NBL

Andrew Gaze
Brett Maher
Darnell Mee
David Stiff
Kevin Brooks

I could probably name quite a few but I remember just being in awe of some of Calvin Talford athletic highlights from his one season with Hobart back in the early 90's.

That dude could sky!

He couldn't shoot a lick though and had to rely on his freakish athletism. Which is why I guess he was only around for the one season. I think he dropped something like 50 in his first game?

Darnell Mee
Dwayne McClain
Kevin Brooks
Andrew Gaze
Robert Rose

Journo's would pay good money to go see:

Robert Rose
Brett Maher
Leroy Loggins
Leon Trimmingham
Dwayne McClain
Andrew Gaze
Daryl McDonald
Kevin Brooks
Willie Farley
Julius Hodge

Maher
Brooks
Farley
Mee
Davis
Rose
Stiff
Rees

Dillon Boucher.

Leon Trimmingham
Rob Rose
Darnell Mee
Chris Blakemore
Brett Maher

Mark Davis (In his prime)

Actually, I find Boucher interesting to watch also. Farley, Ng, Abercrombie, Ballinger when he's on his game, etc.

Oh and I miss Reesy's elbows too.

I'm not surprised to see no one mention Ricky Grace. It's because he made your team piss for the best part of the 90s.

:-) Stiffy is currently running a hoops camp for kids at Coburg here in Melbourne. My kids are there for a couple of days this week.

Great Bloke.

Don't know above loving watching him play.

DJRod.....Ricky "The Rainman" Jones was incredible to watch. I think he put in 60 or so in a Magic game down here in Melbourne.

My Favs, all in their prime .....

McClain
Trimmingham
Rose
Burton
McCaffrey (Awesome Point Guard)
Talford
Crawford
Copeland (silky smooth)


If I had to throw an Aussie in there, I think Sammy in his prime was pretty impressive to watch.

-- BULLETS --
Steve Woodberry
Leroy Loggins
Chuck Kornegay
Simon Kerle
Ebi Ere


-- NBL --
Andrew Gaze
Isaac Burton
Ricky Grace
Darryl McDonald
Simon Dwight

Anyone remember this guy? I'm sure he torched the Sixers for like 50 points one game with the Townsville Suns. I think that was the first time they ever beat us.

Rimas was a great player....and apologies to D-Mac. He certainly deserves to be there amongst the most fun to watch.

Al Green
Andrew Gaze
Leroy Loggins
Mark Davis
Bill Jones

and if we're allowed a bench
D-Mac
Lanard Copeland
Daryl Pearce
David Stiff
James Crawford

Andrew Gaze
Derek Rucker (1990)
Andre Moore (1990) fierce he was but a pussycat off the court
James Crawford
Ebi Ere

Could definately come up with more though!

isn't it amazing how many names you forget to put on your list when you see others put them on theirs... and for different reasons that stick in your mind.

Copeland for his LJ Converse shoes + I went up to him during a game in the Suns first year... he was on the bench (they were smoking us) i got him to sign the card and had like a big conversation with him. Nicest guy.

Ricky Grace, Calvin Talford, DMac, Chris Jent...

Chris Jent played here for the Giants against the Suns while I was the assistant to the MC. I kept score and fouls for him to announce. After the game Jent was doing an interview for Channel 10 and I gave the MC Jent's score as 35... he heard it, mid interview, ran over and told me he had 38, gave me a wink, then went back to his interview.

Yeah i forgot about JC too, he should have appeared on my list.

Farley
Maher
Gaze
Trimmingham
D-Train Dwayne Mclain

Bench
Copeland
Hodge
Brooks
Harvey
Mee

What- no SOJ? :p

Stiffy and Darren Smith made the Devils a pretty exciting team to watch back in 1996 or so... It wasn't often that there were Aussies that could sky like them (esp. Stiffy at the PF as he played then)... Sure they were a poor team - but they were my favorite team after the sixers because those two... If someone had told me that Jason (warming the SEM bench at the time) would be the one to become a Boomer i'd have laughed them off...

No specific order:

Loggins
Gaze
Rucker
Mark Davis
Wayne McDaniel
Steve Woodberry
Bobby Locke
Terry Dozier
Ricky Grace
David Van Dyke
Brett Maher
Copeland

Todd Fuller
Brett Rainbow
Jo Jo English

Kym Taylor
David Robinson
Pudney Panda
Ricky Noack
Peter Walsh aka the grasshopper

Jumpin Joe Hurst!
Leon Trimmingham
Dwayne Mclain
Played against 2 of them which was quite a moment for me!

Panther they probably still remember the 6 fouls each.

Chris Jent
Willie Farley
Kevin Brooks
Darryl McDonald
David Stiff

Panther beat me to it...but Jumpin' Joe Hurst was awesome to watch.

So many to mention!

Benny Lewis, Locke, Overton, Reggie SMith, Talford, Chris Williams, Carlos Powell (even thugh he was a ball hog!) and Everitt Stephens

And the obvious ones:

THe Alabama Slammer, CJ Bruton, Trimmingham, Burton, Ere, Mackinnon, Dwight, Hurst, Maher, Farley, Grace, D-Mac, Saville when he is on, Newley, Donta Smith when he was on.

I could go on and on.

Over here in NZ the basketball folk I have met are so jealous of how good our league is, and very happy to have a team in it.

Only started watching last season, buuut....

Donta Smith
Ebi Ere
Joe Ingles (sort of...but only when he wasn't shooting 3-pointers x_x)