Anonymous
Years ago
Boti: low scoring NBL a turn-off
THE NBL quickly needs to look closely at how it allows games to be officiated or risk losing the very audience it is trying to attract.
A sport filled with spectacle and spectacular above-the-ring action has been reduced to running in mud with three teams scoring less than 60 points last round and Wollongong's 68 points the lowest winning score in the club's storied history.
Bear in mind, the Hawks are the only inaugural club from 1979 still going around so it is a long time coming to reach a new low.
Their previous low was 69 from their five-point win at Cairns last year.
Adelaide started the ball rolling this round with 59 points against New Zealand, its lowest score since managing just 57 against Brisbane in 1983.
They were 40-minute games then, too, by the way.
Then Cairns mustered a meagre 58 in its home loss to Wollongong.
And to round out the weekend, Townsville at home and in front of a live national television audience on TEN, mustered a paltry 58 points against Perth.
The Crocs' 17 field goals for the match equalled the NBL's all-time single-game low.
Their 58 points was the club's lowest in 310 games at The Swamp and a ghastly way to farewell the league's longest-serving mascot, 100% Croc, whose appearance marked 21 years in the role.
Townsville scored just four field goals after halftime and none in the last quarter.
Rivetting television.
The Crocs' eight points for the final period were all from the free throw line.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/basketball/low-scoring-nbl-games-a-turn-off/story-fndekpx4-1226498056376
