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What We Learnt #9: Dodging the bullet
WHAT we learnt from NBL Round 9 is that Brisbane Bullets coach Stu Lash is the latest "teflon kid". Nothing sticks. Nothing is his fault. Sack Jaylen Adams. Makes sense. Then sign Terry Taylor and look, Javon Freeman-Liberty is coming back. The concern when he left was his wellbeing.
Fire, Lynx separate from a growing WNBL pack
TOWNSVILLE and Perth continued to show their bona fides this round as WNBL championship favourites, with Geelong and Canberra slowly emerging as teams likely to give Bendigo and Southside Flyers a run for their Final Four money.
Overtime shoot-out highlights NBL round
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JACK McVeigh today produced an NBL career-high 39 points for Cairns but was trumped by Bryce Cotton's 41 as Adelaide staved off the Taipans in overtime, Sydney demolishing Illawarra, Melbourne holding off Brisbane and Perth rolling away from New Zealand in the upshot of Round 9.
Glover lead Phoenix onslaught as Snakes skinned
ANGUS Glover made his intentions clear early. Back from an untimely injury that hit while he was hitting, his return for South East Melbourne last night against Cairns saw him wrack up a game-high 24 points with six 3-pointers, two of them in the first period when he had eight points and an assist.
It's 'Brown-town' as new 36er rolls up
ADELAIDE has beaten a depleted Tasmania on the road as its new NBA-experienced wing import Troy Brown Jr lobbed into town, Brisbane losing Casey Prather for the season and finally dumping Jaylen Adams, with Shea Ili set to return for United as NBL Round 9 rolls past only its second game.
Prather disaster, Stu lashed, Breakers roll on
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WHAT an absolutely unconscionable and disgraceful performance last night from coach Stu Lash and his Brisbane Blanks as they meekly surrendered to New Zealand by a whopping 29 points in their NBL Ignite Cup clash, a result darkened still further by the late and unnecessary injury to Casey Prather.
Lilly blossoms, Lightning thundering, Fire red-hot
UNFASHIONABLE Adelaide and depleted Geelong were the talk of WNBL Round 4 after not just stunning but convincing wins over Sydney and Perth respectively, Lilly Rotunno wracking up career-highs for the Venom, while title favourite Townsville went about restoring order.
What we Learnt #8
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ANOTHER huge NBL round full of "learnings" - the buzz word you now have to use because so many have forgotten the word "lessons" - has seen Melbourne United temporarily floored, Tasmania floundering and three players flourishing with 30-plus outputs, Javale McGee's 37 top of the pops.
Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE: Wildcat insights as NBL pivots
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YES all right. My podcast partner Joey Wright DID attend the Perth Wildcats' shootaround ahead of their NBL match against the 36ers in Adelaide. But as we explain in our Time Out-NO FLOP ZONE podcast, there was nothing sinister about it and we did get some revelations from it.
Walker steers United back on track as Phoenix flummoxed
AFTER having its 9-0 season start interrupted by NSW's NBL pair, Melbourne flexed its defensive muscle to rattle South East Melbourne in their top-of-the-table Throwdown, playmaking import Tyson Walker showing the way with a 24-point, 6-rebound, 6-assist tour de force.
