look all the more amateurish at the time

Everyone keeps mentioning this Ferguson leaving 36ers early deal resulting in them losing cash - does anyone have a link to an article about this?

The Barlow PG experiment- cost the Tigers the 2009 championship.

The Centre season- Burston, Helliwell, Nevill on the same team with Tragardh as a 4 and shudder, occasionally a 3.....

The all-attitude donut team from 2015. You gotta check your character references and balance it out. McRae. Kickert (we now all know what he's like after recent events). Wortho. Tomlinson. None of these guys are overly cancerous individuals but they shouldn't have all been assembled on one roster. It was an endless stream on whining and moaning, a poor locker room and a donut team with no Centre and a wasted season.

I'm a paid up United man but I wish they were still the Tigers.

Demopoulos. Look, he wasn't totally inept but he was pretty bad. We should've done better.

Demopoulos. Look, he wasn't totally inept

Oh and you can add in the Seamus McPeake locker room sacking of Ubaka. A classless way to go about it.

ken cole coached 36ers 2 seasons , second and top , had bradtke in the wings etc
but they sacked him....ignoring the fact that with him we were a championship team , without him just another team ..

The Kings hiring that hanky coach?

What about the Wildcats sacking Alan Black?

Always seemed a bit harsh, especially coming off a GF appearance. Still not sure whether that was a good call or a blunder. I guess it is hard to say without really understanding the reason(s) he was let go, but losing Stephen Black as a result was absolutely huge.

^Obviously talking about the second time he was sacked.

We are going to foul Waxy. Foul Waxy Foul Waxy

Waxy is on Adelaide's bench

DD

the appointment of their last chairman prior to entering administration and liquidation. You can Guess the club fairly easily ;)

Canberra not even talking James Crawford to stay after his first and last season with them, before then going to Perth " because they were the only team that made me an offer" ( add very thick southern drawl) ;)

Aaron Fearne thinking for one second that Jawai was ever going to stay fit and healthy, that he was going to be the one to finally straighten him out and THEN convincing the board to sign him on a three year deal. double. f**k. me.

just one more year and we're free of him.

I know this is club related but the biggest blunder in NBL history seems to be NBL chairman Malcolm Speed (I think it was) telling every other code that basketball will be the 2nd) biggest sport in the country and every other sport doing everything to stop it and killing our first boom period of basketball in this country.

Sure enough teams dying certainly didn't help but that was absolutely awful.

And... Phil Smyth not being included in 40th anniversary team seems quite an oversight

Redhage wasn't that good sorry anon. That spin move to travel/turnover or contested shot was frustrating to watch as a fan.
He improved greatly with Perth.

Those Australian Journeymen that Lemanis selected over local talent were all proven winners and instrumental in implementing a culture and mindset change in the franchise that resulted in 4x titles.

"Oh and you can add in the Seamus McPeake locker room sacking of Ubaka. A classless way to go about it. "

Agreed. Sums up the McPeake era well though.

Before Lemanis there was Frank Arsego and Jeff Greene, their recruitment and results were also terrible hence why Lemanis needed some Australian Vets that knew what it takes on and off the court and had enough locker room presence to enact the change across the team and franchise.

That change was never going to happen over night.

Enter CJ Bruton & Toy Ronaldson and he also bought back Vukona & Boucher who had left during the circus of previous Coaching.

I have followed the Breakers since day one, game one and Lemanis is the best thing that happened to the Franchise, not the worst.

Plenty of owners around with money, you need the doers like Lemanis and Clarke to make it actually happen.

Well, back in the hey-days, the Supercats going broke and leaving the NBL was not a great thing, then the Dragons also going into financial difficulty and other things, both leaving the league, one permanently are the blunders that hurt me still today.

Hopefully the Supercats can one day get it together and move back into the NBL, the Dragons, not so sure, maybe that ship has sailed...

No he's not a super coach but he certainly isn't a blunder or one of the worst mistakes the franchise has made.
The Blackwells would be also one of the best things that has happened at the Breakers along with Clarke

Crocs biggest blunder was signing Leon Henry after the nightclub incident..rather than giving his minutes to a promising junior local.

Oh FFS!
If the last few years have taught us anything, between Gaze and Demopolous, its that spending big bucks doesn't get it done if you don't have a very good coach.

So yes, Lemanis and Gleeson had and have the benefits of big bucks buying a top squad, but they still took those squads and finished the job.
Thinking back, you could arguably put Gjoorjan in the same boat?

Where Brisbane have gone wrong is their squad. If that's on Lemanis, then maybe he's not good at that aspect?