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driver 8 said:
Mottram does what he needs to do.. getting better by the week

Chappell got as close as anyone can to being booted, then saved his contract. Brett Mahers injury may have actually helped him.

Would be great to get Luke Shensher (or whatever it is) and keep him when Maher returns.

We'll be fine
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Agree.

Luke Schenscher in and cut Axel Dench .
 
Troy Wingate said:
He shoulda stayed retired. He's finished.
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I must have missed this 1........................... Didnt Shane Heal score 20 points in that game?. Off the bench?. with injury? a bruised calf from his ankle to knee?.

Thats why hes been in the NBA etc etc.

And Mottram, SHITHOUSE!. Pussy 7 footer dunks like that? lol.!
 
MOTTRAM = **** / Bull

COOP - fair dinkum , someone should ****en insult his mum before every game to fire him up.
Looks like he's in a trance some nights !!!!

Frustrates me cos i know how good he can be.......just so....SOFT !!!! :(
 

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tonywce23 said:
Fair to say that Chappell is gone
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An insult to the fans intelligence that this bloke is classified as an IMPORT :mad:

Anyone got JO JO ENGLISH's number ??
 
eathb said:
Channel 9 news in Adelaide said that Chappell will get the boot and a new American Forward Import will be signed soon.
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Gone - Josh Pace as a possible replacement

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22910314-12428,00.html

'Sixers cut Chappell'


THE Adelaide 36ers have pulled the pin on under-performing NBL import Mike Chappell and are pursuing CBA star Josh Pace as a possible replacement.

Pace, 24 and variously listed as a 196cm to 198cm off-guard or small forward, has been tearing up the CBA with the East Kentucky Miners after enjoying an MVP season in the New Zealand NBL. He averaged 19.1 points, 6.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.4 steals per game while steering Nelson Giants to the championship.

In the CBA, he has just recorded consecutive triple-doubles after being the league's Player of the Week last week. Pace currently is averaging 25.2 points and 8.4 rebounds per game, shooting 56 per cent from the field and 76 from the free throw line.

He isn't, however, Adelaide's only recruiting option, the club also talking with an NBA D-League forward.

Sixers operations manager Paul Bauer said Adelaide would have to pay a $10,000 contract buy-out to East Kentucky to release Pace.

"At this time of the year, it is always going to cost a buy-out figure to bring out a new player," Bauer said. "We're disappointed it didn't work out with Mike because he is the kind of person we want to build the club around and we're disappointed for him too that he could not find his form. It is solely a business decision and we're sorry to lose the man he is."

Chappell, 29 and 203cm, is just the fourth import Adelaide has cut in-season in the club's 26-year history and the first in a decade since Jeff Brown was released in 1997.

In 88 NBL games with Wollongong, Canberra and New Zealand, he was a league superstar with a career-high 44-point game.

With the Breakers in 2004, Chappell was second in the NBL scoring with 22.7 points per game and fourth in three-point shooting percentage with 42 per cent.

The silky-skilled Michigan-born forward averaged 21.3 ppg with Canberra in 2003, the league's fifth mark.

But since arriving in Adelaide and missing most of the pre-season with a back injury, in 15 games he has failed to reproduce anything resembling those numbers, or the 23 points, eight rebounds he was averaging for Japan's Sendai 89ers.

Even his 11.1 ppg at 33 per cent is inflated by his two stand-out scoring efforts, a 21-point return against NZ and 30 in Singapore.

"Mike's the first player we've cut in our time here and we've always been strong on loyalty," Sixers coach Phil Smyth said. "There comes a time you have to make a change. Mike has been an outstanding person in our group and it was extremely difficult today to let him know he wasn't going on.

"He handled it with the utmost class, which just made it more difficult. Unfortunately in sport and the position we're in, tough decisions have to be made.

"Pace is our priority (recruit) but there's four players we're currently looking at and we're a fair way down the track with two of them. Pace is one, the other is in the D-League."

Pace, a stand-out college player at Syracuse, is unlikely to be in uniform for Saturday's home game against Singapore, where Chappell may suit up for his last time as a 36er.

"Josh Pace is going to go out and play hard every night," his CBA coach Kevin Keathley said.
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what if Chappell scores 50 in his last game?

Pace played for Melo's Syracuse championship team, which was an average team, so he knows how to lead a crappy team :thumbsu:
 
kinda sad to see him go
but he just wasnt performing and i'm sure the new import we get will replace him nicely
hope this new guy turns out to be another Willie farley who leads us into the playoffs and beyond :thumbsu:

Martin Muursepp has pulled out of the All Star game tonight so hopefully Ballinger might slot into the spot missing as a starter :D
 
Muurasepp's out because the Tigers have given him the boot.
Gizzard from Singapore is replacing him

Sad to see Chappell go, seems like a nice fella who was willing to set up a new life in Adelaide
 
Josh Pace rejected the 36ers offer.

The 36ers then signed former NBA Nugget/Buck and first round draft pick Julius Hodge!

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i hope this is true
with ballinger in the form he is in atm (46 points last game, 14 at 7from7 allstar night)
davidson holding helms to 8 last game
copeland still finding his range
maher having an off game and still contributing well enough
this hodge guy coming in who looks the goods (looked at youtube and some stats from college etc.)
sixers might get a few more wins to finish the year
might even slide into the playoffs, you never know
 
Grechy said:
36ers got done again. :thumbsu:
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is that a surprise against melbourne though
with an import down
muursepp replaced by lampley
anstey doing what he's doing lately
up until the last few minutes they were playing very well
led at quarter time
close up until the fade out at the end
never going to win but pretty good showing i think
 

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ClintDogg said:
is the new guy there yet?
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Julius arrives Sunday and will be suiting up against the Dragons on Boxing Day.

36ers unleash Hodge on Dragons

he Adelaide 36ers are set to unveil their latest US import, Julius Hodge, against the South Dragons in Melbourne on Boxing Day.

The 201cm recruit, who will arrive in Adelaide on Sunday, replaces import Mike Chappell who was released from his contract after battling injury and form.

Hodge was taken by the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the 2005 NBA draft as the 20th pick and after two years was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks where he teamed up with Australian star Andrew Bogut.

Recently the 24-year-old completed a contract with Italian Serie A team Legea Scafati.

The 36ers remain in tenth position on the NBL ladder and face the West Sydney Razorbacks on Saturday.

http://www.nbl.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=73577
 
Troy Wingate said:
Played 2 years in the NBA. And that's 2 years longer than majority of imports in the NBL.

He should dominate the NBL.
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Just like Martin Muursepp, Todd Fuller, Jarquine Hawkins etc dominate in the NBL?

NBA experience doesn't mean he'll dominate this league.
 
Some guys in the NBA would struggle to get a game in the NBL, that guy who plays for the Clippers, Dan Dickau, I don't know how he made it to the big show
 

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