AGREED!

pfft.. getting very sick of the coach bashing. Anything that goes wrong with the sixers is his fault? Whatever

How about the buck stops with the players. How about we don't have a good enough team to win. How about we don't know how to win, and Melbourne do, hence why they would have won when they were 6 up all along.

I agree he hasn't done a great job over the past year or 2, but FFS people on this site are taking things wayyyy tooo far.

Get over it

Any team that starts in a zone for two thirds of an NBL season deserves their position on the ladder (see 36ers and Dragons).
So whos' decision is that?

Bad day lockstock .

Nah , look i tend to agree with you here big fella . We all know the coaches performance has been lax for a few years but now everyone is jumping on like the big bully at school , without thought .

It is time to say thankyou Baldemort , thankyou for some great years , cheers for the three championships , sorry it has come to this , hope you locate your mojo . 3 cheers for coach .

Syracuse won a NCAA title playing only zone.

Yeh, I know. But you can win playing only zone.

In the NBL?

that foul on cooper on the ground was horse shit but year mottram should have been on

Giants won playing zone all year. That isn't the issue for me. His subs and lack of timeouts at key times are and have been a disgrace for a long time. Lockstock, the buck stops with 'The General', yet that nickname is wearing thin. No matter what job your in, after 10 years, a sense of comfort zone sets in, we need a hungry coach with new direction and a passion winning. A coach who is worried about his name being mentioned on a site such as this (no offense Isaac) is not 100% committed to the team.

Hey all you experts i am wondering how you would defend Melbourne.Man to man sure wont work they are bigger in every position and will post the miss match up.That would leave Darren guarding Thomas like that would work.Julius put his hand up to ask for a rest so lets see leave him in and make some errors but lets just blame THE COACH.Get a look at Melbournes talent do you seriously think we can match up with them?

Too late to save daddy now!

Don't really have an opinion either way on the Hodge substitution, but we did a very good job regardless of match-ups. They played reasonably well, yet never led by more than 9, and it was a one basket ball game within the last minute. "Get a look at Melbournes talent do you seriously think we can match up with them?" - why bother even showing up if that's the attitude?

Team of champions not a champion team. I agree the coach is part to blame with the subs he made at the end but there were a whole 3 quarters before that which is why they were behind in the 1st place

From where we sit, we can see the players' faces very clearly as they go to the bench - and Hodge was very definitely hurting and needed the frequent subs - including the one with 6 mins to go. From memory (not reliable!!) I believe he was only rested for about 1 min on that occasion but I believe he was able to make a far greater contribution after the rest than had he been made to stay on court.

Just my opinion!!

The Syracuse zone worked because you had two guys who could block threes from a standing start on the baseline... obvs.