Brockington signalled his intent early, scoring the Breakers\u2019 opening seven points. Despite the Breakers being whistled for four fouls in the opening three minutes \u2013 including two on Jackson-Cartwright that forced him to the bench \u2013 the home side remained composed. Brockington and Webster combined for 19 points to hand New Zealand a 33\u201325 lead at the first break.<\/p>\n
Jack Andrew showed he could deliver, connecting on triples either side of the quarter break to stretch the advantage to 10 points. <\/p>\n
With Brockington amassing 19 points in the opening half and the team shooting 54% from beyond the arc, the Breakers held a comfortable 61\u201350 lead at halftime. While the Hawks reduced a game-high 16-point deficit to just four points by the end of the third, the Breakers\u2019 late-game execution ensured they completed a 4-0 season sweep of the 2025 champions.<\/p>\n
The Breakers now have a week to recover before travelling to face the Adelaide 36ers on Saturday. They return home for their final regular-season fixture against the Cairns Taipans at Eventfinda Stadium on Thursday, February 19.<\/p>\n
New Zealand Breakers 106 (Izayah Brockington 27 points, Parker Jackson-Cartwright 23, Tai Webster 17, Reuben Te Rangi 13, Rob Loe 13) <\/p>\n
Illawarra Hawks 95 (Tyler Harvey 19 points, Todd Blanchfield 19, JaVale McGee 15, Will Hickey 14)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brockington signalled his intent early, scoring the Breakers\u2019 opening seven points. Despite the Breakers being whistled for four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[154109,5831,28440,151282,3392,16414,78685,3012,41724,809,20558,117,111,43,139,2551,69,1523,89431,1534,9643,6564,165,61,8982,102,80],"class_list":["post-272915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-154109","tag-alive","tag-arena","tag-aspirations","tag-breakers","tag-clinical","tag-hawks","tag-hopes","tag-illawarra","tag-keep","tag-kept","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-playoff","tag-saturday","tag-spark","tag-sweep","tag-their","tag-to","tag-victory","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}