NBL26 Report Card: Bullets miss the mark

14 Apr 2026

A tough, injury-hit campaign leaves Brisbane with big questions to answer and a clear focus on rebuilding ahead of NBL27.

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NBL.com.au

As the Free Agency period tips off, NBL Media is putting the microscope on every club's NBL26 campaign.

Pete Hooley analyses every team, starting with the tenth-placed Bullets, all the way through to the Championship-winning Kings.

Four word summary

Only up from here.

Report Card

Grade: F

Unfortunately it was just a brutal season for the Bullets in more ways the one and while an “F” is as harsh as it gets, they’d probably agree that’s where they were at in NBL26.

Just six wins, another coaching change and am ever-growing injury list just made it impossible for them to string together any sort of continuity.

Season highlight

The Bullets went into RAC Arena in Round 5 and shocked the Wildcats in an Ignite Cup game where Brisbane walked away with maximum points. They were in the headlines all week as Jaylen Adams was moved to the bench for the first time, but it didn’t stop his teammates from putting on a show.

Casey Prather had 34 points, and 10 rebounds and Tyrell Harrison followed suit with 24 points and 15 rebounds himself. The Bullets had five players score in double-figures, including development player Tristan Devers who had his first career start and put up 15 points.

Season lowlight

The Bullets had one of the biggest injury lists we had ever seen and while that wasn’t the low point, it certainly didn’t help them in their efforts to stay competitive. You could make a strong case that another coaching change would be the answer here, as Stu Lash departed after only a few months in charge. However, the real lowlight would have to be the Bullets having to use seven imports in just one season. Between Javon Freeman-Liberty leaving, then returning, before leaving again, Dakota Mathias and Casey Prather season ending injuries and releasing former MVP Jaylen Adams, it just never worked out.

Stats don’t lie

The Bullets were the lowest scoring team in the league at just 82.1 points per game, which is a long way off the league-leading South East Melbourne at 100.8. Adding to that, they only scored more than 90 points on five occasions, while on the other end they scored below 70 three different times.

MVP

His season was cut short to just 12 games, but considering most of their roster missed time due to injuries, Casey Prather was their MVP. When he was healthy, he was in All-NBL First Team conversations, averaging over 24 points per game and ripping down over seven rebounds.

Surprise packet

If there was one silver lining in Brisbane’s poor season it would have been the emergence of Jacob Holt. After a disrupted beginning to his season, the local big man exploded onto the scene and finished strong, averaging almost 10 points and five rebounds per game. While those numbers don’t jump off the box score, it was his energy and physicality that made him stand out.