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HAS Perth signing Han Xu made it unbackable for the WNBL championship and is Melbourne United, once the prohibitive NBL favourite, punch-drunk and on the ropes? Brad Rosen and I tuck into those and many other issues across the comps in our Brad&Boti podcast this week. 

What on earth has happened to the Sydney Flames, thumped at home by Adelaide as the quest for fourth place in the WNBL continues unabated?

Perth flexed its muscles in Townsville to KO the former league-leaders, defending champion Bendigo now grabbing top spot, though we think only temporarily before the absence of Marianna Tolo brings it back to the pack a little.

So fourth spot remains up for grabs, but our tip is Canberra's Capitals as the most likely to not just surge but eventually lock up that last playoff spot in the Final Four.

Southside, Adelaide, Geelong and Sydney all look just as likely on their day but in the Flames' case, they appear to have run out of days.

Geelong too are now loading up too many numbers in the Loss column and are no longer playing with the confidence and pizzaz of earlier in the season.

Who are our picks for Players of the Round, what were our respective Plays of the Round and who is winning this Round's games? It is all covered in this week's thorough podcast.

And that's before we turn to the NBL and debate the question, is Will Magnay the single most important piece of the championship puzzle, not only to Tasmania but the league.

The JackJumpers lose him and virtually ALL is lost. But if he stays healthy, can they go all the way?

Can New Zealand be trusted at all and how good was Adelaide?

United appears to be in some trouble, less so South East which split two big games but was down starters Owen Foxwell and Malique Lewis for both.

Brad rates Sydney right up there but that is to be expected of the former Kings captain. Their best is good enough to win it all. But their worst can be fairly icky.

Who was our Player of the Week, what was our Play opf the Round, Brad has a Rosen Rattler, I have a Nagy Nasty and you can find all this and more via this link right now.