Hoops Heaven’s Basketball Hustle – #NBL25 Episode 11

Bryce Cotton's 59 best ever Perth Wildcats performance, proven right on Tacko Fall at NZ Breakers, can South East Melbourne Phoenix/Tasmania JackJumpers continue momentum, absurd Sydney Kings mistake, NBL schedule discussion, TABtouch Preview.

Before we get to the NBL talk, Cody talks about his son Chase making a winning start to his life in a Warwick Senators WABL uniform as he becomes the fourth generation of the Ellis family to do so.

We then look at the Round 10 awards with Will Magnay the standout defensively in Damian Martin's #TheDamo Best Defensive Player even with one block not counted, while Bryce Cotton and Parker Jackson-Cartwright are joint leaders in Simon Mitchell's Player of the Year from Sports Card World.

Speaking of Cotton, we then discuss his record setting 59-point performance for the Perth Wildcats with Cody feeling it's only fitting he now holds the club's scoring record and that it's the best ever performance by a Wildcats player.

The only thing missing was Bryce hitting the game winner but it did make the win mean more because they were able to get the win against the New Zealand Breakers.

We also talk about the hot shooting form of Chris Goulding who hit another six threes for Melbourne United before he hurt a calf which might stop him being put in the MVP discussion.

We then get to Tacko Fall and all our worst fears were realised with the New Zealand Breakers losing both games with him playing and then with him now also being injured, and the potential of their season unravelling.

The South East Melbourne Phoenix continued their emergence even with Nathan Sobey and Derrick Walton Jr struggling, but Owen Foxwell and Jordan Hunter came up huge in win over Illawarra Hawks.

Then there's the defending champion Tasmania JackJumpers who made it three straight wins with Will Magnay and Sean Macdonald outstanding in ending Adelaide 36ers home streak.

Cody expects at least one of the JackJumpers and/or Phoenix to end up in the top six by the end of the NBL season.

We're still no sure what is going on at the Sydney Kings and if they are going to figure things out or not, but they do appear to have figured that they need one of Shaun Bruce or Izayah Le'afa on court at all times with Jaylen Adams while Cam Oliver is showing better signs.

However, for Brian Goorjian and Jaylen Adams to get caught up talking for an eight-second violation with 24 seconds left in the game is one of the more absurd and baffling things that Cody Ellis has ever seen in basketball.

Before we get to the TABtouch Preview for Round 11, we talk about the NBL scheduling and why one day in between games for them to travel in the same weekend isn't fair, but a way around that might be getting back to playing midweek games.

All made possible thanks to the support of Hoops Heaven (www.hoopsheaven.com.au) and TABtouch (www.tabtouch.com.au).