warren currently 1/10

Looks like a shocker from Warren ,so far and that Clarke likes to give them the same amount of minutes

Could't agree more this is not U/10's play the people who are getting paid the big $$$.

Leave the bench players on the bench!!!!

It is pre-season so it is good to spread the minutes then to test out different combinations. However, lets just hope Clarke learnt something from last season!

Not bad result considering we are down 2 players and they were a full squad i think. Either way you have to mark this preseason down as a good result and promising.

Wade Helliwell's just gonna make everybody
jump and roar.
Now, what's he wanna go and do that for.

The desultory performance by 36ers Coach
who likes Patrick Mills of the Melbourne Tigers
and a shocker from the 36ers Import , cost us the game.

I propose Camel 31 posts only in haiku for the next week.

For those thinking tigers where at peak, they where missing trigger , good result by adelaide but we can't use the excuse of missing 2 10 players for the first quarter of the season, otherwise we will be behind from the beginning

Two other points: this was on the road, and we didn't have a shocking third quarter (won it convincingly). Those things along with missing players, them having Mills, Warren's only bad game so far make it a positive for me. Imagine them with Corletto instead of Mills in that game.

Anyone expecting big things from Liam Rush this year (e.g., FBL drafts) may need to reevaluate - heard that he might be getting played out of position and it's really hurting his game.

My verbal floodstream was driven by Helliwell giving Mills 2 hard screens that Mills didn't like , so we take Helliwell off to free up Mills and Burston.
Helliwell's got me speeding along. I'm getting a little bit excited.

Yeah, looking at the boxscores of the pre-season, something is seriously wrong with Rush's output (and has dropped on other non-hoops FNBL drafts accordingly, mostly to final round) but there's some REAL inconsistency with his minutes and you'd think that given his form before he left for Sweden and what he did over there, he's MUCH more capable of putting up better numbers than what he's been doing... I guess we'll all get a better look (even if it IS on delay) when the season proper starts...

An unfortunate game from Warren, I've got big hopes for this kid (FNBL-wise), I hope that was just a cobwebs cleaner of a game...

Warren is a rookie, these kind of games are bound to happen every now and again. He has been fantastic up until this point so hopefully he stays confident and gets back to his best for the next game.

Thing with Rush is that I'm not sure how they can find him minutes at preferred positions. Right now they're very light up front and so I heard he was playing PF at the Blitz which he just doesn't know and I doubt he's really played that spot much in his career. Even with Mills as a direct swap for another guard, they still have the following as PG-SG-SF options: Mills, Ubaka, Dillon, Lewis, Dorsey, Greer, Walker. And all of those guys are going to expect minutes. Greer rebounds well so could play some PF though he's undersized. Walker might be a bit small to match it with other PFs in the league. That still leaves a lot of competition to get SF/SG minutes. Mills, Ubaka and Dorsey alone are going to expect to start.

If Mills returned to the NBA, that would give them an opportunity to balance (shift everyone up a spot and get a Ben Knight to back up in the paint) but until then I don't think the Tigers should expect to get value for money for Rush.

"Walker might be a bit small to match it with other PFs in the league."

Yet he is taller and bigger then Holmes yet you think he is a capable PF in the league :P

That's the big question isn't it..........

Doesn't play like a bruiser though, nor like a finesse shooter with size. More like a SF IMO. I've probably called Holmes capable (that's a pretty qualified compliment) but I would've shifted him on from the 36ers too.

Walker has apparently bulked up this off-season. Whether that changes his athletic game much, I guess we'll see.