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Howdy all

Some of you may have noticed that I've been more inactive than usual lately. Basically, I've been mostly without internet for the past couple of weeks.

Upon getting my internet back I realised two things:
1) I really didn't miss playing buzzerbeater all that much
2) I need to buy some new players for the upcoming season. It feels more like a chore atm, than something I'm looking forward to.

Given that, I think its time for me to retire from the game gracefully, or at least change the way I play.

Basically, I'm going to give up playing the game to win, though am probably going to become something of an Aussie farm team for now - buy up a couple of Aussie 18yos, a level 7 trainee, and go nuts.

I'll still be somewhat active, in order to make my trainees stars ;). And might still pop into chat every now and then. Who knows, in a couple of seasons I might want to get my new stars up into the ABBL again...

But for now, my team will be going on the market (cept for Gafa, he's a Wombat for life ;)). Hopefully a couple of them stay in Australia, I expect Awang, Yalduz and Laumianskas will generate some interest here.

So with this being my retirement from being a competitive ABBL team for now, I figure I'll be self indulgent and reflect on some of my achievements and records:
20 seasons in the ABBL (a current record, more through luck than anything...)
1 league title
3 cup titles
6 playoff finals appearances
15 playoff semi final appearances (probably a record)
17 playoff appearances (probably a record)
4 cup finals
6 cup semi finals
2 MVP (Gafa and Manfrotto)

Good luck all, and bid up big on my players - remember every cent you spend on them is more I can spend on making the Aussie NT better in the future hopefully!

Thanks for the memories the Big 8 won't be the same. Hopefully there are some great Aussie draftees this season for you to nurture.

Not just the best manager in Australia ever but the best person ever. No matter how tight and tough things were you were always completly unflappable. You will be a massive loss to the community.

Off topic, Birol Yalduz has been a star for you and now that I see him it is funny that his characteristics are almost exactly the same as Sperbert. Both 29 year old forwards with just under $60k salary but the only things that are different is you have extra ID and Sperbert has a ton more JS, HA and DR. It is really funny basically looking at Sperbert's twin.

Birol has been easily my most important player over the past few seasons - to have a SF who can function well both offensively and defensively in an inside offense is golden. His IS kick took me from a solid inside offense to a very good one.

I always thought of him as a (slightly) inferior version of Dell'Asta - from memory their skills are veeery similar. If I had my time over again, I would love to get him some more driving though.

Sorry yoda completely forgot to reply to your bb mail a week or so ago. I think Sperbert, Birol and Jahe are triplets!!

Sad to see you lose the passion mllama but I'm glad to hear you will still be around to farm some young Aussies. Hopefully after a little while the fire will burn again!

:( who will embrace and encourage my immaturity now?

I know how you feel though, went through the same thing myself when i decided to sell up a couple of seasons ago. It was exactly what i needed though, picking up Zero and training him to the U21 team as well as having an Aussie focus ever since brought back some passion.


Hopefully it has the same effect for you!



At least we'll always have the Willy Dick memories!

What about our rivalry? Don't go? Stay? :(((

Sad to see you go like that. You will be missed in the ABBL and in the aussie BB community. Just pop around a put in a random post once in a while on the forums. =P

Does this mean you are going to go 0-22 in season 22 and bank in a lot of money?

Hopefully there is going to be some Jordan's, Lebron's, Kobe's and Durant's in next seasons abbl draft.

I'll keep myself at around the salary floor. Might win the odd game (watch out for the CT peoples)

Should rake in a fair bit of dough if I regain the passion in the future though (though the level 7 trainer will cost me a bit...)

Is there any truth to the rumour that you're actually Murray Newman and the reason you're retiring from Buzzer is because you've been ordered to spend every spare second working on your fitness?