Should be a cracker game.
Perth with a single digit win

Perth will win just hope Plum has a good game.

Taking on Perth tonight with Breakers at 4.60 & +8.5. They're a much more realistic chance than that IMO despite the away factor.

Wildcats would be good with Jason Cadee

That FT airball from Plumlee competing with Jordan Hunter's FT in NZ last week for worst attempt of the season.

Loving the arc on the Delaney 3s!

Correction Delany.

Idiot.
Have you watched Bogut this season? He's so cooked they're having to give him games off. A great battle no doubt, but Plums is significantly younger than Bogut, and it shows. He will have the legs.

Commentators love Perth. Breakers drain a 3 = silence. Plumlee gets a lay up = orgasm

"Plumlee makes the Wildcats much better, no doubt. But Homicide saying no 5 in the league can stop him is a joke. Bogut will monster Plummer. If I was Shamir and Majok was available, if we've got five fouls and Plumlee's on the court I’m fouling him as soon as he touches the ball rather than let Perth run a good set and Cotton or White or Kay get good looks.

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This is what should happen

Delaney needed to let that fly.

How the hell do you screw up like that?!?

Wow NZB somehow don't even get a shot off for the walk-off win. Yesssss.

Jordan ngatai you idiot



Shamir what was he doing out there?

Plumlee 23 & 17. My man.

I once saw ngatai at the airport with his ear phones on.

I think his whole life he has his air phones on. Shutting the world out

The whole season he has been MIA

Breakers should have won that but a win is a win.

11-13 makes it hard to catch Brisbane @ 13-11.

Ironically Breakers had a mindset of holding fire all game.

Cats need to sign Plumlee to a new multi year deal NOW!!!!

Ngatai has been hopeless all year.

He had a rebounder (Ashley) and shat his pants.

He is 3 and d guy who can't play D, or shoot the 3.

For every minute he played this year Rusbatch should have been on the court.

"He is 3 and d guy who can't play D"

His D on Roberson late was pretty good.

I get confused by what appears to be inconsistency.
How was that doul not called unsportsmanlike?? No attempt to play the ball, not even close.
The refs seem to have decided that the rule only applies if you're in the bonus?? But that's not how its written is it??

Wonder how many games in the Cotton + White era the cats have won when those 2 combined for < 10 points in the final 3 quarters. I'd guess approximately zero before tonight.

Ultimately, Perth are the likely winners < 5 but there is a very good chance Breakers steal this.

Great game, good fight by NZ.
Just a bit disappointed in the B team tonight.

And then there's Norton... I rate him, but wish he would stop blinding dribbling into the keyway looking for a foul. We need Damo back, so that Norton doesn't have to play 27.5 minutes when he's struggling, and so that we don't have to play the kids as backup PGs.

And whilst Plums had an incredible game, its just sad that his great start seemed to depress Jook. We need those two combining for 40 awesome minutes.

Norton continues his Kamikaze plays driving into three defenders late in the last quarter. Not a hope of scoring. Result is a turnover and 3 down the other end...5 point turnaround in a close game.

If just hope he is not the chosen one to replace Martin in years to come. Would rather see him leave than be the No 1 PG.

Vodka 63 - I don't agree with Norton. Lots of players are making errors. Norton brings to game what the novice and stats don’t show. He doesn’t have many players score on him. Think your comments are not justified.

Norton - hit and miss. Might want to listen to the post game Trev took responsibility for that play. He had no one to pass too, if he didn't throw it in it would have been breakers ball with time for them to set something up, way worse. I heard Trev say he was impressed with Norton he has a sore throat and hasn’t been well for days. Looking at it, Breakers made a run when he was sitting on the bench. Sorry clearly a Norton Fan, but I think he is unfairly judged. He is very unselfish, understands his role. Yes - makes errors but so does everyone.

Norton generally does well, and I like that he's more offensively aggressive than Martin, but the crazy charges when he hasn't got a hope of scoring are wearing thin. Especially since the refs are awake to it and don't gift him the foul. In those circumstances he needs to be able to dish, which means a bit more forethought.

I don't mind if he becomes the starting PG, but we need a better backup plan for when Damo retires.

It makes sense considering whatever we're paying him would be a pittance compared to his NBA Salary.

I can also imagine, whilst the cash is nice, it must be a bit of a downer to be traded to a team who's only taking you because cutting you will cost less than the guy they traded out.

Didn't see Norton take a charge last night or the last couple of games. I don’t know why his team mates keep him out of the scoring loop. Kid can score and shoot the 3 ball. You would think they would want to keep his confidence up heading in to finals. As for the drives, and charges that used to be his bread and butter. If it’s done right good idea gets the bigs in foul trouble. Like this team - Norton may had a hard night at the office but not the only one Mr T 2pts.

NZ could have should have may have but in the end they didn't.
Perth are top two for a reason and NZ showed they aren’t going to roll over.
Making the 4 was a big ask before this game and an even bigger task now. Even if they come up short the second half of the season has been great to watch and they’ve played some decent ball.
Delany, Abercrombie & Weeks play as locals has been uplifting and Hopson is a keeper.

Them and Cairns both probably need to win two more. On current form they look good, but a bit of work to do yet.

I hope Plumlee comes back next season.

lol yeah I think the only question there ever was with Plumlee is if he'd manage to avoid foul trouble with the way the NBL is called.

Even after his low-stat first couple of games, I don't think there were any Plumlee doubters.
Only question mark was his f/t shooting, and that's still an issue.