Peyton Siva has amazing pedigree and it will be interesting to see how he goes in the NBL.
The young Frenchmen Dieng & Besson will be interesting to watch but I imagine they will take a little while to get used to the physicality, especially Dieng who needs to bulk up.

Neither team will be having extra players each have enough

Just in case anyone wants to stream the games through YouTube,

The NBL Blitz games are all live on their official YT Channel.

https://www.youtube.com/c/nblOfficial/videos?view=2&live_view=502

Can you get tickets to the Melbourne games?

YT is For overseas subscribers I think

Kayo Freebies.

@KET

Oh, my bad. I'm not from Australia and Its available.

https://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi?ytid=https%3A%2F%2F www.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DwAcrpAJQ190&auth=95bf24c87030b947ead6a2381f5089b4

Based on this site, Australia is blocked, but just in case you want to watch from YT instead of Kayo, a VPN would suffice.

I'm guessing we are going to get the usual preseason type coverage commentary, graphics and auto camera wise?

I find it hard to watch. I guess too expensive to bother to do it properly

@KET

There are a lot of reliable and free VPNs nowadays, in case you don't want to pay. The free service from Proton is pretty good and has no data limit. The VeePN extension is also reliable, and has no data limit as well. I used these to access Geo blocked content from FIBA's YT Channel, through this I watched the U19 World Cup, ACQ and the OQT.

I'm in Australia, I can watch Kayo, I’m just complaining about how they cover preseason games quality wise.

Although better than nothing, ofcourse.

Stream isn't working damn

Stream in YT is looking good in my end, 1080p60 hehe.

Kayo keeps starting the streams late.

How hard is it to get it right?

No scorebug and no commentary

Fantastic

Can't even put a commentary on it.

You get what you pay for.

Looks like Adelaide aren't playing their imports plus IH today

" Umm, the Adel / Cairns game started late FFS."

The stream on Kayo started a couple of mins into the first quarter. The stream started AFTER the game had.

The game yesterday started 4mins into the first quarter.

FFS.

Who is coaching United for the Blitz?

" Rules:You must read the Terms of Use. No spam, no offensive material, no sniping at other clubs, no 'who cares?'-type comments"

Anon, read the terms of use please.

If you want to be a dick, go somewhere else :)

#716 not sure how both teams passed up on him...

Glad glover is looking good, but sydney are way to cocky and they have now paid the price this game. Doesn't surprise me that there attitude isnt good considering the recent behaviour from people involved in the club on twitter

#856 perfectly said, cocky and tough do represent them, will see if they can back up there talk

Nationality doesn't necessarily mean race.

You wouldn’t say "American" because it’s unhelpful when there’s multiple Americans.

You wouldn’t say “Australian” because ~80% are Aussie.

If it’s the NBA and someone referred to say, Landale as “the Australian”, people wouldn’t respond like you did. It’d be a reasonable way to refer to him being the only Aussie spur.

Technically not racist, implicitly not racist.

Dumb post is dumb post - doesn’t help to take down actual racism by calling everything racist.

then you could have referred to him as a 'Special Restricted Player'.

LT played the whole season. 13 players can play from each team home or away

I expected next to nothing from Big Lui based on his CBA stats and highlights, he looked slow, flat footed, and clumsy. But I don't know whether it's been the coaching, or if he's done some agility work, but Big Lui looks actually legit. He could upgrade the entire trajectory of his career with a good seasom here. He has far more tools and ability than I think any of us gave him credit for coming in. Still work to do of course but he's someone to watch.

@ME

I agree, and that's coming from someone who follows Asian basketball pretty well. I didn't see anything great from him in the ACQ/OQT, but he really did well today. What I liked the most was seeing how vocal he was in the game, screaming like a PG and showing some sort of leadership, which I had not seen from him before. He also did the dirty work. Big Liu is looking like a contributor. Hopefully, more good things from him. Just need to stay consistent.

" You've missed the point."

You've made no point, there’s nothing derogatory about using the nationality to identify someone.

"chinaman" as a phrase has negative connotations because of how it's been used historically for a bunch of negative reasons. It's not the same as saying "Chinese person" and maybe you weren't aware of that, fair enough. Now you are.

"You've missed the point. If you think the term "China man" (or a variation of) isn't derogative then you’re another one to add to the uniformed list.

Get informed."


Here comes the browbeating over a term that wasn't even meant to be offensive. "China man" "Chinese man" "Man from China" "A male from the Chinese landmass" "A person from the province of China with unspecified gender"

In the end, who cares? We all kmow the point he was trying to get across and anyone choosing to be offended by it on behalf of someone else needs to find new priorities in life.

The point being, Big Lui can kind of ball and I think the Bullets may end up regretting not giving him a full roster spot.

"You've missed the point. If you think the term "China man" (or a variation of) isn't derogative then you’re another one to add to the uniformed list.

Get informed."


Here comes the browbeating over a term that wasn't even meant to be offensive. "China man" "Chinese man" "Man from China" "A male from the Chinese landmass" "A person from the province of China with unspecified gender"

In the end, who cares? We all kmow the point he was trying to get across and anyone choosing to be offended by it on behalf of someone else needs to find new priorities in life.

The point being, Big Lui can kind of ball and I think the Bullets may end up regretting not giving him a full roster spot.

The point being, Big Lui can kind of ball and I think the Bullets may end up regretting not giving him a full roster spot.

Holy shit! What a finish!

The silver lining with Abercrombie being injured: Ousmane Dieng has to start at the 3, and the court-time will help his draft stock.

So apparently we play Perth twice in the Blitz, then 3 times in the first 6 rounds. 5 times in our first 13 games of the pre/season. Who is in charge of this schedule? Makes no sense.

Second time doesn't count for the Blitz.

Organised by both clubs just as a preseason match I believe.

Three times first six rounds is to do with the two conferences situation due to dirty and clean states.

"Brisbane and Adelaide are both terrible. It's a case of who will be bottom out of those 4."

You're not a mathematician, are you?

I actually don't think Brisbane are terrible. I think they'll be in the group of teams fighting for playoff spots. I don't think much of Cairns at the moment, and I am going to go against all tradition and say Perth don't look particularly good either without a third import option (bench is underwhelming). Adelaide might be winning at the moment but I don't find them convincing at all. Best teams at this point appear to be Sydney, NZ Breakers, Illawarra, Phoenix, and I actually feel like Melbourne is starting to show some signs. Brisbane is in the mix. And you'd expect Tasmania to be out of playoff talk but if the Will Magnay we saw yesterday is anythikng like the Magnay we'll get in this season, he will be up there in MVP votes and might will them to competitiveness

The issue for Magnay is that this year there are a number of centres who will have an impact.

Reath, Frolings x 2 (and even Gak),
Humphries and Sotto,
Chuanxing Liu and Harrison,
Zimmerman and Jawai,
Jo Lual-Acuil and Hukporti,
Wetzell and Loe,
Hodgson and Majok,
Qi and Pineau,
Hunter and Maker.
and Magnay and (Solo). (If we add his back-up, Perry, to the list, we also need to include the other (lesser) back-ups.)

All will have to have to impress if their teams are to succeed.

I am going to go against all tradition and say Perth don't look particularly good either without a third import option (bench is underwhelming).

We have all talked ourselves into Cotton being Aussie obviously

Okay, three imports. lol. Anyway their bench is ass and I don't really think they're playoff bound. I know it's Perth, and Perth have history. But they've also got a new coach. Let's not downplay the worth of Trevor Gleeson.

Cotton's citizenship is really dragging on now, isn't it?

Broekhoff played 14 and a half minutes against NZ for 1 point, 2 rebounds and an assist.
Not really inspiring numbers for a guy who was playing in the league a couple of seasons ago.
Hopefully he can get going in the regular season.