Hoops

Breakers vs Kings 13th Jan

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It's also surprising that kings supporters don't recognise this, as you say very hard to be totally independent when the old mates act comes into place and to be fair we are all susceptible to this. Not helping kings though.

^Fair call.

If you're rating all the guards in the league, Cadee would be waaaaaay down the list. He is, however, the best in the league at milking fouls... that infuriates me every game that somehow he gets those calls & every other player in the league takes the bump.

Kings really are the Knicks of the NBL. Its great to have a high spending team in a major market fail every year.

Lisch last 6 games 23/87 0.264
Lisch last 3 games 8/45 0.178

What's going on?

Kings last 6 games -

Sydney 168-422 FG, .398
Opponent 185-369 FG, .501

The Kings look too "static", too focused on set plays.

There appears to be "no freedom. no free motion type" offense where you play a read and react offense to what is there.

Players are playing "robotic" with no creativity to play what is in front you.

For the safety net to work you have to listen, is that happening who knows but dean certainly does not seem to get much of a say at time outs or during the game.

Heh I think JVG will stop the interview after the second question. Ultimately, everything that went wrong can be attributed to him and his personal friendship with Gaze. For all his previous successes, this time he may have let it get in the way of his normally savvy decision-making.

What surprised me somewhat is Dean Vickerman. The supposed safety-net has failed somewhat.

Just watching the reply... HOW GOOD WAS THAT HUSTLE FROM FINN DELANY?!?!?!?!?

Love that guy!

@Jumpshot... I'm looking for the on fire emojis to insert here, because that is ON THE MONEY!

Here's a real interview for JVG: 1. How much the Kings spend this year compared to other teams? 2. Who's decision is it to get Jackson, when we needed an import PG, and other teams were able to get Ware, Cotton, Carter and Dillian? Why did this happen despite fan and expert commentary saying the contrary? Who is the person responsible for player selection? Why are we signing tired washed out Ex-league players? Why are our imports performing so poorly compared to other teams? Why are individual players going backwards on this team eg Lisch MVP last year, 1/14 this year, Garlepp MVP last year, this year hardly contributing, HIll good player last year and permanently benched this year? Why are we using the Shuffle offence when it is not working and none of the other coaches are running it? Why does gaze keep saying we're getting open shots, but these are all low % shots from outside? Why is there no inside game with high % shots?

Wise words @Zodiac & @SteveK2 (like always : )).

& that's a really good point @Manu!
Look at the other teams with role playing or under performing imports...

Like Illawarra & Adelaide.
1st & 2nd.

He didn't really go 12 deep, chucked the balance of the bench on in the last minute, Moller got a few minutes in the second and he and Garlepp looked good while on together. Four starters still played 35 minutes plus, agreed on the open shots, they ain't that open. Kings defence is woefull. I hope someone in the press ask about his subs, Moller the only player in the plus, was a great rip through and fouled at the hoop, made both FT. WMcW showed a bit as well. The players don't look unhappy but Gazey comes across as such a great bloke they probably don't want to upset him but they certainly got the cue in the rack. Jackson has added nothing when a guard was so needed and other clubs seem to be able find them. Another year gone. :( :(:::

One thing that stands out is how little he plays his bench and the large amount of minutes his starters play. No wonder they always look like they're buggered.

Just watched the replay, turned out as I expected. What a clustertruck of compounding errors by Gazey. No post-game press conference uploaded yet but betcha he's going to complain about shots not falling in. Kings FG% was woeful because the 'open' looks Gazey thinks his offense managed to get were poor types of open looks. Henare did very well packing the paint and challenging the Kings to beat them from mid-range out.

To make matters worse, Gaze doesn't seem to understand rotation management. Went 12 deep but was all over the place with no strategy in mind to make sure that his big guns like Lisch, Whittington, Powell have enough stamina and foul counts to close out the game hard.

Defensively, the Kings are way to soft inside. Something has changed with their players since the slump started, its matador defense now, particularly Whittington. Too many prima donnas unwilling to put their bodies on the line to get charging fouls.

Absolutely terrible, highly likely to miss the finals.

Easy to say in hindsight, but they sacked Bryson prematurely. He could've grown, it was his first pro gig and the team was winning while he played like crap. Yeah sure, sack him if he's crap and the team starts losing. But they ran the risk of messing with chemistry by firing the kid.

Only one King with a positive +/-

I only watched the first half & the Kings were looking oooo k (with the exception of some soft D from the usual suspects).

What happened?!?!?!?

Sack Gaze

Sometimes I wonder if Lisch almost has too much of a free reign.

Didn't see the game but as a long time Kings fan Gaze has to go. media person for sure but can't deliver on the court. The buck stops with him and his cohorts

What happens if the kings run last, does the three coaches contract continue, I'd say most of the kings free agents will be looking else where. The use of subs which ever coach is doing it has been woeful all season. It's how you subbed in eighties.

I loved NZ's imports efforts tonight.

Carter was a good find, great length, has some handles, shoots the 3 and can get to the hoop.

Mitchell rebounded well and played some D and got some dunks.

Dillard has nice handles, nice mid range j, can hit the 3 and makes his free throws. Great pick up and a real shame he wasn't with the team from the start of the season.

Hopefully NZ can build some momentum and grab some wins and get up out of the basement.

Run DMC

Dillard
Mitchell
Carter

Violet Crumbles = Colliwobbles

Yes when Blake joined they started to fall apart. The basketball gods said enough of this ;)

The violet crumbles have lost 5 of their last 6 games now.

92-74 Breakers FT

Season series back alive now Breakers just need to win by 2 points in Sydney on the 29th to take the series.

It was, from Blake's first game we looked shaky as hell. Although going back to our hot start, it was basically our 3 point shots that were winning us games... the same shots we've been bricking for what feels like 2 months.

So does the Kings loss move them down to 5th or are they okay there?

Always happy when the mother country wins!

Ironically, wasn't it around the time they signed Blake that things started turning around for them (in the negative direction)?

When the Kings signed Jackson after Blake they clearly showed they were not playing the import arms race... It was the Kings record that started the arms race, not Powell or Blake.

Yep the Kings were the team that started the imports arms race when they signed two NBA veterans during the season.

I'd hardly saying signing Jackson is in the arms race, he's average at best on a good day, need more of the young guys McDW and Moller .

I like Maric as a player. I like Powell as a player. Either of them as a big man in a rotation with some athletes would be solid presences. The 2 of them as a rotation is a disaster. The Kings have no explosiveness. Time and again the other team switches/rotates/doubles off both of them. The Kings guards do a decent job of finding them naked but time and again they fumble, or are blocked (by guards FFS) or miss the chippy because they're fouled and then miss the free throws.
The Kings are cooked. The NBL is too fast for them

Thing is, they were both big names, but neither of them was/is on big $$$ either.

Carter/Dillard look pretty solid, shame for the Breakers that they came in so late

'Kings looked better than they actually were due to the fact we heavily played the same teams over and over at the start of the season IMO. Then other teams started an import arms race and we got left behind.'

I'm pretty sure Kings signed Powell THEN Blake first.

If anyone started an imports arms race it was the Kangz

If if all commentators keep telling me that Cadee is a great player I'm going to vomit, his D is so vulnerable, and his shot is erratic

Kings are the Collingwood of the NBL

Kings looked better than they actually were due to the fact we heavily played the same teams over and over at the start of the season IMO. Then other teams started an import arms race and we got left behind.

kings couldn't hit water from a boat

Let's get it to Tommy for a contested 19 footer.

North Shore Events Centre- 4,400
Vector Arena-12,000

both stadiums are in Auckland.

I hope Vector doesn't have the clunky cringe rims like NSEC.

Out of interest: what's the capacity of the two stadia and which cities are they in?

I think Dillard is trying a bit hard on that behind the back pass... how many is that this game, 5?

Also not sure why Jackson got a T there, Mitchell steps over the line, then gets in Jackson's face?

What were the Kings thinking signing that #20forward? he is thrash.He is one of the worst imports i've ever seen.

Haha .. what a play by cherry picker Dillard :p

Vector is a much larger venue than North Shore so I would imagine it costs more to play there.

Thanks @Luuuc. They should play here more often! It makes for much better viewing on TV.

That should be an unsportsmanlike on Dillard.

Ended that quarter how we've ended most quarters the past month or so.