Damo 75
A few hours ago
Cairns have been a bit of a bogey team for United, but that was blown out of the water last meeting. Cairns still without Gak, no word at this stage on Waardenburg but Stith expected to play. Everyone available for Melbourne it appears.
Both teams looking to snap a losing streak. Should get a good crowd for Boxing Day so hopefully the Taipans can cause an upset.
Dunkman
A few hours ago
Yes should be an interesting game, some of united guys looking oldish imo, some taipans guy looking a lot worse than their media profile imo. Edwards is an enigma, who turns up, I feel sorry for Cairns as I'm thinking upset which is not good on my tipping record. Hopefully taipans by two in a good game.
Dunkman
A few hours ago
For f sake Hooley, shut the f up. Call the game, don't tell us about your two games in the past in cairns.
Dunkman
A few hours ago
United have not been great but taipans been woeful, I'm not certain what Forde saw in Adnam but he’s been average. Great crowd being silenced by a non performance. Goulding and Delly been good.
word14
A few hours ago
Just watched the last 20 minutes of se7en. Sadly a better way to spend Boxing Day evening than this game
Ben
A few hours ago
Dunkman, how dare you speak ill of Hooley! Don't you know he is an 'NBL Champion' as per his tagline at the beginning of each broadcast?
I had low expectations for this game. Those expectations are not close to being surpassed. With Hooley and Lowry talking garbage, it's Netflix time for me.
Btw Ariaa just called Cairns 'the Pythons'.
Dunkman
A couple of hours ago
I'll watch it to the end but if you are on losing streak you can stop it by playing Cairns. Melbourne haven’t been great, they didn’t have to be. Forde looks like he’s lost the group, but it’s not an easy place to do well. I’ve said previously that taipans still have to spend to the cap and some are being well overpaid. Hopefully a better second half.
hoopie
A couple of hours ago
While United have been dominant, Taipans are playing like they have no self-belief any more.
There's no real sense of desperation or responsibility out there, shooters are hesitant to shoot, and as for tapping out on defensive rebounds ... smh.
Come on, Cairns, make a game of it and keep your fans proud.
RobT
A couple of hours ago
MU totally in charge but ONLY 46 pts at the half. and up by 12. With the way Cairns are playing MU should be well over 50+.
Dunkman
A couple of hours ago
At last, a little bit of excitement at end third, come on cairns you can do it.
hoopie
A couple of hours ago
Cairns finally putting on the pressure and scoring points, but then Forde does some subbing. How to kill momentum fast. SMH
hoopie
A couple of hours ago
Much better energy and effort from Cairns in the second half.
Luuuc
Within the hour
...after a pretty insipid first half.
United not unbeatable atm, but Cairns came out of the blocks like they still had too much eggnog in them.
word14
Within the hour
That win doesn't make MU look a whole heap better than 3 hours ago, but a win is a win, well played. Shoutout Groves, his best game of the year
Dunkman
Within the hour
Nbl refs are so bad on the charge-block call. Lowery on commentary been fine, Prather on side line good but the other two just rabbit on and certainly aren't in my favourite category.
Goulding so important to Melbourne, not just scoring, just so important when on the floor at both ends. Overall Melbourne won but were average.
Cairns had a dip after half time, Groves very good, Adnam did score a few but not much from anyone else. Edwards has been average all season. Spoon again for Cairns, where to now.
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