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Jackies jump gun, Cotton pickin' on 36ers

THE Tasmania JackJumpers jumped the gun and reloaded their road loss to the Bullets with a key home win before Bryce Cotton remembered who he is and dragged Perth to a home win over Adelaide in which you might have sworn both coaches were trying to lose. 

Breakers, Kings bring heat ahead of rematch

DEPLETED New Zealand last night opened the NBL round with a 10-point win over equally depleted Cairns before Sydney reasserted itself over its unfashionable "kid brother" Illawarra by double that, cruising to a 20-point victory despite Gary Clark's best efforts. 

No NBL. Stop terrorising the audience

THIS just has to stop. The NBL may be doing parents a favour by providing them with images to scare the children to bed but they also are horrifying unsuspecting adults with a bizarre new terror only added this season to the television broadcasts.

Forget speculation. Brisbane is the real deal

LOOK out! There's a new kid on the block putting up his hand as a genuine contender and fans of the Brisbane Bullets should start packing Nissan Arena. Their steady dismantling last night of South East Melbourne was precise and efficient, in a game which often threatened to explode.

Brad&Boti: Winners are grinners, so we're glum

OUR WNBL preview with Kristi Harrower dropped yesterday and today we switch our attention at the Brad&Boti podcast to this week's NBL games, Brad Rosen as always denying his blatant Kings bias and me trying to keep my love of the Jackies in abeyance.

NBL Rd6 Rankings, Tips: Mystery solving on the cards

CAN Brisbane and Adelaide continue their newly-found revivals, is Cairns the real deal, will South East Melbourne continue its run, has New Zealand hit the skids and is Perth as bad as we all - even Bryce Cotton's better half - suspect? NBL Round 6 should have a few answers for us.

NBLTotW5: Gunning for the Teams title

A PAIR of wins again for Melbourne United, solidifying it at the head of the NBL ladder, held the club in good stead again as our NBL Team of the Week for Round 5.

That is until the Bullets came out firing.

Seriously, NBL's Upset Round a Nightmare

NBL tipsters experienced a nightmare NBL Round 5, with only league-leading Melbourne United fulfilling expectations, Chris Goulding alight for 33 points against Illawarra, and Brisbane closing the weekend with an upset over Tasmania. 

Upsets continue rolling on

THE NBL's "round of upsets" continued last night with South East Melbourne staving off a fast-finishing New Zealand - not entirely unexpected given the Breakers' loss of Zylan Cheatham - and Cairns completely controlling Sydney for 40 minutes, Bul Kuol playing all of them.

Can the refs please just get out of the way?

TWO more big games in NBL Round 5 last night and the referees cannot help but get involved - to the detriment of all concerned - as United beats Tasmania in Hobart and the Bullets shoot down a very lame gaggle of Wildcats in Perth, a few of the local fans even voicing their disapproval.