2024-25 NBL Season + Off-season news

[Jim05]

Harrell has been huge.
Disappointing to give up the buzzer beater and go to OT

[amber_fluid]

Sensational game.
Great win

[LaughingKookaburra]

Good thing about Adelaide is that they are no where near playing their best yet and they are still winning. All bar one game they’ve been in it the whole way.

[Gozu]

Round 6 results:

SE Melbourne 88 (Hurt 19, Ayre 13, Glover 13, Sobey 12, Wieskamp 11) def NZ Breakers 62 (Jackson-Cartwright 19, Anticevich 12, Mooney 11)

Melbourne 92 (Goulding 25, Cameron 18, Clark 14, White 12) def Illawarra 87 (Hickey 17, Froling 16, Blanchfield 12, Harvey 12, Swaka Lo Buluk 10)

Adelaide 99 (Harrell 36, Davis 29, Vasiljevic 16) def Cairns 93 (OT) (Edwards 27, Waardenburg 18, Gak 14)

Perth 87 (Pinder 34, Almansa 14, Pepper 11) def Sydney 84 (Cooks 22, Oliver 17, Noi 15)

Illawarra 88 (Harvey 22, Days 16, Swaka Lo Buluk 13, Froling 11) def SE Melbourne 82 (Hurt 18, Wieskamp 16, Sobey 14, Lewis 12)

Tasmania 87 (Crawford 16, Deng 16, Doyle 15, Magnay 13) def Brisbane 79 (Norton 20, Prather 11)

NZ Breakers 93 (Mooney 24, Jackson-Cartwright 21, Lopez 13, Bolden 11, Gillespie 11) def Sydney 89 (Le'afa 23)

Melbourne 106 (Cameron 18, White 16, Clark 15, Goulding 15, Bowen 12) def Cairns 63 (Antonio 11, Waardenburg 11, Stattmann 10)

[Gozu]

The Brisbane Bullets have signed local guard Emmett Naar as their nominated replacement player for the rest of the season. He's previously played a few seasons with the Illawarra Hawks and played in the NBL1 North this off-season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/bullets-call-on-former-hawk

Also the SE Melbourne Phoenix have announced Tommy Greer is stepping down as CEO.

https://nbl.com.au/news/phoenix-ceo-resigns

[Gozu]

The Cairns Taipans have announced the signing of import Deshon Taylor as an injury replacement for Pedro Bradshaw. He previously played in the NBL with the 36ers and Sydney Kings, played in Turkey last season and started this season in Israel.

https://nbl.com.au/news/former-king-reu ... -in-cairns

[mighty_tiger_79]

Basketball players certainly do get around....

[Gozu]

Basketball Australia have announced the Boomers team for the Asia Cup qualifiers in Thailand in November.

Australian Boomers – Team | FIBA Asia Cup 2025 Qualifiers

Sam Froling (Illawarra)
Chris Goulding (Melbourne)
Ben Henshall (Perth)
Will 'Davo' Hickey (Illawarra)
Jordan Hunter (SEM Phoenix)
Nick Kay (Shimane Susanoo Magic)
Mitch Norton (Brisbane)
Lachlan Olbrich (Illawarra)
Nathan Sobey (SEM Phoenix)
DJ Vasiljevic (Adelaide)
Jack White (Melbourne)
Rocco Zikarsky (Brisbane)

Head Coach - Jacob Chance | Assistant Coach - Kerry Williams | Assistant Coach - Robbie McKinlay

https://nbl.com.au/news/nbl-stars-headline-boomers-team

[LaughingKookaburra]

Massive game this afternoon to give the club a serious boost. Must say I’m really impressed in the way the group handles the media. They are confident, respectful, genuine, focused and call out any media identities that try with smart questions or try and create a story. They have grown up it seems as a club and blockout the bullshit that this states sporting clubs notoriously fall suckers to. There are some AFL and Cricket organisations in SA that could learn a thing or two from the Sixers off field/court at the moment.

[Jim05]

Think Adelaide got the start time wrong, they haven’t come out yet

[Brodlach]

Pop.

[Jim05]

Reality check

[LaughingKookaburra]

Need to tidy up these big away losses to the top teams. The starts are killing them.

[Gozu]

Round 7 results:

Melbourne 87 (Dellavedova 16, Goulding 14, White 14) def Sydney 83 (Cooks 18, Oliver 18, Adams 13, Toohey 10)

SE Melbourne 79 (Hurt 24, Sobey 14, Wieskamp 12) def Tasmania 77 (Magnay 19, Steindl 13)

Perth 113 (Henshall 26, Windler 17, Webster 15, Doolittle 13, Pepper 13, Pinder 13) def Illawarra 105 (Harvey 25, Hickey 20, Olbrich 14, Froling 11)

NZ Breakers 109 (Jackson-Cartwright 25, Lopez 17, Mooney 17, Mennenga 14, Gillespie 13) def Adelaide 82 (Harrell 25, Davis 18, Vasiljevic 16, Martin 11)

Brisbane 92 (Batemon 21, Cook 18, Bannan 16, Harrison 14, Norton 12) def Cairns 88 (Edwards 27, Waardenburg 21, Makoi 13, Higgins-Titsha 11)

SE Melbourne 100 (Sobey 20, Glover 17, Hurt 17, Foxwell 10, Lewis 10) def Perth 76 (Pepper 17, Doolittle 11, Pinder 11, Henshall 10)

Sydney 88 (Noi 26, Oliver 12, Toohey 11, Cooks 10) def Tasmania 60 (Crawford 12, Doyle 11)

NZ Breakers 113 (Mennenga 25, Jackson-Cartwright 23, Lopez 17, Mooney 17, Bairstow 12) def Melbourne 79 (Cameron 20, Goulding 14, Krebs 10, White 10)

[amber_fluid]

6ers with a great 2nd quarter.
Lead by 9 at the break after trailing by 12 in the 1st quarter

[amber_fluid]

Great win for the 36ers.
Harrell had the crowd going wild yet again.
Davis was very good as was DJ and Dech.
The big fella Harrell just did as he pleased!

[Gozu]

Round 8 results:

Melbourne 120 (Loe 30, Goulding 21, Clark 18, White 17, Dellavedova 11) def Brisbane 103 (Cook 23, Prather 21, Bannan 17, Harrison 13, Norton 12)

Perth 88 (Doolittle 18, Pepper 14, Webster 14, Pinder 13, Withers 12) def Tasmania 82 (Doyle 30, Crawford 14, Drmic 11)

Sydney 74 (Adams 20, Cooks 17, Noi 16) def SE Melbourne 69 (Glover 17, Sobey 12)

Tasmania 83 (Crawford 19, Deng 18, Sword 18, Drmic 10) def NZ Breakers 64 (Jackson-Cartwright 15, Mennenga 13)

Melbourne 106 (Goulding 46, Lee 13, White 12, Loe 11) def Perth 97 (Doolittle 21, Almansa 19, Henshall 15, Pinder 14)

SE Melbourne 97 (Glover 22, Hurt 15, Hunter 14, Sobey 14) def Cairns 74 (Waardenburg 16, Galloway 14, Armstrong 11)

Adelaide 93 (Harrell 25, Vasiljevic 23, Davis 16) def Illawarra 79 (Kell 18, Froling 16, Harvey 11)

[DOC]

HTF do tassie hold NZ to 64?

[Gozu]

The Breakers scored just 3 points in the 3rd quarter.

However Scott Roth went off in the press conference about gamblers attacking his players and their partners on social media:

Afterwards, coach Scott Roth revealed weeks-long social media trolling of players and their loved ones had reached an ugly head in the 24 hours before the game.

"We have a lot of distraught players and family members, wives and spouses and children," he said.

"We have been attacked brutally through social media to the point where it is ugly.

"We have a player whose wife is pregnant and they (people online) wished for a miscarriage."

Roth said he was content to cop criticism about his coaching, the team's playing style or roster decisions, but personal attacks crossed the line.

"It is coming from gamblers and people around the world and from general fans that feel they can spew whatever they want out of their mouths," he said.

"When you start using vulgarity and you start attacking family members and kids and photos on Facebook ... it's too much.

"It's just a basketball game. It's just entertainment. Who cares at the end of the day?

"We're just here to entertain, play as hard as we can. This is not life or death. It's disgusting."

https://nbl.com.au/news/sword-shines-ja ... r-breakers

[Gozu]

NBA Hall of Famer George Gervin has joined the Brisbane Bullets ownership group.

https://nbl.com.au/news/nba-hall-of-fam ... -ownership