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

[Gozu]

Qtr time

Sixers 26
Taipans 19

[Spargo]

Horrible final 5 mins of the half.

[Gozu]

H/T

Taipans 42
Sixers 40

[Gozu]

Horrible final 5 mins of the half.

Indeed, they're certainly a better team with Carrera.

[Gozu]

3QT

Sixers 60
Taipans 53

[LaughingKookaburra]

Shorter is a workhorse and a great player. Completely shutting down Cairns.

[Gozu]

Final

Sixers 84
Taipans 80

[Spargo]

Chris Goulding, you’d think he was the first ever player to cop a bad call.
Petulant flog.

[Jim05]

So 3 losses in a row for the unbeatables

[Brodlach]

I really jinxed them. Damn

[Jim05]

Kings win in OT

[Gozu]

Round 4 results:

NZ Breakers 101 (Ili 23, Sosa 19, Abercrombie 13, Loe 12, Newbill 12) def Brisbane 96 (Buford 18, Kickert 15, Trice 15, Petrie 14, Gibson 11)

Perth 105 (Cotton 24, Tokoto 23, Walker 16, Wagstaff 15) def Illawarra 74 (Conger 25, Clarke 11, Norton 10)

Adelaide 84 (Johnson 20, Sobey 17, Shorter 16, Creek 11) def Cairns 80 (Carrera 19, Loughton 15, Smith 14)

Brisbane 87 (Holt 17, Bruce 13, Buford 13, Trice 13, Kickert 11) def Melbourne 85 (Prather 30, Goulding 13, Boone 12, Adnam 10, Wesley 10)

Sydney 99 (Ellis 22, Cadee 21, Blanchfield 15, Leslie 14) def Illawarra 94 (OT) (Ogilvy 22, Clarke 21, Johnson 10, Kay 10)

[Gozu]

Round 5 games & times:

Thu 5pm Adelaide at NZ Breakers
Thu 7pm Cairns at Melbourne

Fri 7pm Illawarra at Brisbane
Fri 9pm Sydney at Perth (11pm ABC)

Sat 5pm Adelaide at Melbourne (SBS Viceland)
Sat 7pm NZ Breakers at Cairns

Sun 2:30pm Illawarra at Sydney (SBS)

[Gozu]

Qtr time

Breakers 22
Sixers 21

[Gozu]

H/T

Breakers 49
Sixers 40

[Gozu]

3QT

Breakers 71
Sixers 64

[Gozu]

Final

Breakers 92
Sixers 88

[Gozu]

Round 5 results:

NZ Breakers 92 (Sosa 24, Abercrombie 21, Ili 13, Newbill 11) def Adelaide 88 (Creek 24, Johnson 18, Moore 14, Sobey 11)

Melbourne 87 (Ware 26, Goulding 20, Prather 16) def Cairns 65 (Carrera 19, Heuir 10)

Illawarra 112 (Kay 19, Conger 18, Forman 18, Clarke 14, Ogilvy 14, Coenraad 12) def Brisbane 81 (Buford 18, Kickert 15, Jervis 14, Holt 12, Trice 11)

Perth 93 (Walker 17, Cotton 16, Tokoto 15, Brandt 10, Cooke 10) def Sydney 69 (Ellis 19, Humphries 13, Newley 11)

Melbourne 101 (Prather 25, Ware 21, Andersen 13, Boone 13, Goulding 11) def Adelaide 84 (Johnson 23, Creek 16, Shorter 13, Drmic 11)

NZ Breakers 73 (Penney 16, Abercrombie 12, Delany 11, Newbill 10, Vukona 10) def Cairns 70 (Carrera 16, Loughton 13, Smith 12, Weeks 10)

Illawarra 93 (Clarke 29, Kay 17, Conger 10, Norton 10) def Sydney 83 (Ellis 19, Newley 18, Blanchfield 14, Humphries 10)

[Gozu]

Ladder after Round 5:

NZ Breakers 6-1
Perth 5-1
Melbourne 4-3
Adelaide 4-4

Illawarra 3-5
Cairns 3-5
Brisbane 2-4
Sydney 2-6

[Gozu]

Some unfortunate news today with veteran PF Matt Knight announcing his retirement effective immediately. Knight has had 13 concussions over his career and was kept out of the Wildcats game against the Kings due to another head knock at training. He won three championships with Perth and made the All-NBL First Team in 2013 and the All-NBL Second Teams in 2015 & 2016. All up Knight played 236 games with Perth and West Sydney averaging 11.9 ppg @ 49% and 7.0 rpg across his career.

http://www.wildcats.com.au/news/article ... retirement



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