Hoops

Kings vs Hawks 13/10/2016

My bad w grammar I meant that this era is stronger ie

"Tommy reminds me of Andrew Svaldenis, ( Tommy is) a better player in a stronger league and era, but relatively speaking, the same type of impact upon his team and the league. "

has a few games where he appears to dominate, but basically does not win games.

The league and the era were not stronger when Svaldenis was around. The mere fact that an undersized, under skilled player with zero range played as many minutes as he did is all the proof needed.

Tommy reminds me of Andrew Svaldenis, a better player in a stronger league and era, but relatively speaking, the same type of impact upon his team and the league. .

It's a toss up between Bryson and Tommy for the worst performance through 2 games for the Kings. Bryson at least had the solid chase down block and the final defensive stop, but Tommy repeatedly missed open guys last night on offense, and got scorched on D. I like to think we're in a position this year where we don't overlook missed assignments on D, going under screens when guarding a shooter like Forman, etc. Tommy played too many mins in the 4th Q last night, when I think someone like Prewster is a better bet as he'll keep the ball moving and plays solid D. If Garlepp isn't knocking down his shots, he's a liability.

Moller has been surprisingly good but he wasn't the man for the job last night as we were doing OK on the glass.

Tommy Garlepp seems to be struggling big time for kings on both offensive and defence. Both imports still to show top form , Bryson case no form at either end. Lisch and Newely were both good again defensively, Lisch great offensively great and Newley good but miss a layup or two. Cadee offence was great, still gets caught defensively at times but improving. Powel looks great for first game could be a great pick up, Maric didn't look to bad and like Ogilivy had some shit foul calls on him. Prewster did OK, and thought Moller should got more time after his first game effort. Hill just has to do what he's good at under the bucket and give the outside shot to his shooters.

Where are the Hawks fans? The stadium even has one end curtained off to hide empty seats. Sure it was a Thurday night but after the way they played against Adelaide you should expect all Hawks fans would be doing what they can to get to the game.

Im sure looking forward to a fat open season. The officials have obviously been directed to tighten up on foul calls.
Once players and teams adjust then the grinding unspectacular game as shown in last nights win will open the game right up.

That's the thing about 3s - sometimes they just don't drop. I thought Hawks or Melbourne would win it all last year, and look what happened in the semis.

Harris is a pretty darn good plan B though - just give him the ball, and when he drives it's probably either a basket or a foul 80% of the time. Bryson played pretty good D on that last possession (although his foul on the 3pt shot earlier was what swung momentum the other way in the first place).

Free throws are generally less of a lottery than threes, you know.

"Hawks might have been a chance if they hit free throws."


Or, you know, the 700 three point shots they missed.

Marvel has to harden up!

Just quietly, I'm feeling very good about the $3 I had on Marvellous Marvelle for MVP at odds of $46. Also put $3 on Jaron Johnson- both looking like very shrewd bets.

Maric would be on decent coin (a lot more then the imports).

He is a liability on d, teams just drag him away from the basket with pick n rolls.

He has no touch on offense around the basket.

He did hit 2 key free throws though.

#something

Refs controlled the tempo through extreme amount of foul calls, and several long stoppages talking with the score bench.

Sucked the atmosphere out of the stadium, and really played in to Kings game plan of slowing it down.

Hawks might have been a chance if they hit free throws.

I'd say give Maric a chance. It will take him a while to adapt to a new team, and especially to the different reffing in the NBL. Plus the team around him must learn how to most effectively use his presence.
Just look at Jawai last year.

It will be interesting to see how the league evolves (or not) this season. Last season Perth showed that you can use a big, shuffling, immovable Centre effectively. Are we going to see more of that, or will the NBL's traditionally tough reffing on big men kill the move?

Certainly Perth have gone the other way with McKay.

I noticed quite a few guys just not going directly to the rim. Missing fade away hooks and drifting lay-ups (for want of a better description), not sure if inconsistent officiating has anything to do with this or it is just a bad habit creeping in!

Officials are one topic I'd rather avoid though...

Only because if we are not talking about them we are probably enjoying the games more.

In all the games I've watched so far I feel like the refs are blowing faaaaaaar too many foul calls on what should be 'good D' calls and play on. Makes too many players then okay for milking the fouls & I don't like seeing that in our sport.

Hats off to the Kings, that was an effort win there... but seriously, unless Bryson shows something this weekend, he's gotta go or it'll hurt the Kings in the back end of the season.

Maric's best skill right now seems to be his passing ability. No idea what he was thinking with that dunk attempt tonight.

Can it be easy for Maric, coming back to a tough league from Europe at the twilight of his career?

Maybe cut him a little slack until he gets the tempo, then if he is still found wanting, yes maybe too old already, but I would give the guy mid season before passing judgment.

Powell a great addition. Genuine depth in 3, 4 and 5 spots for Sydney.

Ogilvys absence through foul trouble down the stretch really hurt the Hawks. I'm pretty sure he wasn't the one defending Powell when Powell got all his points there.

Thought this was Violet crumbles and Hawks were gonna get it.

6 of 7 games have been alive heading into the final minute. It will be a good season. I'm tipping everyone wins at least 10 games and no one wins 20.

Did Maric leave his game in Europe????????? He can barely catch the ball

How bad is Maric.

Yeah, Powell's touch was real impressive, plus the fact that he seems actually invested when on the court, which is the big fear when you bring in these former NBA guys on the wrong side of 30.

Well, there you go, another example of how tight this league will probably continue to be and how hard it is to pick a winner.

Although I tipped the Kings, I wasn't confident, certainly the injury to Norton helped Sydney and probably gave Lisch some more room to move.

Some great play was sadly met by moments of fundamental brain fades on behalf of both teams, not sure what to put it down to, but hope it was just nerves or something as it is only round two.

Best thing here was that Sydney got their first win and every team can bat fairly deep if they get int injury/foul trouble.

Here's to a tight NBL season, congrats to the Kings tonight, let's see if UTD can turn the tables on the 6'ers tomorrow??

Powell was great

Josh Powell has excellent footwork. Is he going to tear the NBL apart? Possibly not. Is he a quality addition that might just get the Kings deep into the playoffs? Absolutely.

Kings never win games like this

Nice work

NEWLEY MADE A LAYUP! NEWLEY MADE A LAYUP!

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Kings deserve to win this can't have the Hawks jagging it.

FOUL

Newley will probably airball these.

Maric all clutch and shit ;)

Odds that Kings get called for a foul here?

MARIC WITH A POSITIVE IMPACT!

STOP MISSING LAYUPS U IDIOTS! AARGH ITS SO AMATEUR.

Bad stream

Bad refs

Bad commentators

'Imagine if the Kings win this what were their odds?'

Not that huge, about $2.85

Sydney showing a real lack of composure here. They should have wrapped this up with Hawks stone cold from 3 pt range.

That is this league will never be taken seriously word wide...never in my life seen players CONSISTENTLY miss fundamental point blank layups

Fark me. Two weeks in a row we are missing clutch open layups. Let's sub Gaze in.

Any more layups you wanna miss Kangz?

Imagine if the Kings win this what were their odds?

Did people miss Bo Liu thinking he was being called into the game and then getting shut down?

refreshed it working now 2:46 left

back now, missed 2.5 mins.

It's died

I'm frozen at 5:17 left in the quarter. Such a shit.

Cringe-inducing stuff there. Poor Bo

Stream playing up for me badly in the 4th

Just retire Maric