Huge underdogs cop NBL Finals reality check but Kings dealt cruel MVP injury blow.
“Hard to think about back then, I’m more focused on the game plan now on what we need to do to beat the team in the other locker room,” said Clark speaking of his previous NBA Finals experience. It’s been really impressive the way the NBL is presented.” “We’ve got 36 hours to flip the script.” “We haven’t slept very often, but we’ve seen every game that the Kings have played. He finished with a match high 18 before injury struck under the rim. The “rugby” match that Buford said he wanted to avoid during the week was how the match turned out in the first half as Tasmania’s modus operandi prevented the free-flowing Sydney style, with a number of “sloppy turnovers” per ESPN’s Andrew Gaze, and first half lead of three to Sydney.
Sydney star and NBL MVP Jaylen Adams didn't finish the game after going off at the start of the fourth term with a hamstring complaint. Advertisement. Ad.
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A possible injury to league MVP Jaylen Adams casts a shadow over the Kings NBL grand final series opener win over Tasmania.
In front of 12,765 fans at Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney scored the opening five points of the game and the visiting JackJumpers missed their first four field goal attempts. The JackJumpers scored the next seven points to cut the deficit down to eight, but the Kings steadied and quickly got the margin back into double figures and cruised to the finish. Sydney have scored a 95-78 home win over Tasmania in the opening game of the NBL grand final series, but a question mark lingers over the fitness of their league MVP Jaylen Adams.
Everything looked to be going the Kings' way in game one of the NBL finals series before Jaylen Adams suffered a hamstring injury.
But just as everything was looking purple and gold, the final quarter began with a sight Kings fans would have dreaded as Adams left the court with a suspected hamstring injury. An Angus Glover lay-up gave the Kings a 15-point buffer into three-quarter time as the home side rose above the scrum in front of the 12,765 in the crowd. JackJumpers guard Jack McVeigh got his side off the mark with a classy three-pointer from deep in the corner.