Tasmania JackJumpers coach Scott Roth has lamented more sloppy basketball in the final moments as his side repeated history in a two-point NBL loss to Brisbane.<\/p>\n
And he admitted they simply “couldn’t handle” Casey Prather (28 points, eight rebounds) or Tyrell Harrison (21 points, nine rebounds, three assists) in Saturday’s 83-81 defeat in Hobart.<\/p>\n
Prather hit the winning basket with less than one minute to play, then helped get a stop as the hosts, fresh off a one-point loss on Thursday in Launceston, dropped another home game in Hobart.<\/p>\n
Like on Thursday, JackJumpers star Bryce Hamilton (16 points, six rebounds) had possession for the final play but looked to dish to a teammate.<\/p>\n
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On Thursday, Ben Ayre’s open three-point effort rimmed out but on Saturday they could only rush a low-percentage heave that barely hit the rim as Bullets guard and captain Mitch Norton (four points, five assists) celebrated his return from a knee injury.<\/p>\n
JackJumpers forward Josh Bannan (18 points, 11 rebounds) was a thorn in his former team’s side but Bullets big Harrison dominated in his battle with Will Magnay (three points, 10 rebounds).<\/p>\n
The Boomers mainstay appeared in discomfort and temporarily left the game for the rooms in the third term, finishing with just two field goal attempts.<\/p>\n
Brisbane, thumped by Sydney at home in their last start, improved to 6-7 with their fourth road victory.<\/p>\n
The hosts, who dropped to 5-7, saw their four-point quarter-time lead vanish as Prather and Harrison dominated the second stanza.<\/p>\n
“Those two guys, 49 between them of the 83 points; we just couldn’t handle,” Roth, who denied Magnay was still carrying an injury, said.<\/p>\n
“There’s going to be, at least for us, a lot of games in the last three minutes that will come down to execution.<\/p>\n
“We have to tidy those things up.”<\/p>\n
The third term began with a JackJumpers turnover from the inbound and a Harrison dunk that bounced off his own face into his hands.<\/p>\n
When Norton gathered a loose ball and Prather hit a dagger from long range the lead was 14.<\/p>\n
Ben Ayre (14 points, four-of-six triples) replied for Tasmania and they managed to nullify the deficit with less than two minutes to play.<\/p>\n
But, with turnovers at both ends, Prather held his nerve with a drive to the basket that decided the contest.<\/p>\n
“He knows I sleep better when he’s on the floor and around the team,” Bullets coach Stu Lash said of Norton, who missed seven weeks.<\/p>\n
“Two dive on the floor loose balls and a charge … those are winning basketball plays that we’ve been missing.<\/p>\n
“He’s a man’s man. We’re very happy he’s back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasmania JackJumpers coach Scott Roth has lamented more sloppy basketball in the final moments as his side repeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-279109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}