Haha classic, Fawlty Towers, I like it.

Both teams could score 100

Gee, it's only round 2 and the barbs have come out on these teams.

Both teams are 0-2 and are yet to dip their fingers in the brine to pull out a pickle this season.

Cairns on their home court need to give home fans a reason to seek refuge in the air conditioned comfort of the Cairns Convention Centre. Majok Deng was an X factor in Adelaide and has a chance to become a cult hero sharing the mantle with the "Beast".

Illawarra have a squad that is not too shabby with most players tasting success at other clubs and have a number of rings in the sock drawer. But, Illawarra's problem has always been they just can't seem to go home with the girl. They play the roll of wing man to perfection.

To go 0-3 means a stern locker room talk by Greta Thunberg. So, which team will be brave enough to not only grab a pickle, but to drink the pickle juice.

I think Illawarra might just need this road trip to bond and I can see them sliding past the snakes to snatch an away win.

Isn't this game in Wollongong?

Yep, it's in the Gong. Jokes aside this should actually be an entertaining game.

Yeah, sorry, I meant to type

"I think Illawarra might just need this HOME road trip to bond..."
(subtle reference to their not so subtle performance in Perth)

Ogilvy to have a huge night out with 8 points and 5 rebs

Brooks needs to start. Get Ogilvy or grida out.

Hopefully newbill plays to make it half exciting

Both of these teams are absolute ass. I feel like Taipans have at least pressured some teams in some games and made the Kings work for their first win so I feel the Taipans probably take this one. The Hawks are not very good at all. Their rotations are haphazard and their bench depth is non-existent. Brooks seems to find himself out of games just due to his frustrated outbursts. LaMelo won't be enough to save them from probably losing 90 percent of the games they play.

Hawks going with the 5 guys they should have gone with from Game 1. Finally.

No newbill again? Interesting

Newbill now playing lol

Coenraad just made a mess of Boone's face with the elbow.
Boone out now
Ogilvys time to shine

I don't know which stinks more :

- A trash full of rotten eggs and decomposed meat.
- This game.

Ogilvy +5 in his 3 mins on court in the first quarter lol

what's better :

- watching lonzo ball shooting treys for 2 hours long
- This game


option 1 for me

2/10 for both team to start this quarter

this is a disgrace

melo ball is gonna fall to the secound round

Melo will be lottery. Not too 5 though

Cairns' unbeaten first half streak in jeopardy here.

you'd tought a game between two 0 defense teams would be fun but one has to remember they are also two 0 offense teams.

so 0 / 0 = 0

Clutch basket from Deng to keep the first half winning streak alive!

cairns got their win . keeping that undefeated at halftime streak.

now they can get blown out.

nah he's just bad

10 pts quarter for the snakes
damn we can't even use the word bad

This game has been surprising.....entertaining

Yeah, really enjoyable 2nd half after a bit of a dud 1st half.

Machado is really bust-or-boom it seems. Has some great plays here and there, but just too careless with the ball overall and a lot of dribbling into traffic.

How does Dwayne Russell still not understand how this sport works? Several people on Twitter are chiming in to agree with him that Cairns should have called a timeout after Ogilvy's missed free-throw, including one Cairns journo who has accused me of making up the dead-ball TO rule because he apparently cannot find any record of it anywhere.

How are we supposed to build support for this league if the people who are supposed to educate the fans don't themselves know anything about it?

At least Whittle wasn't commentating :)

Better game than I thought it was gonna be. Not tooo bad to watch.

How does turning the commentary off fix the problem I was talking about?

Yeah, I didn't see a crowd figure, but I saw lots of empty seats. Hopefully it's just a Monday-night thing and the Hawks see an uptick in attendance now that they are comfortably sitting above United on the ladder.

The Hawk's supporters should be supporting their club more.

They have done what they can to bring in talent and excitement and the numbers have only jumped a little from last year. I know its a Monday.

Yeah agree, not a good look having a completely unoccupied section up the top behind the backboard. Reminds me of the Townsville Crocs' dying years when they had huge sheets of builders film over the top seats

" Russell is one of the biggest nuffies in all of sports media in Australia. Still can't believe he still gets a gig commentating. I only watched the last quarter last night, and in that time he still said a over a dozen stupid, annoying or cliche things."

That's more than 1 a minute.

Any NBL player producing that rate of fouls/turnovers/defensive lapses etc would be benched. Sad thing is he’s probably on good coin from his footy contacts.