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

[Gozu]

Game 2

Gold Coast 72 (DeLeon 15, Petrie 12, Goulding 11, Hudson 11, Worthington 11) def Perth 70 (Knight 14, Martin 14, Redhage 11, Lisch 10)

Series tied 1-1

[Gozu]

Game 2

New Zealand 94 (Bruton 18, Jackson 14, Wilkinson 14, Abercrombie 12, Pledger 12) def Townsville 83 (Gill 24, M. Cedar 15, Blanchfield 10)

Series tied 1-1

[Gozu]

NBL Playoff games on One coming up over the weekend:

Saturday night: Game 3-Gold Coast @ Perth at 10:25pm

Sunday morning: Game 3-Townsville @ New Zealand at 8:30am

In some other interesting news the Melbourne Tigers have signed former team star Chris Anstey to a newly created position as 'Director of Basketball'. At their end of season awards Cameron Tragardh took home team MVP & Member's MVP, Tommy Greer won the Player's player & Mr Efficient awards and Lucas Walker won the CEO Award.

The Cairns Taipans also have had their end of season awards and no surprise Jamar Wilson took out their team MVP award. Aaron Grabau won the Coaches award, Ian Crosswhite the Defensive player award and James Mitchell the Community award.

[Gozu]

Game 3

New Zealand 97 (Bruton 20, Abercrombie 19, Corletto 19, Wilkinson 10) def Townsville 80 (Crawford 24, Schenscher 19, Blanchfield 12)

Breakers win the series 2-1

[Gozu]

Game 3

Perth 88 (Redhage 19, Lisch 16, Wagstaff 14) def Gold Coast 67 (DeLeon 20, Worthington 11)

Wildcats win the series 2-1

[Gozu]

2012 iiNet NBL Championship Grand Final Series Schedule (best-of-three)

All times local

New Zealand Breakers (1st) vs. Perth Wildcats (2nd)

Game One – Thursday 12 April – 7:30PM – Vector Arena

Game Two – Friday 20 April – 7:00PM – Challenge Stadium

Game Three (if necessary) – Tuesday 24 April – 7:30PM – Vector Arena

[Gozu]

36ers import Diamon Simpson has been signed by the Houston Rockets!

Expected to make his NBA debut tomorrow.

[Pag]

36ers import Diamon Simpson has been signed by the Houston Rockets!

Expected to make his NBA debut tomorrow.

This can't be true, he wasn't even good enough to be on court for the Sixers in clutch periods of games.

Well done to him, another example of why we need a new coach.

[Gozu]

The NBL Grand Final series starts on One tonight:

Thursday night: Game 1-Perth @ New Zealand at 10pm (also live on ABC Grandstand radio)

The game starts in NZ at around 5pm our time so remember to avoid the scores/result if you intend to watch it as live on One.

[Johno6]

Come on Perth!!!!!

[Gozu]

Great start to the GF series with an OT game in front of 9,000+ in NZ. Surprised the Breakers got over the line with Abercrombie out injured too.

Game 1

New Zealand 104 (Jackson 25, Bruton 20, Corletto 16, Vukona 14, Wilkinson 12) def Perth 98 (OT) (Lisch 27, Knight 17, Redhage 15, Nevill 13, Wagstaff 12)

Breakers lead the series 1-0

Also in other news 36ers centre Wade Helliwell announced his retirement today.

[Gozu]

In a bit of a shock Basketball Australia CEO Larry Sengstock has announced his resignation.

Former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally as chair of the board a possible replacement?

[Gozu]

The NBL and Channel Ten have announced that they're re-negotiated the three years remaining on their TV contract and whilst there will be less games on TV next season than there originally would've been there will now be live games again and see the NBL shown on both Ten & One next season. Also the NBL will retain rights to non-TV games meaning they could also bring pay-TV back into the picture along with an NBL League Pass type model to be shown online.

A win for the NBL, IMO.

The NBL confirmed today that the new agreement included:

· One feature game will be broadcast live nationally every Sunday afternoon on TEN. During the months of October to the conclusion of February, the broadcast time will be live at 2:00PM nationally and live at 1:00PM nationally during March and April;

· One game per week will be shown nationally on Friday evenings at the regular timeslot of 9:30PM on TEN’s digital channel ONE;

· All NBL Finals games will also be broadcast on both TEN and ONE under the new deal, with TEN maintaining access to rebroadcast coverage of New Zealand Breakers 14 home games into Australia.

Justin Milne said that a key component of the new agreement, which will still run the remainder of the original five-year term through until the end of the 2014/15 iiNet NBL Championship season, is the NBL reclaiming the rights to non-TEN produced games for subscription television, IPTV, on-line and mobile.

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/2012 ... xt-season/

[Johno6]

In a bit of a shock Basketball Australia CEO Larry Sengstock has announced his resignation.

Former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally as chair of the board a possible replacement?

i was told he was actually sacked by somebody in the know

also the guy who has been CEO previous is going to be back in the job or something?

this might make sense to u... i have no idea what hes on about

he could be lying.....altho he was spot on about shane heal coaching the kings

[Gozu]

i was told he was actually sacked by somebody in the know

also the guy who has been CEO previous is going to be back in the job or something?

this might make sense to u... i have no idea what hes on about

he could be lying.....altho he was spot on about shane heal coaching the kings

That sounds right from what I've heard mate, Sengstock was pushed and the talk is it revolves around the bungled inclusion of a 2nd Melbourne team which was to enter the league next season but now looks like it will be delayed until 2013/14. There has also been talk of a conflict of interest as supposedly Sengstock himself has a financial interest in the new club.

Yeah Scott Derwin the previous CEO of BA is filling in until a replacement is named.

[Johno6]

this guy at work is usually pretty spot on with his nbl steez.

problem is his stories go for so long i lose interest and forget half of it.

[brod]

36ers import Diamon Simpson has been signed by the Houston Rockets!

Expected to make his NBA debut tomorrow.

He's still waiting

[Gozu]

The NBL Grand Final series continues tonight on One:

Friday night: Game 2-New Zealand @ Perth at 10:30pm (also live on ABC Grandstand radio)

[Gozu]

Now retired former Breaker Paul Henare doesn't hold back in his criticism of the Wildcats fans in Perth ahead of tonight's Game 2 of the Grand Final series:

Paul Henare knows what it's like to be a prey in "The Jungle".

The former New Zealand Breakers captain last night described the Challenge Stadium, the home of the Perth Wildcats, as a "volatile place" with a section of the spectators quite adept at singling out rival players to deride.

"It's nothing racist, it's nothing sexist either but it sort of takes it to the next extreme," said Henare, who created history last season when he led the Breakers to not only their first Australian National Basketball League (ANBL) crown but they also became the first New Zealand franchise to win a transtasman team competition.

"It's perfectly legal and all but, let me tell you, Rob Beveridge has no idea of what good sportsmanship is all about," he said of the Wildcats coach, who last week suggested the defending champions were "arrogant" in their post-game celebrations the last time they won at The Jungle.

"They just pick a player and get stuck into him and I believe they go too far," he said, adding the strategic seating arrangement for the visiting team's bench makes them easy targets for the taunting predators.

"It's not my thing, but Beveridge tends to use petty things to motivate his players, which suggests he's probably running out of ideas."

http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/news/ba ... -/1350254/

[brod]

Game 3 coming up

Wildcats 87-86 Breakers

Redhage blocks a CJ Bruton championship winning attempt as time expired