13 point first qtr to Balls. Hopefully in for a good night.

Quarter Time
Sixers- 39 Backs- 37

Balls has 13 first quarter points.

High Scoring!

Axe 100% (1st Q) from the arc for 6 points, 3 boards, 2 assisits, a steal & block. 3 T/Os, but good effort.

Balls having a cracker, and dench finally showing some promise ?.

ng 100% from 3pt line

easily denchs best game, hopefully he keeps it up

its looking that way, but lets wait to the end of the game hes liable to get 10+ turners overs

Balls having a blinder along with 3 others approaching double figures already.
Axe doing nicely resting Scoop & Motts.
Muzzies warming up the score-board.
It's on.

Half Time
Sixers-68 Backs-59

Balls has 17 first half points.

High Scoring Much!

Cooper having another fine game

looks like maher has broken his shackles and Balls in on the way to another high scoring match

We'll clean these guys up. NBL live gives us 5 players on court v Razorbacks 4. As long as we find the open man, this'll be a breeze.

lol and theres also this phantom player called j.morgan on court to at present,

copeland with another 3

Dench still going strong, hope this gives him confidence to continue it through the season

6 Players in double figures & Scoop's on court to make it 7.
Nice spread of scoring & court-time.

77-94 sixers way 3/4 time.

copes more then covering for chappell,
looks like a solid team performance with everyone contributing well, axes and cooper haveing a good one
Balls going godo

They'll going godo. : )

Josh Morgan is their replacement for Damian Martin.. he ain't a phantom lol

godo = few reds lol

ng and supersuit shooting the lights out from the 3pt line

Make that 7 players in double figures. Nice. : )

Axel is leading the team in assists
say what?!?

I smell a new offensive.

ingles he isnt listed on live score board so had no idea so hes a phantom to me

So far seven out of eight guys in double figures, pretty good spred offensively.

Good to see Dench turn in a performance that won't be a punchline.

Ng 4-5 threes, Adelaide up by 20, 100-80

Ballinger on a double double. 27pt lead

GO SIXERS

27 up, you beauty!

'Backs on the ropes. ; )

hey squid long time no nash talk ;)

Time for Dod's, or is it too early?

was thinkin the same thing but maybe let axe grow his confidence replace cooper with dods ?

Thomo, believe me I am trying so hard to forget about that man. Now that you have reminded me, I may well have a relapse!

lol could be worse could be jason w makig a come back

Someone call an ambulance

hehehe ok ill stop

Deep breaths Squid. DEEP breaths.

NBL.com.au not working for anybody else now?

Scores anyone? : (

nah its shat out, maybe mcpeake sat on the mainframe

It is working about as well as the Sixers Scoreboard!

115 to 96 2:48 remaining.
ballinger 27 pts
copeland 20 pts
dench 16pts

thanks billups, on the talk of best games for the club. this would have to be close for copes mainly because it looks like and allround performence

Reckon nbl.com.au got overloaded with the big nite.

probably but even so, its pretty poor, considering theres no FTA or Fox coverage you think they would have had some safe guards in place to deal with this sort of load

I've put out an SOS on OzHoops, maybe someone can bring us up to speed.

5 games on.

ok now the nbl server is down for me as well. arrrgggggggghhhhhh.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo

122-100 game over

final score is 122-100

122 100 last I heard from OzHoops.

good win by the boys tonight, hopefully we can win next sat against the South Dragons with Hodge having an impact

awesome win, now add the import and hopefully we can get some respectability back into our season

Nice to see people being positive!

That is a great result. The signs are there that maybe we can turn the corner. Good to see nbl.com.au as always about as reliable as a Matt Sutton jumpshot. I'm pissed off about this as I wanted to see how Brad Hill was going tonight.

Solid all-round effort. Wests are in a slump after a good start to the year, but we had to win and did, so credit to the players and coaching staff. Hopefully Hodge will add something to the lineup starting on Wednesday.

easier to be positive when the team plays well and by the looks of it they played AS a team :)

positive thing is we have the import to add to the side

Speaking of Sutts, I couldn't follow the whole game, but notice a straight line of 0s against his name on the box-scores.
DNPCD?

DDFan, he hadn't been on up to the last 4 minutes, when the live scores cutout. Quite possibly in at the end though.

OK, don't know what's behind that then, unless he got injured in today's practice session.

I'm stoked for Axe, this game is just he needed. : )

yeah hes very much a confidence player lets hope it leads into a good 2nd half of the season for him

Sutton got a rebound so he must have hit the court at the end.

36ers won the boards by 10, with great contributions on the glass from the bench, exploiting the Pigs poor bench. After getting smashed on the glass by the Tigers, good to see a team effort grabbing some boards.

Cant tell what defence 36ers played, but suspect Maher has gotten another scalp in Hinson who got no boards and only 3 field goals. Or maybe Davidson did the deed.... maybe Boti will report it.

Great Win SIxers!.

Not that I can be bothered formatting this, but our stats were:

Pts Att Md Att Md Att Md Off Def To fls Ast Blks Stls T/O
5 B.Maher 16 14 6 43% 9 4 44% - - - 1 4 5 - 5 - 1 1
6 M.Sutton 0 - - - - - - - - - - 1 1 - - - - -
8 D.Ng 16 9 5 56% 6 4 67% 2 2 100% - 4 4 1 - - 1 1
11 D.Cooper 15 10 6 60% - - - 5 3 60% - 6 6 4 2 3 1 1
12 N.Mottram 2 5 1 20% - - - 2 - - 3 1 4 2 1 - - 1
14 B.Davidson 10 7 3 43% 6 2 33% 2 2 100% 2 2 4 2 2 - 3 2
21 L.Copeland 20 11 6 55% 10 6 60% 2 2 100% - 4 4 1 4 - - -
23 J.Dodman 0 1 - - - - - - - - - - - 1 - - - -
30 A.Dench 16 10 5 50% 3 2 67% 6 4 67% 3 3 6 2 6 4 1 3
54 A.Ballinger 27 24 13 54% 1 - - 1 1 100% 3 9 12 2 2 1 - 2
HEAD TO HEAD SHOTS 3 PTS FREE THROW REBOUNDS SCORING

Sutton and Dodman played the last 1:13. A great game (again) from Ballinger. Copeland again producing at a far greater level than Chappell ever did. 52 points off the bench, not bad going.

It's a shame we couldn't see this game. The boys must've played like they do at practice.

I love the 3 bigs in the starting line-up, Balls's got some relief, Motts doesn't have the foul burden hanging over him, & Scoop's relishing the extention of his role.

It'll be nice settling Hodgey into the line-up with a win under our belt too.

All coming good at the right time.

Scoop for 6642311 turnovers? Eeeeeeeeeeek. 8 *

The bench hit 12 from 19 three pointers,
36 points from the big arc at 63 percent.

Ballinger Fan: "Cant tell what defence 36ers played, but suspect Maher has gotten another scalp in Hinson who got no boards and only 3 field goals. Or maybe Davidson did the deed...."

Yeah nice work whoever did it. At one point Hinson was on 9 & Muzzy had 5. Massive turnaround.

Mutley, just checked the Dragons v Cats box-score, & it appears Brad didn't make the trip. : (
Shanahan did. WTF.

Saw that too. I've still got a lot of time for Shane Heal as a player and a competitor, but he's got no idea, absolutely no idea, what he's doing coaching that team. They don't have the worst roster in the league and they are an absolute joke.

God we had better beat them next week.

Shanahan hits the floor alongside Cortez. Good way to keep Cortez outta the game Shaney. Idiot.

Yeh, couldn't agree more Mutley. ; )

Geez if Dench can actually do something for the rest of the season and the Import adds another 20 points to the game.....sky is the limit with this team, I would forgive dench for EVERY Turnover if he scores 10points consistantly from now on, well every turnover hes done sofar....

If Dench continues like this for the rest of the season, I am prepared to eat humble pie after making comments like "for all he does, he may as well not show up". However, it takes more than just one sunny day to make a summer. He needs to lift for the rest of the season to give back any credibility to his position on the team. It was encouraging to see that he has the ability to play like he did last night but its also annoying to see that he hadn't done it before now.

Good result and a crucial win. To be fair to Dench, this isn't the first game where he's played fairly well.

Looks like some of the shine has come off the Pigs' season. Could leave Adelaide as the last team within striking distance of the eight, though I haven't checked their schedule for the remainder of the season.

Quote EC: "If Dench continues like this for the rest of the season, I am prepared to eat humble pie after making comments like "for all he does, he may as well not show up"."

Ah, what's a few kilos here or there, eat as much as you like.

Quote EC: "However, it takes more than just one sunny day to make a summer. He needs to lift for the rest of the season to give back any credibility to his position on the team. It was encouraging to see that he has the ability to play like he did last night but its also annoying to see that he hadn't done it before now."

How about we acknowledge the positives & give him some rousing applause when he's announced next home game? When someone's down on confidence, support & encouragement would be more productive, than drowning the guy in negatives.

DDFan. I don't think I was drowning him in negatives, I voluntarily admitted that I may be wrong and would eat humble pie if he continued his good form. I also said it was encouraging to see him have the ability to play well. We are currently 9th on the ladder and have been down lower. If everyone had played to their full potential, we would be in a much better position right now. Before the season started, there was a general consensus amongst posters on this forum that they predicted the 36ers to finish 4 or 5th. You talk about his confidence, I don't know when he lost his confidence because he hadn't been playing well at all this season. There were no negative posts early on to give him a complex about his performance. The fact of the matter is that what he did last night should have been evident a lot sooner. I can praise him non stop for last night's performance, but you can't get back what you've lost until now. Home losses like the ones to Townsville and the Gold Coast were disturbing. You can't reverse those. Chappell was not the only poor performer on the team.