That last boundary by Kane flew off the bat. You are going to get opportunities on this deck if you are patient and get in behind it early.

Our real openers are now in....

Anyone else already biting their nails about what lays ahead on this deck against in form Aussie quicks...

Bird was a phenomenal player and his shot making and IQ would be unreal in today’s game.

Gaze was funny talking about that 89 NCAA final. He said “I locked down Glen Rice for 31 points, if I hadn’t been playing D on him he would’ve gone for 50”.

That is still one of my all time favourite NCAA final games.

@dogmeat said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:

@ACT-Crusader so we're consistent.

When we are happy we are wrong and when we are unhappy - we are wrong.

Time for a beer methinks

“We are consistently wrong” - put it on the TSF homepage

@voodoo said in NBA season 2019/20:

@Bovidae yeah, what annoys me is people relating stats now to 10/15/20 + years ago.

It's just so different

As you say, D is optional. Add to that the realisation that the 3 is a weapon, the pace of the game, the different rules (illegal D, zones, hand checking etc).

Stats have become incomparable. Like, MJ could actually shoot. Imagine he had a licence to shoot 6-8+ 3's per game (he never took more than 3.6pg) and he managed c. 35-38% of them (not inconceivable given his career ave)? Imagine what that additional threat would have added to his rim attacking?

It's just a different game now.

Listened to an interview the other day with Andrew Gaze and he was talking NBL and NBA. Was quite funny talking about Glen Rice Jnr and also his dad Glen Rice Snr.

But the interesting thing he said was if Larry Bird was playing today he’d average 60

The defence overall is deplorable and without hand checking guys just blow by most defenders. And so with the superior athleticism of the modern NBA player we see so many dunks and high flying plays that the young ones love. But in terms of quality ball it is a bit lacking.

@dogmeat said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:

weeelll the collective wisdom of the Fern thought Shag's appointment in 2011 was a bit bleak too.

Massive failure with Wales, powder puff forwards, lineout woes, terrible relationship with the media....

Lets hope we are all wrong again in 2020

Conversely there were high expectations heading into 2000 after the Wayne Smith appointment and things didn’t really pan out that well....

Congratulations to Ian. A proud moment for him and his family.

I think he’ll bring something different to what we’ve seen over the last little while. Similar to Hansen who changed things up a bit post-Henry.

I’m hopeful and wish him and the new coaching team well.

Ball turned it on, but it was a damn good game from both clubs.

Despite the disappointment of the Breakers, I’m loving the NBL this season.

Went to Waitomo Caves a couple of months ago and it was pretty good. My kids enjoyed as well. Agree it’s overpriced, but not unexpected.