From a glance, his FGA numbers look pretty consistent across the season? Someone keen might want to graph it with a trend line...

It was late in the evening and there was a Townsville player on Overtime , last night, who thought it was Schenscher.

( ' Schenscher phoned up and asked for a lifeline.' He told us. ' If you're Luke Schenscher you don't have to do that. We jumped at the chance to have him.')

It's all on the defensive end in my opinion... Rosell has added a belief and toughness on D.

The other thing is the team gelling together. That was the key in signing Rosell, he know the system, knows some of the guys and didn't take long for him to settle in.

Rosell has a very different role from when he was here last time. We had him playing centre, on the low block, primary scorer and relied on him for big boards. Now he sets great picks, gets boards at both ends and helps Schenscher bang the bigs.

The increase in Luke's numbers would also be attributed to Rosell because he has a bit more freedom now.

What do u think ?

Anon '525, bit of a bump, could well be part of it.

First part of the season doesn't look like it was unusually rough - games against Blaze, Kings, 36ers, etc.

Paul Woolpert!

A legit coach who compliments Trev & i'd be suprised if he doesnt get a head coach role next season.

Unfortunately Paul has just returned to the USA for personal/family reasons...an illness in his wife's family.

Crawford has been GOOD since Christmas also. Would be interesting to see how his numbers have improved since Freeman left. Also of note is Crawfords defensive efforts on the opposing SG/SF.

Worth noting that the crocs have suffered very lightly on injury's in the second half, unlike many teams

both great points Croc Watcher & ITK!

Maybe Ellis is Paul Rees.

Again Crawford came up BIG. Career best form.

Crocs ball movement has been outstanding lately. Very Euro.

New Zealand have just found themselves in a mini-slump lately. Today at Wollongong I wasn't too impressed, and they are ripe for the picking for the Crocs this thursday. That is followed by a return bout in Townsvile the following round.

If Townsville can get those - and there's no reason that they can't on current form - then they get a nice little psychological edge going into the playoffs. The two teams have only met once thus far this season - the result being a big (17 point) win to the Crocs at home.

NZ-Crocs will be live on OneHD this Thursday, and should be a ripper.

Hard to disagree with that. The Breakers looked very flat last night (save for Penney, mostly). CJ looked like he was struggling to care about the result. Not going to be upset if a TV game is a real spectacle or if the Crocs show them up.

I thought Ervin was impressive in the open court. His hang-time on some of those moves to the bucket is incredible.

That's two big blow-out wins at home for the Hawks against top three teams. Wonder how much we can take from that about the strength of the Crocs, given how easily they dealt with them?

What will hurt Wollongong from here is the head-to-head with their nearest rivals on the ladder. But they can't argue about the run home - 'destiny in their hands' is the easy NBL cliche of this time of year.

Ervin moved freely , must've been injured before.
Glen Saville is handy and Forman impressive.
Bruton played like he was injured but he didn't even bother to look at the coach's board or listen , at the last time out.. looking at the crowd..
On present form , Crocs would beat NZ comfortably on Thursday.

Breakers defense has been very ordinary recently especially the on-ball. CJ & Penney's movement has been woeful. Breakers are very very fortunate to have Vukonas hustle n muscle and Bouchers bag-o-dirty tricks to compensate.