2019-20 NBL Season + Off-season news

[Gozu]

Perth held to 74 points at home by Melbourne who win by 13.

Brisbane beat Sydney too tonight.

Underdogs 4/4 so far this round.

[Gozu]

Qtr time

Taipans 31
Sixers 17

[Gozu]

H/T

Taipans 57
Sixers 44

[Spargo]

H/T

Taipans 57
Sixers 44

We look disinterested.

[Gozu]

We look disinterested.

Agreed, something has to happen.

[Gozu]

3QT

Taipans 74
Sixers 65

[Jim05]

All last weekends good undone by two pitiful, pea hearted efforts this weekend

[Spargo]

All last weekends good undone by two pitiful, pea hearted efforts this weekend

Spot on. Piss weak.

[Gozu]

To be fair their defence on Randle has been superb.

[Spargo]

To be fair their defence on Randle has been superb.

But no one else steps up.

[Gozu]

Final

Taipans 94
Sixers 86

[Gozu]

To be fair their defence on Randle has been superb.

But no one else steps up.

I know it's a team effort but they swarmed Randle sending two sometimes three guys at him trying to get the ball out of his hands and make someone else beat them. They played us perfectly.

It was interesting after the Hawks game Joey said how selfish we were in that game. I think that was a targeted at Randle. Earlier in the season Randle was playing more as a facilitator getting other guys involved which is the only chance we've got really but the last few games he's started to resort back to the Randle of old dominating the offence which makes our team a hell of a lot easier to guard as Cairns just showed.

[Gozu]

I tip my hat to Cairns they're run on the smell of an oily rag they have to be extra smart with their recruiting to try and find a diamond in the rough and they've found a couple of gems in Cameron Oliver and Scott Machado.

Machado is the exact kind of player we need running the team instead of Randle a facilitator and team first guy who can take over offensively a bit if needed and OIiver is a star. Imagine where we would be if we had those two instead of Randle & Griffin and you can bet they're on a fraction of the money our guys are on.

[Gozu]

Round 12 results:

NZ Breakers 90 (Hopson 24, Henry 17, Abercrombie 15, Ashley 13, Delany 13) def SE Melbourne 84 (Creek 24, Roberson 13, Madgen 11, Wesley 10)

Illawarra 93 (Dech 18, Coenraad 14, Ogilvy 12, Blanchfield 10) def Adelaide 84 (Randle 26, Johnson 19)

Brisbane 87 (Magnay 23, Patterson 15, Gliddon 13, Sobey 12) def Sydney 80 (Ware 26, Tate 13, Kickert 12)

Melbourne 87 (Long 23, Trimble 23, McCarron 12, Barlow 11, Goulding 10) def Perth 74 (Cotton 15, White 14, Kay 11)

NZ Breakers 91 (Henry 21, Hopson 21, Loe 13, Abercrombie 10) def Illawarra 89 (Blanchfield 19, Ogilvy 18, Naar 17)

Cairns 94 (Newbill 26, Oliver 21, Djeric 15, Deng 13) def Adelaide 86 (Randle 19, Johnson 15, Kyei 15, Griffin 11, McVeigh 10)

Sydney 110 (Kickert 18, Newley 16, Taylor 15, Tate 14, Bruce 12) def SE Melbourne 98 (Roberson 25, Adnam 24, Creek 16, Madgen 16)

[Gozu]

The Illawarra Hawks have announced they've released import Billy Preston after just 2 games with the team.

[Gozu]

Round 13 games on SBS Viceland:

Sat 5pm Perth at Sydney

Sun 2:30pm NZ Breakers at Adelaide
Sun 4:30pm Brisbane at Melbourne

Tue 5pm Sydney at Illawarra

Wed 5pm Perth at Adelaide

[Gozu]

A very interesting article about how Kevin Durant almost bought the Brisbane Bullets and the other current and former NBA players buying ownership stakes in NBL teams.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/283 ... ollar-team

[Gozu]

NZ beats the Bullets in Brisbane 99-96 on a 3 at the buzzer from Scotty Hopson.

[Spargo]

NZ beats the Bullets in Brisbane 99-96 on a 3 at the buzzer from Scotty Hopson.

Love it.

[Gozu]

Qtr time

Breakers 21
Sixers 20