When Gaze retired as a player, the Tigers won 2 of the next 3 flags.

I think Kings will probably do the same.

Some of his teammates said he was hard to win with even though a great player.

Will Weaver looks a lot more comfortable on the sidelines (dummy spit aside) & with Bogut in the middle he has great imports & aussie rotations. Even Bruce & Walker look legit & confident.

You can never take anything away from the great man but it is what it is...

Good player,but in the top 5 worst coaches to grace the NBL....Stacked team last year....

So if joey has worst team and team is still play off contention. I think gaze needs to revisit what he wrote.

I have the utmost respect for the 6's. Been around a long time, fielded some great teams and great players, and always managed to stay competitive despite not having the money of other teams.
Always seem to pull decent crowds too, which says a lot for their fans.

They need a bit of luck on their side, and when things come together for them they are impressive. Should have won a couple more rings recently.

Losing Creek and then Sobey hurt them. Local guys you've put years into developing are hard to replace, especially when you don't Have Perth's pulling power to simply go out and hire them from elsewhere.

As for Gaze, I'm no sure why he is in commentary or how he got a gig as a coach. Every time he opens his mouth he displays a distinct lack of intersect.

Distinct lack of rule knowledge too

[When Gaze retired as a player, the Tigers won 2 of the next 3 flags.]

Perhaps that was something to do with the arrival of a prime Chris Anstey?

On what we've seen to date, it's hard to see the 36ers taking more than 4 wins against the top 4 teams. More likely only 2. That leaves them with at least 12 losses, more likely 14, against top 4 teams.

I expect them to split a couple of the series against the other teams and to drop a game or two against the remaining couple. So around 12-16 to 14-14 record by end of regular season.

I expect each of the current top 4 teams to finish with a winning record. So no playoffs for 36ers on that scenario.

This may change with injuries to key players for any team. That said, Sydney and SEM are both covering injuries to key players and still winning. That's how big the gap is between the top 4 teams and the rest, this season.

"Perhaps that was something to do with the arrival of a prime Chris Anstey?"

And the Tigers with him, D-Mac and DT turned 180 degrees to focus on defence.

[And the Tigers with him, D-Mac and DT turned 180 degrees to focus on defence.]

Yep, one game I'll never forget is the first game of the Westover/Anstey era.

Played Wollongong at The Cage.

Absolutely shut them down. Final score was 103-61 or something like that. And it was the D that was most impressive, switching up different defenses.

That was a statement game.

Lindsay Gaze was a great coach, but the 2004-05 season left a sour taste, sitting Tucker whilst Copes kept getting time. DT and D-Mac also underutilised and the defense suffering as a result.

I was pointing out that prime Anstey more than cancelled out the loss of a 39 year old Gaze in 2005.

But actually, that's an interesting question.

Prime NBL Anstey - from 2006 - 2009 probably wasn't far behind the 1990's prime Andrew Gaze.

I give the nod to Drewy, but not by a huge margin.

Drewy was the unstoppable, the greatest scorer this country has ever seen. Anstey was elite at both ends, a rim protecting force and an outside shooting, passing big- a man before his time.

In other words, totally different players.

If you were sitting there in 1995, and you could pick one NBL player to build a team around, everybody would've said Gaze. Likewise Anstey in 2005 when he re-joined the league.

Prime Gaze won 7 MVP's in 8 years, Anstey won 2 in 4. Both absolute top shelf legends of the NBL.

2 in 3* for Anstey actually, but I'm sure in 2007 and 2009 (His non MVP years) he came very close.

We've had this discussion on this forum before, but key points are:

- Perth Wildcats were a great team with great players in the 90's

- Goorj is the GOAT coach and had a talented, well prepared team every year

- You had other teams popping up here and there eg: North Melb with Jent, D-Mac, Maley and Reidy

- Gaze had no help whatsoever until about 1992

- Gaze missed a year overseas, Bradtke missed another year. So even in the 1990's, the Tigers had years where it would've been very tough

2 titles from 4 GF's for Lindsay and Andrew was a good achievement. I don't buy this idea that if they had some other coach, they would've won it every year....unless perhaps, that coach was named Brian Goorjian.

Off topic. It's a bout gaze commenting about 6ers lack of talent. He had talent and did nothing with the talent. Suxers got no talent according to gaze yet can argue joey is doing something with them. 6ers talent is just fine. Others are using extra ordiblnary resources.

I'm pretty sure McPeake paid for the top shelf, and the rest of Anstey's kitchen renovations too.

Absolute buffoon as a coach. The main thing I remember about his reign was when that Chinese stiff wrongly thought he was meant to go into the game and Gazey threw a tantrum