Tasmania JackJumpers coach Scott Roth wants to ease Taran Armstrong's load: "we need to see how we can get his minutes down a bit more and get him some rest at times too." Next up is New Zealand on 18 October, after a quick turnaround.
"He's a lethal shooter. We are still waiting for his game, right?" Adelaide 36ers stand-in coach Marko Marinovic on John Jenkins III. On Nick Rakocevic's foul shooting: "We are working on that every day... He'll be fine." Marinovic named no injured players or timelines.
"I want them to see sometimes that we're human. We have bad games." Adelaide 36ers' Zylan Cheatham on why he retweets critics who come after him on Twitter, then bounces back to silence them. Early in the season, "a lot of people gave up on us, wrote us off," he said.