Shaun Bruce will also be playing for the Sixers Development squad.

Where's Adam Doyle at???

Doyle not good enuff?!?!

Good luck Tony Casella - a true architect of the game.

I wasnt there but Coaches get too much pressure from 'other hierachy' at the wrong times........Just let them coach

why is greenwood training with the sixers??

isnt he going to college? is he not expected there yet and wants to keep sharp? although i thought he was not from adelaide so that would seem weird, unless he kept in contact with marty maybe and asked him although ild be surprised if he couldnt do that in his hometown..

phil, 36ers want to keep tabs on him, perhaps have him eventually play here, etc.

ahhh tassie boy, he is off to college though right? heres hopeing if he does come home he comes and plays for the sixers.

#304579 ....... you idiot.

A game has never, ever been won or lost on a coach calling or not calling a time out to break a run. Teams that think it can will lose a lot more than they win.

All a coach can do is instruct and motivate. Beyond that it is up to the players. And I am sure Casella wasn't telling his players to give up the lead.

yeah i was wondering how good greenwood is? are we talking he has the potential shot at end of draft or maybe making nba or more expected to be a solid euro guy or just a top nbl player?

obviously no crystal balls we are just going on potential here.

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I am not saying coaches don't do it, just that it doesn't work.

Your opinion of what a coach can do is inflated I am afraid.

Opposition runs are only broken by good defence and not turning over the ball. The timeout is irrelevant.

'687, a rival coach would be my guess.

After last night's performance, I think the Sixers should be playing the curtain raiser to this game!!!!

What are peoples prediction for tomorrow nights curtain raiser? And as stated above why is Shaun Bruce playing? Isn't it a Adelaide development group and his playing seabl in Victoria for ballarat. I don't mind that he is as will be good to see him play again. He was a solid junior for Vic country.

No state players in the '36ers Development Team (misnomer). You have 2 geniune ‘development players' one of whom is getting NBL court time and both of whom have been training 24/7 with the Sixers for several months. The rest are too old for the U20’s national comp and most have been on ABA playing lists for a couple of seasons - hardly sixers development players and certainly not state players (most of the state kids are only 18). Don’t know how the Vic gets to participate over other SA developing juniors like Doyle who would have loved the opp.

I hope there won’t be too much slagging if the state team struggles a bit. This is only their first or second scratch match and some of the kids are new to the nationals scene. It will, tho, be a great opp for them to match up with older, more seasoned players at a crucial stage of their preparation. Just don’t beat it up into something it's not!

sixers development team won by 15-20. Under 20 state team did well to keep it close I thought.

Who played well? I was hoping to get to the game and then got distracted at the Port Dock Brewery.

U20s got to within 8 at one stage after being down 20 at 1/4 time. Spehr went off early with an ankle injury and Marriott was KO'd behind play in the 3rd. Hard to imagine an accidental elbow to the temple to a 207cm lad by someone much shorter!!!!

U20s did better than I had expected. Vics, don't sell us short yet for Maitland, this group is OK.

considering no Carlin for the game if they get tuff and want it bad enough will do ok.