2025-26 NBL Season + Off-season news

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Re: 2025-26 NBL Season

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Gozu wrote:Troy Brown is pretty ordinary. We should move on from him.

Hopefully Rakocevic feels suitably sheepish right now.
Yep, put him on the next flight home.

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Gozu wrote:Troy Brown is pretty ordinary. We should move on from him.

Hopefully Rakocevic feels suitably sheepish right now.
He’s doesn’t look interested and has no real energy whilst on court
He needs to improve big time very shortly otherwise I’d be letting him go also
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I thought he was going to be enormous for us, not to be


Really disappointing last night
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Re: 2025-26 NBL Season

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The Brisbane Bullets have announced the departure of head coach Stu Lash with assistant Darryl McDonald to take over as interim coach whilst a search for the next head coach begins.

https://www.nbl.com.au/news/brisbane-bu ... ing-change
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Gozu wrote:The Brisbane Bullets have announced the departure of head coach Stu Lash with assistant Darryl McDonald to take over as interim coach whilst a search for the next head coach begins.

https://www.nbl.com.au/news/brisbane-bu ... ing-change
Only surprise was why it took so long.
I didn’t think he would see out the first month
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The 36ers have announced they've signed import Zylan Cheatham to a 2 year extension putting him under contract until 2028.

https://www.nbl.com.au/news/cheat-code- ... h-adelaide
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Round 13 results:

Sydney 97 (Cooks 27, Davis 27, Dellavedova 12) def Adelaide 93 (OT) (Cotton 25, Cameron 15, Vasiljevic 14, Brown 10, Humphries 10)

Melbourne 97 (Walker 21, Delany 18, Krebs 17, Edwards 12) def Illawarra 75 (Harvey 18, McGee 18, Blanchfield 12)

SE Melbourne 77 (Hunter 18, Sobey 16, Glover 10) def Perth 76 (Duke 21, Pepper 17, Lual-Acuil 15, Windler 10)

Cairns 99 (McVeigh 47, Waardenburg 16, Lee 15) def NZ Breakers 95 (Mennenga 24, Brockington 17, Jackson-Cartwright 12, Baker 11, Davison 10)

Adelaide 84 (Cotton 16, Humphries 16, Cheatham 11, Rakocevic 11, White 11) def Illawarra 78 (Peterson 21, Swaka Lo Buluk 19, Grida 11)

SE Melbourne 107 (Sobey 20, Maldonado 18, Iwundu 13, Glover 10) def Brisbane 78 (Freeman-Liberty 17, Holt 10)

Perth 94 (Doolittle 30, Duke 16, Lual-Acuil 12, Pepper 10) def Tasmania 85 (Hamilton 25, Bannan 18, Marshall 10)

Sydney 119 (Davis 21, Cooks 14, Robertson 14, Maluach 13, Soares 11, Bruce 10) def Cairns 77 (Andrews 14, Stattmann 14, McVeigh 11)

Brisbane 99 (Harrison 22, Ducas 18, Freeman-Liberty 15, Taylor 14) def NZ Breakers 85 (Jackson-Cartwright 26, Brockington 18, Davison 15)

Tasmania 92 (Campbell 20, Hamilton 18, Johnson 14, Bannan 12) def Melbourne 73 (Walker 15, Doyle 13, Edwards 13, Delany 11)
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Re: 2025-26 NBL Season

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H/T

Sixers 50
Taipans 42
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Brown has been terrible
We can carry him whilst we are winning but time is surely running out for him
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amber_fluid wrote:Brown has been terrible
We can carry him whilst we are winning but time is surely running out for him
Agreed. Very ordinary acquisition
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Final

Sixers 93
Taipans 73
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If they are paying more than a burnt Balfours pie for Brown we are getting fleeced
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The SE Melbourne Phoenix have announced the signing of import Ian Clark for the rest of the season he replaces Hunter Maldonado who has been released. Clark played for Melbourne United last season and then finished the season in Puerto Rico.

https://www.nbl.com.au/news/south-east- ... ew-signing

In turn the Brisbane Bullets have signed import Hunter Maldonado as a replacement player for Dakota Mathias who is out injured.

https://www.nbl.com.au/news/brisbane-bu ... -maldonado
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I think only Mike Wells can see any upside in Brown.
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DOC wrote:I think only Mike Wells can see any upside in Brown.
He can’t start anymore
He can come off the bench or move on surely
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H/T

Wildcats 49
Sixers 46
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Sixers dropped the hammer in the third quarter
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Tuned in
Wildcats led 58-57....then they collapsed :oops:
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Final

Sixers 95
Wildcats 84
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Good win but we can’t keep relying on Cotton to get the win
Surely we cut Brown now
I’d prefer Kenyon over Brown anyway
DJ back into the starting 5
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