Host the event on a damn weekend this time would be a good start!

Not sure about moving it between cities, these arent proper teams, i dont think they would have the kind of funding to travel around from city to city but would be nice.

i would be in favour of moving the entire event between city every year more so than have a couple of games here or there.

You're dreaming if you think you will get 4000 people to each game! More like 500-1000. NBL games struggle to get 4000 to a game whether due to capacity reasons or not enough crowd.

Optimistic sales figures and doesn't seem to include travel costs.

As a filler program for OneHD and an opportunity for the OneHD production crew to get some practice, it was successful. As a showcase/recruitment tournament, who got a contract that lasted?

Concept isnt a bad idea, just the execution. Will be interesting if it happens again, especially to see if they have learnt anything from the first one.

i think one of the problems was i wanted to follow it but most people are not keen to watch 3 games in a row of bball, i recorded all the days play thinkin i'll watch everyday, but that didnt happen

the timimng was bad an it lacked any atmosphere at all, the idea is good just need some thing extra expec if looked to market the game on TV, geez make it corny an have viewers vote on who stays on a team or something lol it needs something more

i dont think 4000 crowd is a un-achievable figure, with the right advertising etc. i think it could happen. even if you got 3000 to each game you would still atleast get close or break even with sponsor ship and other endorsment.

I think 2,000 would be a big step up. And I think $20 is far too high as a ticket price, even for a day of games.

$10 per session, $5 for late arrivals (catching the last game or so). Play it over a long weekend rather than weekdays. Gear it all around TV. Somehow mask the empty stadium.

I'd also try shorter games (four five minute quarters), each team playing 2-3 times a day, and another 1-2 experimental rules beside the gamebreaker. 48 minute games of squads with no identity was just a bit too long.

The concept of people buying (or buying into) a team for the comp was great and I know it's interested a few people if it happens again.

To increase interest in random teams, what if every ticket purchaser was assigned a random team from the pool and shared the prize money (like a lottery) if they won?

Or (and this is a half-baked idea) you could even register your interest in a team when you bought your ticket, but obviously the more people that supported that team, the smaller the winning share? Might encourage people to throw their support behind a wildcard squad?

They need to make a long term plan and possibly use current NBL teams like a NBA summer league format but with prize money. Therefore teams can try out imports etc for the coming NBL season. Have 2 cities for pool games and then move to another city for finals.

Plan it out for a 5 year plan that would start with low ticket/crowd numbers and work up to larger ticket prices and larger crowd number and eventually big prize money.

BTW the more i think about my dunking idea the more i think its going to work. Maybe even in the NBL to make it more exciting?

Baller, you might not have seen me post it before, but a year or two ago, I suggested a company put up a Dunk Bounty for the best NBL dunks of the season. Enough money that players start thinking about it in games and instead of going for the safe dunk, they cock it back and throw down something with power.

Hopefully some company runs with it. NBL should pitch it to some good prospects and promise good coverage on OneHD, Overtime, web, etc.

Isaac i only started posting on here a little over a year ago i think so i didn't see it, but obviously great minds think alike.

Id like to see a company sponsor this and each week on overtime they announce a dunk of the week and the player takes home some cash. Maybe a slam dunk comp sometime during the season. I have never been to an NBL dunk competition before but from youtube i have seen that they are a waste of time so maybe not.

I don't think we have the talent in the league for a dunk comp. In the past, the best dunkers have been fringe players which doesn't always look great. Guys like Rainbow, Broom, Bartlett. Could just leave it to in-game dunks but give players more incentive.

need to play on weeknights and weekends - so the average worker can get there

Creek, Abercrombie and Johnson would put on a good show.

actually Carlos Powell won that dunk comp

'880, it was a kid in a backpack with a mobile phone camera that he jumped along side. There was a huge build-up and it was a bit of an anti-climax. They might get better mileage by having an increasingly difficult array of dunks to tick off, two attempts at each tier (two choices per tier). Last man standing wins.

Begin with simple stuff then progress to rocking the cradle, Eastbay funk, reverse pump, 360, dunks off lobs, etc. Otherwise creativity is crucial and I don't think enough NBL players have the sheer athleticism to pull-off anything never-before-seen that's going to impress a crowd.

As for in-game dunks, Ira Clark's had a few this year. Abercrombie's had a few too. Creek's dunk on debut was solid. There'd probably be enough for Overtime to pick a dunk each week and give out a toothbrush.

open the dunk comp up to all(abl, backyarders, commoners etc).
Have a dunk comp for locals at half time of a local NBL game(try outs first to make sure they can actually dunk OK) then the winners go onto the all star game and get to go against NBL talent in the pools then only the best in the finals.
This way the NBL guys will actually try as don't want to get shown up by a commoner and the public will watch to see how their mates go etc.

id like to see majok, abercrobie, creek plus a few others.

Footlocker gave big prize money and covered some other costs. Teams paid $10,000 each to enter and Eddy put up the Dome. A good start , but only 50 people turned up for the first game.
Imagine you should play outside working hours and show it on TV , next day.
Sometimes Creek and Johnson dunk pretty good.
Harris a lot. - I was hoping the ring would stay on.

Yeah, was there in 2007 for that AllStar game. Powell and Farley were the only contenders to start with.

Farley actually did some better dunks than Powell; think it came to a shock to most at the Dome that Powell won it; granted it was a bias crowd, but still would have called Farley on it. Awesome reverse Windmill jam.

Lol - you can't be serious right? Oooooh Smithers, not the stats table.

I'll get a team to do the scoretable for nothing. JVG, you have my number.

anon has nailed it, scary thing is JVG has weazled his way into "leading" the brisbane bid from what i have heard. a lot of people in ADL still waiting for money they were promised you can bet he got his pound out of the debacle though.
They don't call him Jeff Van Vegas for nothing.

Strewth folks, tell us what you really think. I can only comment on what I've seen and I found him to be a well thought out, generous bloke with a keen business eye. No probs here.

Last three posts from the same IP. Let's hear it for CAPS LOCK!

He he he...actually having an internet discussion with oneself is slightly disturbing, especially when you need to yell to get your point across.

VG will never redeem himself in BNE especially due to having screwed over so many people.
His name is still a swear word here and if what was posted is true about him being involved in leading a bid then consider that doomed - the public won't buy it after what came out about him over the years.
I too heard he still owes Adelaide big time - wouldn't surprise me at all.

The bets he can hope for is treading water with others elsewhere in the basketball community.
He won't do anything for anyone unless there's something in it for him at the time.
As soon as that stops, he's gone.

Channel Ten will also catch onto his liability ways sooner or later - if not for Gaze and Carfino being friends he wouldn't even be on TV but he tells people he is pretty much David White's adopted prodigal son.
It's not like he's arrogant and full of himself or anything! ;)

Anybody that has to make a career of screwing another to make money should consider a career change.
That's if you could even call JVG's swindling scams a career to beging with in the first place.
Word on the street is that he's trying to align himself with Eade to make some coin out of the flood relief game when he smack talks Eade behind his back.
I wouldn't go to a single Bullets game (or whatever they end up called) for as long as that snake has anything to do with it either.

i hope he tries to swindle $$ from it to pay his debts and winds up in jail,it might end up being the wake up call he needs that you cant screw over another to fix your own probs.