Hoops

Sixers Vs Breakers NSEC Fri 13th

sunnycoast not sure how many games they play just found the website myself it's just a matter of going in and looking if they have the game you want to watch glad i could help

This one wasn't the coaches fault. Players dropped their heads as soon as things didn't go their way (except Simpson, guy is a beast with a great work ethic on the court) and basically just went through the motions. Sixers Imports were hustling but no one else had their backs. Breakers pretty much came out on top of every matchup.

Breakers had 22 from Abercrombie (including 3/4 behind the arc, 4 rebounds, 2 steals, 2 blocks) and 17 from Wilkinson (with a steal and a decent block on DJ). CJ came off the bench for Corletto and had 10 points and another great all round game from Jackson who seemed to split the double team at will but went down with that ankle injury and was limping around for a bit but I think he was playing possum cos not long afterwards he started to blow past everyone for layups.
For the Sixer straight off the bat they put the ball in DJ's hands on the block but he traveled a couple of times and put up some tough shots that didn't drop and got blocked by Wilkinson and ended up 3/7 from the field with 1 rebound. Simpson got it done on D (drew a nice charge from Abercrombie and had 3 blocks) and played with great enthusiasm but was also limited to only 8 points on 3/7 shooting and had a team high 6 rebounds. Mitch Creek had 3 points shooting at 20% including 1/5 from the charity stripe. Chris Warren got it going early from behind the arc hitting the first points of the game but from there he went 25% from 3 and 4/11 from the field contributing 14 points. Bartlett played well, pushed the ball, hit some shots, didn't get trapped in the backcourt although he was close a couple of times and contributed 9 points with only one turnover (DJ had 4, Warren had 4 and Weigh had 3).

Breakers out hustled the Sixers.

Sixers played good pressure D and forced a heap of turnovers from the Breakers but the Breakers also forced Adelaide into a heap of turnovers. Breakers boxed out and the Sixers didn't, Breakers crashed the offensive glass and the Sixers didn't, Breakers dove on every loose ball and the Sixers didn't.

Cedric Jackson pushing the ball up the court, spots Helliwell in the paint. Puts his head down and just goes straight at him and tried to dunk over him, front rimmed it and missed but damn if that had of gone down there would have been posters all over the NSEC lol.

Good crowd too for Auckland. Says something for the Friday night time slot rather than Thursday...

The NSEC's official website gives a 4,114 seated capacity yet tonight's game attracted 4,400.

They took 26 more shots than us! 26! Never gonna wina game when that happens.

Question for anyone who saw the game live or online or even on Sky...were NZ off in their O tonight or did the 36ers do a good job in keeping them to just 80 points (our average is 92 after all).

Sadly our O has gone missing since we beat Sydney but our D at least seems to be keeping teams to a reasonable score which our O would normally beat. Can't we just get them BOTH going at once and not just one or the other. Damn frustrating.

thanks for the online link anonymous was great to watch are games usually on this website?

mixture of poor shots and shots under pressure combined with missing sitters.

I've actually come to enjoy the banter from Mulls and Frank

Big game from Abercrombie and Jackson to get the win. Now to watch the Hawks game.

Ok I know the game is gone but why has Clarke had DJ on the bench for the entire 4th period? Please don't tell me he's injured also....

Abercrombie hit one on the run to finish the 3rd and had a nice block on Creek a couple of plays back.
Breakers up 65-46
Jackson getting to the rim at will, Wilkinson getting it done and CJ chiming in when needed. Sixers had their heads down for a while.

Clark just gave the Sixers a serve, "they're treating you like little boys out there, you gotta play like men in this league"

Breakers up by 10 end of the 1st.
Abercrombie 10 points and a block.
Wilkinson blocked DJ second play of the game.
Simpson and Warren playing well.

I think we can only play Wade when Pledger is on. Clarke neglected to mention they'd cleared their bench by the last quarter and we only made a comeback when the game was totally over.

Wilkinson is the key, hopefully we have worked out a game plan for him and can implement it quicker than the one we were working on against Khazzouh. That took 4 games to get right. All common sense indicates to this being a blowout. New Zealand beat us comfortably last time at home, we have lost Crosswell (although he had minimal impact last time, then blew out his achilles), they are bringing back CJ, it's at their homecourt and surely Abercrombie won't play that badly again.

I've written more on my blog

http://36reasons.blogspot.com/2012/01/preview-36ers-v-breakers.html

Don't see a win for us tonight unfortunately

Creek Vs Abercrombie would be a better watch than Weigh Vs Abercrombie given Weighs current form.

Clarke : " They've been together for a long time and as the NZ National team and Andre's been there 8 or 9 years. Last time there , in the second half , we did play the best half of basketball for the season."

I am hoping that Friday the 13th will be bad for the Breakers. Instead of a black cat crossing their path, making it a puma.

I must admit I did like Helliwell's 2nd foul last game, which was a solid hip and shoulder, but the umpire knew it was a foul and Kerry Williams felt it the next day. I believe if you are going to foul, No soft fouls. My primary school footy coach was a Port Adelaide man and his philosophy was "a man on the ground is one less for them" Gee we were a rough bunch playing footy.

Would like to see Helliwell test the 3 second rule. Camp in the key, get fed, dunk. Never gets called and just try it, once..... What's the use of moving screens for the guards when you can dunk it over WIlkinson?

Wilkinson is the #1 menace as everyone knows. Abercrombie is the danger man for me. I think he is Mitch Creek in a Breakers uniform. As we all know, Creeky needs more minutes and Steven Weigh needs to donate some to him.

As the article below says 'not as sinister as it appears', but still interesting.


Phillips is 'suspended'
By ARTHUR SHERMAN
Norwich Bulletin


MOHEGAN -- Sounding worse than it is, the Connecticut Sun announced Tuesday that Erin Phillips has been suspended for the 2007 season. The action comes because she failed to report to training camp, per the WNBA collective bargaining agreement.

But anyone confusing the term "suspended" for Phillips, who will not play this season because of a torn anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee, being a negative on how the team feels would be quite wrong.

"We're not upset," Sun general manager Chris Sienko said. "We kind of expected this would happen and we're excited for her to come back next year. We obviously want her to recoup appropriately, so we don't want to rush anything."

The suspension actually helps Connecticut because it won't have to pay her or count her on the roster, which cannot hold more than 13. The Sun still retain Phillips' rights, but she will be in the third year of her contract next season instead of her second.

The Sun do have an option for the 2009 season.

Had Phillips' contract counted toward the cap, Connecticut wouldn't have been able to afford a 13th player -- only 11 are on the active roster -- until midway through the season. The Sun won't have to wait anymore, although Sienko indicated the team might only keep 12 after training camp.

"One of the players that we're interested in may report a couple of weeks late," he said, choosing to withhold any other information, "which might make it a little bit easier."