2019–20 Brisbane Bullets season

2019–20 Brisbane Bullets season
2019–20 Brisbane Bullets season
Head Coach	Andrej Lemanis
Captain	Rotating captaincy
Stadium	Nissan Arena, Brisbane
NBL results
Ladder	5th
Finals	DNQ
Wins	15
Losses	13
Player Records
Scoring leader	Lamar Patterson 21.4
Rebounding leader	Matt Hodgson 6.4
Assists leader	Lamar Patterson 4.5
Uniforms
Home	Away
	← 2018–19 2020–21 →
	All statistics correct as of 21 April 2020.

The 2019–20 NBL season was the 34th season for the Brisbane Bullets in the NBL, and the 4th since their return to the league.

Roster[]

2019–20 Brisbane Bullets roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.
F	1	Braun, Taylor (I)	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	95 kg (209 lb)
F	2	(DP)	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	83 kg (183 lb)
G	3	Gliddon, Cameron	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	94 kg (207 lb)
G	5	Cadee, Jason (C)	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	80 kg (176 lb)
C	6	Hodgson, Matt	2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)	115 kg (254 lb)
F	8	(DP)	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	86 kg (190 lb)
F/C	9	(DP)	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	113 kg (249 lb)
F	12	Magnay, Will	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	106 kg (234 lb)
F	13	Patterson, Lamar (I)	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	102 kg (225 lb)
F	14	Vukona, Mika (C)	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	103 kg (227 lb)
G	20	Sobey, Nathan	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	86 kg (190 lb)
C	24		2.13 m (7 ft 0 in)	95 kg (209 lb)
G/F	25	Te Rangi, Reuben	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	100 kg (220 lb)
G	33	Singler, E. J. (I)	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	98 kg (216 lb)
G		(TP)	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)

Head coach

Andrej Lemanis

Assistant coach(es)

Legend

(C) Team captain
(DP) Development player
(IN) Inactive
(I) Import player
(TP) Training player
(NS) Next Star player
Injured

Roster

Updated: 1 February 2020

Depth chart[]

Pos.	Starting 5	Bench 1
C	Matt Hodgson	Will Magnay
PF	Taylor Braun	Mika Vukona
SF	Lamar Patterson	Reuben Te Rangi
SG	Cameron Gliddon	E. J. Singler
PG	Nathan Sobey	Jason Cadee

Preseason[]

As part of their pre-season, the Bullets played five pre-season games. Their first game were held in Brisbane against the Creighton Bluejays, with the next two games being held in Melbourne against the South East Melbourne Phoenix and Melbourne United.^[1] After that they played two games in Cairns against the Cairns Taipans, and as a club in the NBL they also took part in the NBL Blitz where they played games against the Adelaide 36ers and the NBL1 All-Stars. They rounded off their pre-season on the Sunshine Coast against the Perth Wildcats, and they opted out of the NBLxNBA games.^{[citation needed]}

Ladder[]

2019-20 NBL pre-season ladder

Ladder

Information

Pos.	Name	Pld.	W.	L.	Last 5	Streak	Home	Away	For	Against	Pts %	Win %
1	Sydney Kings	5	4	1	4-1	W3	1-0	3-1	486	394	123.35%	80.00%
2	Cairns Taipans	9	6	3	4-1	W4	3-1	3-2	811	763	106.29%	66.67%
3	SEM Phoenix (NT)	9	6	3	4-1	W2	3-2	3-1	819	784	104.46%	66.67%
4	Melbourne United	12	6	6	2-3	L2	4-3	2-3	1167	1095	106.58%	50.00%
5	Brisbane Bullets	8	4	4	3-2	W3	1-1	3-3	676	676	100.00%	50.00%
6	Illawarra Hawks	6	3	3	2-3	L2	1-1	2-2	598	631	94.77%	50.00%
7	Adelaide 36ers	10	4	6	1-4	L2	1-1	3-5	892	920	96.96%	40.00%
8	Perth Wildcats (RC)	7	2	5	1-4	L1	1-2	1-3	625	671	93.14%	28.57%
9	NZ Breakers	6	1	5	0-5	L5	0-0	1-5	501	574	87.28%	16.67%

Total Rounds
11 weeks

Total Games
46 games

Legend

(NT) New Team
(RC) Reigning Champion

Updated: 17 October 2019

Game log[]

2019–20 pre-season game log

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Pre-Season: 1–4 (Home: 0–1; Road: 1–3)

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NBL Blitz : 1–0 (Home: 0–0; Road: 1–0)

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Pre-Season: 1–0 (Home: 1–0; Road: 0–0)

Regular season[]

The regular season of the NBL consisted of 28 games, with the Bullet's 14 home games played at Nissan Arena after moving from the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre and the Brisbane Entertainment Centre during the off-season.^[2]

Ladder[]

2019-20 NBL ladder

Ladder

Information

Pos.	Name	Pld.	W.	L.	Last 5	Streak	Home	Away	For	Against	Pts %	Win %
1	Sydney Kings	28	20	8	4-1	W2	12-2	8-6	2642	2472	106.88%	71.43%
2	Perth Wildcats (RC)	28	19	9	4-1	W3	11-3	8-6	2529	2409	104.98%	67.86%
3	Cairns Taipans	28	16	12	3-2	L2	11-3	5-9	2587	2547	101.57%	57.14%
4	Melbourne United	28	15	13	4-1	W3	9-5	6-8	2638	2560	103.05%	53.57%
5	Brisbane Bullets	28	15	13	3-2	W1	10-4	5-9	2607	2557	101.96%	53.57%
6	NZ Breakers	28	15	13	4-1	W4	9-5	6-8	2514	2468	101.86%	53.57%
7	Adelaide 36ers	28	12	16	1-4	L2	8-6	4-10	2654	2768	95.88%	42.86%
8	SEM Phoenix (NT)	28	9	19	0-5	L8	6-8	3-11	2671	2761	96.74%	32.14%
9	Illawarra Hawks	28	5	23	0-5	L10	3-11	2-12	2354	2654	88.70%	17.86%

Total Rounds
20
Games per Team
28
Total Games
126

Legend

(NT) New Team
(RC) Reigning Champion

Updated: 16 February 2020^[3]

Ladder progression[]

Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top four.
Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Adelaide 36ers	–	8	4	4	5	6	6	5	5	6	4	5	5	5	5	7	7	7	7	7
Brisbane Bullets	2	4	5	5	4	5	5	6	7	7	7	7	8	7	6	5	4	4	5	5
Cairns Taipans	7	7	6	6	8	8	7	7	6	4	6	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3
Illawarra Hawks	6	5	7	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Melbourne United	5	6	8	8	6	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	5	6	6	4
New Zealand Breakers	–	–	9	7	7	7	8	9	8	8	8	8	7	6	8	6	6	5	4	6
Perth Wildcats	4	2	3	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
South East Melbourne Phoenix	3	3	2	3	3	2	4	4	3	5	5	6	6	8	7	8	8	8	8	8
Sydney Kings	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1