SA Footy

The 36ers Josh Giddey has officially nominated for the NBA Draft where he is expected to be a lottery pick and possibly even go in the Top 10 picks. The 6'8" PG is currently averaging 11ppg, 7rpg and leading the NBL in assists at 7.4apg.

https://www.adelaide36ers.com/news/gidd ... -nba-draft

Also today the New Orleans Pelicans officially signed former NBL Next Star Didi Louzada to a multi-year deal. The 6'5" Brazilian guard averaged 10.3ppg, 3.8rpg and 1.8apg in his 43 games with the Sydney Kings over the past two seasons.

https://www.nba.com/pelicans/news/pelic ... di-louzada

The NZ Breakers have released veteran Aussie guard Jarrad Weeks and Tai Webster returns from injury tonight.

https://nbl.com.au/news/breakers-and-weeks-part-ways

QT

Bullets 23
Sixers 22

H/T

Sixers 55
Bullets 47

3QT

Sixers 75
Bullets 59

Final

Sixers 101
Bullets 79

Josh Giddey first Aussie in NBL history with back to back triple doubles.

The rumour came out over the weekend and tonight was confirmed the Illawarra Hawks have released their big off-season signing Deng Adel.

https://nbl.com.au/news/hawks-and-deng- ... ee-release

The Hawks beat the Breakers down in Tassie tonight 75-67 with Tyler Harvey scoring 29 points.

QT

Sixers 27
Taipans 9

H/T

Sixers 46
Taipans 30

3QT

Sixers 69
Taipans 47

Final

Sixers 92
Taipans 76

Good to see a couple of big wins this round.

Brisbane Bullets coach Andrej Lemanis has announced he will be leaving the team at the end of the season reportedly to take up an opportunity coaching in Japan. He coached the Boomers at the 2016 Olympic Games and the 2014 & 2019 World Cup's and won three consecutive NBL championships as coach of the NZ Breakers in 2011-13 along with two NBL coach of the year awards in 2012 & 2013.

https://nbl.com.au/news/lemanis-to-leav ... easons-end

Also today the Sydney Kings announced they've signed veteran PG Jarrad Weeks as an injury replacement player for the rest of the season. He was recently released by the NZ Breakers and returns to the Kings where he started his NBL career in 2010.

https://nbl.com.au/news/jarrad-weeks-signs-with-sydney

Lemanis is the most over rated coached in the history of the NBL

Round 16 results:

Melbourne 90 (Hopson 25, Lual-Acuil 23, Goulding 19) def NZ Breakers 76 (C. Webster 20, McDowell-White 12, Abercrombie 11)

Brisbane 94 (Patterson 27, Sobey 20, Drmic 15, Froling 11, Hodgson 11) def SE Melbourne 82 (Moore 18, Gliddon 17, Te Rangi 12, Creek 11)

NZ Breakers 86 (Randolph 19, Abercrombie 14, T. Webster 12) def Perth 84 (Mooney 25, Blanchfield 21, Cotton 19)

Adelaide 101 (Johnson 26, Pinder 19, Giddey 15, Dech 13, Humphries 13, Paul 11) def Brisbane 79 (Sobey 20, Hodgson 19)

Melbourne 103 (Goulding 21, Lual-Acuil 20, Hopson 18, Peatling 12, Baba 11) def Sydney 78 (Ware 25, Kickert 13, Moller 12, Bruce 10)

Illawarra 75 (Harvey 29, Simon 12, Froling 11) def NZ Breakers 67 (Abercrombie 14, T. Webster 14, McDowell-White 13, C. Webster 10)

Adelaide 92 (Paul 18, Crocker 15, Giddey 15, Johnson 15) def Cairns 76 (Deng 16, Ngatai 12)

Perth 82 (Mooney 30, Cotton 16) def Melbourne 69 (Landale 11, Baba 10, Goulding 10)

Brodlach wrote:Lemanis is the most over rated coached in the history of the NBL

Hasn't done much in his 4.5 years coaching the Bullets but one of only two coaches in NBL history to coach a three-peat.

Big signing the Perth Wildcats have confirmed they've signed Will Magnay for the rest of the season. The 6'10" F/C won the NBL Most Improved player of the year award with the Brisbane Bullets last season and most recently played for the New Orleans Pelicans in the NBA.

https://nbl.com.au/news/will-magnay-signs-with-perth

Currently in hotel quarantine in Sydney he will be in uniform for Perth in Sunday's home game against the Breakers.

Melbourne United have announced the signing of veteran centre David Andersen as an injury replacement player for Jack White who is out for the rest of the season. Andersen played for the Illawarra Hawks last season and won a championship with United in 2018.

https://nbl.com.au/news/veteran-david-a ... -melbourne

QT

Kings 19
Sixers 16

H/T

Kings 47
Sixers 34

3QT

Kings 58
Sixers 58

Game on!