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Dan Joyce nostalgic for Hawks

17 Jun, 2009 05:00 AM
Former Wollongong Hawks guard Dan Joyce is keen to return to the club for the 2009-10 NBL season.

The son of former Hawks championship-winning coach Brendan Joyce, Dan was a rookie with the Hawks in 2006-07 before heading to the Gold Coast Blaze.

He has moved back to Wollongong and is playing with the Sydney Comets in the Waratah Australian Basketball League.

The 22-year-old was added to the Australian Boomers squad last week and will attend a four-day training camp at the AIS this weekend.

Joyce said his agent was speaking to two clubs, believed to be Wollongong and Adelaide.

"There's been some interest shown by a couple of clubs, but nothing's concrete yet," he said.

Joyce represented Illawarra throughout his entire junior basketball career and would love to reunite with the Hawks.

"Being back with Wollongong would be awesome," the 191cm playmaker said.

"It's my home town and I really enjoyed that one year I played here.

"It'd be great to have the opportunity to come back to the area where I grew up and be a Hawk again."

Joyce is part of a 43-man Boomers squad, which includes Hawks free agent Cam Tragardh.

A 12-man team will be selected after this weekend's training camp for tours of China, Argentina and Brazil in the lead-up to the FIBA Oceania Championship against New Zealand in August.

"I was pretty surprised to be added to the squad," Joyce said.

"I knew I had a pretty good season with the Blaze.

"Even though we finished at the bottom of the table, I just played my game and it's great to be rewarded for all the work I put in. I'm ecstatic."

The training camp will be the first for new national team coach Brett Brown, who has taken over from Brian Goorjian.

"I've never met Brett, but he has all that experience from being an assistant coach in the NBA and I'm sure I can learn a lot from him," Joyce said.

"I'm a little nervous but I'm really looking forward to it.

"There's a lot of great players who will be there and it's going to be pretty intense, but it'll be a really good experience and I want to get as much out of it as I can."

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I hope the hawks have better sense.

In a reduced team competition, surely the Hawks can do better.

Last year he averaged 1/2 a game and 8.7pts per game but at poor % and free throws at only 61%. He only had 2 assists per game.

So basically he can score but at low percentage and doesnt create much for others.

Maybe at no.12 he has a chance.

Posted by lets hope not, 17/06/2009 2:35:15 PM
I hope the Hawks are not considering signing Joyce Junior.

He is disliked by Hawks fans and his behaviour after the Blaze game last year indicates he doesn't have much time for Hawks supporters. Adelaide are welcome to him! Rhys Martin is a much better option.

Posted by Diehard Fan, 17/06/2009 8:49:14 PM
get too many to post?
Posted by Lenton, 18/06/2009 8:08:34 AM
If they sign Joyce Jnr the Hawks are kidding themselves and the whole 'Save the Hawks" Campaign will be a waste of time, because they will be going backwards not forwards. Surely they will have more sense, even if they use the player rating system as justification i wouldnt care if he was a zero I wouldnt sign him. If they do I will not be buying my regular season tickets and will advise others to do the same.
Posted by r u serious, 19/06/2009 1:41:08 PM
Sorry, inclusion of Dan would be a huge mistake. There is so much talent to be had in the basketball world, why waste a spot on someone that brought nothing to the club.

I agree with "R U SERIOUS" in that I would be disinclined to continue my membership should bad team selections like that be made.

Posted by old timer, 24/06/2009 8:08:11 PM

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