THE NBL may be making a push into the lucrative Asian market, but Sydney Kings skipper Jason Smith has sounded a note of caution, the toll it takes on their bodies.
added they did enjoy playing in the Asian city, where the Kings will play their first game against the NBL's new franchise, the Singapore Slingers, next Sunday.
"It's unavoidable," Smith said.
"No one really wants to do it [the trip]. Singapore is a nice city. We played against Perth there a few years ago and it was great playing there, we've only got good memories of playing there, but it's a tough trip.
If you can come away with a win from there it's a top result."
won three games and lost five. The Kings are in fourth spot, their Razorbacks.
Centre on Saturday night. In the lead-up to the match, Smith was because of his perceived desire for of publicity. Smith said he didn't mind the name-calling.
"At the end of the day, who cares?" Smith said. "We won and they lost pretty badly.
I don't really care what they call me. I'd much rather be embarrassed by a silly name than be embarrassed by being thrashed like that."
It was Sydney's seventh successive win over the Razorbacks, and Every Kings player scored, as David Barlow (25 points) and Smith (21 points) led six Kings in double figures.
West Sydney's James Harvey led all scorers with 30.
Despite the healthy margin of victory, Kings coach Brian Goorjian was disappointed by aspects of his team's play. The Kings flattered to deceive in the first half, and their defence had Goorjian demanding improvement.
"We've been poor defensively and we've been poor on the boards from a consistent standpoint," Goorjian said. "If you take tonight's game, the start of the game was poor, the starting five was poor in that form and late in the second quarter it was poor.
Harvey in the second half.
I thought Brad Sheridan in that four spot turned the game around and got everyone going."
the defeat. Watkins was hoping their 17-point victory over faced the Kings.
It didn't.
"To be quite honest, we were terrible," Watkins said. "Our reality check from a win.
Getting smacked by 50 in your home town ask, why did those things happen?"
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