Starting to agree. I keep getting sucked in by what he's capable of. When he's attacking the rim and being a distributor rather than settling for threes he's exactly the tyoe of player we need at that spot. Unfortunately he's not performing consistently enough. Boy would I love someone like Chewy Ubaka in his spot. He'd be perfect.

It's certainly time for him to go. He's had his time and the Dragons destroyed his career. Time to cut him and find someone else.

He's shooting the ball at a horrible clip every night. Strange choice in the 1st place, must be a money thing. Cut him & get the Tigers back & grab Sean Lampley or DT.

I'm on the fence with him at the moment.

He does over dribble the ball

You can see how frustrated Ninnis & the other coaches are with him when he over dribbles & launches a 3. I heard Ninnis barking it him to move the ball. He then walked over to Gilly on the bench & had an good chat then Tez was dragged.

He is shooting at a horrible clip & just seems to lack confidence. Even on D I noticed he got burned a couple of times.

Maybe Griz?

cut Tez and Burston... sign Isaiah Victor and Brad Davidson..

How about Farley?

Cortez isnt our biggest problem, Hill just panicks when he has the Ball and has Ng forgotten to throw the ball at the hoop???

36ers, Farley is as old as Maher. If he had been playing all this time, he would be looking at retiring now. Besides, Farley has the "Kobe" technique of play.

Would prefer the Sixers look to sticking with what has done well for them the past decade and look outside of the league talent for new imports. We've been very good with overseas talent the past decade or so.

The question isn't whether to cut Groves. The question is who can the Sixers get now to replace him?

From my understanding Groves was a budget Import and that we can't afford to get another import so we are stuck with him. I would like to be proved otherwise but I just don't see them cutting him. At home especially if he doesn't hit his first shot his confidence looks shot.

Sad to say it, but it's time for him to move on.
I worked out we still have 5 points left (70 points is the cap, we are using 65)
Ballinger 10, Gilchrist i assume is 10, Groves 8, Holmes 8, Burston 7, Hill 5, Herbert 5, Ng 6, Cooper 5, Molitor 1. (we don't appear to have any development players and Garlepp only played when Burston was on injury waivers)

If we are serious about competing this season, drop Groves, drop Cooper (harsh after last nights efforts, but the fact he didn't play until the last quarter says he's not rated)
That leaves us with 18 points.
Sign Rillie for 8 points. Sign as good an import we can with 10 points.
We get a great import (preferably big, Donta Smith/Rosell Ellis/new import who can play the 3 up to the 5) who will contribute. And we get someone who can knock down a 3, has experience, knows how to win.
Or conversely, find out what Justin Bowen is up to and sign him and Horvath (who is now a naturalised New Zealander) and effectively run a 4 import team.
We upgrade 2 weaknesses, may cost a bit more but apparently we aren't using the cap whole cap anyway.

I think people are being harsh on Tez - I'm not disputing offensively his confidence is right down, but defensively he is one of our best. He has kept Harvey to 8 points, Penney to something well below his average.

Saying he over dribbles the ball is somewhat true, but doesn't Gilchrist do exactly the same thing? Like last night at the end dribbled and jacked up an ugly 3......seems to me that if you're going to criticise Tez then maybe Gilchrist should be getting it too?

Hendo8888, Great Idea however I don't think its financially feasible also add to that, that NBL coaches have really never done something like that mid season (Besides Westover last year).

The Sixers would have to pay out Cooper and Groves probably a total of 160k rough guess. Horvath would play for whatever Cooper was getting but a new import would probably want that 160k total. There is no way management would want to do that.

In an ideal world it sounds great though!

#256255, I like it.

while you are at it lets sack Herbert and Hill and Ng. Hell lets just start again with only Ballanger to stay........

Isnt odd that he only really played well as a pg in Wollongong and badly at South/Adelaide as a 2 gaurd. Just saying he needs the ball in his hands to be effective.

I don't think anyone is calling to cut Gilchrist.
He is top 10 in the league in basically every stat.
5th in Points (17.9), 5th in rebounds (7), 1st in assists (4.7), 7th in blocks (6 total), 15th in steals (8 total).
Has his weaknesses and will have his off games, but has been a very good player for us. His good games have far outweighed his bad ones and he is as explosive as they come on his night.

Groves on the other hand... not much collumn A, fair bit collumn B. I have been happy to give him a chance, to see if he can regain that form he showed at Wollongong. But he hasn't showed it. Does about 2 or 3 good things every night, the rest just isn't quite up to expectations. He appears to have 2 options in his repertoire at the moment. Cross over to the right, drive the lane for the hopeful lay-up, or hold the ball for 24 seconds and put up a prayer. We can persist with him and I'm sure he will have the odd good game like Tyndale and Chappell did, but we won't be a contender with him. And isn't that the goal? It's not like AFL where you just have to live with someone not performing, there's other options in this league. Gold Coast saw early on that Joiner wasn't going to bring them success, so cut him for Maxey who has improved their team a lot. We were criticised for holding onto Chappell for too long and ultimately missed the Playoffs even though we were making teams sweat with Julius in the side. We've pretty well proven that with Groves in the side, we will only be a midrange team. Are we happy with that? Or do we want more? Luckily the evenness of the league means we are still in with a shot this season and aren't too far off the pace, but that window won't be open for too much longer. Most games when it's in the balance at the end (New Zealand O/T, TV at home), he ends up getting dragged.

On Cooper, I don't want to go on too much about him. We all know what he can and can't do. We had an injured Burston last night who only played 10 mins, yet we still waited until the last quarter for him to get his first run. This meant Ballinger had to play centre, which none of us want. It was probably the idea to get him a run of 3 or 4 mins then call it a night, but we were surprised by him actually doing something for once. That's where all the hero remarks are coming from, because it was out of the ordinary. He played out of his skin last night, yet still had worse stats than Burston, who was coming back from injury, didn't have a very glowing review, was underdone and had the same game time. We have the points there to replace him for someone who we don't cringe when they walk on the court. Why not use them? Get someone in who we aren't going to be shocked when they score 5 points and pull down 4 rebounds.

I'm not usually one to call for someone's head or be overcritical. They wear the Sixers uniform, so on game night I will support them, but I know we can do better. I don't want us to make up the numbers this season. The league is even enough that a little tweak in our favour could see us become extremely dangerous. From battling for a playoff berth, to genuinely challenging for the Championship.

Rant over. Won't make any difference, the club will do what they want, will probably get shot down for it, but it's my opinion.

well said hendo8888, if Groves wants us off his back he needs to step up his play. Imports come with certain expectations in this league, like it or lump it. I want the sixers to win, i have nothing personal against Tez but I think we are a player away from really contending. Considering that Cortez would be the easiest to replace being an import then so be it. These guys are professionals, if they cant take a bit of critacism then they are in the wrong profession.

Players generally don't read forums, certainly not in season. If they want something with less criticism, they have the club Facebook group I guess.

Plenty of tools writing on the club facebook page too, I can tell you that. So much negativity, I really struggle to believe these people call themselves 36ers fans!

And the wankers writing it should pull their head in to. Shit all this crap and we won.

It's Tez's selfishness that's really starting to jack me. Ballinger is on fire, and you refuse to distribute to him? C'mon. He was 6 for 6 from outside and not far behind from inside, and Tez wasn't interested in passing to him in the least.

Sounds like the Breakers got to him first.

If a 25 year old Darnell Mee was around then I'd think of cutting Groves But his defence has been great.
Don't have to light the scoreboard up to do your job!

Someone's posted proof of his quote from Facebook. The "post from Julius" was fake and was deleted before even more people fell for it.

What are you talking about? The post where someone pretended to be Julius was deleted. The original topic was left. A screenshot of the Facebook comment was clearly posted.

...with no proof he said any of that, but when he replies you quickly delete it and also the post regarding the ticket money just to name a few.