{"id":3246,"date":"2023-03-10T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T01:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2023-03-10T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T01:24:27","slug":"spectres-swetalla-calls-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/spectres-swetalla-calls-time\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECTRES SWETALLA CALLS TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MELBOURNE \u2013<\/strong> As the Nunawading Spectres prepare for the NBL1 South 2023 season, they do so without the on-court presence of one of their staples of the past six season; import Dain Swetalla, the 2019 NBL1 Finals MVP calling time on an impressive career that saw him play around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Swetalla arrived at Nunawading in 2017, having played in a 3&#215;3 Tournament that summer with soon-to-be Spectres teammates Simon Conn, Jesse Casperz and Ambros Eugster \u2013 the then SEABL Head Coach Dave Biwer certain this was the missing piece to his teams\u2019 success. \u00a0That year, the Spectres fell agonizingly short in the semifinal to a talented Pioneers side in Mount Gambier. They improved in 2018 but again fell shy in the Championship game to Hobart.<\/p>\n<p>A new era was born in 2019 with the introduction of the NBL1 competition, the Spectres reloaded with a chip on their shoulder and Dain Swetalla drove his Nunawading team, alongside McDonald, Conn, Wright, Hronopoulos and Co. to championship success, claiming Finals MVP in process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a special feeling and winning a title at any level is not easy to do,\u201d Swetalla said. \u201cBut when you get to do it alongside such an outstanding group of men, in a country I now call home, it changes how you see the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ANRcss20BFo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Swetalla and his team lost the opportunity to defend their championship, Covid eliminating any opportunity to get back on-court in 2020, then wreaking havoc on the 2021 schedule before ultimately a second cancelled season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next two years of covid, were\u2026 the next two years. But following that, some changes were made giving me the opportunity to be a part of a special rebuild and a changing of the guards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were getting old &#8211; it was time. The introduction of Coach Cutler and a young talented core presented a new approach that presented new challenges, but that&#8217;s part of being a pro. I had the privilege\u00a0to play alongside the future of the club. That is something I&#8217;m proud to say I was a part of, and I can say confidently, the future looks bright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDain has been a significant part of our program over the past six years,\u201d Nunawading Basketball Operations Manager Paul Flynn said. \u201cNot simply for the impact he has had on court at SEABL and NBL1 level, but for the immeasurable contributions he has made to our junior representatives. There is a substantial volume of \u2018unseen hours\u2019 invested by Dain in the next generation of Spectres\u2019 athletes, paired with him being at the forefront of partnership projects like our Forest Hill College Basketball Academy Program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the Melbourne East Basketball Association and its representative teams \u2013 the Nunawading Spectres, I would like to thank and congratulate Dain on his outstanding playing career and look forward to his continued influence and success as a part of our program moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-75x50.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-30x20.jpg 30w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-255x170.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-124x83.jpg 124w, https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Dain-2-250x167.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Swetalla\u2019s career has seen him move from smalltown Iowa, to Romania, Spain, Serbia, Portugal, and Australia \u2013 a place he now calls home. Whilst the playing chapter of his life may now have come to an end, basketball will still be at the very front of his daily routine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who know me, know that I&#8217;m far from removing myself from the game. In fact, I&#8217;m more immersed than ever and excited about where the coaching phase of life will lead. Melbourne basketball and the diverse Australian\u00a0basketball culture in its entirety, is special&#8230; Thanks for letting\u00a0me be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE \u2013 As the Nunawading Spectres prepare for the NBL1 South 2023 season, they do so without the on-court presence of one of their staples\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/spectres-swetalla-calls-time\/\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 &quot;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,48,4],"tags":[135,130,127,126,133,129,89,134,74,131,69,136,64,86,90,116,91,128,132],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-junior-spectres","category-nbl1","category-slider","tag-academy","tag-biwer","tag-caspersz","tag-conn","tag-cutler","tag-eugster","tag-flynn","tag-forest-hill-college","tag-hronopoulos","tag-mcdonald","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-east","tag-nbl1","tag-nbl1-south","tag-nunawading","tag-seabl","tag-spectres","tag-swetalla","tag-wright"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}