Tasmania JackJumpers · 5 notes
"It's fixed enough so he can breathe." Tasmania JackJumpers coach Scott Roth on Dakota Mathias, who told him: "I'm not missing games." Benny gets one more week out as a precaution, having not played five-on-five with the group. If all goes well, "he should be ready."
"It's not fixed." Tasmania coach Scott Roth on Dakota Mathias's nose, re-injured in Illawarra and put under anaesthesia days ago to clear a breathing passage. Mathias is playing in a mask without practising. He says it is improving day by day but will take a little while.
Dakota Mathias went to hospital for x-rays and Tasmania JackJumpers coach Scott Roth gave no status on him: "It's not even his nose. I think it's his cheek." Majok Deng is out with no timeline; Roth said Ben Gold will be used "heavily, especially while Majok Deng is out."
Will Magnay is sure Dakota Mathias will be fine for Brisbane. Scott Roth called the nose injury "more of a bloody nose and a little bit of a laceration"; Mathias returned to finish the game. Roth said Tasmania had its first normal full practice in about four weeks.
Melbourne United's Jacob Chance on giving up 18 offensive rebounds: "You're not going to get every defensive rebound." He named Dakota Mathias and David Johnson as the shooters who punish those second chances, and said Melbourne were better in the second half.