Oops.. My mistake

End of first: Kings 30 - Hawks 23.

Ellis on fire, aggressive and hit 2 3ptrs already. AJ already on 2 fouls. Leslie is also aggressive and in attack mode.

So far the Kings' interior defense and rebounding are a far cry from their previous games. Looking good so far.

Has the feed just dropped out from nbl.tv for anyone else?

LOL! Called a foul after the halftime buzzer? One of the refs got money on Illawarra! :D

I've picked up the feed from pages.nbl.com.au/tv

SBS seems to be broken.

Wow! Lisch looks bad... Heal might be right there, could be Achiles. He just buckled and fell.

His left leg just gave way as he pushed off.

Fingers crossed it is only a minor.

The rest of the Kings' intensity went up a couple of notches after Lisch came down. Desperation is a funny thing... this is almost like a finals game.

Clearly they are struggling but too soon to write them off for the season.

Wow! Tommy's in! Wow!

For a Team that wants to score 100 every Game, Norton, Kay, Johnson and Martin might want to show some aggressiveness at some point.

Defensively the Hawks look slow and individual. They are even stagnant on O, which is a huge no no for Bevo.

It really looks like Martin is done and Norton looks timid.

I agree some of the Hawks players shouldn't have been brought back but it's hard to make that decision after getting to a GF. To be fair to the Hawks they started last season 1-4 so 0-3 isn't that big a deal but White, Forman & Martin would be lucky to make another team's roster.

Gaze said in the presser it looks like Lisch has a grade 2 calf tear best case scenario is 3-4 weeks and worst case not worth contemplating so said they'll probably use their vacant third import spot on a replacement for him.

If I were a Kings fan I would be a little bit worried about how much Gaze was talking up Singh at the presser. He was raving about a couple of crucial boards he got and saying there are glimpses of real potential with Singh.

Maybe a big Indian sponsor has got on board because of Singh so that's why they don't mind having him on the roster.

Gaze also said there were a number of reasons why they never signed a third import and keeping one spot up their sleeve for something like this was one of a few reasons.

Amritpal Singh is not Indonesian, he's from Denmark

Not sold on Conga. His handle stinks and is a streaky jump shotter at best.

Looks like he always wants to go right. Easy to scout.

Carfino made a good point they should start Clarke to get some offense early on.

Or perhaps SVG & Gaze should've realised that before they re-signed him to a 2 year deal.

"Maybe Garlepp needs to realise he is no longer an NBL quality player"

People were saying the same about Lucas Walker.

Hawks looked very ordinary for much of the game. Maybe time to restart Rotnei if other starters aren't going to spread the floor?

Ellis was excellent for the Kings.

Gaze is playing scrubs like Singh and Pineau ahead of him

Has anyone noticed just how bad Perry Ellis is defensively?

He gets a bucket then loses it next possession on the other end of the floor

One of them being Lisch unfortunately

Ellis was never known as a particularly strong rebounder, so no matter what anyone says, 2rebounds isn't a huge surprise... Disappointing still, but not a surprise... A great offensive effort, but as others have said, if he gives it back at the other end, it's not as much use in the overall scheme of things...

Lisch going down really hurts us, but am I alone in thinking that even defensively, Lisch wasn't really at the top of his game? I remember thinking more than once the last couple of games that he was getting beaten by his man more than what should be expected of someone with his reputation...

Was great to get a win, but still some alarming signs that need work... Defensively still crap, can't rely on hitting that many points or shooting at that % to win them games... Pineau and Singh getting considerably more minutes than Garlepp, even though he DID hit the court in junk time... Hammer said that it would have been less insulting to not get played at all instead of getting development player blowout minutes...

The cheer Tommy got should be evidence to the Kings decision makers, both on court and off, that this situation isn't going unnoticed and needs to get cleared up... Whatever the story is, that they are pressuring him to leave, or just told him that he wouldn't get any minutes and hoped that he would leave, are nearly as bad as each other... It's not how you run a business, let alone a team that needs to be strong and rely on each other... And people have been wondering why there seems to be no chemistry on court tis season?

Anon made a great point... if this was always going to be the case that he wouldn't get minutes, even behind inexperienced, under qualified players, especially in losses where he could have maybe helped, then he should have been cut and paid out at the end of last season... It's not a coincidence that when someone is let go in a normal workplace, they are more often than not just allowed to leave with their notice period and not kept around... It breeds discontent and resentment and that seeps into the rest of the workplace... Just another poor decision in what is getting to be a significant list from the Kings decision makers...

I don't have any juicy info on what the real issue behind this Garlepp thing is. I can only speculate that the only benefit the Kings can get by keeping him is to prevent him from getting picked up by another team for the minimum salary and as absolutely last resort backup.

The only way they will trade those 'benefits' would be to not pay him.

The longer it goes on, the worse it looks and the worse it will look when they actually have to do something, as if and when Lisch comes back, do they then get an import big to make up for the losses not having one will incur?

That they would be ok with the negative of treating an ex-captain like this, even the perceived one, let alone ACTUALLY doing it, speaks volumes for who is in charge...