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Post by bullets92 on May 14, 2020 16:55:08 GMT
Surprised this hasn’t been brought up yet, but Hoopsfix and Russ Levenston confirmed next season will see the increase of imports to 4. The 5 non Brit rule remains the same. www.hoopsfix.com/2020/05/bbl-allow-4-work-permitted-players-from-2020-21-season/The aim is to make teams more competitive in Europe. I’m on the fence though. Of course it’ll improve the standard of the league, but at the expense of British player’s playing time. |
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Post by isthaturinal on May 14, 2020 16:57:25 GMT
Surprised this hasn’t been brought up yet, but Hoopsfix and Russ Levenston confirmed next season will see the increase of imports to 4. The 5 non Brit rule remains the same. www.hoopsfix.com/2020/05/bbl-allow-4-work-permitted-players-from-2020-21-season/The aim is to make teams more competitive in Europe. I’m on the fence though. Of course it’ll improve the standard of the league, but at the expense of British player’s playing time. You beat me to it, I’ll delete me post.... |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 17:09:49 GMT
I thought it was mentioned a while ago. Its9 more to do with EU players becoming imports than snythibg elsr. Unless im talking crap. Which is possible
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 17:29:38 GMT
Was brought up several months ago when Makem Taken announced it. I would be more concerned that bbl clubs dont produce British players rather than them giving them minutes in the bbl. So few are produced in the bbl
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 18:17:34 GMT
That's why so many of our players go abroad like Archibald, Freeland, Van Oostrum. Although in Van Oostrum's case he actually played in the BBL both for Sheffield & Leeds.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 18:38:52 GMT
Archibald was stateside for a long time, Freeland and van oos both took apprenticeships very young to play youth basketball. Until bbl clubs actually develop players from a youth standpoint with a clear pathway then itll keep happening. BBL wants all the glory with non of the work
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Post by D44 on May 15, 2020 9:25:48 GMT
An American with an EU passport and an American without one is still an American. Can't really see it making any difference.
Brits go abroad for the money and to play at a higher level, nothing to do with imports in the BBL. If anything 1 more American should cut costs and raise standards.
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Post by LTFan on May 15, 2020 14:37:05 GMT
Surprised this hasn’t been brought up yet, but Hoopsfix and Russ Levenston confirmed next season will see the increase of imports to 4. The 5 non Brit rule remains the same. www.hoopsfix.com/2020/05/bbl-allow-4-work-permitted-players-from-2020-21-season/The aim is to make teams more competitive in Europe. I’m on the fence though. Of course it’ll improve the standard of the league, but at the expense of British player’s playing time. I think I started a thread on this a few years ago... Limiting the number of non-British players in the BBL is quite the quandary for me. It's the leagues greatest policy (growing British talent) and the leagues worse policy (limiting the standard of play in comparison to other leagues) at the same time. |
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Post by blueskies99 on May 15, 2020 14:52:43 GMT
Anyone else listened to the whole interview with Russell?.........fascinating stuff even though the sound quality is a bit dodgy.
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Post by GetREAL on May 15, 2020 15:30:14 GMT
Great interview with Russell, thoroughly enjoyed that. I have a lot of time for Russell and Riders are clearly the best run BBL club other than Newcastle. However, we are in a new environment and a few well run clubs cannot carry the league. Competing in Europe will become a distant thought soon as there is even less money to "experiment" than when the Riders made their attempt a few years back having won 1 game and didn't even qualify for the BCL. So nice idea about 4 yanks but unless all clubs have better finances, we should not worry about the next experiment. We should just pray that we make it out of this pandemic without collapsing. GetREAL
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