2019-20 NBL Season + Off-season news

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Round 1 results:

SE Melbourne 91 (Creek 28, Roberson 20, Adnam 11) def Melbourne 88 (Goulding 27, Long 26, Trimble 16, McCarron 13)

Sydney 79 (Ware 23, Lisch 18, Tate 14, Newley 10) def Cairns 71 (Noi 14, Machado 13, Oliver 13, Jawai 10, Newbill 10)

Perth 94 (Cotton 21, White 20, Kay 18) def Melbourne 93 (Trimble 25, McCarron 17, Long 15, Lual-Acuil 14, Pledger 12)

Brisbane 90 (Patterson 25, Sobey 17, Hodgson 14, Cadee 12, Gliddon 10) def Illawarra 81 (Brooks 23, Ogilvy 13, Ball 12, Blanchfield 10)

NBLxNBA:

Utah 133 (Bradley 18, Green 16, O'Neale 12, Williams-Goss 12, Howard 11, Bogdanovic 10, Ingles 10) def Adelaide 81 (Randle 18, Johnson 13, Griffin 12, Dillon 11)

Also the 36ers have announced Brendan Teys and Kevin White have been named co-captains of the club this season.

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Good news for the NBL with one million people in the US watching the live stream of Sunday's Hawks vs Bullets game on Facebook.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/basketball ... 1570622368

Also today good to see the NZ Breakers put in a much better effort in their loss to the Memphis Grizzlies than the 36ers did in the Utah game.

Memphis 108 (Ja. Jackson 18, Allen 18, Crowder 15, Guduric 14, Jones 13) def NZ Breakers 94 (Webster 19, Hopson 16, Loe 12, Abercrombie 10, Henry 10)

And Tom Abercrombie left Jaren Jackson Jr. something to think about!

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Round 2 TV games on SBS Viceland:

Sat 5pm Adelaide at Sydney

Sun 2:30pm Brisbane at SE Melbourne

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Not a great night for the Breakers with OKC getting out to a big lead but they kept the end score respectable.

Oklahoma City 110 (Adams 19, Gilgeous-Alexander 18, Diallo 16, Bazley 12, Muscala 10) def NZ Breakers 84 (Loe 19, Hopson 15, Ashley 10, Webster 10)

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Qtr time

Kings 30
Sixers 14

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Playing with no synergy

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Playing with no synergy

We're playing with more purpose in the second half of this quarter though.

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H/T

Kings 59
Sixers 42

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3QT

Kings 84
Sixers 63

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Final

Kings 102
Sixers 80

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Final

Kings 102
Sixers 80

What happened here Gozu? Unexpected result?

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Final

Kings 102
Sixers 80

What happened here Gozu? Unexpected result?

Not really unexpected I don't think. They've just come back from the US I'm not even sure if they came back to Adelaide but might've gone from the US straight to Sydney still working Randle in and most expect the Kings to be a Top 3 side and most had the Sixers finishing near the bottom at least prior to the Randle signing.

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A really good effort by Melbourne this morning United had the lead at half time but the Clippers just had too much depth.

LA Clippers 118 (Harrell 22, Williams 16, Robinson 15, Walton 14, Beverley 11, Patterson 10, Zubac 10) def Melbourne 100 (Trimble 22, Long 17, Goulding 16)

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Round 2 results:

Brisbane 90 (Sobey 21, Hodgson 14, Singler 10) def Cairns 74 (Machado 16, Oliver 16, Deng 14, Djeric 14, Jawai 10)

Perth 103 (Cotton 28, White 19, Hunt 16, Norton 10) def Illawarra 76 (Ball 15, Andersen 14, Boone 10)

Sydney 102 (Newley 18, Kickert 16, Tate 16, Moller 12, Ware 10) def Adelaide 80 (Johnson 26, Randle 16, Drmic 10, Moore 10)

SE Melbourne 113 (Roberson 30, Creek 25, Stephens 17, Madgen 13) def Brisbane 93 (Patterson 30, Sobey 15, Magnay 13, Singler 10)

Illawarra 89 (Blanchfield 20, Brooks 19, Ogilvy 19) def Cairns 88 (Newbill 26, Deng 17, Machado 14, Oliver 14)

Also there has been a couple of eyebrow raising assistant coaching resignations over the past few days. After their game against OKC on Friday Breakers assistant Michael Fitchett quit at the airport as the team were boarding the plane which would've made for an interesting flight back to NZ.

Tonight comes reports that Paul Henare has resigned from both of his positions as an assistant at Melbourne United and as the head coach of the Tall Blacks with speculation he's about to head to the NBA to join the Charlotte Hornets.

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The South-East Melbourne Phoenix have announced the signing of temporary replacement import Jaye Crockett a 6'7" forward who played last season in France. Crockett is replacing the currently injured Tai Wesley on the roster and he and John Roberson are former college teammates too.

https://nbl.com.au/news/se-melbourne-ph ... e-crockett

In an interesting decision NZ Breakers forward Thomas Abercrombie has signed a 1 year contract extension as he still had 2 years to run on his current contract he's now under contract to the club until 2022.

https://nbl.com.au/news/tom-abercrombie ... t-breakers

Also recently departed Melbourne United assistant coach Paul Henare has taken up a head coaching job in Japan not gone to the NBA as speculated.

https://nbl.com.au/news/paul-henare-dep ... -for-japan

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A good effort by Melbourne United today in the final NBLxNBA game.

Sacramento 124 (Bagley 20, Ferrell 24, Barnes 18, Hield 14) def Melbourne 110 (Goulding 25, Trimble 20, Long 15, Lual-Acuil 12, Pledger 10)

Round 3 TV games on SBS Viceland:

Sat 5pm Brisbane at Adelaide

Sun 2:30pm Sydney at NZ Breakers
Sun 4:30pm Perth at Melbourne

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Cairns about to pull off the upset of the season beating Perth in Perth

[Spargo]

Cairns about to pull off the upset of the season beating Perth in Perth

Major touch up.

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Cairns beat Perth 99-76 at Perth Arena!

Major touch up.

Imagine the odds the Taipans would've been at 0-3 and Perth at 2-0 before the game?

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Anyone been to the AEC this season yet?
Heading along this arvo for the game.

Only got GA tickets but heard that there is not really a bad spot to see the game.