Filipino community will troll 36ers to oblivion in a way Perth fans could only hope to achieve!

@412

I don't think so. I can only speculate, but I do think that they just don't want him to get possibly injured in the pre-season. If Kai is injured, the broadcasting contract will be jeopardized; after all, money is involved.

What broadcasting contract?

I can't imagine the Philippines one is worth much or anything tbh, and ESPN couldn’t care less about Sotto.

I think he hasn’t played because he’s a bit injured already?

This is going to turn into a sideshow - us 36ers fans just want to see Adelaide play good winning basketball, not satisfy a country that have unrealistic expectations on their player!

@KET

The Philippine deal is worth a bunch of money, but, of course, not ESPN level money. To clarify, this is the same thing that happened with the B league. Because of the Filipinos playing there, broadcasting deals were made. They are charging a fair amount of money for the average Filipino to watch his games on the NBL deal, not to mention that Kai's Jerseys sold out in a matter of weeks. PH market may not seem like it but it is worth more than you think. 

No idea if it will be a sideshow but hopefully not.

@420

It's okay if you think that way, but like I said, the PH market for basketball is huge. Dumb and toxic fans aside, if you can look past that and see how much the Philippine basketball heads are spending, you can start to see some reasonable numbers. FIBA won't give the Philippines hosting rights if they can't spend a good amount.

If Pinoys are paying to watch the NBL, I feel bad for CJ being compelled to play Sotto for a certain number of minutes each game. Feels like an unjust anchor on the team. Maybe this is why Connor left.

The Philippine deal is worth a bunch of money, but, of course, not ESPN level money.

@Perthworld

https://www.adelaide36ers.com/news/fans-get-sotto-on-tap

https://www.spin.ph/life/guide/where-to-watch-kai-sotto-s-games-in-the-australian-national-basketball-league-a2442-20211126

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Thanks Stevy.

I think Adelaide are preserving Kai Sotto for the regular season. If it is true he signed a Multi Million dollar contract

That article has already been discussed on here at length - the headline is wrong.

Hold up, not wasted on preseason games? I don't know what on court value people think this guy is actually going to have. He's the fourth big after Johnson, Humphries and Bairstow. He shouldn't see more than 10 minutes a game if we're being generous. If you shouldn't waste your fourth big on preseason games, who should you?

" It is reported that he is on a Multi Million dollar contract."

I understand you will refuse to believe anyone who actually knows the NBL (where each club has a ~$1.5mil soft cap for 11 players) that it's wildly wrong.

What I want to know, on a scale of 1-10, how perplexed and pissed will you be when Sotto plays junk time minutes?

"It is reported that he is on a Multi Million dollar contract. This would make him one of the highest paid players in the league. I can see why the 36ers would be cautious in playing him in meaningless games."

You actually think Sotto's getting paid more than guys who are starting for teams and slated to challenge for the MVP and more than Dieng who is projected to be a lottery pick???

Oh boy, you're going to be super disappointed and angry when Sotto doesn’t get the minutes or have the impact that you think.

Feel bad for Sotto having unfair and unrealistic expectations of a nation on his shoulder.

" I'm sure Adelaide will be super disappointed and frustrated when there Multi Million Dollar recruit doesn't pan out."

Nobody in Adelaide feels that is a risk, as Adelaide don't have multi millions of dollars to spend, period :)

Pigs would fly before Adelaide would magically have that kind of money!

For what it's worth, "1 Philippine Peso = 0.028 Australian Dollar" (from the web). So millions of Pesos is worth roughly thousands of AU$s. Sounds right!

I am pretty sure that rumours of millions of dollars turned out to be a misquote that ended up being corrected. But still we have Philos here (and maybe even profoundly idiotic Aussies) thinking somehow Kai Sotto is being paid more than the gross income and net worth of the entire league to play here, just because a few thousand Philos might watch him.

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"https://youtu.be/xO0_xq2UzgQ

This video breaks down a comparison of Kai Sotto and Chet Holgrem.

Once Kai dominates the NBL I expect his draft stock to rise, and it would make gms question who they would pick first. Chet or Kai?"
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Once Kai Sotto dominates the NBL.... LOL! You're going to have to redefine the word "dominate" if you think some guy who'll play a handful of junk minutes and will struggle against the physicality of men is "dominating" the league.

HOT TAKE - Big Liu from the Brisbane Bullets will have more impact for Brisbane than Kai Sotto for Adelaide

I don't think anyone in the history of the NBL has ever been paid seven figures, and people seriously believe this guy is making eight?

It was reported in the article as a Multi Million Dollar deal over 3 years. So at the minimum he is getting paid 700k per season.

Expert NBL analyst and very credible Corey "Homicide" Williams

When posters are quoting news.com.au and Homicide as reliable sources you know they aren't from Australia or New Zealand.

This may be one painful season if more of them find this website.

"Expert NBL analyst and very credible Corey "Homicide" Williams has predicted Kai Sotto will win the NBL Rookie of they Year award"

As soon as you wrote that I could tell you are new to the league.

". I agree with his prediction, the next star crop is pretty underwhelming"

Digbu? Besson? Hukporti? Dieng? You've gotta be fucken kidding!

"If given the playing time he will dominate offensively, the NBL hasn't seen a 7ft 3 immensely skilled player like Kai."

Says the guy who started following the NBL the moment Kai Sotto signed up. Thanks for telling us what the NBL has or hasn't seen, guy who thinks Corey Williams counts as an "expert NBL analyst" and not a glorified hype man.

In future can people like yourself just admit you're Philo so we don't accidentally take your views on our league seriously?

Kai Sotto is not going to get more minutes than Ex-NBA and Ex-Olympian Cam Bairstow, nor Ex-NBA player and future Olympian Isaac Humphries, or basically the face of the franchise, a guy who has been a bonafide bucket in this league for over a decade, Daniel Johnson. Get with hotel reality. He seems like a nice kid. He has some potential. I wish him all the best. But the reason why you guys are doing this is because you don't create very good basketball players so when any of them show any small sign of having any vague potential you blow it out of proportion and start saying wild and crazy things like "when Kai Sotto dominates the league"

I am sorry dude... he isn't dominating a damn thing down here. And if you believe that, and if you're really married to that idea, it's going to be a LOOOOONG season for you!

The indignation we're going to cop from Philo fans when Kai doesnt get the minutes they think he deserves is going to be absolutely insufferable.

". I agree with his prediction, the next star crop is pretty underwhelming"

Digbu? Besson? Hukporti? Dieng? You've gotta be fucken kidding!

"Expert NBL analyst and very credible Corey "Homicide" Williams has predicted Kai Sotto will win the NBL Rookie of they Year award"

As soon as you wrote that I could tell you are new to the league.

the NBL hasn't seen a 7ft 3 immensely skilled player like Kai."

Says the guy who started following the NBL the moment Kai Sotto signed up. Thanks for telling us what the NBL has or hasn't seen

7'3? No. But Chris Anstey was 7'1 and he'd have Kai Sotto for breakfast.

That one may actually be true, if only on the technicality that the NBL hasn't seen any 7'3" players before.

"Expert NBL analyst and very credible Corey "Homicide" Williams"


Lol

Lol from what I read, I guess the other Kai fans on the other forum site are now here. Just report their comments. Hopefully the mods will do their job, unlike on the other site.

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The Andy Campbell comparison may well be apt. The only "true" backup centre on the 1985 36ers. A genuine 7 footer, but anchored to the bench. Didn't get on the court when Bill Jones got in foul trouble in the GF.

Apparently a really nice guy and a decent Maths teacher, so I heard.

Andy Campbell did play in the Olympics, an honour which Sotto May also share, if Philippines qualify or host.

Wasn't Ben Pepper about 7’2" as well? He was signed/drafted to NBA without playing.

Jason Eversteyn who spent some time with the Bullets I think was also listed as 7ft 2in.

I said "may be", because I wasn't sure. Y'all can stop gloating now.

The Andy Campbell comparison may well be apt. The only "true" backup centre on the 1985 36ers.

Ben Pepper was only 7'0" (only?!). Jason Eversteyn was indeed 7'2", he was the tallest in the league during his tenure.

"https://www.instagram.com/p/CW2Z6TatspN/?utm_medium=copy_link

FUTURE OF THE NBA"


You understand hype and promotion doesn't equate to fact and reason, don't you? LOL.

And just so you know the "underwhelming" next stars that Sotto is so much better than are all ranked higher in the top 100 prospects - Kai is unranked.

"Perth's Luke Travers has jumped into ESPN’s Top Hundred points symbol for the 2022 NBA Draft:
12 - Dieng (NZ)
36 - Besson (NZ)
55 - Hukporti (MEL)
67 - Digbeu (BNE)
89 - Travers (PER)
90 - King (ADE)
91 - Mikhailovskii (TAS)
93 - Maker (SYD)

Flag of Australia Dyson Daniels is at 22 while Sotto (ADE) is unranked."


But yeah.... "Future of the NBA! "

Can we please ban the Philipines from having internet for a few months?

Its not like they do anything educated with it anyway.

I was responding to someone claiming he played for Adelaide.

Stop trying to win arguments that aren't happening.

KR

Oops, Campbell played for Cannons, Amber played for 36ers.

Campbell did play for West ADL Bearcats, prior to Canberra (that's what confused me). Amberg taught Maths, not sure what Campbell did for a crust. Campbell was the better player.

Don't get too aggravated by Filipinos grabbing an inaccuracy and running with because it benefits their view.

It’s not like the western world are immune from living in bubbles with feedback loops only including anything justifying a particular view.

Just laugh and enjoy the proposition of Adelaide having millions to spend on a single player. Wouldn’t that be nice. Obviously not on a bench player, that’d the height of incompetence.

Hey Perth fans posting in this thread. This, this is what most threads on here that you guys infiltrate is like for everyone else. So you know, glasses houses, stones, etc.

This thread is hilarious.
I hope CJ does play him so that they can watch him get dominated and then we can all laugh at the excuses but alas he'll be keeping the end of the bench warm.

How can people for example in America watch the games? You would assume the Nbl would accommodate for the international viewers.

KR

Oops, Campbell played for Cannons, Amber played for 36ers.

Campbell did play for West ADL Bearcats, prior to Canberra (that's what confused me). Amberg taught Maths, not sure what Campbell did for a crust. Campbell was the better player.

#StopAsianHate

South Adelaide, I think - Andy Campbell.

Will this hurt his MVP chances?

Maybe even his shot at the NBA!

For the sake of sane people like Stevy, I'd be curious as to what potential having a side out of Manila could be.

Easy to look at Singapore as a failed experiment, but the supporter base is chalk and cheese. Philippines team you probably get 15,000 each game instead of 1,500 for the slingers if they were lucky.

Talent wise, they’d be best looking at the vast expanse of Asia like Qui at SEM, Liu at Bullets, Sotto etc and then see who you can steal from the Japanese league, see what imports you can get. A cashed up team willing to pay luxury tax could probably put something decent on the floor?

Considering the distance and Timezone difference of NZ>Perth, I can’t imagine it’s really all that problematic?

How quick do you think expansion occurs?

Any expansion is inherently years away, globalisation isn't going to be dead forever.

I see no mention of Kai Sotto in the NBL's "NBL22 award watch" with I find alarming since he is clearly the best player in the world and should probably be given the all the awards before a game has been played with him on the end of the bench.

Thoughts?.....

Philo fans really are a unique bunch. It's not so much that they love Kai Sotto - which they're totally in their right to do. It's that they seem to have this undeserved narcissism about the level of their basketball. How they came to the conclusion they are some sort of world power, or that Sotto is going to dominate, one can only imagine. But my guess is that they've never had their players tested in meaningful competition so their inflated egos have never really been tempered. You'd think coming thirty-second (THIRTY-SECOND!) out of 32 teams at the world cup would have some sort of humbling effect, but even that didn't quite do the job. Reality checks are coming this NBL season though. And it's a shame that Kai has to be the victim of ill wishes just because his countrymen cant treat basketball boards as places to have balanced and normal discussions and they have absolutely NO respect for the different levels of international basketball above them.