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This week sees Gold Coast arrive in Auckland to play the Breakers with Blaze Tall Blacks Pero Cameron and Mika Vukona coming 'home' against their former club.
The Breakers certainly put themselves through the mill and gave the fans an entire season's entertainment in the overtime win over the 36ers last week, a game that will surely have ticket sellers busy this week.
Coach Andrej Lemanis was relieved to have secured his second overtime win to take his overall OT record to two wins and four losses.
Lemanis spoke after the game about how this team can find a way to win the close ones with a great final two minutes leading to domination in overtime to celebrate Dillon Boucher's 100th Breaker game with a 99-91 victory.
Rick Rickert claimed a double double for the second consecutive week and now has 20 to his name in 53 appearances for the club
CJ Bruton had a game high 27 points despite shooting only 3-from-14 three point attempts. In so doing he became the 13th Breaker to score 600 points for the club at 16.8ppg (136 points at 19.4 ppg this season).
Tony Ronaldson had a solid game off the bench contributing 16 points and six assists. The Bear now has 250 assists, fourth on the club all time list.
Tom Abercrombie scored 20 points a personal best in the ANBL.
Attention now turns to the Coast Blaze, a team the Breakers enjoy a 100% winning record against.
The Breakers have won all five encounters since the Blaze joined the league in 2007 although Tall Blacks and former Breakers Mika Vukona and Pero Cameron will be keen to see this trend changed.
Coming off the bench Vukona has averaged 19 minutes, 4.1 points, 5.5 rebounds each game and Cameron 11 minutes, 2.9 points and 1.9 points.
Other stats to watch out for this Thursday night include:
Dillon Boucher requires four assists for 600 ANBL career assists
CJ Bruton needs eight assists to become the fifth Breaker to record 200 for the club.
Rick Rickert needs two defensive rebounds to become the fifth Breaker to record 300 for the club and seven points to become the second player after CJ to score 100 points this season.
