Lukosius
Years ago

WA SBL - February 2019

New February thread.....

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Anon  
Years ago

Will Alex Loughton "do a Redhage" and return to the SBL to play, seeing he has now retired from the NBL?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Potential starting fives...

* Import

Buccs:
C - Hunt
F - Lasher *
F - Inger
G - Conner *
G - Alipate

Wolves:
C - Davis *
F - Huntington
F - Ross
G - Camidge *
G - Iliadis

Senators:
C - Literick
F - Anshila *
F - Ellis
G - King *
G - Wroe

Eagles:
C - Morse *
F - Import *
F - Williamson
G - Wellstead
G - Murphy

Hawks:
C - Sovine *
F - Purser
F - Jackson
G - Cummings
G - Clarke

Giants:
C - Salmon *
F - Malek
F - Bowie *
G - Humphries
G - Holloway

Redbacks
C - Import *
F - Redhage
F - Import *
G - Coburn
G - Wagner

Suns:
C - Import *
F - Timms
F - Viskovich
G - Braun *
G - Diaz

Tigers:
C - Hymon *
F - Barrow *
F - Scott
G - Black
G - Hussey

Lightning:
C - Prue
F - Vigor
G - Isenbarger *
G - Wright *
G - Armour

Cougars:
C - Sebirumbi *
F - Field
F - Pesava
G - White *
G - Chan

Flames
C - Pal
F - Ritchart *
F - Hire
G - White *
G - Godfrey

Magic:
C - Deng
F - Smith *
F - Durnin
G - Stewart *
G - Miegel

Slammers:
C - Weeden
F - Voelkel *
F - Livingston *
G - Harper
G - Lay

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Hawks:
C - Carlwell
F - Sovine *
F - Purser
G - Jackson
G - Cummings

or even Purser at the 1, Cummings at the 2 and Jackson at the 3

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The guard reported in the other thread for the Lightning is not their other import.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Edits in CAPS

* Import

Buccs:
C - Hunt
F - Lasher *
F - Inger
G - Conner *
G - Alipate

Wolves:
C - Davis *
F - Huntington
F - Ross
G - Camidge *
G - Iliadis

Senators:
C - Literick
F - Anshila *
F - Ellis
G - King *
G - Wroe

Eagles:
C - VINNY ZOLLO *
F - Import *
F - Williamson
G - Wellstead
G - Murphy

Hawks:
C - Sovine *
F - Purser
F - Jackson
G - Cummings
G - Clarke

Giants:
C - Salmon *
F - Malek
F - Bowie *
G - Humphries
G - Holloway

Redbacks
C - Import *
F - Redhage
F - Import *
G - Coburn
G - Wagner

Suns:
C - Import *
F - Timms
F - Viskovich
G - Braun *
G - Diaz

Tigers:
C - Hymon *
F - Barrow *
F - Scott
G - Black
G - Hussey

Lightning:
C - Prue
F - Vigor
G - JOBI WALL *
G - Isenbarger *
G - Armour

Cougars:
C - Sebirumbi *
F - Field
F - Pesava
G - White *
G - Chan

Flames
C - Pal
F - Ritchart *
F - Hire
G - White *
G - Godfrey

Magic:
C - Deng
F - Smith *
F - Durnin
G - Stewart *
G - Miegel

Slammers:
C - Weeden
F - Voelkel *
F - Livingston *
G - Harper
G - Lay

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Why isn't Willetton just playing at Cockburn or Lakeside this year? Not sure why Curtin was even an option. Strange.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

they were looking at cockburn and even bendat, nothing panned out

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koberulz  
Years ago

Why wouldnt' Curtin have been an option?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Expensive. Non-compliant courts. Etc.

No biggy.

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koberulz  
Years ago

What's non-compliant? It's hosted SBL games before.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Crap backboard supports players can hurt themselves on

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Great to see Vinnie Zollo back in the league!

If he can scrub together 6 seasons for 4 different teams we can rank him in top 3 alongside Justin Eckardt and that Magic/Suns NZ player... Sorry name escapes me!

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Anonymous  
Years ago

biggest deal breaker with curtain is lack of sufficient distance from baseline to the wall. It was never brought up when Redbacks played there a few years ago

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Anonymous  
Years ago

I think the NZ Suns Magic player you are referring to is Travis McIlroy

Apparently he has been looking to make a comeback?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

That's the one!!

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Anonymous  
Years ago

McIlroy is one of the biggest scrubs brought over to play here! Makes me laugh imagining who made that call to do it...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

curtin has lots of issues.
Cost the big one. Changerooms. Backboards. run off space, corporate space, access to bar etc etc.
... no surprises they ran away. redbacks did after 1 season!

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Anonymous  
Years ago

"McIlroy is one of the biggest scrubs brought over to play here! Makes me laugh imagining who made that call to do it..."

And that would be?
And who cares?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Correct me if i am wrong, but wasnt mcilroy initially brought over by Goldfields Giants?

he then had stints at mandurah and kalamunda

he is now the ceo of The Farm Athletics

former ceo of icollege?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

McIlroy also established Swan City Basketball Association (SCBA) in 2015

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Swan City Basketball Association... that has no affiliated competition or teams or members with BWA. Big tings

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anon  
Years ago

Why would anyone want to be affiliated with BWA they are a joke along with everything else in WA.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

^hahahaha ok

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Anonymous  
Years ago

what does affiliation with BWA actually get you?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

this is an SBL thread keep on topic

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Anonymous  
Years ago

1) Why would anyone want to be affiliated with BWA they are a joke
-Access to competitions (SBL, WABL)
-Access to high performance pathways
-Access to government funding
-Access to insurance

I'd say its a pretty good idea, have you played basketball at other domestic leagues (Belmont, Lords, Loftus)... good luck. Back to your hole.

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Jack Blurston  
Years ago

kyle armor is skinny and not muscly

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anon  
Years ago

Did primary school finish early down Willeton way this afternoon?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

is it true that lakeside have hired an assistant coach out of the USA for their mens team?
ex player of daniels?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

If so then it doesn't say much about the coaching stocks down at Lakeside.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Geez, how good is it to be able to just fly a coach in from overseas!!!! Some teams can't even afford a 2nd import.....

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Anonymous  
Years ago

You would imagine they would be paying Daniels a fair amount, add an american assistant, 2 american imports, kyle armour, mike vigor, jarrad prue. cheque book is open

whilst this is a great starting 5 i dont know if this team is a real contender?

what bench do they have?
Mackenzie
is Vinci still there?

both have big games every now and then but havent proven to be consistent producers

Not sure how they go against teams like Rockingham, Wolves, Hawks

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Anonymous  
Years ago

^^^ The advantage of having a church as your parent body - there's all manner of ways of funneling money to players, coaches etc etc

And also makes it easy to get around Basketball Australia's policy of only having two overseas personnel per team (usually your two imports) to encourage local coaches and local coaching development.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Cougars:
C - Sebirumbi *import
F - Field
F - Pesava
G - Bell
G - Chan

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The American assistant coach isn't being paid by lakeside and moved to perth at his own cost with his Aussie girlfriend.

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anon  
Years ago

Good cause coaching in Australia is average at best

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R@nD0m  
Years ago

An understrength Flames team (No Hire, Robbins, Travers, C Beard, Ritchart or White) defeated an importless Mandurah tonight by 3 down in the 'Ham.

Was very impressed with 15yo PG that Trahair has... Looks to have a decent future. Godfrey, Pal & Lakeside / Willo product Frank Johnson the standouts for the Flames

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From the stands  
Years ago

From the lineups you described, sounds like it was well worth the $5 entry fee for a scratch match.

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Just Wondering?  
Years ago

Now that M Vigor has represented Scotland internationally, does that make him a 'restricted' player these days or not seeing as how he isn't playing at his original SBL club this season??

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Lukosius  
Years ago

The Scottish Basketball Federation is not actually FIBA-affiliated, so M.Vigor playing for Scotland "doesn't count" in regards to the Restricted Players rule.

If he played for the Great Britain national team, it would be a different story.

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Just Wondering?  
Years ago

Thanks for clearing that up Lukosius!

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R@nD0m I think you meant Ben Johnson playing for Flames (via Perth Redbacks/Lakeside WABL)

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R@nD0m  
Years ago

Yes Mrs P... Totally my bad lol

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Great to see Ben Johnson doing well down there. Some great guys for him to learn from in Godfrey and Robbins too

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Brad Jackson spotted at training along with the return of Matthew Rimkus. Couple Lakeside vets that will be good off the bench. If only the Sof brothers would come back!

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Anonymous  
Years ago

only 2 weeks until the blitz , im looking forward to seeing what the giants new players are like.
I think they can push well into contention if there add-ons are legit.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Here's a GWN story on two of the Giants new players.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaPDf4a7v1s

Fast forward to the 17:26 mark.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Hopefully the Giants can turn it around this year. The league is better when the Giants are good. Bowie will be great for them. Salmon and Malek look good.

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Just Wondering?  
Years ago

The league is better when the Giants are good.

Why?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Because the Giants play in the league?

Any league is better the more competitive it is. No one wants to see Chicago or Phoenix get smacked every game...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

the regional teams are notoriously bad, with Mandurah just awful, followed closely by Kal and Bunbury. Gero are long-time finals chockers. When the Giants were in their heyday (2004-2008), the league has great.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The giants just need some stability and a plan to develop some key locals. They have had a revolving door of coaches.

In recent years they have had
Dan Fisher
Michael Haney
Marcus Taylor
Lou Causer
Scott Rubery
Wayne Creek

Creek is in for his second stint but out of all the above he is really the only one who has had a strong plan for development. He is the right man for the job for where they are currently at

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Easley continuing his quest to play for every SBL club, now with Kalamunda.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Easley has played for Kalamunda previously. This will be his second stint there

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Easley's SBL career

2008: Cougars
2009: Suns
(2010: Ipswich Force in QBL)
2011: Eagles
2012: Eagles
2013: Hawks
2014: Hawks
2015: Tigers
2016: Slammers
2017: Eagles
2018: Eagles
2019: Suns

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Barry Ballbag  
Years ago

There are a couple of clubs willing to take him a second time so he could be a decent team guy. Good luck to him. Must be getting to the twilight years of his career by now.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Haha.... Barry Ballbag

One of the best forum names I've seen in a while :)

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Bigballs Johnson  
Years ago

Easley is easily (LOL) one of the nicer guys to play SBL. Him and Travis Lindstrom are at the top of the list. Kyle Armour is at the bottom.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

So what imports are going to cleared to play and suiting up on the weekend at the Blitz?

Or am I wasting my time heading to Warwick to watch a bunch of div 1 guys trying to out-do each other?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

The mens teams that rock up can usually be categorized three ways...

1. Teams that take the weekend seriously.

2. Those who go half-arsed to protect players.

3. Teams that don't give a flying f%@k and will mainly player div1 players.

The two outer regional teams (Buccs and Giants) will play full strength teams as it's their only chance for a pre-season game. The Tigers have been pretty good over the past couple of years as well, and to a lesser extent the Flames and Redbacks.

Most of the other clubs are in that 'half-arsed' category. The Wolves clearly in the 'don't give a flying f%@k' group.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

think most teams will have decent line up in their "fully timed" game

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Lukosius  
Years ago

Here is the new March thread....

www.hoops.com.au/forum/44901-wa-sbl-march-2019

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