Hoops

Breakers v United Nov 7

SHAMir?

rjd, I can't agree with you.

Firstly, when your legs are outside your cylinder and this causes contact., then the foul should be on you for causing the contact.

Secondly, I was always taught that keeping your legs under you to push you upwards gave you the highest leap; if you're spending any energy pushing your legs out, then that's energy not being used to push you up.

Not sure the issue that people have with kicking feet out on a long shot. It is one of the most effective ways to get extra power for long-range shots and should be considered a normal shooting action.

Mike, you mean when Rice ran at him, tucked himself and basically hip and shouldered Chris on this shot? lol.. More salt? If the call was anything like the one which Abercrombe was awarded, where two United players collided with EACHOTHER in front of him, and he was given the four point play, then I could see your point.. but no mention of that play in the same game? Fair enough. Salt.

CG will take another few years before he gets as good as Cotton at that one....

Great win by MU - 3 tough games in less than 6 days - and 3 WINS!

NZ looked really good, once they remembered they were meant to be playing defense

To be fair, I'm not convinced Loe would have done any better of a job against Long. Loe has never been renowned for his defence;

I think there are wider defensive issues across all positions;

CG is like a fine wine.

I guess that's goodbye for Hopson. If Rice can be composed, Breakers are looking good for playoffs.

United's reoccuring nightmare

Hamptons dunk in the 2nd quarter was a lot like Oliver's in the last in Cairns

United are already working out hiw they can poach and squeeze Glen Rice Jr onto their roster based on his high scoring stats

Great heart shown by NZ to make it interesting in the 4th quarter.
Melbourne looking pretty formidable now they’re hitting their stride.
NZ with too many turnovers and couldn’t keep United off the glass and then they went ice cold. 21 point margin too much to overcome in the end but they came close and played some exciting basketball.

Goulding putting on a show. Breakers cooled off a little. Rice looks good but has to sit. Melbourne look unstoppable esp when Barlow starts getting open looks. Webster trying too hard, needs to let the game come to him.

Did United's shorts all shrink in the wash? Long's look like they're getting shorter every game.

Halftime at Vector and NZ up by 2.
Glen Rice Junior hasn’t punched anyone yet or produced a bag of guns.

Good game so far.

With Loe and Delaney out, NZ is lacking enough big bodies to protect the rim against Long. If Long gets his confidence up, it could be another 30 point night for him and he could be the deciding factor.

You wouldn't want to bring Prather back too hard. Breakers could throw Rice into the mix hard, but he will need to pickup all the plays etc so he might be able to use him own playbook and interrupt the scouting efforts of United.
I think the game will be won and lost around the boards and with Shaun making his "long" awaited return, expect a big game from him

Prather should come off the bench and play 15 minutes tonight. No need to rush him.

In coming weeks once he finds his feet, move CG to the bench. Or leave Prather on the bench.

With the return of Prather I give the edge to Melbourne, he probably wont get too many minutes but will give them something extra on the defensive end.

With the NBA All-Star teams being annouced, what do you think of both teams, and who should make the benches for both teams???

EAST
LeBron James (Miami)
Carmelo Anthony (New York)
Kevin Garnett (Boston)
Dwyane Wade (Miami)
Rajon Rondo (Boston)

WEST
Kevin Durant (OKC)
Dwight Howard (LAL)
Blake Griffin (LAC)
Kobe Bryant (LAL)
Chris Paul (LAC)