Can I get odds on the crowd being over/under 1000?

Slingers will win the game IMO.

They will kill us I think! 25 is my guess. I could be very wrong

Slingers by between 8 and 19.......
not much confidence from me

Slingers by a dozen. Adelaide will make a run at some point, but the conditions over there and the fact that the Slingers are desperate for a win will get them home.

starts at 10:30

im tippin us... just. if we get at least 18+ from maher, horvath AND Ng (only gonna happened if he plays 30+)

Im predicting 36ers win in O/T

Sixer fan within me...

6 point win.

My brain logically thinks...

12 point loss


(does that make sense?)

Sixers will win. The shame of so many consecutive losses will boost them, hopefully. They will to put the weather conditions aside and concentrate on the game. Its not exactly a heavenly situation for the Slingers also. I am sure they are not too comfortable in those conditions regardless of how long they have had to adjust.

what are the weather conditions thats gonna make it hard for the 36ers????

EC, how many losses do you need before it becomes an advantage?

all the Slingers home-games are seriously crap; the referee actually stands on the court and yells out 'GO SLINGERS!' how wacked is that?

and the Slingers are the most boegus team EVER; they have only one player who is singaporean, and he only comes onto the court 54 seconds before the game is over. the rest of the guys are either australian or american.

oh, well, no one goes to the games in singapore any way. only like, 50 seats egt taken...The home games bite. so who else is going tonight? see you there

far out..

Sixers by 17.

Roy Bird - the humidity has proven to be a problem for visiting teams, even if they go a day earlier to acclimatise. Note the Slingers 8-6 home record - I think that the Hawks are the only bottom four team to have beaten them in Singapore?

Mott, I would hope no more.

Is it the climate or the travel? Remember the NBL busted up the doomsday double as it was too much of an advantage for Perth and Adelaide to play team after flying for 3 hours.

Game starts in half an hour.

Starting 5's
Your... ADELAIDE 36ERS

Point Guard BRETT MAHER

Shooter Guard DARREN NG

Small Forward MARK NASH

Power Forward NICK HORVATH

Centre DAVID COOPER

SIXERS BENCH

Willie Farley (Yes, He's playing!)
Matt Sutton
Adrian Majstrovich
Brett Wheeler
Lanard Copeland

In- Farley
Out- Timmons

SLINGERS STARTING 5

C Ben Melmeth
F Ben Knight
F Marquin Chandler
G Mike Helms
G Brad Davidson

Yes, we have Willie back!

Let's hope we can rally around him and come home with a win!

How effective will he be tonight? If he is not starting, it suggests that he is not 100% fit.

123abc, where did you get that information, because the live scores say that Timmons is playing and Farley isn't. Game starts at 10:30 according to my computer clock, not in half an hour as previously mentioned.

Yes Chewy they had Willie up on the live scores before and now Timmons is in..........

Yes the NBL has truly STUFFED UP. They put Farley's name in but changed it. Bastards! Playing with our hope!

NBL.com.au also says that it starts 8:00PM Perth time. WRONG!

8pm in Perth is 10:30 in Adelaide, daylight savings....

123abc I will also confirm that Farley's name was up on the NBL scoreboard. That's a pretty poor mistake playing around with Adelaide fan's emotions at a time like this.

Danger Mouse, 8pm in Perth is 9.30pm in Adelaide. Perth also has daylight saving. I don't know what the delay is in starting the game unless it has already started but the NBL scoreboard in not operating.

Waivers means two games out and he's missed three I think.

(I think he'll recover in time for the Cairns home game, and play it as a farewell match.)

Anyway, surely we know by now to not be too reliant on the NBL's live scores, especially not when they're running out of Singapore?

If Farley was just coming back from injury, I don't think they'd risk a long flight - remember that it was the Perth flight that caused trouble in the first place.

Not correct Danger Mouse, we are 1.5 hours ahead of Perth, currently 9:50pm in Adelaide, 8:20pm in Perth.

NBL site had 8:00pm WST which they have not corrected to WDST (Perth only went Daylight Saving before Xmas), therefore it should read 9:00pm WDST which makes a 10:30pm start here in Adelaide....

That was about as clear as Willie's injury....

Maybe Anon, but only if you spreak Malaysian!

Or SPEAK it even!

10:30 it is. So bloody tired.

If the humidity doesn't kill them, the jetlag will.

Damn right about Nash: after his performance last game there is no way he should get a start in this one (a DNP-CD more like it).

"If the humidity doesn't kill them, the jetlag will."

Who says that's a bad thing?

Oh wait... you didn't mean actually dieing...

Damn... no Stacker, Mee or Newley while Smyth's alive.

Looks like Copeland may start in place of Ng.

Horvath on fire, 6 point in under 2 minutes. I predict he'll keep up this pace and go for 144 tonight. No one else to score.

Agreed Billo, though the way we play defence we'd probably give up 146 even if he did!

yeah must have been a good jam if he took off from the 3 pt line...

Majstrovich actually played well last game, yet Nash (1-6) and Timmons (1-8) are in ahead of him.

or it could be that he has 2 fouls...

If you pass Timmons' current statline through the Vodka-Bar-Converter, he has 26 points and 15 rebounds after nine minutes of play!

Just kidding (actually, I am amazed at his lack of rebounds for a big man).

Trahair rampant - at the pub last night we were talking about how many years he might have left to go and here he has 10 points in under 10 minutes.

36ers have the bench on now - Timmons, Wheeler, Ng, Sutton, Majstro.

Good stuff Phil: Horvath burning. Get him off!

53-47 down at the half. Slingers offence seems a bit too easy. Trahair on 18 at the half, Chandler with 11 and Melmeth on 10.

For 36ers, both Copes and Horvath on 12 a piece.

I just think they will have too much fire power for Adelaide but we will have to wait and see.

Lets go 36ers!

Copeland completes 4 point play after back to back triples, Sixers up 75 - 71 in closing stages of the 3rd

Horvath 5 fouls and 1 rebound. hmm... I hope that is a Live Scores screw up

NG for 3 sixers 88-85

Trahair another 3
But the Captain Maher for 3
Sixers 91-88 4mins left

I cant get over the fact that our POWER forward has been directly outrebounded 19-3 by Ben Knight - if you believe the live stats.

Were up 5, they scored 11-0. Ouch.

Rebound count is 43-35.
Foul count is 19-26.

make that 20 rebounds to 3

need the three ball to send to OT... give it mahersey

Nice knowing you 2006/07.

what an appropriate end to a piece of shit season

maybe next year.

still will be out showing my support to the boys at the last home game! has been a tough season for the boys. HOPE TO SEE U THERE AGAINST CAIRNS TO FINISH THE SEASON.

Another game we could of won

Hasn't Wheeler been great value for money, haha. To think what else that money could have bought. I would have sacrificed Farley for tonight's game because a loss tonight is useless for the remainder of the season.

Damm pity the scores werent right at the start with Farley, with him in we prob woulda hada good chance of winning. As he is a match winner and comes up big in the clutch and i reckon he would of given us the extra punch needed to take us to the win. Ahh well season is over now as far as play offs go sadly, as id say we would need to beat Melbourne and Cairns to have any chance and cant see us getting those 2 games. Interesting times ahead for the future.

Has been one of the toughest season's. As if Smyth, weather you like him or not, hasn't been able to get anything that resembles hunger from anyone.

Up 5 with 4min left....thats when the killer blow comes in to play. maybe a loose ball dived on, and block and risk at a steal. Suppose the Mee/Cat years of that stuff are well and truly gone...in ADELAIDE. Sad times.

I hope guys like Copeland and Farley get a good send off for the 36ers, as Copeland has had a pretty good season and is a legend and deserves it (if hes not coming back), and Farley has bought alot of good times to the club especially 2002 title and many other titles and amazing performances so also deserves a good send off if he aint gonna be back

Looks like my 144 point prediction for Horvath was WAY off.

Farley would have helped us?! when was the last time he rocked up on the road ... as for clutch play - have you watched him this season ? Yes, his 2002 season was awesome, but since then, he has been a streak-shooter at best, with periods of extreme spinelessness (yeah, i'm making up words..) Happy to see him go.

Yea i think Farley definatly would have helped, like he has still been ok this season, not as good as in previous but still one of the best players on the team and in the top tier across the league, his stats of around 20,3,5 stack up with his previous seasons, and even though he has been a bit off this season, he has helped us win the games we hav won this year, its not like we are winning without him, i think its more to do with the lack of a decent SF more than Farley resulting in our poor season.

How much of a good job do you need to do to shut down Nash? Does this mean that Nash was responsible for ensuring a win for Adelaide, God forbid.

Excellent point about Nash. I am sure that opposing teams spend hours planning how to shut that offensive dynamo out of the game. And to think he actually started as well. It is simply unbelievable.
And when is Smyth going to be asked the question why Horvath only ever scores in the first half and has so limited numbers of shots. What is the problem Phil? Is it your complete lack of effectiveness as a coach? Or the players not doing as instructed? Or Horvath not presenting himself? I am sure he would not concede to the first option, but just tell us!

Squid, by the second half, Horvath is feeling the effects of so many fouls.