hodge only 4 points and 3 assists at half time also has 3 turnovers. taipans winning 45 to 39

I wonder whether mazda are NBL sponsors (rather than armed forces).

now has 6 turnovers to go with 10 points and 4 assists. taipans up 64-59 at 3 quarter time

2 Home Losses since signing Hodge. Love it!!!

Cairns thanks to clutch free throws by Mills held their nerve and despite 6 turnovers in final quarter hung on for win on road and relegate Melbourne to stone motherless.
Great game, Phil Jones.
Maybe there is a God after all, dispensing basketball justice???

Yeah the cancer has definitely made his home in Melbourne! I never did see him working out at Melbourne. He suited our free lance non offensive set offense, not an offense that is revolved around cuts and motion. Hodge creates his own shot while others stand around, that's not Melbourne's offense.
In his last interview, he stated "you're going to see a lot more wins", I never realised he was talking about the opposition!!!

bit of an upset there cairns beating melbourne in melbourne so much for hodge making a big difference. Hodge had 16 points on 6 of 8 shooting, weird he only had 8 shots also was 4 from 4 from the FT line, also had 6 turnovers 4 assists 2 steals and a block. Young daniel johnson had 19 points and 6 boards for melbourne, while for cairns phil jones had 21 points at a very nice clip and 7 boards, gd all round team performance from cairns.

mmmm.. 31mins , 16pts FG 75% FT 100% , 1 rb, 4ass, 2st 1blk, narrow team loss.. Aw - 6 T/Os...

I wonder..

Blaze having a go at it.. BIG 3rd. qtr.

gold coast have come back from 18 down to level scores at 3 quarter time, wildcats looked so gd in the first half were very ordinary under some pressure from the blaze in that quarter. Big schencsh has 4 fouls.

the blaze get up, remarkable comeback!
Maxey wiv massive 3 wiv 30 seconds left to give them the lead

JUDAS HODGE, YOU ARE 0-2.

This is just hilarious. I'm loving it! I mean Cairns are the worst team in the league!... or maybe not...

Still though, easy POTW.

Two fantastic games for the basketball purists.
Cairns show their Breakers win was no flash in the pan, and Blaze showed if you hang tough anything is possible.
Surely this is one of the best seasons in recent times.
Rychart POTW and Aaron Fearne coach of month for the way his players have got off the canvas.

its amazing the turn around (so far)of cairns.
defensivly they have been keeping teams to beatable scores and now seem to have a lot more freedom in their offence for individuals to score.

coaches over coaching.......i mean,weigh has 3 fouls in the first qtr then you dont see him again till after half time.
coach should really milk the kids momentum,if he fouls out he will learn from that.
for some reason all the coaches are doing that this year.
nz look a bit like they may be over coaching/thinking things also.
the gongers seem to look the most patient team this year,gordie has really matured as an nbl head coach and his team looks to have the faith.

Tigers are going down the drain fast...

Picture of Seamus in today's Herald-Sun showing him giving the bird to what appars to be the referees at last night's game! Wonder if that will raise a few eyebrows from the NBL?

Hodge has just gone to the milk bar for the paper and some bread.

That's the dairy for Adelaideians!

Tigers 3 games clear on the bottom of the table. Life doesn't getmuch better than this!

The NBL mentioned the Tigers signed former sixers import who was POTW and did a few dunks last nite and their next game is against Adelaide...
Not sure that we are commenting on everything he does, but Tigers on the bottom, top 2 teams on 7 wins,next 5 teams on 6 wins and the like...

Man I was at this game and it was so good i cheered for Cairns and Hodge was truly terrible couldnt hold it onto the ball if his life depended on it. Funny as the announcer and Mcpeake nearly got ejected so good.

lets not get too cocky, you would hate for that first win to come at our expense.

*chews popcorn*

Cheers for the train wreck Julius. Hilarious.

Hodge blows, love it

And Phill Jones for player of the round!

Phill Jones was a good score for the Taipans and a big loss for NZ.