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NBL Blitz Tasmania 2019

You would think the nbl would be reasonably pleased with those numbers. Ulverstone, Devonport certainly strongly a basketball solid area. Build a 5000 seater there and play a few games there and balance in Hobart.
Probably all resolves around the government and LK business opportunities now.

What was today’s crowd numbers. They should’ve made sure the stream was watchable.

Was Barlow at the World Cup I didn’t see him.

Luke and Santamaria are horrible, just stick to the facts on what’s happening. The live coverage is so bad it would good to hear a bit about the game instead of telling who good players, I’d rather make that decision with my own eyes.
Nbl lift your game on the live stream it’s no acceptable. Trying to win fans over and delivering this rubbish.

The heights are a load crap, Kay is 6’8” max, Majok the height is wrong as well.. there are others both ways some taller some smaller.

Louzada Silva

Young bloke for Sydney can play

Gleeson gone home one of his assistants coaching

I’m at the Perth Sydney game - either Perth don’t give a rats or Sydney legit

Great crowd and presentation

All positive

They hear Heal doing it constantly and being rewarded for it with the most basketball commentary in the nation. Monkey see, monkey do.

They talk up there mates, it’s annoying when there scrubbing it.

Crowd at Launceston not as good, no parking there and not easy to get to. Will be interesting to see how full the DEC is tomorrow.

Kings looked old, actually Kickett did ok, maybe time for Newley and even lisch off the bench. Maybe they were trying to impress the new coach but so many open player passes went missing. Again Kickett and Moller the only two passing it. Early days though.

Perth have lost good coaching talent from last season with Nielsen & Adam Forde departing.

Those white uniforms for United look horrid with the Microsoft Clipart arch. First Ever once again looking like Worst Ever when it comes to uniform design

All on the website, probably should have checked before I posted

New Zealand have a great pair of imports on the wing, not so sold on their centre... yet.

Melbourne will be fun this year. Plenty of exciting players.

Any where to find the box scores from the blitz games?

Kings won’t make finals, still to many selfish players. Bogut hopefully will help them but Creek also has to come in for Phoenix. Ware got torched by Roberson and Bruce oh boy why.

Wildcats getting crunched on the boards, and that would be a worrying sign for them, particularly when you lose Brandt, Jervis and Hire - all good rebounders.

Majok grabbed an offensive rebound in the opening minute of the game, but they haven't grabbed another once since - and it's now halfway through the 3rd!!!

And it appears new centre Hunt can score but can't rebound!

Hawks back in it. Grida so over hyped.

Ball looking ok among the Illawarra wreck. Defensively woeful.

The NBL1 All-Stars team was more like a NBL1 Tasmanian Select side.

Bozeman looks super out of shape wow

A combination of a Forrestville and Mount Gambier side would have done better than the production last night from NBL1 All-Stars.

Don't hate on the NBL1 though. All their teams players are playing with NBL teams...

Those who play NBL1 but aren’t on an NBL roster you would assume have to be worse than the lower NBL players otherwise they’d be in an NBL roster.

Only exceptions are:

1. Imports may be better then some NBL aussies, however not good enough to be considered amongst NBL import standard; or
2. A veteran player who doesn’t have a place because NBL looks for a younger development type player for the latter roster spots

If a bunch of Summer league guys fronted up against NBA teams in their preseason, wouldn't they also be humiliated? (probably why they don't!)

Nbl1 were so bad hard to make judgment on any opposition player. The other game was entertaining but early days for both sides.

WTF was the last two minutes of that game?

Yes the crowd is very very promising. Go nbl Tasmania.

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For those Anons saying the crowd is good for Tasmania and good for a small stadium have you seen the empty stadiums at a Blitz before? People normally stay away in droves. The crowd is sensational!

But at least they were good posts for Anons!

I actually can’t listen to these dudes. Killing me

Commentators talking up nbl1 guys that were absolute spuds. Some of the defence was abominable.

I’ll never complain about the commentary again after listening to Santamaria, Luke rattling on. Homicide who normally don’t mind dropping to there level.

Not a spare seat in the house which is good for Tasmania.

Nbl 1 you can see how far behind the nbl it is.

Murdoch only looks after or reports on topics that suit his agenda. Why are you not surprised by this.

20 pages of sport in today's HeraldSun in Melbourne. Not one mention of the NBL or Blitz :(

Usually with pre-season odds they're released on the day of the game.

Can you have a bet on the BLITZ

Ummm zac white is an import???

https://www.wilkinsonspoint.com.au/

Something like this has a lot of factors to it to succeed, but my lord, what a difference the NBL is these days where it can be part of a greater precinct rejuvenation.

I know the precinct would be largely an LK commercial interest, but the two (NBL and LK's commercial interest) go hand-in-hand in this particular instance.

I love this strong business mentality, ambitions backed by real investment and hopefully a head a sustainable business model that offers stakeholders an attractive investment proposition.

So it looks like it's not going to be on NBL TV?

My guess would be NBL TV.

Good question, how do you watch it on the mainland???

Will the Blitz be broadcast by either SBS VICELAND or ESPN?