Luuuc
Years ago
Free Agency started today for the 2021/22 WNBL season. We're back to 2 imports per team.
Links:
Free Agents List (wnbl.com.au)
OffSeason Signings Tracker (BasketCase Podcast)
Steph Reid staying at Tville
I wonder if Shyla wants to play for dad?
Wonder who will fill the drink bottles at Sydney?
So far it looks like.
Heal-nakkasoglu
Mansfield-sg
Schwagmeyer-sf
Maley-pf
C-c
Perthworld
Years ago
Wonder who will fill the drink bottles at Sydney?
Newcomers?
Wallace
Mangakahia
Potter - skipped college
Maybe
Bibby? 5th year
horvat? 5th year
Shelley? Transferring
Simmons? No game time
Former Cap Lily scanlon is returning from college
Rocci-scanlon-cubillo
Import-tupaea
Import-potter
Griffin-froling
Tolo-ruef
If they go back to 2 imports...
Would Boomers be an option for Rocci with Beck not playing?
Froling to sydney . They are all great mates with heal.
Luuuc
Years ago
Boomers have madgen
Who else have the Boomers locked away, is Garrick returning or moving on ??
Luuuc
Years ago
Who else have the Boomers locked away, is Garrick returning or moving on ??
Rhea23
Years ago
Perhaps Rocci to Townsville? Replace Heal (can't see her staying there when Mr Heal is at Sydney.
Plus Rocci boyfriend plays AFL in Brisbane.
Starters? Pg
Rocci fire
Mitchell flyers
Heal flames
Ebzery Lynx
Wallace or Mangakahia lightning
Wallace or Mangakahia or scanlon capitals
Madgen boomers
Lavey spirit
"Maybe but tiana has history with the fire"
Played professionally for two years , then went to the NCAA , how does that work ?
Anon
Years ago
Scanlon came back because she couldn't get on in the WCC, she isn't starting over abby cubillo, she was getting junk time last time she was there
Ebzery will not be returning to the Lynx. Has returned to the east coast full time.
Luuuc
Years ago
I am not surprised, but I am disappoint :(
It was great having her here. Awesome player & leader.
Buc
Years ago
Ebzery moved east for olympic camps with the wa border closing all the time
Garbin also moved to Melbourne for the same reason
Ebzery/Williams
Whitcomb/Ciabittoni/? Nbl1 guard
Sharp/Clarke
Garbin/Allen/Isenbarger
Import/Edwards
Bendigo pull a rabbit out of the hat with the signature of Leilani Mitchell. Not sure how that back court is gonna work with Lavey.
Not sure thes will make top 7
Mitchell / Wilson
Lavey / Goulding / mclean
Import / Skinner
Import / Froling / dunlop
Ernst / rintala
No one wanted her, too old, too slow, 2 good games last year doesn't cut it.
Should have gone for a Wallace or Rocci, perhaps even Conti or Mangakahia too build from.
Yeah should have put their faith into Wallace who has yet to set foot on a court or prove a thing at WNBL level good one
Lavey was already there. Why bring in a 36 y.o vet. Build for the future.
Maley would be a great edition
?
Years ago
a lot to play out still with imports / covid etc before rosters are sorted
Wallace was the best youth player we had for about 5 years straight. Got drafted even when injured in 2018 and hasn't been back since.
No one doubts Wallace's talent but a team like Bendigo can't afford to take a big gamble like that
The Melbourne teams or Canberra is where she should be
Isnt Mitchell more of a ga,blue after last season. Yes she turned up last game, but was outplayed. MOST of the season.
"Wallace was the best youth player we had for about 5 years straight. Got drafted even when injured in 2018 and hasn't been back since."
Hence the amazement that her name name appears on every list for WNBL or Australian Squad , she is not even playing NBL1 , let it go , please.
Lol she was the opals list start last year and didn't play.
https://basketballvictoria.com.au/2019-australian-opals-squad-announced/
Sydney very quiet, I thought the new coach would be chasing hard.
Perth probably
Ebzery/Williams
Whitcomb/Ciabittoni
Sharp/Clarke
Garbin/Isenbarger
Scherf/Allen
Flames clogged at the 1 spot already with Mansfield, Funda and Heal.
Perth need to prioritise a replacement for Ebzery urgently
Ebzery to CBR then if she wants to be east coast?
PGs Complete stab in dark, but...
Lavey-Mitchell-Oneill
Heal-Mansfield-nakkasoglu
Reid-Mangakahia-Fabbro
Rocci-Clydesdale-Conti
Ebzery-dyer?-Williams
Seekamp-Wallace-Ortlepp
Epoupa-Scanlon-Cubillo
Madgen-Wright-antoniadou
Maybe some more import pgs
Doubt Wallace will take the court again, two back to back ACL on same knee, and now multiple "clean outs" and hasn't played in 4 years ... too many good current guards around now
Yes very sad, but very determined individual. Think she can come back, hope so anyway.
Hasn't played proper game since late 2018?
18/19 season tore it first game for caps?
Wright don't think will play, Seekamp still mia.
Quite a few 3 rd string potential pgs trying to get to the next level from nbl1
Interestingly they all have similar stats atm.
Anon
Years ago
Wright retirement from WNBL
Seeksmp living the farm life and loving it , she won't be back
Rocci to Boomers .... won’t be a good move for her under Molloy
Rocci to boomers, what a stupid move by her if true.
Madgen won't move to the 2.
Garrick gone maybe,
05:44:00
Years ago
More players would leave Boomers, if there were more teams with the same amount of money to spend on players . Crazy that the league is still allowing a few clubs to spend as much as they like.
Luuuc
Years ago
It has always been a precarious position in the WNBL with salaries.
It's an unfair competition with a large chasm between the haves and the have-nots, but on the other hand if the league tried to put a meaningful lid on salaries to keep the have-nots competitive, the main effect it would have is to send more Opals squad-calibre players away to Europe.
Either way hurts the league.
Heard a whisper that Kristy Wallace is turning out for Melbourne this weekend.
LC
Years ago
Luuuc - totally agree.
While the new cba for the WNBL is an improvement, the fact is you can still spend as much as you want.
Anonymous
Years ago
Potter out with ACL surgery according to Megan Hustwaite
Luuuc
Years ago
Stephanie Watts (teammate of Shyla Heal at the Chicago Sky) -> Sydney Flames
What's going on at Canberra, they have lost most of their starters, Tolo not playing either now , off to Europe
Bad decision getting Watts. Must be cheap import really. Could of got a vet.
Could be a crap year, preference is europe these days.
Whitcomb, Allen, Kunek, Mangakahia,Tolo
Reports a few others.
No Cambage, seekamp, beck, potter etc
Not playing it seems at all or partial season...
Cambage - ?
Tolo - europe/france
Mijovic - pregnant
Allen - europe/spain
Kunek - europe/poland
Potter - injured
Beck - career break
Whitcomb - europe/france
Seekamp - career break
Mangakahia - europe/russia
I think a few more too..
Entering College
Burrows - Washington State
Melbourne - Arizona state
Price - Indiana
Several retirements also... 3-4 atm
Most teams should be looking at having 2 imports now.
Melbourne no longer going to college. She signed with an agent last week.
If heal doesn't perform in wnba, that’ll kill Melbournes draft chances you’d think.
We talk about players but what about the coaches?? the season will or won't be crap because the same retreaded tyres are given jobs they have seriously underperformed in. Time for new blood.. new ideas and an update in the game.
True. But I expect that to happen after this season. Molloy, chambers, Lucas, york shouldn't survive.
Anon
Years ago
#823 she is no where near it, you musn't have watched the 20's against kids her own age when she gets scouted, check the stats
I think she had a great hub season due to the constant games and lack of scouting, the NSW coach totally stopped her to the point where the Vics where chucking up crap
Anon
Years ago
to go to the states for aussies it is a lot easier to be a 2-3-4 than a 1 or a 5 (Cambage is the exception). The girls in college and therefore WNBA who run the 1 are insanely quick both athletically and handles, the 5s are just too big or athletic and long. If you have a look over time the ones that sustain there are usually 2-3-4, Timms, Jackson and Cambage are just freaks of nature.
If sophie cunningham can survive as a 3 it should give the aussies hope she is more our standard of genetic predisposition
Lucas coaches for free, so I wouldn't expect him to be moved on anytime soon. Chambers just won her 2nd championship, so not sure why she’d be being moved on? York has a good roster this year, so let’s wait and see on her, I mean everyone is a better coach with better players right? Which brings us to Malloy (bad coach no matter the roster) seems to have a lifetime’s worth of 'get out of jail free cards’, so unfortunately I think we’re stuck with him.
York has a has been roster,only Maley n mckay are good young pickups.
Mitchell, garrick both came off worst season and were let go by previous clubs. Mclean, Skinner have done little. Dunlop is far too young and inexperienced for wnbl level. Ernst is pregnant, froling shockingly poor first season that no one expected.
Atm, Something like...
Lavey/Mitchell/Mclean
Garrick/Goulding
Maley/Skinner
Import/Froling?/Dunlop
Import/Mckay
Would have to nail imports.
Kelly wilson to the caps.
Melbourne probably too.
That's a bad move for Caps. You have two young PG’s in Melbourne & Cubillo, the last thing they need is a ball dominant/controlling veteran PG to run roughshod over them. Unless Wilson has mellowed and is ready to be a mentor?
Atm, probably...
Wilson/Cubillo
Melbourne/Tupaea/Kaser
Import/Taia/Delaney
Griffin/?
Import/Ruef
But Wilson at 36.
I'd like to see
Melbourne/Wilson/Cubillo
Wallace/Tupaea
Import/Taia - was going to be potter
Griffin/?
Import/Ruef
Anon
Years ago
Wilson/Cubillo
Melbourne/Tupaea/Kaser
Import/Taia/Delaney
Griffin/?
Import/Ruef
No way Melbourne starts over Tupaea if she is fit. Tupaea had to take over last year once Melbourne got scouted and started to cough it up. Give her time she is going to have to work through scouts etc with clubs having a week to prepare not one day
Melbourne is a PG
No she's not , not yet anyway as she’s not a facilitator or leader, she’s still in run and gun mode of a junior
Anonymous
Years ago
Melbourne is a PG
No she's not , not yet anyway as she's not a facilitator or leader, she’s still in run and gun mode of a junior
FINALLY that is exactly right, if she was a PG Vic would have won 20's they forced her left and she jacked crap up
Let's point out that vic were undermanned and had already 3-4 girls in college.
Nsw for the most part we’re good but te previous year they faced much talented opponent.
U20s no offense to nsw mean nothing. age groups would have tochange to mean best of best.
U15, u17, u19 like nz do
Lindsay allen back to boomers.
Means Madgen becomes a sg again.
FINALLY that is exactly right, if she was a PG Vic would have won 20's they forced her left and she jacked crap up
I think that's a little unfair. She’d just witnessed her best friend do her knee one minute into the game. She was no doubt somewhat thrown mentally
Anon
Years ago
I think that's a little unfair. She'd just witnessed her best friend do her knee one minute into the game. She was no doubt somewhat thrown mentally
Just facts not personal, the year before our girls (qld sth) did the same thing to her in the semi and she played exactly the same way. Stuff the right hand side and she drives wide left and chucks when she gets contact expecting foul calls. Shyla called her out last year when they said have you got something to say to her and she said "Tell jade to stop flopping"
In that Semi final which Country were favourites in I think she didn't score, there is a trend there, give her a couple of years is all I am saying stop with they hype now.
Lot of competition nowadays, some girls like to degrade others because they are fighting for limited spots now and into the future.
Recently an nbl1 pg said they would look forward to getting physical a few pgs that are on Aus .nt or on the fringe
LC
Years ago
Massive signing. Flyers let Mitchell go and signed Rocci instead. Right now I would argue that's a long term upgrade.
Yeah and Mitchell has to go backup Lavey in Bendigo.
I wonder who will the flyers center
Must be a bit weird replacing the opals starting pg yet the opals starting pg is still Mitchell most likey.
Pity so many aussies have left to europe, locals not very deep this year.
Maybe?
Perth - R.Petrik
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Contracted players
PG-5'10 K.Ebzery/5’6 J.Williams
SG-5’11 M.Mabrey(i)/5’11 A.Ciabattoni/?
SF-6’1 A.Sharp/6’1 E.Clarke
PF-6’2 D.Garbin/6’2 A.Isenbarger
C-6’5 L.Scherf/6’3 M.Allen
+
Development players
X
Years ago
Melbourne Boomers saying they're going to announce a HUGE international signing today
Hopefully its a new coach with international standard success... more likely another tall from NZ
Luuuc
Years ago
Sug Sutton (who played for the Washington Mystics last WNBA season but didn't make the cut for this season) --> Townsville Fire
Looking forward to the Boomers news
Luuuc
Years ago
Ok, so it is Tiffany Mitchell
Calling that a HUGE signing is justified.
Luuuc
Years ago
Perth Lynx social media teasing another WNBA player as their next signing
Luuuc
Years ago
Hopefully Marina has talked her Wings teammate Arike into joining her down under
#dreamin
Wnbl still feels like a second rate comp. not as professional as it could be.
Luuuc
Years ago
Interesting pick.
No complaints getting a player of that caliber to Perth (where is this import money coming from??)
We're going to have a pretty big backcourt
They come here, realise it's pretty badly run and go back to europe,
No they love it here, but they get way more $$ in europe.
Luuuc
Years ago
Yeah, I'm not sure why people keep listing her as a Lynx player for the upcoming season. She is still a free agent as far as I know.
(Would love to have her back of course. Ditto Maddie Allen, who is also yet to sign. That's be quite the competitive lineup)
Ebzery either europe, Adelaide or townsville.
Best fit would be..
Townsville - S.Seebohm
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Contracted players
5'8 S.Sutton(i)/5’6 S.Reid
5’10 K.Ebzery/6’0 C.Woods/5’9 M.Cocks
6’0 L.Nicholson/6’1 M.Murray
6’4 M.Billings(i)/6’2 N.Payne
6’4 Z.Aokuso/6’5 L.Mcspadden
+
Amateur/Development players
5’8 A.Fabbro
Townsville is complete, I think only 10 contract spots
Luuuc
Years ago
Nice pickup by the Basket Case team, figuring out that Kylee Shook (New York Liberty) appears to be the 2nd import for Adelaide Lightning.
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