I love the new schedule, especially the mid-week games. It just spices up my mid-week. My only problem is that teams are having lots and lots of home and away games in a row.

For example melborune are about to play 4 more in a row. They need to do a better job of mixing it up, so teams like melbourne play maybe 2 home and 2 away. It especially sucks for season ticket holders when they're going to 3 games in 7 days (Like Sydney). I don't hate it, in fact I like it, but I know lots of people who cancelled their membership just because of having to go to so many games in a week, because they don't have the time.

Sydney, Melbourne and Perth all have lengthy periods this season where their home venues are unavailable, which is why they have lengthy strings of home games at the moment.

NBL withdrawal symptoms on a Monday/Tuesday... *shivering in a dark corner*..

Loving the Wed-Sun btw.. stroke of genius

I do like the new scheduling, should open up a great TV market for sports lovers mid week.

I just hope Kestelman doesn't block out the Melbourne market to keep a monopoly. Would be great to get a South Dragons back in the mix.

I honestly could see 3 markets working in Melbourne if they got it right. Get both a South and Eastern Market in.

The Wed-Sun thing is understandable, but the following are ridiculous:
- United 6 home games in a row
- Sydney 8 of first 11 at home
- United playing Townsville 4 times in the first half of the season
- Adelaide having a 10 day break between games(after Dec 12), then a game (23 Dec) and then a 14 day break (next Jan 7th)

As said above though, there are reasons for the front-loaded schedules for United and Sydney.

Love the new schedule, would be interested to add up overall attendance at the end of the season for each team and compare with last year though. Taipans managed about 3.7 for the first game and basically sold out their second just shy of 5k. Have had a buzz at a crocs game like that for a while. Last year they were doing 3.5 to 4k most home games. Don't like the home away scheduling, hope it gets sorted out next year.

Haven't had.. Sorry.

NBA teams, at times, have home runs of three games in five days. It's inevitable with either more games or a denser schedule.

If this becomes more the thing for the NBL, it'd mean less focus on fans attending every game, and more on building TV crowds or selling game packs rather than season tickets to all but the most dedicated.

I like the spread of games too. But really notice the few days now that don't have games. Hopefully they can play more games in future seasons, if the support from Fox is there.

great TV coverage. Week day games are great and should draw a good audience as there is stuff all else worth watching on TV.

I have been looking around for the last three days for that thing that has been bugging me that has been missing from my life...

That's it, no basketball games.

Even if you don't watch the games, the new schedule creates energy, discussion, interest in other teams, box scores, ladder updates, match reports and highlights to look at the next day (depending on what takes your fancy) and, hopefully, increasing news reporting as well.

I think you only need to take a look here to see there is genuinely more discussion of basketball going on and not just of your own team.

Really enjoying what the NBL is doing this season. I know it has sparked interest from some basketball fans because they can just flick the TV five days a week on and watch part of a game.

Re midweek games, Fraser Neill had it right, play most of them in smaller venues closer to people's homes and play most of your weekend games in big venues.

XY you hit the nail on the head.

Even if you don't attend the games, and even if you don't watch all the games - the new schedule creates energy and discussion about the league.

The league and teams and your favourite player are easier to follow. WIth there usually being only one game a day, a memorable performance is more memorable.

Whoever said weekday games are not good because they affect families - you are missing the bigger picture. That's a short term problem. You can't have it all.

XY - that's exactly it. I just wish the NBL could improve the access to stats and game highlights so people could see all of these things.

"Whoever said weekday games are not good because they affect families - you are missing the bigger picture. That's a short term problem. You can't have it all."

What if midweek games affect crowd numbers?

If the bigger picture is TV and that ultimately elevates the league, stadium crowds are a bit less relevant.

mid-week games affect crowd numbers in the short-term, but it's ok.

Develop a following via tv and people will eventually get their butts to games - or at least that would be the plan.

I dont think that will ever be the case with the NBL. We're never going to get a tv deal that can subsidise over half the clubs struggling to get crowds through the door.

"mid-week games affect crowd numbers in the short-term, but it's ok."

Is it? Considering this five year tv deal is worth zero dollars to the league, where is the money coming from to prop up the clubs that start losing revenue by poor ticket sales?

Loving the Schedule here in NZ.

9.30pm game time tonight is perfect.

By that time, there is nothing on TV, I have gone to the gym, had dinner, showered etc. Works out well.

Mid-week sport in general is fantastic. I literally look forward to the Wednesday game from the very start of the week (I live a sad life i know).

Don't know about now, but back when I was in High School, sports teams played like 2 or 3 games a year, and they were just interschool kind of things between 2-3 schools.

I believe there should be an initiative to introduce uniform school competitions between all high schools in soccer, basketball, football all year long.

Don't mind the idea of midweek games but the timing has screwed what was a somewhat religious routine for us as members. In previous seasons the earliest game was 7:30 for us. We could get off work, go meet up for dinner at a restaurant and then get to the basketball. It was cutting it fine, but we rarely missed tip off. Now all games are 7:00 getting from work to dinner beforehand is an impossibility and we're forced to grab some fast food on the way and eat it during the game (which i also don't like because i'd prefer to be supporting my team, not spitting a 6 inch sub over the lady in front).

I also think the family with school-age kids market is going to be lost for weeknight games, which is a shame.

Totally agree that, for a bball fan like me, the 5 day a week bball thing is very cool.

Sitting on the loo, just make sure that iPad's handy and catch a quarter of an NBL game on a weeknight. Just tell your partner that you need more fibre in the diet.

A game a day is what we should be aiming at. Hope that can happen when Brisbane enters the comp. Depends on availability of venues though.