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Mystro

Years ago

NBL Finals Game 3 Breakers Vs Taipans NSEC

agree Paul

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Anonymous

Years ago

You know what .You people that live down south and over the ditch if any of you on this chat do need to give Cairns HUGE credit.

Its not all about SA,NSW,VIC .We QLD teams deserve as much as you do to win...Maybe your slack arse no hoper teams need to STEP UP and actually win and get into the semi's or even thats right the GRAND FINAL.

The Taipans did what they had to to get into the Finals GF. None you others did .

So put up or shut up...The stage is for whoever deserves it and Cairns and NZ do as much as eachother.

Maybe a bit of thought needs to go into your scribble before you etch it onto this page....

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Mystro

Years ago

Stoked with that result, NZ's first title!!!
Great that Abercrombie got finals MVP, had a solid season.
Henare gets to go out a champ, a deserving send off for a loyal player, played like he wanted it as well.

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Big Ads

Years ago

I got the impression that Carfino lead them down the whole "lets put a lot of focus on Cairns" path. You can't knock the Cairns boys for taking the opportunity to thank their fans and everyone.

Sengstock was class, as was Spangler, but agree that too much was made of Cairns (perhaps filling time).

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Anonymous

Years ago

Well done breakers!!!!!!! The best team this year!!!! Hope the nbl gets better next yr, had an awsome yr!!! Well done to henare n my fav cj!!!! Enjoy it New zealand!!!!

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Anonymous

Years ago

These refs r f...t!!!! Im loving tiapans!!!!!! Smash the kiwis!!! The breakers have had the luck u need all yr!!! Hope the refs dnt decide the gf!!

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Years ago

Breakers should win, I say by 7. I would love another 2OT game with Cairns winning...but I just don't think it will happen.

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igotmadskills

Years ago

so if i move my feet i can hold jerseys, arms anything i want. Sure he takes charges etc ill give him that but id rather see clean defence.

I go to the footy and see less contact than when i watch boucher, robbins, martin etc play dirty defence while moving their feet..

gorg won championships coz he got his whole team playing dirty D and the refs let it go as they knew they would cop an earful if they called the fouls. Thats why gorg was a great coach as he got the refs calling it his way so his team had a big advantage..

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Mystro

Years ago

Boucher serves his purpose, how many offensive boards did he get his dirty mitts on in game 2 when it started getting down to the wire?
People always complain that great defensive players like Boucher and Martin don't get called for fouls, it's because they move their feet ;)

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igotmadskills

Years ago

Boucher is a hack and if they actually called fouls on him he would only last 10 minutes.

Forgot about vukona - i rate him highly as he isnt the most talented and is massively undersized but hustles his butt off.

NZ are expected to win though, that changes things big time mentally. NZ in the world champs were not expected to do any good so had no pressure.

Lets hope its a close one. Id like cairns to win personally as we all know they are lucky to be in the comp let alone done what they have this year..

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Mystro

Years ago

igotmadskills,
so Vukona and Boucher don't have championships? Penney has played EuroLeague Finals and World Champs Semi's as well as NCAA Final Four basketball, NZ well and truly have the edge on experience and the home court advantage to go along with it.
Has anyone ever see Kirk Penney have 2 shit games in a row?

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igotmadskills

Years ago

Pressure is all on the breakers now so i recon cairns will get the W. Only CJ has real finals experience for NZ. Penney is a gun but what has he won??
NZ are a shooting team and when you get tight what happens to your shot.

As they say defence wins championships so if cairns can keep em to 70 or 80 or less....

No one expects cairns to win, surely they will be fired up and if ubaka plays Ok and loughton does something then who knows.

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Big Marty

Years ago

Either way, it's a feel good story. Either team popping their title cherry.

Would prefer another Double OT game. Think the Breakers have this one the bag though.

I do hope the final game isn't a blowout.

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