114: In conversation with: Illawarra Hawk Josh Boone

The NBL Pocket Podcast

From the Illawarra Hawks Josh Boone.
Topics:

• ILL’s signing pitch to Josh for NBL20
• The sliding doors moment Josh had with not signing with SEM & PER.
• Picking Dane Pineau in his NBL Fantasy Team
• The Shawn Long signing and Boone’s departure from MEL
• Not liking Chris Goulding initially when arriving in MEL
• Did NBL20 ‘spark joy’?
• Casper Ware’s NBL20 ‘struggles' from the outside looking in
• Doubts about the PER, Off & Def rating & +/- stats
• ‘Should the board man get paid’? A rebuttal to Ben Taylor’s ‘Thinking Basketball Podcast’
• Did Braun get crossed up or slip? How did he miss the finish? (Fouled by Matt Hodgson?)
• Boone’s thoughts on LaMelo Ball’s NBA legitimacy
• Was it frustrating handing over team control to an unproven 18yo?
• Aaron Brookes' emotional behaviour early in the season, getting into it with Sunday Dech at practice
• Woolongong's finest: Chicko’s
• The Foundation Club, NBL media, sporting content creation and E-sports
• Josh’s NBL content pitch to Jeremy Loeliger and NBLHQ
• Ep.10 of the Foundation Club and Josh knowing that the Taipans were going to quit after halftime
• Beating the better Cairns Taipans 3 times - how?
• Grand Final breakdown and predictions - PER or SYD and why?
• If the Hawks had made the GF series where would Boone’s vote haven been on terminating the series?
• Did the NBL delegates get input from their imports before the wage cut vote?
• The trimming of imports from 3 to 2 and Josh’s reaction
• Black Lives Matter as it pertains to import slimming and Josh’s experiences in Australia
• FTs, Cheeseburgers and making sure it’s know that Casper Ware should have led the league in cheeseburgers given away
• A response to Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘The Big Man Can’t Shoot’ Revisionist History Podcast episode
• Were Melbourne United and NBL fans too eager to blow it up after losing in the NBL19 GF?
• To what extent racism has been apart of Josh’s life?
• Was it apart of Josh’s time in Australia?
• Liam Santamaria or Liam Sanmartina?
• And finally, the question Josh most wanted to answer from last season but wasn't asked.

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