New Zealand Breakers

Matt Renshaw eventually made 190, leading Australia to 390.

In the Australian National Basketball League, the Breakers fell to the Wildcats out west in Perth, despite a career night from Sam Maninga.

That's all she wrote from a sold-out RAC Arena.

The Perth Wildcats 100, the New Zealand Breakers 84.

Sam Maninga tried and tried his hardest.

A remarkable performance.

[news jingle] In sport, the Wellington Pride have had their first Farah Palmer Cup Championship division win in eight years with a home 39-15 win over the Northland Kauri.

Sam Meninga says a dominant start to the NBL season by Parker Jackson-Cartwright is just one angle of the New Zealand Breakers attack.

The fourth-placed Breakers begin a four-match away stretch across Australia tonight playing the Perth Wildcats.

Meninga says they're feeding the hot hand of the club captain but have plenty more in their back pockets.

So it's gonna be another interesting week coming up, but we've just finished a very interesting week for a few teams, that's for sure.

Have you ever seen a start to the season where there's, like, so many questions about things being disastrous, like Melbourne United, um, of course the Adelaide 36ers? Talk quickly goes, even the New Zealand Breakers, which transitions perfectly into our guest tonight, which is none other than New Zealand Breakers point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright.

How quickly things flip.

Everyone thought Adelaide, Melbourne United among the championship favorites, and now everyone's questioning is, are they on the brink already? New Zealand was getting questioned a couple weeks ago.

Um, and then we're gonna talk a little bit about Triple Threat Tournament's Rising Stars segment, and we're gonna talk about a familiar name, um, which everyone could probably guess, but we'll revisit that a bit later.

But, uh, Jase, I wanted to talk a little bit about our guest tonight first before he comes on.

Um, New Zealand Breakers point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright probably leading the MVP rankings at the moment.

And despite perception on Twitter, before the season-

I can accept that they're three very good players that are on the court currently, John, but what I can't accept is a lack of effort.

I thought the Illawarra game was even worse than the Breakers game, but I just thought that we were just out-muscled, out-bustled, and I didn't see a lot of fight.

Well, and I think that was referenced by Coach Trevor Gleeson in the post-game press conference as well, where he thought that was the scenario.

So clearly that's what he saw, and obviously what you're seeing as well, Timmy.

I didn't see that here against the Breakers on Sunday night.

I just saw the Breakers were just a little bit better than them, and, you know, at halftime it was anyone's game, but...

I think they're vulnerable and they know it.

And so the mind games are there that if they get behind, they're like, oh, we haven't got our starting point guard or we haven't got the man in the middle or we don't have ball.