2023-24 NBL Season + Off-season news

[Gozu]

NBL ladder after 10 rounds:

Melbourne 11-3
Tasmania 9-5
SE Melbourne 8-6
Sydney 8-6
Perth 8-6
Brisbane 7-8

Cairns 6-8
Illawarra 4-8
NZ Breakers 4-9
Adelaide 4-10

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Erin Philips wants to get back into basketball coaching I've seen her at games this season sitting next to Ken Cole taking notes, give it to her.

The positive PR of the first ever female head coach of an NBL team would be good too.

Female or not she would be great for the role.
Anyone would be better than Ninnis

If you think Erin could go into head NBL coach straight away you're kidding...
no doubt could do it but would need a few years in the system first.

I thought that part was obvious
I was more pointing to the fact a female could do the job just as well in this instance.

Erin will probably coach Port in the AFLW first you would think

[MW]

Watched the 36ers v Cairns on the weekend.... I've never seen a team defend the paint as poorly as Adelaide. horrendous.

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Watched the 36ers v Cairns on the weekend.... I've never seen a team defend the paint as poorly as Adelaide. horrendous.

They should have won after hitting the lead late but gave up 3-4 easy baskets straight after that.
Very poor defensively.
On a positive though our offence was very good.

[Gozu]

The SE Melbourne Phoenix have announced they've signed import Abdel Nader for the rest of the season. He's a 6'5" SF who has previously played in the NBA with Boston, Oklahoma City and Phoenix,

https://nbl.com.au/news/phoenix-confirm ... eplacement

[Gozu]

Round 11 results:

Melbourne 106 (Lual-Acuil 17, Clark 15, Goulding 15, Travers 13, Bowen 12, Hukporti 12, Ili 10) def SE Melbourne 78 (Browne 22, Creek 12, Williams 12, Ayre 11)

NZ Breakers 111 (Lamb 29, Rubstavicius 21, Jackson-Cartwright 20, Delany 11) def Cairns 82 (Armstrong 15, Mennenga 13, Miller 13, Kuol 11)

Perth 89 (Cotton 28, Pinder 15, Usher 10, Wagstaff 10, T. Webster 10) def Tasmania 88 (Crawford 29, Magnay 17, Doyle 10, Drmic 10)

Illawarra 100 (Harvey 25, Froling 16, Robinson 14, Clark 12, Peatling 11) def SE Melbourne 72 (Williams 17, Ayre 15, Te Rangi 11)

Melbourne 107 (Ili 16, Goulding 15, Lual-Acuil 15, Travers 14, Dellavedova 13, Krebs 12, Clark 10) def Adelaide 96 (Vasiljevic 23, Kell 22, Humphries 16, Wiley 14)

Sydney 90 (Galloway 22, Adams 15, Hunter 13, Hogg 11, Valentine 11) def Tasmania 82 (McVeigh 23, Crawford 22, Doyle 11, Macdonald 10)

Cairns 102 (McCall 25, Kuol 19, Mennenga 18, Miller 17, Waardenburg 13) def Brisbane 101 (Sobey 24, Bannan 15, Norton 13, White 13, McDaniel 12)

[Brodlach]

Adelaide 36ers assistant coach Craig Simpson has resigned from the club effective immediately due to family reasons.

“Family reasons “

[wenchbarwer]

Adelaide 36ers assistant coach Craig Simpson has resigned from the club effective immediately due to family reasons.

“Family reasons “

"My family is sick and tired of having to watch Sixers games"

Story checks out

[Gozu]

The Brisbane Bullets have announced the signing of import Casey Prather to a 2 year deal, the second year a mutual option as a replacement for DJ Mitchell who will be out for the rest of the season with a hip injury.

https://www.espn.com.au/nbl/story/_/id/ ... ne-bullets

Prather a three-time NBL champion with the Perth Wildcats (twice) and Melbourne United (once), however due to various knee injuries he hasn't played anywhere for the last 2 years.

[mal]

Interested in gathering thoughts
There are 2 X NBL games to be played on Xmas Day

5:00PM Tasmanian Jackies v South East Melbourne
7:00PM Sydney Kings v Illawarra

On a personal note i will tape both games and watch them if possible late Xmas evening or early on Boxing Day

QUESTION
From a players prospective is it right to make the players play on xmas day ?

[DOC]

I think it is fine as they need to generate revenue in order to be paid as professional athletes.

I am not a believer in having Public Holidays that are tied to religion or horse races

[Gozu]

QUESTION
From a players prospective is it right to make the players play on xmas day ?

It might seem unfair on the surface as it's unique to Australian sport but in the USA they've been playing NBA games on X-mas Day for a long time.

Good win for the 36ers against the Bullets today too.

[mal]

Im 50/50 about playing on Xmas day

The basketball posters on the NBL do a good job with results and player updates
Keep up the good work

The Melb United v Perth Wildcat game was a classic match- going to extra time- before MU won
Brendan Fevola looks like he likes his NBL
I think MU are deserved favs to win the title

Congratulations for Scott Ninnis on his first win as the new coach
A real xmas present, even more so as its his 58th birthday on xmas day !

[Gozu]

Two surprising upsets tonight. Tassie lose at home to a SEM team without Creek and I left my mum's place at Qtr time of the Kings vs Hawks game Kings were up big 29-17, Hawks came back and beat them and in Sydney too.

[Gozu]

Round 12 results:

NZ Breakers 109 (Lamb 24, Jackson-Cartwright 17, Rubstavicius 17, Le'afa 15, Mathiang 14, Abercrombie 10) def Sydney 101 (Noi 19, Hogg 15, Toohey 15, Adams 14, Hunter 10)

Cairns 94 (Waardenburg 20, Miller 17, Kuol 15, Mennenga 13) def SE Melbourne 75 (Williams 29, Te Rangi 14, Nader 12)

Tasmania 100 (Crawford 20, Steindl 15, Magnay 13, Macdonald 11, McVeigh 11, Deng 10) def Illawarra 89 (Froling 22, Clark 18, Harvey 12)

Melbourne 109 (Clark 25, Travers 20, Goulding 19, Lual-Acuil 18) def Perth 103 (OT) (Cotton 36, Usher 23, Pinder 15)

Adelaide 95 (Vasiljevic 23, Wiley 21, Kell 18, Humphries 14) def Brisbane 88 (Sobey 36, McDaniel 16)

SE Melbourne 85 (Browne 20, Nader 20, Kenyon 12, Williams 11, Ayre 10) def Tasmania 77 (McVeigh 20, Doyle 18, Crawford 12)

Illawarra 94 (Froling 20, Harvey 15, Clark 13, Lee 13, Robinson 12) def Sydney 90 (Adams 22, Hogg 15, Noi 14, Galloway 11, Bolden 10)

Perth 105 (Cotton 33, Doolittle 17, Pinder 14, Usher 12, Sarr 11) def Cairns 102 (Klintman 24, Miller 18, McCall 17, Kuol 13, Waardenburg 11)

NZ Breakers 81 (Lamb 18, Rubstavicius 15, Cheatham 11, Jackson-Cartwright 11) def Brisbane 71 (Sobey 16, Bannan 14, Smith 10)

[saintal]

Took my 6yo to the Sixers game on Sunday, first NBL game I've attended since the demise of the Giants back in 2004. An enjoyable afternoon, and the AEC works well as a venue (although perhaps lacks some of the history that the Powerhouse had spotted around such as old team photos and honour boards etc). They could probably turn the nightclub music down a notch though

The game itself was a fairly entertaining one, especially for two pretty mediocre teams.

[Gozu]

Perth beat the 36ers 100-82.

Also former Perth Wildcats coach Trevor Gleeson has signed with the Milwaukee Bucks as an assistant coach.

https://www.espn.com.au/nba/story/_/id/ ... hing-staff

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BRYCE COTTON
Cotton in fine form and simply amazing at times
Ive watched most games this season, I reckon Cotton has shown the best form of any player in the NBL

[DOC]

For me, in the best half dozen to have played in the league.

[Gozu]

Agreed and despite Cotton's poor start to the season he's probably the front runner for MVP. It's amazing that he's still playing at such a high level after eight years in the league.

Bryce Cotton

First 10 games: 16.5 ppg @ 36% FG (27.1% 3p)

Last 11 games: 25.8 ppg @ 43.2% FG (37.3% 3p)

On the 36ers I don't feel very confident about today's game in the Gong, with the way the Hawks have been playing under Tatum's dad I think a beatdown could be on the cards. I really hope not but that Perth game looked like some of our guys are starting to put the cue in the rack.