nothing's changed - julius is still putting up POTW numbers, and the team he is playing for still isn't winning! Sounds familiar...

Surely someone else was more worthy? He shot poorly and his team lost.

The league just cheapens the award each week.

Common now, Hodge played extremely well ! That is his cards - making a come back with toothless Tigers, get paid handsomely and ....

Flew into Adelaide POTW. Played 9 games, left as Player of the month. Flew into Melbourne,Monday-POTW.
Pretty good.

Decision based on media coverage

I find these POTW, POTM and COM awards quite meaningless. Leave the awards til the end of the year

They keep the NBL in the press and are worth maintaining. The NBA, for example, have their weekly or monthly awards.

For those unaware, the weekly NBL awards are decided by the NBL themselves. The monthly awards are decided by a 3-2-1 vote from media and so on.

If anyone can name a player who deserved the award more than Hodge this week please tell me.
Everyone knows that player of the week awards are judged mostly by the players individual stats so Hodge's numbers are far better than anyone else's this week.
If he got those numbers and won the award playing for the sixers we wouldn't hear anyone complaining would we!!!

Abercrombie deserved it more.

The award is not always determined just by stats. In the past, a standout performance has been overlooked because that players' team lost. The frustrating part is that they seem to change the criteria each week.

Abercrombie had 23ish points against the league's top team, leading his team to a win.

Peter Crawford had 27 against the Blaze and 19 against the Tigers as his Crocs went 2-1 on a tough road trip.

Hodge had 22/9/7 but it was in a loss to a team that had played three games in four days. A few others have noted six turnovers and 9/21 FG as working against him.

The NBL have, previously, appeared to set the precedent that a player's team record for that round was a significant factor in their decision. e.g., in Round 2, Melzer won POTW for 23 points and seven rebounds in a win, beating McKee's 23/9/6 in a loss to the Gold Coast. In Round 1, Bruton's 28/5/2 (mostly off a hot shooting streak) beat Gilchrist's 20/10/6 (in a loss). In fact, the way that the league has often favoured players from winning teams has had a few question their methods in the past.

It's all about marketing.

People read 'Abercrombie gets POTW' and the casual basketball fan goes 'Who?'

People read 'Julius Hodge gets POTW' and the casual basketball fan wants to read more.

I'm sure the Silver Fox wouldn't mind Hodge getting another POTW before Dec 5. It certainly aint gonna hurt the ticket sales.

Fuck the casual basketball fan. I don't care about the casual basketball fan. The league needs to start addressing things which long time fans expect so that they don't become former fans.

I know the POTW award is only a small thing but it sums out the lack of awareness they have about the basketball public. They have a "that will do" approach to everything and for those that are actually interested in more than casual viewing, it is becoming ridiculous.

lol baller; if Hodge was a Sixer, it would just be Tigers fans complaining.

What an age we live in.

Hodge can continue to accumulate stats and win every POTW awards left for the season whilst Tigers keep losing their games. Will it make everyone in Tigerland happy? I suggest not, it will only prove what a "me" instead of "us" player he is. He alone cannot possible carry the team to a win, he has to allow others into the game. Its called sharing, we all had to learn it from 18 months of age.

Total crap. 6 turnovers in a loss.

baller, here's four I'd have ahead of him:

1. Abercrombie
2. Weigh
3. Groves
4. Crawford

Crawford was screwed by his first game, if it was just the last two he would've taken it, surely.

If you look at the NBL's sortable efficiency ratings for the week, Hodge comes in at about No. 8 on the list.

Most other weeks the efficiency ratings have been a good indicator of who will win the award.

I can't seem to get into the efficiency rating - this computer is a bit old and slow , like me.
It seems Gilchrist and Ballinger wins were obvious to everyone. But this week was gonna be hard to pick outta about 5 players in contention and they mentioned that he arrived MEL on Monday and played Saturday as part of the reason.
Ballinger mentioned that Hodge probably wasn't.
I'd guess being a hard choice they went for the media of it.

I'm happy for Hodge to get POTW every week for the rest of the season if the team he's on continues to lose.

They'll give it Barack Obama next.

At least they waited until he played a game before handing him 'the honor'.

you guys really are fuckin' WANKERS up here! and besides adelaide is just a big fish in a small pond compared to Melbourne!

Of all the fake Judas's on here that is the first one I could actually believe...

Hehe sorry about the double-post, I actually think that could be him.

Who else could get that metaphor stuffed up? First time I've heard the city called the fish, wonder what the pond is...

Listening to Ballinger on radio - talking about it
POTW,payments,training,attitude and the like.
Hodge will thrive on all the attention on the 5th
he mentioned.

Boti today agrees that Hodge made a better story than Abercrombie.

36's never liked him any way!!!

First season sixers did,but seacond season was a little different you see.

Abercrombie deserved that award for last weeks win over Perth fullstop

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TC2, u can go and get lost! it an open puplic topic.So anybody has the rite to say what they want!!!