Does Humprhries even have a contract for next year ( summer league maybe) g league

Adelaide has a very big Filo community. Welcome Kai, can't wait to watch him in action

Congrats Adelaide on this move.
Able to do it as an Asian exception and help develop Sotto.
Two years begin next season with an option for a third.

Are people going to put any respect on JVG name for a signing like this???

How do u know every team was interested? I'm sure if a Melbourne team was interested there is a better chance of him going there then Adelaide?

2021/22

Import
Dech
Paul or new import.
DJ
Humphries

Mudronja
?
McVeigh?
Pinder ?
Sotto.

Impressive move by Adelaide

Kid looks legit but being 18 will be interesting to see how he adapts.
Can shoot, has some handles too, just need to see what he's got in the paint.

college would have been his best path imo but he can't qualify for D1 now. Wouldn't be surprised if he gets picked up after summer league and stashed in Adelaide for a year or 2 before call up.

Very shrewd signing by JVG, he's starting to turn around my thoughts of him with the signings of this kid, Giddey, Humphries and even Dech. Pinder seems to be starting to find his footing.

I assume we had to give the kid a 3 year deal to lock him up now even though he won't be joining the team until next season. 18 years old, 7'2" the kid could be anything just hopefully not another Sam Harris who couldn't get on the floor with us.

For those obsessed with only south Australian talent.
How many 18/19yo 7 footers are able to step into a roster spot.

@866

Adelaide have 34k following on Instagram

Sotto alone has 252k. More than every club and 100k more than the official nbl page.

It's a new age for exposure, Adelaide and the nbl have a lot to gain if they can play it right. Philippines is basketball mad.

"Sam Harris who couldn't get on the floor with us"

Only reason he couldn't get on the court was because Clarke is a shit coach

He couldn't go to Sydney.

Nice work, 6ers

Massive work by JVG and Grant Kelley. The club is heading in an amazing direction. This is win both on and off the court and the 36ers are going to be seen as the club of choice. The AEC will be a full house next season. All we have to do is confiscate Josh Giddey's passport!!!!

This will increase social media clicks but not wins.

Hey Anonymous

You're kidding writing this sort of crap aren't you?

Anonymous
A couple of hours ago

Kid can't play and will add nothing to the 36er's

Its disappointing the NBL try and sell themselves to the perceived highest bidder or grab at cash in the short term rathe than building an Australian Product with Australian kids.

No wonder nobody watches

"Its disappointing the NBL try and sell themselves to the perceived highest bidder or grab at cash in the short term rathe than building an Australian Product with Australian kids.

No wonder nobody watches"

You cant see the Australian kids out there? LOL. How dumb is this comment!?!


"
Adelaide have 34k following on Instagram

Sotto alone has 252k. More than every club and 100k more than the official nbl page.

It's a new age for exposure, Adelaide and the nbl have a lot to gain if they can play it right. Philippines is basketball mad."

^^^^ This. It's LaMelo on a smaller scale.



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As for what this kid will bring on court, well.. he's an 18 year old kid. I think we've been spoiled lately with the LaMelos and Giddeys of the world. But he's extremely tall, long, and very mobile. If he puts some size on his frame he has every chance to develop into something. SIZE DOES NOT GROW ON TREES!

It's a good signing. I've seen far less promising prospects come over without so much as an eye bat from anyone. I don't know why people are counting this kid out already.

400,000 posts on all platforms in 2hrs

Can I ask where you got this information from? (I don't doubt you, just curious)


How much does NBL.TV cost outside of Australia? Is that the only way the Phillipines fans would be able to watch each game?

Great question

Needs to play before we armchair critics can judge.

Would give more than old man Jervis and more than Hulland or Purchase.

As for what this kid will bring on court, well.. he's an 18 year old kid. I think we've been spoiled lately with the LaMelos and Giddeys of the world. But he's extremely tall, long, and very mobile. If he puts some size on his frame he has every chance to develop into something. SIZE DOES NOT GROW ON TREES!

^ Spot on and it's not just his size that is intriguing. He is very skilled for his age

The only thing JvG seems to be good at so far with the Sixers is signing 18 year olds, which doesn't absolve him from all the bad recruiting choices he has made.

Has anything been said about the timing of next season? Will it be October as usual with a very short gap or more of the same with a Jan start? Not sure they want to compete against AFL etc long term again.
Was hoping they go back to 3 imports again too. Guess wait and see.

It's planned for October.

I was about to say tfg KR isn't involved in this thread. Opps.

"What's there to lose, you can't teach height and at 7’ 2" that’s tall even in nba standards." So how good is 7'2" if he's not in the NBA now?

"There are not many Aussie or Kiwi kids who can do some of the stuff Baba pulls off."

Yeah, that's exactly it. Some posters are like "Waaah, but muh Australian talent!" Let's be real, 99.9 percent of the Aussie kids at the end of NBL benches aren't going to turn into anything. That's the hard and fast truth of it. And while you still have guys like Brendan Teys putting on a jersey you easily have the space to throw in some genuinely talented prospects from elsewhere without impacting "muh Australian talent" too harshly.

The NBL is an entertainment product with a secondary obligation to developing Australian talent. Part of developing Australian talent is by bringing about the conditions whereby Australian players have to improve. Part of bringing about those conditions is bringing in foreign players that improve the level of the competition. And even if bringing in Sotto doesn't directly improve the competition, bringing in guys who genuine NBA prospects mean other top-line guys will come here, which improves the level of competition, and by extension, improves Australian players.

But no... let's just have an "Australian product" without imports and bore ourselves to death with that, shall we?

Trist, Venky Jois, Jervis, Lo Buluk , Dillon, Mudronja, J Bairstow all collecting money as pro ballers.

Give me Sotto instead.

Sotto has already made a mark in the NBL. Check out all the NBL pages right now, Philos EVERYWHERE. They're annoying as hell, and completely deluded about their place in world basketball, but they're eyeballs and potential revenue all the same.

Remember Boomers v Philippines fight lol

I remember Carl the dumb deluded Filo gracing us with his presence after the infamous brawl. Hopefully they stick to social media rather than this forum.

still here on a nightswatch. hahaha. The F I'm not even a Fili. Chill down mate. love carl. :)

Do you think Philippines will ever be good enough to progress beyond thuggery to playing actual basketball Carl?

While Boomers were smacking them metaphorically via the scoreboard as most countries would, they decided to get into actually physically smacking opposition!

Many of us have dreamed to do that to Goulding, nobody expected it to actually happen....

KET I actually the only chance they can be a decent basketball country is for the Hagop rule to relax so they can farm all the fil-am guys and play for them. Other than it will take them 10 more years to be competitive against australia.

As for australia smacking I don't give sh1t since the only real deal in in Asia is Japan as of now. Smashing Filo in basketball is like smashing australia in soccer by euro and south american team.

Idk about goulding I don’t hate the guy he’s a flapper he do dirty work for the team if you’re familiar with american basketball he’s like greyson allen, bruce bowen type of player. What is alarming is Kickhurt the son of B doesn’t matter if it’s filo or not he doesn’t need to sucker punch someone like that. Even in NFL it’s below the belt.

-Carl

"How much does NBL.TV cost outside of Australia?"

Why not just watch for free via Twitch? Better streaming video interface, too.

I likened this signage.

I am fan of Philippines and Philippine basketball, even if I still do not much like that guys Danielle Kickit still for what he's done to the infamous game few years go.

Kai gotta very nice skyhooker and can easily be like a Hakeem Abdul Jabbar down there in the aussie league.

He will just need some practice on the tree point shots and then who knows, he can be like a Steph Curry/Brian Ostertag hybrids. Matchup problem for anyone!

Laban Filipino!

"Kai gotta very nice skyhooker and can easily be like a Hakeem Abdul Jabbar down there in the aussie league.

He will just need some practice on the tree point shots and then who knows, he can be like a Steph Curry/Brian Ostertag hybrids. Matchup problem for anyone!"


Haha, if he plays like Hakeem Abdul Jabbar with a Dream Shake and shoots threes like Steph Curry, its championship time for the Sixers! :D

p.s. the less said about a Curry/ Ostertag hybrid the better!