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Our first game in the second phase is tomorrow night - we will go up against host nation Indonesia. Indonesia are ranked higher than us, and have home court, so this will be a tough one. The winner will have a pretty good shot of snagging a semi final spot, so this is a big game.

We will have a debutant playing as well. Dwight Catic of the Hard Ball Gets has been recruited into the team. Dwight was drafted by M.P5 and has been with the team ever since. He managed a few U21 games, but this will be his first NT appearance. Hopefully he puts in a big game!

A really impressive win by the team. We were challenged in the third, but a win over the host nation gives us a really good chance of making the semis.

The game in five

1. Sadly, despite being named, Catic failed to play any minutes (don't blame me, blame the coach). This was probably due to Indonesia playing a PG at SF, and thus allowing our guards to soak up alot of minutes at SF.

2. The first half was a bit of an arm wrestle. However, our boys managed to come out on top of the arm wrestle, going into half time with a hard fought 7 point lead. Schnieder and Degas led our scorers with 8 points each, while Shishaev had 5 assists.

3. The third quarter was one of the more painful buzzerbeater quarters I have watched. 15-20 doesn't sound too bad, and we kept our lead going into the final quarter at least. What made it painful was that they grabbed 18 rebounds in the quarter. We grabbed 5. Yes, 5. It was as painful as it sounds. Stellar defense stopped us from getting smashed by the torrent of offensive boards.

4. The boys copped a rocket at three quarter time, and it worked. A 10-0 run by us to start the fourth quarter pretty much iced the game, and the boys hung on to record a well deserved 14 point win. Thad Hadley was massive in the early run, notching up 4 points and 2 assists in the first 2:30 of the quarter.

5. While our rebounding was deplorable, our defense was a real highlight. We kept Indonesia under 40% shooting - an amazing effort considering all the put back opportunities they had.

Darby Walters medal

Yet again, a solid team effort makes it difficult to give votes.

3. Darren Lonergan - A stock standard solid outing from the big man. Scored efficiently, grabbed some offensive boards, and had an assist as well. Really handy effort coming off the bench, and a +/- of +14 attests to his value tonight.

2. Keith Anderson - Liked his game, it felt like whenever he was on, something happened. only missed the 3 FGs on his way to scoring 13 points, and grabbed 3 offensive boards. Would have been a monty for the 3 votes if he hit his FTs - which isn't normally an issue for him.

1. Thad Hadley - His statline doesn't look impressive - just the 8 points and 2 assists. But most of those were in the run that won us the game, so he gets a vote.

Leaderboard

8 - Leigh Reiffel
6 - Dylan Scoggins; Vladimir Shishaev; Darren Lonergan
5 - Scott Schnieder
3 - Brent Degas; Lionel Walker
2 - Keith Anderson
1 - Jone Bogan; Thad Hadley

Rudolph Radford medal

3. Vladimir Shishaev - Shishy is starting to run away with this medal, with another commanding defensive performance. His opponent took the most shots for Indonesia, and scored 4 points. That's worthy of votes. His 3 defensive boards were about as many as our bigs to...

2. Scott Schnieder - He was partly responsible for the glut of offensive boards we gave up. But to hold the opposing Cs to a combined 3-11 shooting? That's voteworthy. (For those playing at home, yes Scoggins played alot of minutes at C to, and no I'm not giving votes to a centre who gets 1 defensive board for the game).

1. Emori Faletoese - I'm surprised he didn't play more really. Our defense seemed more assured when he was on, he grabbed 3 defensive rebounds (which isn't bad for his limited minutes), and also had a couple of steals.

Leaderboard

10. Vladimir Shishaev
6. Scott Schnieder
5. Lionel Walker
3. Darren Lonergan; Leigh Reiffel; Keith Anderson
2. Brent Degas
1. Dylan Scoggins; Emori Faletoese

Jackson Mansfield medal leaderboard

Catch Shishaev if you can...

16. Vladimir Shishaev
11. Leigh Reiffel; Scott Schnieder
9. Darren Lonergan
8. Lionel Walker
7. Dylan Scoggins
5. Brent Degas; Keith Anderson
1. Jone Bogan; Thad Hadley; Emori Faletoese

With Hadley and Faletoese breaking their duck, 11 of the original 12 man squad have now got votes. Querido is the odd man out.

Our next game is tonight 9pm against Kazakhstan. While the Kazakhs are only ranked in the 80s in the world, they are better than that, as their performances in the Asian tourney so far suggest. Should be a good game.

Good solid win over Kazakhstan, which has the potential to be a danger game for us. Now at 2-0 heading into a big game against Hong Kong.

The game in five

1. The first quarter was a bit of an offensive shootout early on, with both teams firing early. We went into the break up by 6, but a raft of offensive boardsto the Kazakhs after last week's debacle had a certain NT manager pulling his hair out. Fortuately, the team applied themselves on the boards for the rest of the night.

2. Catic played his first NT minutes in the second quarter, so congratulations to him! His only contribution for the night was an offensive board, but he'll be better for the run.

3. The 2nd quarter was another arm wrestle, marginally won by the Aussies again, to go in at the half 10 points up. Faletoese was on triple double watch, with 8 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, along with a dominating defensive performance. A lack of minutes in the second half killed his chance to get the trip dub.

4. The contest was killed off by a 11-0 run to start the third quarter. While the Kazakhs managed to pull the game back a bit through the rest of the quarter, the game was pretty much in garbage time in the fourth quarter.

5. Our defense was merely solid tonight, but I was really happy with the offensive performance from all players. Our bigs finished well inside, our guards finished their drives, hit their jumpers and got the ball to the bigs. And Faletoese proved he is a capable replacement for Rieffel, with an all round solid game.


Darby Walters medal

Really hard to give votes with most of our offense firing. Any of about 7 or 8 players could have got votes.

3. Dylan Scoggins. The big man was asked to score, and score he did. 16 points on 6-8 shooting, hitting all your fouls shots, 2 assists and an offensive board, and no turnovers? can't ask much more from your big man than that.

2. Vladimir Shishaev. This guy ain't flashy, but he just keeps getting the job done week after week. 18 points. 7 assists. 3 offensiv boards. Nuff said.

1. Keith Anderson. As I said, this could have gone to any of about 4 or 5 players - Schnieder, Lonergan, Faletoese and Walker in particular can consider themselves unlucky. But Anderson go the job done with 18 points on 9-13 shooting, and grabbed a couple of offensive boards as well.

Leaderboard

9 - Dylan Scoggins
8 - Leigh Reiffel; Vladimir Shishaev
6 - Darren Lonergan
5 - Scott Schnieder
3 - Brent Degas; Lionel Walker; Keith Anderson
1 - Jone Bogan; Thad Hadley


Rudolph Radford medal

3. Emori Faletoese. Dominating defensive display. While Mulikov lead the Kazakh's scoring, I don't think any of his poitns were scored on Faletoese - rather most were scored in a short patch on Schnieder. He provided some solid rebounding from the SF position, and got a steal as well. One of the better defensive displays of the season so far.

2. Dylan Scoggins. Managed to drag down 8 defensive boards, and shut down the opposing centres. Really good all around game from the Scog man.

1. Keith Anderson. Managed double figure rebounds, and provided some rim protection with a couple of blocks. While the opposing PFs did ok, they didn't get away from us.

Leaderboard

10. Vladimir Shishaev
6. Scott Schnieder
5. Lionel Walker
4. Emori Faletoese; Keith Anderson
3. Darren Lonergan; Leigh Reiffel; Dylan Scoggins
2. Brent Degas



Jackson Mansfield medal leaderboard

Shishaev extends his lead, but Scoggins has rocketed up to second, and takes the lead in the Darby Walters medal.

18. Vladimir Shishaev
12. Dylan Scoggins
11. Leigh Reiffel; Scott Schnieder
9. Darren Lonergan
8. Lionel Walker
7. Keith Anderson
5. Brent Degas
4. Emori Faletoese
1. Jone Bogan; Thad Hadley

We went down swinging tonight against a pretty strong Hong Kong team - taking the game to the wire after a seriously disappointing first half. Probably was a bit of a coin flip game in the end, so we were slightly unlucky to lose.

Will do the writeup tomorrow.

Propably needed Lionel Walker, if only he wasnt on the TL.

Australia v Hong Kong

1. Achudanandan Mahurkar was brought into the squad to give commentators nightmares, and add some depth to the bigs after a poor gameshape week. He made his debut early on, and in the first half, he stank. Stank to the tune of 1-9 shooting. Fortunatly, he had a good second half, to have a solid debut game when all was said and done.

2. This game was a story of two halves. In the first, our defense was completely and utterly inept. We let them shoot around 65%. That is not good. Our offense was decent enough, but we still trailed by 22 at half time.

3. A couple of players woke up on offense in the third quarter - in particular Degas scored 9 for the quarter. But it was a better defensive effort that got us back into it, cutting the lead to single digits before a late Hong Kong run disappointingly restored the lead to 15 points in the final quarter.

4. Steve Reimers was massive in the last quarter, scoring 13 points. We had the lead back to within 7 points with a couple of minutes left, and a bucket and a stop would have had us right back in it. Sadly it wasn't to be, and we had to resort to hoping Hong Kong missed their FTs. They didn't.

5. The game was probably lost at the FT line (aside from the pitiful defense in the first). Hong Kong's dominance inside manifested in a bunch of FT chances, which they largely took.

Votes

Darby Walters medal

3. Keith Anderson. Probably big Keef's best game of the season - I'd like to see more of this! Scored bunches of points with his array of jumpers, putbacks and post moves, and even snuck in a couple of 3s. Crashed the offensive glass for 6 offensive boards. 4 turnovers are a blemish, but he still deserves the 3 votes.

2. Burl Barth. Its not often a player can get votes when they only play 7 minutes. But when they scored 13 points in those 7 minutes, on perfect shooting, they deserve votes. Why he didn't play more is beyond me.

1. Thad Hadley. The Thad didn't do an awful lot of scoring - managing 8 points. But he facilitated the offense masterfully - 10 assists with no turnovers is a good game in anyone's books.

Honourable mention - Steve Reimers. I can't squeeze him into the votes this week, which I would have liked to, since he hasn't picked up votes yet. But his effort in almost stealing the game in the fourth deserves mention. Now, if only he could do that for the whole game...

Leaderboard

With Scoggins and Reiffel missing due to gameshape and injury respectively, and Shishaev having a poor game, none of the top 3 move up. Anderson moves into contention with his big game.

9 - Dylan Scoggins
8 - Leigh Reiffel; Vladimir Shishaev
6 - Darren Lonergan; Keith Anderson
5 - Scott Schnieder
3 - Brent Degas; Lionel Walker
2 - Burl Barth; Thad Hadley
1 - Jone Bogan

Rudolph Radford medal

Pretty poor defensive effort makes it hard to give votes tonight

3. Scott Schnieder. Centre was probably the one position that didn't really get a hold of us. I'll chalk that down to a good defensive effort from Scotty S, who also lead the team in defensive rebounds, with 6.

2. Brent Degas. Did a decent job on the PGs - although end of game FTs inflate their stats a little. Also managed a decent amount of defensive boards at PG, and got a couple of steals.

1. Emori 'bruiser' Faletoese. Didn't really defend all that well to be honest. But he did injure an opponent less than 3 minutes into the game. I like that in a player. So he gets a vote.

Leaderboard

A big game gets Schnieder in reach of Shishaev. Hard to imagine anyone else winning this medal from here, but stranger things have happened.

10. Vladimir Shishaev
9. Scott Schnieder
5. Lionel Walker; Emori Faletoese
4. Brent Degas; Keith Anderson
3. Darren Lonergan; Leigh Reiffel; Dylan Scoggins
2. Brent Degas

Jackson Mansfield medal leaderboard

Shishaev had a poor game - missing out on the opportunity to close the lead. Schnieder closes the gap a bit, but with 6 votes on offer each game, there are still plenty of players who could win this.

18. Vladimir Shishaev
14. Scott Schnieder
12. Dylan Scoggins
11. Leigh Reiffel
10. Keith Anderson
9. Darren Lonergan
8. Lionel Walker
7. Brent Degas
5. Emori Faletoese
2. Burl Barth; Thad Hadley
1. Jone Bogan

Plus 1.



13 points in 7 minutes from perfect shooting by the Hot Bath water and yet the silly coach let him go cold on the bench

Insightful and detailed write up as usual.