2013/14 NBL Season + Off-season news/Boomers

[Gozu]

Round 2 results:

Townsville 94 (Blanchfield 23, Pace 22, Conklin 18, Holmes 10) def New Zealand 84 (Johnson 21, Pledger 15, Abercrombie 14, Webster 13, Corletto 11)

Perth 81 (Ennis 27, Redhage 22, Beal 10) def Sydney 69 (Ogilvy 18, Hill 16, Sanders 10)

Adelaide 97 (Ervin 24, Frye 15, Creek 14, Cadee 11, Johnson 11, Gibson 10) def Wollongong 91 (Davidson 16, Tiggs 14, Coenraad 13, Demos 13, Clarke 12)

Cairns 86 (Gliddon 24, McCamey 17, Tragardh 13, Weigh 10) def New Zealand 85 (Johnson 18, Vukona 16, Bruton 15, Abercrombie 11)

Perth 75 (Redhage 25, Ennis 21, Wagstaff 11) def Melbourne 71 (Goulding 18, Walker 18, Worthington 14)

[Johno6]

went to the game sat night, great atmosphere.

Adelaide will only get better this year.

top 2
will play perth in finals

[Gozu]

Agree Johno I think it will be a Wildcats/36ers GF this season.

For those that missed it the biggest of James Ennis' dunks from Friday nights game:

[Freo HeaveHo]

Agree Johno I think it will be a Wildcats/36ers GF this season.

For those that missed it the biggest of James Ennis' dunks from Friday nights game:

Could turn out to be one of the most successful imports we have seen in our comp

[BZB27]

The Wildcats continue their winning streak to start the season now 4-0 and push the Breakers to a 1-3 record.

Didnt see the game but Ennis has 2 big dunks again, i reckon him alone will draw the big crowds on when they are on the road.
Wagstaff was 4-7 from the 3 line which was the main difference.
Abercrombie had 2 fouls in the first 2 minutes so his match up with Ennis fizzled before it even started.

Perth Wildcats 96 (Ennis 29, Beal 19, Wagstaff 17)
New Zealand Breakers 89 (Johnson 17, Pledger 16, Abercrombie 14)

Hoping the 36ers can get the win at Cairns tomorrow night.

[Gozu]

Brayman, the Wildcats are certainly looking impressive and the Breakers would want to start picking it up soon. I'm expecting a tough battle for the 36ers tomorrow night up in Cairns, can't wait to watch it.

NBL games coming up on TV this weekend:

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

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

[Jim05]

Just turned it on and Adelaide are currently getting a licking, down by 15

[Jim05]

Sixers tie it up on the back of a 15-0 run

[BZB27]

I missed the first qtr and when i turned it on Alex Loughton was killing us, but now looks like the 36ers are hitting their shots,
How good does Frye look.

Gibson with the buzzer beater. Up by one at HT

[Jim05]

Rubbish start to the 3rd
Sixers yet to score, Cairns on a 11-0 run

[Jim05]

Dont watch a lot of the NBL and tonight has reminded me why, the standard of officiating is apalling. Sixers need to get some consistancy into their game, too many lapses of concentration and periods of very ordinary efforts. Have looked good at times though and are charging home fast in this game

[BZB27]

Loving Mitch Creeks last qtr lifting the 36ers into the lead.

[Jim05]

Sixers win 87-84

[Gozu]

Was a very up & down game but a fantastic win for the 36ers despite a few guys having off nights, the 36ers of recent years would've dropped their heads and lost that game by 20+.

[BZB27]

Great game happening in Sydney at the moment. Both teams going back and forth.

Sydney got a fast break dunk then Perth just replied with an Ennis alley op dunk

[BZB27]

3qtr time and the Wildcats have a 1 point lead

Carmoushe(wrong spelling) had a big qtr dropping some 3's for the kings making up for a bad first half.
Martin and Beal have been good in the back court for the wildcats

[Gozu]

James Ennis continues to star, unfortunately in the other game the 36ers went down to the Tigers in Melbourne 93-79.

[BZB27]

James Ennis continues to star, unfortunately in the other game the 36ers went down to the Tigers in Melbourne 93-79.

And now Beal has stepped up for the Wildcats they are just way too good at the moment.

Was looking at the box score for the 36ers and Schenscher only played 05:35 and had 4 fouls.

[Johno6]

its so crazy schensher is getting less minutes in the nbl then he was getting in the nba.

I thought he would dominate the nbl

[Gozu]

Schenscher did basically dominate in his first season with the 36ers in 08/09 (17 & 10 I think) and outplayed Anstey all three times we played the Tigers, was going to play overseas but signed with Perth right before the start of the 09/10 season and helped them win the championship and then backed that up with two very good seasons in Townsville, them making the SF's both years.

However as a big money signing he was very disappointing back with the 36ers last season, struggled with a lot of little injuries all season but at times looked so unco like he'd never played basketball before but then had that heavy fall towards the end of last season which from memory cut the rest of his season a bit short and supposedly has been dealing with that back injury all off-season which is why he didn't play in the pre-season games except for the last one and is still playing limited minutes for the 36ers now, 4 games into the season.

He played big minutes in the first game against Perth (Joey said he only wanted to play him around 10mpg initially) and looked real good, scored in double figures made some great passes out of the low block and changed a few shots on defence. Not much since though. I can understand the limited minutes until he gets healthy but still would like to see more out of him rebounding wise. At 7'1" and with his length he really should get a lot more boards than he does.

Schenscher's game log from that 08/09 season with the 36ers, averaged 16.9ppg @ 55%, 10.8rpg and 1.4bpg but were 48 minute games then.

9 & 6 vs Crocs
14 & 7 vs Spirit
19 & 6 vs Spirit
15 & 13 vs Breakers
25 & 10 vs Tigers
12 & 5 vs Hawks
33 & 20 vs Wildcats
19 & 18 vs Spirit
20 & 3 vs Breakers
11 & 9 vs Taipans
11 & 11 vs Dragons
17 & 12 vs Blaze
16 & 17 vs Spirit
4 & 8 vs Dragons
18 & 10 vs Hawks
17 & 22 vs Tigers
19 & 12 vs Crocs
22 & 11 vs Wildcats
16 & 8 vs Blaze
21 & 15 vs Tigers
5 & 8 vs Blaze
25 & 13 vs Hawks
24 & 16 vs Taipans
7 & 7 vs Taipans
21 & 9 vs Crocs
16 & 10 vs Blaze
18 & 8 vs Wildcats
8 & 8 vs Dragons
17 & 7 vs Breakers
37 & 15 vs Hawks
9 & 11 vs Breakers

http://basketball.australiabasket.com/p ... stats=2009

Unfortunately age, injuries, whatever just not the same player anymore.