Singapore Slingers gone from the NBL!!!!!

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I have just seen a report on Fox Sports News that says that Singapore Slingers have been dumped from the NBL.

It is believed that the club will play in Asia but will not play in the Australian NBL.

a press conference is due later today.

This will leave 10 teams to contest to 2008/09 season.
 

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This almost hurt me more than the Bullets and Kings losing, it was just so out of the blue literally on Friday I saw on slingers.com they had practice sessions and everything with photos etc, god this is awful.

Sucks big time, but yeah the Governement heard that BA was going to restructure the league next year and kick out the Slingers anywya, so the Singapore Government decided to get on the front foot and kick themselves out.

*sigh*
 

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In a ten team competition, if they are still going to play 30 games they should structure it as follows.

Play 8 teams 3 times, Play 1 team 6 times.

The team to be played 6 times should be the "local" rival. It works for 8/10 teams, the only two it doesn't work for are the Gold Coast Blaze and New Zealand Breakers - so they can be the fifth "rival" team.

So you have.

Rivalry 1 (Same City)
Melbourne Tigers
South Dragons

Rivalry 2 (Same Region)
Townsville Crocodiles
Cairns Taipans

Rivalry 3 (Same Region)
Sydney Spirit
Wollongong Hawks

Rivalry 4 (Traditional State Rivalry)
Perth Wildcats
Adelaide 36ers

Rivalry 5 (Coral Sea / West Pacific)
Gold Coast Blaze
New Zealand Breakers

The NBL would do this if they were smart because playing the local rivals as much as possible is always a way to build a sport.

They could even do a couple of weekend double-headers, one at yours, one at mine, for these rivalries.

Obviously Gold Coast and New Zealand are lumped together as they have no local rivals, although Gold Coast is likely to get a new Brisbane rival in time at least, but it works pretty well for the other 8 teams.

May as well do it. Also saves, to some extent, on travel costs which is the excuse Singapore are using.
 

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Save a bit on airfares, at least.

The Singapore thing was a ****ing disaster from the start. Destined to end in tears.
 

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The NBL has to shut the league down now for the next 10 months and start again. Make every player a free agent to sign with anyone they want and start again in June 2009 until December 2009.
 

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June-December is the way to go.

In relation to the Slingers situation, it is probably something that was always going to happen. Apparently the team is leaning towards participating in a future professional league in Asia itself. Which makes sense really for them to be playing somewhat local sides as opposed to travelling to far-flung destinations like Melbourne and Auckland.

In any case, with the BA-NBL merger, Singapore might have been kicked out against it's own free will anyway, if they were that way inclined to stay in the league. When you think about it, the governing body of Basketball in Australia funding Singapore's participation in the NBL probably does more for the development of basketball in the "country" of Singapore than it does in Australia.
 

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I like McCrann's idea. A Final 5 should be the way to for the playoffs. Best of 3 for the first three rounds, Best of 5 for the Finals.

Hopefully the NBL doesn't shrink anymore by the time the season starts, otherwise I agree on calls to put the whole thing on hiatus and a do a revamp, new admin, new name etc.
 

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Save a bit on airfares, at least.
Nah part of the agreement for them entering the league was that they pay all airfairs for all teams to and from Singapore as well as their own. One of the main reasons they cut their losses.

Not to mention they were drawing 3k crowds in a 12k stadium.
 

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Good, the less teams the better. Other teams will be stronger. Now get rid of the shitty points system and raise the salary cap a bit so we can start to compete a bit better with Europe in attracting and keeping players here:thumbsu:
No point in raising the cap if teams in wouldn't be able to afford it. Not that teams seem all to concerned with staying within the cap **cough**Melbourne, Cairns, NZ**cough**. :D

You guys are being a bit harsh. It probably was the wrong idea to put a team in Singapore, but things were starting to turn around a bit over there, from all reports. It would've been interesting to see how things would've gone this season.

It was always going to take time, unfortunately we'll never know if it was going to work.....
 

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If anyone is able to give me a hand here - doing a research project for RMIT University on the decline of the NBL, and to a lesser extent, basketball popularity within Australia.

Please fill out this online survey, takes 5-10 minutes to do, and would be really appreciated.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UPQHcVYCjxrd7I1xHbqQLA_3d_3d

Cheers

LC
 

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If anyone is able to give me a hand here - doing a research project for RMIT University on the decline of the NBL, and to a lesser extent, basketball popularity within Australia.

Please fill out this online survey, takes 5-10 minutes to do, and would be really appreciated.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UPQHcVYCjxrd7I1xHbqQLA_3d_3d

Cheers

LC
ok just did the survey for you. no problems.

actually there is one. for others out there be warned, after completing the survey it takes you to the nbl website. note to self, delete cookies :D
 

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Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Yeah, I figured I'd give them a hand with that, even though they flat out refuse to help me with releasing any documents relating to financial reports, crowd figures, TV ratings whatsoever.

Might change it a bit later.
 

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