NBL 2022-23
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Up and down game with a hell of a lot of turnovers. But the Breakers class of Brantley and Pardon shone through.
Taipans are a good team and play an uptempo style but Adam Ford needs to work out what he is going to do with McCall because they look a completely different team (for the worse) when he is out there. Trying way too hard and goes off the reservation too often.
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@canefan said in NBL 2022-23:
Breakers win by 11. The game could have gone either way but the boys came up with the goods and won comfortably in the end. Reinforcing their credentials as the league's best 4th quarter team improving to a 6-1 away record and 9-3 overall
And the loss was in OT to Melbourne in the first game.
I watched a replay of the game. It got close midway through the 4th Q before the Breakers hit some big shots. Both teams struggled with ball-handling. Humidity?
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@Bovidae said in NBL 2022-23:
@canefan said in NBL 2022-23:
Breakers win by 11. The game could have gone either way but the boys came up with the goods and won comfortably in the end. Reinforcing their credentials as the league's best 4th quarter team improving to a 6-1 away record and 9-3 overall
And the loss was in OT to Melbourne in the first game.
I watched a replay of the game. It got close midway through the 4th Q before the Breakers hit some big shots. Both teams struggled with ball-handling. Humidity?
Lol fuck really??
I know we are a small market team but we don't play on community courts
Google air conditioning
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@Bovidae said in NBL 2022-23:
@canefan said in NBL 2022-23:
Breakers win by 11. The game could have gone either way but the boys came up with the goods and won comfortably in the end. Reinforcing their credentials as the league's best 4th quarter team improving to a 6-1 away record and 9-3 overall
And the loss was in OT to Melbourne in the first game.
I watched a replay of the game. It got close midway through the 4th Q before the Breakers hit some big shots. Both teams struggled with ball-handling. Humidity?
I think the Breakers got sloppy as Cairns turned up the defensive intensity, until we broke out again
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@Bovidae said in NBL 2022-23:
Mody Maor's comments at HT were great. He didn't care about scoring 65 pts but was pissed about giving up 47.
We got sloppy at the end of the 1st half and let them score about 8-10 points far too easily.
Was a good win though and great to see us get a good scoring game too. Brantley was massive and basically unguardable on the post.
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fun night at the COnvention Centre last night as the Taipans leave it late to force overtime, then defend like champs to win it over the Kings
We live and die by the 3. Our scoring is Pinder inside or a 3-pointer. Last night Pinder was cooking, bet everyone they put on him, but the 3 was ice cold (at one point we got to 5 from 33 i think it was). So they doubled the fuck out of Pinder and our scoring stopped. We need to find more ways to get to the basket.
Xavier Cooks is really fucking good. Him fouling out in the 4th was probably the difference.
7-4 is a good spot to be in considering we have played Sydney and NZ so often. When do we get to play the shit teams? (Taipans history says we will lose to the shit teams)
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Was a great game to watch.
Pinder was dominant. Got to the foul line 20 times. He’s never been a great FT shooter so finishing with 70% was damn good when attempting so many.
It became a real shootout in that 4th and agree Cooks fouling out was big and took away Sydney’s pick and roll option. Cooks just has time when he’s got the ball and whilst his 3pt shot is not yet a weapon, he does everything else at a very high level.
Nice to see DJ Hogg hit a couple of huge buckets, but Sydney didn’t play those high pick and rolls very well. Hunter was far too deep and should’ve been up to make DJ drive.
McCall was heaps better than the Breakers game, but he’s still a strange player in the Ford gameplan.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBL 2022-23:
McCall was heaps better than the Breakers game, but he’s still a strange player in the Ford gameplan.
agreed, BUT
he gets to the hole. And he isn't afraid to stick his hand in and try for steals.
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What a win. I was a little worried about this game because the Phoenix usually can put on points. But man we were lights out. 10 3s in the first half was awesome.
Brown is so deceptive with his little rock back dribble and pull up. Phoenix defence had no answer.
They really overplayed out pick and roll game (which is the best in the league) so it opened up layups for our guards.
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Our bogey team, plus C Webb remembers how to shoot, just had to do it against us!
Corey hasn’t had a great season at all, but man that little run of 10 straight points and then Manek hitting 3 or 4 straight 3s.
We shut down Cotton but our offence went stagnant and we resorted to jacking it.
