Billy Fikes . End of Thread.

Billy Fikes had some crazy hops.

Billy Fikes, Leon Trimmingham...

Super E end up being sent home and ended up in the US army. He has a son here who lives in Melbourne.Those alley oops were insane.Just throw it up near the ring and he would do the rest. A guy you'd be happy to pay money to watch just for his jumping ability.

HAMBURGER BOB HEATH.................LOL

Al Green (6'2) and dont forgat James Crawford

Hamburger BoB...he was the most unathletic import to ever play SEABL!!!

Thats what the ..........LOL was for.

Ray Shirley, Bennie Lewis & Brian Vaughns.

for Seabl - pre-knee blowout - Howard Shockley - there was no substitute. just a 6'4" nugget of muscle and dreadlocks

- arms that looked like most other power forwards' legs, made Mark Dalton's chest and shoulders appear anorexic.

Saw him grab an offensive rebound off the ring - on the way up - and while up there - just for something to do - brought the ball over his head from the back and just bang the ball against the top of the backboard to get attention - and then two handed slam dunk on the way down .


done so quick you had to replay it in your head to work out what just happened.

very , very scary man to play against.

Clyde Jordan!

Jumpin Joe Hurst (Hobart , Mildura)

Tyrone Lee (Woodville)

Billy Fikes or Ron Nunnelly

Clyde Jordan !!!

Yeah, Ismail (Izzy) Muhammed played witht the Supercats a few years and won everything, could dunk it like a bomb at any angle and always excited the crowd with his athletic moves!

How he never got an NBL gig is beyond a joke.....

Ismail was/is not athletically in the class of a lot of guys here. Don't get this wrong - very good athlete but not like some of these guys. Ton Nunnelly was great, as was Joe Hurst.

How he never got an nbl job is easily explained, as is CJ, sized as a PG/SG but not consistent enough in either role to be an impact in the NBL.

Well, Ismail certainly worked hard to improve sertain aspects of his game, like his shooting off the dribble and mid range shot in general, all while at the Supercats.

This lead to a second chance at the Bobcats (NBA), however they decided not to take him (look where they are today)...

All things being equal (and I know they aren't), Izzy would have to have been an asset to at least one NBL team in the past couple of years, surely!!?

If little else, he would bring bums on seats, now there is something a couple of NBL teams would love to see..........

I don't think he would have put bums on seats.

Being entertaining at the SEABL level does not cut it at the NBL level. He's a SEABL level player, his NZ numbers for example are not amazing and I think the NZNBL is a little above the SEABL these days.

Lots of guys get tryouts at NBA clubs, most people call them fodder...

Thanks HO, not being aware of the NZ league's standard I have not seen his numbers, so I will take it on face value.

Must say, though the Supercats are flying, he would always be welcome back down at Geelong!

Maybe, sometimes it is about the fit within a team and the confidence of the player, you see Izzy is a stand up guy who wants to play where he enjoys it, not just for the money...

Have you seen him play, first hand?

I know he was bbl but the point guard from the tassie devils. Won a college slam
Dunk champ. Skinny as no jump shot but man he could fly. Someone please remind me of his name???

Just remembered myself

Calvin Telford?

I have played and watched a s... load of ball over the years, but the biggest strongest player i have ever played against has to be "the Shock" Howard Shockley Coburg days, just awsome strongest hands i have ever come across, i was dumb enough to grab the ball while he was on the way to slam it! I thought i was gonna go through the hoop with it! Seen him play awsome SEABLE days, just incredible and entertaining to watch. Then watched him again in his Ballarat days, just crazy all above the bucket and made fools of all the Ballarat "Stars" made them all look like children getting a Shockley education! Argh they were the days. Does anybody know where he is these days still in Oz or went home?

After reading the comments it is sad to announce that Howard Shockley passed away today.

In the early 90's I watched Randy Anderson single handedly destroy the Spectres at Nunawading. That dude was a beast in his early days when he felt like playing!! I’m not sure what numbers he put up that Sunday Afternoon but there must have been 10-12 dunks alone. Reverse jams, Alley-Oops, Baseline jams, He played above the rim. He crushed Steve de Laveaga, Jason Smith etc. He was literally unguardable that day!!