How the heck do you contain Jerome Randle, the small basketballer running rings around the giants of the NBL?
At 175 centimetres, Randle is nine centimetres shorter than any other player in the league, but his speed and dazzling footwork have more than cancelled out any height disadvantage.
Randle's electrifying skills remind league legend Andrew Gaze of another of the NBL's all-time great point guards, Cal Bruton.
He has emerged as a frontline contender for the MVP award to be announced next month, though the fact he missed the 36ers first three games may hurt his prospects.
American Randle, who enjoyed an impressive college career at the University of California, Berkeley, has played in Turkey, Israel, Belgium and the Ukraine and also holds a Ukrainian passport.
He came into the NBL late after Adelaide released import point guard, Kenyon McNeail because of a shoulder injury.
It was bad luck for McNeail, but perhaps good fortune for Australian hoops fans, as Randle would surely be a runaway winner of any poll to find the NBL's most exciting player of the season.
He holds the NBL individual season scoring high of 41 and is the first player in more than seven years to have notched at least 25 in five straight games.
Randle is on track to post the highest ever individual scoring average in an NBL season since the game was reduced from 48 to 40 minutes in the 2009-10 campaign.
If he maintains his sizzling current average of 24.6 points per game, he will finish ahead of Kirk Penney (23.2 ppg, 2009-10) and Chris Goulding (23.0, 2013-13).
Randle's lowest score this season was 12 and he has contributed at least 16 in every other game.
Yet his prolific scoring hasn't precluded Randle from fulfilling the point guard's primary job of distributing the ball and finding teammates.
He is second in the NBL in assists with an average of 5.16 per game behind the Breakers' Cedric Jackson (6.74).
Randle might even be leading that category too if not for the presence of teammate Adam Gibson, who is running third on 4.14 assists per game."
"I feel like what he's done in the league, I've never seen before," 36ers coach Joey Wright said of Randle.
"He's averaging close to 25 points in a 40 minute game. It's not just that, he's second in assists, he's playing great `D' right now."
Wright believes Randle should be a shoo-in for MVP honours, though Gaze cautioned that missing those early games might damage his chances.
"Offensively he's been fantastic, he reminds me a lot of Cal Bruton," Gaze said.
"His scoring, the way he can create his shot off the dribble, from the three-point line and getting to the ring, he's just a real tough matchup.
"It's like he's not selfish either, he finds other people."
