Basketball On The Internet.

WITH regular podcast partner Joey Wright taking a well-earned break - our 25-minutes a week pod can be extraordinarily debilitating! - this round's Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE features a very special guest panellist with whom I get to relive some of the very best of the NBL. 

John Casey is the doyen of the airwaves when it comes to basketball in Australia and has been the Voice of NBL TV coverage since the 80s.

There really isn't much he hasn't seen or covered in our sport and his views are always well-informed, interesting and entertaining.

But here he's not restricted to talking about the match on screen but shares his knowledge of the game, with a particular individual scoring stat which even caught me by surprise.

We're talking the greats of our NBL game - Aussies and imports - which, inevitably also leads us to that man-of-the-moment, Bryce Cotton.

Just where does his 59 points for Perth last round sit in the NBL's pantheon of scoring feats. (And congratulations to the NBL for posting the truth about its scoring records, which I'm very happy to reproduce here for those who missed it.)

And how does Bryce's 45 points in an NBL Grand Final rate by comparison?

That question draws comparisons with Patty Mills scoring 42 in the Bronze Medal playoff at the Tokyo Olympics against the Aussie single Games record of 48 scored by Eddie Palubinskas for the Boomers at the 1976 Olympics. Which was better?

John recalls for us his NBL Aussie starting five and his key import quintet, which no true follower of the league can afford to miss.

Of course we also look at this week's NBL round, share our tips and to access all this and more, just click on the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/@TimeOut-NOFLOPZONE-123