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NBL Wrap 12: Open to more such ideas
MELBOURNE stole the show across NBL Round 12, its open roof overtime classic with Perth setting a standard it will be difficult to duplicate, Ian Clark's 13-point haul in the five-minute extension keeping United on track, Bryce Cotton delivering a 36-point game to leave no doubt who genuinely is the league's No.1 MVP candidate.
MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL. WE'LL BE BACK ON DEC.27
WISHING all our regular and random readers all the best over Christmas. We're taking a brief break but will be back on December 27 with the latest WNBL and NBL news. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the festive season and look forward to bigger and brighter activities in 2024.
Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell?
THE NBL's Season 2023-24 has just passed its halfway mark - unless you're Illawarra or New Zealand - and as it heads into a daunting second phase, it's time for a Christmas review. Is your team on the Stairway to Heaven, or driving down the Highway to Hell? Chrissie cheer? Or sack of coal?
NBL Rankings, Tips 12: Bullets pray for Casey
DUAL-Perth NBL champion and Melbourne United title-winning import Casey Prather will be keen to change Brisbane's fortunes this season when he arrives late in Round 12 as the replacement for injured DJ Mitchell. The Bullets forward has an injured hip and will be out for the rest of the season.
Brad&Boti: We have our two-sport 'Rocky'
WE did it! Yes, no more phantom guests disappearing at recording time for our Brad&Boti podcast. This week we secured Australia's two-sport queen - AFLW best and fairest, premiership player, WNBL champion and Gold Medal winning junior - Monique Conti ... and Brad Rosen and I could not have been happier.
NBL TotW11: United, Breakers, Hawks, Wildcats, Kings! Wow
SOME weeks are tougher than others, especially with Melbourne United so consistently above the pack, but also with New Zealand, Perth, Illawarra and Sydney putting in performances well worthy of our NBL Team of the Week consideration.
Kings reign and Taipans beat the clock
SYDNEY responded to a week of scrutiny - including from a couple of ex-NBA 7-foot part-owners - to stomp on the JackJumpers in Hobart before Cairns this round was on the right end of a late disallowed basket, Mitch Norton's three for the win deemed too late to save Brisbane.
Hawks fly and 36ers rally but fall to United
ILLAWARRA continued on its winning way, last night smashing South East Melbourne in Traralgon and revealing the Phoenix without Mitch Creek are on the precipice of falling out of contention, before Adelaide produced arguably its best losing performance of the season, ultimately held at bay by the NBL's pacesetting Melbourne United.
More fine Cotton and No-one Silences Lamb
PERTH Wildcats all-time great Bryce Cotton once again dug deep into his winning ways last night to sink a gallant Tasmania after New Zealand exposed the Taipans' occasionally soft underbelly with an all-the-way NBL rout in Cairns launched early by import Anthony Lamb.
United trashes derby rival in one-way rout
FROM the moment United captain and MVP contender Chris Goulding outmanouvred a 3-point conscious Matt Kenyon by driving past him for the opening basket of last night's NBL Throwdown 23, it was clear South East Melbourne was going to be in a bucketload of trouble.
