Hawks by 10 and Rotnei Clarke will go off for 30

Breakers by 8

Think Hawks will get up.

NZ still trying to find their identity. They can't be the physical defensive side they have in the past so will have to get more from their offense than in past times.

Could still be a few games more worth of adjusting.

Theyl be a top 4 side IMO.

But i wouldn't expect anything less from such a skillful coach as Gordie than to bring a team into Vector and have them exceptionally organised, prepared and ready.

Hawks by 6.

Breaker's to win the 1 at hm end of the day they are the 3peat champs u cant go past that!

If Summers was still here Id tip the Hawks, but I think the Breakers will get them with depth and athleticism.

Clarke will get his share, but Breakers to win given that the Hawks don't have Summers.

Game is underway. Get used to seeing Rotnei Clarke layups.

Live stats are broken for me, but NBL.TV is looking pretty good.

Rotnei Clark looks very good. Corletto and Vukona good offensively for NZ.
A lot of fouls being called.

VIPBox has a fairly good feed for this game.

Breakers running the ball as much as possible with Kerron at the point and he looks kinda like Gary Ervin when he's going to the rim

Gordie with a legendary timeout.
For the Hawks Clarke is a very good player who can score the ball and Davidson and Gruber are playing good.
For the Breakers Johnson is quick in transition and Corletto is shooting the lights out!

Are you getting a weird conversation between some maintenance guy and Casey Frank at the half time break?

live stats link please!! NBL website won't let me click on the live stats link!!!! HELP

Anyone know Corletto's stat line for those of us without livestats?

NBL haven't started up stats, although there's a match preview coming soon, Must be tooo busy with NBLTV to bother about it.

great! Cant follow the NBL because they cant be normal and just use FIBA live stats! Can anyone of you hoopsters give us a box score estimate!!

Funnily enough, they have a preview, its just not linked to on their match centre. Sigh, NBL...

Live stats beyond repair, they've said. Boxscore after the game.

Hawks getting soundly dealt with. Not a good game from Forman plus foul trouble and the step down on the bench hasn't helped. Getting burnt by Breaker threes.

Hawks from memory were pretty good in the pre-season in regards to fouls?
They had guys in foul trouble at half time and Gordie had to resort to the young guys. Jamieson with a great block on Kerron Johnson but then a couple of plays later had his jumper swatted away by Pledger.

How was Johnson on his regular-season debut?

I think he could be as good as Jackson in his first year, but not last year, that's too much to ask.

Breakers were very, very good tonight. Against an undermanned opponent yes, but it's easy to forget over the off-season just how talented they are and just how well they function as a team.

Corletto was on fire and Abercrombie put on a show. Webster and Johnson were soooo quick and Vukona right at home in the fast game. It's going to take a lot to beat them again.

Rotnei Clarke showed his obvious talent early, but he's going to need a lot more help against quality opponents to be able to have a real impact.

Rhys Martin looked hesitant on offence. Hawks ran three rookies (and kinda DP rookies rather than Wortho's first year out of college) and that's always going to be tough against defending champs on the road.

NBL.tv worked great.

No issues, good quality even when upsized onto a 55 inch screen.

Johnson was great, pushed the ball and found his team mates and will only get better as the season progresses. He has a decent looking jumpshot despite it not falling for him and got to the rim for a few layups in transition.

Webster continued his Tall Blacks form offensively and Abercrombie found his stride at both ends with a couple of dunks and 3's and a couple of blocks and a steal.

Rotnei Clark for the Hawks was good, couldn't do it alone tho.
Tyson Demos got a spray from Gordie and got owned by Abercrombie, the Hawks really missed having Sav defensively with Abercrombie able to shoot over them.

Again the same as the last 3 years anyone who pays for nbl tv is a sucker just go to vipbox and watch every game for free same as any nba game for free on vipbox

Watch a pirate stream if you want (and especially for a product with geo-blocking and so on), but I think it's rough to call any that don't a sucker.

Most agents would try for a minimum probation period Isaac, something like 4 weeks.

@Anon591 I used to use the free sports streaming sites, until I got sick of the poor quality streams, dead links, ads popping up constantly and then waiting for a timer to finish to close them. In some NBL games the stream would die and not return for the rest of game, even though the stream was fine on nbl.tv.

If you try to get everything for free, you're gonna have a bad time.