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Years ago
Perfect one-sided NBL game?
just read this -
http://www.botinagy.com/blog/the-night-the-lights-went-out-in-adelaide/
I've seen one almost as "good" as last weekend, and definitely better than the one Boti described - and it was a Grand final qualifying deciding game 3 as well.
that's the "mothers' day massacre" of Sydney kings by the Canberra Cannons
an elimination final with the loser out and the winner into the GF
http://www.sydneykings.com/article/id/1320fqfg4kdsz1ngkxqc6g9n5t
quote from above - note "45 points in 12 minutes" "the Cannons won the series in three after obliterating the Kings in the most one-sided playoff game in NBL history.
Game Three ended with a staggering 142-82 blowout of Sydney at the Palace in Canberra, on an historic Sunday afternoon which saw the other semi-final decided in similar fashion with the North Melbourne Giants annihilating the Perth Wildcats 165-110.
The series decider was a game where everything went right for the home team and the visitors were helpless to stop it.
Canberra jumped out to a 33-14 lead after one and then turned on the afterburners in the second period, hitting seemingly every shot they took to blast a remarkable 45 points in twelve minutes, going to the rooms with an incredible 78-34 lead and the cheers of a sellout crowd ringing in their ears with a half still to play.
Naturally, the second stanza was purely academic, and one the Kings just wanted to get over and done with as quickly as possible.
and here
http://hosting3.sportingpulse.com/www.basketball.net.au/index.php?id=302&tx_ttnews[pointer]=77&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=928&tx_ttnews[backPid]=615&cHash=d6c55825a3
quote from above
"In the nation's capital, the Kings were undergoing an even more painful experience. With Canberra’s regular head coach Steve Breheny among the 4,500 spectators watching on, the Cannons annihilated their 'opponents’ by the score of 142-82. With the Kings being ‘flatter than stale beer’, the game became little more than a training scrimmage. It would be the lesser-known players who took the starring roles on this day. As Jaime Kennedy shut down Steve Carfino at one end of the floor, Simon Cottrell destroyed Sydney’s interior defence at the other with a game-high 34 points. The lead got out to 68 at one stage in the third quarter and the crowd even gave up booing Damian Keogh. It was a long bus ride back to Sydney for the Kings. Veteran centre Brad Dalton decided that he had had enough of the silence and ordered the bus to stop at The Collingwood Hotel in Liverpool. A makeshift wake was then held, with the local barflies shouting the team a bottle of champagne. Even the publican was moved to offer the Kings a magnum of champers, showing that if nothing else the Kings had achieved a status where they could draw pity from the owner of a pub."
