Nice one Boti!
Can't believe it got published but it certainly hits the mark!

Black and White Boti, Keep it up. Nuff Said!

lol boti is angry because he will be out of a job soon cos the NBL is going to fold

lol looks like he wrote that in a bit of a rush but he had some good points. I agree that the quality of ball this year should be excellent with 3 teams gone and the amount of talent on each roster, although the points cap has restricted that a bit.

Great article.

wish we had this passionate writer in melbourne we have grantely bernard but he just doesnt do it for me enough this guy seems like he writes daily in adelaide

don't worry david ... wait till you read one of Boti's rabidly adelaide biased articles...then you might appreciate Grantley's balance...

gr8 article

Of course, we are looking forward to the 31st season.
That is why we were disappointed there was no coordinated season launch and no live scores.
The 32nd season, possibly a two-tier league.
News/AdelaideNow restricted comments to only two.

HO,
What a stupid remark. At least we have a reporter who is passionate about basketball in SA. Sure he sometimes is a bit biased, so what, at least he seems to be more passionate than you are. Look what we had when he was on holidays - Zed. Thankfully "Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead". I guarantee he's been around a lot longer than a lot of the people that post on this site, and he's probably forgotten more about basketball than you will ever know. Give it a rest.

ANON12...its ok, I like a lot of Boti's stuff. But when he gets biased it appears so rampant and ridiculous that he does the "sport" no favours when he writes it. And he knows lots of stuff, but he is a guy that often does not let the facts get in the way of a good story....and BTW, people on here have had a crack at Boti over the years over lots of stuff he's written.

Grantley Bernard is pretty passionate about basketball too...he coaches juniors and is involved in the administration of the sport - I don't think he's a story breaker, in the way Brett Harris used to be at the Australian or Dave Hughes used to be in Perth, but he is pretty solid.

It sure was good to read. I just wish they would put more of the comments on, even better,OIMO.

I'm a fan of b-ball in a big way, i had no idea the round started last week with the two games mentioned in the article. Glad to see the Cat still doin his thing, and Mee is my all time guy....

Real shame the NBL couldn't get some sort of season opening type hype but who really cares, its the die-hards that will keep the league a float until people realise the comp is of a tremendous standard...

There is no reason i should, but i have a feeling this season will be remembered...

The mainstream media didn't know those two game were on. Was Boti's article in the paper, yesterday or today?

I think just about anyone who has anything to do with the NBL recognises that the on-court product is excellent. Even his so-called MMMs, I imagine (and who he doesn't name), would acknowledge that. The fact that this is actually the case is, really, pretty cool and amazing.

But in this era of professional sport, off-court stuff matters too. You can't gloss over it. The Titanic's 'on-court product', if you like, was pretty spiffy.

He also references other sports in a 'see, we aren't too bad' manner - but I don't think any of those sports occupied the pre-eminent level basketball had, what, 15 years ago? The fact that basketball was so high - and is now so low, comparatively - is an inescapable part of the back-story.

quality comments Bo