Aussie teams don't 戦車／タンク: Kings coach
Sydney coach Will Weaver loves the fact struggling NBL teams don't descend into 戦車／タンク 方式 as happens in many other countries and isn't surprised by the 予測できなく of this season's 競争.
The ladder-主要な Kings made a scorching 11-1 start but are 3-5 in their last eight games.
Second-placed defending 支持する／優勝者s Perth have lost three of their last four and third-placed Melbourne 部隊d won just three of eight to end 2019.
早期に season stragglers Cairns and New Zealand have been the form teams of late going into their match on Thursday.
"The league is filled with too many 堅い minded 競争の激しい basketball people, that I can 約束 you that Perth is not 動揺させるd from having dropped a couple, New Zealand is not celebrating because they have won a few in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動," Weaver told AAP.
"That 全体にわたる is one of the things that makes the league so fun and year to year exciting.
"That you don't see the same things that happen in other leagues where a team goes into 戦車／タンク 方式 and recognise they've got no chance of the プレーオフs so everyone 令状s off the season.
"That's not how Australians are wired and that's part and 小包 why I love coaching them."
Sydney host Cairns on Saturday having 分裂（する） their two previous games.
In their 開始 一連の会議、交渉／完成する, the Kings won 79-71 in Cairns, but the Taipans won 109-98 in Sydney in December.
"I feel like our first game was a million years ago ーに関して／ーの点でs of who we had playing and what their team was like," Weaver said.
"Our last game against them where they （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 us here is probably more emblematic of who both teams are.
"But I think what makes them so good is that they've 改善するd so much since the beginning of the season and I can say the same thing about our group."
Saturday's game will 炭坑，オーケストラ席 the Taipans' 高度に 率d 輸入する Scott Machado against Sydney's Casper Ware in a 戦う／戦い of two of the league's 首相 point guards.
"I've been fam iliar with (Machado's) career for a long time now and he is a 競争の激しい player and somebody who is happy to take the challenge," Weaver said.
"He's wired a lot the same way Casper is."
Of his 負傷させるd trio of players, Weaver said Brazilian Didi Louzada was the closest to returning, ahead of Kevin Lisch and Craig Moller.
