Another one of sturts success stories in div 1 along with White and Carter. Wait for the Sabres spin machine to claim how successfull their college program is.

Is that 4 minute a game Ben Carter?

So the Anon that's hating on this right now knows zero about the deal at all. Typical of SA Club mentality to attack based on a junior club. I’m not associated with any club, but know the deal very well. Year 2 and 3 of the deal are both fully rostered positions, so he will be playing and developing as a pro under Joey Wright, who has shown the ability to get a great deal out of young players!

So people on here complain at the lack of SA kids, then one gets signed with huge upside, and people still find a way to hate.

As always, watch and wait(or hate) as he will be a hell of player!

"Poor handles and flat jumpshot. Not sure he makes the grade in NBL"

Similar things were said about Mitch Creek's chance of playing NBA. Love the fake ass scouts on here that think they know a bit. Who have you helped or developed?

Alex, further to an NBL career, also has a Euro passport and huge upside! Played some outstanding basketball in the SEABL before going away too.

Yes, those 10 day contracts on lottery teams sure proved he will be a long term successful NBA player.

Sorry, Brooklyn weren't a lottery team, but Phili sure made them look like one.

Sure, he received a division 1 scholarship but how much did he even play?

Sure, he played in the nba but only on a 10-day, his team wasn't even good

Who are you people!?!? What ridiculous comments

If you say so Phil Jackson

First Sturt junior on a NBL roster since Corey Maynard? Any others since then?

Doyle

Was Alex a Sturt or Woodville junior or both

The anon troll that's taking the piss, is clearly disappointed in their own/and or children’s basketball success, and feel the need to be the "Tall Poppy" moderator. You idiot! Playing any minutes on an NBA court is exceptional you clown! To top that, he’s been invited back early (left today) to go back and start culture building.

FYI he was also a fully contracted player by the end of the season. His numbers 4.2ppg 2.4rebs and 1.2Ast in just over 9 mins per game is exceptional, particularly for you people saying “on lottery teams” etc. What a joke to are to even feel the need to take time out of your Sunday to comment is a negative way, to a true Aussie battler that is doing his country proud.

Mind boggling

Imagine defending blokes who don't know you exist on a website they’d never visit with this much passion

Imagine I know both very well, and have all the details you never will. Imagine your Sunday involving a good troll as the highlight of your week.

Okay mate

You're*
Pot shotting*

Who's this forward Joey speaks of from Europe?

For the 18th time, Obi Kyei

"Love the fake ass scouts on here that think they know a bit."
Quote of the year.

Like all the "coaches" that have only ever played Z grade basketball if at all yet give such incisive opinions based on ZERO experience at any elite level.

Bruce Willis..?

Yes but we should all take your word for it that you definitely do know things though hey boys

I really don't get the Mudronja signing, all club politics aside. Had a very very average college career, surely there are others heading back that had way better. Isn't even a big that sometimes take a while to develop. Isn't even a real specialist in an area. Could see Isaac White as a shooter off the bench but this is really shocking to be honest. Drmic, McVeigh had great college careers, way this looks I don't even think he would start for Sturts premier league team!

Ok, another expert that hasn't done his research. Firstly, McVeigh had an ordinary college career, which is why he left early also. Check the numbers.
Mudronja, is an 6’5 PG that has huge upside. He left a very good program that won the WCC this year after his Freshman year, so that he could develop further under Joey. He is very young still and will be an NBL star. Before Grida went to the combine, people said he was also not at NBL level etc, and he had a great first year. The signing makes a lot of sense.

McVeigh had a solid sophomore campaign with 7.5 ppg, pretty handy in a strong conference. Not sure what happened in junior year but Mudronja averaging less than a point and getting beaten out by a walk on is embarrassing. At what basis are you saying he will be a star, good luck for him but there are way more talented kids out there.
What is it with Sturt kids struggling on bigger stage, is it because their junior teams are stacked so whoever has a bad matchup or they are just thrashing teams by just having better talent makes them look better. Isaac White seemed legit and I think will be good in nbl just purely by his work ethic and Rigoni will be interesting with his old man game and fundamentals. But Carter should never have gone Div 1, terribly out of shape. Might have started premier league last year but quickly sat.

Most of us on here could start for Sturts premier league team to be honest

Ok, answer these questions.
A) Did he have a good, average, bad college year
B) Why did he not play much when the team needed a guard
C) If there was a problem in coaching why not transfer
D) Is his shooting a major liability
E) Will he replace guys like Tyson Hoffman and Akol Deng as practice bait
F) Are there other guys out there with brighter future such as Jimma Dau and Harris who should get contract
G) Why are same people ripping apart Teys signing backing a kid that has no game currently, whoops, hang on, he scored on a young team that needed someone to Jack up shots.
H) Is it purely because he is from sturt and a certain person has Joeys ear atm.

Yeah, Alex's agent has Joey’s ear. Same agency as Creek, Sobey, McVeigh, Froling. Notice a pattern? The company has signed great talent, and I can tell you this, they don’t care what his junior club was, just that he has the potential to have a great pro career.
Whilst your busy continuing to ask dumb ass questions that make you sound small minded, ask yourself this, who have you helped/developed?

Google "Tommy Kuhse" and consider that Mudronja at 6'5 could not out compete him. Then jumped ship and quit at the first sign of adversity. Not great signs for his nbl potential.

You don't need to be Phil Jackson to see he has a flat shot and poor handles. 14% from 3 and couldn’t bring the ball up the court without getting picked off the dribble.

So the agency decided to sign him because they saw nothing in him?
One thing I know about "googling" things, is that you find out more if you spend time to do actual research. He only attempted 7 shots from three his Freshman year, under a high pressure situation, so hardly a whole body of work. The name Kuhse popped up as being one of the major boosters of the St Mary's program.

Harry Froling shot the 3 at 21% his last year in college and didn’t average many shots either. But I guess “Phil Jackson” thought he’d come and be rookie of the year also.

I’m not sure why you’ve gone to such lengths to discredit Alex, but it’s not working. I think between Joey, his agency and the Centre of Excellence/National teams, I’ll go with their assessment, not a salty Adelaide based club person.

Plenty of kids leave college early for many reason. There are almost 1000 transfers a season in division 1 college hoops so if Carter got it wrong he can transfer and figure it out.

Let's not forget that if becoming a topline pro is the only measure of success then the vast majority fail will fail to even get to the D1 college level, most D1 college guys will fail to get to the pros and then quite a few pros will fail to be a topline professional. It is easy to sit on here and bag all the failures. It is easy to predict failure, with no real knowledge or insight and be right pretty much all the time. But what about those that predict success and get that right. Become one of those and you won't need to be on here bagging kids. You will actually be IN the game.

Sports is messy and success is rarely a straight line. If it was easy people like the posters above would be there themselves in the game but for whatever reason you are where you are posting sh*t here, anonymously on a forum.

I would suggest this kid would have spent a fair bit of time training with 6ers when he was in town. So Joey would have seen him there.

Up until recently there have not been many male athletes from Adelaide, go CoE (do so well there), MVP of U20 nationals type stuff go to a school like St Marys (one of the top mid major programs in the whole thing) and come back to the 6ers. I for one think this is a great thing for the kid, the sport and the next crop of young men coming through to look up and see a pretty cool pathway for this kid and maybe try to emulate it in their own way.

Hangon so you expect that if one of the best prospects out of SA in the past 10 years decides college is not for him and wants to explore options you expect the 6ers to NOT sign him and give him a chance to develop at the NBL level. You want him with Cairns, Illawarra or Sydney? ahhhh ohhhhhhhk.

Janx you make some good points

Simple mind, very simple. But in all seriousness, what's your kids name, and which team didn’t they make?

6ers can't win. People have complained for years they haven’t signed local talent & have let them go elsewhere. Now they sign someone who appears to be a good prospect, certainly one of the best local prospects we have & it’s still the wrong thing.

I don’t think they’re paying him huge money nor are they suggesting he will be a stud right away.

As far as 36ers signings go this off season this would be one of the best, not the worst.

Put it this way if its a choice between Johnson (BJ) and Mudronja it isn't really a difficult decision to make is it.

Those that want to complain about local talent. Better get used to it.

I'd hope the 6ers would be monitoring lots of SA kids overseas right now just like most NBL clubs are.
Garang, Hulland, White, Rigoni, Mayen, Hoppo, Heading, Dibiamaka, Sapwell are some of the young men that spring to mind that the 6ers need to have on their radar. Through in the late bloomers Harris, Jimma into the mix now too.

Joey and his staff is proven to take young athletes and develop them. Sobey's, DJs and Creeks development is not by chance.

There has been almost 2 decades of a barron waste of talent from SA. Sorry to say to the poster above, but that time is now over.

Pretty exciting time ahead to see where this takes basketball in this city tbh.

How did the development of talent go with Larkins, Doyle, Davis....the list is just as long of the failures as is his list of accomplishments. Ever thought the players that succeeded had a better predisposed talent level? Greater work ethic? Not every young player Joey has brought in has become a high level NBL player.

I like the move. The kid can play and has great size for his position. This is the kind of guy Joey can help get to the next level.

None of the players you mentioned were official DP's with a 3 year deal, rostered 2 and 3. None were paid, with exception of Larkins for a few match payments. None of them were COE or Aust team level talent. None were good d1 talent. None of them signed with the agency Alex did either. Just saying.
Get over yourself. Your position is flawed on every angle. I’m sure if we found out who you are, it’d be clear why you’re hating so much.

"There has been almost 2 decades of a barron waste of talent from SA."

Tell that to Newley, Ingles, Maher, Madgen etc.

Madgen and Newley are the same age.

#595 breathe big fella. I was not comparing the previous DP's to Alex. My comment was for every player Joey developed there has been just as many he has brought in that he didn't develop. The players that he has Creek and Sobey for example have elite work ethic and would have developed anywhere. Have a cup of tea and relax.

How can you say that the others haven't been developed? What is your criteria of success? A development player becoming a NBA player? Legitimate NBL star? Roster player? Surely you have to appreciate this will be the exception and not the norm?

Quoting failure to discredit when failure is the most likely outcome based on how limited NBL roster spots and NBL minutes are to come by is not presenting a great case?

Just comes across as hate/jealousy.

Everyone is singing the praises of the great developer. Just pointing out plenty have sat on the bench and never made it. Sorry if I hurt your feelings.

Cheers AS.

Did you say great culture @ the 36ers?

Go well Alex. Good luck to you! Hope you map out a great career.

Great kid but really bad decision, as he will play little to nothing in Joeys system.

Barely any talent in SA so might as well nab him.

Which NBA team is Creek playing for this season? He was guaranteed to be in the league by someone in here.

It's a shame that team loyalty and building a culture isn't a value in the Mudronja family. He probably couldn't accept not being a star after tearing up friday night games with the refs on his side at pasadena. Just take a look a look at what his brother did the other week after the u23 granny. Didn't go with the rest of his team to accept the runners up trophy and instead just left. couldn't accept being a bench player. poor culture, hope he doesn't bring it to the 6ers

Creek has played NBA but that doesn't make him NBA quality.

Mudronja is not that good to be honest.

"I logged in here to find out why Alex left SMC"

Unlike most College players, Mudronja was given a choice as to how he could spend the next 3 years.
Sitting on the bench for the Gaels, in front of strangers, whilst earning nothing and getting a degree in "American Literature", with zero chance of it leading anywhere. OR
Sitting on the bench in Adelaide, in front of Family and Friends, whilst getting paid a real salary to train with adults, and with the chance it might lead to an NBL career.

I realise that for American kids, "going away to College" and spending four years huffing bongs is considered a right of passage, and it's every kids dream to do it on a scholarship. But it appears that a few Aussie kids are now realising that it wastes 4 years of their life, and particularly wastes 4 years when they could be playing for money.

17k is hardly a 'real salary'.
'American Literature' would be his choice. Strangely enough there are real degrees to be had.
Reality is 4 years of basketball at college is bloody hard work. They invest a LOT of money in these players and get their pound of flesh in return.
Some players can't hack it, end of story.

This is all so funny to read. In my experience these people are the same armchair experts that will say I told you so when they kid does make it. Or even say "my inability to assess talent inspired him to succeed". It is easy to predict the "failures" because the vast majority won't make it. Either way it is funny to watch and listen to you. That is how you people operate.

Your real ability to talent ID comes through predicting those that ultimately will succeed and even better being able to add meaningful value to their journey.

The kid must be having a tough time though; 3 yr pro deal, including 2 yrs on the roster, played for Australia junior team a couple months ago with some of the best young Aussie prospects there are, just played over a quarter testing himself against one of the best prospects on the planet in RJ last week and now in Utah as his team preps for the Jazz game.
Tough times LOL. What are you'll doing right now :)

What is happening with Mudronjas basketball? I think it's a fair question to ask.
Has a full spot on the roster, the team was terrible last night and he was the only Sixer that didn’t get any game time....even Hulland as DP got minutes ahead of him.
Is he on the outer, or nothing to see here?
Strange considering he’s done his time and is ready to play big minutes and perform.
Thoughts?

Only just gone from dp to full,contract.

Yeah, and?
Hulland is a current DP and he got minutes
Mudronja did not set foot on the floor
It's odd, especially considering how poorly the team was performing.

Try's would’ve been useful in the third, his hustle and defence could have helped. No preseason against opposing teams makes it hard to judge players for new coach.

Glass half empty maybe??

Mudronja bailed on St Mary's because a younger guard came in and took his minutes...are we watching the same scenario unfold for him with Giddey at the 36s?

Don't think the coach rates Mudronja? Unless he is injured?
2nd game in a row zero minutes
If you can’t get on the floor in double OT with 2 Guys already fouled off and the DP gets minutes ahead of you again, you would be a bit worried surely?