Trey Kell's hot start had Illawarra on track to set NBL records, before the Hawks cooled and settled for a 108-100 defeat of the New Zealand Breakers.
The hosts scored a 40-minute club record 69 first-half points on Saturday, Kell (31 points) with 24 of them as they blasted the out-of-sorts Breakers in Wollongong.
