2010/11 NBL season & off-season news

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Gold Coast 92
Cairns 81

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Quarter Time in tonight's only match

Townsville 26
Sydney 27

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Half Time

Townsville 44
Sydney 45

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3 Quarter Time

Townsville 66
Sydney 58

Will the Crocs choke again?

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Final Score

Townsville 80
Sydney 79

Sydney scored the last 6 points, and had possession inside the last 24 seconds, but an offensive foul with 1.8 seconds left meant Towsville held on...just.

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In this afternoon's match

Adelaide 82
Wollongong 96

[CK]

A dreadful last quarter by the Sixers again. Only early days, I know, but really wonder about the fitness levels in the group, seem to be struggling to run out games again. This was evident last season also.

[RoosterMarty]

Poor D on the perimeter allowed a lot of open 3s when the game was in the balance. But it was pretty disappointing to finish the game like that at home. Didn't Wollongong play in Perth on Friday? You would have thought they would be the team which struggled to run the game out against a rested 6ers team.

[Gozu]

Round 3 results:

New Zealand 84 (Bruton 25, Wilkinson 14, Abercrombie 12, Pledger 12) def Melbourne 79 (Campbell 18, Devendorf 16, Tragardh 16, Nevill 14)

Gold Coast 92 (Worthington 20, Goulding 17, Gibson 15, Harvey 14, Petrie 14, Garlepp 10) def Cairns 81 (Ubaka 19, Crosswhite 17, Dillon 16, Loughton 16, Dorsey 10)

Perth 87 (Tovey 14, Lisch 13, Redhage 12, Knight 10, Wagstaff 10, Weigh 10) def Wollongong 84 (Forman 23, Ervin 17, Davidson 12)

Townsville 80 (Schenscher 26, Hinder 13, M. Cedar 12, Freeman 10) def Sydney 79 (McCullough 17, Cooper 15, Khazzouh 14, Dann 11, Grizzard 10)

Wollongong 96 (Ervin 26, Forman 18, Davidson 15, Demos 12, Coenraad 11, Campbell 10) def Adelaide 82 (Ballinger 12, Carter 12, Winder 12, Dowdell 11, Hill 10)

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Starting tonight:

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Also the Blaze have released import James Maye and are looking for a replacement espcially after the season ending injury to Anthony Petrie on Friday night. They've also been trialling Darryl Hudson to possibly fill one of their two import spots.

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In tonight's game

5:37 left Q2
Townsville 33
Perth 27

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Half time

Townsville 44
Perth 50

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Townsville 79
Perth 82

3.24 to play in the last.

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Townsville 79
Perth 84

2.25 to go.

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Townsville 81
Perth 86

1.30 to go

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Townsville 81
Perth 86

50 secs to go

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Townsville 83
Perth 88

29 secs to go

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Final Score

Townsville 85
Perth 91

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Tonight's 36ers/Kings game will be on NBL Radio.

[CK]

Townsville must have the highest proportion of gray haired or bald fans, I'd guess, if they watch their team cough things up like that regularly . A really frustrating game to watch as a complete neutral, with the Crocs throwing away golden opportunities all night to keep a very gutsy and impressive Perth in it throughout.

Really like the look of Gabe Freeman, though, his hustle and work through traffic is good to watch. Schenscher looks frustrated at times, as would I with a bloke hanging off me all night. The sort of group that, IF they can find a killer instinct, could easily push hard for the title with such versatility among the frustration.

Tonight won't be one for the archives, I strongly suspect, but Adelaide should sneak home in a low scoring, close one against a dangerous Sydney. A lot for the Sixers to contain all night. Julian Khazzouh is the sort of player that can really give Adelaide headaches with his size and mobility. Will be good to see how import Craig Winder responds, after starting slowly and raising attention from the referees

In the other three games, Cairns to be just too strong for a road fatigued Perth; Gold Coast and New Zealand to shoot the lights out (if this one is the first game this year to go over 200, I wouldn't be at all shocked) en route to a Blaze win, and the Hawks to upset Melbourne tomorrow.