{"id":915411,"date":"2026-10-04T04:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915411\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T04:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:08:12","slug":"how-to-watch-talking-points-south-east-melbourne-v-illawarra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915411\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch &#038; talking points: South East Melbourne v Illawarra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South East Melbourne Phoenix v Illawarra Hawks<br \/>Sunday, October 4, 3pm AEDT<br \/>John Cain Arena<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tipping.nbl.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Play Mega Rewards NBL Tipping for your chance to win cash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How to watch<\/p>\n<p>Watch every NBL27 game live on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/how-to-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How to watch ESPN<\/a>\u200d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ticketing information<\/a>\u200d<\/p>\n<p>How to follow &amp; live scores<\/p>\n<p>Live scores, stats, breaking news and game highlights are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/pages\/nbl-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">available via the free NBL App<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/games\/south-east-melbourne-phoenix-v-illawarra-hawks-men-04-10-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Visit Game Centre<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/pages\/nbl-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the free NBL App<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RostersSouth East Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>Expected depth chart:<br \/>PG: Mays (IP) \/ Daniels (NS) \/ Davidson<br \/>SG: Sobey \/ Glover \/ Ryan (DP)<br \/>SF: Schwartz (IP) \/ Krebs \/ Foster (out)<br \/>PF: Morin (IP) \/ Goodrick<br \/>C: Hunter \/ Aliir \/ Biggar (DP)\u200d<\/p>\n<p>Illawarra<\/p>\n<p>Expected depth chart:<br \/>PG: M.Doyle (IP) \/ Hickey \/ Adnam (NRP)<br \/>SG: Harvey \/ Narkle<br \/>SF: Swaka Lo Buluk \/ Grida \/ Blanchfield (out) \/ Patterson (IP\/NRP)<br \/>PF: Martin (IP) \/ Peatling (out) \/ A.Doyle (DP) \/ McGregor (DP)<br \/>C: Froling \/ Maker \/ Macdonald (DP)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Missing in actionSouth East Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Foster &#8211; Back &#8211; TBC\u200d<\/p>\n<p>Illawarra<\/p>\n<p>Todd Blanchfield &#8211; Hand &#8211; TBC<br \/>Mason Peatling &#8211; Foot &#8211; TBC<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbl.com.au\/news\/nbl26-the-latest-injury-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">View full injury list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talking pointsPhoenix form slump<\/p>\n<p>After opening the season with a convincing road win against Perth, the Phoenix have suffered three losses in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The last two, in particular, have been characterised by poor shooting, with the Phoenix hitting 33.3 per cent from the field and just 18.6 per cent from downtown.<\/p>\n<p>If the Phoenix are going to end their three-game skid, they will need to turn their shooting around in a big way.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Building on first win<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks bounced back in impressive fashion on Friday, smashing last season&#8217;s runners-up Adelaide to open their NBL27 account.<\/p>\n<p>The hallmark of that win was their ball movement, recording 33 assists, which is 13 more than in any other game this campaign.<\/p>\n<p>This unselfishness allowed five players to score in double figures, with that balanced approach looming as key for Justin Tatum&#8217;s side moving forward.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercoach.com.au\/nbl?utm_source=NBLContent&amp;utm_medium=NBL&amp;utm_campaign=Partner&amp;utm_content=Seasonal&amp;sourceCode=SCWEB_EPD_Partners\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"w-inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791086892_234_6a960795989a8ba3337cdc3b_SuperCoach NBL_ Bottom of Article Image Version 1 1920x250.png\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South East Melbourne Phoenix v Illawarra HawksSunday, October 4, 3pm AEDTJohn Cain Arena &gt;&gt;\u00a0Play Mega Rewards NBL Tipping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-915411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}