Hoops

Taipans vs Hawks 21st October

Watched the game on NBL TV. Can I ask the commentators to please interrupt their banter to explaing, occasionally, things that have happened.

Maybe not everything, but when the USF was called, it virtually went unnoticed.

Not many from both sides it seems

Bit concerning that a big result would have so few comments. How many Hawks fans are there left?

also loved the fact that jordair jett was wearing one of the free hungry jacks headbands that they were giving away to the crowd..

Bevo's still a master of the game. Hawks figured out within 5 minutes that Melo's got sloppy handles when advancing the ball or driving to the basket under pressure and targeted him constantly. Taipans passing was also weak, 5+ passes out of bounds, telegraphing passes across the court etc. hawks were switched on to this from the get go and exploited it ruthlessly.

best case scenario they squeeze 2-3 points more out of each of the Aussie players, learn their plays, improve their passing and sharpen up their defence and they'll be strong this year.

worst case scenario they they're going to be soft as butter all season. Still think the Bullets are worse though.

Bevo is the master coach.
He should be our Boomers coach!

Lazy TOs cost Cairns dearly & apart from a couple of dubious foul calls on Ando, the refs were again very good & let the players determine the outcome of the game.

I would love to see Reid's howler on the weekly review, can't see it happening though! He has a history of seeing things that just aren't there. The game was really well reffed overall though, did a solid job from start to finish and it produced a clean game.

Awesome win by the Hawks, all their veterans stood up, Jett and Jackson controlled things well, Conklin was a beast inside and Blanchfield was pretty much unstoppable.

I would like to see them go with Andersen in the starting five permanently, he gives better balance to the backcourt of penetrators. Then bring AJ and Coenraad on for Andersen and Conklin and run smaller in the middle of quarters.

I also like the move to bring Jett off the bench to start the second half, give Naar some time alongside Jackson and then get a scoring and defensive burst with your first sub.

Hahaha womder if that one will be in the ref review video. Caption could be can't be a foul with no contact...

Another dig this time at the perth school bench?? How desperate are these guys, show respect to the teams playing, talk about them

Kernich-Drew is the new version of Drew Williamson. Great in state league but not able to put anything together in NBL.

It's a foul if they don't have legal position and didn't give you space to land.

Commentary is ridiculous. Trigger tells of landing on damian martins foot for his ankle injury and wortho no doubt chimes in with an of course it wasn't a foul, it never is a foul when you land on another players foot. Just more commentary hate for the cats.

Interesting game, nice tempo to it. Hawks starters have 43 points at 52% at half-time and looking really good together, but not getting enough from their bench with Ogilvy and White out.

They are giving Newbill and Trimble some space to cover penetration and they've banged 6/9 three-pointers which is keeping Cairns in front. Hopefully second half like the first.

Jawai looking legitimately slimmer this season.

Both Cedars agreed to contracts last night.

Chris is on league minimum, and Mick is on a reduced contract from last year.

The Crocs have three roster spots left and have spent hardly any money whatsoever, leaving the door open for two imports and a big name Aussie (or a money saving season). The club is currently reaching out to Gary Wilkinson and Julian Khazzouh.

PG: Chris Cedar, Mitch Norton
SG: Peter Crawford, Mick Cedar
SF: Todd Blanchfield
PF: Jacob Holmes
C: Ben Allen, Russell Hinder