The Breakers made it three from three on the road to start the Australian National Basketball League season, smashing the Sydney Kings 98-61 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on Saturday night.
The team set the third largest winning margin in the club's history and the biggest on the road while the 61 points conceded is also the third best defensive effort in the club's history.
With Sydney favoured going into the game on the back of their pre-season win over the North Shore based club, few in the big crowd were prepared for what hit them in the shape of smothering defence and an all-team offence that the Kings simply had no answer for.
An incredible first half saw every Breaker except Dion Prewster and Dillon Boucher on the scoreboard, and Prewster didn't take to the court so any score from the development player would have been miraculous. Boucher wasn't idle though with three boards, three assists and one blocked shot in a typically tireless defensive effort.
Alex Pledger had been in doubt during the week with an ankle strain, but the Breakers seven-footer came off the bench for six big boards and six points, including a superbly timed layup in transition off a CJ Bruton assist. It was a sign of a great night to come from the man they call 'Chief'.
