Looking forward to see the hyped up WMW play, is passing should suit the nz bigs. SEM certainly favourites but nz have a little spring in there step. Broekhoff to be the difference, SEM by 11.

Breakers defence has been really good recently. If they can control the tempo and Iverson stays out of foul trouble, it will be interesting if SEM can contain the Webster bros and WMW on the on-ball. They may have to go to a zone and that may be a good bet given the Breakers haven't shot the 3 ball consistently well this year.

Does anyone know what Breakers and/or Boomers fans could expect from WMW? Will he be Deng Adel 2.0 or is he going to show some serious game?

A shame Randolph isn't playing. Based on where he’s played and the numbers he has put up, he is better than Paul and Hopson. But could be a bad fit at the Breakers who are deep at the 2-3 and as shallow as a car park puddle at the 4-5.

As the season has gone on and Iverson has found his hands, my god he is an old school beast rarely sighted.

SEM are a different team with Broekhoff.

I feel like the Breakers need a really good PF.

Creek just smashed into the helpless defender. "In your face" he was heard to yell at the time.

That was a very borderline lane violation on the Creek FT. It's like that guy can do nothing wrong in the eyes of this league.

The league loves Creek.

Iverson with most rebounds in Breakers history and NBL 40 minute era, and first person to have back to back 20-20 game since Mark Bradtke. But Wetzell gets player of the game!? Who decides these things?

Breakers lost the game when WMW came on for Tai. He had a costly turnover and lost Adnam twice (even though he missed the first). But he'll get better. Breakers look much better with him and Corey Webster sharing the load with Tai in the backcourt.

We should definitely hod Creek up as an example of leadership, or otherwise he might repeatedly punch us in the face.

Another close breakers loss. There's been so many this season.

Iverson was player of the game, the NBL just hates the Breakers.

The NBL doesn't hate the Breakers, they just have this thing where the POTG has to go to someone on the winning team. Now they cant give it to Creek so they give it to their next best player, despite being outplayed by his direct match up.

An absolute farce.

Rob Loe walking out on the team really screwed the Breakers this season.

"Wildcats, United, Kings, Phoenix"

The dream final 4 for the NBL. This is exactly what they want.

I think the league would like Sixers in the finals.

Loe has his reasons. I don't want to be in his position. But him pulling out did affect the balance of the team. Having said that though, the bigger issue with this team was the way Patterson turned up. For him to turn up in that shape, get injured and then want out really screwed up the team. I think they’ll be competitive from here but they will miss the playoffs.

One can see why SEM and NBL want Creek to play. SEM is nothing without him.

"Breakers have some serious roster construction issues"

Yes, and they could have fixed this by signing a forward to replace Loe, but they signed another guard instead. Makes no sense.

Phoenix are the red headed stepchild of Melbourne. No one cares, especially with someone who allegedly beats up women on the roster as the marquee

From a legal standpoint - suspending someone isn't exactly an option.

It’s an all or nothing approach under Australian law.
He has the legal right to work whilst the case is pending in the courts.
The only other option is to terminate his contract - which you can’t really do whilst the outcome isn’t known.

What did everyone think of WMW in the limited minutes he had? He nearly broke Broekhoff's ankles, had an impressive block on Adnam, but otherwise wasn’t much of a factor.

877 I thought it was an okay debut, from what I saw he guarded decently but was a bit disjointed with the play at times (expected after only a few trainings).

He looks promising, as a breakers fan I saw good glimpses from him. I don't think he will be what Broekhoff is to the Phoenix or Humphries is to the Sixers. But I do think he will be a strong addition he looks like he wants to play which is a good sign.

Also Broekhoff is a shooting machine, why is he not starting for the Phoenix.

I'm all for innocent until proven guilty and the right for employees to continue to earn a living, but you’re right it was awkward. In NZ the commentary team discussed that it was really surprising he was playing given the seriousness of the allegations and everyone was trying to not talk about him too much even though his efforts probably won the game for SEM.

Nice information Peter-John, thanks, I agree it's probably the latter.

^^ and that's what I meant from a legal standpoint. The NBL does not have such clauses in their contracts, so from a legal standpoint, they can’t enforce a suspension. I’m not even 100% certain that the AFL has these policies standardised in player contracts.

The NRL only did this because of the amount of players falling under this umbrella, so they had to.

#914 exactly on all accounts.

Crowd 1850. How long can this franchise last?

Hawks have been around for years with those crowd numbers.