released...

It was the right decision to release him. He would have been out for 4 of the last 6 games so might as well just develop the other players since the season is over.

Isaac - this thread wasn't up when I posted mine with the Adelaide 36ers' tweet.

Feel free to remove my topic.

Cheers.

From the 36ers site:

The Adelaide 36ers have made a decision to release injured import guard Ron Howard.

Ron injured his ankle in Adelaide's clash with the Melbourne Tigers last Friday night.The club's medical staff confirmed that Ron could miss up to 3 weeks, ruling him out of 4 of the last 6 games.

The club will not be seeking a replacement for the 197cm guard who played 11 games for Adelaide averaging 8.8pts a game. Instead, the club is choosing to use his absence as an opportunity to further develop our young playing group.

"Ron has been a valuable and popular member of our playing group and we wish him well with his recovery and look forward to following his career with interest", Adelaide's basketball operations manager Richard Hill said.

God i hate those politicly correct statements the teams make, everyone was extremely dissappointed in how poor Howard has been! No need to dog him, but jesus, lets face it, whos going to follow his career. Marty thats 0-3 imports now sunshine....

Fizzle you expect them to say something mean instead? Its not about being politically correct its about being professional.

and being decent and nice!! he did his best and did some good stuff!! he may not be league mvp but i liked him!

its a pity Majok wasnt still available, his interior defense and rebounding and athleticism would have made him a great fit alongside Ballinger (and Johnson) IMO, a bit like Tyson Chandler and Dirk in the NBA. He may be worth a look at for next season if we dont get someone like Schenscher or Petriew/Wagstaff.

Yeah yeah i know and they got to be seen to be saying the right things, im just blowing off steam i guess. 36ers arent very professional in lots of ways, too much of there dirty laundry gets out one way or another. They were not impressed with what Howard offered. He had pretty high props coming in.

Damn how many Imports have been "released" this season, must be some kind of NBL record?

Can't help but think.. so what?

Bit more time for the kids is good. It may have been great/worthwile(for development of the kids) if it happened much earlier.

To me it almost looks like a lucky accident the kids are going to get some development time on the floor, instead of being the plan.

Punctuation and grammar - how do they work? Still waiting on that "Ignore Anons" functionality.

Anyway, +1 for Majok. We could use him.

197cm guard?? Please

Try 187cm

Not so much when they lose but how they lose.

As soon as I heard that he got dubiously injured (as someone suggested on the game topic) in that Melbourne game, I assumed he was done one way or another. Either made it easier for them or they'd spoken to him and "injured" sounds better on his CV than "cut".

I guess they weren't ALL Happy Days...



...but...



*thumbs up*



AAAYYY!

Isaac, i doubt his stint will even make it to his CV!

Unless it's a full season, you don't tend to hear about it in other leagues.

You'll just get the "A stint in Australia" comment when he's talked about.

Oh well, hopefully the remainder of the season validates somewhat that the need for an import isn't really required.

so - does this mean that there may be some court time for little sammy harris ?

Addition by subtraction. Good news!

give sammy a go, lets see how we will play next year when we get a centre wack balls down to the 4 spot.

No more hiring over the phone, on Ch9 news tonite

Clarke- 'Have to go over, now and meet them, tell them what's expected.'

Clarke n Howard seemed virtually over about 6 weeks ago, although i mentioned that back then.

Clarke- 'Have to go over, now and meet them, tell them what's expected.

I guess what he expects is a dummy who will be hired as a player of one style, then told to change it completely to run Clarks "game plan".

Goodluck to Howard I will laugh if he dominates somewhere else.

Sorry Skud, I just don't see why you keep up this line that Marty misused Howard. Everyone has seen that he is a one trick pony. He has had plays run for him to come off screens where he consistently missed the shot, he misses wide open threes, he can't create off the dribble, he gets burned defensively and is not a good rebounder. The guy had plenty of chances and did nothing to help the team. He's lucky he wasn't cut weeks ago.

Beantown how do you explain that he was drafted into the NBA, to be dropped at the last minute if he is so shit. Bogut gave him a huge wrap.

Lets put it this way we wont be asking Bogut for any player recommendations .
Howard was very dissapointing and injury was fortunate to get him out to give more minutes to our army of guards

Skud, even if Howard had played in the NBA (which he never has) the 'he played in the NBA, he must be good' mantra just doesn't hold water. There have been so many NBA busts in the NBL it is not funny (Muursepp anyone?).

Farley won one title though I know that's not your point. Lisch, Redhage, Young, Darden - they haven't been freelancing types. Smith, Ere probably would be. Farley's championship was 9 years ago though and a lot's changed.

I wouldn't say that Goorj and Bevo are dissimilar to Dunlap.

On Dunlap, from the Nuggets profile on him when he was an assistant to Karl:

The 36ers posted a 59-33 record during his tenure and advanced to the NBL Final Four in 1995 and 1996.

Agree Isaac.

That record does sound good.

Also, just on Dunlap, I think it was Rillie who credited the 36ers' immediate success under Smyth to Dunlap.

I can't remember the exact quote but it was something along the lines of if it wasn't for all the tough training under Dunlap then Maher, Rillie, Cat, etc would not have been the players they were.

When Smyth came in with his free lance offence releasing Dunlap's shackles, the results were back to back championships. Of course recruiting Mee and Brooks played a big role.

As good as the back to back teams were, you take out Mee and Brooks (who were arguably the best 2 players in the league) and we would have been middle of the pack.

You add a Mee and Brooks at their prime to even this 36ers team and we are contenders.

Not taking anything away from Smyth. He is by far the most successful coach the 36ers have ever had and he coached an entertaining brand of basketball that was good to watch even when we weren't winning championships.

Similarly, its not like Dunlap had dud imports either that didn't play a part in that 59 and 33 record. Robert Rose and Mark Davis made a decent duo and then later he had Brunson and Trimmingham. Dunlap was one Mark Davis shoulder away from a Championship and pushed some seriously stacked Goorjian teams in semi-final series down to the wire.

Just goes to show how important getting the right import combination is.

Stephon makes a good point, that if Clarke is like Dunlap, he will develop the young talent and it will pay off in the not to distant future, like it did with Dunlap/Smyth, as Isaac said we would all take Dunlaps record right now.

Remember Bevo didnt win imediatly, it was taking him a few years to recruit/develop and retain some young talent in sydney, had he stayed they would have got back to the playoffs in another year or so IMO, and it wasnt until he went to Perth and inherited guys like Redhage and added another young talent in Weigh to his team and 2 rock solid imports that he had his success and is now highly regarded, after year 1 im sure there were plenty bagging Bevo, so be patient with Clarke i think he will turn out to be a pretty good coach.

As Stephon said add 2 imports like Mee and Brooks to the current group and we would be looking much better right now, i think we just need to retain the best 6-8 of our aussies, add in someone like a Schenshcer (or best aussie or 2 we can get) and get 2 improved imports (pray for the next Mee and Brooks) and we will be in the mix nextt season.

Pity Howard didnt work out, im pretty sure he would have done a little better in a more free flowing system aswell, but he did basically replicate his israel stats so maybe we were expecting too much in the first place. I think we need to realise that if guys are only getting 8ppg in other leagues we cant expect them to come over here and get 15-20pts straight away, sometimes they are able to do with the right coach/system but as we have seen around the league with imports not many are doing that, and the ones who are probably average more than 8pts in their last stint over seas.

I like how Dunlap is often spoken of negatively in 36ers history despite taking the club to the semis or better in each of his three years and having a decent winning percentage. Tough city to coach in.

I thought Dunlap did a great job. Most fans would have been disgruntled of chopping the veterans of the team to focus on the youth squad but I'm certainly happy with the results.

I'm just annoyed at the lack of jerseys hanging up in the Dome. Don't know why they "un-retire" numbers for.

And don't forget Isaac, had arrogance by the buckets load! FWIW I liked Dunlap.

Thanks to the people who are talking sense, well done!!
The other shit gets a little hard keep reading after a while.
You know who you are.

Would Jawai be a chance for the Sixers next season?

Would love to see a Sixers team comprising of;

C - Jawai/Johnson
PF - Balls/Holmes
SF - Import/Herbert (injury pending) or Hill
SG - Import/Ng
PG - Bruce/Carter
Development: Daly

Just for the record, I thought Dunlap was a good coach. As said he layed the foundation for Smyth and developed Maher into the player we all loved amongst other things.....he just left before HE got to reap the rewards!!

Dunlap was raised because of this anon comment:

Clarke cant coach imports, expects them to play a refined role, welcome to the NBL Coach Clarke, Farley wins titles, Dunlap types dont.

Clarke got two import shooting guards at the start of the season. I think that somes him up pretty well.

put a call in for the Fonz , Ralph and Pottsy

and keep Ron for his directing

the 6ers need all the help they can get

or maybe call the Globe Trotters, they put on a good show

Howard might have been OK in an up and down type team. But in a half court situation he doesn't have a good enough handle to be able to create his own shot, so he was limited.