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Geez the Kings coughed up a big chance to blow the game open then.

Josh Powell fouled out

Carn boys

36ers up 80-73 with 6:07 to go.

85-73 we're on here

Final

36ers 91
Kings 85

Another great road win, kept their cool in the clutch & ran smart plays.

Huge win. Clearly the best team all night.

This is how close the league is this season. The top team Perth is 6-5 the 8th team Melbourne is 5-7.

The lower team on the ladder won every game this round too.

Sydney top Perth second but yep super close. Big game Saturday night against the Wildcats

Brodlach wrote:Sydney top Perth second but yep super close. Big game Saturday night against the Wildcats

You're right and sets up a mouth watering game against Perth.

A bit like Spargo with Brisbane, I absolutely love nothing more than beating Perth!

In saying that we've lost 3 of our 4 games at home this season

Round 8 results:

Adelaide 101 (Randle 22, Johnson 18, Sobey 18, Teys 13, Ferguson 10) def Brisbane 83 (Craig 20, Beal 16, Bruce 12, Petrie 12, Kickert 11)

Melbourne 95 (Ware 28, Goulding 15, Wesley 11, Andersen 10, Majok 10, Moore 10) def Sydney 92 (Newley 29, Powell 14, Lisch 12, Whittington 10)

Cairns 91 (Trice 31, Jawai 17, Gliddon 12) def NZ Breakers 80 (Penney 18, Mitchell 16, Vukona 11, Webster 10)

Illawarra 89 (Clarke 20, Coenraad 18, Kay 12, Ogilvy 12, Martin 10, Norton 10) def Perth 85 (Prather 18, Knight 17, Wagstaff 17)

Adelaide 91 (Johnson 22, Randle 20, Deng 11, Sobey 10) def Sydney 85 (Lisch 25, Newley 16, Maric 12)

Steve Blake has left the Kings after the loss to the 36ers tonight to return to the US immediately to deal with a personal matter, supposedly his sick wife.

https://twitter.com/FOXSportsNews/statu ... 09/photo/1

Official announcement on Steve Blake's departure:

http://www.sydneykings.com/featured-new ... ning-home/

Just on last nights game if the Kings are top then the standard of the pacesetters compared to years gone by have dead set gone down the toilet. The Kings were terrible for a top of the table team. Gaze was terrible as coach aswell.

LaughingKookaburra wrote:Just on last nights game if the Kings are top then the standard of the pacesetters compared to years gone by have dead set gone down the toilet. The Kings were terrible for a top of the table team. Gaze was terrible as coach aswell.

Not defending the Kings performance last night (they were more impressive in the game against Melb which they lost to a 3 on the buzzer from Casper Ware) but I'm pretty sure I heard the commentators say that officially this is the closest NBL season in history up to this point in the season.

Sydney 8-6
Perth 6-5
Brisbane 6-5
Illawarra 6-6

New Zealand 6-6
Cairns 5-6
Adelaide 5-6
Melbourne 5-7

I mean that is a pretty crazy ladder for how tight things are this season. Personally I've never enjoyed a season as much this season not just with how close everyone is but the standard of talent in the league too. I'd much rather see this than a couple of teams dominating like Perth & NZ over the past 5-6 years.

Also with the Kings I don't think many myself included thought Steve Blake would struggle as much as he did. For a guy that had played the last 13 years in the NBA including last season he was barely back-up PG standard here.

Other imports like Jameel McKay, Devin Williams and even the 36ers Eric Jacobsen all were invited by NBA teams to play in the NBA Summer League this offseason but have for the most part struggled in the NBL. Terrance Ferguson expected to be a first-round pick in next year's NBA draft is barely a role player on the 36ers. Which again probably points to the standard of the NBL these days.

NZ Breakers star guard Corey Webster is in trouble again this time arrested for assault at a bar last night when he was out celebrating his birthday.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/basketball ... ews-report

Update: Webster has now been given a one game suspension by the Breakers.

Round 9 games & times:

Thu 9pm Brisbane at Perth

Fri 5pm Illawarra at NZ Breakers

Sat 5pm Cairns at Brisbane
Sat 7pm Perth at Adelaide

Sun 2:30pm NZ Breakers at Melbourne (SBS)

Mon 7pm Sydney at Illawarra

Bullets currently up by 20 at half time in Perth.

Little Jerome Randle dunked it at 36ers training, video proof from Mitch Creek's Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNftVtBDQeA/

Sounds like Joey is going to be shouting the team steak dinners