2020-21 NBL Season + Off-season news

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3QT

Hawks 80
Sixers 61

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Final

Hawks 97
Sixers 83

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Round 20 results:

Brisbane 101 (Sobey 21, Froling 20, Harrison 13, Hodgson 12, Patterson 12) def Cairns 96 (King 25, Machado 23, Deng 12, Jawai 12)

Perth 81 (Blanchfield 23, Mooney 19, Travers 16, Norton 11) def Sydney 67 (Martin 20, Hunter 14, Cooks 10)

Illawarra 84 (Harvey 30, Froling 22, Simon 13) def NZ Breakers 73 (Delany 24, T. Webster 14, Randolph 13)

Cairns 94 (Deng 22, Djeric 16, Dufelmeier 14, Ngatai 14, Machado 13) def SE Melbourne 87 (Wetzell 25, Creek 13, Sykes 12)

Sydney 100 (Bruce 21, Ware 16, Vodanovich 13, Martin 12, Cooks 10) def Melbourne 98 (2OT) (Landale 23, Goulding 16, Hopson 11, Ili 11, Peatling 11, Lual-Acuil 10)

Illawarra 97 (Harvey 23, Froling 14, Coenraad 12, Grida 10) def Adelaide 83 (Dech 15, Paul 13, Pinder 11, Crocker 10)

Brisbane 95 (Patterson 21, Hodgson 16, Sobey 15, Johnson 14) def NZ Breakers 83 (Randolph 30, Delany 17, T. Webster 15, C. Webster 13)

Melbourne 101 (Hopson 21, Barlow 16, Landale 16, Peatling 12, Lual-Acuil 10, McCarron 10) def Cairns 76 (Djeric 16, Deng 13, Dufelmeier 13, Jawai 10, Machado 10)

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Also shortly after tonight's loss the Cairns Taipans announced that coach Mike Kelly won't be returning next season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/mike-kelly-not- ... -for-nbl22

Also today the NBL announced that Andrew Bogut has taken up his option for a 10% ownership stake in the Sydney Kings.

https://nbl.com.au/news/bogut-joins-syd ... ship-group

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The 36ers are getting one last home game, this Sunday afternoon's season finale against Melbourne United that was to be played in Melbourne has now been moved to Adelaide Entertainment Centre due to the lockdown extension in Melbourne.

https://nbl.com.au/news/round-21-schedu ... -melbourne

Also the NZ Breakers have announced the signing of Ousmane Dieng as a Next Star signing for next season. The 18 year old project from France is considered a potential lottery pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. The 6'9" forward has been playing for INSEP Academy which also produced Tony Parker and Boris Diaw.

https://nbl.com.au/news/projected-2022- ... h-breakers

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QT

United 28
Sixers 21

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QT

United 28
Sixers 21

Started poor but looking better now.
Not many here.
Was hoping a few more may have turned up.

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Started poor but looking better now.
Not many here.
Was hoping a few more may have turned up.

Unfortunately being a United home game not included in season memberships.

H/T

United 53
Sixers 40

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Started poor but looking better now.
Not many here.
Was hoping a few more may have turned up.

Unfortunately being a United home game not included in season memberships.

H/T

United 53
Sixers 40

That makes sense why bugger all here.
Not sure why they wouldn’t open it to members to get people here.
They did offer 25% off all tickets though online.

Hopefully the 36ers don’t get blown away in the 2nd half.

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That makes sense why bugger all here.
Not sure why they wouldn’t open it to members to get people here.
They did offer 25% off all tickets though online.

Hopefully the 36ers don’t get blown away in the 2nd half.

Yeah it's not great they should've made it dirt cheap to get in knowing virtually no members would be attending. I was thinking they might do what they used to do with some pre-season games $5 a ticket or something.

But probably not much incentive being a United home game United or the NBL would be paying for the rent/functioning of the AEC probably not the Sixers.

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3QT

United 77
Sixers 61

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Final

United 102
Sixers 80

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That makes sense why bugger all here.
Not sure why they wouldn’t open it to members to get people here.
They did offer 25% off all tickets though online.

Hopefully the 36ers don’t get blown away in the 2nd half.

Yeah it's not great they should've made it dirt cheap to get in knowing virtually no members would be attending. I was thinking they might do what they used to do with some pre-season games $5 a ticket or something.

But probably not much incentive being a United home game United or the NBL would be paying for the rent/functioning of the AEC probably not the Sixers.

It was a very sterile game and atmosphere.
No 36ers promotions or give aways for kids.

Melbourne played their bench for most of the game and still won easy.

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This coach must go.

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This coach must go.

Even though results have been pretty underwhelming he's still got another 2 years to go on his contract.

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Some sad news former Townsville Crocs and Perth Wildcats championship winning import Galen Young died overnight. He was only 45.

https://www.espn.com.au/basketball/pba/ ... ng-dies-45

Apparently he was visiting his mother's place and using the computer in her lounge room when a car smashed into the lounge room killing him.

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Round 21 results:

Illawarra 81 (Harvey 27, Froling 14, Jessup 12, Deng 11) def Perth 79 (Steindl 15, Mooney 14, Wagstaff 12)

NZ Breakers 84 (T. Webster 23, C. Webster 16, Iverson 15, Randolph 11, Delany 10) def Cairns 78 (Machado 21, Jawai 14, Deng 11)

Brisbane 91 (Sobey 22, Cadee 19, Johnson 13, Froling 10, Harrison 10, Patterson 10) def SE Melbourne 84 (Creek 28, Adnam 20, Broekhoff 12)

Sydney 79 (Martin 23, Cooks 19, Hunter 15, Ware 10) def Illawarra 73 (Froling 12, Naar 12, White 12, Jessup 10)

Melbourne 78 (Lual-Acuil 16, Landale 14, McCarron 11) def Perth 64 (Blanchfield 15, Magnay 10, Travers 10)

SE Melbourne 83 (Sykes 29, Moore 11, Te Rangi 10) def NZ Breakers 78 (T. Webster 26, Delany 18, Iverson 10)

Sydney 83 (Martin 28, Ware 14, Kickert 10) def Brisbane 82 (Sobey 22, Johnson 17, Patterson 15, Froling 11)

Melbourne 102 (Hopson 19, Landale 19, Lual-Acuil 16, Goulding 12, Ili 11) def Adelaide 80 (Crocker 27, Johnson 18, Paul 14)

Brisbane 94 (Patterson 19, Drmic 16, Johnson 16, Sobey 16, Cadee 12) def SE Melbourne 84 (Creek 17, Broekhoff 14, Sykes 13, Adnam 11, Te Rangi 10)

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Final standings:

Melbourne 28-8
Perth 25-11
Illawarra 20-16
SE Melbourne 19-17

Sydney 19-17
Brisbane 18-18
Adelaide 13-23
NZ Breakers 12-24
Cairns 8-28

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NBL Semi-Finals schedule, all games also live on SBS on Demand:

Thursday 9pm Game 1 Illawarra at Perth (ESPN)

Friday 7pm Game 1 SE Melbourne at Melbourne (Sydney) (ESPN)

Saturday 5pm Game 2 Perth at Illawarra (SBS Viceland)

Sunday 2:30pm Game 2 Melbourne at SE Melbourne (Sydney) (SBS Viceland)

Monday 9pm Game 3 Illawarra at Perth (ESPN)*

Tuesday 7pm Game 3 SE Melbourne at Melbourne (Sydney) (ESPN)*

* if needed

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Game 1

Illawarra 74 (Jessup 17, Simon 16, Coenraad 10, Froling 10, Harvey 10) def Perth 72 (Blanchfield 24, Mooney 13, Travers 12)

Hawks lead the series 1-0