Craig Moller grew up playing both basketball and football in Sydney, signing a scholarship with the Fremantle Dockers at 14 years of age. In December 2012, he was officially drafted by Fremantle in the 2013 rookie draft and spent two years in the AFL system before being delisted and returned to playing state league basketball, a pathway that led him to the NBL.
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Moller entered the league with the Sydney Kings under coach Andrew Gaze before moving to Melbourne United where he won an NBL championship in 2018.
He returned to Sydney in 2020 and was a part of the Sydney Kings team that was forced to withdraw from the Grand Final series as a result of COVID-19, handing the title to the Perth Wildcats.
After spending a year playing in Germany, and rehabbing from a severe leg injury, he joins us to discuss a wide range of topics with the host of Aussie Hoopla, Dan Boyce.
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Podcast topics include;
- Craig fills us in on his basketball journey since signing a deal to play in Germany in 2021 (2:00)
- The different coaching styles of Andrew Gaze, Will Weaver and Dean Vickerman (4:00)
- The ups and downs of euro basketball and his first season playing in Germany’s Bundesliga (6:30)
- Dealing with injuries and his mental approach to adversity (12:00)
- Currently a free agent, Craig takes us through how he’s currently making a decision on where to play in Germany or Australia (14:00)
- The differences in play between Germany and the NBL (16:30)
- Playing for the Australian Boomers during the team’s FIBA qualifying games (24:00)
- His desire to play 3×3 for Australia (26:00)
- Looking back on how he made his decisions when decided to play AFL or NBL as a teenager (27:00)
- What he likes about playing in regional towns like Hobart and Ballarat (34:00)
- Being able to get back into basketball at a national level after his AFL career (38:00)
- Signing a developmental deal with the Sydney Kings (41:00)
- The King’s dominant 2019/20 season which was derailed by Covid and what really went down during the Kings meeting that saw them forfeit the Grand Final (48:00)
- The biggest hurdles and highlights from his career (57:00)
Dan Boyce is a die-hard Sydney Kings fan who grew up in Melbourne during the roaring 90's of Australian Basketball and spent far too much time collecting Futera NBL Basketball cards.
