Hoops

New Zealand v Perth Nov 9

Needs minutes!

Speaking of TAS shout out to the coastal Devonport Warriors.

PeterJohn

I salute your dedication to NBL history, geography and cartography.

PeterJohn

Damn.

Speculation was futile.

Forgot about them. The NBL really has had a lot of teams though.

Makes sense that Tasmania would have 2 Historical teams to go with the dual crania (is that the right plural???? Like stadia/ stadium).

Sorry UseTaHoop, 1981 champions were Launceston. That's on a river but too far from Bass Strait to be called coastal. Maybe they're the exception that proves the rule!

Thought Cooke did quite well, if coach don't play you enough player can't do much, he deserved more time. Abercrombie was to good for Tokoto after first 1/4 and Ili fantastic off the bench. Henare got his subs spot on.

Cooke isn’t the reason the cats lost.

But with Knight gone... I don’t think he’s going to cut it

Above was cut n paste from the website listed:

“UTC +45”

Can’t be right, that’d be 37 hrs behind the rest of West Oz.

They must mean UTC +7:15, ie 45 min earlier than WA time.

See how much better hoops is than a travel website. Very edumacational.

The next Timezone Tussle should be taken to a country centre, Eucla:
Eucla

Despite daft time zone switches taking place all over the world, Australia arguably hosts the titan of the genre. Eucla is the first town you hit on the Nullarbor after crossing the border from South Australia. Logic would dictate it follows the same times as the rest of Western Australia, but no – it has its own absurd 45 minute offset. So while the vast bulk of WA is at UTC+8, Eucla is at UTC+45. This makes the time difference between Eucla and South Australia either 45 minutes or one hour and 45 minutes, depending on whether South Australia is observing daylight savings. Drivers are forgiven for getting screamingly confused.



Read more: http://www.traveller.com.au/time-zones-around-the-world-the-weirdest-time-zones-gr4euy#ixzz4xvTdCZbP
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That’d really confuse those single zone cross-Tasman cousins

Crowd?

Some nice comments from Henare and Penney in the post game interview about Matty Knight and his character and career.

88-84 was the final score.
40 points from the bench is huge for the Breakers. Kudos to Ili, Penney, Lowe and Delaney for keeping the scoreboard ticking over.
Sunday is going to be an uphill battle, the bench depth will help the fatigue but the Cats will have their claws out for revenge.

88-84

Not good signs seeing Cooke Jr only playing 11:59. I was expecting him to play at least 20 now that Knight has gone. Didn't think he played bad but you want your import playing a lot more minutes and having an impact on games.

NBL Website has the scores 92-84, Wildcats Twitter saying 88-84. Which ones right?

They will sign Stiendl or someone.

Upgrade Cooke too.

Agree Perth bench unit looses a lot without knight

Good call by the tv team about the benches. NZ is dangerous. Perth is rubbish.

Yeh Cooke is ordinary hey

Couple trips to the line. 2 posession game... credit Nz, cats shouldn't have gotten themselves in such a hole. Even if it appeared they drew a few short straws trying to get out of it. If i am cotton I am seeking a few explanations, guy is a star, officiated like he is a scrub

Cotton is so passive, unless when doing those kick-outs for fouls. FFS be more assertive!

Perth need another big. Cooke doesn't cover the offensive input of Matty knight.

They were down by double digits dude, this lower margin now just peppers over the cracks.

"Wildcats are pathetic on the road"

embarrasingly clueless comment

WTF, what was the point of getting the clock down further. Weird time management there.

Cats were far from bad. Just didn't cash in on the opportunities we created as efficiently as we usually do.

86-82 wtf all of a sudden!

Angush the implication was that nz is getting an advantage so in fact you are seeing the cats at a disadvantage rather than an advantage, preferable to many on this forum I am sure, but not what fans of the sport want to see. Should have been a closer game, cats deserved as free more trips to the line when it was a 6pt game.

Angush - and we will see how the sheep shaggers go without theirs.

But credit to nz, they played much better, tokoto started hot then disappeared for two quarters and cotton seems afraid of contact!

Last chance this morning for Wookiee, TJ and Jacob to email me at tobystrudwicke@gmail.com if they want to be involved this season.

Otherwise I will redraw a new name from the hat each day at Midday until Friday.

So far confirmed we have
Flinders80
BJF
Clarky
hendo8888
observer

Sitting in the hat are..
Spurs & Cats fan
Russ
Ben
Ox
Flash
Putty

First name will be drawn in three hours if required, they then also have to email me before the others do to confirm.

Same applies to the refs in the NBL - "oh noes people are booing us better call more for the home team!"

Nz have won it on the boards, but cats definitely deserved a few more trips to the free throw line in the last quarter. It's amazing that the refs are so quick to call a hands foul on a double team but happy to let contact go when the cats attacked the basket hard in the final quarter, you can see the frustration in the cats players.

@ Red74, we are - good to see how Perth look without that advantage!

NZ too good today. Didn't let us get loose. Very disciplined performance.

For those idiots that complain about the "Perth home cooking " at Perth arena, I hope you're watching this game

Wildcats are pathetic on the road. Actually, most NBL teams are. Ohhh noes people are booing us we can't cope with it!!!1

Silly 4th, Damo

Angush is was a foul. You can not contact a player from that angle.

Looks to me like a lot of great D being played on Cotton.

Would need to see the replay, but Cotton didn't even attempted to shoot it while milking for the foul, so I'm glad it wasn't called.

No call on cotton layup a disgrace, airborne contact from behind and nothing

I hope manu thinks that was an offensive foul on Penney, or is it only cotton feet?

Can Brandt maybe not always shoot that half-arsed skyhook MY GOD

Perth likely to lose here... thats always a great way to start a round!

The USF was a shocker but overall I reckon they've done ok at "letting them play"

All the no calls when cotton was getting checked is a joke. Clearly fouled multiple times. Refs starting to become a factor, nz actually playing the game bettwr for how they are calling it though

That unsportsmanlike on Vukona was a disgraceful call.

40mins are a joke and ruined all previous NBL records.

Great game so far

Awesome block by Cooke