Basketball On The Internet.

ALREADY this morning here I pointed out the NBL has its league ladder loused up but a few other (rightly) disgruntled fans suggested I take a longer look at nbl.com.au and, oh dear.

So not only does the championship table remain incorrect but the stats leaders on the official website's front page are all still over from last season.

Wow.

On a day Melbourne's Chris Goulding, Tommy Greer and coach Chris Anstey have reacted with various degrees of annoyance to radio-based conjecture the NBL is still "struggling" - which, assuredly, it isn't - there still is so much to do.

Like, fix the website.

Bring the stuff up-to-speed and understand how your own championship table works. See: http://www.botinagy.com/blog/tables-and-ladders/ if you still haven't figured that out.

This inattention to detail diminishes all the gains made on the floor by loud, supportive fans in Perth, Cairns, Adelaide and Melbourne back yelling their encouragement again. And with fervor.

MY "Round About" beef of the week earlier this week at ONE-Ten's coverage inadeqacies prompted a text message from a reader who said the network "had form" in relation to ignoring in-venue events.

The comment was in response to my personal dismay that during Sunday's Melbourne-Perth match, ONE stayed with talking heads Steve Carfino and Tommy Greer instead of sharing with the viewing audience the on-court intros of the Tigers' 20th anniversary 1993 championship team.

That presentation even involved TV commentator Andrew Gaze yet still the network couldn't see the merit in cutting to that in place of the blah blah blah.

As my correspondent rightly pointed out, the week before when Sydney was celebrating its 25th anniversary team during the televised Kings-Tigers match - a presentation which also involved one of the network's own in Steve Carfino - again it was all about the halftime blah blah blah instead of seizing the chance to speak with Dwayne McClain or Leon Trimmingham et al.

They either don't get it or don't care enough to bother, neither option being particularly thrilling.

REACTING to speculation firing up the home fans should have maybe just a hint of class, I have received an email from a trusted and reliable source saying the Tigers on Sunday plan to welcome the 36ers with, among other barbs:

Adelaide has "more wooden spoons than a chef's kitchen ... "

And

The only good thing to come out of Adelaide is the road to Victoria ...

LOL. OK.

THIS site may have favored Alice Kunek for the WNBL Player of the Week - slightly ahead of Dandenong Rangers teammate Leilani Mitchell - but the league went the other way.

No argument Mitchell was terrific in the 84-81 win over Townsville with 13 points and 11 assists and I caught up with her today for News Ltd to file this piece: http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/basketball/wnba-player-of-the-week-leilani-mitchell-puts-herself-on-brendan-joyces-opals-radar/story-fnii09gt-1226744624800

Come back Thursday for some more Leilani quotes on the upcoming Rangers-Boomers showdown on Friday.

LOVED Chris Anstey's article at nbl.com.au today - so I guess it isn't ALL bad - about two of his former teammates.

Every junior coach who stands courtside during practice with his/her arms folded, in harsh judgment of round-peg players who don't fit their system's square holes, should read this piece.

You will find it at http://www.nbl.com.au/article/id/1riotoj43ndmh1fzh1d9ghf7qz and it is worth your time. It just might make you a better coach.

BRETT Brown's first season at the helm of NBA battler Philadelphia could see the 76ers without a centre for the second year in succession.

Rookie Nerlens Noel is likely to "do an Andrew Bynum" and miss the season.

"I doubt - everybody doubts - that he's going to play this year,'' Brown said before the team's exhibition game with the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Schottenstein Center.

No official decision has been made on the 211cm (6-11) pivot, who is recovering from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

"I think that everybody is expecting it to be a definite decision,'' Brown said.

"But even now as we speak, nobody has said that this is 100 percent certain.''

Bynum missed last season with chronically injured knees before signing with the Cavaliers but Noel's situation is different.

The 76ers acquired him from New Orleans in a draft-day trade for all-star point guard Jrue Holiday.

They expected Noel to be out until December recovering from the injury he suffered in February at Kentucky.

Last month there were concerns Noel, 19, would be ready to play by December because he was not in basketball shape. But he has spent the preseason travelling with the Sixers and doing shooting drills with Brown.

"He needs to be nurtured this year. We have an opportunity,'' Brown said.

"I like the fact he is with us every single day and every single way.

"He's in video sessions, practice, shootarounds. It's a classroom. It's an opportunity for him to learn from me and the NBA. And we don't want to waste this year."

Brown knows Noel, who has never been on an NBA court, wants to play. But it's an ACL, not a sprained ankle.