Fri 26th Nov - Eagles v Sharks 7:30pm (SKY)

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Wow
Sharks so domininant
the first lay up from the tip off was bizarre, to give Sharks the lead from start to finish
shaky refing calls in the last 3 minutes, to get the score closer for a barnstorming finish.
But the Sharks dug in and saw the game out well
I'm not sure who I would pick as MVP
Ratinho / Andersen / Glasgow ?

Let's hope we can follow that up on Sunday against Riders, then I'll start believing

Great win. Less Koch and more Delpeche and the 3 guard offence worked.

Should be those 5 + Williams and a tiny bit of Koch, Tuck.

Eagles look a bit disorganised.

Sharks won pretty easily.

So inconsistent though.

Will they actually put 2 good games together?

Great to get the back

Interesting but I thought that having watched a poor Sharks team lose so comprehensively to Nix, then Eagles would win this easily. So does this mean that Eagles are really poor at the moment or Sharks are really a good team? So if Sharks are really good then the start that Nix made was just a new team settling in and that Nix are going to be z top team as pundits suggested.
And then you've got to figure in the Teddy O factor!!!

Sheffield were far more Fluent at both ends than eagles, Rodney Glasgow ran the show, yet sharks were getting slaughtered on here the other day for being so poor v Nix, inconsistency everywhere it seems

Decided to keep quiet after the game until I had watched the vid. Having done so, here goes….

Seemed to me that Eagles are a different team with Defoe on court. Aside from his scoring last night, he is just immense on defence & makes the team work in a way that nobody else does. So query why he was rested midway through the 4th when he was turning the game back to Newcastle?

Aside from Defoe, Eagles looked sub-par, defensively disorganised & often offensively tentative. Even Fletch struggling but not surprising because he is having to do it all with little creative support from anyone else (perhaps Corey Johnson excepted). Person contributed nothing & made critical errors including the last minute turnover straight out of a TO - if he isn’t scoring he isn’t adding much. Ditto Kyle Williams apart from a 2 minute teaser. The comparison with Edwards last year is startling, and Matt Scott’s injury may be the deciding point of their season.

And Sheffield were terrific across the board, particularly the guards. Who wouldn’t have Rodney Glasgow Jr on their team on that showing?

Lots of work for the Eagles, and the possibility (given the Trophy draw) that their only route to silverware may be another unlikely tilt at the play-offs unless there’s a rapid turnaround (London up next).

Interesting that there are a number of quality British players now in the BBL and were obviously available last summer. The feeling is that Eagles didn't replace last seasons team with either better players or at least players of comparable ability, wonder if they weren't interested in some of the British players? Unless the British players didn't fancy Eagles?

I think Sayers, Johnson, Kyle Williams, Defoe and Johnson Thompson as 9th man is a perfectly good British core.

I would never dream of putting words into your post but does that infer that the British core isn't the issue but that its..................?

I wondered if it’s a TV game the ref crew had pre game decided no charges were going to be called, instead they just seemed to regard each one as flopping, it’s totally fine but they need to be consistent as it’s not what you see week in week in the bbl

Both commentators made the point that Eagles had quite a lay-off before this game which doesn't always help teams, except to rest and recover from injuries. They were making errors that aren't typical of Eagles and that may have been down to lack of competitive games recently. I prefer Riders to play regularly because then we are usually sharp and on-message with each other's intentions.