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TASMANIA JackJumpers' many thrilled and delighted NBL fans will be gearing up to go 2-0 - and if so, possibly even 3-0 on the road to Cairns later this round - at the expense of an Adelaide, which very much is a work-in-progress as it heads into Tassie.

Having taken down Brisbane in overtime and knowing Adelaide is around the same place as the Bullets in terms of its evolution toward the team it hopes to become, the 36ers have to be seen as vulnerable tonight in Hobart.

The 36ers still will be down Sunday Dech and Kai Sotto, but Emmanuel Malou returns and coach CJ Bruton is a fan of what he brings.

This is how the round looks.

    WHOPPER OF A ROUND 2

YOU know Jack McVeigh will be fired up to do well against his former club and Sam McDaniel also has Adelaide roots. The 36ers need Darryl Hannahs to find his stroke - you know the issue last week was mental because you can't just lose your shot but you CAN lose belief in yourself - and Cam Bairstow to continue providing solid support. But this is one the JackJumpers can get the jump in.

THE Phoenix should make it 2-from-2 against New Zealand but this one should be a much tougher outing. Breakers "director of basketball" Dan Shamir is back from strict COVID protocols to coach his team and Yanni Wetzell is in for his first run against his former team.

Closer this time, but still SEM with the cigar.

THERE are a few real rivalries in the NBL and Sydney-Illawarra is a genuine one of them. Why heavyweights at both the Kings and Hawks have found it necessary to hype and crap on about each other, first in the preseason and now again, is a mystery only the spotlight they love can solve. Crazy shite.

This should be one for the Hawks and maybe the match of the round.

GOT to select Cairns to beat the newbies in Cairns. If not, who are the Taipans going to beat this season? I do expect the JackJumpers to finish this season in better shape than the Orangemen but in their first home game, Cairns must prevail. Plus they weren't half bad against Perth.

OK. Maybe just "second half" bad.

REGAINING David Barlow is a start for United ahead of the derby with SEM, but Chris Goulding will be a "gametime decision" and Jack White still unlikely.

Melbourne showed plenty of heart last round to push Sydney to the wire but South East was one of the round's big impressors and hard to tip against here. Unless they find using the other bench and changeroom unsettling.

WITH a very real shot at securing an important win in front of their home fans, expect the 36ers to give visiting New Zealand hell in Sunday's early outing.

Fans will be hoping it's Sunday's earliest outing too but even if Adelaide can just draw the best from its rotating three-headed frontcourt monster of Isaac Humphries, Daniel Johnson and Cam Bairstow, it will be in good shape. This, however, definitely is a win the Breakers could pinch if the 36ers lose focus.

PUNDITS who had Perth floundering this season already are ducking for cover after the Wildcats' 2-0 start, albeit against teams that aren't really in favour. Perhaps THIS is the week where someone gets the better of them? Enter Brisbane, with so much talent new coach James Duncan doesn't know what to do with it. Of course talent without discipline is just unrequited potential because, let's face it, you know what Vic Law will be out to do.

FLASHBACK! Yanni Wetzell will be trying to do the exact opposite of this during Round 2.