Hoops

Hawks v Kings Dec 31

"Weaver MIA during the 4th and let the Hawks seize control."

There was one bit where Hawks went on a roll, tied the game after a Hawks basket, and everyone goes to their benches expecting a Sydney T/Out (I think Sydney had 3 T/outs left at the time). They were wrong and refs had to wave everyone back on court!

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AJ, Naar, Blanchfield, Coenraad are certainly not kids, varying in age from 25 to 33. The kings have three imports at present and Taylor will be gone when Lisch is back. By the way Taylor was cut by Adelaide as he wasn’t good enough for there roster so hardly a star.

Well done to the hawks, hopefully they can play like that every week instead of some of the shit they’ve dished up in games this year.

Weaver took too long to do ANYTHING in the 4th...

"Let's play Shaun Bruce in crunch time (only matched by Grida playing crunch minutes tbh)."

They were two of the most effective players on the night. I thought Weaver took too long to get Bruce in there in the last quarter.

If Bogut isn’t playing hard, how is that Weavers fault, and why would he play him in the final five minutes?

Weaver needs to cop all the blame. Crazy idea: play your starting 5 in the final five minutes. The aim is to win but he's treated the past month like a pre-season tournament. Tell Casper to stop jacking double teamed or contested threes. Hey, tell him to attack the hoop once in a while. What a fuckin crazy idea. Take advantage of the nearly always skewed matchup Tate has on his defender. Tell Deshon Taylor to stop shooting. That guy should put the cue in the rack. About 7/45 from 3pt on the season. Everyone can see its his weakest skill, even weaker than his dribble. Tell Bogut to actually give an eff and play hard in 50% of his games.

But nah, let's overthink a short season and play everyone 20 minutes a game. Let's play Shaun Bruce in crunch time (only matched by Grida playing crunch minutes tbh). This team shouldn't lose to the Hawks. This team shouldn't have to put up NBA range threes for 4-5 consecutive possessions in the fourth against them. I've sat through nearly all of the past four seasons' games and this is right up there as the most shameful loss.

If it was Gleeson or Vickerman or Wright they'd cop all the blame. Weaver deserves a heap of shit for his rotations and the lethargy his team plays with. He just got outcoached by Matt Flinn, a glorified NBL1 coach.

Tell me any of this is wrong.

Maybe Weaver should point the finger at his own players you're not going to win too many games only shooting 45% from the FT line.

Bogut really does look like he's played on a year too long.

Off to celebrate news years eve.
Happy new year All.

My bro Perthworld will be on line later ( not much planned for him) so talk in 2020.
#seeincredible

LV I think everyone knows it's Sydney and Perth then Cairns.
United aren't that good.

Nothing changed this week

Sydney are still the most likely team to hoist the trophy, followed by United, followed by Perth

No one else has more than an outsiders chance.

If Casper stopped playing hero ball the Kings would be doing a hell of a lot better too.

Perth, Sydney and Cairns will be top 3. 4th spot is still up for grabs.

Kings and their 4 imports will be winning it all when they are back healthy.

The Violet Crumbles are back...

Sydney won’t win another game, like the previous three seasons, crash and burn at the end.

[LV must have gone on holidays again. So weird that he's been silent since he spent all last week spruiking that sydney and Melbourne are a step above Perth.]

Titles are won in March, not December

Perth, Sydney and United will be your top 3 come playoffs.

Moller IS like the Mina Vukona of the Kings. Or the Greg Hire.

Ain't just about stats, it's the dirty work & 1%ers... All those that he WAS doing aren't being done & subsequently the Kings ain't winning.

THAT & the defence of the PNR are killing the Kings ATM.

Kings allow 85 per game when Moller was playing and allow 96 since he’s been injured. Now there is a stat for you.

Out of interest on a small sample size, Kings are +29 with Cooks on the court since he arrived and -42 with him off.

Then why start Cook ahead of Bruce. Maybe I’m being a bit harsh but he certainly hasn’t look great.

Cooks has played only a handful of games, give him some time.

Grida got away with two massive fouls, one on Bogut and one on Tate. Illawarra to good.

As Angus says kings offence has died on there poor defence, there is no run anymore as they don’t get stops. The commentary can talk all they like about Didi, Lisch being out and not mention Moller but as most kings supporters know ever since he’s been out we 3 wins and five losses.

Does any one no when he’s back.

The out rage over the Cook signing has quickly gone quiet.

btw Well done Hawkies!

David slays Goliath, bottom team beats the top team great for the NBL.

Yes that is Cortez Groves with the Hawks they signed him as some sort of non-assistant developmental coach.

Who will Weaver and his boss blame for this loss?

At the rate this new cashed up owner is going we'll have a long overdue Urbandictionary definition for that chocolate-covered honeycomb snack in no time.

the boys in green doing their thing

Pathetic offensively, our D was enough to let us win these games throughout the early part of the season, but with Lisch and Moller (and Didi to extent) out I think it's that end where we've really taken a hit.

Hats off to the Hawks though. And glad we get to close out the year with another USF

Cooks threw that assist right to his dad.

So the Kings regressing in December wasn't only a Gaze thing. Is this three seasons in a row?

Hahahaha what a horrible turnover.

Some of these kids are only 21, will be good in a few years if Illawara can hold them.

I don't understand why you don't just post Tate up on Grida.

Is that Cortez Groves on the Hawks bench?

hawks' amateur players really showing themselves here

Still have zero faith in the Kings getting anything here

Man, grida really crashing back to earth after an impressive game.

Hawks are butchering this lead. Pathetic play

hobson is a fucking embarrassment

Hawks making it interesting

Gaze calling: “Sydney’s vaunted defence” missing tonight.

Comedy gold

Kings are cooked. Game over.

A couple of bad rotations from Weaver, but I think it's mostly the starters playing like shit (as Ware misses two FTs)

Dech = Asia cup qualifiers.

Certainly not a coaching master class from Will Weaver again tonight

Hawks taking it the kings even if they are hardly nbl quality. Amazing how Gaze talking up Naar now that he’s a Melbourne tiger in the off season.

Gaze stat was that first 12 games kings let in 85, next 7 games 96. Telling stats there.

Hawks are barely NBL quality without Melo

Cooks defensively is a step slow as well, it gets him into foul trouble. Him ahead of Creek in the first WC lmao. Illawarra hanging about and Kings looking shaky.

Yes Angus. Hawks have surprised me. Down by 5 at the half. Take out some hot 3’s from the Kings & the Hawks are right in it.
Commentators saying Ware may be tired after chasing Cotton around in Perth game is a joke. That game was 3 days ago. A professional athlete can’t recover in 3 days.... Seriously!
More of Andrew Gaze. Less of all others

Yeah I was surprised to see he wasn't a terrible shooter in Europe, because he hasn't looked like a guy that should be shooting them so far over here. Good first half, Hawks made some good adjustments on both ends and if not for some hot shooting from our bench would probably be in the lead.

Cooks shooting technique looks average at best