You gotta be shitting me......

Wheels.......off

oh how the great and mighty breakers have fallen so bad. 4 out of 5 chips and 5 out of 6 grandies between 2011 and 2016... and now this disaster of a season. The blackwells must be rolling in their post-ownership graves

Is it normal for players to drink to excess on flights? I would have thought a teammate or staffer would've put a stop to it before it got to the point where police would be called. Seems insane

Walsh, wearing his cap will be on radio shortly to discuss with Casey frank.

Hampton should get out now

Vodanovic is a great kid. He's a bit of a joker at times, but this is the team culture dragging down an impressionable rookie. He should have been pulled into line by a senior player or staff. In the same way, someone should have been keeping Rice locked down, focused and disciplined. But I guess all of those guys - the Mika Vukonas and Dillon Bouchers - that set the tone and culture, they're all gone now.

Is it normal for players to drink to excess on flights? I would have thought a teammate or staffer would've put a stop to it before it got to the point where police would be called. Seems insane

Yes its normal, they play hard on and off the caught.
This is nothing.
Just that alot more social media, they get exposed.

If their was camera in the 80s and 90s god help us all.

"the caught"

Seriously?

No, drinking to excess is not normal for a professional athlete. It may have happened in the 80's but that era is not the benchmark for professionalism.

Ohh we check spelling on here, i forgot... yawn

"They were on a red eye flight home from Perth,"

Flight left before 7pm local time, not what I'd call the red eye.

yourn*

It's definitely plausible, MACDUB. Just google "sedative alcohol interaction".

Walsh's reputation wouldn't put fabricating this story beyond the realm of possibility, but I'll believe it on face value.

Monday's meetings are now for etiquette.

Word starting to surface that his drink may have been spiked. No idea how that could even be plausible.

This starts with the coach he has clearly lost the team

What an embarrassment. Walhs is a twit, wonder what Shawn Marion is thinking?

If he took a valium and then had a few drinks, the effects of the alcohol at that level come on pretty quickly. But there still should be rules in place to stop that happening.

D2.0 raises a fair point. Was it Qantas? Maybe it was the same lady that served will.i.am

Some other impertinent questions:

- Why was he taking sleeping pills?
- Should he have been drinking alcohol?

Honestly didn't know who he was until yesterday when i was wondering who the fat bloke on the court with 4 fouls and no points or rebounds at the time was.

Hamptons handlers will be having emergency meetings atm. Doubt it would affect his draft standings but in a shit situation.
Would it be possible for his management to go to NBL and say their client has been placed in a damaging position and negotiate a release to another team? Would Adelaide be in a position to make a play for him, need a guard and star power. Have absolutely no idea if it's even possible but it's bad PR for future future stars going to a basket case team.

Have the Breakers stay in Perth overnight? YOU really think you could trust that placing group to stay in the hotel and sleep??

Hampton's team won't be happy with this. Bad look for the Next Stars etc etc

They should have stayed, Rice would have loved it in Northridge

Northbridge*

Rice was promised a walk on role for the new upcoming Lord of the Rings movie. Is that now out the proverbial window?

How old is this brat?

Breakers are a shitshow.
Long removed from their glory days.

"Apparently Vodanavich's cardinal sin was being too loud on the flight whilst people around him slept."

You sound like you are trying to downplay the incident.

Not saying this incident is major but considering the number of issues the club is having, it puts them and him in the spotlight unnecessarily. Vodanavich is young and doesn't know any better. The problem is that there is obviously nothing in place to improve the team culture, which is currently shithouse.

I agree. Taken in isolation, this would be a minor incident, but with everything else going on around the club it's made it a complete shitstorm

"Vodanavich is young and doesn't know any better"

Lol the guys like 25, i think he knows that you shouldn't get drunk and act like a tool on a plane.

Anyway I would have thought drinking multiple drinks straight after a game on a long flight isn't exactly ideal recovery for a pro athlete and probably something the club would tell them not to do. Not surprised his fat ass had a few drinks though.

Matt Walsh says sorry (eventually): https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport-video/news/video.cfm?c_id=1503077&gal_cid=1503077&gallery_id=214211

I think the helping Glen Rice, rather than discarding him, is surprising (in a good, decent way that one would expect from the Blackwells not Walsh).

Maybe, just maybe, Walsh has learned and the Breakers turn the corner.

An article on stuff.co.nz suggests multiple players were getting drunk on the flight, with Vodanavich being the worst behaved. Kind of blows a hole in the "everyone else was asleep" nonsense.

Out there thought: Breakers to get their shit together and make the final. The the start of an epic run starts this weekend.

"Bradley is a useful athlete. He has a glaring weaknes defensively when he gets caught in on ball switches. He does not know what to do or he has never been shown what to do. Cotton, Melo, Casper just expose him"

Arguably, Cotton and Casper would expose most, if not all, bigs in the league.

Ashley's problem is that he's struggled to find the middle ground between no foul and no defence. If he can learn to play defence without fouling, which has usually been him contesting unnecessarily or reaching stupidly, he is a good player in this league.

There are physios, S&C guy and a team manager and I am sure many other hanger ons. Someone should have stopped it. Hell what was the Coach and AC doing? Were they upgraded and missed it all?