The khazzouh and conklin show

A danger game as Crocs have been in the past losses and in the past when we've come up against the 'easy beats" we've had our arses handed to us, so I'll be cautious until it's won...

Which ever way it goes, one thing is for sure, another great night in front of the TV!

This one could be close...

Sydney played well against the Taipans and Khazzough had a great game, Cadee shone too and needs to really back this one up. Thornton had plenty of attempts for the 3, so hopefully for Kings fans, he can sink a few more.

On paper, Kings certainly have depth and cover the loss of Childress well.

The Crocs worry me a little. The Big Conk is about their only star and the talent drops off like a bikie attached to an old sink dumped from a boat in Spencer Gulf. Sometimes these teams can work together to form something greater, but really need a master coach to inspire them. A bit like to Woodies. As singles players, hopeless. But match them together and they get 61 titles, 1 Olympic Gold Medal, and 11 Grand Slams. They are like gin and tonic, by themselves blah, but together, just perfect.

Crocs are no write offs, but Shawn Dennis would have the hardest coaching gig in the NBL. The only thing more challenging would be writing speeches for Tony Abbott.

I think the Kings will get this one on their home turf. Khazzough will have a harder game, but there's a few slippery suckers in the Kings. Garlepp, Hill, Carter - Sydney are like "whack a moles". When one Kings player is down, someone always steps up.

Kings should win, but Conklin has a history of destroying us.

My default tip for any Crocs road game is a loss. Childress is a big out, but not big enough to sway me.

Kings by a heap.

How do the Crocs win? Should they use zone defense and force Cadee, Thornton and Hill to shoot it from deep?

Keep the ball out of Khazzouh's hands and hope that Thornton and Cadee have a bad shooting night.

I'll get the pillow case ready. Sydney by 25pts.

Ohhh by watching on my laptop and its switched to the Fox footy on 504, so I'm watching reruns of AFL coughing sitting stuff. People will blow up about this one!

Yep so annoying

Its just one of those things that can happen when you have to rush the launch of such a major thing.... i guess. Trying to give the benefit of the doubt, but damn its not a good look!

Ahhh...NBL Live sucks...

Wish I just knew a mate working there so I could txt and say dud change it to 500!

Yep, paid the $60 yesterday so today I could watch old AFL blokes waffle on. Also last week Reflector 2 app worked fine in streaming from my phone to the Mac. Since the NBL App upgrade whenever the streaming starts Reflector 2 cuts out. Anyone else having this problem?

Did Townsville seriously start Norton, Jett, Djeric, Steindl and Schenscher?

Nope, Conklin was starting, dont trust the highlighted names on Live stats.

2 quick fouls for Conklin. Could be a pretty big blowout this one.

Jett keeping them alive at this point. Poor Crocs one more solid go to guy away from being competitive enough to not just be making up the numbers...

One of Khazzouh or Ogilvy should be in the Olympics team next year. Leaning towards Ogilvy at this stage.

I just can't see TVL ever scoring enough to win ball games. They have no consistent scoring options. They'll no doubt catch fire for a few games here and there but meh.

Hope the dumb ass who got the channel wrong gets fired in the morning!

He's probs out having knock drinks telling his mates how big time he is and the operation is... and how being the channel guy is a huge promotion. This has that show Inbetweeners written all over it haha

Lemanis' commentary is so annoying.

I came to enjoy the game and not get some monotonous voiceover on what player X should have done or what player X didn't do.

Expert commentary is good in small amounts but i watch basketball for entertainment and not for an educational DVD on the basics of basketball.

Yay its been switched...

Mr. Gilbert had some stern words to channel guy

Yikes Lemanis isnt exactly an excitement machine, how do these guys get there players motivated I wonder sometimes...

And why would Kings not wear the Yellow tonight... I really like the Crocs grey its bit unique but teams have to matchup smartly against it.

It's not the home team's responsibility to avoid a clash, it's the away team's.

Well that said, the grey IS the Crocs colour they will be wearing in away games, so perhaps the home teams could use some common sense for everyones sake. A little bit of chit chat between team managers could make all the difference smh.

Close enough at half time to keep us all interested, I also don't mind the grey uniform but I seriously cannot read the numbers and sometimes I even miss a player.

That grey is like sharks in the ocean, they disappear and then sneak up on you when you least expect it!

I just don't get it, how hard is it to see that you need a white number on a darkish grey uniform?

Jett looks good. Just needs to drop some weight. Agree with Townsville needing one more guy. Imagine Blanchfield with this team.

And for you city boys bagging rural teams, how's that crowd figure?
1200 tops with ALL that population!

Jett has had a very very good game, didn't think it was going to happen to be honest. His body is built for NFL, but damn if he keeps his touch, would be damn hard to move.

Prewster having a nice game. Fits into the Kings system like a glove.

"Schlenschlagger runs like a giraffe on stilts" Shoot! I wish I came up with that ! GOLD

Lemanis is horrible. Would almost rather CJ!

On the whole though to date, have been pleasantly surprised by the commentary teams to date, I really think the addition of popular commentators with non-hoop backgrounds (ie Vossy) is working a treat.

Kings; very disappointing!

That was a ticked win only to be a loss.
Crocs had a great 2nd half take nothing away

Pie to the face. Just as i say i can't see them having enough scoring power to outscore teams they get the W on 80 points!

Well done TVL.

Kings really made some bad errors down the stretch.

Markovic was actually taken out of the lineup on 59 secs and then returned before throwing that TO. Perhaps that momentary benching made him switch off a little.

Thornton took two bad, rushed jumpers late in the game. Cadee also unloaded a few hurried bombs.

When TVL went zone, the Kings froze and didn't penetrate or go at the seams.

Massive for the Crocs very happy for them, whole season will be such a struggle so this would help...

No Childress is one thing but Julian just has to appreciate how important it is to his teams success that he stays on the floor, this 4th reaching around on the feed into LS was just dumb basketball.

Lemanis is one thing CJ is a whole different bag of commentary spuds!

Nice to see jett answer a few critics, as his fitness improves he will be dynamite. Also good to see some of the young guards in the league stepping up Maynard tonight, djeric in the first two games, Cadee, Shea illi, sobey, weeks for the Hawks and Shaun Bruce.

Jett is an absolute Stud

Love his hair also.

Burning about the Kings Loss today seriously annoyed at work in London lol

The Kings should be disappointed with that effort.

Crocs got the W through hard work and should be proud.

Damn, Crocs were paying $3.75 and I didn't think it was long enough to put on a few bucks. Kings really stunk that up to join the list of teams that have had shockers so far this season. United and Wildcats the only 2 with a relatively good record so far.

Sorry, that was me above.
Any reason why the Sydney city games can't start earlier?

This will probably the most tightly contested season off alltime. Every team has got better and there isn't a team that you can say they are clearly the best team in the competition.

Well that said, the grey IS the Crocs colour they will be wearing in away games, so perhaps the home teams could use some common sense for everyones sake.

So then the Kings usually wear there Yellow at home, decided to flip the script and potentially not inform, the Crocs then. Dumb planning from both ends. Teams need to communicate on this stuff more... guess it didn't bother the Crocs too much tonight!

The Kings have generally worn purple at home with the occasional exception.

Whether there was a miscommunication, or it simply didn't occur to anyone to object to the colour combination, we can't know.

Just seems dumb knowing what colour the Crocs are going to be wearing and having worn it already few days ago not to do the same. Odd stipulations, surprised to some degree its not the NBL telling teams what colours they will be wearing...

Tough loss (man, that inbound pass by Markovic...) but hats off to the Crocs. A lot of close games, finally picked up a win. Jett was great in the first half.

I don't rate Markovic any more. Hope Cadee takes more of his minutes as the year goes on.

Thornton shot 40% from the 3 line in college but is stinking it up so far this season (though I think he was raining bombs in one pre-season game). Both he and Thornton came up with a lot of bad turnovers.

On the upside for Sydney, Brant had a good un and is turning into a pretty sweet rim protector.

Even without Chill, Kings should have won this one.

This round is killing my tipping.
Good win by the Crocs, Jett looked good today.....Thornton on the other hand was horrible.

Markovic played pretty well before that horrid inbound... but all for naught now. He did have another direct pass to a defender though, in the 3rd or 4th off a drive. I thought Thornton was better today because he was looking to drive rather than jack up shots, but he had a few possessions, and one bad one in the 4th, where he left the ground and made the bad pass rather than look to finish. His shot hasn't dropped from 3, but I'm not as worried about that. It will even out in the end.

Brandt really should've been playing the last half of that 4th Q. I think Cotter put Tommy back in just because he hadn't played much. It looks like Tommy is the big casualty of the increased talent this year, as far as scoring numbers go. On the plus side, noticed a big change in his effort on the glass, and his hustle overall.

Hill looks like a nice bench player for the Kings. Grabbed a lot of boards when he was out there and he's got a bit of shooting range. Good player!

The NBL tell the teams who will wear what in the event of a clash, perhaps that was not communicated properly by the clubs, I got the email prior to the season starting... So no excuse for the poor choices made and it did look bad.

Pretty certain Crocs told the NBL their away colour was LIGHT grey.It's anything but that.
Wildcats used a grey alternative a while back. Still had red and black on it but it was a silky fabric that almost looked metallic.
Good move to use the Boomers' coach but as a third addition to the regulars. Can't take much of that voice. NOT for the interviews.

My prediction for a close game was based on the Croc's seemingly love to play in Sydney, but also that I rate them, but I didn't quite see that coming.

What a mad last minute, loved it for the drama and the result, NBL is...

#TIGHTBALL

Why all the fuss about uniforms? They look really good and are obviously an attempt to make things new and improved.
Haven't heard anything from players/coaches about difficulties in the uniform clash. Also didn't notice any passes to the wrong team due to clash...
If u can't tell the difference in teams either live or on the telecast then u might want to get your eyes checked...

Is there any chance that some people just want to complain and pick these trivial topics

It's not about how they look to the players on the court, it's about how they look on the broadcast. The Crocs jerseys are far too dark. It didn't matter vs the Kings, but it is going to matter against any dark home jerseys.

I don't think the Kings really played Thornton at PG primarily. The Crocs pressed a lot, and it seemed to me that he was often the escape pass rather than the primary target.

He doesn't really have either the handle (esp. under pressure) or court vision to play PG - NBL or NBA.

I'm not too worried though. I think his shots will start to drop. Most of them were good looks from 3.