2017/18 NBL Season/Boomers/Off-Season news

[Gozu]

3QT

United 78
Sixers 69

[Brodlach]

Cmon lads play the last 10 minutes like it's your last on earth

[Gozu]

Final

United 100
Sixers 82

[DOC]

Well done Melbourne. You finish top, you get the extra game at home.

[Brodlach]

As sad as it gets

Sadder than when the Crows lost

Shithouse 6 months in sport

[Corona Man]

Bahahaha

[saintal]

Entertaining series.

Will this Melbourne team still exist in 3-4 years time? Or will they fold like every other Melbourne side that had success..

[Spargo]

At the end of the day we had no one “light up” at any stage. They did.

[Gozu]

Without Childress we really needed at least one of Sobey or Deng to fire and unfortunately both didn't tonight.

Even though it was a disappointing end I think we showed real heart to win Game 4 after the Childress injury and think Joey did a great job maxing out the talent of this group.

[Gozu]

Game 5

Melbourne 100 (Goulding 23, Ware 23, Prather 19, Wesley 14, Boone 10) def Adelaide 82 (Shorter 20, Johnson 17, Creek 15, Drmic 10, Moore 10)

United win the championship 3-2

Grand Final MVP: Chris Goulding, Melbourne

[mighty hounds]

Without Childress we really needed at least one of Sobey or Deng to fire and unfortunately both didn't tonight.

Even though it was a disappointing end I think we showed real heart to win Game 4 after the Childress injury and think Joey did a great job maxing out the talent of this group.

Do you think we’ll keep this team together Gozu?

[Gozu]

Without Childress we really needed at least one of Sobey or Deng to fire and unfortunately both didn't tonight.

Even though it was a disappointing end I think we showed real heart to win Game 4 after the Childress injury and think Joey did a great job maxing out the talent of this group.

Do you think we’ll keep this team together Gozu?

I don't think we will bring Shorter back. DJ is a free agent and there has been talk during the season that he would be going back home to Perth to finally play for the Wildcats, it would make sense now too with Matty Knight retired and them desperate for a big man. Supposedly DJ came very close to going back home last time he was a FA but the 36ers increased their offer at the 11th hour. Mitch Creek too there was talk last offseason that he would come back for one more season (this season) and then next season try and get into the NBA or possibly go and play in Europe.

I believe the status of the roster is:

Free agents: Childress, Shorter, Moore, Johnson, Drmic , Teys

Player options: Creek, Deng

Under contract: Sobey, Hodgson, Doyle

[LaughingKookaburra]

Had a chance when it was back to 6 points but were not good enough to roll on with it. The end of the day we had a huge chance to get up in Melbourne in game 3 but didn’t have the composure in final moments.

[Gozu]

Mitch Creek has pulled out of the Boomers Commonwealth Games team to sign a short term contract to finish the season in Germany. Creek's first game there will be against Jerome Randle's team.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/41325-cr ... erman-team

[Gozu]

More bad news for the Cairns Taipans with Mitch McCarron announcing he won't be returning to the team instead to play in Europe next season. McCarron is currently finishing the season in Slovenia.

http://www.taipans.com/news/article/359 ... pean-dream

[Gozu]

A couple of changes for the Boomers team for the Commonwealth Games Mitch Norton comes in as a replacement for Mitch Creek and Lucas Walker replaces Matt Hodgson who is having knee surgery. The Boomers play their first pool game April 6th in Cairns.

Full Australian Boomers team for the Commonwealth Games:

Angus Brandt - Perth Wildcats
Jason Cadee - Sydney Kings
Cam Gliddon - Cairns Taipans
Chris Goulding - Melbourne United
Nick Kay - Illawarra Hawks
Daniel Kickert - Brisbane Bullets
Damian Martin - Perth Wildcats
Brad Newley - Sydney Kings
Mitch Norton - Illawarra Hawks
Nathan Sobey - Adelaide 36ers
Jesse Wagstaff - Perth Wildcats
Lucas Walker - Perth Wildcats

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/41334-mi ... alth-games

The Boomers schedule in EST:

April 6: Boomers vs. Canada at 5.30pm
April 7: Boomers vs. New Zealand at 9.00pm
April 9: Boomers vs. Nigeria at 9.00pm
April 14: Boomers Semi-Finals at 10am or 12.30pm
April 15: Boomers Bronze (9.00am) and Gold Medal (12.30pm) Games

[Gozu]

A good opening win for the Boomers at the Comm Games last night. Next up New Zealand tonight.

Australia 95 (Kickert 14, Newley 12, Brandt 10, Goulding 10, Sobey 10) def Canada 55 (Diawara 10)

[Gozu]

Surprisingly a tight one last night with the Boomers only taking the lead late in the game against a gallant Tall Blacks side.

Australia 79 (Kay 21, Kickert 12, Goulding 10) def New Zealand 73 (Ili 22, Te Rangi 12, Abercrombie 10)

Next the Boomers play Nigeria on Monday night.

[Gozu]

A comfortable win over Nigeria tonight sees the Boomers advance to the Semi-Finals.

Australia 97 (Brandt 16, Cadee 12, Kickert 12, Newley 12, Walker 11) def Nigeria 55 (Diogu 19)

[Gozu]

The Boomers Commonwealth Games SF opponent has been confirmed as Scotland and the game will be 9:30am Saturday.

In NBL news 36ers centre Matt Hodgson has asked to be released from his contract with the team and they've granted his wishes now making him a free agent.

http://nbl.com.au/news/article/41397-ma ... -part-ways