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    Breakers basketball coach Petteri Koponen is pointing to decision-making as the key to fixing his side's offensive woes in tonight's NBL contest against the defending champion Illawarra Hawks in Auckland

    Breakers basketball coach Petteri Koponen is pointing to decision-making as the key to fixing his side's offensive woes in tonight's NBL contest against the defending champion Illawarra Hawks in Auckland


    The New Zealand club's second-to-last in points per game with 82.5, while also shooting a league-worst 23 per cent from three.

    Koponen wants his players to trust each other.



    Tip off at Spark Arena is at 7:30pm.

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