Hoops

Taipans Vs Breakers, Sat Nov 4

An amazing finish, but ruined by all-round terrible tv production in the final seconds: producers showing wrong camera angles, cameras not following the ball, commentary not paying attention to the scoreline.

Scoochie shot his second free throw and missed but grabbed his own rebound near side court but stepped out of bounds, hence 0:04 went down to 0:02.

How could he have stepped out of bounds...the scores were tied he should have been shooting the ball shouldn't he?

Yes Tom, Smith stepped out of bounds but once again the camera angle didn't show that and the last 4 seconds of the game was not beautiful camerawork at all.

What happened to Steve Weigh, he looked really good before Carrera made it back, are they not able to play together?

McCarron has has a quiet few games, c'mon mate you're meant to be a star in my fantasy team

What happened when "scooch" missed his free throw? Did he step out of bounds. There was 1.9 seconds for Breakers. Sosa caught and launched a seemingly impossible 3 from the left baseline. That had to have used up most of the 1.9 seconds??

Yeah BillT Carrera was going to rip Mayberry's head off but was pulled in by teammates...

maybe if the Taipans could make some of their shots during the actual game it would help. most uninspiring captain in the NBL, Cameron Gliddon made 1 from 10 tonight, closely followed by Heuir, Weigh and McCarron. Team shot at 35% overall and 29% from 3 point land. Gliddon 1/7 from 3Pt range. Carrera and Laughton only reasonable shooters.
Mayberry made sure Carrera did not have to much of an impact, fouling him out ( he now knows who's the Boss).
no matter how well you defend, if you can't stick in in the hole at the other end, you won't win to many games.
Cairns real problem is we don't have a finisher, and the coaching style does not lend itself to allowing a finisher to operate in the Fearne system. Long Season ahead.

hahaha @ mixing up 2s with 0.2s, some real dopes are on here.

Always has and always will be 'tards on here. I present to you exhibit A - Perth Wilburs.

Hell of an end to the game (pity Foxtel stuffed it up)

I absolutely swear the shot went off before the backboard lights were lit. It should stand.

Sosa's

left after Sosa'a*

There was only 0.1 seconds left Sosa'a shot. Therefore Gliddon could not get his shot off in time, regardless of backlight.

What a finish!!

What a game, but it can't compete with the salt mine over in the other game thread.

I absolutely swear the shot went off before the backboard lights were lit. It should stand. The game should be redressed as a 5 minute mini game next time these teams play in Cairns.

I know that you need .3 of a second to take a shot that is not a tip in so the ref explained that to cairns coach. His shot went off before the buzzer but only because scoreboard people were slow to flick it but....
If the ref wants to get technical with the .3 thing what about 3 NZ players running onto the court from the bench before the buzzer went off. If you want to get technical ref you should have tech fouled NZ.

Casey had a rare brain fade there.

The bad cut to replay and takimg forever to get the angle on Gliddon's shot was also disappointing.

Cairns celebrating hard for getting a game into OT lol. Love to see them celebrate a win.

Everybody loves to say 'Sosa' !!!

A potential thriller to watch ruined by substandard camera work/directing and poor commentating by casey not understanding the game of basketball. He said twice cairns think they've won. Well unless a 4 pointer has been invented it would have gone to OT. Not only did we miss the full court shot that went in we missed smith when he got his own rebound from a foul shot because they cut to a shot of the crowd for some reason. Get more professional NBL.

Sosa came up big.
That game was an arm wrestle.

I swear the Cairns shot was launched before the backboard lit up.

Celebrating not losing/an amazing shot/going to overtime/two amazing shots back to back/drunk...

How can Cairns celebrate because Sosa shot put NZ up by 3??? So Gliddon shot would only done OT.

That was madness.

What a scene, both teams celebrating the win at the same time!

but only 0.1 on the clock, so Gliddon's buzzer beater waved away as you need 0.4 on the clock for a shot.

WTF

now Gliddon hits a three buzzer beater

ffs Taipans...

OMGGGGG

Sosa buzzer beating three

What a mistake by Smith. Dribbles the ball out of court.

Scoochie misses the go ahead free throw with four seconds left. 70-70, two seconds left now.

Next four games for NZB:

PER
PER
BNE
PER

dafuq?

Put Hueir back in the god damn game!

The ref who called the charge on Newbill should be stood down for a month.
That is one of the worst calls I have ever seen.

Shot Weeksy

Kiwis good value @ 2.25. Breakers by 10+.

There's something wrong at the Taipans right now but I can't quite put my finger on what. They really don't seem to be able to execute as well as last year but on the surface that seems odd because it's basically the same team as last year plus Carrera and Scoochie. Which makes me think that the problem is probably Carrera and/or Scoochie.

My wife wants to start playing basketball again.

She is asking me what size ball (leave the jokes aside LOL) she should or needs to buy.

Is it one size below the mens?

Need a quick answer if anyone can help

thanks