Tigers right in the hunters' sights

MELBOURNE Tigers, as last season's National Basketball League champions, have had a big target on their chests since they beat Sydney Kings 3-0 in the grand final. At the pre-season tournament in Coffs Harbour at the weekend, the Tigers got a good look at who will be firing real bullets at them and who will be using blanks. Appropriately, it will be Brisbane, the league's Bullets, in the prime shooting position, the value of their recruitment of internationals C.J. Bruton and Ebi Ere and their development of young talent such as Adam Gibson and Brad Williamson on show in a Blitz-winning performance. The Kings, as usual, will have a powerful armory, Cairns Taipans have added guns and a group that includes Perth Wildcats, Adelaide 36ers, New Zealand Breakers, Townsville Crocodiles, Wollongong Hawks and the new South Dragons can inflict more than glancing wounds.

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