If you can limit Jessup and Harvey, you beat the Hawks. The Breakers can now rotate Abercrombie and Randolph on Jessup, and WMW and Tai Webster on Harvey, and now have a second big man behind Iverson. This should suggest the Breakers will win, unless the Breakers have a shocker, which is certainly a possibility with how they played against Cairns.

Goorj will have the hawks ready, as above have said, breakers look so strong now.

Breakers by 13.

Firstly great write up as always Jack, love your work.

Secondly Breakers should out man Hawks here but the hawks sit in 5th for reason. As others have mentioned key to this game will be Iverson, T Webster, Randoplh, Harvey and Jessup

Hawks on an 8 day break, Breakers playing 5th game in 11 days. Suggests NZ need a really fast start or Goorj's boys will wear them down.

Is the game in Tassie or the Gong?

If that's the case, Breakers should win this. No travel since last game and WMW, Webster Bros, Delaney and Iverson all more or less played <25 mins last time round.

If Jessup is out Breakers get this

No way Hawks win without Jessup, that guy is walking bucket.

#326 Jessup is ranked 18th in PPG this season at 14.7 per game. So there are 17 other players who walk and score more buckets lol

So the worst crowd in Tassie ever for an NBL game?

Tyler Harvey on a mission. Can he keep it up? Hawks offence other than him looking very ugly.

Refs have once again decided they want they need their screen time and have kept Hawks in the game.

Breakers haven't played well in the second half but the refs have killed them.

Goorj just out coached Shamir, Harvey was unstoppable. Great result for hawks. Breakers have had it tough, no doubt but some of their players believe to much in their own hype. WMW stagnates quick offence.

They didn't play great but they looked fatigued in the second half. I know the league needs them to catch up but there should be a player welfare consideration too. Playing every second day almost after a season that’s already had the NBL cup and all that travel is really tough.

While the Hawks did well to get the win I hope they don’t make the playoffs. Their offence is super ugly. It’s just let Harvey launch prayers and hope their defence generates some buckets. I hope that’s not what Goorjian has planned for the Boomers because Lemanis for all his flaws had the Boomers rolling at times.

This Breakers roster promised so much! I know the boys are tired and it's been mentally and physically tough! But any chance of finals is now gone! Super disappointing with this roster but also frustrating! They couldn’t lift for Tommy’s 350th, they couldn’t lift tonight! The two losses to Cairns, the ot Perth game, there’s 4 games already and they’d be 13-13.

At this stage, do they cling to the mathematical possibility OR do they play some of the kids, ie- Galloway?

Also, what happened to Terri Li?

Meant to say the Perth ot game, the Melbourne 3 point loss*

I guess shoe on the other foot, they've won a few closies too!!

Good to see the walking bucket get his fill with 8

Pathetic performance by the Breakers. Clearly some of the players already had one eye on the trip home.

No slack. They're professional players. And I think they let themselves and their supporters down in the game against Cairns and the Hawks. Winnable games where they should have had the fire to win and get home on a positive note.

Yes MYSTRO it's been a tough slog, problem is out of the players you mentioned Abercrombie has been their best, if the rest team could have just put in as much as old man Tom NZ would be knocking on finals door. Professional players all over the world are away from family and friends longer than NZ have been. To many players believe their own hype in Breakers, time for a clean out.

#420 but yes those players OS you speak of have a home base, an apartment etc etc. NZ have been bumped from hotel to hotel, state to state, quarantine, isolation etc etc Tom has played well but even he has been up and down and not as consistent as you may think. He is almost down in every stat v career. The Breakers have done an exceptional job under extremely trying circumstances and they have had more than their fair share of injuries plus off court dramas.

"Professional players all over the world are away from family and friends longer than NZ have been."

Name one sporting team that has ever been on a five month road trip with restrictions on any family being able to enter a country to visit them.

Only explanation tolerable would be Auckland stadium is unavailable