2012/13 NBL Season/Offseason news

[Gozu]

The Perth Wildcats have announced their first home game this season at the brand new Perth Arena is a sell-out with almost 12,000 tickets sold for their game against the 36ers on Friday night which will also be the TV game on One

[Gozu]

NBL games coming up on TV this weekend:

Friday night: Adelaide @ Perth at 9:30pm (One)

Sunday afternoon: Sydney @ Melbourne at 2pm (Ten)

[Coach Bombay]

I know nothing about basketball but that ronaldson character seems like a bit of a gooch

[BZB27]

Great win by the 6ers, really hard fought game by both teams trading leads on pretty much every bucket made, both teams where pretty poor offensively from what i watched thoough too many missed shots. Johnson had a huge game 20pts i think and at least 13 rebounds.

[PPLions]

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/2012/november/r7-report-adelaide-stun-wildcats-again/

A HUGE win for Adelaide in Perth!
Daniel Johnson finding some good form now.

[Johno6]

Senscher is such a disappointment. He should average a double double
Massive win for Adel.

Nz flog crocs by 30 as well.

[RoosterMarty]

Massive game for Johnson, I thought he was going to have a 20/20 at one stage.

He's from WA too.

[Gozu]

It was a great win but like Johno I'm also concerned by how bad Schenscher is playing.

He's a shell of the player he was with us back in 08/09.

But in saying that we're still winning without much in the way of production from our supposed star recruit.

Looking forward to seeing how Jonny Flynn goes against the Kings tomorrow now that he's had a bit of time with the Tigers.

[Gozu]

Good win by the Kings. Flynn tries to do too much.

[Gozu]

Round 7 results:

New Zealand 93 (Pledger 18, Abercrombie 16, Bruton 15, Corletto 12, Jackson 10) def Townsville 63 (Abney 11, Allen 11, Ervin 10)

Adelaide 69 (Johnson 21, Cadee 12, Petrie 12) def Perth 65 (Wagstaff 14, Knight 13, Lisch 12)

Wollongong 73 (DeLeon 23, Forman 15) def Cairns 59 (Loughton 14)

Sydney 72 (Madgen 26, Bruce 13, Crosswhite 11) def Melbourne 67 (Flynn 17, Ballinger 15)

[Strawb]

how bad are the crocs?

[Gozu]

Very bad 0-9! I can't believe I had them making the playoffs (4th).

Ervin doesn't seem to be the player he was in 2011 with the Hawks, Abney's no longer a star and all but done and effectively replacing Schenscher with Hinder returning from injury has probably been the biggest issue.

[Gozu]

36ers big man Daniel Johnson has been named NBL player of the week for Round 7.

Also Tigers import big man Seth Scott is facing the NBL tribunal today for this little outburst against the Kings where he clipped Ben Madgen's head:

[Gozu]

The Townsville Crocs have signed 7'2" centre Luke Nevill formerly of the Wildcats & Tigers and just coming off of doing training camp with the Indiana Pacers.

[Gozu]

A number of fines came out of that Tigers/Kings game on Sunday as well as from the Wildcats/36ers game on Friday.

Seth Scott got a $500 fine along with a suspended $500 fine + 1 game suspension also:

Accordingly, the NBL has today issued the following fines:

Sydney’s Ian Crosswhite and Melbourne’s Lucas Walker have each been fined $500 for unnecessarily joining in an on-court scuffle;

Sydney’s Ben Madgen has been fined $500 for unacceptable contact to Melbourne Tigers player Seth Scott;

Melbourne Tigers court announcer Wayne Peterson has received a $500 fine for breaching the NBL’s rules during the incident regarding acceptable behaviour from a court announcer. This fine has been suspended but will come into effect if the court announcing guidelines are breached again by Peterson; and

Perth’s Brad Robbins has been fined $500 for unnecessarily joining in an on-court altercation.

The NBL has also issued the following warnings:

Sydney’s Aaron Bruce has been formally warned for significantly exaggerating contact by Melbourne’s Chris Goulding in the third period of the game which led to an unsportsmanlike foul being assessed on Goulding; and

Sydney head coach Shane Heal has been formally warned for leaving the designated bench area during the on-court scuffle for purposes other than those allowed under FIBA Rules.

[Gozu]

Perth smashed NZ tonight 89-64 in front of more than 11,000 people at Perth Arena, great turnout for a Thursday night.

NBL games coming up on TV this weekend:

Friday night: Sydney @ Cairns at 9:30pm (One)

Sunday afternoon: Wollongong @ Melbourne at 2pm (Ten)

[Brodlach]

Wildcats winning by so much was a shock

[Gozu]

The game on TV tonight ended up being a pretty good one with the Kings beating the Taipans in OT, 83-76.

Ben Madgen continues to look like a future Boomer, hopefully the 36ers will be able to lure him back here one day.

[Gozu]

Hawks got up over the Tigers today in Melbourne.

Loved the Flynn vs DeLeon battle.

[Gozu]

Round 8 results:

Perth 89 (Redhage 20, Lisch 18, Robbins 11) def New Zealand 64 (Jackson 15, Hudson 12, Webster 11)

Sydney 83 (Madgen 29, Henry 15, Lazare 14, Crosswhite 11) def Cairns 76 (OT) (Wilson 19, Hill 15, Tragardh 12, Gliddon 10)

Perth 68 (Lisch 15, Wagstaff 15, Knight 13) def Townsville 63 (Ervin 18, Blanchfield 11, Crawford 11)

Wollongong 74 (DeLeon 18, Saville 15, Davidson 12) def Melbourne 66 (Flynn 19, Walker 11, Scott 10)