Why why why?
Both are injury prone and have reached their peak and have almost reach the bottom of the other side of the hill. Should we not be chasing Vasiljevic, Cullen maybe even rucker instead of filling up the bench????

Smythe was a great player but hes a bullshit coach and player scout.... both thoes guys are ready to retire

The article doesnt say he is ready to sign them rather he has talked to them! If he didnt talk to them he wouldnt be doing his job. The days of having a gun starting 5 and gun bench is long gone - If we got these 2 as replacing Reesy and Oscar on the bench its probably not a bad thing. Then as the article states we keep talking to other players who could slot into the starting line up in place of Dusty and Jacob

One wonders what Phil is expected to do at this time......no news in the media and he gets slammed......comes out to say we are talking to X, Y and others and he gets slammed as well - So come on Hurley what more do you want him to do?????? And dont say give out names of everyone he may have approached......maybe he doesnt want it known exactly who they are targetting at this stage!

Statman, what if they were planning on starting Wheeler, Copeland or Nash?

Have they said that yet? If they do plan to do that then sure Ill agree that it is a backwards step....but at this stage its all just conjecture

What I would like smyth to do is tell us maybe what they plan to do about replacements for Dusty and Jacob and a decent centre rather than 2 guys we would be lucky to get 40 minutes combined from.

Statman you are right on.
What is Smyth supposed to do.
These two will not be the main stay of the team.(dont need to be a brain surgeon for that)
He knows what he wants but is totally constrained by th BASA situation!
I imagine he is totally frustrated at present.

Paul Rees may be coming back, he is in talks with the 36ers now.

The problem is, they can't go after quality players as they aren't even spending the full salary cap where other teams are spending well over it.

How do you know they are not spending the cap "my 2 cents"? The sixers continually deny that story. And Boti has never mentioned it either.

From various sources, the sad fact is that the sixers won't be all that competitive next season. But you will find that over the next few months the team will be sold to a private consortium.

Unfortunately this new group will have the bare with the team that is put together on a tight budget, but come 07/08, I think you will see a completely different organization which will see basketball in SA reach the peak of the late 90's.

The Dragons owner Mark Cowan owns a graphic design company. So it shouldn't be too hard for him to find Wheeler a job if he's that keen on signing him.

http://www.cowandesign.com/

The Dragons are run by Mark Cowan who owns a big design company so, that should make it interesting!

is it just me or is hurley really Barney111 from Ozhoops the same amount of bs is flowing from him

According to the NBL any job with a company associated to an NBL franchise the income for that job paid to a player comes under the salary cap. Be interested to see how Mark Cowan covers that if it is true.