High from a hard-fought battle the night before, the Hawks became road kill 24 hours later at the house of the Nelson Giants. The Mike Pero-sponsored Giants smashed Taylor Corporation Hawks 101-78 at the Trafalgar Centre in week six of the Sal’s National...

Hawks coach Zico Coronel has urged National Basketball League counterparts to take a leaf out of the manuals of Nelson Giants mentor Jamie Pearlman. “He’s come from a foreign country and done really well,” said Zico of Pearlman after the Mike...

The result was never a done deal but the hosts pulling out the knuckle dusters in the octane-fuelled lanes of contention was always a given in Christchurch tonight. That’s because the Wheeler Motor Canterbury Rams coach Mark Dickel, a former Tall Black point...

The score and the statistics go a long way in showing how close the game was and Hawks coach Zico Coronel wholeheartedly agreed with that tonight. But don’t ever mistake Coronel’s dulcet, measured tone for contentment after Cigna Saints pipped the Taylor...

Mitch Newton, by his own admission, was a late bloomer in elite basketball but that does not mean he’s running late in the high-octane lanes of contention. Oh no, it simply means Newton is only just getting started while everyone else has been charging full...

One simple message should be written in bold letters on Hawke’s Bay basketball team coach Zico Coronel’s white board when his troops turn up for training today. GET MORE AGGRESSIVE! Coronel agreed his players had to be more aggressive in the wake of the...

Hawke’s Bay basketball import Jamie Skeen has played in eight countries but it has never been his preferred sport. “I’ve played basketball since I was 11 back home in Charlottesville. I’ve loved it my whole life … everyone wanted to be...

Ethan Rusbatch reckons he got more than a few dirty looks from his Hawks basketball teammates during the side’s first National Basketball League loss of the season in Wellington on Friday night. They were justified too. The Taylor Hawks shooting guard struggled...

A strong fourth quarter from the Taylor Hawks has them return to the top of the table with a 89-85 win over the Mike Pero Nelson Giants. The guard duo of Dion Prewster (22 points) and Ethan Rusbatch (20 points) carried the Hawks tonight, both combining for seven...

A sloppy final quarter saw Hawke’s Bay record their first loss in the National Basketball League tonight. “We became very stagnant,” Taylor Hawks head coach Zico Coronel said after his team’s 93-85 loss to Cigna Saints in Wellington’s TSB...