Jack Toft
Years ago

NZB v CNS Mar 10

New Zealand must be looking forward to the NBL Cup finishing so they can head to their new digs in Tassie, Cairns players almost need a week in their saunas to re-adjust to the humidity back home. Both teams testier than a bunch of sailors who have been at sea for too long without the embrace of a woman. Breakers trounced Adelaide, Adelaide trounced Cairns, surely Breakers double trounce Cairns?

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DennisRodmansHair
Years ago

Crazy to think this is a bottom of the table clash. Before the season started I had both Cairns and NZ making the finals. Obviously, didn't factor in the following:
- The loss of DJ Newbill to Cairns.
- How out of shape Lamar Paterson would be (now injured)
- The affect of New Zealand being away from home / affected by COVID.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Breakers will be hoping to go 2/3 from their next 3 and this one is the easiest. If the Breakers continue to play like they have recently, this could get ugly for Cairns.

Any news on how far away is Patterson?

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Anonymous
Years ago

Corey Webster is out for this game

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Anonymous
Years ago

Corey injured and not playing. I expect Cairns to win this fairly comfortably.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Breakers missing Webster, Patterson, Loe... they can't catch a break.

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LoveBroker
Years ago

There is still Tai Webster please don't forget.

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Anonymous
Years ago

^Tai's great but he can’t do it alone. Where are Corey’s 20+ points per game going to come from...

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Anonymous
Years ago

Wow Cairns are fucking horrible. Nearly as bad as Olivers attitude

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Mystro
Years ago

More ball for Delaney and Abercrombie.
Cairns bigs all on multiple fouls in the 1st quarter.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Oliver clearly doesn't want to be there anymore.

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LoveBroker
Years ago

Would Cairns like to start playing or wait until after half time?

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Mystro
Years ago

Healthy 24-11 lead for NZ at the end of the 1st.
Colton Iverson now fit is a beast.
Cairns have issues. Oliver's body language is terrible.

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LoveBroker
Years ago

I can't watch the game, but Oliver should be feasting on the NZ front court.

Is Oliver insisting on pick and popping as opposed to rolling?

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LoveBroker
Years ago

Cam Oliver sure is producing for someone having a crappy attitude, look out when he is locked in.

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Mystro
Years ago

He's scoring yes but defensively he isn’t doing a lot.

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Tom
Years ago

Go Finnget in that low block. Abercrombie get in to 8-10 feet then elevate. That gas to be the worst coaches challenge of all time.

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LoveBroker
Years ago

Kelley gives King 13 mins....King is +17 with 12 points.

Noi....1-9

I know Noi is in Cairns' long term plan and King is looking for something higher but King deserves some of Noi and Djeric's minutes.

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LoveBroker
Years ago

Dear Mr Shamir,

Please do not draw up this last play for Tai Webster.

Regards,

LB.

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Kb_24
Years ago

Noi cant dribble...his not helping the team, you can see he has no confidence..

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LoveBroker
Years ago

Cairns....LOL.

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koberulz
Years ago

Three complete fluke buckets to end that one.

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Luuuc
Years ago

wow

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Perthworld
Years ago

That was a lot of chucking from three that went in.

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LV
Years ago

Abercrombie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mystro
Years ago

Abercrombie with the huuuge bucket to win after almost snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Good morale win

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Anonymous
Years ago

Noi is terrible. Give King his minutes. The kid can play but needs a chance and when he has some confidence he will shoot much better.

Cairns did well to come back into it but the Breakers were obviously fatigued. Iverson must have played 35+ let alone Abercrombie and Delaney.

Abercrombie is a gun. A lot of people say he isn't aggressive enough but coaches have to draw plays to play to his strengths because he isn’t a great creator. If the Breakers can get him and Delaney 8-10 shots they’ll be much better.

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Anonymous
Years ago

I don't understand Cairns... they should be much better than this. Good win Breakers.

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Jick
Years ago

What a game winner!

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Anonymous
Years ago

Ok can't be in Cairns long term plans, he’s going to nba. Someone will chuck a lot more money at him than he’s worth.
Abercrombie has always been a gun. He just plays team first.

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Anonymous
Years ago

What is actually up with Oliver?

Bad Santa alluded to it on Overtime that Oliver is in a bad headspace, likely to do with coaching clash. Kelly doesn't seem like the kind of dude you'd clash with though.

Baffling.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Jamie o'Laughlin will be knifing Mike for his job. He be hoping they sack him mid season so he can finish out the year.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Kelly's calm, quiet but don’t think for one minute he’s not tough, like all good coaches he knows it starts at defensive end. He wants defensively minded players. Noi struggling, Djeric got better but still weak at times. If Oliver is not following instructions Kelly will let him know.

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Bigdog
Years ago

Who was the new guy on the Breakers bench?

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Bigdog
Years ago

Karena playing well for sem. Why did the breakers sign trist?

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Anonymous
Years ago

He's lost the team. Cairns done

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Anonymous
Years ago

Nice defensive five minutes from Short, only player that looked like going with adnam. Still believe United will win this, they have some selfish players though.

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Anonymous
Years ago

#375 wrong place.

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Anonymous
Years ago

" Who was the new guy on the Breakers bench?"

Wondering the same thing. I couldn't recognise him.

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Manly Man
Years ago

how serious is Corey's injury ?

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Anonymous
Years ago

^ I noticed he was limping pretty badly last night on the sideline. I think it might be more serous than the Breakers are letting on.