Hoops

Breakers v Kings Thursday 19th October

Its sad that the Kings - even with a strong ownership behind them now - are so poor on court. Year in year out its the same. I feel for their long suffering fans.

Whats more sad is what could have been if they were good. They could be regularly drawing 10-11000 at their home games by now and be a legitimately good team to watch for fans and rivals.

They do eveything else well, except win games. Ok they have injuries and its still early, but the signs are there, and we all know they arent Perth, who would do a lot more to turn around a bad start.

Kings dont seem to care about winning games as much as they do about marketing - which i guess is good that they are at least doing that.

Speechless... Absolutely speechless... Putrid effort and I can't go over for the hundredth time what is wrong with this team, but the list keeps getting longer...

After watching that press conference clip, Gaze has seriously lost the team and needs to step down...

Throw money at Shawn Dennis to get him back from Japan (although from what little I know of Shawn, I think he'd stick to his commitments, but you never know), or get SOMEONE in that can command the respect of the team and get them back on track...

If I was a kings I would go and get Brendan Joyce straightaway.

... and to think people were picking the Crumbles to be top 4, before the season started.

LMFAO!!!

Gordie ....that is all.

If I was a kings I would go and get Brendan Joyce straightaway. He will make these stuck up players place some defence and play with energy and guts. That will get them enough wins. They are disgraceful

Where can you get the post match interviews from?

Bloody hilarious^

lmao

Mock, that is unfair.

Sewerage can be recycled, Blanchfield cannot.

Cadee really stinking up the joint AGAIN. 2 points in 23 minutes. 2 turnovers. 0 defence. I gave the kings a heads up on this clowns game 2 years ago but they didn't listen.

Blanchfield has also been sewerage.

@Chris, Blanchfield plays poorly in this game because he is playing out of position. Henare has prepared Vukona well on how to exploit the mismatch.

IMHO as the season progress and team scouting more detailed, I can't see how Gaze can get away with playing extended amount of smallball with the same lineup. Blanchfield and Ellis will struggle even more as teams look to exploit the inherent mismatches.

Pledger shot 9/11 for 19 pts in 21 mins and Vukona shot 5/9 for 10 pts in 20 mins to go with 12 rebounds (4 offensive). These guys will look forward to playing Sydney if this keeps up.

Well if there's any positive to this game, it lets you see which among your bench scrubs can shoulder more responsibility AngusH.

Well it may be a negative too come to think of it... if Daly looks like he can contribute, you'd have to ask why Kendle?

Well, there you go. Our two best locals are Daly and Singh.

In a game where the Breakers smash the opposition, Abercrombie still manages to make no contribution whatsoever. Thirty years old and still as inconsistent as ever.

The Kings starting five have the same number of rebounds combined as Mika Vukona.

Daly with the best rebound the Kings have had all game.

Gaze is only half the issue, unfortunately.

And not a Garlep fan but why is he not getting minutes

Sometimes being a great player does not make you a great coach.
Time for someone to let it go, be an assistant maybe or specialty coach, perhaps shooting ! And let the club move on. Drastic action needed but does anyone have the guts. Someone should just step down and say it’s not working and gain respect and preserve their dignity.

Imagine how good Ellis would be with a competent coach and not needing to play the 5 spot.

3 games on Sunday :O

Ellis is class!

I think the Kings will bring back Ben Allen for improved interior defence and shotblocking.

Props to Henare for showing everyone how to kill smallball tactics on both ends of the floor. Vukona and Pledger are having a field day. I feel really sorry for Vinnie.

This is bad...

People love to say 'Sosa'

30 points down already.

This is getting really ugly for the Kings.

Incredible and what makes it more extraordinary I haven't put money on the Kings.

It is alright Casey you don't have to make excuses regarding travel. The Kings would be doing the same if they only had to walk across the road for each game.

24 pts Breakers lead at the half, absolutely murdered on the boards, matador defense. Note to Drewey... you want to stop f%$@ing penetration? Next time get an import shotblocker.

Kendle hasn't helped too much in stopping penetration or running half-court sets so far. They are not a giant rabble, they are a giant clustertruck rabble /rolleyes.

@ 651464: floor spacing obviously! ....

Meanwhile, the lead blows out and we bring in Singh...

Kings defense against dribble penetration is basically a layup drill. Awful. And if by some miracle we do force a miss, we give up the offensive rebound.

Geesus Sydney are a giant rabble

Anybody know what an ave nbl clubs GM salary varies around, and is there a max figure they can get paid. Am just curious. Thanks.