Who's he going to blame this on, I wonder.

Funny, just looked on his twitter before "I don't think I'll ever work a 9-5" Not looking that way mate!

Thats a surprise...knew he wouldnt cut it.

I tried to check his twitter but he blocked me.

Hopefully he plays Websters team before he's cut.

"I don't think I'll ever work a 9-5" Hmm perhaps he has interviewed to pick up an evening shift at MacDonalds ?

From Metalac's site - auto-translated:

Karson hockey? Majstorovića Returning to the team, someone will be redundant, and as things stand, it is not excluded that it will be just cost us dearly amplification, American Džahi Carson. He's in training has managed to impose itself, I'm not even happy with his performance. The adaptation period passes, but I do not see that he has the quality to raise us to a higher level. We'll see if it will be found in a team ... - moody commented coach Vladimir Djokic.

Dead in the water!!!

Surely the alarm bells must of been ringing!!!

I'm kind of schocked that the Hawks and Geordie recruited this guy

wow.... I would have loved to of been a fly in Geordie's brain when he heard Carson had been signed... It's a credit to the man's character that he didn't brutally murder Carson at any point last season.... all the while Carson was brutally murdering the hopes and dreams of Hawk fans.

Wookiee & King Podge you're clearly a know it all just like my 6 year old ...

I know a few flies on the wall there and it's complete bullshit that he was picked by the owner. He was Gordie's pick and the owner was simply trying to create a buzz on social media. Gordie wanted a second PG as a backup for Gary as Gordie screwed up the signing of Martin.

There was a list of at least a few possible options and the coaches picked Carson (sadly).

It's no secret it was a "captain's call" for ownership. No surprise the Hawks have had the odd poor import considering they were spending $750K up until this season. The remarkable bit is how many good ones they had on that budget.

paul, I've liked the term "captain's call" but avoided it in this context because it implicates my brother who was definitely not behind this signing!

BTW, I think Carson might've been officially cut, after one game - awkward auto-translation, but you get the idea:

American point guard did not satisfy VALJEVCA, the parting was inevitable.

However, during his short stay in Valjevo not satisfied, so this week again a free agent. He competed only against the Stars before last weekend, when for seven minutes into the game a shot and missed two "open" a counter-attack host.

"Carson has not met expectations and we parted ways with him. On Tuesday should be completed and paperwork in connection with that," said the coach MONDO Metalca Vladimir Djokic.

Well that didn't last long

very wrong paul, no-one other than the coaches picked form the list of PGs, anyone telling you otherwise is full of it

I'm backing the person who told me, they know more than a little bit about the Hawks.

BTW, are you suggesting the coaches were given a list?

I was shown directly a couple of the PGs they were looking at, obviously hindsight is wonderful but would have been a totally different season if they'd picked any names on that list rather than carson.

in the end wouldn't have stopped Wollongong Coal pulling the plug on them so doesn't make much difference now

I'm sure they were considering others, but there's a reason they went for Carson, same reason they signed Nevill, and it wasn't to do with McLeod.

I've heard it from someone who should know, and this article also talks of how Spenceley has "led the recruitment of better players", and the info for a profile like that would come from the horse's mouth.

http://www.brw.com.au/p/lists/young-rich/2014/brw_young_rich_james_spenceley_Hh9M3ptOE7VerMMKupnvzJ

hahaha paul you're too funny "i've heard it from someone who should know"

love it !

It's not really funny, the club is in serious trouble and Spenceley has hurt the place as much as he helped it by injecting funds. Not only that, the treatment of Dave Gruber was reprehensible.

paul, i love that you make such claims when you hear from "someone you know, who should know". I work in spenceley's company and sit in the same office, being into basketball i've gotten the live updates all along the way.

if you think he picked carson, you're simply wrong, he was working a lot of US hours nights getting list of all available players to the coaches. then from that list the coaches got it down to carson and joe jackson, coaches picked carson after a call with some famous lakers coach who had worked with carson at the summer league, comment was something like "if I was still coaching the lakers I would have picked him in the draft, don't know why he wasn't drafted". Up to that point I was told Hawks were going with Joe Jackson.

if you think he made the decision on Nevill again wrong, he offered the budget for him as an alternative given the pre-season problems but most importantly no-one could say when/if Davidson was going to be able to play, he also offered the alternative of replacing an import with a SG as an alternative

I don't know what happened with Dave Gruber

there wouldn't have been a Hawks without spenceley last season, so if we are talking about impact, lets not forget that

When an owner is giving coaches lists there is an issue. As soon as Carson was signed, someone involved with the Hawks told me it was not McLeod's call. I'm going with that person because I have no way of verifying who you are.

The Gruber situation further backs up the leaks that the owner was making the calls.

Yeah, from what you're saying it's possible the owner might have given the coaches a shortlist to pick from, but that's still clear interference when player selection should be left to the experts.

Hopefully the Hawks get through this, some new investers buy in and the ownership group sticks to growing and promoting the product and supporting the bball dept. Fronting up the coin to get Rotnei Clarke back would be a great start!

Put youself in the owners shoes, he's just forked out coin to own/save a team, of course he'd want a say in who the players are.

"On what grounds is he shortlisting players? On how exciting they sound?"

OP - "he was working a lot of US hours nights getting list of all available players to the coaches"

that reads as, *all* available players not a short list he short listed

^ that is a pretty big statement, the world is a big place, there must be huge numbers of agents

not having jahii carson will make any team, a better team :)

Had to watch him play against the 36ers.
Like watching the neighbor blowing his nose for 25 minutes

"^ that is a pretty big statement, the world is a big place, there must be huge numbers of agents"

Coaches around the world found good players long before Spenceley, and they'll continue to find them long after. Talent ID is not the owners' job, and the Hawks this season are a good example of why.