Melbourne has never been home to CJ Bruton despite the Australian guard having played 500 games at the NBL level. Yet the city by the Yarra has a habit of popping up on the fixture when the soon to be 38 year old has a milestone game. The now defunct Glasshouse was the venue for Bruton’s NBL debut as an… Read more →
NBA FANTASY All the hand injuries in the NBA this past week made me think of the classic early-90s film Edward Scissorhands. Young Edward was misunderstood and outcast, but when finally accepted by just one family who gave him a chance, he showed what he was capable of. With that sentiment in mind, who should you take a chance on… Read more →
As an NBL player, Bennie Lewis was seen by many as a spent force. The athletic but inconsistent forward spent several seasons on the Melbourne Tigers’ roster and at times threatened to become a force in the NBL. But with each breakaway dunk or splashed three-pointer came a missed defensive assignment or a staggering inability to put muscle weight onto… Read more →
The Indiana Pacers are going to win the Eastern Conference. There are so many factors pointing us all towards that belief, yet so many of us are still refusing to buy-in. Maybe it’s the LeBron factor. That’s a big one, for sure. As Rudy Tomjanovich taught us, ‘don’t ever underestimate the heart of a champion’. Maybe it’s also because they’re… Read more →
TBT: This one is for the basketball purists. For those who love the fundamentals of the game, there is nothing more beautiful than a well-run pick & roll. Actually there is - the same two blokes scoring off the pick & roll a variety of different ways time after time after time. You see, the real beauty is in the… Read more →
The NBL went back to the future on the weekend and it wasn’t a happy return in the eyes of the league’s best attacking players. The league-mandated stronger stance on hand-checking and physical defensive play was thrown to the wolves and it resulted in lower scores and scrappier matches. The Melbourne Tigers’ home clash against Sydney Kings was a prime… Read more →
Can you imagine something like this ever happening in today’s NBA? Believe it or not, since doing this strip a couple of years ago, I have learned that it wasn’t five million it was ten million…….. 10 MILLION DOLLARS! It wasn’t like he was hurting for cash at the end of his career or anything but I think it’s safe… Read more →
This kid is 2 years old. Enough said. (Oh…. Except to also say that both Channing Tatum and Bradley Cooper seem like pretty good dudes).
The NBL Inside Word: There’s no hiding the fact that it has been a really tough week down at Tigerland. After coming off a run where we won 4 out of 5 games, last weekend brought with it our third consecutive loss. The automatic response to a slide like this in most professional sporting teams is to make drastic changes… Read more →
Last week Tom Hersz introduced you to the next batch of NBA stars in his article New Kids on the Block. Hersz took a good look at Wiggins, Randle, Parker, Gordon, Embiid, Young and more – the freshman studs currently turning heads at the college level. Now it’s time to take a quick peek at the ballers who are getting… Read more →