Shea Ili back I believe.

Melbourne will be be to good Ili will tournament the Sydney guards as will baba. Hunter on Landale is certainly going to be a lot tougher for Hunter, if Sydney play Kickett on either United five men it'll be curtains real fast.
United could make this Sydney’s first two figure loss, Forde still struggling with his subs and team balance. United by 19.

"Obvious but much depends on Casper

Kings relying on him more than usual atm."

They've actually taken the ball out of his hands more and giving other players more opportunities to create, and Ware is being a lot more effective because of it.

Melbourne outs - Goulding and White
Sydney outs - Martin, Cooks and Glover.

both teams playing their 4th game in a week.
Basically a fair contest

Does Barlow own the most retarded looking jump shot in the history of the NBL

It really makes me angry how ugly it is

Copeland seems pretty salty

Copeland sounds cooked.

Wow dat Drewy poster

Home cooking

Surely you'd go to the hoop, at least try and draw contact? Was working well for Ware for a few possessions before.

Score three times in a row in the paint, then decide to shoot a 3 when you're only down 1.

Just NBL things.

Sydney ain't clutch for shit...another close loss and a bad last possession.

"Ware blew it"

Feels like deja vu every few weeks...

Ware has blown 3 games this season, the subbing of Forde has rhyme or reason, Dejan gets subbed out when points are required, played to death when others are scoring. Sydney shot the lights out in first quarter, Melbourne could not buy a basket, after quarter time Melbourne just kept pegging it back. McCarron was excellent, Landale was good, not as big as I thought, considering Goulding and White were out, they will take some beating. Hopson really had a dig and looking more like nz Hopson. Once there offence settles down they will take some beating. Sydney are playing hard for new coach, there offence though relies on chuck it to Casper or Dejan, Didi then wants to start chucking it up as well. Kickett I'm not certain he has played a season to long, looking slow and didn’t look like scoring.

A great nights entertainment, I enjoyed it after not being for a while, and at ten bucks. Well done nbl.

Casper trying to be a hero?

For what it is worth I think the Kings are doing fine considering the amount of injuries they have.
Once Martin,Cooks & Glover ( if he hasn't done his ACL again) will be better for more targets to score & to play defence
You would think with the rotation of players that Forde is playing with at the moment that fatigue is a factor , but hey every team is in the same situation at the moment with playing so many games in a short amount of time in Melbourne

Martin, yes will help, Glover probably not this season and Cooks was average last season.

Coach blaming himself in press conference, Dejan saying he got selfish in last and didn't take a rebound, guards take rebounds when bigs box out, Kickett,Bodanavic don’t box out, the simple things win games, it was obvious kings could not keep shooting that percentage of the first quarter, coach is learning on run but he has a lot better squad than there current position. Two player offence isn’t going to do it. Didi, struggle streat, Moller not getting much of a run, Bruce playing well, Casper in spurts but not consistent.

Don’t think kings will play finals, it should be Melbourne then daylight but Perth can get them, certainly if they get another import. Mooney can stop Landale or at least go even and that hurts United.

"coach is learning on run but he has a lot better squad than there current position."

If they were all actually healthy and playing, yes. Given the run they've had, they're in a good spot to challenge for top two later in the season.

^^^^ I don't see it, there offence is dribble hand off, oh and dribble hand off. Martin will add strength and he’s offensively great, no Tate though.