2015/16 NBL Season/Off-season news/Boomers

[Gozu]

Down 20.

Shameful.

[Jim05]

Getting ugly now.
Another wasted season, plenty of deadwood needs clearing

[LaughingKookaburra]

Shithouse and got ahead of themselves after the Hawks home game.

Seriously terrible finish, rely on Randle too much. Need to sign him as an absolute priority and work on the rest of the squad.

Officiating horrible especially in the first quarter.

[Gozu]

Final

Hawks 106
36ers 95

[BoundaryRider84]

FU melbourne

[king neptune]

If they can keep Randle for next season that will be the best thing to come out of this year.

Gibson is still our best defensive guard (not much competition) but he scores more than 10 points once every 5 games or so. Certainly not captaincy material. Well done Andrej Lemanis taking him to the FIBA World Cup and leaving Ben Simmons out

[Gozu]

Round 19 results:

Sydney 103 (Childress 25, Garlepp 22, Thornton 16, Brandt 14, Faithfull 12) def Perth 77 (Knight 15, Hire 11, Kenny 11, Redhage 11, Wagstaff 11, Jervis 10)

Townsville 85 (Samhan 14, Jett 13, Steindl 13, Kay 12) def Cairns 68 (Gliddon 16, Weigh 14, Worthington 13)

NZ Breakers 100 (Ch. Jackson 18, Ce. Jackson 17, Webster 17, Abercrombie 14, Wesley 10) def Melbourne 63 (Adnam 16)

Illawarra 106 (Ogilvy 17, Lisch 16, Martin 14, Weeks 14, Penney 13, White 11) def Adelaide 95 (Johnson 20, Randle 15, Ere 12, Petrie 12, Creek 11)

Townsville 126 (Samhan 25, Steindl 25, Jett 21, Kay 15, Maynard 14) def Sydney 123 (OT) (Cadee 32, Childress 31, Brandt 19, Thornton 18, Garlepp 11)

NZ Breakers 70 (Wesley 23, Vukona 10) def Melbourne 68 (Goulding 22, Kickert 16)

Perth 100 (Beal 15, Prather 15, Jervis 14, Wagstaff 13, Hire 11, Martin 10) def Adelaide 84 (Creek 17, Gibson 16, Randle 14)

[Gozu]

The NBL playoffs start on Thursday night with Game 1 of the Melb vs NZ series and then Game 1 of the Perth vs Illawarra series on Friday night.

Semi-Finals:

Melbourne United (1) vs New Zealand Breakers (4)

Game 1 - Hisense Arena, Melbourne Thurs 18th Feb 7pm

Game 2 - Vector Arena, Auckland Sat 20th Feb 5pm

Game 3 - Hisense Arena, Melbourne Fri 26th Feb 7pm (if needed)


Perth Wildcats (2) vs Illawarra Hawks (3)

Game 1 - Perth Arena Fri 19th Feb 9pm

Game 2 - WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong Sun 21st Feb 2:30pm

Game 3 - Perth Arena Fri 26th Feb 9pm (if needed)

[Gozu]

The NBL Awards ceremony is on tonight, the live stream has just started but you need to sign-in/register to watch it.

http://www.nbl.com.au/awards

[Brodlach]

Randle almost certain to play for Sydney next season

[Gozu]

Randle almost certain to play for Sydney next season

No shit? The other day talk was Melbourne had offered Randle a bigger contract than the 36ers can (I bet Stephen Holt feels pretty good hearing about that).

Either way with Joey coming out and calling for another sponsor to get on board to try and keep him it's not looking too good.

[Brodlach]

Spoke to someone from the 36ers today and that is the talk from the corridors

[mighty hounds]

Randle almost certain to play for Sydney next season

No shit? The other day talk was Melbourne had offered Randle a bigger contract than the 36ers can (I bet Stephen Holt feels pretty good hearing about that).

Either way with Joey coming out and calling for another sponsor to get on board to try and keep him it's not looking too good.

You're ******* kidding me. After all the good things he's written about Adelaide. I made a comment about money and was told other factors come into play. Turns out I was right.

[Brodlach]

Kevin Lisch a well deserved MVP

[Gozu]

All of the award winners:

Most Valuable Player: Kevin Lisch, Hawks

Voting: Kevin Lisch 93 votes, Chris Goulding 84, Jerome Randle 82, AJ Ogilvy 82, Kirk Penney 82

Fans MVP: Jerome Randle, 36ers

Defensive player of the year: Kevin Lisch, Hawks

Coach of the year: Shawn Dennis, Crocs

Most Improved: Clint Steindl, Crocs

6th Man of the year: Hakim Warrick, United

Rookie of the year: Nick Kay, Crocs

All-NBL First Team:

Kevin Lisch, Hawks
Jerome Randle, 36ers
Chris Goulding, United
Daniel Kickert, United
AJ Ogilvy, Hawks

All-NBL Second Team:

Stephen Holt, United
Corey Webster, Breakers
Kirk Penney, Hawks
Matt Knight, Wildcats
Daniel Johnson, 36ers

[Gozu]

In regards to Randle he supposedly a) wants $300K+ next season and b) has signed to play the rest of this season in Lithuania funnily enough on the same team as former 36er Brock Motum.

[Gozu]

Just like that NZ have upset Melb and can knock them out on Saturday in Auckland!

Game 1

NZ Breakers 91 (Ce. Jackson 20, Abercrombie 16, Webster 14, Vukona 11) def Melbourne 82 (Warrick 24, Goulding 23, Holt 13, Blanchfield 11)

New Zealand lead the series 1-0

NBL game on Channel 9 this weekend:

Sunday afternoon: Game 2 Perth @ Illawarra at 2:30pm (9Gem)

[Gozu]

With Kevin Lisch going down with an ankle injury in the first quarter and taking no further part in the game it's starting to look like a Perth vs NZ grand final series.

Game 1

Perth 80 (Prather 19, Beal 18, Jervis 14) def Illawarra 68 (Coenraad 23, Penney 17, Ogilvy 14)

Perth lead the series 1-0

[Gozu]

Good game this Melb are up 46-41 at half-time.

[Gozu]

Melb Utd are probably feeling a little bit silly right now easing up in their last two regular season games vs NZ to ensure they got NZ in the SF.

Game 2

NZ Breakers 91 (Abercrombie 23, Ce. Jackson 19, Wesley 16, Webster 13) def Melbourne 78 (Goulding 23, Warrick 17, Kickert 16, Holt 12)

New Zealand win the series 2-0