2025-26 NBL Season + Off-season news

[DOC]

Apart from the one brain fade he has played very well.

[Gozu]

Round 15 results:

Illawarra 92 (S. Froling 16, McGee 16, Harvey 15, Peterson 13) def Tasmania 90 (Bannan 25, Campbell 18, Johnson 16, Deng 11, Hamilton 10)

SE Melbourne 111 (Sobey 31, Hunter 19, Foxwell 17, Iwundu 15, Brown 12) def Cairns 96 (McVeigh 26, Waardenburg 22, Andrews 17, King 14)

Perth 95 (Lual-Acuil 17, Pepper 14, Henshall 12, Windler 12, Doolittle 11) def Brisbane 75 (Holt 17)

Adelaide 85 (Cameron 25, Cotton 16, Humphries 15, Vasiljevic 13) def Sydney 79 (Davis 26, Dellavedova 15, Cooks 11, Maluach 10)

Illawarra 96 (Harvey 18, S. Froling 16, McGee 16, Peterson 14, Grida 11, Swaka Lo Buluk 10) def Cairns 78 (Waardenburg 17, McVeigh 16, King 11, Schofield 10)

Tasmania 84 (Magnay 27, Bannan 14, Johnson 11, Hamilton 10, Marshall 10) def Melbourne 75 (Walker 20, Doyle 17)

Perth 99 (Doolittle 21, Lual-Acuil 20, Windler 17, Pepper 13, Rillie 13, Okwera 11) def NZ Breakers 91 (Mennenga 19, Davison 14, Brockington 12, Lopez 11, Jackson-Cartwright 10)

Adelaide 97 (Cotton 23, Cameron 18, Cheatham 17, Humphries 16) def Brisbane 86 (Ducas 18, Taylor 18, Maldonado 16, Holt 15)

SE Melbourne 124 (Sobey 26, Hunter 23, Glover 18, Foxwell 16, Mitchell 16, Brown 10) def Sydney 117 (Davis 30, Dellavedova 20, Maluach 15, Noi 14, Robertson 11)

[Gozu]

NBL ladder after 15 rounds:

Adelaide 19-4
SE Melbourne 15-7
Melbourne 15-8
Sydney 13-9
Perth 13-10
Tasmania 11-13

Illawarra 8-13
NZ Breakers 8-14
Brisbane 6-18
Cairns 5-17

[Gozu]

H/T

Tasmania 40
Adelaide 27

[DOC]

That is one low scoring half

[PatowalongaPirate]

Hopefully Cotton scores 27 this half.

[Gozu]

Final

Tasmania 80
Adelaide 72

[Jim05]

Not winning too many games with such a pathetic first half.
They had to drop one soon but that was woeful.

[gadj1976]

I haven't watched a lot of us this year but it looked like we were playing like millionaires. Trying to do all the fancy stuff but none of the basics.

[Brodlach]

Troy Brown leaving for “personal reasons”

New import incoming

[DOC]

Mmm.

So now not even Mike Wells could see any upside.

[Jim05]

Troy Brown leaving for “personal reasons”

New import incoming

Are those personal reasons that he just isn’t very good?
He’s been a real poor acquisition

[amber_fluid]

Troy Brown leaving for “personal reasons”

New import incoming

Good luck to him and wish him the best
He wasn’t the right fit for us unfortunately

[Brodlach]

He should have been very good and his defense is what we need but couldn’t score and look disinterested at times. Maybe the personal issues back in the States effected his performance

Or maybe he wasn’t as good as expected, “this ain’t no cupcake league “

[Gozu]

Long gone are the days when ex-NBA guys could come here and expect to dominate. Virtually every import has played in the NBA these days and some like TBJ played years in the NBA. Unfortunately he was a bust in the NBA too he was a relatively high draft pick (#15) by the Wizards spent 2+ seasons with then until they gave up on him and traded him and then he bounced around at another four teams before falling out of the league.

Some kick on some don't but he doesn't seem like he has much of a future as a pro baller, the temperament just isn't there he should realised quite some time ago if he didn't pull his finger out he would get cut. It's a brutal world for imports out there.

Official announcement of the 36ers release of Troy Brown Jr:

https://www.nbl.com.au/news/adelaide-import-part-ways

[amber_fluid]

Montrez would be great but misses the deadline…… just!

[Gozu]

Round 16 results:

Cairns 93 (McVeigh 20, Waardenburg 20, Andrews 13, Galloway 13) def Melbourne 92 (Goulding 27, Doyle 15, Delany 14, Walker 12, Edwards 11)

SE Melbourne 124 (Sobey 37, Glover 22, Mitchell 16, Foxwell 15, Hunter 11) def Illawarra 113 (OT) (S. Froling 22, Peterson 22, Harvey 19, McGee 17, Peatling 15)

Sydney 103 (Noi 18, Galloway 16, Maluach 15, Soares 15, Robertson 14, Davis 10) def NZ Breakers 62 (Lopez 11, Brockington 10)

Tasmania 80 (Hamilton 16, Marshall 13, Johnson 12, Campbell 11, Ayre 10) def Adelaide 72 (Cameron 25, Cotton 15, Cheatham 12)

Perth 107 (Windler 27, Doolittle 24, Pepper 18, Lual-Acuil 12, Henshall 11) def SE Melbourne 97 (Iwundu 27, Sobey 24)

NZ Breakers 101 (Jackson-Cartwright 23, Mennenga 21, Brockington 20, Baker 17, Lopez 16) def Illawarra 96 (Peterson 22, Grida 14, Harvey 14, Hickey 14, Swaka Lo Buluk 12, McGee 11)

Sydney 97 (Galloway 27, Davis 23, Dellavedova 11, Noi 10, Soares 10) def Melbourne 94 (Edwards 23, Goulding 21, Walker 16, Krebs 12, Delany 11, Doyle 10)

Cairns 88 (McVeigh 25, Galloway 19, Andrews 18, Waardenburg 13) def Brisbane 83 (Maldonado 31, Taylor 22)

[Gozu]

Sounds like the 36ers new import is ex-NBA guard John Jenkins.

Jenkins has consistently been part of USA Basketball in qualifying windows since 2017, playing under 36ers head coach Mike Wells, who's served as an assistant coach for the program on multiple occasions.

https://www.espn.com.au/nbl/story/_/id/ ... hn-jenkins

[Jim05]

Cairns off the bottom
Melbourne on the slide, surely they don’t miss playoffs

[Jim05]

Looks like Josh Jenkins has been signed as the replacement.
And no, not THAT Josh Jenkins