{"id":985,"date":"2009-11-20T02:42:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T08:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=985"},"modified":"2019-03-30T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T17:35:22","slug":"gary-stronach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/gary-stronach\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Stronach targets Eagles&#8217; pair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Plymouth Raiders coach Gary Stronach has identified Newcastle Eagles guard Reggie Jackson and centre Darius Defoe as key threats on Tyneside tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gary-stronach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-986\" title=\"Gary Stronach\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gary-stronach.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Stronach\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Defoe had a game-high 26 points, on 11\/16 shooting and 18 rebounds in the previous meeting between the rivals this season.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson added 20 points and hit 3\/5 from the three-point line, in Eagles&#8217; 96-95 overtime loss at Raiders on November 1.<\/p>\n<p>Raiders guard Anthony Martin is set to stand toe-to-toe with Jackson for the full 40 minutes tonight, while Raiders big-men Matt Hilleary and Anthony Rowe will split shifts to try and contain Defoe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Defensively, we&#8217;ve got to handle Darius Defoe inside,&#8221; said Stronach. &#8220;He really hurt us before. And Anthony Martin has got a big match-up with Reggie Jackson, who likes to control the tempo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rowe had not rejoined Raiders when Eagles visited the Pavilions earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Eagles also have made changes, largely because player-coach Fab Flournoy badly fractured a finger in practice 24 hours before the trip to Plymouth.<\/p>\n<p>Flournoy has not played since and has added development players, guard Aaron Nielsen and forward Jamie Glen to a new eight-man rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen is home-grown, while Glen was recruited from Manchester Magic&#8217;s academy.<\/p>\n<p>Nielsen started alongside Jackson in Eagles&#8217; backcourt in the 87-63 win over Worcester Wolves last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>On paper he had a quiet 16 minutes, but his inclusion allows Flournoy to bring guard Joe Chapman off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman was recruited in the off-season to fill the considerable boots of reigning BBL Player of the Year, Trey Moore, but struggled at the Pavilions in November and was upstaged by Raiders guard Allister Gall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plymouth Raiders coach Gary Stronach has identified Newcastle Eagles guard Reggie Jackson and centre Darius Defoe as key threats on Tyneside tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,118],"tags":[1604,1603,1605,1594,1596,1597,77177,1601,1600,1598,1602,1606],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-hot","tag-aaron-nielsen","tag-anthony-martin","tag-bbl-player-of-the-year","tag-gary-stronach","tag-gary-stronach-nba","tag-gary-stronach-plymouth-raiders-coach","tag-nba","tag-newcastle-eagles-guard","tag-newcastle-eagles-guard-reggie-jackson","tag-plymouth-raiders-coach","tag-reggie-jackson","tag-trey-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}