Mason Peatling

But I think you need a point guard and you need another big.

Yeah, particularly now with Mason Peatling out for the remainder of the season.

It's just, it's a depth issue for the Illawarra Hawks.

There's some problems there.

What's he done? That he's got a foot injury.

Mason Peatling.

Mason Peatling, that is.

Decided to opt in for surgery on a foot.

And that'll be him for the year.

So they, they basically didn't address their problems.

And now you've got Todd Blanchfield with a broken thumb and, uh, Mason Peatling with a lower leg injury that people are a little bit more concerned about, and they're letting on that he, he could be done for half the season.

So, um, I think at zero and three, they're, they're looking very strongly at just at finishing in the bottom.

And, uh, you wouldn't believe that season before last, they were the champs.

That's a little worse than yours, but there were circumstances out of my control.

Mason Peatling went down in the second game.

He's one of my outs alongside Parker Jackson-Kyrite.

I'm bringing in the Lithuanian maestro, Arnas Velichko.

As Botton said on your latest podcast, Bradley, imagine, you know, and you said the same thing.

If they got a point guard and played Doyle off the ball... you know but but then they're kind of stuck because they really the reason they want to big is because there really is no depth at all now you've got mason peatling who's i love mason great role player but he's only going to give you so much he's not going to give you much scoring he'll give you as much rebounding as he can although he was obviously disappointing in his own like a lot of them were But they lack real size along that front line because Martin is not very big either.

So you're asking a lot of him.

He's more of a three than he is a four.

They've got Sam Frolling.

One Swacka LeBullock, good defender.

You know, you bring your Mason Peatling to give them that, you know, push and shove off the bench.

And then you've got, you know, Dave O'Hickey.

Uh, outside of Sam Froling they really don't have that much.

I mean, Mason Peatling, uh, you know, God love him, he's as, he's as tough as nails and he'll give you rebounding and defense, but he's, he's not gonna change the life for you and he's also pretty foul prone.

So I, for me, I, I look at this team and I actually see them missing the playoffs again.

I, I don't, um, unless they make some changes, uh, and, you know, re- look, if they're gonna stick with, with Milton Doyle, look, he could, he could surprise me.