can't see the Hawks blowing it after the year they've had, should get it done fairly comfortably

Pressure on hawks, SEM nothing to lose, I'm smelling an all Melbourne GF. As King speaks of not letting the ball stick and they follow that instruction, they’ll be hard to beat. Hawks need Froling to stand up, Kell got perform as well. Should be a cracker, SEM by five.

Stop saying "Trey Kell the Third." He's not the third Trey Kell. He's the first Trey Kell.

Great start by hawks, Hurt is such a defensive liability, still early days though. Hopefully Ayre finds a team next season where he's in the guard rotation on all games.

Hurts getting plenty of cardio out there, 0, 0, 0 in 10 minutes.

Illawarra very good. SEM very bad!

He's an premature liability tonight too dunkman. Throwing up rubbish without creating any space. I'm calling it... it's season over for SEM

Hunter only one trying to play D, could be done by halftime. SEM can't chuck it in ocean and hawks can’t miss. Unbelievable what is happening here. Hurt gets first points with a put back.

Hawks play with so much intelligence, energy and self-belief. Phoenix???

Hawks to win it all.

Premature?? Was supposed to be offensive liability!!

Agree hoopie but what impresses me most is their unselfishness. If someone's hot they'll feed them ball and ride it. If the stars are cold they'll share the ball to get good looks and trust players like Lee and blanchfield. And they play hard D

Not able to watch the game- 70 in the half, am I reading that right!?

We could do with a bit more of that in the NBL, Kolzee. Great to bring in stars but ... I'd rather watch an unselfish TEAM.

SEM players should hand back pay cheques for tonight. Probably the worst performance by a professional team in the history of the NBL. Even the Geelong superpussies played harder than that. Insipid, gutless, weaker than piss, absolute disgrace.

SEM covered up their defensive weaknesses well most season but Illawarra have picked them apart. Sobey starting total iso didn't help but it’s totally crap at both ends. Hurt ahead of Doolittle in nbl first team, please, lol.

I think Blanchfield's good seasons have pretty much mirrored the ability of his coach each year.

Show him confidence and run plays for him and he is a solid rotation player.

Maybe goorj is watching and taking note! Nah he's penalty still looking for the shooting guard he was supposedly missing...

Part of the problem hoopie is teams signing so called 'fringe' nba players. They've normally got the talent but their objective is different to the team

So true

The bright spot for SEM is foxwell. Stepped up massively this season and plays the right way too. Still giving it his all while down by 30

I've been impressed with Glover this season too

Yeah I've always like him... except when he killed the breakers in the final

In fact I was hoping breakers would sign him when he left the kings

These Hawks are elite

What's the highest score in an nbl game or final, this might get close. We haven’t been spoilt to nights in a row.

Two ^^^^

A game, ever, as a team? 186.

How good is the crowd

Have yourself a night Todd Blanchfield

Grida ejected - Foxwell should have been too

Hawks struggling to maintain a bit of humility

SEM will be very disappointed as they should be but from where they were to to where they finished is overall a very reasonable season.

Hawks imports shit all over the Phoenix ones.

30 up and Grida, Tatum and Hickey make absolute fools of themself.

Tatum is an embarrassment. Sooner he is gone the better.

Hickey runs at a ref and then pushes him. Grida smacks a guy in the head on a layup and then taunts him.

I notice Blanchfield got the start- any reason mentioned on the broadcast for this? Did Tatum give him a start thinking it could be his last game?

Scoresheet error.

What's the playoff high score record in the modern 40 minute era? And what's the highest deciding game margin in a tied series?

Fair chance both records fell I reckon

Grida what a w@nker though. Think they just lost a few neutrals who otherwise would've been barracking loudly for them to beat United

And what's the highest deciding game margin in a tied series?

SEM threw everything they had at the Hawks in game 2 and that was probably their grand final. They also showed all of their hand to Tatum and he had them figured out for game 3.

Sorry I meant in the modern 40 minute era

(Unless you meant to limit that to the 40-minute era too.)

That's a crazy scoreline though

Adelaide 102 def Melbourne 63 (SF) and Perth 93 def Adelaide 59 (GF) in 2014.

Ouch. Yeah I remember those. Thanks.

Melbourne scored 125 in their demolition of Sydney in game two of the 2020 semis.

If memory serves me, they had a 98-39 lead at one point. Nuts.

So Illawarra has the new record. Nice. United has the task ahead of them.

I'm the aftermath of the melee Tatum drops the race card again. Dude never going to the NBA shading racism

Two excellent press conferences, King outstanding.

Was talk of Grida being suspended for next game, why would that be ?

If memory serves me, they had a 98-39 lead at one point. Nuts.

Grida carried on ridiculously and I wouldn't be disappointed in the slightest if he got suspended. His unnecessarily hard foul on Wieskamp was not only pointless, but potentially could have hurt him and then to top it off he stands over him like a d-head when they're up by about 30.....Just really classless and immature behaviour. Didn't like the way Tatum carried on about it to the refs either, enabling his douchey behaviour. The whole thing was very unimpressive.

I'm glad the Hawks made it through, but could have done without that scene.