Hoops

Breakers vs Bullets, 11 Oct 2018

Breakers showed everyone how not to play small ball last night.
Hopefully they can pick their chins up and go get a win against Melbourne this weekend

No "Can You Feel It" was bizarre! crazy!

All the Breakers Die-Hard Fans have been emailing the club this morning extremely disappointed with the off court product that was presented last night which they feel massively contributed to the lack of atmosphere.

Main points were.

-The Breakers MC of previous years wasn't retained and was instead replaced with "a screaming woman".
-New Cheeky the Kea Mascot looks like he's been mauled by a cat and was interacting with the crowd much.
-Didn't play the classic "can you feel it" or any of the cool in game sound bites they have in previous years when guys have fouled out or hit 3's at crucial times.

It seems the off court stuff was as bad as the on court stuff

I wonder whether the move to Spark Arena is creating a different type of supporters - to the Breakers detriment.

When they played at NSEC, they had very loud, vocal support. Had that community support vibe to it and lifelong Breaker fans.

Can't help but think the current fans are more casual observers/people who work in the city and who have decided to come for the entertainment - not so much to support the Breakers as 'their team'.

Just a thought - the atmosphere at Spark has seemed down.

Don't let that win fool you, Brisbane will still be fighting Cairns for the spoon.

Breakers were terrible, they allowed Brisbane to dictate the pace and paid for it.
Far too much iso ball which resulted in turnovers and easy points for the Bullets.
Abercrombie was a passenger at the offensive end not that there was a hell of a lot of ball movement.
The crowd was silent, no courtside guy with a mic getting the fans going?

Only game 1 but if they turn up with those performances it's going to be a very long season.

Should've used the TABtouch money back special.

"Wortho's pre season ranked 1st placed team just got pumped by his wooden spoon team"

He will continue to showcase his dumbness all season. Shocking appointment.

I hear a crying baby in that First Ever ad

Breakers need to tighten up their rebounding.

This was a display in small ball liabilities without the small ball benefits.

LoveBroker - wow. Hadn't seen that. It's constrained to a smaller size but you can get into the dev tools and widen it to full screen pretty easily.

Perfect captain's game from Gliddon.

Anomaly from the Bullets, from the Breakers, or a fair indication of how each team might fare?

It's only one game...I still think the Breakers will up there abouts up there.

But this was a poor start.

Who said Brisbane would be last? Love the experts. Wortho must be working for TAB.

Bullets looked like the San Antonio Spurs next to the Breakers in that second half.

Great call, Manu

NBL refs calling foul from behind again - on Bairstow, whilst the Ref with direct line of sight calls nothing. Pathetic.

I wonder how many backed the Bullets to win this?

I thought they would get destroyed.

didnt see that result coming

well done to Bullets.

I said a few years ago that Wesley really hurts a team on offence - because when he does he post ups from so far out he spends so long dribbling taking the air out of the ball and the offence just stagnates watching him go to work.

Breakers did it a lot with Vukona but the difference was Vukona was a great passer out of it so people still moved/cut/set screens.

I know he's a favourite son and all but I never understood giving Abercrombie a new 3 year contract.

Breakers offense just looks horrible. Crowd flat. Not a good start to the season. Shame that the Matrix is in the building for this game!

Abercrombie just can't afford to have these types of games - may need to really pull his minutes back if he is going to give that kind of output.

Can't wait to try the new Hungry Jacks vegan burger

Anyone know of any warm-up matches scheduled for the Boomers leading up to the Olympics other than the 3 game series against Greece?

Webster killed Breakers Q2 playing 1 on 5.
Screen and roll defence looks like Pleger still there.
Like Weeks addition.
We look a good team. Shoiuld be OK if we play smart.

Being bombarded by this First Ever ad this arvo. Sounds like a very distressed horse. Hope it's ok.

Cam Gliddon with 13 pts already at half

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Still very close, Breakers look good on the fast break but the Bullets are winning the hustle game and offensive boards, Breakers coach has already dropped the F bomb twice with a mic on.. lol

Refs not as intrusive this year, hopefully it continues lol

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Gotta admit Bullets are playing well.

"Added a feature where a moderator can attach a stats link to a thread, and it will fix to the top of the screen ("Game Stats") no matter where you are in the discussion."

This is cool!

Shawn Marion also court-side watching his Breakers

Very free flowing atm, neither team pulling away yet though

5:30pm EST I meant

WTF this game has already started? I thought it was meant to start at 5pm EST?

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Brisbane to upset the apple cart tonight

I don't think any team has looked as bad as the Bullets have during the preseason.

NZB by 30

I like NZ for 12+ wins for $1.67 at Sportsbet.

Seems like a gimme- they should be $1.40 I reckon, at most.

Let's see if they prove me right by winning first up.

NZ by 16