2011/12 NBL Season/off-season news/Boomers

[wristwatcher]

Adris DeLeon got the NBL player of the week award for his performance against the 36ers on Saturday night.

Seems fair, he cut us too pieces and whilst im not a huge Bball fan the so called experts around me were saying it was Chris Warrens quietest game for the club. He got smoked by the Ponce (Deleon)

[Gozu]

NBL games coming up on One this weekend:

Friday night: Gold Coast @ Cairns at 10:40pm (also live on NBL Radio)

Saturday night: Wollongong @ Townsville at 10:30pm (followed by a replay of the GC/Cairns game at 12:30am)

Sunday night: Cairns @ Sydney at 10:45pm

[bloods08]

Sixers lead 74-72 at 3/4 time in Perth.

[bloods08]

Sixers win 96-84 making it 2 wins for the season in Perth.

If only we could win at home.

[redandblack]

And went on to win 96-84, Simpson with a double double.

[Gozu]

He doesn't have a lot of strings to his bow but is effective.

Happy to be proven wrong about Simpson, R&B

[redandblack]

No worries, Gozu.

His shooting percentage from the floor is exceptional, his free throw percentage is exceptionally poor.

[Johno6]

I cannot get the sixers. Amazing the ups and downs they have

[GWW]

More downs than ups, but for some reason they've seemed to play well against Perth recently.

[Johno6]

Yeah annoys me coz Perth are my no 1 team. But I go for Adelaide when they are playin anyone but perth

[Hondo]

Simpson is a beast. Surely we can capitalise on what seems the number one big man in the competition at the moment.

[Johno6]

No 1 big man? I dunno I'd your tying to be funny or not.

[Gozu]

Round 9 results:

New Zealand 108 (Abercrombie 33, Corletto 18, Wilkinson 16, Jackson 10, Vukona 10) def Melbourne 98 (2OT) (Dorsey 21, Tragardh 20, Walker 20, Dillon 15, Ubaka 15)

Cairns 87 (Wilson 23, Loughton 20, Warren 15, Grabau 13) def Gold Coast 78 (DeLeon 17, Worthington 17, Petrie 11, Hoare 10)

Townsville 82 (Crawford 22, Mims 18, M. Cedar 11) def Wollongong 81 (Coenraad 22, Catron 15, Forman 13)

Adelaide 96 (Simpson 22, Warren 20, Herbert 13, Johnson 12, Weigh 11) def Perth 84 (Knight 21, Lisch 16, Wagstaff 12, Robbins 10)

Sydney 69 (Khazzouh 18, Grant 10, Martin 10) def Cairns 64 (Warren 19, Wilson 10)

[CK]

No 1 big man? I dunno I'd your tying to be funny or not.

As he said, at the moment. I tend to agree with Hondo - the numbers certainly stack up.

Cairns can never win a title with the current defensive mindset they take into games, as seen above with straining out 64 points against Sydney, who are not known for their defence. I know they played off against New Zealand last year, but the number of player losses have hurt their lineup.

[Johno6]

well i tend to disagree, even with the at the moment comment.
just my personal opinion like its your personal opinions.

id like to see his stats from last month tho... see how well he has been playing.
he really does need to improve his free throws tho!


p.s im not saying he is playing bad by the way, i rate the guy the couple of games ive seen him play

[CK]

well i tend to disagree, even with the at the moment comment.
just my personal opinion like its your personal opinions.

id like to see his stats from last month tho... see how well he has been playing.
he really does need to improve his free throws tho!


p.s im not saying he is playing bad by the way, i rate the guy the couple of games ive seen him play

No question about the free throws - they are awful

Round 5 v New Zealand: 20 points, 1 block, 8 rebounds, 1 steal, 3 turnovers
Round 6 v Sydney: 10 points, 1 block, 10 rebounds. 4 turnovers
Round 7 v Adelaide: 18 points, 2 blocks, 1 steal, 2 assists, 12 rebounds, 4 turnovers
Round 8 v Gold Coast: 14 points, 3 blocks, 1 assist, 13 rebounds, 2 turnovers
Round 9 v Perth: 22 points, 1 block, 2 steals, 4 assists, 10 rebounds, 1 turnover

The turnovers are certainly an issue, but averaging 10.6 rebounds a game and and 16.8 points. Pretty reasonable numbers, only Julian Khazzouh would be close to this average.

[Johno6]

stats are pretty good, would just be nice if adelaide won more often then... except again perth.
ballinger back at his best, you would think those 2 would be a good combo

[Hondo]

Khazzough, Simpson, Knight and Grant seem the form big guys off the top of my head at the moment

[Johno6]

i dont know if you guys saw that attempted dunk by grant from kings a week or two ago... far out, if he landed that.
wouldve been best dunk in nbl ever

[CK]

stats are pretty good, would just be nice if adelaide won more often then... except again perth.
ballinger back at his best, you would think those 2 would be a good combo

This is becoming one of the big mysteries of the NBL season at present, just what on earth is wrong there. If he is injured, he shouldn't be playing, but yesterday, he played nearly 21 minutes, for 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 turnover, 1 block and 2 points. He has been in this funk all season, and unlike the AFL/SANFL, there isn't the luxury of dropping him to find form. Don't know what is going on there, but he is totally out of sorts. Almost wonder if it is connected to the coaching - in terms of not being happy here at present.

Agreed on Grant, Johno - he has been one of the finds of the season so far. Certainly been great for my DreamTeam - had him from the start at $90K, now up to nearly $170K