12-4 down, hmmmmm.

34-24 in the Tigers favour, as is the rebound count 14-4.

Shich! Knew we'd get raped on the boards, but didn't think it would be that drastic.

Wow....Rebounding count is like 19-8 in favour of Melbourne. I expected them to be ahead but so far ahead.

Thats not good. But turnovers arent too bad for the first half. Just our offense is critical considering we have more shots put up than Melbourne.

Second half has to be way better!

Disappointing start. However even more disappointing is that the NBL live scores doesn't even have the correct team list - still listing Nathan Herbert.

36ers looking small and puny compared with monster Tiger lineup.
Offence almost exclusively perimeter.

lead back to 5, end of the 3rd...
36ers making the most of the Tigers in the foul bonus.

Tigers now leading by 7 at the end of the 3rd...

they have more offensive rebounds than we have defensive ?!?

36ers still hanging around to their credit, down 8 with 7min left.

Oops spoke too soon. Corletto's just gone beserk!!!

Geez, pretty pathetic effort, even for a preseason game. 34-17 rebounds is woeful effort. Some give me the heads up on when we can press the panic button. Probably signed a little small Marty!

highlights the importance of a harris maybe?

Hopefully young Mitch is a rebounding machine!

Hopefully young Mitch is a rebounding machine!

Yeah youd have to give him ago after this...unless he is THAT horrible, and shouldnt be a training member anyways? Getting off topic, but this is a worry, lack of rebounding is a common negative, not like a 'bad shooting night'.

Johnson Scored well in this game but only got 3 rebounds if he can get 5-8 on average in the season with around 8 from Holmes and Ballinger and around 5 from Hill, Dowdell and Creek we should be ok but wont be great rebounding wise as we do probably have one of the smaller teams.
Good to see Johnson get some minutes and put some points on the boards, i think a line up of Johnson, Ballinger, Holmes to start the front court will hold its own against most on the boards.

Nice effort from DJ. Hope that gets his confidence going. BTW, although he only had 3 rebs in this game, he did only play 20 mins.

Sixers clearly got smashed on the boards in this game, but to be fair to them, they out-rebounded Perth in the last game. It was the TOs that burned them in that one.

The thing I am liking about this Sixers team is that they are consistently racking up good assist totals. 23 tonight - Carter with 8 and Winder with 7. Seems like the ball is moving better and we actually have guys who can shoot!

Clearly need to improve D, rebs and TOs but it will be nice if I don't have to cringe at our offence anymore like I did last season!

Oddly enough, despite their height advantage, much of the Tigers' scoring came from long range. 8 assists from Carter is very good - he's having an excellent pre-season. After that 22-9 start, I thought they would've been thrashed.

Isaac, id say that is because the ball was kicked out for long range shot...Corletto had 4 3's in the 4th quarter i believe. The Tigers have big bodies that love to bang, but finesses offensive put backs arent Wade and Luke's strengths. I just dont like the fact we arent winning games, preseason or not, havent been purely convinced by one effort this year so far. This team is to short for my liking.

FWIW, Clarke noted in a comment within Boti's recent article that this was the first time the team had lost the rebound count. Hopefully Creek helps.

I gotta be blunt and say I am not overly excited by the last 2 games however I guess improvement will be for all to see in the first few rounds.
Regardless of how we do, the support never wanes.
Eventually we gotta turn the corner, and this year hasnt begun so we will see.

Interested to see how much zone 36ers were forced to play because of mismatch inside.
Decent effort that aside,although catchup mode most of game.
Ballinger was disappointing and he has a habit of disappearing in some games. Would have thought his perimeter game might counter Tigers leadfoot frontline?
Scoring won't be the same problem as last year, but stopping teams probably will.

Tonight the Cats take on the Tigers and it's another chance for teams to watch and learn how they might negate the Tigers' height advantage. From Shayne Hope:

Beveridge, who has opted for mobility over size this year, predicted tonight's game would provide an important glimpse at how the clash in styles might play out during the regular season.

Impressed with how easily DJ scored in the paint against the Tigers twin towers in the last quarter.

No problems in scoring against the Tigers,
difficulty is stopping them.