Jack Toft
Years ago

Cairns v SEM Anzac Day

WOW! Who would have thought this game would be a key banger!

SEM - A win, a good win, could seem them jump back into 3rd.
Taipans - A win sees them have more wins than the Breakers and really puts a bit of curry on the tails of those Kiwis.

Cairns took care of the Breakers a few days ago and SEM were the first casualty of the Kings this round, to slump to three losses in a row.

Could the Snakes go into this home game as favourites?

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Perth fan.
Years ago

SEM to break their losing streak today.

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Anonymous
Years ago

SEM in a close one, looking forward to see if Dufflemier can play that well again. Creek to start and go big time, no one from Cairns can stop him.

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Perthworld
Years ago

Viceland is airing what looks like a replay of the Wagstaff missed layup game in lieu of today's cancelled fixture. Who knew SBS were also Wildcats haters!

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koberulz
Years ago

It's the win from the week before.

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Perth fan.
Years ago

Creek starting :)

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Perthworld
Years ago

It's the win from the week before.

I stand corrected. That's nice of them.

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Perth fan.
Years ago

That's ok Perthworld people like us make mistakes that's why it's great to have Koberulz and his intelligence to correct us when we are wrong.

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mitchrulz
Years ago

cruize control this game

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Anonymous
Years ago

koberulz living rent free in the minds of so many

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Anonymous
Years ago

Back to eight points.

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mitchrulz
Years ago

disengage cruize control
time to pull fingerz out

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Perth fan.
Years ago

Rent free. That's ok I wouldn't pay that prick.

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koberulz
Years ago

That's not how rent works.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Nice work Einstein. Such a douche

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Lovebroker
Years ago

Cairns are trash.

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Perth fan.
Years ago

Who do you "support" lovebroker?

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MACDUB
Years ago

I know there's other external factors (e.g. Covid), but the standard of the league has been really down this year - admittedly, it has been a tough watch in some games;

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koberulz
Years ago

It was great early, but it's seriously dropped off since the Cup.

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Lovebroker
Years ago

It is when you recruit an overweight import and your centre can't be f##ked staying with the team.

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Anonymous
Years ago

The entire league is fatigued. It was bound to happen

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Perth fan.
Years ago

Poor Cotton definitely fatigued

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mitchrulz
Years ago

frivolous law suits not helping keep best players on the court

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Anonymous
Years ago

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LV
Years ago

How good is SEM

No Sykes, no Broekhoff, no worries, 20 point win in Cairns

Cairns won't win many games with their current team though.

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Perth fan.
Years ago

Aren't you a Melb United fan?
No Oliver, Deng or Noi for Cairns.

Good to see Creek back in starting line up.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Creek fans don't mind a bit of abuse.

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Anonymous
Years ago

"The entire league is fatigued."

Looks like it. I don't think the problem is the number of games played, though - even with the shortened roster. It's more likely to be the number of games most teams have had to play interstate (or overseas in NZ's case).

In 2019-20, each team played interstate/overseas an average of ~13 times each in 19 weeks of the regular season - less than once a week. This season (so far), the non Melbourne teams have played interstate/overseas an average of ~16 games each in 14 weeks - more than once a week, on average.

While it's possible to adjust training and practice to manage the impact of playing a few more games, you can't really adjust for the impact of extra interstate travel and time away from home, of that order.

By way of comparison, Melbourne teams have traveled interstate for 15 games between them this season - so about once every second week for each of them.

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koberulz
Years ago

That completely ignores that there was no travel for anyone throughout the NBL Cup.

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Perth fan.
Years ago

Koberulz is actually correct.

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Luuuc
Years ago

It seems like not travelling agreed with high scoring.
Team points per game was at its highest for the season during the cup, dropped off immediately after the cup was decided, and has yet to return to pre-cup levels

Average team totals (including OT) by round:

(I'm not saying that high scoring = high quality, but I think it does affect the overall perception when the average is 80 and you're regularly seeing numbers in the 60s)

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Zodiac
Years ago

Playing on the same court with the same rims 8 straight games probably had something to do with it too.

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Anonymous
Years ago

I think the fatigue is more based around players started preseason at the same time as usual, however the season should have finished between 1 and 2 months ago (March if a play off team or February if not).
Yet this season, the teams still have 10-18 games to play and the players have hit the wall, for those who started preseason in April it has been non-stop for 12 months already.

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