Ya never know.........he might flop straight into a contract!

Detroit....bad boys

lakers lol

I've moved on from the semi final and wish him the best of luck. Hopefully a couple of ten day contracts get thrown his way and he gets some exposure outside of the NBL.

Good for Chris and it may also enhance the NBL's reputation internationally, even if just a little bit.

ballsy decision...

just another stamp for his passport

A lot of haters and tall poppy syndrome. The series is over, we absolutely humiliated the tigers and kept him to 6 points.. (a season low?) .. He did his childish little flop... Alright its done now... If you think he isn't the most potent Australian guard to play in the league at very least since Brad Newley then you are kidding yourself.

How many people here would get a look in to the absolute lowest semi pro SEABL or QBL team?.. Probably no one. Yeah.. so lets all hate on Goulding... as he is getting interest in the biggest and best league in the entire planet. If he makes it or not is beside the point... just by doing that much he has trumped your whole basketball career and the kid has barely even got going yet!

So yes, I was pissed off at him on Sunday... but that doesn't mean hes not a ridiculously talented Aussie prospect, worthy of an NBA look and a Boomers jersey..

As for his NBA chances... who thought Delly was going to do so well?

Tall poppy syndrome. It is a very malignant paradigm in this country, usually exhibited by those unable to achieve anything close to the achievements of the object of their disdain

All the best Bubbles, your a champ and I'd lovd to see you succeed and it would make that Boomers jersey you deserve all the more difficult to take from you

Agree with GWB. You've hit the nail on the head.

Goulding is an Australian, playing in Australia. Posters on this forum always say "We need our best players playing locally", yet when we get a stud talent like Goulding no one is grateful for it/no one can appreciate it.

What Goulding did was wrong. I am disappointed with what he did - because certainly this season, I started to see a distinct change in his maturity and professionalism. Unfortunate that what happened in the finals undid all that.

But wake up people, you literally have a guy similar to Kirk Penney playing in Australia. (Not as skilled as Penney, but much more athletic)

It is one of the fundamental things I notice about Australian sport supporters – you take your hate for a player at the provincial level way too far. I’ve had Australian Rugby League fans love watching guys like Billy Slater mess up at the Int’l level because he is a Queenslander. Really?

At the end of the day, you have an Australian player working hard and representing his country on the biggest basketball stage.

The fact that you give so much hate to a guy after your team just destroyed his team by 39 points makes you guys appear to be the tallest of tall poppys.

Wishing Bubbles all the best.
Didn't he go there last year as well?
I'm sure he was in the States playing at some trials.

They said "teams" and not just "a team" this time.. so looks like the interest in his is fairly decent... I wouldn't at all discount him making a roster... there are worse players in the NBA then Chris Goulding.

Flopper or not, the guy is a little Anzac like all of us. When he leaves these shores you know he will need every member of this board to unite behind him and have his back. All the best Digger, make us proud. May the three Aussie ghosts be with you.

MACDUB, could you throw in one more generalization about Australia and/or Australians? I've got a hankering this morning!

He could kill a child and it wouldn't matter because he is Australian and that's all that matters. All the haters need to understand this and stop being so un-Australian.

Yeah i hope he can latch on in some way. Anytime we can add to the amount of Aus talent in the NBA its a good thing. He has the shooters mentality so that helps, he just need to knock them down when he gets a chance.

There's two sides to the coin... I think Chris has done well to pull his head in this season and lifted above being all Gary Erviny, so he deserves a bit of slack given to him, but just because he's Australian doesn't mean that we have to get all "patriotic" and reverse tall poppy syndrome and just give him free passes for being a dick... I think it's very Australian that no matter who you are, if you're a dick, you get called out for being a dick...

I wish him the best and will be glad if another Aussie can succeed over in the US especially, but that still doesn't negate some of his tool'ish behaviour...

Now that we have cleansed the NBL playoffs of the Tigers I feel like I can support Goulding's NBA dream.

The way I see it, any exposure Australia and the NBL can garner to help its resurgence in the mainstream is a good thing by me.

Best of luck to him.

I wish Goulding all the best. Tall poppy syndrome occurs way too often so even if he makes an NBA roster no doubt some knobs will lay on the hate just as Delly and Patty have their haters.
Hope he also makes boomers team.

if Penney couldnt crack The NBA
lets see "Bubbles" try and get a D League gig?
at least? if hes soooooooooo good?
dude had a good year of shooting that is all

hahaha @therock Shooting wins games...

A good year at shooting? Yeah... that doesn;'t mean a whole lot in the game of Basketball where the aim is to score more points then the other team

bennie Lewis had a gig in the D-league. So goulding potentially doing that for a year isn't as far fetched as some uneducated folk may think.
Connor Henry coaches the Mad Ants, ex wildcats and Sydney asst. Coach.
I'm unsure why people put the NBA so out of reach for Aussies Yes there are some physical specimens and freaky athletes at the top tier of the league. But it is a matter of timing, performing at the right time and place and a bit of luck.
Goulding impressed Mosely and Handy who played in NBL with some success and did enough to get a summer league roster.
He has flare, can shoot and reasonably athletic, so there could be a spot for him. But is unlikely any more than a 15th man.
I honestly think Ingles, Bairstow who are better prospects.
But good luck to Bubbles. (Such a unfortunate nickname)

No doubt if Goulding did get signed all these haters will be following his every move in the NBA.
I still think he is a bit of a douche but good luck to him.
If people dont think Ennis will make the NBA I seriously doubt goulding will. you think hes gonna be allowed to take 30+ shots in the NBA? thats the only reason he is scoring here.