SA Footy

Well we crapped the bed there Guess we were due for a bad game. I fear we have very little chance against Spain, who are the 2nd best national team in the world. Send in Goulding to kick Pau Gasol in his injured calf.

The 36ers won the third game of their series against the Illawarra Hawks in Darwin tonight 105-86 winning the series 2-1.

New 36ers import Eric Jacobsen was named MVP of the series.

Bronze Medal Game: Australia vs Spain 12am Tonight/Monday morning

Gold Medal Game: USA vs Serbia 4:15am Monday morning

A terrible way to miss out on a medal with a garbage call like that but the refs were rubbish all game both ways. Disappointing finish but a great game of basketball and the Boomers should be proud.

Spain 89 (Gasol 31, Mirotic 14, Rodriguez 11, Fernandez 10) def Australia 88 (Mills 30, Andersen 15, Broekhoff 13, Motum 12)

An interesting move by the Sydney Kings signing Chinese player Bo Liu to a development player contract. The 6'9" PF has been playing for the Shenzhen Leopards in China and the Kings have taken advantage of a new NBL rule allowing players within the FIBA Asia zone to be signed as locals without counting as an import. As a development player though he won't be on the actual 11 man roster and can only play in home games unless replacing an unavailable player from the playing roster.

http://www.nbl.com.au/featured-news/kin ... -nbl-rule/

The Cairns Taipans have announced the signing of their third import Nnanna Egwu a 6'11" Nigerian born American centre who played last season in the D-League. Egwu played some NBA pre-season games with the Orlando Magic in 2015 and comes recommended to the Taipans by former Perth Wildcats coach Connor Henry who is now an assistant coach with the Magic.

http://www.taipans.com/featured-news/nn ... rd-import/

In pre-season games today the Cairns Taipans had a win over the touring Eastern Washington University 97-60. Last night Melbourne United defeated UCLA 89-84. For United David Barlow and Majok Majok each scored 16 points and for the Bruins Isaac Hamilton and Bryce Alford both had 18.

Tonight the Brisbane Bullets lost to the touring UCLA 94-91 in Logan. The Bullets were very undermanned missing 4 of their starting 5 and not only had Lucas Walker fill in for them but also a long since retired 40 year old Sam Mackinnon who looks like he's been in a good paddock.

Top scorers for the Bruins were Aaron Holiday with 17 and Bryce Alford & Isaac Hamilton each scored 16 and for the Bullets Daniel Kickert scored 15 and Anthony Petrie had 14.

The NZ Breakers have completed their roster with the signing of their second import Akil Mitchell a 6'9" PF who played in France last season. The American born Panamanian also plays for the Panama national team and just played in the NBA Summer League for the New York Knicks.

http://www.nzbreakers.co.nz/news/americ ... ead-coach/

Looking forward to this season, seems to be sooooo much talent on the teams

Brodlach wrote:Looking forward to this season, seems to be sooooo much talent on the teams

Agreed there seems to be a fairly decent talent spread across the league.

In a pre-season game tonight the Sydney Kings beat the Illawarra Hawks 79-64 in Sutherland. For the Kings Jason Cadee scored 18 and Kevin Lisch had 15 and for the Hawks Marvelle Harris scored 18 and Michael Holyfield had 10 points, 12 boards and 4 blocks.

The 36ers have also announced Mitch Creek is the new captain of the club and Jerome Randle is vice-captain.

Tonight the Cairns Taipans defeated the Perth Wildcats in Rockhampton 93-79. For the Taipans Travis Trice scored 17 and Fuquan Edwin scored 15 and for the Wildcats Jaron Johnson had 19, Jameel McKay had 18 points & 10 boards and Jesse Wagstaff 17.

Fuquan, supporters are going to have fun with that name

Brodlach wrote:Fuquan, supporters are going to have fun with that name

I think it's pronounced Foo-kwon but I hope the Fox commentators do a bit research before calling a Cairns game

A couple of pre-season games tonight the Cairns Taipans beat the Perth Wildcats 89-78 in Rockhampton. The Taipans top scorers were Mark Worthington with 15 and Damon Heuir with 14 and for the Wildcats Jaron Johnson scored 24. In the other game the Illawarra Hawks defeated the Sydney Kings 95-85 at the Snakepit and Michael Holyfield led the Hawks with 17.

Sports documentary maker and NBL media-award winner Lennon Cooper has made his first Adelaide 36ers documentary 'Golden Era: Adelaide 36ers in the 80's' available to watch for free on YouTube. It's feature length and runs for nearly two hours.

'Golden Era' was originally screened at Piccadilly Cinema in 2011.



Boti Nagy wrote an article on the documentary:

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/dvd ... 6015164139

A great move by the NBL announcing that NBL TV is back which will free for full season ticket holders of all clubs and will also be available for $5 per month. Every game of the 2016/17 NBL season will be shown live on NBL TV and and All-Access pass will allow subscribers to watch hundreds of classic NBL games dating back to 1979.

Excellent decision to get a streaming service back up and running for those without Foxtel.

http://www.nbl.com.au/featured-news/nbl-anywhere-time/

Also there was a pre-season game played last night with Melbourne United beating the Cairns Taipans 85-73 in Knox. For United Devin Williams had 15 points & 11 boards and for the Taipans Cameron Gliddon scored 15.

A couple of pre-season games firstly tonight the Cairns Taipans beat Melbourne United in Ballarat 85-77. For the Taipans Alex Loughton scored 21 and for United Ramone Moore scored 15 and last night the 36ers thumped touring Chinese side Shandong Golden Stars 103-37 at Titanium Security Arena.

The 36ers again snuck over the line today in their second game against Shandong Golden Stars in Murray Bridge winning 109-54.

Gozu wrote:The 36ers again snuck over the line today in their second game against Shandong Golden Stars in Murray Bridge winning 109-54.

Waste of time and money this series, they have been horendus.