If this contniues then we certainly need the home court advantage during play offs.

Great post have been thinking that the sixers are getting a good ride at home and not adapting to different ref styles away very well.

Good evidence that they should bring back the rotation of refs....ie send Weeksy to NSW to do 2 games over a weekend etc.

"Maybe the sixers just dont foul as much !!???!!"


Exactly. Who says stats are supposed to be even? Just like the Sixers are a low turnover team, they are a low fouling team. Look at the personnel to see why. The Sixers aren't the most defensively aggressive team around, so they are naturally going to be lower on the foul count.

All other stat categories vary greatly from team to team. Fouls are no different.

What are the stats for away games?

A comparison would be interesting.

OK Bake away games.
Adelaide have had 11 away games and have won the foul count on 5 occasions with a difference in there favour of 1 foul per game. So when away from home Adelaide has a 1 foul advantage compared to an 8 foul advantage at home. Yes stats sometimes don't tell the true story, I just found this interesting as I'm sure visiting coaches do.

Weeksy does go away, the travelling ref policy has been in place for a few weeks now (hence why we have seen Ian Watts, Ray Hunt, Damein Thiesz in recent games)

Adelaide under Smyth have always been regarded as one of the lesser fouling temas in the game, their free flowing style doesnt tend to create fouls.

However, I would agree there seems to be some sort of home court advantage, I would blame this more on Adelaide only having a pool of 4 NBL accredited refs (Weeks, Tsakalos, Haines and Filmer), whereas Melbourne and Sydney have several refs they can call on, and therefore can rotate better.

Therefore Adelaide know their refs better, and know whats going to be called, or not called, whereas in other states this interpretation is going to be different (as much as NBL refs should all be the same, we ALL interpret the game different ways).

On home court advantage, caught a snippet of Goorjian after the Kings/Pigs game, asked about what it will take to win, and he said home court advantage. When asked who had the best he stated "Adelaide. Without doubt...they intimidate the whole game. The crowd just yells "3 seconds, 3 seconds, or foul, foul the whole game" it is the most intimidating place to play".

Take your hats off 6er fans !! :)

It must have felt like home court advantage for the Sixers as well. A familiar ref and the Perth crowd who are a very loud and excitable crowd. But then the Sixers are used to that sort of crowd at home also. Having attended that game, I did not feel that the excitement from the crowd was one sided. It could have helped to lift our players as well. Might be one of the reasons they won.

I heard Gorg as well on the radio saying the same thing, that makes me wanna shout louder at the Tigers who we OWE an ASS KICKING!

it is more a case of local clubs and referees develop an understanding and know what buttons to push.

yeah keep up the hard work kriss.... u will get there one day

nice call junior. gorg? i think we owe YOU an ass kicking after that post