The Kings have shown a tendency to start games flat, and that would be the Hawks best chance I think - they need to come out from the opening tip swinging and try to get a jump early, otherwise it's hard to see the Hawks having enough on either end of the court to take the win.

Looking forward to seeing how big the crowd is today, should be a great atmosphere and hopefully a lot of Hawks' fans make the trip up the Princes Highway like back in the good old days.

Are the Hawks doing anything about a Brooks replacement?

I have been cheering for the Hawks since the early 90's but I just cant be bothered any more, I wonder if any other Hawks fans are losing faith as well?
If the NBL wants a serious comp they need to help the struggling teams or cut them from the competition.

They already get Melo paid for by the League. They already get welfare handouts from the League.

Is the League to give them a demo on how to promote themselves and be a proper ongoing concern too?

Even Cairns has the wherewithal to leverage some indigenous money from taxpayers locally.

Yeah Hawks are dumb, why didn't they just sign Long, Trimble and Prather. lol

commentators shut up, two horrible commentators for this game

Ogilvy and Anderson lookin like they've just come from the lather lounge.

Hopefully they're as sharp on the court today!

WhatsApp being called whatsup. F'in LOL.

Sunday bring tha pain!

Big loss for the wildcats losing Dech. Great to see him doing well

Blanchfield has woken up. 15pts at HT.

Hahaha who the F is this guy. Cringeworthy, and WTF is that accent?

I would Dech over Steindl any day

LaMelo taking over.

LaMelo called for a three point shooting flop. Good call.

Did I read somewhere they paid a buyout to get him? Odd.

Ware2Bogut alley one-handed dunk!

Might as well give the championship to the kings now.

17,514 crowd. Nice

Another tech flop on Ware.

This ref with the fuckboi hair is a nazi.

^ rofl

It could be worse - Wayne Peterson celebrated 30 years of being the court announcer for Tigers/United down in Melbourne last night.

Put bogut back on willy

This doesn't look like a 1st vs. 9th game. Hawks good or Kings bad?

LaMelo has cost the Hawks the game with his hyper showboating.

Good win Kings. Thanks lamelo.

Sunday dech is my new favourite player. Love the way he goes about it.

Kings lucky to get out of that one

Not lucky, hawks were never a threat at the end. Not enough fire power. They really need a new import.

We deserved to lose that one. Real low quality game all around really - both teams and the refs. Bogut looks like he needs to take a week or two off the recharge his legs.

I only saw the last few minutes, so the Hawks were in with a shot (until their shots weren't in!)

But then I had a look at the box score. Quite a lop-sided free-throw and foul count. Was this warranted or did the Kings get a definite advantage from the refs?

The previous record attendance was 17,143 for a double header of Razorbacks-Bullets and Kings-Cannons as part of the opening of the Superdome. Some sources claim 19K which has been incorrectly taken up by the media.

There were a few double headers involving Razorbacks games followed by the Globetrotters but these were nowhere near capacity.

AUStadiums lists the 1999 double header as 17,800. I believe the NBL records it as 17,143. Confusing.

@Three to Make Two; eh, I'll admit I'm an impartial Kings fan, but I thought the Kings were a lot more aggressive getting inside, especially Tate. I thought the refereeing was atrocious all the same, with illegals screens being thrown by both teams all game long.

Thanks, Angus. I'm watching the Perth-Breakers game and was wondering whether to make the same post in their thread, substituting Perth for Sydney and NZ for Hawks!

Watching the pre-game pan of the stadium was incredible. All blacked out with the lights in the crowd.

It looked unbelievable. Better than what I'd seen at some NBA games.

And on another point, damn you can tell Will Weaver is one helluva coach!

Just the way he coaches, what he says, his rotations etc. - playing chess whilst other coaches are playing checkers.

Ive been to a few NBA games is the last year, and today's game day show from the Kings organisation was of equal quality.

It’s the first kings game I’ve seen this year, do they put on a similar show each game?