2020-21 NBL Season + Off-season news

[Gozu]

It seems the 36ers new signing is actually going to be Brandon Paul. He's a 6'4" G/F who played a season in the NBA for San Antonio and played last season in Greece.

On February 14th, 2021, Paul signed a contract with the Adelaide 36ers of the National Basketball League (Australia) as a replacement player for Donald Sloan (basketball). Paul will join the team in mid to late March.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Paul

[LaughingKookaburra]

They realistically needed to. Adelaide need an elite import to make them a contender. The blokes they have now including Sloane aren’t up to what they require.

[Spargo]

They realistically needed to. Adelaide need an elite import to make them a contender. The blokes they have now including Sloane aren’t up to what they require.

Sloane’s already gone.

[Gozu]

The SE Melbourne Phoenix have announced they've signed Boomer Ryan Broekhoff to a 1 year deal. The 6'6" G/F has spent the past two years in the NBA with Dallas & Philadelphia and was waived by the 76ers during training camp.

https://www.semphoenix.com.au/news/sem- ... -broekhoff

Broekhoff is expected to make his debut for SEM towards the end of the NBL Cup.

[Gozu]

Qtr time

Bullets 17
Sixers 14

[Gozu]

H/T

Bullets 47
Sixers 37

[Spargo]

Some defence would be nice.

[Gozu]

Some defence would be nice.

Bullets just playing like they want it more.

[Gozu]

3 Qtr time

Bullets 73
Sixers 55

[Spargo]

Insipid.

[Gozu]

Final

Bullets 93
Sixers 74

[Gozu]

Round 5 results:

Melbourne 91 (Hopson 21, McCarron 17, Baba 13, Landale 10) def Illawarra 88 (Jessup 24, Harvey 22, Froling 16)

Perth 106 (Blanchfield 22, Mooney 18, Cotton 15, Wagstaff 12) def SE Melbourne 75 (Adnam 24, Moore 18, Creek 16, Sykes 10)

Sydney 84 (Ware 22, Martin 20, Vasiljevic 17) def NZ Breakers 74 (C. Webster 25, T. Webster 13, Delany 12)

Adelaide 85 (Humphries 24, Johnson 21, Crocker 11) def Brisbane 70 (Sobey 25)

Illawarra 85 (Harvey 25, Bairstow 13, Jessup 12, Simon 12, Adel 11) def Sydney 82 (Ware 21, Vasiljevic 18, Martin 15)

SE Melbourne 96 (Sykes 24, Creek 18, Te Rangi 16) def Perth 71 (Mooney 19, Cotton 15, Wagstaff 11, Blanchfield 10)

Brisbane 93 (Law 27, Sobey 19, Johnson 15) def Adelaide 74 (Johnson 20, Humphries 15)

[Gozu]

NBL ladder after 5 rounds:

Melbourne 6-0
Illawarra 5-2
Adelaide 5-4
SE Melbourne 4-4

Sydney 3-4
Brisbane 3-4
Perth 2-3
Cairns 2-6
NZ Breakers 1-4

[Gozu]

It's official the 36ers have signed new import Brandon Paul who played for Greek powerhouse club Olympiacos in the EuroLeague last season along with that one year in the NBA previously.

https://nbl.com.au/news/adelaide-36ers- ... andon-paul

He's expected to arrive in late February so presumably Jeremy Kendle will keep playing for us until then.

[Gozu]

Day 1 of the NBL Cup in Melbourne in the first game Cairns beat Illawarra 101-95. Top scorers for the Taipans were Scott Machado with 31 and Jordan Ngatai with 17 and for the Hawks Tyler Harvey scored 24 points and Deng Deng and Justinian Jessup each scored 17.

In the second game Perth defeated Melbourne 89-85. Top scorer for the Wildcats was Bryce Cotton with 29 and for United Jock Landale scored 20 points.

[Gozu]

Qtr time

Kings 30
Sixers 22

[DOC]

Andrew Gaze's criticism of Pinder completely justified. Lazy lazy shit defence.

[Gozu]

Andrew Gaze's criticism of Pinder completely justified. Lazy lazy shit defence.

Spends more time at the hairdressers than training by the looks of things too.

[Gozu]

H/T

Sixers 51
Kings 48

[DOC]

Good quarter. Humphries was great.