NBL trying to hasten the Hawks exit from the league with another Monday night game :P

Expecting little from this game, but will watch because there's nothing better on. Bubbles to have 20, United by 8.

United better team but refs will keep Hawkes in the game maybe even help them get over the line

Hawks by 6@1/4 time, Froling on fire. Creek on commentary is horrendous. Goulding one more three for a 1000. Good game from two average teams.

Goulding gets his 1000 3 on Deng Deng.

That push on bubbles coaches challenge embarrassing for the refs and nbl in general horrendous how could you actually call that ?

Hickeys a rotational NBL player from what I've seen. Athletic, good D and solid on offense.

Yes it was embarrassing, Tucker not the sharpest tool in the shed.

If United lose this someone will have to do a wellness check on LV poor guy seems to have disappeared lately as their losses have started mounting up.

The several hundred in attendance go wild as the Hawks enter the main break with a surprising eight point lead.

Hawks by 8 at halftime, only used 7 players which helps as the back of their bench is woeful. Hickey looking good, Froling having a good night. Hawks imports also doing well.
United need a point guard,, XRM just not that sort player, Lee doing ok, Tucker just not smart enough, Goulding is there only hope.

What a punk play stopping in some ones progress up the court for a charge. sad think we seeing more of this and the refs are now empowering others to do the same. In days gone by I would have made sure he didn't get up

These NBL games in Wollongong on the first working day of the week are the polar opposite to the NFL's Monday Night Football and the pomp, pageantry and prestige which surrounds it.

NRL gave Monday nights a good crack. Ending up pulling it because they were subsiding host teams too much for the revenue they were losing if they were to host games on a traditional Fri-Sun.

Hawks by 12 @3/4 time. Commentary telling me Tucker United best player, I don't see it, he’s a street baller, don’t get away with that anymore in the nbl. Froling 29 points, Siva 4 fouls could cause trouble.

Jackomas has tightened up his rotations this game and getting much better cohesion. With Froling stepping up Hawkes making my statement about United having the better team kaka

Siva out, 8-45 to go. Froling on 4 fouls, fat lady not singing yet.

That charging call on Tucker should have also resulted in a flop tech - the defender gets hit on his left side and then turns after the contact into where the hit came from rather than being turned by the hit and falls theatrically. Definite over-acting.

United stink to high hell tonight. I only started watching form the half, but they have never been close.

Froling gone with 4 minutes to go.

United so much iso ball, Goulding hardly gets a shot. As said previously, shut the f... up creek. Best league in world outside nba, Spain plus a few more would be lol.

Iso ball, absolutely right. United absolutely dead with Ili out and nobody marshalling the troops.

Why tucker talk smack to hawks bench when they are losing not smart

United need clean out, keep Goulding, Illi and probably no one else.

Hoopie once a foul is called you can't have a flop warning nor a flop technical

Cheers. So how could the refs penalise an obvious flop? Ignore Tucker's contact in this case? Or should they have a quiet word in the coach’s ear?

Kind of makes it difficult to enforce their determination to weed out flops, then

Really enjoyable game. Good to see the Hawks get a win and their fans revel in it. Seems they might have got good fits in Siva and Frazier.

Liked Creek's insights into the game, thought XRM was really good the other day too, and Gibson likewise. Good to hear a player's perspective in the studio.

Creek always talking about who he knows and his mates up. I just want the game called.

It's the insights into what sort of sets etc teams run, when they run them that I enjoy most from Creek, XRM etc. The same reason I enjoy Santamaria.

That sort of commentary isn't for everyone, but I love learning from those who really know what's going on.

Creek & Gibbo are housemates they're both bogan nuffies. I wouldn't ask Creek for his opinion on the weather.

Hickey is athletic and gives 100% effort on D - shaky down the other end at times, but there's something there and the Hawks have figured it out. I was impressed in the Kings game when he got extended mins.

Agree on Hickey, been great, hopefully he can keep getting better.

Hickey was great, got no idea why United didn't keep him and just get more rookies who haven’t played nbl before.

Credit to the Hawks, they desperately needed a win for their fans. WEC is still one of the best stadiums to watch basketball. The 3 ball seems to always go in there. Wish they had Wollongong’s basketball rims in every nbl stadium across Australia.

Very reasonable crowd last night for a Monday night, near Christmas and parents willing to let children stay up later, school near finished. Hawks might not be dead yet.

Illawarra should of beaten Sydney a couple of weeks ago but Tim missing those's free-throws then Bruce’s supposedly 3pt shoot which looked like it was on the line.

You can make fun of Creek all you want but the reality is the man has played in the NBA. Coming from the ass end of Victoria as a white player he would have been given zero chances to make it to the big league and had to get there all on his own volition. Personally I think he would be better suited for NBA with his style, can legit guard all 5 positions.

Embid on Creek, I'm looking forward to that.

Mitch locks that boy up!

Exactly what thought mr creek.

[f United lose this someone will have to do a wellness check on LV poor guy seems to have disappeared lately as their losses have started mounting up.]

Christmas time, Victorian election, had lots going on- in October I was watching 3 or 4 games a week, lucky if I squeeze in 1 a week at the moment

Results unsurprising- I've said all season without Ili we're not a contender and unlikely to make playoffs. Without Humphries and Ili (and Hukporti) I would've tipped 2 losses this past weekend. Time to start thinking about next season

Good to see Tucker putting up good numbers lately though. It's a common thing with imports under Vickerman- Kennedy, Hopson, Trimble, Prather all struggled early before eventually finding their groove

"Illawarra should of beaten Sydney a couple of weeks ago but Tim missing those's free-throws then Bruce's supposedly 3pt shoot which looked like it was on the line."

Yes, it would've helped if Tim had made his FTs but that didn't lose the game. It was just letting Bruce waltz in for a quick layup to get it to a 2 point margin when you even had a foul to give. Stop him, make it a sideball and fix up your D and you win.

And Davo is showing some talent. He played with good composure and a couple of his finishes were "elite" (to paraphrase the commentators!)

BTW, did you all see Jacob's little homage to Goulding? Tim, Dent, Mudronja and Gak all getting 43 seconds.

Jacob's pay respect to both Goulding and LK, nothing wrong with that, they both earned it.

United needs a Brock Motum like signing and some health to be relevant