D2.0
Years ago

Rhys Vague has signed with Kagawa Five Arrows in Japan

As predicted by Santamaria on Overtime:

https://www.wildcats.com.au/news/wildcats-farewell-rhys-vague

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Anonymous  
Years ago

coached by Paul Henare

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Cornholio  
Years ago

Any thoughts on his replacement at Perth D2.0?

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D2.0  
Years ago

Paul Henare is the coach, so hopefully this is a great opportunity for Vague.

Writing was definitely on the wall for him in Perth. Whilst showing glimpses, in two seasons on the senior roster, he hadn't cemented a spot. He was likely to be dropped, even before the shift to a 10 player rota.

Not sure how the season will shape in Japan? They may be playing behind closed doors? Although they are generally pretty good following hygiene directives, so they might be ok.

I imagine the coin is decent, compared to an end of bench player in the NBL. Hopefully the league is of a standard that will allow him plenty of minutes, and the opportunity to thrive.

Given the periodic talk about Asian-Market players, it will be interesting to see how he goes, as a measure of the relative strength of the League.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Kay Vague for Motum and a NS

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Anonymous  
Years ago

So he will have a more minutes and a more central role in a lower level league?

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D2.0  
Years ago

It's hard to say regarding replacement. He was an end of bench guy who played anywhere from 3 to 5.
Had the team stayed otherwise completely static, you could make a case for simply dropping him from the 10 man squad. So in effect no direct replacement.
But with 4 spaces still to fill, its pretty obvious that at least two of those will be big forwards or centres.
Assuming Reath, etc, remain contracted in Europe, I think we're looking at an import PF to replace Kay, so that could be anybody. Then maybe a local centre, but nothing really clear on that.

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Cornholio  
Years ago

Who would be a better NS for Perth Blake Jones or David Okwera.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

D2.0 wrong again. He played 3?! never

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Blanchfield and Reath would be good fits for Perth - Blanchfield has played for Gleeson in Townsville before

Norton/Martin
Cotton/Wani
Blanchfield/Steindl
Import/Wagstaff
Reath/Majok

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Norton/Martin/Britt(DP)
Cotton/Buluk
Import/Steindl/Travers(DP)
Motum/Wagstaff/Okwera(NS)
(Reath or Brandt or Plumlee)/Majok

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Andrew  
Years ago

Norton/Martin/Britt(DP)
Cotton/Buluk
Patterson/Steindl/Travers(DP)
Motum/Wagstaff
Brandt/Majok

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Anonymous  
Years ago

3 to 4 million dollar team

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Remarkable NBL career to date.. championship every 20 games in the league. 4x champ.
Always teased with potential and probably hasn't developed to the expectations of the cats but still incredible to be a 4 time champ.

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Cornholio  
Years ago

Nah take Patterson out and put LeBron in.
If you're going to live in fantasy land go all out.
The two anons above are more realistic.

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D2.0  
Years ago

He played 3?! never

So when he was on court with Kay & a centre, what role do you think he was playing? Point Guard?

If you're going to make pointless childish posts, at least get your mummy to fact check them first

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Anonymous  
Years ago

"D2.0 wrong again" Still...

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Anonymous  
Years ago

School holidays attract low quality posters.

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D2.0  
Years ago

Leave dazz alone. He's in Year 12 now. The best 5 years of his life ;)

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Good on Rhys getting more than he would in the lower cap NBL

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Never happened D2.0 so you can check your facts with your mummy after I drop her off

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Lovebroker  
Years ago

Even a topic as neutral and bereft of anything negative as Rhys Vague still ends up in abusive posts.

Come on guys

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Anonymous  
Years ago

he is a team mate of rob loe

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Macca  
Years ago

The Vanilla Gorilla fell out of favour with Trev about 3/4's the way through the season and never got back in.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Trev's reputation in development remains intact.
Zero

And before the perf fans jump on he didn’t develop nick kay, even nick Kay acknowledges that was Matt Neilsen

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Anonymous  
Years ago

His job is to win titles.

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Sourbroker  
Years ago

Lovebroker giving out advice. Brilliant.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Lovebroker isn't really abusive, and he makes a valid point. The anonymous sniping largely directed at three posters has got to stop.

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D2.0  
Years ago

Trev's reputation in development remains intact.
Zero
And before the perf fans jump on he didn't develop nick kay, even nick Kay acknowledges that was Matt Neilsen

Wow
So you acknowledge it was Nielsen's job to work with the forwards, but blame Trev for what you see as Vague's lack of improvement?

Vague has improved. If you look at his off-seaon work he went from SBL to SEABL to NZBL. That's why this will be a good move for him.
And who knows, maybe a good season or two in Japan and he could return to the NBL.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

D2.0 relax and go buy another heritage round jersey with your jobseeker allowance

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Sourbroker  
Years ago

What happened to free speech - of which I'm sure Lovebroker is a bastion of...,

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Cornholio  
Years ago

Sadly it's not just school holidays with these clowns bitching at each other.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Cornholio is such a clever user name.

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Cornholio  
Years ago

Thanks anonymous xx

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Anonymous  
Years ago

crap finds its level

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Anonymous  
Years ago

^^^ you know you don't actually have to write anonymous, leave it blank it does it itself. Noob

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Lack of username also gives us anons who are cowards the freedom to attack others .


Back to actual topic good luck in Japan Rhys Vague.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Oh yeah cause making up a username makes me less of a coward. Flog

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koberulz  
Years ago

Having a username makes you accountable.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Lol at 811029

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Anonymous  
Years ago

I could also make up a twitter account using a username and still be an anonymous flog

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Dr Kobe at it again. He has a user name and we know that shit he posts is accountable. Meh.

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koberulz  
Years ago

Dr Kobe at it again.
Thank you for proving my point.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

"we know that shit he posts is accountable"

That makes as much sense as writing "citation needed" at the end of your own posts.

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Curtley  
Years ago

Anyone know salary cap of Japanese League?

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Anonymous  
Years ago

Salary cap ranking
1) Perth
2) Japan B-League
3) Melbourne
4) Sydney

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