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Anonymous

Years ago

Taipans vs Hawks, 8 Dec 2018

"Even the competitive games you offer as hope, go and watch them again. Was it due to great coaching and an improving hungry team or was it due to the individual brilliance of some imports we are going to never see again come seasons end."

It certainly wasn't due to individual brilliance, it was due mostly to improved team defence and partly to better ball movement on offence to reduce the reliance on individual play.

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jontywealleans

Years ago

Remember Kelly found out he was coach 2 - 3 days before free agency began. Hard to recruit with that and a limited budget.

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Luuuc

Years ago

Cairns are better than their record suggests.

They are one piece away from being competitive.

Quite true. It's just a pity for them that LeBron is already under contract elsewhere.

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Anonymous

Years ago

It shouldn't be a Fearne v Kelly thing, I agree with that, but the rest of your post seems well off the track to me. Fearne recruited on small budgets, put together solid teams and made sure they played hard. No way his team would be 1-9.

As for the Singapore Slingers comment, probably tongue in cheek but just ridiculous. This is a team that took Perth to OT, Sydney to OT and Melbourne down to the wire. There is plenty of talent here, Kelly just needs to figure out a way to get them defending consistently.

It's his first year, it will take time. Braswell hasn't been able to get NZ to play D yet. Vickerman's Breakers in his first year were woeful defensively. Give him time, it will come.

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LoveBroker

Years ago

Walker fouled the shooter twice in very inopportune moments.

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Years ago

what a horrorshow. I was hoping they'd put a few of the Marlins on by the end of it, at least they've proven they can play D.

lucas Walker and Kuany Kuany were the only two taipans who looked like they have the slightest semblance of a shit for the whole game.

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Anonymous

Years ago

Some poor refereeing to start this game.

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Camel 31

Years ago

mite be fri 7 dec i think....

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Anonymous

Years ago

Cairns will be fired the F up tonight to get a rare win, I think they will pull off the upset

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Melbourne Boy

Years ago

Yes, rested was referring to the fact they've had the bye week to rest up from their recent injuries.

Even looking in regards to this round specifically, Perth will fly home from Sydney on Friday and have a days rest advantage over Cairns who will fly from Nth Queensland to Perth on Saturday, longest trip in the country.

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LoveBroker

Years ago

Cairns are one piece away from being two pieces away from being competitive. After they loose this they'll be in last place by 4 games, season was already over, but this is getting ugly!

Well I think if Hall were even an average import they wouldn't be last.

Trimble is a very good piece to build around, if Hall were a decent piece they could be competitive at least.

Any team not named United or Wildcats would take Trimble in a heartbeat.

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Melbourne Boy

Years ago

1-10 it will be, playing on the road vs a rested Perth team on Sunday.

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orbit

Years ago

Taipans 1 - 9.
Sad but true.
Don't know what's next unfortunately...

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jontywealleans

Years ago

If Cairns drop this I struggle to see where their next win is coming from.

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Melbourne Boy

Years ago

Cairns are one piece away from being two pieces away from being competitive. After they loose this they'll be in last place by 4 games, season was already over, but this is getting ugly!

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LoveBroker

Years ago

Cairns are better than their record suggests.

They are one piece away from being competitive.

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Isaac

Years ago

Does anyone know if there will be a stream available for the game in Geelong tonight?

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