Anonymous
Years ago

Breakers signings Obekpa and Henry

Chris Obekpa
Sek Henry

and as you know Ater Majok

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Anonymous
Years ago

Someone hit us with a Depth Chart

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KET
Years ago

PG: RJ Hampton**, Jarrad Weeks, Terry Li***

SG: Corey Webster, Sek Henry*

SF: Thomas Abercrombie (c), Jordan Ngatai, Scotty Hopson*

PF: Finn Delany, Tom Vodanovich

C: Rob Loe, Chris Obekpa*, Ater Majok

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Anonymous
Years ago

PG Hampton / Weeks / Li
SG Webster / Henry (or other way round)
SF Hopson / Abercrombie / Ngatai
PF Delaney / Obekpa / Vodanovich
C Majok / Loe

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Senator11
Years ago

Are these the imports?

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Anonymous
Years ago

Yes.

Henry a 6'4 g
Obekpa a 6’9 f/c
Hopson a 6’7 sf

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Anonymous
Years ago

Chris Obekpa

Born. 14 November 1993 (age 25)
Makurdi, Nigeria
2016-2017
Santa Cruz Warriors
2017–2018
Trabzonspor
2018–2019
Al Riyadi
2019–present
Sidigas Avellino

BSL blocks leader (2018)
NCAA season blocks leader (2013)

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Andrew
Years ago

Not sold on the Breakers squad this season. Will be interesting to see how they go. Seems they will be blocking a lot of shots though :)

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Anonymous
Years ago

SG Webster / Henry (or other way round)

By round 5 it'll be the other way round.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Theyre a Tier 3 team IMO - Cairns are also on Tier 3

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Manu Fieldel
Years ago

Sek Henry brings back memories of Myron Allen. Good player

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Smith
Years ago

Henry is a beast. Tier 2 for mine, plenty of experienced depth and a great coach too boot. Hampton is the enigma, he must be pretty freakin' awesome if they're putting this kind of faith in him, especially considering the maturity of this group.

Strongest bench in the league without question.

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mystro
Years ago

Good signings to round out the 19/20 roster.

Sek Henry and Scotty Hopson are not unknown quantities to Dan Shamir, both playing in Israel and Hopson playing a season for Shamir.
Ater Majok had a good campaign for Lebanon in NZ against the Tall Blacks during the world cup qualifications so it's great to see him signed especially having an Aussie passport.
Obekpa & Majok will hopefully keep teams honest in the paint.

Hampton (6.5") / Weeks (6.1")
Henry (6.4") / Webster (6.2")
Hopson (6.7") / Abercrombie (6.6") / Ngatai (6.5")
Delany (6.7") / Obekpa (6.9") /Vodanavich (6.7")
Majok (6.10") / Loe (6.11")

NZ can create quite a few mismatches with roster versatility.

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Anonymous
Years ago

ROFL
Love all the fanboys thinking an 18yr old kid is going to be the starting PG in the NBL.
Better make sure he has on the extra capacity diapers!
Although I'm sure he will get to spend some time there.

Also doubt Hopson has come all this way to play 3rd string off the bench.

I think you will find it will look more like this:

Henry / Weeks
Webster / Hampton
Hopson / Abercrombie / Ngatai
Obekpa / Delaney / Vodanovich
Majok / Loe

or possibly this:

Henry / Hampton / Weeks
Hopson / Webster
Abercrombie / Ngatai
Obekpa / Delaney / Vodanovich
Majok / Loe

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Anonymous
Years ago

Fanboys?? The Breakers have publicly stated they plan to start Hampton..

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Smith
Years ago

Obepka and Abercrombie starting? Righto.

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Anonymous
Years ago

I'm certain Delaney is starting.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Santamaria saying Delaney starting, but he's a commentator so probably got no idea.

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Anonymous
Years ago

These guys put up really poor numbers in college. They've been ok in some of the European leagues since but they're disappointing signings when you consider the names that were being thrown around (Noah, Monta etc).

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Anonymous
Years ago

Really disappointing year for nbl, not the way it's run but the depth in talent, expected a lot more. A few next stars is great but little else.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Not a big fan of the Henry signing. Webster suffered last year splitting minutes with Richard. I figure Webster gets the minutes.

Feel money better spent at the 4 & 5.

Like the majok signing. Both the new bigs will probably be foul prone given they are shot blockers.

Last year, like this year, they were very deep. But sometimes getting a strong 8 rotation is better.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Hampton / Weeks / Henry
Webster / Henry / Hopson
Hopson / Abercrombie
Delany / Obepka / Abercrombie
Majok / Loe

It's a deep and versatile lineup. Majok looked great playing for Lebanon, but is he up to NBL standards?

Too early to say whether they'll be good or not, I think the roster last year was fine but Braswell wasn't up to it. Shamir looks the goods on paper, but it remains to be seen whether he can do the job.

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Anonymous
Years ago

loe is being reported as the starter

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mystro
Years ago

Loe won't be starting, you're reading too much into the order of players by position on the NBL's article on the new signings.

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mystro
Years ago

Anonymous
Yesterday

ROFL
Love all the fanboys thinking an 18yr old kid is going to be the starting PG in the NBL.

The Teams Owner has said as much, is he a fanboy or a fanowner?
You are high if you think a kid who's a projected top 5 pick in next years draft with great size for his position isn't going to start for NZ.
Plus Hampton is a PG not a SG.

Webster & Abercrombie had dismal seasons last year and yet you have them projected to start in front of the new Imports?
Are you their fanboy?

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Anonymous
Years ago

I think Hampton will have his share of ups and downs, but he's an elite athlete at 6'5" playing PG. I think he can start and cope.

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