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    Coach Petteri Koponen is eager to improve on the New Zealand Breakers' disappointing NBL season

    Coach Petteri Koponen is eager to improve on the New Zealand Breakers' disappointing NBL season


    The 36-year-old had the Breakers sitting in top spot early in their campaign with a six-win, two loss record ... only to lose 16 of their last 19 games.

    Koponen admits his first professional head coach role was an eye-opener.



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     Other Basketball News
     06 Feb: Will any Breakers players feature in the Tall Blacks' Asia Cup qualifying window later this month?
     06 Feb: Veteran centre Dane Pineau is retiring after the Breakers basketball season came to a limp end with a 14-point loss to the Illawarra Hawks in Auckland last night
     05 Feb: The upcoming NBL playoffs could affect the Tall Blacks squad for the Asia Cup qualifiers later this month
     04 Feb: Tall Blacks coach Judd Flavell could be inclined to give a host of youth the opportunity to face the Australian Boomers in the three-game basketball series in May
     04 Feb: Plans for basketball's renewed trans-Tasman rivalry to be an annual fixture moving forward
     02 Feb: Breakers coach Petteri Koponen is vowing not to think too far ahead, despite stewing over the "what ifs" of a disappointing campaign
     02 Feb: New Zealand Breakers import Matt Mooney is open to coming back to the club for a second season
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