Anonymous
Years ago
Pretty even so far...
S5 of jackjumpers should be
Magette, Adams, mcdaniel or Mcveigh, mcintosh, Magnay.
S5 of bullets should be
Sobey, drmic, pAtterson, Franks, liu
Benches pretty bad, especially jackjumpers.
Weeks, krslovic, bairstow, mikhailovskii. Plenty of better options out there.
UseTaHoop
Years ago
No 5 should include Sober at PG. He's a slashing SG.
Dormice not a PG either.
Neither teams will be worrying anyone. Adel and Cairns equally.
Stating the obvious, but it's difficult to see the Jackoffs getting any Ws this coming season. Maybe their imports get hot and sneak their team one or two wins, but that's it.
Jack's been talking finals, but then they were signing a few good players who all went elsewhere. I don’t if they didn’t have the money or the coach just want his style players.
Scout
Years ago
Solid effort for a pre-season game. High rotations including all of the starting 5 on the bench in the last 5 minutes for the Jackjumpers - no Magnay playing, good D. Expect the JJ's to be bottom of the table but not disappointed with the effort. Thought the imports were solid .
Maybe the JJ's roster being lacklustre has to do with United having only one import also. Isn't LK essentially funding the expansion?
The Russian dude was terrible Scout. Kryslovc was equally terrible. Oh and the list goes on. S Mac was good, Adams great and a few others. Will Adel Brisb, Cairns be below the JJ's is the question.
Scout
Years ago
No argument from me anon 544 -Yeah Nikita did have a shocker that was definitely a take-out, seemed overwhelmed hope he improves not sure though. Perry and Kenyon had a lot of minutes. Sam Mc impressed. Big weakness having Weeks run the point in the last 5 minutes.
Great to have NBL down here again.
KET
Years ago
Why wouldn't they talk finals?
It would be weird if any club didn’t. That would be self defeatist.
It requires talent KET. The JJ's have a limited amount of that. Weeks was woeful.
Perry showed promise. Adams a star.
JJs defence going to have to improve immensely, it's not in most of their players dna.
Magette-?-Macdonald(dp)
Adams-?-Kenyon-Deans(dp)
Mcdaniel-Steindl
Mcintosh-Mcveigh-?
Magnay-?-Perry(dp)
Cut already...
Weeks
Mikhailovskii(ns)
Bairstow
Krslovic
Krslovic starting FFS. He has already proved by yesterdays showing he isn't up to NBL. No idea what Roth is doing is equally important.
Unfortunately many of these duds have more than 1 year contracts.
Ikr, what Buffooon signed them to 3 year contracts.
He's an nba coach, don’t worry it’ll all be fine.
Scout
Years ago
FFS game 1 of pre-season and the experts are up and about.
Pre-season
One game but Tyrell was hopeless negative on defence yesterday. Bullets will be needing more from their now-primary big man.
Yes Scout it's pre season and what I saw yesterday was terrible from the coach and many players. Let's see what intensity they bring tomorrow.
Scout
Years ago
Agree intensity needed, bench 5 on in the last 5 minutes, none of the imports played more than 20 minutes and all produced in that time, lots of scope for improvement. Roth has said for weeks he would be rotating players especially in the first couple of games, that is what pre-season games are for
Not smart to judge a team after one pre-season game. Perth went 1-2 a couple of years ago then won the title (Ket chill I am not equating the JJ's and Perth just ridiculing those who judge teams based on pre season games!)
Just watching now,
Someone please tell me how Damon lowery gets a commentary gig, first couple minutes, 'is Sam McDaniel related to Xavier McDaniel?'
I thought the league was past giving out token roles to ex players for the sake of it?
Perthworld
Years ago
Well they definitely don't listen to fan feedback - Homicide is back as he is the voice over for the new NBL "Next Level" ad on ESPN. Argh.
Had to laugh at the official crowd for the JJ's first game at MSBA.
"Highest Crowd since 2003 4,500 - 14/11/21: NBL Blitz: JackJumpers v Bullets | 36ers v Taipans"
At a stretch there might have been 3500. With quite obviously maybe that 1000 no shows. Free tickets will do that.
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