Anonymous
Years ago
Great player, but seems to be struggling more than he did for the Boomers, and more than last season.
Spending a lot of time at the 5 with Wagstaff on the court, not sure its a good use of him.
Are they better off swapping Hunt for a bigger & stronger Center?
J
Years ago
Also possible he is a tad burnt out, has played a heap of basketball. Perths bigs will need to adjust with hunt, very different player. No doubt kay will be fine
Senator11
Years ago
They're using him as conduit rather than a focal point right now, it's frustrating as a Cats fan knowing how much this guy can dominate when he's utilised. He's lost a lot of shots recently to Hunt's solid offensive play. They should be going to him more often and using Cotton and Terrico as bail out options. Cotton is just going to burn out trying to make him score 30 pts per game.
Perthworld
Years ago
Back-to-back-to-back NBL/NZNBL/FIBA World Cup and now another NBL season. What do you expect?
All three of his teams played the maximum amount of games in each competition.
Senator11
Years ago
"Back-to-back-to-back NBL/NZNBL/FIBA World Cup and now another NBL season. What do you expect?
All three of his teams played the maximum amount of games in each competition."
Nothing to do with it, he's still playing bulk minutes and when they use him properly he destroys the other team, they just aren't using him all the time like last season. Hunt has taken on some of the inside offence whereas in past seasons Jervis and Brandt weren't overly gifted offensively.
I thought at the start of the season he looked fatigued. He wasn't getting a lot of lift in his legs on his shots and they were falling short. He seems to have picked it up a bit recently, yesterday was just a blip.
A.
Years ago
These guys are fit professionals who only play basketball, unless your an 'old' player you wouldn't/shouldn't get 'burnt out' playing a couple of games a week. NBA players don't get 'burnt out' playing way more minutes a week and way more games a year.
Zodiac
Years ago
There's professional and then there's professional I think you may find there is a difference in the level of professionalism between NBA & NBL players. NBL teams only play 1 or 2 games on weekends and train all week, NBA teams play 3-4 games every week against the best players on the planet and rarely train.
Take Mitch Creek for example one year away playing in the G-League & NBA and he looks a much better player now then he did for the Sixers. He's not as muscular as he was and clearly has much better aerobic fitness.
D2.0
Years ago
I agree that he "shouldn't" be fatigued, but gees he looked it yesterday.
And what I don't understand is that with Wagstaff playing well, they choose to play them together rather than getting more from Hunt and Jook.
Once again, it seams Hunt & Jook are only good for 30 minutes, and Kay has to cover the difference.
Can you imagine if we'd landed Long as rumoured??? "Sydney who?" LOL
Going to be interesting when we play the Kings in Perth
Senator11
Years ago
"The guy is still a fantasy beast"
Correct, the guy hadn't scored a point at half time and was on 26 fantasy points, does all the things players don't get recognised for.
Yes he's a great player but is being poorly used this year. Hes just not big or dominant enough to continuously play Center. Thats why they got walloped by Sydney. Clearly missing Matt Neilens influence. Perth not going to win this year without a proper center.
Yes clearly missing Neilson being there, maybe new Lemanis was getting the bullet and thought what the f..k, no chance at Olympics.
Some interesting stats:
Nic Kay without Plumlee:
29.5 minutes, 13.7 points, 7.4 boards, 3 assists
Nic Kay with Plums:
31.15 minutes, 14.7 points, 8.7 boards, 3.7 assists
Really not too much different.
But if anything if would appear that Plumlee is having an additive effect on Kay, which means his own stats can be viewed very positively.
(Rather than thinking he's simply replacing some of Kay's impact.)
in 2 out of 3 Plumlee games he couldn't stay on the court so Kay was forced to do more
Oops. When you want to start a topic next time it might be an idea to actually have a clue.
And the award for the biggest moron on Hoops goes to:
"Oops. When you want to start a topic next time it might be an idea to actually have a clue."
OP starts a topic saying Kay might do better if Perth signed a bigger stronger centre.
Perth signs a bigger stronger centre, and Nic Kay does better.
Must rank as one of the most prophetic posts ever on hoops.
Kay is a great player who any team would want. The addition of a big man is merely incidental. Yet agian we have people starting topics about player X is underperforming all the time now. That isn't acceptable to me.
Maybe we should talk about you and your job and underperforming. Oh wait.
Kay comes across is a private school boy tosser, but you can't deny his ability. He should be in the Olympics ahead of Bolden, g league player and Makur 7ft non player. All those saying different don’t no basketball.
Perthworld's big brother
Years ago
Private school tosser. The shit people say oh dear.
"Yet agian we have people starting topics about player X is underperforming all the time now. That isn't acceptable to me"
Okay lets look at the statements made by the OP:
1. Great Player
2. Seems to be struggling more than for the Boomers and last year.
3. Spending a lot of time at the 5.
4. Better off with a Bigger & Stronger Centre.
Which of those are you objecting to?
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