The Melbourne Tigers were forty minutes of basketball away from making an import change and were on the verge of axing 5'8" point guard TJ Campbell in favour of the 2010 MVP Corey ‘Homicide' Williams. But Campbell's performance on Sunday night has given the first-year import a stay of execution, leaving Williams in limbo, as the Tigers prepare to continue for the moment with both Campbell and Eric Devendorf as their imports.

According to multiple sources, the Tigers had made enquiries to both Williams and Julius Hodge, who played 19 games with Melbourne last season, settling on the choice to bring in Williams after the street-ball legend lowered his asking price.

Williams played with the Townsville Crocodiles for the past three seasons, leading the team to consecutive appearances in the semi-finals, but was surprisingly not re-signed at the end of last season after claiming the 2010 MVP award.

The Tigers had looked at Williams through the off-season, but Williams took his skills to Europe, where he was then forced to quit his club after not being paid.

It was expected that Williams was going to arrive in Melbourne this week and suit up against the Wollongong Hawks this coming Sunday. Now it appears that Williams will not be in Melbourne for at least another week.

Throwing fuel into the fire on Sunday night via Twitter, following the Tigers' fourth consecutive loss, Hodge said, "Melbourne Tigers lost again?? Hmmmmm.. got my glasses off. Now where's the phone booth? ;)"

But after Campbell's performance in round four, 21 points, 5 assists, 5/8 three-pointers, the Tigers hierarchy are now torn over what to do.

On Monday, when I asked if either Campbell or Devendorf had been released, Tigers head coach Al Westover said, "Why would we sack our imports? They were our two best players."

And they truly were.

On Sunday Campbell was a polar opposite from his performances to his first two games, never in fear to take a big shot and finishing plays off with pristine passes straight out of the text book. Campbell has now put together back-to-back games of 18 points and 21 points, and leads the Tigers in points per game for the season at 12.3ppg (tied with Cameron Tragardh) and assists with 3.5apg. If Melbourne had have defeated the Hawks, Campbell was almost a certainty for the NBL Player-of-The-Week award.

Campbell does not deserve to be cut.

Sure, he started the season very shaky, but he has added a deadly punch in the last two games that warrants keeping him at Melbourne.

Campbell has heeded the advice from Westover to be more assertive in offence, "He (Westover) told me to be more aggressive. He told me to look for my shot more and that's what I've been trying to do," Campbell said post-game following the Tigers 82-86 loss to the Hawks.

Devendorf (11.8ppg) also continued to look more comfortable, knocking down shots and playing aggressively, the product of Syracuse University poured in 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds on Sunday night.

Although the Tigers dropped their fourth consecutive game to start the season, it is obvious that changes need to be made to the team structure.

The starting front-line of Luke Nevill, Matt Burston (who replaced Wade Helliwell in the starting five on Sunday) and Cameron Tragardh is not working and it needs to be scrapped immediately.

Westover did speak after the game about it on the weekend, and is set to give the big line-up one more chance to sneak home a victory before any changes are made to the balance of the starting-five.

Still without Tommy Greer, who has not played this season due to a shoulder injury, it would be expected that Greer would move into the three-spot when he returns, bumping Tragardh up to power forward and Burston back to the bench, that's if a change were to be made.

Greer would slot into the ‘feeder' position in the Tigers shuffled offence and bring a nuance and knowledge of the offence to give the winless Tigers better options in the half-court.

With a very tough road trip coming up this week in a return-bout against the Hawks, followed by a home-date with the Perth Wildcats next Friday, the Tigers better switch on immediately or risk their season falling apart and then no matter what changes are made there will be nothing that the Tigers would be able to do to bounce back.