NBL: Breakers and stuff

[canefan]

@Bovidae so he is almost like a football style manager as opposed to a coach. He appears to have a hand in buying the groceries and cooking the dinner

[Wurzel]

He has the title of DoB as they can't call him coach while Kevin Braswell continues legal proceedings against the club for sacking him with a year left on his contract

[ACT Crusader]

Interesting signing of Hopson. He’ll give us some scoring and rebounding from the guard/small forward position.

[Bovidae]

It will be interesting to see what the starting 5 is. Webster might be the 6th man assuming Hampton and Hopson start. Tom at SF.

[Paekakboyz]

@Wurzel I think it was two years left! These new owners dont mess about aye. Poor performance and you get the axe. Boucher is always good value and savvy when I hear him talk. Seems they are doing a good job on recruitment.

[Bovidae]

The Breakers roster is complete. Now we wait to see what impact Shamir has.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/basketball/114787451/nz-breakers-sign-former-israeli-league-mvp-sek-henry

[canefan]

Brand new roster, I wonder how long it takes them to gel

[Bovidae]

@canefan Yes. From the NBL website. I have bolded those on the 2018-19 roster.

SKY Sport Breakers NBL20 Roster

PG: RJ Hampton**, Jarrad Weeks, Terry Li***
SG: Corey Webster, Sek Henry*
SF: Thomas Abercrombie (c), Jordan Ngatai, Scotty Hopson*
PF: Finn Delany, Tom Vodanovich
C : Rob Loe, Chris Obekpa*, Ater Majok

Denotes: * Restricted Player (Import) ** Next Stars Player *** Development Player

[mariner4life]

you can have Rob Loe, i got reeeeaaallll sick of watching him jack up brick after brick last season. A massive bust.

The Taipans do not yet have a team. We are two spots light. The players we do have are very underwhelming. One of our recruits turned up, took a look around, and promptly retired.

I look forward to Melo torching us for 40 when he comes up, that won't hurt at all.

You may be looking at the first death throws of the Taipans (not that head office will give a shit)

[Bovidae]

@mariner4life Loe is a stretch forward so that is his role. His 3pt % at the Taipans was a little lower (31 vs 35%) than the 2 previous seasons at the NZB.

It appears all 3 centres on the Breakers offer something different.

[mariner4life]

@Bovidae said in NBL: Breakers and stuff:

@mariner4life Loe is a stretch forward so that is his role. His 3pt % at the Taipans was a little lower (31 vs 35%) than the 2 previous seasons at the NZB.

It appears all 3 centres on the Breakers offer something different.

wait, he hit 30% last year? Fucking not at home he didn't.

[Bovidae]

Looking at the Melbourne Utd roster they have 3 ex-Breakers and your best player. The ultimate poachers.

[mariner4life]

@Bovidae said in NBL: Breakers and stuff:

Looking at the Melbourne Utd roster they have 3 ex-Breakers and your best player. The ultimate poachers.

it's a money league now

[canefan]

@Bovidae said in NBL: Breakers and stuff:

@canefan Yes. From the NBL website. I have bolded those on the 2018-19 roster.

SKY Sport Breakers NBL20 Roster

PG: RJ Hampton**, Jarrad Weeks, Terry Li***
SG: Corey Webster, Sek Henry*
SF: Thomas Abercrombie (c), Jordan Ngatai, Scotty Hopson*
PF: Finn Delany, Tom Vodanovich
C : Rob Loe, Chris Obekpa*, Ater Majok

Denotes: * Restricted Player (Import) ** Next Stars Player *** Development Player

They might have to wear name tags at first trainings

[canefan]

Dylan Boucher has quit as Breakers GM. Not a surprise

https://stuff.co.nz/sport/basketball/115660512/dillon-boucher-quits-as-general-manager-of-the-new-zealand-breakers

[ACT Crusader]

Good effort against the Grizzlies today.

Abercrombie with the poster dunk on Jaren Jackson.

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[Bovidae]

I watched the livestream. The Breakers started off cold from outside but had a great 3rd Q to get within 6 pts. A respectable performance with Webster being the best of them. A tough first outing for Hampton.

[canefan]

I saw La Melo Ball break some guy's ankles in a preseason game a couple of days ago.

The kid looks to have mad skills, the same can't be said for the guy who missed the dunk off La Melo's dish!!

[ACT Crusader]

@canefan in the first proper game he got the same defender twice in the one game.

Has his head screwed on by the sounds of it as well.

[ACT Crusader]

@Bovidae said in NBL: Breakers and stuff:

I watched the livestream. The Breakers started off cold from outside but had a great 3rd Q to get within 6 pts. A respectable performance with Webster being the best of them. A tough first outing for Hampton.

First half was pretty lacklustre overall.

RJ was trying way too hard.