Dave

Tom King and John Casey doing play-by-play would be great. For shock value maybe have one game with Simon Kerle on special comments?!

Anyone but Brad Robbins

Jay bilas, Dickie v

Even if just a PR thing get them in for 1 game

John Casey
Jeff Van Groningen

Vlahov for colour

This is out of the blue, but I often wonder about Rob Rose. Is he even still around the 'Ville? His vast elite experience may make him an interesting colour man. Likewise Darnell.

roy and hg

You shouldn't be allowed to have an opinion on anything, ever.

What do we have to do to get them to stop using Williams? Is it time to start publicly boycotting TV sponsors?

I didn't mind that trio either. I enjoy Williams' energy in bursts but you need someone who actually analyses the game and Greer does that pretty well. D Russell does a great job of bringing out the excitement of the games, he's like the anti-Carfino!

Russell has got increasingly annoying over the course of the year. Needs to stop explaining basic concepts every five minutes.

I never used to care about the jump ball, but now I really want it to be brought back just so Dwayne will stop explaining the possession arrow like it's some super-complicated concept and 99% of the viewing audience has never seen a FIBA/NCAA game before.

And FFS, if I ever hear 'for those new to the NBL, Perth are wearing red and Melbourne are wearing blue' or any variation thereof again...

I like Greer, but Homicide makes me want to hurl my remote through my TV. His analysis last night included such things as 'Melbourne were playing better in their first nine games, that's why they won more' and 'I spoke to Chris Goulding and told him to play better, and now he is, aren't I brilliant?'

It doesn't matter if it's trying to expand, the vast majority of people watching are going to have watched an NBL game before. Or been watching that one for more than a couple of minutes.

Seriously, it's always such inane things. "If you're new to the NBL, Perth are wearing red." Obvious to anyone with basic colour comprehension, but if it needs clarifying...just clarify. Don't tack on 'if you're new to the NBL'.

On Sunday, he started out with "if you're new to the NBL, Melbourne won their first nine games and then have only won two of their past nine since", then shifted five minutes later to "if you're just joining us and you're new to the NBL, Melbourne won their first nine games and then have only won two of their past nine since", and then said exactly the same thing every five bloody minutes.

Can we have some people on with some high level basketball knowledge that educate us about what is happening tactically? Like when you watch an AFL game, the commentators get the mix of capturing the emotion of the game AND discussing high level tactics - flooding, forward entries, centre bounce setups.

I watched Sydney vs NZ on the weekend and Brad Rosen, who was supposed to be the in studio expert, just gave standard cliche's (on NZ's Jackson - "He seems to enjoy his basketball which is always handy" - what?!). And Corey Williams just is embarrassing for all involved - no in depth knowledge, doesn't add any value or credibility to the broadcast.

I think Heal is the closest to getting the mix right.

The basketball public want more than what we are being served up on the telecast. NBL - you have done a lot of things right, but you are trotting out the same old people on the telecasts. Spread the net wider and get some people in with some actual ability to educate the fans.

A more knowledgeable fan is a more engaged fan.

Homicide is an idiot get him off. Heal really knows the game and I found a lot of his Observations really interesting

Russel is the worst, he is just so stupid. Get this...last night during the Hawks/Crocs game during the second quarter the Hawks were running with their best team, AJ, Oscar, Penney, Lisch and Martin, Russel first says the Hawks are resting some of their stars on the bench? then about 1 minute later with the same Hawks team on court says the Hawks need to get their stars back on court. Who is he talking about Cody Ellis or Kevin White, lol.
Also hate how every time a defender gets a tip or even an intercept he yells Rejection!
Stop embarrassing yourself Russel and stop ruining the basketball, give it away....its clearly not for you.

Tom King could certainly do the job, not sure about any other NBL.TV guys. McQuade's good but would need some training to get up to TV standard.

^ Anon, Big love for big bucks...that's it!
Russel is a basketball dunce!

With regards to the qualification of "if you're new to the NBL..." perhaps it's to avoid offending people who consider such knowledge to be too basic? Kind of like the frustration you're expressing here since you believe it's not worth saying?

Marv Albert please.. "Yes!"