I wouldnt have anyone from the current team there just on merit, plus there a bunch of duds. i like gibson but what has he done to warrant a spot in the 10 year team?

lol at DJ being selected. Cattalini would punch his lights out within two or three games of putting up with his shit.

- Shot selection - taking away shots from better players as well, everyone's efficiency would go down

- DJ can't guard the pick and roll....we'd be torched, Maher wasn't great guarding the on-ball and neither was Farley but haven't Rees and Cooper there saved them...a DJ -Maher/Farley combo guarding the on-ball would be lay-up city.

- DJ doesn't really try to guard anyone full-stop


Seriously I'd take a Cooper and Rees who played their roles and didn't try to do anything they couldn't over stat chasing DJ any day of the week.

- Shot selection - taking away shots from better players as well, everyone's efficiency would go down

- DJ can't guard the pick and roll....we'd be torched, Maher wasn't great guarding the on-ball and neither was Farley but haven't Rees and Cooper there saved them...a DJ -Maher/Farley combo guarding the on-ball would be lay-up city.

- DJ doesn't really try to guard anyone full-stop


Seriously I'd take a Cooper and Rees who played their roles and didn't try to do anything they couldn't over stat chasing DJ any day of the week.

My Team

Starters

Schenscher
Ballinger
Cattalini
Farley
Maher

Bench

Rychart
Horvath
Hodge (would be a starter if he played a full season, and didnt leave on bad terms, arguably the most talented)
Gibson
Gilchrist

Train on squad - Thomas, Bruce, Holmes, Forman, Simpson, Warren, DeVries

Development players (could make the next decade team if stick around and improve) - Creek, Weigh, Johnson, Cadee

Coach - Smyth
Assistants - Ninnis and Breheny

Many left Hodge out all together, understandably, if it were an official team the club probably would, i put him in off the bench as he is 'on the court' the best import we have had in the decade and i reckon we would have won around 50% of the games with him, which is good for the past decade and he was a big factor to us making the playoffs under Ninnis, even though he wasnt there at the end of the season.

For actual ability to play as a team:

Adam Gibson
Brett Maher
Oscar Forman
Dusty Rychart
Adam Ballinger

Brad Davidson
Lanard Copeland
Jacob Holmes
Martin Cattalini
Luke Schenscher

For individual performance irrespective of team performance

Brett Maher
Julius Hodge
Oscar Forman
Dusty Rychart
Luke Schenscher

Chris Warren
Adam Gibson
Martin Cattalini
Adam Ballinger
Daniel Johnson

Here is my 'all could-of beens' team.

Players that if they were recruited/retained/used properly by the coach/didnt get injured may have turned out to be around the mark for the best team of the decade, but didnt make my team. Most have gone onto decent things at other clubs/leagues.

Burston (if not got injured would have been one of the better bigs we have had imo)

Holmes (done fairly well in his stints elsewhere and wasnt used well by Clarke imo, averaged around a 10pts 10rebds under Smyth for a few years)

Ingles (SA olympian)

Newley (SA olympian)

Bruce (rookie of the year, not retained by 2 coaches, doing better than most of our guards currently)

Howard (Averages around 20ppg in D-League, if clarke gave him the ball and some freedom would have been around 15-20ppg in the NBL imo)

Simpson (good import, if retained longer term could have been a all-decade prospect, had a short NBA stint)

DeVrie (good import, injury ruined his stint, gone on to do well in Spain)

Madgen (SA player, former 36ers development player, currently one of the best guards in the NBL)

Forman (SA player - doing well for the Hawks, would be as good as most PF/SFs we have had here had he stayed.)

PG - Brett Maher (not a true PG but could do it with his eyes closed compared to cadee and crosswell) - court named after him, simple.
SG - Willie Farley - people come to be entertained and come to win, this guy did both and did it with style.
SF - Juilius Hodge - we may hate the bloke and may not like what he did, but keep him in this team and this league he would be 3 MVP's up over most.
PF - Martin Catalini - could do it all from playing big to hitting 3's, work ethic exceptional. plus has a trophy named after him simple.
c - Dusty Rhycart(not true but gee could bang) - made playing basketball look easy. the mid range jumper and rebounding always good.

Bench
Jacob Holmes - gee the bloke can rebound, gave his heart for the club.
Luke Schenscher - in his prime and first stint was unguradable.
Adam Ballinger - hard not to start him, but was dominant when the sixers werent.
Paul Rees - opposite to dusty, made everything look hard but didnt we love the guy.
Adam Gibson - championship player that seems to help teams fold, but if we had more who worked as hard as he does now, we wouldnt be so so bad.
Oscar Forman - hit his peak after sixers, but used us as a good stepping stone, but still wasnt aweful and good always shoot the ball.

coach
Phil Smyth (his spit has more basketball knowledge than the dud we have coaching now) if you can make Paul Rees look like a star then the world is your oyster. oh yeah plus has some credit with his championships and boomers days.

PeterJohn - you mean the David Stiff who played on 6 NBL championship teams : )