Maher and Mee

hard to go past 3 NBL championships (83,84, 88) with Smyth and McEachin, Herb played some small forward as well.

IMHO
1) multiple seasons,
2) NBL Championships,
3) and flexibility to fill all 1,2 and 3 spots if required if going small ball ( but always the 1)

should form part of this discussion.

good post topic

Scooter Sherrill and whoever his 2-guard was

Best ever NBL guard combo?

Gaze/ Copeland/ McDonald

For a pair, I think you'd still have to give it to Gaze and Copeland

Is Teys the crappest ever NBL captain? I can't think of a worse one.

Ubaka and Dorsey?

Green and Pearce for ultra offence!

Maher and Mee was one of the best duos of all time.

Martin and Lisch and Ware and Goulding from more recent times.

Grace, Rucker and D-Mac were amazing players, but I can't recall any great back-court partners that they had (excluding the 2000s Tigers where D-Mac joined Gaze/ Copeland). Pearce was on the 94 Giants, but was well past his best by then. Guys like Shanahan, Ellis, Leader weren't really outstanding players. I can't remember all the guys they played with though!

Green and Pearce were great scorers, but lacked in both defence and ball handling. It worked for that run n gun style of play though.

Green had plenty of handles - he was the NBL's version of Westbrook back in the mid-80s!

What position did Rob Rose play? If guard, who did he play alongside?

Iirc he was a very useful player

Guys , I assume we want them to have played together at a time when they were/could both dominate the opposition's direct numbers, if you have a 1 and a 2/3 killing the league, you generally have some titles, or at least several GF series .


AA+
Maher and Farley in 04/05
Penney and Bruton in 09/10

B-
Lisch and Penney in 15/16 - I think martin made them both better though

Holt and Goulding in 15/16

Rose and Mee played together in 1996 for canberra. THAT was apairing that should have dominated - but ?

Longevity would be Gaze/Copeland for sure

McDonald played with Jason Smith for Titans didn't he?

Also in 1996 along Jensen who made boomers for Atlanta. Jensen's 1995 for Falcons and 96 for Giants were spectacular years.

Heal/Burton.

Keogh/D-Train.

Off the top of my head Grace had Harvey for a couple of years, and Rucker had Rillie at West Sydney.

Just throwing a few out there:

Green + Pearce
Gaze + Copeland
Grace + Lichti (for a limited time only)
Mee + Maher
Maher + Farley
Bruton + Smith
DMac + Thomas
Bruton + Penney (defence sold separately)
Martin + Lisch
Jackson + Bruton (playoff edition)
Ware + Goulding
Randle + Lisch

There have been plenty of great backcourts but I'll focus on Melbourne.

Apart from the obvious favourite of Gaze/Copeland,

Dmac/DT in 05-06 and 06-07. DMac slowed down a little in his last season in 2007, but in that first year they were an awesome combo.

And Ware/Goulding.

Apart from DT, D-Mac also played with Jason Smith from 1998-99 to 2001-02.

Smith and Morseu? Based on ...?

"And also based on the fact that they made the saints the dominant team in Australian in 79 and 80."

Robbie Cadee was the saints starting point guard in '79. Danny played SF

A more interesting question might be "who is the 2nd best?"
If Gaze had shared the back-court with a succession of local hacks, it might be different, but as it is, its Gaze & Copeland, period.
Even in his own right Copeland ranks as one of the all-time greats, and put them together, for over 400 games, and its game over.

But there's a bit of competition for that 2nd spot! :-)