Rick

You're right, he hasn't been lighting it up recently, however, if he can go, 15 minutes of Horford is better than 15 minutes of Solo. Cheers Rick

You thought you were posting too much, so you create a new post to apologise in case people think you are posting too much? Don't worry about it, if we get sick of you, we will just add you to our ignore filters. :smile:

It was posted here -> http://www.hawksquawk.net/community/index....howtopic=335233 But just like this thread, no-one seemed interested in responding to it.

You are right there, he did lead the team with +11. I haven't yet seen the game, (these afternoon games are on too early here), so I had a look at the boxscore and noticed that Flip led the +/-, but also noticed that Bargnani had +8 in 42 mins. So in the six minutes he wasn't on the court we outscored them by 11. Also interesting that Ukic had 5 turnovers in only 25 mins, yet he still had +7. Hopefully, I'll get to see the game later today. Cheers Rick

I guess this is one of the advantages of living overseas, none of the Hawks games are blacked out for me on the International League Pass Broadband...

Yeah fair enough. I think the biggest name in Aussie basketball is Andrew Gaze, though its understandable that is not the case with a point of view from the US. Gaze had an even shorter career in the NBA, but did win a ring warming the bench for the Spurs. He had a good year for Seton Hall too, going all the way to the Championship Game. Anyway, I'm getting way off topic now.... :offtopic2:

I agree with you AHF, he hardly got a fair shot, however it does show he had problems keeping his "star player" on side. Sorry mate, I actually disagree on one of your points - no way Heal is Australias biggest name in basketball; well not in Australia anyway, you need to do more than chest-bump Charles Barkley in an exhibition game. :laughing5: :lol6:

Mark Price couldn't get the job done in Australia in 2006. He was head coach of the South Dragons in the local NBL, but only lasted 5 games before being sacked. Apparently there was a rift between himself and Shane Heal, who ended up taking over as player/coach. An article about it.... http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/867420 Cheers Rick

When we beat them in the second round, its going to be oh so much sweeter. :clap:

:thumbsupsmileyanim: :thumbsupsmileyanim: :worshippy:

I have two here...I wont embed them as they are pretty large. If you want them, then please copy them, dont use my server as your host. I will remove them in a week or so. JJ Break Ankles Large Long JJ Break Ankles Large Short The longer one isnt much longer, it just includes a chest-bump with Smoove. Cheers Rick

He doesn't, and I have no idea why he would be calling his arse "Speedy Claxton". Usually things like that in Australia come from rhyming slang, but I can't work that one out. :sad:

Yeah, I love it too...I'm staying with it!

This thread receives my support!

Just so other people are aware, you can fast forward and rewind the US version of League Pass Broadband. The International version doesn't allow you to do this. It is a continuous loop of the game, so you have no idea at what stage of the game is at when you start it. I usually ask my wife to see where its at so as not to ruin the score for me in case I load it up right at the end of the game.

I just watched the replay of it and man it was horrible. I think my wife was getting annoyed about the number of times I yelled at the screen for the commentators to STFU!

You're not the only one. I only just got to see the game now, and I noticed Marvin going into the locker room too. No idea why, there was no reference at all about it by the commentators (I was watching the Hornets broadcast).

BD, I ended up subscribing to the international version, because I was able to find a link to it from the proper nba.com site. I just watched an archive of the game, though it wasnt "on-demand", it looks like it is just a rolling loop of the game, so you have to try and catch it at the right time. I also found it buffered quite a lot, and I dont know how to change the buffer settings as it uses its own special player. Cheers Rick

Hmm interesting. The opposite seems to be happening here in Australia. We get a couple of NBA games a week on major Pay-TV provider here and that used to be it. However, it was announced the other day that a Free-to-air provider here will be starting a 24x7 HD Sports channel and they have the rights to show the NBA here, so we should be getting more NBA on TV than we used to...for free too!

Dolfan - thanks for that, thats what I was thinking of doing, though I wouldnt want to try and stream through a proxy, hopefully it will only do the country check when signing up. BigDirty - thanks for the link mate, im watching the demo there now. I might look into signing on there. Thanks again guys... Cheers Rick

Thanks for this, but bummer for me as its not available to Australian residents...looks like I'll have to look for some sort of workaround.

Or Patty Mills dribble past them!

:thumbsupsmileyanim: :thumbsupsmileyanim: Great post coachx. Unfortunately, thats the the stereotype Americans have in alot of countries around the world.

Oh well, fair effort by us. I liked that they didnt back down at all, even when down big late. Patrick Mills was easily our best player, I see a big future for him, if he can work on that jumper of his. We're coming back from rebuilding after losing Shane Heal, Andrew Gaze and Luc Longley in quick succession. The future is Mills, Newley, Ingles, Bogut and Nathan Jawai. We should have a shot at a medal in London, if the team can stay together.

I agree that Turner isnt fast enough. I have been using Norwood as my feature back now and he has the speed necessary to get outside the tackles and make good yardage. With rushing, I have the most success running outside, its rare for me to make good yardage between the tackles. I have played 7 games so far, and am using 12 minute quarters.