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Tigers vs Kings pre-season game, Mills playing

Yea i was hoping Bruce would play, as i expected him to re-capture his previous good form this coming season after having a pre-season, i guess the 36ers would have offered him the back up pg position but were always looking at a Gibson/import starting pg. The kings would have offered him the startiung spot and more $$ than Crosswell is on is my guess so he took it, which is fair enough from his point of view.

In some of my mock teams i would have had Bruce starting in some cases as SG, as i see Bruce as a combo guard, and would have been happy to see a guard line up of

Warren (import PG)/Crosswell
Bruce/Herbert

esentially replacing Ng with Bruce, nothing against Ng, but i just see Bruce as being a potential star.


However Bruce would have definatly cost more than Ng so may have made us weeker in other areas, so not neccessarily a bad move to let him go if it means we are well balanced and a deeper team.

Good luck to Bruce my early pick for MIP this year.

Ubaka was calling a 'horns' offence often when Mills was on the floor.

Loyalty aside, right now I'm thinking Benny Lewis should have sought a new home during the off season.

If Mills stays for an extended period of time I don't expect Benny will get much of the ball or court time this season.

I've only seen Benny in short bursts however he's shown enough to suggest he is better than a 5-10 minute per game player.

What could have potenially been a break out year looks more likely to be another season spend mostly on the pine.

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Sydney looked good, ran their stuff and scrapped for everything. Tigers have the 'glam' and when they run it looks good but Sydney have 'grunt'. They are even better with Madgen.

Tigers were better with Mills and Dillon on the court. Early on they were still the Tigers of last season with Ubaka directing everything instead of Williams. Mills and Dillon bring fresh energy as does Benny Lewis who works extremely hard.

Without Burston they struggled on the boards and with his injury problems this may become their weakness.

Mills wearing Helliwell's singlet? LOL, I'm surprised he didn't trip over it!

Great finish by Aaron Bruce. He didn't know it.
He didn't think it could be done
But in the final end , he won the war
After losing every battle.

Wow, looks like a great finish! The Tigers looked to have come from behind to take the game with a big 4th quarter, but the Kings didn't give up and Bruce and Khazzouh have stolen the win with 4 points between them in the last 7 secs!

Judging from the play by play, after Bose missed a three with 11 secs left that would have tied the score, Bruce has stolen the rebound and been fouled on another three attempt! He made 2-3 and then Khazzouh scored off the missed third FT to seal the 1 point win!

No wait ..here comes Aaron Bruce.. gamebreaker.

Looks like Mills went off in the 4th quarter! Walker with some good contributions late too.

Jerai Grant has racked up 4 blocks for the Kings and Bose has had a poor shooting night, but filled up the scoresheet 9 rebs, 4 ast, 2 stls and 3 TO.

Looks like they saved him (Mills) up for the fourth.
Here he goes Now!

Tiges will struggle on the boards this season...