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"The addition of Hunt makes an already unstoppable Cotton that much more unguardable."

Five observations from the NBL's first two rounds

Give credit to the tipans! They played awesome and didn't matter how good we played they were on fire and played team ball and that's what a team does.

Like every other import, blame the lack of production of the bench and last night showed how valuable Hire was for perth.

"This doesn't make sense you contradict yourself "

He appears to be a very good player. His defence has been poor, but I'm sure will improve if he can stop getting the cheap foul-shots.

As I said, if we were playing him as a 4, or even a backup 5, great, but I'm questioning whether he can get the job done as a starting Centre.

Alarmist bs after first loss at its finest

Jawai had 4 points in 18 minutes and ZERO Offensive boards.


A lot of Cairns 3s had a hand in their face, credit to them knocking them down.

Been involved in basketball for more than 20 years (and no I'm not 20). Let's walk you through the points you struggle to comprehend.

A) Hunt is adjusting to rules, which is why he struggled against Melbourne. A lot of bigs that have been in this league for years still struggle. Using preseason for any arguments is flawed to the n'th degree. Your Illawarra comment isn't worth addressing. And his defensive issues are prominent when he picks up 2 fouls early and teams start going at him (and rightfully so).

B) Brain dead to respond to OP who mentioned it? Or to the other posts that mentioned it? Nate had minimal impact when Hunts defensive capability against a 130kg+ man was questioned. Just discussing the topic at hand. He may be a starter, but he is the 3rd import choice which I think makes him a solid pickup given he could average a double-double if he can last 20+ minutes a game.

C) I apologise, this one needs some explaining of basic basketball concepts that I presumed to be common knowledge. What happens when a big unit like Jawai dominates low block? Rotations and doubles, freeing up perimeter shooting. The post explains that Cairns efficiency did not come from a liability in post defending. Cairns were just efficient, if Cairns go 7/11 from deep from their starting centre and power forward again then maybe we can discuss his perimeter defense but I don't think anyone saw that coming.

Probably one of the same anons the wrote of White and the wildcats last season.

Gleeson has a bunch of other issues I could bring up way before Hunt makes the list. But I don't know what they would have to do with the topic. Maybe start another thread for that if you want to...

Perth was plus 18 fga, plus 14 o boards, had 1 more d board even though cairns shot twice as well. 7 less turnovers. They lost by 23... sometimes its as simple as scoring more than your opponent.

Hunt is fine, he was scared to collect a 3rd and gave up a few to easy points, you could also say he was I the wrong end of some real 50 50 calls too

Let's see how he goes against Long tomorrow before we all get carried away.

"Hunt has proven he's very good."

maybe I'm just splitting a very small hair, but I still draw the distinction between Hunt being a very good player, and being a very good fit.

In fairness, part of this discussion has to be about his backup Majok, but as is always the way Locals are what we've got and the focus is on the import filling the gap.

Between the two, we need better than 34 minutes, 13 points, and 7 boards. And we need a much better defensive impact.
When a dinosaur like Pledge can roll out his Zimmer and get 8 points and 7 boards in 10 minutes, then we have a problem.

You're also missing his ability to move the ball, he led the game yesterday with 7 assists, that's an underrated stat, if he's going to get our guys easy buckets the way Bogut does I'm happy with that. Crashes the boards well for an undersized big and 100% getting used to the umpiring like every other big import that has entered the league.

I don't really understand what I am seeing..
He's had games where he got into foul trouble, he's had games where he was crap, and he's had games where he's started brilliantly.
And it's the SAME story. He get's benched and we barely see him again.

Against SEM early he was dominating. Massive Dunk at one end followed by a Huge rejection at the other.
Bang, he's benched, and only comes on in dribs & drabs.

He's averaging less than 19 minutes a game.

WTF?
Is there some medical condition we should know about?

It's not like Jook is filling the gap, between the two we're not even getting 31 minutes, with the gap covered by Kay, Wagstaff, and Vague

What exactly is the plan here?

If Hunt is part of Trev's grand new plan to play small-ball, then just get the fuck on with it and lets see if it works. Don't keep ganking him after 5 minutes.

Relax Daz. Cats are 5-1. Gleesons plan is getting ws

Similar minutes to Angus in previous seasons

True, but Gus was a local, which is always a "take what you can get" scenario.
Hunt is an import and we should be getting more.