Lisch is nowhere near a 10.

The points cap and the people who invented should be banished from the NBL forever.

An all-time classic moment was JvG as GM of the Bullets being interviewed by Fox Sports gloating how he was a genius at mastering the (completely flawed) points system. This was the season he brought in Bradtke and Copeland from the Tigers for their last hurrah at discounted veteran points. I wish someone had a copy of the footage because it was hilarious.

I think a lot on here don't realise how JvG was even pre-Kings (one title for Bullets on their Eddy Groves spending was a low return on investment).

how bad JvG was*

The fact they have an aging big name in Bogut clouds many that's why.

You don't need a super star bench, you need players to come in and play there role, like Melbourne last season.

If you had a points system that really did its job it would have to rate coaches too and Gaze's rating of -5 would keep the Kings under the cap anyway.

Points is crap, salary cap is the way it works best. Every league needs a few star teams. You need the teams in the biggest markets to do well which supports the smaller teams that can fit only 2000 poeple in their stadium. Seeing Illawara in a GRand final is a real downer from a tv (stadium) and crowd point of view - all the best to them but I prefer their not in the finals.

Points system restricted Australians from playing where they want. Career is short in sport you want to get the best you can from where you can - points stuff that up for many

Personally we want to see strong Melbourne, Sydney , Perth , Brisbane , Adelaide and then other teams need to be supported to help them stay in the league and field competitive teams. These smaller teams give younger players a chance to build a name and jump to a bigger team with bigger stadiums , more members etc..

Most world class leagues have a handful of leading teams. Too costly to the whole league if they all fell down to bottom teams and some small no-name club dominated.

If Perth was a bottom team on a regular basis that 13000 capacity stadium would suddenly be half full. Melbourne etc the same. Need systems that ensure we have exciting powerful teams not necessarily equally balanced teams all around the league.

Excatly, and we had that in the 90s went the league was booming. Then it went downhill and they worsended it with the points cap. Now we are trending back.

Great idea. No cap in effect and some clubs rumoured to be spending $10mill for their program.
Up to 4 Yanks now. It's laughable.
Taipans will fall behind. They spend just over $3mill. Hawks always on struggle street.
Already pointed out what the Kings have assembled would be under the points cap. No easy answer but it's all about the $$$$'s spent on a cap now.

The Taipans like the current system because they will get equalisation payments from the teams that go over the cap.

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NBL not ignoring smaller cities, says Taipans chief

The NBL's salary cap is currently $1.1 million but features a luxury tax or "soft cap" rule that allows teams to spend over the salary cap to attract star players.

Teams exceeding the "hard cap" amount of $1.1 million must pay into a pool of money that gets distributed to the teams that stayed under the salary cap limit.

A city with a large population like Brisbane (2.3 million people) or Sydney (five million people) naturally have a bigger pool to work with in attracting sponsors, fans and customers compared to Cairns with a population of 170,000.

But Cairns Taipans chief executive Mark Beecroft said he supported the current "soft cap" approach, suggesting it regulated any loopholes or "off the books" activity that some teams could have exploited to pay salaries in the past.

"If we had spent up to the salary cap last year you have to wonder how other teams put the teams on the floor that they did in the past," he said.

"It's about capturing what's been occurring anyway and I am cautious of what I'm saying here but teams can effectively choose to spend more than the salary cap and that's fine, but now you'll pay tax on what you spend over that.

"So in the regions our hope is that in time that money will come back to our club."

Mr Beecroft said it might look like the NBL was favouring the bigger city markets but he said it was simply not the case.

"Our ability to share in the tax is one that the NBL is aware of because they understand our situation and our model," he said.

Larry getting it right again, I heard that clubs received money last season, if so we'll done to the nbl.

I've been thoroughly confused as to why people have been saying it doesn't exist. What evidence do they have of that?

"I heard that clubs received money last season, if so we'll done to the nbl."
Wow. You heard. That clearly carries a lot of weight. Said no one ever.

It was told to me by a club nbl offical, again I wouldn't put my life on it but I believe it was true. I won’t mention the club because I don’t want to give away a confidence.