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Defend the island, invade the mainland
HARD to split between Tasmania-Sydney and Melbourne-Tasmania for the NBL’s Game of the Round this week because with Scott Roth’s JackJumpers, you always know you’re going to get a committed team-first performance, win or lose.
NBL TotW1: Kings settle back on the throne
IT looked like it may have been Perth after it saw off a tenacious Tasmania, then Melbourne with its first round sweep of SEM and Adelaide. But ultimately, our Round 1 Team of the Week was the defending champion Sydney Kings.
NBL: Tom slams into 400 and Phoenix rise
WHAT an outstanding way to honour the 400th game of the ultimate Breaker, Thomas Abercrombie, by opening New Zealand’s clash with arch rival Cairns running a sweet backdoor play for the lob and slam dunk by that nation’s greatest NBL stalwart.
OK. Now the NBL is rolling
SENSATIONAL. It took until the third game of the NBL’s new season, but fans finally saw a cracker, Perth Wildcats staving off Tasmania JackJumpers 101-95, Jordan Usher delighting the 12,000-plus at RAC Arena with a club record 35-point debut at 65 per cent.
Great night. Pity about the basketball
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WHAT a ghastly tip-off to the NBL season. Melbourne United, shooting at a mind-numbing 35 per cent, saw off crosstown rival South East Melbourne 82-67, who, while managing to deliver a total only Aaron Fearne could love, shot the ball at an unconscionable 29 per cent. Magnificent opening night crowd, celebrity row fully in tow and Scottie Pippen along for the ride, it sure turned bumpy fast.
Here we go, here we go, here we go. NBL
NBL Season 2023-24 tips off tonight in a week the Adelaide 36ers realised they’d sacked their import, who also apparently didn’t know what everyone following the Blitz already did. Welcome to the NBL Scottie Pippen.
Paris a monumental quest for Boomers
FANS of the Boomers need to have no illusions about the difficulty of the task ahead at the Paris Olympic Games. Of the eight teams to already qualify, namely host nation France, World Champion Germany, runner-up Serbia, Canada, USA, Australia, Japan and South Sudan, right now most would only pencil in those last two national teams as likely Aussie wins.
Boomers World Cup a small F fail
NOW the dust has settled on the FIBA World Cup, it’s fair to say Australia delivered a small ‘F’ fail in Okinawa and Manila. You cannot fly out spouting “gold vibes only,” then not make it to the quarter-final round after promising a podium finish. Sorry. That’s a fail. It just isn’t a crisis.
Taipans set for NBL-NBA debut
CAIRNS Taipans and their NBL arch rival New Zealand Breakers will continue the tradition of preseason matches against NBA opposition when they head to the US in October for games involving the Toronto Raptors, Matisse Thybulle’s Portland Trail Blazers and Washington Wizards.
FIBA WC23: Long way yet to the Finnish
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THERE are major scores to settle when Slovenia takes on Australia tomorrow night in Manila to open the second group stage of the FIBA Men’s World Cup, the Boomers needing two wins to go through to the quarter-finals, having successfully qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
