NBL: Breakers and stuff
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Breakers win. Total team effort, ili nails the coffin shut with two buckets and an assist in the final 90 seconds while Henare sat his starting point guard Sosa. Playoff intensity basketball early in the season, just your typical Breakers Wildcats game. They are missing Matt Knight big time
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JP Tokoto was having a huge game but was largely a one man band until Cotton started firing in the 2nd half.
Ili again makes some big time plays down the stretch. Sosa was stinking the house out, but DJ has his second MOTM performance.
Pledger was huge on the boards and Mika set the tone early with his play from both ends.
Good to see Loe hit from deep. Penny was being bullied on D, but was hitting some huge shots in tight spaces.
The bleating by Wildcats fans on Facebook after the game made the victory all that more sweeter.
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The Blackwells have been superb owners.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/basketball/98862777/breakers-owners-look-to-sell-club-to-new-investors
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@bovidae said in NBL: Breakers and stuff:
I am sure they will only sell to investors with similar values and they (the new owners) wouldn't want to change what currently works. New investment should mean more opportunities and hopefully more bums on seats.
You never know though. Many a US pro franchise has been bought by owners with good intentions only to flame out due to incompetence and a refusal to allow experts to do their jobs. The Brooklyn Nets and the Sacto Kings spring to mind
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This is the best place for this story.
I spoke to KIrk a few times in Indy 2002 and used to be able to watch him play live when the Badgers came to town. His stats indicate what a great NZ hoops player he is.
It would be great if the Breakers could somehow win another NBL title this season but that will be tough from the 4th seed.
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It was a bloody good game of basketball, and Melbourne did bloody well to get back in to it after that 1st quarter. Boone was huge!
But yes, Melbourne are stacked. Even with Goulding being well down on his usual output this year, he still hit clutch shots; Ware is fucking good; and then they have Prather. That's a lot of guys who can take the big shot, without the bloke in the middle also having his best game ever.
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We had too many guys have poor games last night. Abercrombie couldn’t hit the side of a barn door. That final block was huge but now I wished he had fouled Boone who isn’t a great FT shooter and we will have time for a last shot.....
Speaking of which, Sosa’s play at the end of regulation was stink. Way too much dribbling and then not finding Penny who was hot was criminal.
I wish we had won, but that game was reflective of how our last 10 games have been. We start well and then go into our shell. Our offence gets stagnant and we rely on isolations. Not great.
We missed Finn also to give us that spark off the bench on the boards and in defence.
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@act-crusader All good points. Abercrombie was so poor you wonder if he's a spent force. After strong starts to the season Sosa and to a lesser extent Newbill were found to be not good enough. With new owners coming in it will be interesting to see where we go from here when other teams are spending big to outgun us
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@canefan I thought DJ was our best player in the last quarter of the season and again showed his class during the semis. He bailed us out when our offence got stagnant.
Was good to se Christmas have a good offensive game.
As a team we give away so many fouls. Teams are shooting FTs far too early each quarter.
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@act-crusader that's why I said a lesser extent. He went through a cold patch after the international break and only showed signs of breaking out recently. He does like to take the big shot though. If I was choosing I'd keen DJ and try to upgrade on Sosa
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Sosa got rattled by Casper. Casper is an NBA quality guard, but just lacks that extra bit of speed at his size that will get him a good look in. He’s the best guard in the NBL IMO.
I’d offload Sosa too.
