Jackson for me.

Mills is the right call, didnt really love his shoot shoot shoot style of game for 3 and a half quarters of boring/lost Tigers bball, BUT made them when it counted and they came in a bunch... Jackson IF the Tigers had still lost for me.

yeah im not sure how Mills shootin 8/18 fgs with 1 assist an 3 t/o's beats Cedric Jackon or Khazzouh

Definitely has nothing to do with shot percentage then?

Wouldn't be surprised if Mills wins this award a lot this year, providing the lockout goes ahead.

The NBL, would love for marketing purposes, to advertise something along the lines of "NBA player receives NBL player of week award"

I guess 4th Qs only count!?!?!
He had a terrible game until he hit some 3s in the 4th Q, same with Ubaka.

Cedric Jackson had a very good opening week and is I think unlucky not to get rewarded for it

I think the NBL sells themselves short by taking the approach they do by giving the impression the big names recruits win these awards easily.

Certainly Mills was right up there this week with Jackson and Lisch (I would have prob gone Jackson), but I remember Hodge's first week back a few years ago he had some decent numbers but shot terribly, turned it over a lot and his team went 0-2 from memory, yet he got POTW because it would generate headlines.

Of course, the award is only given out to give basketball writers an excuse for a few more inches in the paper! So if Mills has one quarter good enough to get close then the NBL will take the headlines!

He came up big when required to win. It isn't called "player with the best stat line this week" award". H did score 28 points and shot 60% from the 3pt line though...

Yeah, it's a tough one because Bruce was controlling the match-up but Mills got the win when it mattered. I think he scored 15 points in the last 11 minutes or something like that.

If he came up big when the Tigers needed a boost, surely you need to consider how poorly he played in allowing the Tigers to be down by 12.

The NBL looked at the box scores, saw who top scored, and awarded it from that....again.

Situation, if only they based it just on scoring output. Obviously star power plays a big role for them, getting press, etc.

Jackson didn't win I assume because he wasn't great on the first game.
Wilkinson wasn't great in the second.
Redhage scored big, but most of that was with the game all over.
Lisch set up the win and was very impressive.
Mills in the end probably won the game for his team. This was after he did his best to lose it for them for 3 quarters, but he was the difference in the end.
Could make a strong case for quite a few players.

Interesting call - but given Mills is the marquee name, he gets the award. He was right in contention though...

Did Mills win Melbourne the game or did Moose completely blow it for Sydney?

Jackson was still solid in game 1, 11 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and a steal in a road win and then backed up 2 nights later in one of the toughest gyms to win in on the road with 28 at 73%, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 6 steals.
Mills shoots at 44% for 28 in 1 game, 1 assist and 1 steal and he's POTW WTF!
Next week they should give it to a Centre who can't rebound.

'Next week they should give it to a Centre who can't rebound.'

Awesome Ben Allen a lock for POTW this week. lol

Kr: hifive

That's a joke.

An award for Marketing Tool of the Week.....that would be a fair call.

Snake5: That's a joke.

An award for Marketing Tool of the Week.....that would be a fair call.

well said.

Agreed with the above two comments.

Think Mills got the award for league Marketability more than for his performance.

Frankly Ayinde Ukaba was just as responsible for the Tigers winning in the end as Mills was.

Personally I prefer Jackson's line; Steals were impressive.

My vote goes to Hinder.

Because Ben Allen is making Russell Hinder's decaying corpse look like Hakeem Olajuwon in his prime...

Player of the week for sure.

^ lmfao

It cant all be about clutch performance in the 4th quarter since Cedric Jackson had
13pts / 4 rbs / 1 ast in the 4th alone

I was loving Cedric's strips at the top of the key, looks to have very quick hands.

Samantha Richards had 19,6,4 for POTW in WNBL
Runners up - Suzy Batkovic 29,15,4 and
Cayla Francis 16,14,3.

Unfortunately they were against a team without a quality PG, don't think he'll have that sort of luck against teams like Perth but would be stoked if he could

Worthington had a great game but like you said he lost at home. Jackson won twice on the road in 1 round with solid numbers.