Thursday, October 29, 2009

Gold Coast Blaze lose to Melbourne Tigers

After coming from behind at home to beat the Melbourne Tigers earlier in the month, unfortunately the Gold Coast Blaze couldn't do the same thing on the road last night.

I was out at trivia last night (which we won for the first time ever!) and since I don't have Fox, I didn't get to see the game.

Checking out the boxscore, here are my thoughts:
  • The big 3 (Harvey, Ubaka & Maxey) all delivered, scoring more than 75% of the team's points
  • They got virtually nothing from Goulding and Vanderjagt
  • Mika Vukona had 6 turnovers but only 2 points 2 boards. The Tigers had just 6 turnovers for the entire game.
  • Tigers dominated the paint outscoring the Blaze inside 52 - 30
  • Tigers were led by youngster Daniel Johnson with 20 points, 6 boards
  • Tigers had a balanced scoring attack with 4 players scoring 15 points or more
  • Melbourne hit a very tidy 16 of 18 from the line
The Gold Coast Blaze really need to start getting some wins on the road if they're going to work their way up the NBL ladder.


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