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    How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    IIRC Westie was a gun basketball player, and that translated into various high level AFL skills. Bont too?

    How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball? And does it help them with AFL?

    I have a reason for asking this, to be revealed later in the thread.
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dry Rot View Post
    How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball? And does it help them with AFL?
    I think I might have heard somewhere that, and correct me if I'm wrong, Scott Pendlebury might have played basketball as a junior.
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sedat View Post
    I think I might have heard somewhere that, and correct me if I'm wrong, Scott Pendlebury might have played basketball as a junior.
    Don't think so. Seems like something that would have been mentioned.

    Weird that Mason Cox, being American and so tall, never played basketball.
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sedat View Post
    I think I might have heard somewhere that, and correct me if I'm wrong, Scott Pendlebury might have played basketball as a junior.
    Yeah Pendlebury was kind of Patty Mills contemporary and had an AIS scholarship offer IIRC

    Tony Shaw was a state basketballer, Scott West very good, and I believe Brian Taylor was good also

    In more recent times Petracca was v.good - Jack Watts was a star junior

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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Quote Originally Posted by Sedat View Post
    I think I might have heard somewhere that, and correct me if I'm wrong, Scott Pendlebury might have played basketball as a junior.
    Was in the AIS as an under 18 basketballer, but decided to come back to Vic and play Footy
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Was in the AIS as an under 18 basketballer, but decided to come back to Vic and play Footy
    BAD, your sarcasm meter is broken.

    Sedat full well knows that Pendlebury was a basketballer as channel 7 only says it 5 million times each time they broadcast a Collingwood game.
    More of an In Bruges guy?

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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Quote Originally Posted by azabob View Post
    BAD, your sarcasm meter is broken.

    Sedat full well knows that Pendlebury was a basketballer as channel 7 only says it 5 million times each time they broadcast a Collingwood game.
    Tell you the truth, I don't listen to what they say.
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Tell you the truth, I don't listen to what they say.
    Why you have to hurt Sedat's feelings like that?
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Quote Originally Posted by azabob View Post
    BAD, your sarcasm meter is broken.

    Sedat full well knows that Pendlebury was a basketballer as channel 7 only says it 5 million times each time they broadcast a Collingwood game.
    That would make it 1,580,000,000 times it has been said in all of Pendlebury's 316 games to date. Sounds about on the money.
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    So does a basketball background help with playing AFL?
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Does anyone know if Petracca knows Ben Simmons?

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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Terry Wallace played
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Terry Wallace played
    Paul Roos too from that era.

    Marcus Bontempelli and Hugh Greenwood.

    Matthew Dellavedova went the other way.
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    The reason I asked: I happened to have a chat with someone last week who is familiar with our first year draft pick JUH.

    Said he is a really gun basketballer.
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    Re: How many Dogs players (and other teams' AFL players) were good at basketball?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dry Rot View Post
    The reason I asked: I happened to have a chat with someone last week who is familiar with our first year draft pick JUH.

    Said he is a really gun basketballer.
    I wouldn't be surprised, he seems like the sort of kid who's good at all sports. But I can only find where he's played basketball with a country team called Terang Tornadoes but then he's said he plays to stay in condition for footy. Can't see where he's played any elite/representative level basketball so he either doesn't take it that seriously or isn't an out and out gun.
    They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.

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