BIO: Robert Cassir was born in Perth (WA)

NBL EXPERIENCE

Robert Cassir made his NBL debut with the Perth Wildcats at 20 years of age. He went scoreless in his first NBL game.

the Wildcat’s looked to get back on top In 2011/12, by adding 7’2 centre Luke Nevill with a aim to re-create the ‘Perth Wall’ alongside Matthew Knight, Jesse Wagstaff and Shawn Redhage, who was returning to action returned to action after a career-threatening injury suffered the prior season.

As a deveolopment player Cassir would see limited playing opportunities with the Wildcats, appearing in only two games and failing to score.

Perth (19-9) entered the playoffs as the second seed, and after defeating Gold Coast in the semifinals (2-1), they would face New Zealand in the Grand Final. After losing to the Breakers in game one in Auckland, the Wildcat’s looked down and out in game two in Perth also. All looked lost for Perth In game two, who trailed the Breakers for much of the game, but the Wildcat’s snatched a thrilling one-point lead with less than a minute to play and held on to defeat the Breakers 87–86. Redhage forced a third and deciding game with a memorable final-second block on Breakers guard C. J. Bruton. It all ended with the team returning to Auckland for game three and suffering a six-point loss (79-73) in front of 9,258 New Zealand faithful, the largest NBL crowd of the season.

Robert Cassir played one season in the NBL.

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