What does the NBL need to do to get you watching?

[fumbler]

Ok with talk of playing high profile international players and bringing some NBA talent over and expansion. What would you like or want to become a supporter, member of a club?

 

[nahnah]

bring back the south dragons

 

[Runnin Blue]

The 36ers need a bigger stadium. It has served it’s purpose and served it well, but it is time for bigger things.

Unfortunately the money and political mindshare isn’t there yet.

 

[PeanutButter Pies]

Andrew Bogut

 

[jefffff34]

1. More teams. Four would be good. Fix Townsville, bring back Hobart, Canberra and Geelong.
2. More games. More home double headers on the weekend so if you miss one, you can go to another.

Don't....
1. Give an AFL team a license. You'd dilute Melbourne's fans.
2. Don't be tempted by Gold Coast.

 

[flaps]

With a second Melbourne team coming, I'd like to see Melbourne Tigers come back in to the fold.

 

[LB#16]

Target overseas players including college and former NBA players to improve quality of play. The advertising all over the playing court is a joke, find another way to do it. I’m fine without ads on jerseys as they have to but do the court ads another way, it’s an eyesore.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I used to be an NBL fan. As a Ken Cole disciple from my playing days, I loved watching the 36ers under Cole. Then when Phil Smyth returned to coach the 36ers, I was back on board. It was exciting to watch. Back then, we never had NBA played live on our TV sets, so the NBL was the best live basketball you could see.

I'm yesterday's fan. I will never return to NBL because of what the sport needs to do to promote itself to newer audiences. I stopped going because of the cacophony of noise. All I was getting from the experience was a headache. I understand why it's done, but it's not for me.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Target overseas players including college and former NBA players to improve quality of play.

There have been plenty of players with NBA experience running around these past couple of seasons...

 

[JT_the_Man]

To get me watching more regularly?

Melbourne United sign Ben Simmons.

 

[fumbler]

I used to be an NBL fan. As a Ken Cole disciple from my playing days, I loved watching the 36ers under Cole. Then when Phil Smyth returned to coach the 36ers, I was back on board. It was exciting to watch. Back then, we never had NBA played live on our TV sets, so the NBL was the best live basketball you could see.

I'm yesterday's fan. I will never return to NBL because of what the sport needs to do to promote itself to newer audiences. I stopped going because of the cacophony of noise. All I was getting from the experience was a headache. I understand why it's done, but it's not for me.

Yeah those DJ's are not necessary at all.

 

[PeanutButter Pies]

To get me watching more regularly?

Melbourne United sign Ben Simmons.

Because thats wanna happen.

 

[JT_the_Man]

Because thats wanna happen.

Maybe in 20 years time.

 

[hamG]

I would say if you have Foxtel (somewhat important) and you don't like the NBL now you never will. People need to support the league and players for what they are, that is the platform of the league. Grabbing a one and done from college will raise temporary interest, but accept that a lot of what the NBL is consists of mostly white Aussie dudes playing basketball with black American dudes who either don't like Europe or have given up on the hope of a 10 day contract in the big time.

Let me also point something out - there is about 200 Aussies playing college ball in the USA rather than try out for the NBL. No idea if any of them are actually capable of making it in any professional league though. 95% of college teams are pretty shit.

 

[fumbler]

At the moment I think Larry has done a great job and has at least settled and repaired the sinking ship.
The current 8 clubs look viable and most seem to have had better crowds over the passed two seasons.

The next step is to find an owner for the Bullets and get some air time on FTA besides SBS.
Then look to add four new teams over the next four or five seasons and have at least one of them in a regional area. One idea would be to have one side a travelling side who plays all of their games in areas that have no NBL side, like Ho

bart, Launceston, Burnie, Albury, Geelong, Rockhampton etc. and have players who will attract a crowd (Globetrotteresque).​

Look into an FA Cup style championship with the NBL sides and the State League winners of the previous season, maybe a pre-season comp.

Deal with the regular season and it's overlap of the start of the NBA.
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[djrossie16]

I never go out of my way to watch the NBL but this season I seemed to catch many games on late night tv replays on SBS and I really like what I saw. Many of the games I saw were fiercely contested with some of the Adelaide games to round out the season and the grand final series really good to watch.

 

[maryjames]

More nba players.

 

[fidstar]

I don't think there is anything they can do to get me to watch it.

The NBA is so easy to watch now, why not pick the better product? It's why I watch the AFL over WAFL.