Hoops

Brisbane v Cairns, 13 Oct 2018

Okay scrap the Hill comment. CJ and Sam Mac however...

Isn’t Brads dad the coach of Pioneers and Brad a part of this successful seabl team ? He has been around a coChing family his entire life so surely he has experience.

From his demeanor you wouldn't think he was part of the winning team.

My bad.

Lemanis and Cadee and Brisbane are a match made in heaven. It's as if LK is quarantining anyone who can't get a job to the Bullets. Also apart from the player composition the coaching staff is even worse - CJ Bruton, Sam Mackinnon, Brad Hill. Just throwing a bone out there to ex players who are unemployed with no coaching experience. What a joke franchise.

REALLY want Brisbane to come good and succeed, and had reasonable expectations last night after they stole a win in NZ. But boy they were bad last night.

Performance summed up in the 2nd half by Vukona, who held the ball and took it up court instead of handing off. Inexplicably tried to pull off a dribble move crossing the ball between his legs, but gave the rock up cold leading to an easy Cairns two. Ugh.

Much is needed from the point. Cadee is a good bench option but as a starter he's not getting the team to the playoffs. 4/18 shooting in two games btw.

Egwu is plain bad and needs to be jettisoned asap for someone more productive.

Gee's early form is concerning.

With the team on the market I have a feeling they can't spend freely on players. Either way if their prospects don't improve in the next 2-3 weeks I hope some smart personnel moves are made to make the group more competitive.

Bullets trifecta of spoons coming along nicely.

Why the hell is Holt still in the NBL??

Good to see a smart coach in kelly telling his players to try and score in the last possession of the game rather than run the clock out when head to head plays a huge part in deciding ladder positions. I doubt gaze would have the brains to think about something like that.

Think about Creek in for Brisbane and cutting Egwu for a US point guard... Jesus, that's a squad:

Import PG
Gliddon
Gee
Creek
Bairstow

Gibson
Cadee
Holt
Te Rangi
Vukona
Hodgson

Who started deleon in fantasy???? Why!!!!

What a spud of a performance by Brisbane. How did they beat NZ? Last season of Lemanis before they can get a coach who can actually recruit a team.

Liked listening to Kerle, he warmed into his role as he game progressed. Trigger is intelligent but his drawl is difficult to stomach.

He's not gonna make them a contender - abit big of a call. We've seen in this league, you can have one superstar dominate each game but in this league, your teammates have to support you. Cairns will have some shocker games where their imports go cold and they can't put points up, they'll also have some amazing games like this too. Just can't see them getting over the line against structured and well coached teams like Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Melo Trimble was huge, took the game by storm and took over, Bullets couldn't contain. Kid is gonna be big this year. So much energy.

Bullets look uninspiring... again. Talent is there, Bairstow looks cooked though.

Lucas Walker is still recovering from ankle surgery, but is just about ready to go.

"Although Magnay just hit the floor as well. So who's missing?"

Brisbane are still LK owned aren't they? Cue NBL conspiracy theories

He was a replacement for both Hodgson and Magnay.

Trimble is a star!

He's got next level burst

Ugly basketball... think we’re looking at the bottom two teams for 18/19...

LOL @ John Casey's reference at Kerle re: being a chucker. Love it.

I thought egwu was hodgson injury replacement, but hodgson is back, did brisbane have a spot avaliable?

"I thought egwu was hodgson injury replacement, but hodgson is back, did brisbane have a spot avaliable?"

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Pretty sure they only went with 2 imports originally though because of Bairstow

I was just about to post how good Hodgson looks, before he throws the ball away and fousl a guy 90 feet from the basket for 2 shots...

I thought egwu was hodgson injury replacement, but hodgson is back, did brisbane have a spot avaliable?

I thought egwu was hodgson injury replacement, but hodgson is back, did brisbane have a spot avaliable?

“How's everybody's fantasy team going?”

I am 40ish clear at the top of the NBL comp. Probably won’t last so I’m gloating now!

Just realised that both of these teams are quite old/dont have many young players in rotation.

Casey and trigger trying hard to prompt kerle into offering something

The "hungry jacks" chant is the cringiest thing ever

Ugly game to watch so far.

Bairstow looking quite average

I know Bairstow hasn't played a lot the last 2 years.

But for a former NBA player, he throws up some really ordinary shots and makes some dumb plays sometimes.

I wonder whether he thinks he is a better perimeter player than what he thinks. IMO I really dont think he has the skillset to operate too far from deep post.

With how some of these 1st round games have gone I'm going to give up on guessing. Just hoping it's a close one.

I think Cairns will get up. Nice to see the game selling out too.