Hard to say from a Cats fan aswell, love having a title come home, love proving all the doubters wrong, love knocking the shit eating grins off Goulding and Ware, but yeah, blowouts don't make for the best finals series, strange considering all the match-ups during the year were so close. United definitely got rattled in that 3rd game and never recovered. I felt they had 1 too many superstars on their roster when they added McCarron and Kennedy, and I think that's why Perth didn't succumb to a 3rd import, it would've changed the dynamic and either Brand or Kay would prob have had their minutes reduced. Cats had a specific 3 guys who they knew would do the bulk of the scoring with Cotton, White and Kay. United had to get buckets for Ware, Goulding, Kennedy, McCarron and Barlow. Dunno, felt a little anticlimactic, even the Cats celebration seemed a bit quieter than usual, but that might be because it wasn't at home. Highlight for me was Greg Hire's Insta story of the team singing Horses and video of Norton dancing in his budgie smugglers.

Typical Grand Final series. Melbourne was just too inconsistent. They have been like that all year really. Wildcats either played 40mins of basketball or 20mins, but the last 6 games of the season and into the finals they played 40min games 95% of the time.

For all the accolades Ware and Goulding gets they do shoot mid 30s at best, so you know they'll go missing in action.

Ware was banged up. Too many screens for him to overcome. They should of used more pick and rolls with Boone and Kennedy and they should of let Kennedy have the ball more. He looked dangerous when dribbling into the paint.

The Wildcats find it hard to defend transition basketball so Melbourne should of drove to the basket alot more in Melbourne especially when refs usually call it in favour of the home team.

Terrico stood up but you know he has all season averaging 15.9pts a game. I don't understand why people were on his back when he averaged that amount of points being the second string import. No other second string import comes close.

Terrico clearly won the grand final on the court and off the court. His performances in the first two games plus his 31pts in the 3rd game is what forced Melbourne to adjust their defence. This allowed Cotton to score 28pts in the 4th game, 18 till the half. They tired as the series went on, and Terrico and Cotton went loose, with Kay cleaning up the glass at both ends.

Going forward both teams need a rebounder/shot blocker centre and one who can finish at the rim.

That is all I can think about right now.

New favourite moment, Terrico's wife said to Santa Maria, "tell suicide he was wrong". LMAO. Biggest flog, he left the game with 2 minutes to go.

White has a wife? Funny story one of my mates told me is that he was chatting to a customer at work before the first game of the season (Perth in Adelaide) and she was telling him about how she went on a tinder date with this "professional sports player from america". Thats how she described him at first before my mate helped her understand he was an American playing basketball for Perth. thought it was pretty funny at the time. But now hearing he has a wife ?? lol

In the entire playoffs, there was one lead change after half time- when Perth took the lead early in the 3rd qtr of Game 1.

In all 4 grand final games, the result never looked in serious doubt after a couple of minutes left in the 3rd quarter.

The same for 3 out of 4 semi final games.

There werent even any games where the victor overcame a substantial early deficit.

From a competitive standpoint, totally different to the regular season. Putting team allegiances aside, disappointing!

"From a competitive standpoint, totally different to the regular season. Putting team allegiances aside, disappointing!"

Yes, that's my feeling.

Even in game 2, it just felt like midway through the 2rd, Perth have collectively gone "meh, we've got 3 more games to turn this around.
The first three games (well 2.5) felt like everyone was prepared to go along with HCA.
Game 4 was the most interesting, but still got the feeling Melbourne were resigned to their fate.

I just couldn't get into these playoffs at all. Melbourne vs Sydney was a cakewalk, Perth vs Brisbane was a cakewalk. I expected the two best teams in the land to come together and give me something, but the whole thing was a massive yawnfest.

I absolutely loved the regular season which was statistically the closest in league history based on the average game margin.

Playoffs as a whole however were the most boring of all time. All three series were duds. The FIBA break was a factor although what Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in the GF brought to the table was lameness. Like seriously guys? Weak.

The same for 3 out of 4 semi final gamesblockquote>

You didn't complain when United swept the Kings.

From a competitive standpoint, totally different to the regular season. Putting team allegiances aside, disappointing!

As I said, from a Cats fan perspective it was great, but nobody can pretend the series had fans on the edge of their seats.