Glad to see Shamir & Walsh haven't been sitting on their hands.

Be interesting to see how Shamir puts all these wings together on the court with only one true Centre on the roster.

Could be worse, he could have let an import go to sign a guy who's overweight, out of shape and has an injured knee.

Their glaring issue is Tai. He's not a point guard and his atrocious turnover rate is indicative of that. They should have gone after a defensive minded PG and played Tai and Corey on the wings - unless they turn the reigns over to WMD which could be an improvement in terms of organisation. Big three weeks ahead for them...

In an ideal world Tai should be coming off the bench, I've been pretty unimpressed with virtually every aspect of his game.

Can the Breakers afford to wait for Randolph and McDowell White, they wouldn't want too many losses and are falling out of contention.

Happy for people to check my maths on this but isn't it a bit too late for the Breakers?

I believe there are 32 games in the season.

Except the Wildcats there are a log jam of teams around 15/16 games with 9 wins, so around the half way point of their season.

Based on the above I estimate you will need 20 wins to make the playoffs.

NZ are 4 and 9, so that means they will need to win 16 games from 19, is that reasonable?

They should have made more of the NBL cup given the neutral-ness of the games, now going forward they will only have neutral games in Hobart or real away games.

Why not save the money and give moe development time to Bach, Darling etc?

And whats odd is Randolph is another guard.

C Webster
T Webster
WMW
Randolph
Weeks.

Really???

28+8 so 36 games this season.

Sorry....to continue.

United and Perth look to be cemented 1 and 2.

So 2 slots available for the playoffs.

ILL are iffy with a spluttering Adel.
SEM looked dangerous but we don't know how long Creek will be away from the team (this is not a joke or an invite to a joke), but should be able to hold on with Broekhoff as a trade off.

Brisbane are improving.
Sydney will in due course get back, Kicks, Cooks and Martin will get healthier.
Adelaide will surely improve when Humps is back with Paul showing he is legit (1 game sample space only).

I see it a very hard slog for New Zealand from here.

And whats odd is Randolph is another guard.

Anything can happen and NZ (along with the Cats) have played the lowest amount of games at 13, everyone else is 15-17.

Lovebroker Darling I assume you mean Max is playing for Hawks

Ahh thanks for the corrections.

So looks like they need around a 16-7 record to be in the running for a playoff spot, possibly more given their low For/Against.

And Darling not being with NZ.

Daft signing.

3 ball heavy guards.(2 Webster's and randolph).

Weeks is ball heavy. Don't get me started.

Leaves bach sitting in the corner. And WMW who I don't know much about so can't comment other to say I support his signing.

Back to Randolph.

Corey Webster has never performed when he has been the second choice wing on the team. Check the previous seasons (Richard, Henry, Patterson). Only when he starts and is the man. If he isn't cooked because of injury, he is anyway now.

If it is working how it should be with Shamir making the calls and Matt Walsh doing the deals as directed. Then Shamir is a muppet.

Colton Iverson is the only big. He's good for 10 and 10 because he is the only big.

It's a shambles in team contruction.

I'll leave you with a quote from Shamir. "it is no secret you need creators in basketball.

I guess that's what you think when you don't run an offence. So he recruits a team of them.

Time to think about supporting SEM I think.

And this comes back, yet again, to why the Breakers signed Dan Trist.

I suspect the Breakers will go with Finn as the backup 5 from here to stretch the floor (which is what they valued about Rob Loe, and weren't easily going to find a stretch big replacement). Given the league doesn't have the likes of Bogut/Long, that option is feasible.

Its notable that both Randolph and McDowell-White are 6'6' and 6'5' respectively - they aren't small, slight guards. Athletic, switchable options that allows the Breakers to switch 1 to 5 effectively when Iverson is off the floor (or Trist is on when Iverson is in foul trouble). That looks to be the style from here, as much as I wished the Breakers found the next Jae'Sean Tate to fill the 4 spot.

Given the league doesn't have the likes of Bogut/Long, that option is feasible.

It's feasible in a very lose sense.

It's not great for Finn. If he wants to develop more I'd like to see him play some three.

Don't forget abercrombie typically guards the opposite point guard.

What if they get an injury to Delaney or Iverson? Start a webster at the five? Will Shamir get all whimsical about what a difficult situation we find ourselves in?

Yes the Dan Trist signing was woeful. How could they have got that so wrong? He was in the league for 2 seasons before they signed him?

Everyone who posts on hoops has vast coaching resumes from leagues all over the world.

If Rob Loe hadn't gone home the team balance would look a shit ton better.

T.Webster / Weeks
C.Webster / Bach
Abercrombie / Randolph
Delaney / Galloway / Trist
Iverson / Loe

Delaney is an animal. Abba is yo da man baby lamb..... Webster and Webster fire up you good things... achy breaky breakers - forever true love....

Mystro

You've left out mcdowell white in your rotation.

Yes a journo asking a tough question. That would be nice

He (WMW) wouldn't have a spot if Loe stayed

True, but you'd flag Trist right? And not this new fella