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Weve officially crossed the halfway mark of the NBL season as Round 10 is in the books. The league could stake its claim as being the most even professional competition in the world right now.Every side has now played a minimum of 14 games and won at least six. The difference from bottom to top is only a handful of games and when theyre all so evenly contested, trying to determine a winner is near on impossible.Individual performances were the toast of the round as Jerome Randle, Casper Ware and Casey Prather all put their name forward for the player of the round.Adelaide have gone from struggling to win games to now being the hottest team on the floor, winning their last five matches. Brisbane have gone the other way as they find themselves riding a three-game losing streak.So who and what stood out the most during Round 10?Coming for the KingsOld time rivals Sydney and Melbourne have a history of putting on classic contests. Their last two games again fit the bill. When big clashes arise, it calls for the key players to lift and get their side over the line.For the Kings those players this season have been Kevin Lisch and Brad Newley - for United for so long that player has been Chris Goulding. In the past two games though, the biggest player to shine under the bright lights has been Casper Ware - he has averaged 25.5 points per game across the last two, walking away with two victories against the top-of-the table Kings.Form SlumpThe Kings are loaded, no doubting that. They have firepower all over the floor and none can be more damaging than three point king, Jason Cadee.When he gets hot and is in rhythm there is little opposing teams can do to slow him down. Luckily for opponents Cadee has been more cold than hot this season.Over the past four rounds Cadee has scored a total of 59 points and the Kings have a 3-4 record during that span. For a player with the scoring ability of Cadee, averaging only 8.4 points during a seven game stretch isnt good enough.Can he regain his form and help get the Kings back into their dominant winning ways or will his scoring slump continue?Even SpreadOnly one game was decided by over 10 points and seven of the eight teams have between six and eight wins. Just to show how even this competition is, the bottom-of-the table New Zealand Breakers have a 7-9 record while the second placed Adelaide 36ers have an 8-6 record.You can lose one game and tumble down the standings or you could vault all the way up with a win over a top ranked side.The word upset no longer applies to the NBL as any given match is a complete coin toss. Youre not going to be surprised if the Breakers take down the Kings or if Cairns topple Perth on the road.Ware vs. PratherThe battle between Melbourne and Perth was electric enough, the game was decided by only three points and really could have gone either way.Casper Ware torched opposing point guard Jarrod Kenny on his way to 38 points and five assists. Usually numbers like that are enough to get your team over the line and earn you player of the game honours.Unfortunately, he was outdone by MVP front-runner; Casey Prather.Prather led the three major statistical categories, finishing with 39 points, 11 rebounds and five assists. It was the most unstoppable individual performance from any player so far this season.Little TakeoverMitch Creek made his triumphant return in front of a raucous home crowd however, it was Randle who stole the show. Not to be outdone by Casey Prather, Randle took it up to right up to David Stockton.Ending the game with 37 points at a ridiculously efficient 78.9 percent from the floor.Randles speed and agility was too much for the Breakers to handle as he got to anywhere he wanted to go on the floor. Whilst only hitting one shot from beyond the arc it couldnt have come at a better time, putting the 36ers up 11 with a little over a minute to play.The 36ers are now the inform team of the competition and have won five5 in a row. George Foster Jersey Large . PAUL, Minn. 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"I didnt need to be anybody else, I just needed to be myself and be aggressive," said Burks, who scored a career-high 34 points to spark the Utah Jazz to a 118-103 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night. Jose Mourinho has changed his tune when it comes to the Europa League.Nine months ago, when Mourinho was coaching a Chelsea side struggling for form, he was openly dismissive of the prospect of playing in Europes second-tier competition, saying it was a different level of competition for a different level of player and a different level of club. It is not good for a big club to go there and win it.On Wednesday and now in charge of Manchester United, Mourinho was embracing it.We want to win the competition, Mourinho said, a day before United begins its group-stage campaign with a match at Dutch side Feyenoord. Its difficult to do it, its simple to feel it and to say. This is the way we want to approach the competition.Of course, Mourinho is not the reason why United is in the Europa League this season. The team missed out on the Champions League by finishing in fifth place in the Premier League under predecessor Louis van Gaal, and United now must enduree the Thursday-Sunday fixture schedule that many English teams have found so tough in recent years.ddddddddddddMourinho believes it makes winning the Premier League this season even harder for United.Its more difficult, yes, he said.United has taken a strong squad to the Netherlands, although it is missing first-team regulars Wayne Rooney, Luke Shaw and Antonio Valencia as Mourinho looks ahead to Sundays Premier League game at Watford.On the absence of captain Rooney, Mourinho said: He plays every game since the beginning of the season. He plays for the England team, 90 minutes the last weekend. I want him to be fresh for the next Premier League match.United is coming off a 2-1 loss to Manchester City in the derby on Saturday, the teams first defeat under Mourinho. Feyenoord has won all five of its games in the Dutch league. ' ' '