Hoops

Breakers vs Memphis Grizzlies, Oct 9

Players from NZ and Aus that don't represent their country at every opportunity big and small get a lot of negative heat from media and fans which most of the time is unfairly directed at them.

For the one player that could have made the biggest difference to the performance of their country at major championships (Steven Adams for NZ) I believe that the criticism is completely justified.

He has let down NZ year after year.

I caught the arse end of the game and afterwards Adams seemed to be pretty friendly with the Breakers players and coaches even though I thought he wouldn't be too familiar with them as I don't think he has much to do with the national team. I can't ever remember him playing for the Tall Blacks.

110-84. Adams had a great game - he seems to be a bit of a prick towards anything NZ basketball related?

As Matt Walsh said, the Breakers played pretty bad and only lost by 14 to an NBA team.
Hopefully RJ brushes that game off and moves onto the the next game against OKC with some confidence.
Hammercrombie with the big stuff winding back the clock and I watched at work which made it feel like a win.

Abercrombie still had a great career, in the twilight now but at his best could shoot it defend it and pass it with the best of them with great iq. Delaney will do very good to get as good as he was.

If Abercrombie was three inches taller, and extended his very good midrange shot 3 feet to the 3pt line, he would've been an NBA player years ago. Would've made up for his lack of lateral foot speed.

I hope for Jick's sake Delaney recovers.

He has a boxful of tissues just waiting.

Delaney injured his foot.

[Abercrombie] has never really been able to be consistently dominant despite seeming to have all the tools.

Similar problem to the Adelaide 36ers in recent times

Similar problem to the Adelaide 36ers in recent times

108-94 defeat? Not bad.

Delaney hurt himself when they played a pre-season game against Adelaide a fortnight ago. I suspect this is why he hasn't played

LaMelo struggled on the weekend too.

Box score look brutal for the lad... hopefully he dusts himself off and gets on with it.

Tough night for RJ; but I suspect the Grizzlies and some of those players might have had a special edge to their defense on him deliberately (welcome the NBT to the league-standard).

Plus as an 18 y.o he is going to have games like that;

Stream just died on SBS on Demand, did the same thing late in the 36ers v Jazz game too.

Yes

I take it back that Abercrombie dunk was huge.

He averaged the same number of PPG with better shooting splits than Abercrombie - yet played roughly half the MPG.

8ppg and 3rpg in 14mpg on 65% and 39% shooting splits last season as a 22 y.o. warrants more game time this year. Great defence too.

He averaged the same number of PPG with better shooting splits than Abercrombie - yet played roughly half the MPG.

He’s injured I believe, and not that good imo

6 minutes to go in the 3rd and Delaney hasn't entered the game yet.

Assuming he is fully fit, then I'm fuming with that. Makes me enraged.

One of the brightest stars not just in the NZB but league wide and doesn't get any burn. Politics.

Hopefully someone can tell me he is sick or has a niggle and that's why he isn't being played?

Ater Majok looks ridiculous

Just reported he's offered around 750k 7news