I knew Kiwis were dumb but I didn't know you could catch dumb by living there for a couple of years.

Now he knows how every other team felt the past 3yrs! Perth gave it but vukona got away with alot against perth! Can't talk about perth, they prob the same. This yr waggs and redhage are not starting shit like the past seasons + robbo is'nt there. Bit sad comming from a person where they have won 3 in a row! Everything that is good never lasts in life. May be a change of hair do might do the trick?

Corletto on Twitter:

Really wish people would read full article! I said not complaining about anything, just saying we need to adjust. It's all good people relax

Vickerman probably paid him 50 bucks to say it.

"The rules were changed because of 1.) Wildcats/Bevo ball followed by vast amounts of daylight."

What a load of shit. Every team was afforded the same interpretations in the past couple of seasons.

Nothing stopped any other team from playing the same structured and discipline play that Perth & NZ played last year, except other teams had poor coaches and petulant imports. All games were physical and the league recognised that the physicality was having a negative effect.

I have no problem with the rules changes but to blame Perth is ridiculous.

The sooner corletto realises that the refs aren't why the Breakers are losing.. the better

Nothing lasts forever. I was stoked with 1 championship. 2 in a row was amazing and 3 was epic.
Pretty difficult to win 4 in a row.
It's not like the core of the team on their long term contracts will be that worried about their job security if they don't win the title this year.

Like i asked in older posts on comments like this:

Do clubs not have policies/rules about saying stuff to the media?

Youd think as a professional team they would have strict rules around what can be said. If not you would think a player would have sufficient media training..

Clubs should start to enforce some guidelines internally because otherwise its a bit embarrasing when a player makes nonsensical comments.

It doesn't look good for the club and is embarassing for fans of the club (breakers fan myself)

try playing social ball DC, you never know what your gonna get minute to minute, at least the umpires seem to be consistent throught the season so far.
Surely professionals can adjust, it doesnt seem that hard and after all its technically a non contact sport. learn to play clean D, move your feet and not hold as you were taught in juniors and you will be fine.

Some players need more media training

Cryletto?

Play to the umpiring.. Sure Perth have had a change in coaching and players but they aren't really that different style wise this year than from last, minus Ennis.

unfortunately the NZ media eats that stuff up and I'm not sure that the Breakers front office would mind him speaking his mind.

If anything it may spur on more people to come get behind the "hard done by underdogs" considering attendances have fallen away slightly.

In NZ, I once knew somebody who knew someone who's grandfather was supposed to have married a girl he wasn't related to.

Speaking of media, how the hell do fans get their hands on press conference video? Does anyone actually know? NBL TV uploaded some games' last season from memory.

I do media work on NRL games and if there's no material from the presser, I'm a dead man. Press conferences are actually important for fans! Just another area in which the NBL lacks...

He is the biggest complainer in the league.

Is this one of those "no offense but" things where you proceed to dredge up every offensive thing under the sun?

I'm not racist but...

Absolute nonsense when perth exploited the old "rules" way more blatantly. NZ weren't more physical defensively than anyone when I saw them play. They were just that much better on offense. Their defense was nowhere near as physical as perths.

@Statsheet Stuffer

Perth put out their home game press conferences on their youtube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/perthwildcats82

Why doesn't Corletto just become a stand up comedian

@Mick,

No.

Thanks Silencer. You'd think the league would make an effort to standardise its media; be it TV, social media, press conferences. As I said in another thread, I love the NBL but I hate that I love it.

Get over it Corletto

It's good that Corletto comes out and speaks his mind. We shouldn't jump on him otherwise we will end up with AFL media trained robots who say nothing. That is one area where basketball can win fans and that is by encouraging the players to be characters. Let's not crucify people for having an opinion. Let's enjoy it. It doesn't matter anyway because the results will speak for themselves with either a W or L.
If players are too stupid to adjust to referees calls then bad luck. It's not like they weren't warned.

rockstar, fine, unless it looks bush league.

Haha, a very 'sixties rockstar' approach to the issue. Nice

You idiot Corletto, concentrate on licking your fingers every 2 seconds.

I'm all for characters, I'm all for players speaking their minds, it's usually pretty funny, but this sort of crap is just blatantly wrong and an attack on the NBL itself, declaring that the changes were made intentionally to stop NZ winning another championship... NZ are probably eating it all up, but really, there should be some sort of sanction, even just internally, for this sort of idiotic behaviour...

Perth were tough defenders pushing the limits, but NZ have been getting away with thuggish behaviour for years and finally getting called on it...

Maybe sit this next round out DC... your wife is pretty hot, maybe just look at the glass as half full and shut up.

If Corletto's views are shared by the rest of the Breakers organisation then I have sympathy for their fans. This is going to be a long season.

The NBL and players need to be talking up the higher scoring and benefits of this change. Instead, selfish Corletto brings the game into disrepute.

You'll have to define dirty before I face facts.

The reason why other teams fans are often wrong about who is and isn't dirty is because they don't want to rag on guys they like. Hinder is the perfect example of that.

The rules have not changed!

I was hoping he'd say "no one wants to watch netball" so he could face the wrath of his wife when he got home from practice.

It's funny though that all the guys hinging about these new rules seem to be slow and unathletic...

whinging*

Is that you, Mick? Or is that Mick?

Corletto did a nice job guarding Kevin Lisch last season in the finals, didn't look overly slow to me?

He did, but wouldnt have been able to do it the same this year.

"Situation....I've never noticed Hinder to be that type of player? Not saying he isnt, just saying I havent noticed it personally....whilst Redhage for example is commonly known as 'cheap shot'."

That isn't defining dirty. Thats just saying "everyone else says it so it must be true."

I don't care if people dislike Perth but I've yet to see anyone clarify what they mean by dirty, or apply their criticisms of "dirty play" to other players who are far dirtier than any Wildcat.

Corletto - Your profile of Basketball was very much in error in the part which you dealt with. It is not credible.What you attribute to Basketball Australia is equally not credible, as you had reason to know, which you seem to have ignored altogether.. It would seem that you did it unconscionably, for by so doing you damaged not only Basketball Australia and the NBL but the game of Basketball.

Corletto might be way off the mark and wrong with his comments. Does it really matter. Should he now be banned from talking?
Everyone who posts on this blog is gonna be way off and wrong with our comments. All negative comments should now be banned as they are "deemed as not in the interest of the league".
Corletto can promote the league by saying these comments as it gets people talking. Who says to promote a product it has to all be about fairies, rainbows and positives. The "bad boy" of a team can sell tickets,jerseys and merchandise just like anyone else, sometimes even better.
How many of you now can't wait for the Breakers to come to town? Who wants to go and watch Corletto get stitched up by Gibbo and dunked on Creek.

well said Sixtiesrockstar, I like that he's stirring.
If anything it'll put some bums on seats in Auckland.

You give him far too much credit if you think he is trying to promote the game with his comments.

I don't care what he's trying to do with his comments, that's for him and the Breakers to worry about. I just like that he's stirred everyone up.

Trolletto.

rockstar, I think there's a point where it's not in the ultimate interest of the game. Trashing refs, as just one example, is dealt with. Here, he's leading a great number of people to consider that there's a conspiracy afoot when there obviously is not.

Call-less-T.O.

"Here, he's leading a great number of people to consider that there's a conspiracy afoot when there obviously is not."

are you 100% there isn't a conspiracy and what proof do you have???

Pretty sure the onus would be on him to prove the conspiracy.

Also, common sense.

common sense is quite a good argument against

Corletto reckons it's conspiracy, but he's not sure who with. He hasn't got any vinegar on his chips.

Isaac in your first comment at start of topic you have highlighted two lines and added speech marks which makes it look like Corletto said that as an actual quote. Any reference about referees and a deliberate ploy has been written by the original author to give his article an angle.
You could say Isaac you have brought the article into disrepute. It shows how media and opinions need to be read very carefully.

"didn't hold back when asked about the new refereeing style, saying it was a deliberate ploy to stop the Breakers' physical game."

A lot of people on this blog would be making a judgement from those two highlighted lines which never came from Corlettos mouth. How many people would of clicked the link and read the full article.

WTactualF?!?!

If you read the line underneath Isaac's supposed misquote, you can see the comment which was attributed to Corletto in the article.

You just brought my brain in to disrepute.

Clearly the Wildcats have taken over the NBL administration and instructed them to ensure NZ does not reach the finals.

And also to give us a $3m salary cap.

And a margarita with a little umbrella.

And for Fraser Neill to volunteer as Nick Marvin's personal footstool from time to time.

@ Situation:

Outside of Redhage I never found any Wildcat to be dirty. Physical, yeah, but that's the refs fault not the players. Credit to them for being successful under the rules. What I didn't like was they always seemed to get away with a little more than other teams, but that's because they consistently played like that so the level of contact was normalised. I also think last season they weren't as physical as they were the year before.

To be specific about Redhage, his level of flopping, holding, grappling, crotch shots, elbows, hip checks, eye pokes and undercutting always rubbed me the wrong way. If he was on my team I'd love it.

"flopping, holding, grappling,"

Ok, but thats not dirty. The other stuff, I'll just put down to exaggeration for effect.

TheSituation.
Isaac's headline makes reference to complaining about referees.
Read Corletto's ACTUAL quotes in the article and he never mention refereeing. He only mentions Basketball Australia.
The authors own words are "refereeing" "deliberate ploy" "didn't hold back" "wreck the league" "interpretations were not producing pretty basketball" "it was a shame teammates"
The article is written in such a way as to imply Corletto "said" things and put into a context to get a certain angle for the article.

direct quotes from Corletto

"Basketball Australia's (the NBL) brought this in because they don’t want the New Zealand Breakers to win the championship again."

'‘They’re ( NBL) going to make it as hard as possible to do that."

How can you possibly refute the intent of his words.

If indeed you were a true 60's rockstar you wouldnt remember

Because Isaac summed it up as "refs", it supposedly makes his comment irrelevant.

On Friday we've got right on our side, and they've got the idiot.

Just hope Adelaide go in there and smash this has been team. Nothing to like about the current Breakers team, from their comments to Garry Wilkinson being Garry Wilkinson!