NBL 2025-26

mariner4life

M4L at the Cairns Convention Centre

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Crowds are already on the drift

voodoo

Shared a flight from Perth to Sydney with the Hawks. Javale is a pretty big unit up close. At least he got to ride up the front of the bus though (even if he stood up most of the way) - the poor white C had to sit in the Economy exit row

canefan

The Breakers hand the Hawks a 42 point pumping, they really like this match up. Menenga and Lopez killed it inside, JPC pulled the strings well and didn't have to push his own offense, the two new imports showed up and NZB had 5 or 6 players in double figures. Loved the way they played, strong D, focussing on points in the paint and transition offense

ACT Crusader

@voodoo yeah JaVale is a genuine 7 footer. Pretty amazing how athletic he is

We came locked in last night. Started really well on the defensive end and rebounding. Our starting lineup is better with the size and having Ruben come off the bench. Lopez is really rounding out his game. Should be a first round pick in the draft next year.

Whilst we played well, something is smelly in Illawarra. Saw guys giving up in that 3rd and 4th quarters. Offence sucked when they didn’t run the ball through JaVale. Tough times ahead I think for the champs.

ACT Crusader

@mariner4life dare to believe? Up 9 in Tassie with 1:39 to go in the 4th.

canefan

Breakers just put 68 on the Bullets in the first half. I still wouldn't put money on the Breakers to win at 68-36, they just choked far too many times this season from potential winning positions to be able to trust them

ACT Crusader

Only downside of the game was losing the 4th quarter. We were on track to winning 8 straight quarters in the Ignite Cup.

There was another lowlight and that was Prather getting injured. He’s been awesome so far this season in an up and down team.

canefan

@ACT-Crusader said in NBL 2025-26:

Only downside of the game was losing the 4th quarter. We were on track to winning 8 straight quarters in the Ignite Cup.

There was another lowlight and that was Prather getting injured. He’s been awesome so far this season in an up and down team.

We are a shit Q4 team

ACT Crusader

@canefan we did clear the bench and give some of our young fellas a run and only lost it by 3 points.

But generally it’s been our final 5 minutes of games that has cost us at least 3 or 4 games this season.

mariner4life

you know what? fuck this bitch ass, punck ass, fuck ass "competition" there isn't even a pretence at parity or a salary cap.
Fucking Sydney just signed Torrey Craig. Fuck you Torrey. One of my favourite Taipans ever. Turning out in that shit fucking uniform.
Meanwhile the Taipans have the two worst imports in the league (and Andrew Andrews who is bottom 5), Waardenburg is hurt AGAIN, Reyne Smith has been broken since November, and it's just fuck us i guess? We can't send shit imports home and get new ones like other clubs (how come Adelaide suddenly have money?) we just suffer in our jocks and get hammered ever 2nd week.

And somehow we aren't the worst team in teh comp.

The Silver Fern

NBL 2025-26