NBL 2024-25
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Starting with some good news for the Breakers:
They had already bought out Sam Mennenga's contract with the Taipans so he could return to Auckland.
Marc Hinton's article on Stuff says that Will McDowell-White and Finn Delany are both unlikely to exercise their contract options to return. Delany was a bust this season, partially due to injuries. Izayah Le'afa is also off-contract.
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NBL salary cap rises for 2024-25 season
The salary cap for the 2024-25 NBL season has been set at $1,947,662.58, sources told ESPN, ahead of the official opening of free agency.
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lol yeah that's the cap that Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth stick to right?
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This signing was rumoured for a while.
So far the roster is:
Parker Jackson-Cartwright
Dane Pineau
Sam Mennenga
Mojave King
Mitch McCarron
Jonah BoldenThe Breakers still have five roster spots and a potential Next Star to add before they assemble in August.
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They better lock down a decent coach fast. It might sound like heresy, but I feel like Mody may have reached his limit anyway. Despite his skills as a motivator, he was never able to find ways to utilise his bench and didn't seem to have any tactical plan B
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Not NBL, but our U17 boys have had two very good wins at the World Cup. We beat the hosts Turkey convincingly in our first game and then last night beat Argentina. Argentina had two dominant scorers, but we went on an absolute tear in the 4th quarter.
Oscar Goodman has been our best player. He’s based in Canberra playing at the Centre of Excellence in a team that Dyson Daniels brother and NBA draftee Johnny Furphy’s brother.
Final pool game against Italy who were highly touted heading into the tournament but have lost their first two matches. Will be huge.
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We lost to Italy but didn’t really impact us as we finished top of our pool.
We now play Egypt in the crossover game. Egypt lost all their pool games but are pretty tough. They just lost to the Aussies by 3 and then had a chance to win against Germany at the death but lost by a point.
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A big win by our boys against Egypt and now we are in the quarters.
And what a win by the Tall Blacks against Croatia in the opening Olympic qualifier. We had no answer for Zubac (man I wish we had Stevie playing), but Corey Webster, a slim and fit looking Corey, was superb. Plus Shea and Izzy provided great support.
If you didn’t see the game here’s some highlights
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An assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas this month has been confirmed as the new head coach of the New Zealand Breakers.
36-year-old Petteri Koponen from Finland has signed a two-year contract with a third-year team option. -
Oh well we got stung by Luka, who finished with a triple double. We went on a couple of scoring droughts and couldn’t hit anything. Olympic qualifying is over.
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Woohoo, what a win by our boys. Upset Lithuania in the quarters. Was a bit concerned at half time because we hadn’t played that well and a couple of the Lithuanian’s were started to heat up. But what a second half. The intensity on defence was huge. Goodman again fired but Jackson Alan Kiss provided a real spark with his offence. Also Phil Jones’ boy was killing it on the glass and also got a few buckets including a big that his old man would’ve been cheering on.
I was very impressed by our pressure though and getting into the passing lanes and creating deflections and steals.
Now into a semi where we will play the winner of USA v Canada.
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The USA defence is just stifling. Whether it’s full court press or in the halfcourt.
We are down by 35 at the half and the USA have only attempted four 3s (and hit one).Their inside game is too good.
Hopefully we can get the final score below 30. Their closest game in the tournament was a 23 point win against France.
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I can't say I'm that enthused about the Breakers this season with a lack of Kiwi players on the roster (two of the twelve, and one of those comes from the NZ NBL). Also, Parker Jackson-Cartwright and Dane Pineau are the only players to remain from last year's squad. Some turnover!
Guards: *Kaia Isaac, Parker Jackson-Cartwright, Mojave King, Mitch McCarron, *Alex McNaught, Matt Mooney
Forwards: Grant Anticevich, Sean Bairstow, Jonah Bolden, Max Darling, *Carlin Davison, #Karim Lopez
Centres: Freddie Gillespie, Sam Mennenga, Dane Pineau.
*Development players
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When I saw we picked up Matt Mooney my immediate thoughts was I wonder how he and PJC will play together. Matt is a good 3pt shooter but he’s more of a PG and we know that PJC loves the ball in his hands.
Hoping that Mennenga can take that next step up.
@Bovidae I counted a couple more kiwis - King, Mennenga, Darling, Carlin Davison, McNaught
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@ACT-Crusader I'm only counting Mennenga and Darling who are part of the 12-man squad. King might be NZ-born but he wants to play for Aust. It just won't be the same without a core of NZ players in the rotation.
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The New Zealand Breakers are in search of a new broadcasting home after long-term partners Sky Television have elected not to renew their contract with the Australian NBL.
Partly due to save on production costs of Breakers home games, but also because they (Sky) already pay for the rights to all NBL games via ESPN. The article says that TVNZ could be interested in being the broadcaster for this season.
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I did not expect that.... Shame we can't watch, as I suspect TVNZ will only broadcast home games?
