Keanu Pinder

But I like the way he's working with this team.

And the good sign is that they didn't even need crazy performances from Keanu Pinder.

Yeah.

He played more of a role player kind of part in this success this round.

Hmm.

Now, they made a, an absolute howler of a mistake in Tasmania when, when Keanu Pinder put Dakota Mathias in the sleeper hold right in front of the ref and they didn't call it, and we've seen a couple other tech happy refs.

But Drew, we gotta remember, just like imports need time to adjust-

Hmm

He had 20 points but from 18 shots, but still not too bad.

Keanu Pinder was brilliant.

Wayne Smith, five threes.

And I thought, you know, I know the ball.

Um, there was an even spread of contributors with four Snakes breaching the twenty-point mark.

Um, Keanu Pinder did his typical industrious work and got rewarded with twenty-seven points.

Rain Smith made it rain with five of ten from beyond the arc for twenty-one points.

Uh, Jaylen Brown was on the way to the worst game of his NBL career, bricking shots and committing unforced turnovers, but he put the Superman cape on late.

I assume that this was done because Parker Jackson-Cartwright was cooking them, and they just needed, by putting Bolden out there instead of a guard, you allow for someone like Malik Lewis, who we know is defensive-minded, to be able to switch onto Parker Jackson-Cartwright because he's gonna keep hunting those two guards who are there for offense and not there for defense.

He had 21 points at halftime, Parker Jackson-Cartwright.

Now, sticking with Cairns though, Keanu Pinder shot two from nine this game, and Zach Mingey shot seven for 29-- for, sorry, seven for 21 and one from 11 from three.

Now, the eye test told me, because I wrote down, they're just chucking shots, and then I checked the field goal percentage and their numbers, and that is exactly what was happening.