Return of Tai Webster tonight and confirmation Jarrad Weeks is leaving the club.

Will be interesting to see how Tai goes.

Could be an interesting contest, nz playing reasonably well and off course the champs always turn up. Looking forward to great contest. If nz any chance of finals got win this, don't see it though.

Cats by one.

This will be close. Every second game the Breakers play well. So it could be unlucky for Perth and the Breakers will take some confidence into this one. Apparently, Tai Webster wanted to play Wednesday so they must be confident he's ready to go. It should be a great game.

Jervis is probably going to get cut but he only agreed to a short term thing anyway. His family are based on the east coast so he won't have any hard feelings

How much would Jervis even be on as a backup C? $60-$80k?

Cam Luke doesn't even call the right players names, he horrible.

Seems the ref's are there for NZ as soon as they are needed....

Gleeson has turned Blanchfield in a great player. Refs been inconsequential in this game. Stop whining cats fans.

WMW showing the hype again is only hype. Keep the Webster brothers on if nz are any chance.

Fantastic game, Cotton, Mooney and Blanchfield are exceptional. Don't understand the lack time for Webster brothers.

Tia Webster is unstoppable when he plays pass first.

Another gifted pair of ft for nz, who touched iverson?

Could Dan shamir out coach master coach Trev again? Great last qtr

Gleeson likely asking for two stops in a row again

Good job tai....

Blatant foul on iverson, blatant push off from Webster...

Oh my Delaney, sucked right in

Dan Shamir > Trevor gleeson
Trevor is a average coach without Bendats money buying him superstars.
James Ennis
Casey Prather
Bryce Cotton

Bryce cotton was coaching the team in that last timeout. He was doing all the talking.

#973 you are very poor judge.

Dan Shamir > Trevor gleeso

Shut up dickhead. Your trolling wasn't funny last time.

That poster has had a childish grudge all season

Best game of the season, as a neutral that was magnificent. Refs were very good. Fantastic game.

Shamir is a good coach but took him long enough to realise to get the Webster brothers ontogether .

Love to understand how no time went of the clock for a gather and dunk. Could have run that play twice...

Gleeson has nightmares of Shamir

Yawn

If Gleeson wins coach of the year it should have Dan Shamir on the trophy

enjoy Shamir while you can it's a matter of time before he is running a high profile NBA franchise

FSTOS what do you think about Randolph now? He's now played great twice against the most physical of not the best defensive unit in the league.

That was an awesome game. Highlights from both teams. Good quality basketball at both ends. No real reffing blunders.

Something for the Perth haters to consider is that Perth team outside of Cotton and Mooney is pretty average. Norton and Blanchfield are serviceable but probably on the bench elsewhere, Wagstaff is a wily vet, but Bairstow, White, and Jervis are shit. On paper, that Breakers team should be owning them by 20. The way however that they stayed in this game with great defence, tenacity on the glass, and repeatedly getting easy looks by knowing their offence and how to counter the defence was pretty to watch. You gotta admire them.

The Webster brothers are a menace if they're only playing 20-25 minutes. If WMW can start hitting the 3 regularly, this team is going to shape the playoffs if not sneak in. Breakers win 4 of their last 6 but dropping that Cairns game really hurts.

So all the people upset about the clock last time in tas ok with it going nz way this time?? Just wondering

How did the clock go NZ's way?

Salty Perth loser. Just ignore.

Perf fans blaming clock now haha. Can't win without refs help

Tai Webster +13. I think a lot of people misunderstood his game when they were low on players and his usage was super high, but he made some big plays tonight, shot the ball well, and made some key assists to keep the Breakers in there.

Randolph can play. His inconsistency has more to do with him still learning the systems and his teammates than his ability.

Tai and Corey should both be starting. They are the best players on this team.

Wildcats 3-3 since Forde outburst. League took notice made changes?

Look like Randolph got away with a travel on the game winner?

" Tai and Corey should both be starting. They are the best players on this team."

I actually like them playing fresh late. Tai had the energy for the rejection on Cotton then the transition basket the other way next possession. It's really hard to guard if you have Iverson setting screens for them and then Abercrombie (who is well and truly out of that horrendous shooting slump) and Randolph or Delany in the corners. That’s one of the best fives in the league and if it’s attacking you fresh late game, it’s really hard to defend if you’ve had guys like Cotton and Mooney having really high usage to that point.

Looking at the box score Perth have no scoring outside of the imports and Blanchfield. It's a really shit team. How do they win so many games!?

"Looking at the box score Perth have no scoring outside of the imports and Blanchfield. It's a really shit team. How do they win so many games!?"

If you were trying to have a crack at Perth then that's a massive self-own.

It's a compliment to how well they play as a team and how well coached they are because 7/10 guys on that squad cannot put the ball in the hoop consistently.

" Stand on the outside. Colton will do some on ball screens. "

The system is a little bit more complicated than that in terms of the seals and the spots players need to get to for penetration and pitch. When Tai and Loe were on together late, you saw their chemistry; Randolph just doesn't know where people are going to be. This is a Perth strength - player retention and chemistry - and was a big one for the Breakers before but has been lost in the Walsh era as the team has been rebuilt each year. Keeping Ili, rather than the RJ Hampton experiment, may have been better and we haven’t seen any imports play back to back seasons yet.

" Biggest screw up of the year: Wagstaff layup m8ss or Norton's stupidity tonight?"

Norton did the same last time round the Breakers didn't he? He seems to put up some ugly looking garbage around the rim sometimes. Why didn’t he just kick out to Cotton?

Perth had an extra 21 2 point field goal attempts for less free throw attempts, no reward for putting heat on the rim at all. The haters happy to see perth lose will all be happy to call it "salty perf" fans but if it was the other way round with those stat's they would be up in arms crying that cotton gets foul calls when shooting from 3 for "kicking" his legs out. The league has set a dangerous precedent, bitch in press conferences and influence the way games are called. Mooney especially should have gone to the line far more often.

So FTA should be a strict % of FGA? Wtf.

It's an interesting turnaround because I think one of the reasons they Breakers brought in Iverson not Ashley was to counter Bogut and Plumlee even though those 2 aren’t here this year

No 088 I'm suggesting that you are more likely to draw a foul when attacking the rim, aka a 2point fga the when jacking a three. So when one team has 21 more shots from 2, watching the game I don't remember that many long twos it is a bit of an anomaly

With the current COVID situation in WA (Perth),they would be wise to play this Mothers Day game elsewhere rather than in Perth May 9 (which will probably be without a crowd).

The last 2 AFL games have been played in front of no fans. It would be an interesting decision to then allow 75% capacity at an indoor venue

It's always an interesting decision to go from 75% with masks immediately to zero crowd for an outdoor even. Even allowing crowds prior to the Brisbane game leading into a midnight lockdown was also an interesting decision.

Hence why I query will there be a crowd next Sunday and should the NBL risk sending 2 teams back into the current environment

I agree. Postpone the games until Perth is safe and Cotton has his citizenship.

75% at next Wildcats game. State Government hates WAFC but loves basketball.