Hoops

Breakers Vs Hawks NSEC

Oh, and the Hawks are legit yet again. So many underrated players who play the NBL's best team basketball. They somehow do it every year.

Agree Hereschenes

Oscar is really looking the goods, and is now an all around offesive threat from the perimeter, off the dribble and from the low post. And great to see him getting on the boards too. I was very impressed.

Geordie is really getting the best out of him and giving him the confidence he needs. If he continues this form all year, he could well be back on the Boomers radar.

The only area of his game that could still use some work is his on ball defence, although that is vastly improved from his Sixers days.

Well done to Oscar, great game - one of the commentators said he "had a chip on his shoulder", but tbh he doesn't strike me as that kind of person. He was in two-minds on the dunk, it happens - whoever bagged him for it needs to get off the sour grapes.

Does anyone else think the NZ court surface looks extremely amateur? I've seen better quality ghetto social courts.

Breakers played poorly last night. Terrible offensive display and their trans D was awful in patches. On multiple occassions, Ervin was able to go coast to coast and make the basket or get fouled, or both.

Im not making excuses for the loss, but this was the Breakers 3rd game in 7 days. Add in the 7/8 hour flight to Perth and there's some tired bodies. I noticed alot of their shots were well short; always coming off the front of the rim. The travel had an effect on veterans such as Bruton, Boucher and possibly even Braswell who were well below their best. Add in Penney who has just been in Europe and would be pretty exhausted--He looked fatigued last night as well.

Travel should not be seen as an excuse however and the Hawks thoroughly deserved the victory.

Lemanis used the Clark playbook. 1st play of the game pulled 4 players high and isolated Henare & Ervin at the rim. I thought to myself, helo the lights finally switched on. Drew an early foul on Ervin and went to the line. Did anyone notice it being used again, because I dont recall seeing it attempted. Also the Breakers should never have Boucher and Henare on together. The Hawks were just sitting so far off those two as they have zero outside game.Gordie's game plan were just far too good for NZ.

Stonne your faith in Lemanis is misplaced. Abercrombie, Penney, Braswell and CJ went 12 for 47 (they are at least 3/4 of our offence).
And what is embarassing about that stat is that they shot at that clip, 1 out of 4 for the entire game.
Surely a coach has to recognise what is not working and change things.
I would have happily seen Henare post up the dwarf for the entire 3rd quarter even if the result had been no different.
But to continue launching up perimeter bricks when the game is slipping away is irresponsible.
This is a veteran team and fans deserve better. Wilkinson looks like he has a nice stroke from outside but apart from trying to body block opponents into submission he is limited. Dribble drives are not his go, defensively he has no foot speed. I don't understand what is expected from him!

Sixers or Breakers? Breakers had Forman last season...

Forman played a great game. Got this one wrong...not a good way to start the round.

good points Isaac on the #1 offensive rebounding team Vs worst defensive and the reffing playing a big part.
Got my Lowrider Clubs 10th birthday this weekend down in Rotorua (Old Skool Rydz CC) so gonna flag watching this game live and watch it at home with some beers

well what about that huge screen on kate jolly last night!

perfectly legal and good sportsman (sportswoman?) ship by the eagle to check on her after

anyway Q - seeing it was a huge hit - should they have stopped the game ?

the refs did a good job and were very consistent and quite right by the rules to keep the game going til the next whistle.

perhaps tehy did not know jolly was ko'd behind the play.

but she went down tried to get up and stayed down.

i believe if a players condition warrants it they can stop the game.

even though she was down for the count she did look a bit conscious - so who determines if she was unconscious - doubt if the refs could tell from where they were.

anyway - just something for discussion - it all panned out fine and the refs did a good job of letting the players play