The Official NBL 2006/07 Thread

[koberulz]

i figured i'd start this, since we don't have one already. singapore-36ers tonight.

anyone got any idea when the game starts? the nbl site says 8 pm WST, but the rest of the matches are in either AWST or AEST.

[Andrew]

Stickied.

Doesn't look like the game's on Fox Sports. Looks like their coverage starts next week.

[koberulz]

next tuesday. i did some research, it's 8 singapore time, which is WA time down under.

wildcats are playing here friday, i'll probably stay home to watch the footy though, especially since the same two teams play here in october.

be interesting to see perth play, since majority of their players haven't played NBL before.

[Dan's Brain]

Singapore win in their first ever NBL game. 98-91 over Adelaide. be interesting to see how these players can acclimatise to playing up there. Especially the Victorian players who wouldnt be used to "tropical" conditions.

[Jugs]

The NBL has been washed up ever since they kicked out the Geelong Supercats .

[CMJ3]

Wildcats got their first win of the season. Wasnt convincing tho (i was there) but the Rogers alley was pretty awesome, Brooks did well in his first game, it looks like we might have a descent season this year. Ronaldson played good also.

[koberulz]

ronaldson was sheer awesomeness from three, apparantly. i stayed home to watch the football.

[CMJ3]

Yeah he nailed quite a few, he scored 20 i think. The new guy is a real good addition he is probably better than Bailey but we played Singapore so yeah. Like to see how we will face up against The Tigers or The Kings

[Dan's Brain]

On a loosely related note, hooray for the opals.

[koberulz]

dragons vs breakers tonight, 7.30 eastern on fox sports.

[koberulz]

just came back from the wildcats tonight, and it was the most god-awful display i've ever seen. not the game as such, but the entire night.

first off, regular PA announcer lachy reid was, i assume, in melbourne for the afl grand final. quite evidently, the wildcats do not have a backup PA announcer. the new guy, whoever he was, sucked. if a foul was called, he said a foul was called. nevermind who it was on, it was a foul. he fucked up the names of the cheerleaders several times, referring to one group by another group's name on several occasions. he kept pausing just before he said anything he might actually have to remember.

then there was some stupid woman from a sunbear charity, who had to come out and inform us that sunbears were data deficient. that means that they may be an endangered species, but there aren't enough of them to get enough data to prove this.

none of the cheerleaders/dance groups had a clue. one guy got into position, looked around, suhuffled forward two paces, looked around again, shuffled another two paces, looked around, then shuffled back five paces. all this while in something resembling defensive stance with his palms on his knees. several cheerleaders attempted to get up and leave before the routine was over.

then there were the competitions. they brought out some cardboard nova thingos. each one was a different color, and they had different prizes inside them. the guy had to pick one, and they outlined what the prizes available were. then the PA announcer (back to him again) made small talk about one of the prizes, wasting thirty seconds and causing the game to run into the next quarter. but, he evidently hadn't wasted enough time, since he polled the audience, by loudness, as to which nova thingo he should pick. not that anyone had a clue what was in what, so it didn't matter. but apparantly this guy can't make up his own mind. he eventually picked the green one. he got the mystery prize. but wait folks, it's not over yet! now he has to actually win his prize, by hitting a freethrow for it at this point, the fourth quarter should have been well under way, but we had to set that aside so we could watch this guy miss a freethrow. 2 minutes of box selecting and small talk for that anticlimax. talk about a pointless game.

moving on to the dj, and general sound stuff. the cats have some random audio clips of people saying random lines ("do you know the rules of the game? NO!" (bad referee call), "clang, clang, clang" (before a freethrow), and the like). one of them is "i don't understand what's going on here." it's usually used after a confusing referee situation or overrule. but when used after a blatant foul, and after a made basket, it's just rediculous. i'll insert more of the PA announcer's stuff here too. a "let's go wildcats let's go!" *bang bang* chant started up. the wildcats turned the ball over, and the chant died down, as the crowd prepared a defense chant. the PA announcer figured the crowd was too quiet, and tried to start a "let's go wildcats let's go" chant, which had just finished. he did it once. at that point, the crowd was chanting "defense". it stuck out like a sore thumb.

as if i haven't bitched enough, i'll now move onto the people sitting next to me. our whole family (4) has a membership, but only 2 of us went tonight. they were in our other two seats, but we didn't give a shit. still, they had no right to sit there. they spent a good solid five minute patch discussing the player on the court with the skinniest legs. talk about pathetic. "ning (meaning darren ng, there is no "ning" in the nbl) has skinny legs." "hunt's are skinnier." "tony ronaldson's are pretty skinny too." "which one's ronaldson?" they had no fucking clue, and were bloody annoying.

and now onto the part that has to happen in every bitching session. it was inevitable, and here it is: the refs. while they were alright on most occasions, they did make some shocking calls. don't take this as being biased, quite a few of them favored the cats. darren brooks was sent to the freethrow line for clearing out with his arm. redhage went to the freethrow line because his shooting arm brushed the defender's arm. shocker of the night: david cooper takes a rebound and is holding it in two hands above his head. a wildcats player swiped at it. cooper new it would come loose, so he tossed it in the air over said player, took a step forward, then caught the ball again.

whew. that was long.

[CMJ3]

IT was Slim Jim doing the announcing, I was there aswell.....i was sat behind the ring like in the lower level on the side where the Wildcats went first. It was an awesome game to watch....near the end it just got out of control with all the dunks. Brown had some huge ones on the break. The alley by the two black guys from the 36ers was pretty sweet also. Brooks dominated as always. I walked past him after the game and im like 2 inches taller than him. I thought he was over 6ft but he is pretty short.

You goin down on wednesday to see them play the Crocs koberulz? i imagine you will be if your a member and all.

[koberulz]

should be, barring severe illness/decapitation/death.

two black guys on the 36ers? you don't know lanard copeland, and you call yourself a basketball fan? that's laughable.

is this "slim jim" asshole permanent, or do we get lachie back? who did the singapore game?

[CMJ3]

Im not a big NBL fan, i only go watch because its my home team but i dont really follow it other than goin to the wildcats games.

No sure on Slim Jim, Lachie Read will probably return eventually hes in love with the job so he shouldnt be gone long.

[Zoom]

Congrats to Perth

6 game win streak i think after escaping Brissie 90-87

[koberulz]

they played? man, i need to catch up with this stuff. there was a time i could list every player in the league along with their team, position, and number, andnow i'm not even paying attention to when games are on.

[Zoom]

Yeah, they did play... looks like not many NBL fans on here!

[Andrew]

When I heard Fox Sports would be showing up to four games per week I vowed to take more of an interest but I've been pretty slack following through on that.

[Jugs]

How is Shane Heal going? He used to play for *gasp* GEELONG SUPERCATS!!!

I can't be bothered researching on how his new team is doing.

[Zoom]

He got injured in the first game... I haven't been following him either.

But NBL is back on FTA TV 11:30 AM on Sundays!!!

[koberulz]

he played saturday night on fox...haven't seen the game yet though, i taped it.

[Dan's Brain]

I can't be bothered researching on how his new team is doing.

winless. todd fuller has been a let-down.

[CMJ3]

Well we got our first glimpse of NBL on free to air tv.... it was the Dragons vs the Hawks. They are going to show one game a week on channel 9 at 11:30 in the morning on a Sunday. Glad to see them at least trying to get people into the NBL.

[koberulz]

be decent if it was a game that wasn't shown on fox 6 hours earlier.

[Zoom]

todd fuller has been a let-down.

I second that

Well we got our first glimpse of NBL on free to air tv.... it was the Dragons vs the Hawks. They are going to show one game a week on channel 9 at 11:30 in the morning on a Sunday. Glad to see them at least trying to get people into the NBL.

I read that Eddie McGuire convinced Nine to do it... I think it's the right thing to do... we have to at least support our league at home but I do understand why it wasn't on tv before and that's simply because the truth is that basketball isn't that popular over here

CMJ, I didn't catch the highlights but was it good? Is it a rip off Foxsports or something?