Hoops

R7: Perth vs Cairns

I think we were lucking to get that last foul called as a shooting foul

I have to agree. Id like a Cairns or a Townsville and even a... a .. a.. .Ad... Adelaide (god that was hard to say) Winner of the NBL Championship. It would be good for the game.

I cannot honestly state though I dont like my Wildcats winning more championships but I can also honestly say I dont want the Violet Crumbles to win anything ever again.

Don't forget Wildcats have got Cairns' reject Jawai.

When did Timmons play for Cairns? I have no memory of that.

From what I recall Stewie was still pretty good when he departed, too.

I also vaguely recall Dewey Michaels heading up there.

Yeah I dont have any ill will towards any of them. They moved on to a place where they could get more game time. If I had the skill and couldnt get many minutes locally and another place offered me as such, Id gladly take it.

You are probably right, I heard Former Wildcat but I was talking to the guy next to me. Could of said 'West Australian'.

Either way a lot of the team seemed West Australian or Former Wildcat.

When they were announcing the teams, most of the players running on the announcer said 'Former Wildcat X , X' then the next one was 'Former Wildcats X, X'

The guy next to me commented about all the Former Wildcats there. Good on them. They needed to become starting 5.

Was there. Man it was a great tight game. Felt sorry for the lady who couldnt handle it on the opposite side of the Arena and fainted.

Haha gee you Perth folk are bitter.

Yeah, you know, I don't think that people really have a right to whinge about deliberately missing a free throw that was taken because of a two-handed shove by a player way out of position.

That said, I honestly expected to come on here and find a million posts about Cairns being robbed so petty whining about a missed free throw is actually a pleasant surprise.

Cairns had no timeouts remaining when Prather was on the line, so whether or not they would have been allowed to call one is irrelevant.

paul is correct re: FIBA never having live-ball timeouts. Although Melbourne managed to get one after a score the other night anyway.

The NBL didn't adhere to FIBA's rules from 1984 to 2009, when BA took over. They had twelve-minute quarters and dead-ball timeouts, which weren't in the FIBA rules. Not sure if there were other changes.

The noise when Prather was in the clear, bearing down on the basket was such I never heard the whistle for the foul, thought for all the world we'd screwed up the game winner, lol. A lot of confusion at the end around my area at first.

Amazing game to be at, the roar for Kenny nailing that three was thunderous. What I love about Kenny is that, apart from his general shyness about shooting, he doesn't mind taking on a crunch-time situation. If he's open enough, or the clock is low enough, he'll take it and usually make it.

Jawai is continuing to come along. He is just such a handy dump option when we can't seem to get an opening, he just goes to work and usually scores.

Prather, loved his game, more of that please.

Don't feed the troll

Hate when commentators say 'Kennys got shoot that with confidence' or Kennys gotta shoot this or that.

Kenny plays a smart game. He knows his limits so good on him. If he can make 1 or 2 on 3 or 4 shots its perfect.

Maybe he doesn't want to shoot more because he knows he isn't an elite shooter. He knows if he shoots 4-5 more he might only make 1 extra.

His 50-odd 3 point % shooting comes from his comparatively low attempts. It's not like he is a 50% 3 point shooter who only takes 2 attempts. Its the other way round.

Central Nervous System are playing good.

Burston is really underrated IMO.