2010/11 NBL season & off-season news

[Gozu]

The new NBL season starts on Friday night with the Tigers hosting the Kings at 7:30pm and the 36ers hosting Perth Sunday afternoon at 4:30pm, now on One HD.
Here are this seasons teams:

ADELAIDE 36ers

Coach: Marty Clarke

Team: Adam Ballinger, Jacob Holmes, Brad Hill, Nathan Herbert, Darren Ng, Daniel Johnson, Jeff Dowdell, Rhys Carter, Troy DeVries*, Craig Winder*, Sam Harris, Mitchell Creek, Tom Daly

CAIRNS TAIPANS

Coach: Aaron Fearne

Team: Aaron Grabau, Ian Crosswhite, Kerry Williams, Phill Jones, Dusty Rychart, Alex Loughton, Ayinde Ubaka*, Daniel Dillon, Dean Brebner, Ronald Dorsey*

GOLD COAST BLAZE

Coach: Joey Wright

Team: James Harvey, Adam Gibson, Anthony Petrie, Chris Goulding, Stephen Hoare, Tom Garlepp, Jason Cadee, James Maye*, Pero Vasiljevic, Shaun Gleeson, Mark Worthington

MELBOURNE TIGERS

Coach: Alan Westover

Team: Daryl Corletto, Tommy Greer, Bennie Lewis, Cameron Tragardh, Matt Burston, Luke Nevill, Eric Devendorf*, Lucas Walker, Wade Helliwell, TJ Campbell*

NEW ZEALAND BREAKERS

Coach: Andrej Lemanis

Team: Kirk Penney, Paul Henare, CJ Bruton, Dillon Boucher, Tom Abercrombie, Craig Webster, Alex Pledger, Kevin Braswell*, Mika Vukona, Gary Wilkinson*

PERTH WILDCATS

Coach: Rob Beveridge

Team: Shawn Redhage, Stephen Weigh, Brad Robbins, Kevin Lisch*, Damian Martin, Jesse Wagstaff, Drew Williamson, Matthew Knight, Cameron Tovey, Jeremiah Trueman, Joel Wagner, Greg Hire, Jarrod Balcombe

SYDNEY KINGS

Coach: Ian Robilliard

Team: Ben Knight, Taj McCullough*, Julian Khazzouh, Luke Martin, Luke Cooper, Graeme Dann, Blagoj Janev, Damien Ryan, Rod Grizzard*, Jarred Scoines, Ben Madgen, Ben Hollis, Kevin White, Jarrad Weeks

TOWNSVILLE CROCODILES

Coach: Trevor Gleeson

Team: Russell Hinder, Michael Cedar, Brad Williamson, Peter Crawford, Todd Blanchfield, Chris Cedar, Ben Allen, Luke Schenscher, Nathan Crosswell, Gabe Freeman*, Will Blalock*

WOLLONGONG HAWKS

Coach: Gordie McLeod

Team: Matt Campbell, Glen Saville, Larry Davidson, Rhys Martin, Daniel Jackson, David Gruber*, Tim Behrendorff, Tim Coenraad, Oscar Forman, Gary Ervin*, Tyson Demos, Zac Delaney

* Imports

[Gozu]

The TV schedule on One HD for the first six rounds:

NBL Broadcast Schedule on ONE HD – Rounds 1 - 6

Date Home Team Away Team Telecast AEDST
Fri 15 Oct 2010 Melbourne V Sydney LIVE 2000
Sun 17 Oct 2010 Adelaide V Perth LIVE 1700

Wed 20 Oct 2010 New Zealand V Perth LIVE 1730
Fri 22 Oct 2010 Wollongong V Townsville LIVE 2000
Sun 24 Oct 2010 Melbourne V Perth 1905

Thurs 28 Oct 2010 New Zealand V Melbourne LIVE 1730
Fri 29 Oct 2010 Gold Coast V Cairns LIVE 2000
Sun 31 Oct 2010 Adelaide V Wollongong 1800

Fri 05 Nov 2010 Townsville V Perth LIVE 2000
Sun 07 Nov 2010 Melbourne V Wollongong LIVE 1800

Fri 12 Nov 2010 Adelaide V New Zealand LIVE 2000
Sun 14 Nov 2010 Wollongong V Melbourne 1900

Fri 19 Nov 2010 Melbourne V Perth LIVE 2000
Sun 21 Nov 2010 Gold Coast V Melbourne LIVE 1800

[CK]

If you're a Melbourne fan, never fear, by the looks

Unfortunate that we don't get to see much of a pretty reasonable Cairns roster in the opening rounds BUT well done again to One HD for taking on the free-to-air rights and giving the fans a number of options.

[Strawb]

If you're a Melbourne fan, never fear, by the looks

Unfortunate that we don't get to see much of a pretty reasonable Cairns roster in the opening rounds BUT well done again to One HD for taking on the free-to-air rights and giving the fans a number of options.

I hate the tigers with a passion so I will be only watching a few games to watch them lose. Good to see Sydney back. I am looking forward to seeing the Crocs do well this season.

[saintal]

C'mon the Giants...oh, yeah sorry.

Hopefully the move back to FTA can give the sport a boost. I remember the old days of getting 36ers games live, and late night replays of Giants v Magic etc.

Cant say I pay it too much attention these days. Need to stop living in the past

[Gozu]

Night before the season starts and my bloody Foxtel IQ dies on me.

[beef]

Watching tigers v kings, same crap product the NBL has put out for years. second rate imports and even the aussies are not as good as they used to be, cant blame all the good ones for chasing european $$$$.

[bloods08]

Quarter Time

Melbourne 13
Sydney 23

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Half Time

Wollongong 44
Gold Coast 42

[bloods08]

Half Time

Melbourne 35
Sydney 43

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Three Quarter Time

Melbourne 49
Sydney 60

[Ian]

I will be going Sunday, my daughter and her best friend are cheerleading for the Lightning in the game before the 36ers, just a one of thing, they had a 4 1/2 hr session tonight to learn the routine.

[Brucetiki]

Interesting to see the NBL adopting the NBA-style key and 3 point line.

[CK]

Woll 83 d Gold Coast 77. Woll import Gary Ervin snared 27 in his NBL debut.

Sydney stun the Melbourne Tigers 84-68. The Kings Julian Khazzouh set the benchmark with a stunning 24 point, 17 rebound game . Melbourne looked completely over the place all night. Very early days, but look to be carrying too much height in that roster, with smaller teams looking to run around them.

[Gozu]

Wasn't the greatest game but the Kings were impressive. They looked a more purposeful outfit than the Tigers did. I've got no idea why the Tigers went down the route they did by signing a million centres and then they still got beaten inside and on the boards by the Khazzouh & the Kings. It's only one game in but Khazzouh looks more polished after spending the past one and half seasons playing in Israel and Luke Cooper looks like he's got something about him too.

[CK]

Kings back to earth suddenly with a 83-70 home loss to the NZ Breakers. McCullough 17, Khazzouh 16 for the Kings; Brasswell 16, and Abercrombie 13 points, plus 11 rebounds for the Breakers.

Deep in the third term, the Townsville Crocs leading the Cairns Taipans 52-45 in an entertaining struggle.

[Brucetiki]

Final score in the other match

Townsville 79
Cairns 70

[Brucetiki]

Kings back to earth suddenly with a 83-70 home loss to the NZ Breakers. McCullough 17, Khazzouh 16 for the Kings; Brasswell 16, and Abercrombie 13 points, plus 11 rebounds for the Breakers.

Deep in the third term, the Townsville Crocs leading the Cairns Taipans 52-45 in an entertaining struggle.

Crowd of about 8500 at the Kings game - that would have to be one of the biggest ever for any NBL game in Sydney wouldn't it .

Seriously, I hope they can maintain attendances like that.

[Jim05]

Sydney's crowds have always been a disgrace. For a team with a lot of recent success and in a city bordering on 4mill people they should be getting alot more

[Brucetiki]

While One's coverage is an improvement on Fox Sport's, I'd wish their game and shot clocks weren't 1-2 seconds out, and I wish they kept the shot clock up all the time, not just for the last 10 seconds.