Round 23 NBL results

In round 23 we saw some excellent games. However missed prob the best game of the week the Blaze vs Crocodiles game in townsville with some fights and tech fouls through the game. But one hd does it again and screws over the NBL fans as much as they can.
Anyway here are the results from this weeks games.

Sydney kings 92 def Woollongong Hawks 81
Sydney played well even without star centre Julian Khazzou. Gynes is really stepping up and sinking some big shots where there needed and madgen is falling into the point guard role nicely since losing Bruce to unjury. But overall Sydney are looking a different team with Shane Heal as coach. there more confident and sinking shots but still cant make any free throws. Grant has been a monster on the inside making some juge dunks and stacking up 20 points as the leading scorer for sydney. Woollongong just werent strong enough throughout the game. getting out hustled by sydneys strong defence and lacking on the boards. Ubaka was contained and was not the key presence of the Hawks that he usually is. Davidson had a great game stacking up 24 points as the leading scorer. With Foreman on 12.
Sydney Kings 92 (Grant 20, Bose 19, Madgen 17, Martin 17)
Wollongong Hawks 81 (Davidson 24, Forman 12, Coenraad 11)
New Zealand Breakers 91 def Adelaide 36's 76
This was a closer game then it looks at the final score. Adelaid did well to hang on throughout the game against the best team in the league. But New Zealand have too many offensive weapons and with a point guard like Cedric Jackson they will be a tough team to beat and deservedly the favourites for the championship. Going into hald time it was 47-45 with the breakers with the lead. However in the second half the breakers blew out the game final minutes
New Zealand Breakers 91 (Abercrombie 22, Wilkinson 21, Jackson 17 & 7 assists)
Adelaide 36ers 76 (Johnson 21, Simpson 19, Weigh 12)

Townsville crocs 88 def Gold Coast blaze 76
This game would have been the highlight of the week to watch. However wasnt televised. It was hard fought game for both teams with the crocs bringing in the goods in final quater. The Blaze lead early in the game with an 11 point lead but shencher inside and crawford on the perimter turned the game in favour of the crocs. The two sides almost came to a brawl when 6ft adris Deleon and 7 ft 1" Luke schencher had to be pulled off each other in a scuffle involving all players and their coaches. Would be awesome to see some footage of this as i have heard some talk that Deleon fought like a bitch agains the 7ft giant Schencher. But that is a tough match and would like to see the footage and not take the word of some angrey crocs fans. The tough play didnt stop there with Worthington getting called on a technical foul and a tech foul on gill taking out deleon. But the hard fouls didnt turn into points for the blaze. And the crocs took a decent lead that couldnt be taken back late in fourth. Gibson played well after a stint of low numbers over the past weeks scoring 21 and schencher was unsoppable in the post with 25 over the smaller blaze. If i can find footage of the fight ill post it later.
Townsville Crocodiles 88 (Schenscher 25, Crawford 20, Gill 13)
Gold Coast Blaze 76 (Gibson 21, Deleon 17, Petrie 12)

Perth Wildcats 94 destroy Cairns Taipans 59
The perth wildcats manhandled an undermanned Cairns taipans on sunday. Perth kept breaking out with a decent lead and Cairns would reign in back to a manageable number but after the 1st half perth just came out fiering in the third quater, which in the past few weeks has been their weekest quarter. The refs seemed spooked by last weeks comments on some bad call and at times seemed one sided with the home crowd advantage influencing the refs. Jamar willson was harrased and manhandled whenever he got the ball but still managed a decent 16 points. But it seems they way with Cairns if you can take out the impoirts Warren and Wilson then Cairns dont have enough other player that can bring the points and you'll get the win.
Perth Wildcats 94 (Robbins 16, Lisch 14, Martin 11)
Cairns Taipans 59 (Wilson 16, Brebner 11, Rychart 10)