Hoops

Melbourne vs Illawarra 16/10

Andersen is doing ok, good passer, but not scoring at the rate I expected after seeing him wheeling and dealing and showing us his moves in green and gold.

Yeah, Blanchfield hits 14 points in 6 minutes- mostly from hitting shots in the corner- and DD takes him out. Hot hands and out he goes.

Watching Bairstow vs Adelaide right now, why isn't Andersen killing it too? Watching Andersen at the Olympics, I thought he'd be a premier player in NBL. But not so far. If anything, Wesleys been the better option at the 4 for UTD.

United ran about 5 plays in a row through CG43 to Blanch who was hitting everything..... So what does DD do? Brings them both out of the game. Face palm.

Why does Odigie get minutes when others are warming the bench?

Snooch was having a go at Tommy

Is anyone hating on Tommy?

Only been positive comments in this thread, and rightfully so.

Tommy is great, don't understand that haters in this fred

I shot the shit with Tommy Greer once. champion bloke I won't hear anything against him

Wasn't exactly an entertaining game for me. I also felt like the NBL phoned in the presentation of the last few games. I mean, where did the pre-game storyline go? Where's the extra window for the free throws? Where's the stage interviews?

They did it for the Wollongong vs Sydney game and then have spent the rest of the round sleeping on it.

normally you see Goulding chucking it up ALL DAY. He is THE FAN though blanchfield was the man this game. Everyone on Illawarra was madly running and doubling goulding so he just kicks it out on perfect passes to Blanchfield, who was CASH MONEY today.

Gouldling with 7 assists doe. This man can do it ALL

United will make top 4 because they just have too much talent not to.

But I'm not super impressed with them. Too many guys standing around on offense waiting for Jackson or Goulding to do something.

Other teams have more fluency and continuity. In a half court playoff grind will this team do any better than last year? At this stage I'm not convinced.

Impressive shooting by Melb, but their problem is they're not going to win many games if they don't shoot that well.
Just can't see them winning a championship playing that style of basketball

Blanchfield is 25....

The hipster kids here on this forum want players like Goulding and Ingles replaced with kids in U16s that haven't proven themselves yet.

Illawarra will provide great offense at both ends of the floor this season.

Dat step back three doe

Todd will probably replace ingles in boomers squad?

I didn't really think that was a flop tbh. He just was put off balance because of the hideous pass from Kay.

Flopilvie

I would have just gone with Hot Toddie

15/20 threes

is this real life

16/21 from 3pt for Melbourne. They're not going to lose if they shoot like that.

If Andersen shot like this in the Olympics, we would have almost been knocked out in the group stage.

Blanchfield is unconscious at the moment.

"Toddie too hottie". Genius

Think Melbourne just broke the game open.

Two good teams going at enjoying being able to watch a game on TV.

@snooch

WAT

'Tommy Greer doing good work on the commentary box as always'

He is excellent

Greer is painful

Oscar for threeeeeeeeeee

Awww how cute was young Andersen

Tommy Greer doing good work on the commentary box as always

As is customary, Live Stats isn't working.

A reminder that Game 5 of the 1998 Finals between Utah Jazz and Chicago is ONE HD at 7:30 (SA time) tonight. What a way to kick off the Season on the eve of the opener.