2021-22 NBL Season + Off-season news

[Gozu]

Shit hitting the fan, Bullets players who just played the Hawks have also returned positive results so their Boxing Day game against Cairns has been postponed as have the Hawks next two games on December 31 and January 2.

https://nbl.com.au/news/nbl-makes-schedule-changes

[Gozu]

Tonight's 36ers vs Perth Wildcats game in Adelaide has been postponed after a 36ers team member tested positive to Covid and the following other games have also been postponed, Perth at Brisbane on January 1 and SE Melbourne at Adelaide on January 2.

https://nbl.com.au/news/nbl-schedule-changes-dec-28

Also former SE Melbourne Phoenix import Keifer Sykes has signed with the Indiana Pacers to a two-year deal. After playing in the NBL last season he had been playing in the G-League this season.

https://hoopshype.com/2021/12/27/pacers ... year-deal/

[Gozu]

Round 4 results:

Tasmania 84 (Adams 21, Steindl 14, Krslovic 11, McDaniel 10) def NZ Breakers 75 (Martin 24, Wetzell 20, Delany 10)

Melbourne 82 (Agada 24, Goulding 20, Lual-Acuil 12) def Sydney 68 (Martin 19, Cooks 12, Swaka Lo Buluk 10)

[Gozu]

Also former Melbourne United & NZ Breakers import Scotty Hopson has signed with the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 10 day contract. He's been playing in the G-League this season.

https://www.nba.com/thunder/news/thunde ... ree-211227

[Gozu]

Another one former Cairns Taipans import Cameron Oliver has signed with the Atlanta Hawks to a 10 day contract.

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baske ... -hardship/

[Gozu]

The SE Melbourne Phoenix have released import Devin Thomas after multiple breaches of the club's code of conduct. He never played a game for the team.

https://nbl.com.au/news/phoenix-release-devin-thomas

Also the Cairns Taipans have signed guard Marshall Nelson as a temporary injury replacement for Scott Machado for the next 2-3 weeks. Nelson previously played for the Illawarra Hawks as a development player in 2018-19 and played for the Perth Redbacks in the NBL1 West during the off-season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/taipans-sign-ma ... eplacement

[Gozu]

Round 5 results:

Perth 84 (Cotton 29, Law 17, Travers 10) def Cairns 78 (Deng 27, Kuol 13, Zimmerman 12)

Melbourne 76 (Lual-Acuil 19, Goulding 14, Agada 12, Hukporti 11) def Tasmania 72 (Adams 23, Magette 15)

[Gozu]

NBL ladder after five rounds:

Perth 5-1
SE Melbourne 3-1
Illawarra 3-1
Melbourne 4-2

Cairns 2-2
Brisbane 2-2
Sydney 3-3
Adelaide 2-3
Tasmania 2-5
NZ Breakers 0-6

[Gozu]

In an interesting quirk to today's Rajon Rondo trade in the NBA as part of the trade veteran Melbourne United forward Brad Newley has had his NBA rights traded from the LA Lakers to the New York Knicks. Although he never played in the NBA Newley was originally drafted by the Houston Rockets in 2007 and had his rights traded to the Lakers in 2017.

https://www.nba.com/cavaliers/releases/ ... ade-220103

[Gozu]

Unfortunately Friday night's 36ers vs Perth game at AEC has been postponed again in line with Covid protocols and will now be played on Wednesday January 12 at AEC.

https://nbl.com.au/news/36erswildcats-game-postponed

[Gozu]

And on it goes the Tasmania JackJumpers have returned 10 positive Covid cases in their team involving players & coaching staff along with a few players from the Perth Wildcats testing positive to preliminary tests and awaiting official confirmation on their results the NBL have decided to make scheddule changes to Round 6 which will see the 36ers now play the Hawks in Wollongong on Sunday afternoon and then Perth at home on Wednesday night.

Sat Jan 8 - Sydney at Cairns
Sun Jan 9 - Adelaide at Illawarra
Sun Jan 9 - NZ Breakers at Brisbane
Tue Jan 11 - Brisbane at Cairns
Wed Jan 12 - Perth at Adelaide

https://nbl.com.au/news/nbl22-schedule-changes

[Gozu]

Now due to an unconfirmed Covid outbreak in the Cairns Taipans camp both of the Taipans games in Round 6 have been postponed.

https://nbl.com.au/news/nbl22-schedule-changes-jan-6

[Gozu]

Both of the 36ers games in Round 6 at Illawarra on Sunday and vs Perth on Wednesday have now been postponed. The only game in Round 6 will be NZ Breakers at Brisbane on Sunday afternoon.

https://nbl.com.au/news/nbl22-schedule-changes-jan-7

[Gozu]

Round 6 results:

NZ Breakers 88 (Wetzell 27, Besson 12, Siva 11, Martin 10) def Brisbane 83 (Patterson 17, Drmic 14, Sobey 14, Franks 13, Salt 10)

[Gozu]

The 36ers game against Tasmania at AEC on Sunday has been postponed after a number of positive Covid cases in the JackJumpers camp. The next 36ers game will be the rescheduled game against the Perth Wildcats at AEC on Tuesday January 18.

The Cairns Taipans have also announced their game against Melbourne United this Saturday has been postponed due to further positive Covid cases in the Taipans camp.

Also the SE Melbourne Phoenix have announced they've signed import Brandon Ashley for the remainder of the season. The 6'9" PF played for the NZ Breakers in the 2019-20 season and most recently played in Italy.

https://nbl.com.au/news/phoenix-add-brandon-ashley

Basketball Australia has also announced that former NBL championship winning coach Rob Beveridge will coach the Boomers for the FIBA World Cup qualification games in Japan in February as Brian Goorjian will remain with the Hawks. The Boomers will play two games against Chinese Taipei and a game against Japan during the trip.

https://nbl.com.au/news/boomers-coachin ... qualifiers

[Gozu]

The SE Melbourne Phoenix have announced the signing of fill-in import Steve Taylor Jr as a temporary replacement for Brandon Ashley who isn't expected to make his debut with the team until January 22. Taylor is a 6'9" PF who just happened to be in town visiting his girlfriend Tiffany Mitchell of the WNBL's Melbourne Boomers and he most recently played in Saudi Arabia.

https://nbl.com.au/news/phoenix-add-ste ... ent-player

[Gozu]

36ers up by 21 against Perth at H/T

[Gozu]

Round 7 results:

Illawarra 97 (S. Froling 27, Harvey 23, Rathan-Mayes 16, Cleveland 11) def Sydney 89 (Martin 23, Swaka Lo Buluk 17, Cooks 16, Adams 14)

Melbourne 89 (Goulding 23, Lual-Acuil 22, Agada 16, Dellavedova 10) def NZ Breakers 78 (Martin 20, Siva 19, Besson 17)

Brisbane 100 (Sobey 18,Franks 17,Drmic 14,Patterson 12,Harrison 10) def SE Melbourne 84 (Creek 19,Munford 17,Adnam 13,Broekhoff 13,Le'afa 12)

Melbourne 88 (Dellavedova 33, White 14, Agada 13, Lual-Acuil 11) def Illawarra 84 (Jessup 18,Cleveland 14,H. Froling 14,Reath 14,Rathan-Mayes 10)

NZ Breakers 82 (Martin 22, Delany 21, Siva 17, Besson 12, Wetzell 10) def Sydney 75 (Cooks 19, Vasiljevic 13, Martin 11, Adams 10)

Adelaide 87 (Johnson 21, Bairstow 19, Dech 10, McCarron 10) def Perth 74 (Law 16, Cotton 12, Frazier 10)

[amber_fluid]

Went along to todays game but Melbourne were just too good for the 6ers.
Adelaide’s shooting was terrible and turned the ball over too much.
Goulding is still such a great player but I can’t stand Dellavedova.

[DOC]

Adelaide need a finger out here.

Soto is just way too weak for a man who is over 7 foot.

Cut him now.