Fri 15th Jan - Sharks v Eagles 7:30pm

Go Sharks

I keep getting redirected to payment screen.  Emailed Eagles and BBL but no joy yet.  At least I have statcast!

Another tech for ATIBA 🤦‍♂️

Cortez just sublime tonight, good job on the road although not sure what Tuck is up to think his ego has exploded even further since he joined sky

Bad loss, team didn`t play well. Credit Newcastle
Newcastle did homework on Lillard who is childlike when things go against him and stops playing defense. Not good enough from one of our leading players !!
When to going gets tough the tough are supposed to get going not act like a child and give up
Would Finch or Brandon have put up with that ?? no ******* way, Finch would have balled him out court side and Brandon would just sit him
So he`s outed and we all know now he goes left, left and a bit more left
He wasn`t the only poor performer and we didnt play smart
Fouls on big guys for both teams had its impact but we never recovered from the crazy 5 that was on court 2 minutes before the half who gave up the game changing run

I’m surprised Sky covered this game with both Tuck and Lasker not available

We could play that Newcastle team 10 times and it wouldn't change the outcome. Let's be real, that final scoreline massively flattered us, we weren't within 20 points of that team.

They've really done their homework on their defensive assignments. Lillard was forced off his dominant hand right from the tip, although he still insisted on going left anyway which just resulted in turnovers. Ratinho wasn't given a single centimetre of space on the perimeter and only managed to get one three off the entire game. Koch is given metres of space any time he catches the ball outside of the key which allows Maxwell and Gordon to clog the middle, and Nichols is allowed to brick threes to his hearts content.

Outside of Koch we don't have anyone who can make a post move against someone with any real size. Ratinho is the only consistent three point shooter we have as Campbell is a confidence shooter (I.e. if he makes his first he can make a second, but if he misses his first couple he'll just stop shooting altogether) and Lewis's game has evaporated right in front of us. Take the Glasgow game out of the equation and he's done virtually nothing since Hemsley arrived - just a co-incidence, or is he under self inflicted pressure because he's no longer the best player on the team?

And lastly, we desperately need to shorten our rotation. Even the best of coaches will struggle to effectively use 10 players as there just aren't the minutes to go around to get everyone into the flow of a game and actively contributing. Jones should be practice fodder only, and Tuck and Marsden are much of a muchness when it comes to size and athleticism.

Right now Hemsley is our only consistent performer as things stand, and should be playing 36 minutes per game as a bare minimum (fouls permitting).

This season will once again be mired in mediocrity I'm afraid, 4th to 6th in the league with one semi final defeat at best.

And the first time we’ve seen MBA drafted in for analysis as a result.
I saw him pleading on Twitter with someone on the Sky team (can’t remember who) to ‘hook him up’. Looks like it worked.

the big question is which of the two extremes is he normally:
a) heavy trash talker and would not have got past the mic'd up filter
b) asking after the family, did you see Corrie last night and what did you think of the One Show?

In the closing titles when they ran clips with his microphone picked up  - forget the exact words - but basically told another player he could not talk as he normally would as on a sky mic . 

I did not understand why Sharks did not exploit early advantages they picked up. First time Koch posts up and gets ball - Maxwell picks up his foul. Next couple of plays Koch gets pts for Sharks.
Then they decided nah that's not the way - even though When Defoe comes in the game he picks up a foul not long after for an inside play from Tuck. As to Adenekan his must have been the quickest of the three to pick up foul after coming on court who would have to stick to Koch and Tuck if Sharks had tried the post play more often.

As to Eagles - scary to think how out of sight they could have been if their three was not so cold again. Be even better if they can coach the silly fouls out of Maxwell (was it his 4th when he crashed into a non threatening player at top of the key?) and manage his minutes due to tactic changes and not due to PFs.

Cant say I watched thinking Sharks players look like thy thought they could not win it - but I did watch thinking Eagles players look like they feel they are conbasketball kiting the game and could switch things if needed.

Even thinking about the turnovers - Sharks looked frustrated when they did one cause knew it was personal mistakes on simple things, Eagles looked frustrated as they knew were so close to executing a smart and often difficult pass to exploit gaps. SO one team knew they could go simple if needed to sort it and the other team were already trying simple and turning it over due to better D from their opponents.

Spot on about maxwell the silly fouls are reducing his mins and effectiveness luckily Darius picked up the slack on this occasion

Lewis seems half the player he can be Retsek since Helmsley has came in