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One of the highlights of the NBL calendar, we will take on the Tasmania JackJumpers under the night sky on Tuesday in another edition of the Bass Strait Battle, powered by Marinus Link.<\/p>\n
Coming off a dominant win over the Illawarra Hawks, we will be looking to register a second victory in Round 13 and generate some serious momentum heading into our games away from John Cain Arena.<\/p>\n
For the JackJumpers, a loss on Sunday at home to Perth has them sitting with an 8-11 record and very much in the fight for a final spot in the Play In.<\/p>\n
WHAT\u2019S THE WORD?<\/strong><\/p>\n Coming off his first NBL double-double, Tyson Walker touched on the things he\u2019s going to continue to do in hopes of producing another win on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201c(I\u2019m) just trying to do all the right things,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n \u201cCreating for everybody else, getting two feet in the paint, hunting good shots, getting to the free throw line\u2026 staying aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n Fresh off a home defeat, JackJumpers Head Coach Scott Roth said he\u2019s expecting an intense matchup.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re obviously very very good and they\u2019re in their home building for another week or so before they go on their long road trip for the Australian Open, it should be a good game,\u201d Roth said.<\/p>\n WHO\u2019S HOT, WHO’S NOT<\/strong><\/p>\n Finn Delany has been in serious form for us across the past few months, leading the team with his consistent scoring and hard-nosed defence.<\/p>\n Delany has scored in double figures in 12 of his past 13 games, and is averaging 18 points and nine rebounds per game across our last three outings.<\/p>\n He will have to face off against Tasmania\u2019s star four man, Josh Bannan, who has been playing some of the best basketball of his NBL career of late.<\/p>\n Bannan is averaging a career-high in points, rebounds and assists, however he had his equal-lowest scoring performance of the season in his only matchup against us (nine points in Round 1).<\/p>\n DETAILS<\/strong><\/p>\n Who: Melbourne United vs Tasmania JackJumpers<\/p>\n Tip-off: 8pm AEDT, Tuesday 23 December, 2025<\/p>\n Where: John Cain Arena, Melbourne\u00a0<\/p>\n Watch: ESPN<\/p>\n Tickets: Fans are encourages to check Ticketek.<\/a><\/p>\n \u200d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s time for the return of The Open Air Game! One of the highlights of the NBL calendar, we will take on the Tasmania JackJumpers under the night sky on Tuesday in another edition of the Bass Strait Battle, powered by Marinus Link. Coming off a dominant win over the Illawarra Hawks, we will be … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/DrinkWise-Preview-NBL26-Round-13-Game-2-v-Tasmania.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14326,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions\/14326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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