Breakers lay waste to 36ers The New Zealand Breakers celebrated coach Andrej Lemanis' 250th National Basketball League game by laying waste to the Adelaide 36ers 104-79 in Auckland. The Breakers made a mess of the 36ers defence in the second half Thursday night, dominating from the three-point arc and under the basket with Cedric Jackson, Daryl Corletto and Thomas Abercrombie particularly dominant. It was the Breakers' 13th consecutive victory, keeping them on top of the NBL ahead of the Perth Wildcats, and it kept the 36ers on the bottom of the table. The home team's key was a high 62 per cent field goal shooting percentage, while the 36ers could only muster 45 per cent. The Breakers started off in style, taking a 28-15 point lead at the end of the first quarter after shooting 63 per cent from the field and keeping all but Daniel Johnson quiet on offence. But stunning three-point shooting from Adam Gibson and Stephen Weigh got the 36ers back into the game, and when half time arrived the Breakers led by just 51-46. Any thoughts of a 36ers comeback were dashed when the Breakers scored the first nine points of the third quarter, Jackson getting seven of them. A 10-point run towards the end of the quarter took the Breakers to 81-58 by the end of the third quarter. By the end of the game the only interest was whether the Breakers would top 100 points for the first time in the season, and they did so when Tai Webster hit a three pointer in the last two minutes. Jackson led the Breakers' scoring with 18 points, with Abercrombie scoring 16 and Corletto 15, while Alex Pledger led the rebounding with 10. Anthony Petrie was the leading scorer for the 36ers with 16 points. "Coming off a two-week break, you're always concerned about rust in the system and I thought that showed in the first half," said coach Lemanis. In that first quarter, we were scoring so easily and that got us into a poor mindset - we thought we could just cruise through the game, but it bit us in the second quarter. That mindset was better in the second half, when we were getting stops and getting out and running. Both teams were shooting a very high percentage from the field the Breakers 64 per cent and Adelaide 55. The game turned on its head immediately after the restart, when Jackson hit a pair of three-pointers, including a four-point play on the second, and then found Tom Abercrombie (16 points, 4 rebounds) for an incredible alley-oop that saw the international star's head at rim height.