Craigieburn Eagle Big V Womens Division 1 player Renai Fejo I visited on my last recent visit to Victoria earlier this year will feature this week along with her family in the All-Stars - Picture credit taken by Friend
I sit here and write in Seven Seeds Roasters in North Melbourne at a “selah” period of my life on my four yearly holiday trip. As my commitment is to the SA core team for the National Baptist Carnival on an annual basis I only take this trip every four years and this year I decided to head to Melbourne for the week away and as they say with good shot selection, timing is everything.
Its a big week here for basketball in Melbourne and the country, the first ever indigenous international match in Victoria is occurring between Australia and USA (Kingdom of Hawaii team) at the State Basketball Centre in Knox and the Australian Boomers are here to play the USA on Thursday and Saturday night at Marvel Stadium. It also gives me a chance to check out some of the other basketball activities happening around here in the state so its exciting and I feel very blessed to be here at this golden time in basketball in the country. Which leads me to something I’m very pleased to share about for those who enjoy reading my basketball analysis particularly with the NBL.
I am returning to writing during the NBL Season 2019/2020 with as I hinted in my title to this article And The Foul.Net as the Adelaide Correspondent. I am excited to have an opportunity to once again pursue my sports journalism craft in NBL via this time a national platform similar to the one I was very blessed to have when writing for the Adelaide 36ers back in 2016-2017. We are possibly going to witness one of the greatest NBL seasons to date and I can’t wait to answer some of the burning questions in the lead up to the 2019-2020 NBL season such as…
- For the Adelaide 36ers, does Deshon, Dan and Kev bring the much needed defensive intensity to balance the offensive firepower they’ve been over the past five seasons?
- For the Brisbane Bullets, can Lemanis balance the front court and back court rotations and finally unlock the key to unleashing the full potential of Nathan Sobey?
- For the Cairns Taipans, can the young talent play a brand of basketball under Mike Kelly that brings fans through the doors and keep any potential poachers from other clubs at bay so they can build a new core for the next half decade?
- For the Illawarra Hawks, we know its all about Lamelo Ball but are the next generation of Boomers also emerging out of one of the most exciting youthful lineups in the league and can coach Matt Flinn keep them motivated?
- For Melbourne United, will we see as reported the full force of Melo Trimble and Casey Prather as the most damaging import duo of the league?
- For South East Melbourne Phoenix, how much of Mitch Creek’s DNA regardless of whether he’s in Timberwolves gear by seasons end with be imprinted on a list that can make finals immediately in their first season? Further to this how much are we looking forward to Creek going to another level this season?
- For the New Zealand Breakers, regardless of list how will RJ Hampton go in our league this year and as Liam Santamaria said, are we all sleeping on the Breakers?
- For the Perth Wildcats, do we accept that they are a lock for finals regardless of list considering history or once again are we going to predict them just missing only to prove us wrong again?
- For the Sydney Kings, is this the year they finally take the next big step under new coach Will Weaver and win the whole thing or will they not live up to potential yet again?
And lastly, what will Tasmania’s next NBL team take the form of???
I can’t wait to dive deep into these questions along with the other writers at And The Foul.Net this season, so please follow along here for all my NBL articles for 2019-2020.
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