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Still up 32-39. Warren and Simpson getting it done this quarter.

Radio?

Up 44-50. Johnson with 14 and 7, Khazzouh with 0 and 5.

NBL live stats 6ers getting job done - seeming to have kings covered all areas
perhaps clarke is getting this group back on the track to success
too early to call but all you doubters need to begin baking humble pie
our depth is the key to success in long run

Sixers up 50-44 at half time. Khazzouh didn't score (0-6) in 15 minutes and has 2 fouls look out NBA! Wade Helliwell has played 10 minutes so perhaps he has been a key player in stopping Khazzouh.

Hopefully the Sixers can keep it up and get the win!

Oops, 46-50 at the half.

Stevie weigh most minutes again for 1/4 fg

Warren has played most minutes for Adelaide.

balls only 4 minutes in a half - shooting 100%

great signs at the half,
leading the boards,
and having scored double their points in the paint, via 6 different players !

i suspect they are going up -tempoo

sixers have shut JK down still yet to score no influence
come on boys get this job done

Justin, you must be loving it - a turnover and two more missed field goals.

Is ballinger injured again? Only 4 minutes stil

Great work Mr Clarke, Ballinger 5 points in 3:57mins, please go back coaching kids at the AIS you will never be a players coach.

Balls will spell Johnson at the PF spot..
while DJ is going ok, should stay with him.

Simpson in for Johnson,
ok now I'm confused too...

there goes the lead, Bruce has a great line again against us. We just need a few more guys to chip in some more.

Bruce had 12 in the quarter and Khazzouh had 10 :(

No Issue with Ball still playing minimal minutes..right now his confidence would be up and he can walk away from the game happy for once. Give him 2 minutes to start the quarter and finish with DJ and Simpson and just keep building on his strenght and confidence.

Maybe Ballinger is benched because DJ is playing well and Helliwell is limiting Khazzouh for the most part?

As much as 4/15 is limited for JK. Still getting his numbers though!

All the starting bigs from both sides are now on 3 fouls...

Helliwell !!!!!!!

is it me, or does Bruce only seem to play well against the sixers?

Can someone OTHER THAN AARON BRUCE stop going off?

No, it's Bruce!!

sydney 5 team fouls

going down to the wire!

someone stop bruce!!!

Someone stop Bose!

seriously, why the hell is simpson benched? he is having a cracker and only 23 minutes of game time. can anyone explain?

Last play should be interesting...........

No!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kings lead. 8 seconds left

YOU BEAUTY!!!!

CHRIS WARREN !!!!!!

WARREN with the 3!!!!! 2 seconds left

Yeeeeeeeeees, Warrrrrreeeeeeeeen!

this would have been an awesome game to go to

Waaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG SIXERS WIN!!!!!! Well done Warren!!!!

Without Warren hitting a shot on the buzzer Why would you leave simpson out for the last 7 minutes of the game!!! I know he is bad at foul but come on that is stupid!

Why would you play Darren Ng for the last 7 minutes of the game when he has only played 5 minutes up to that point!!!

We massively got out of jail on this one!!

RABBIT!!!

oh its not over :( Over time :(

OTTTTTTT

Noooooooooo! overtime!

going to overtime!!

Not yet - Adelaide foul with 1 second on the clock - Now for OT

damn this is going to be an awesome week for my dream team!!!!

Hell no, not another bloody overtime game against the Kings.

We got to 100 first, we got to 100 first. ..................

WWWWWWWAAAAAAARRRRRRREEEEENNNNN ***************the state goes spastic**************

OMG you jinxed us KingJames! Called it too soon! OT now

why the hell did johnson foul Kazza with 1 second left!!!!

who the hell fauled!

lol sorry! Now we are stuffed with DJ out

Um....it's gone to overtime. Man I would love to know what's going on with the rotations and minutes. Can't comment without seeing, knowing the inside story.

Id say it wasnt DJ's plan to foul haha Hopefully the 6ers show a backbone and get a solid win on the road here. 5 minutes to revenge the embarrassment the Kings showed us at the Dome

ah typo in anger

i think the kings will win it from here

Ballinger is done! Just saw the box score, injured or not, neither will do him good for his future at the 6ers.

Ya, love to see what's going on....
Helliwell with 2 steals and no rebounds...

what's he doing? lying on the ground??

I agree as Simpson will be cold from sitting out for 7 minutes so he wont have no impact and DJ is fouled out.

The case for Creek getting more of Weigh's minutes getting stronger.................

I guess Helliwell has to play - Simpson would be giving up too much height. Blocked twice in a row.

Kobe what more could Ballinger do in 4 minutes of court time? or are you saying the coach is over him?

Both teams gone tight, 5-2, not goos signs, 6ers need to throw caution to the wind with 1:30 left.

Why are we resting Crosswell and his 4 fouls with 30secs left...in case we go to 2nd overtime?

KJ, im saying his confidence is destroyed, the coach is over him and his inability to do anything even in 20minutes of play has become the white elelphant in the room.

how that game got to OT is beyond me. just cant win games

Ballinger got injured. My bro's at the game.

Kobe I agree in the other games but this game he had 5 points in 4 minutes at 100%. Someone said he is injured so that is probably why he didn't play again

Argh, now we need a miracle. This just adds to the frustration. The friggin Kings again!!!!!!

Didn't manage anything in those final 9 seconds. Disappointing.

How did we not get up a shot with 9 seconds to go after the foul shots? Did Weigh have the ball and didn't want to stuff up his wonderful stats of 4/14 in 35 minutes.

Yeah and im saying A if its an injury, the way he came back from the last, he will be just about done as a 6er my the time he gets back to whatever his best anymore, and B if it was due to performance i wouldnt be surprised either.

However you look at it, the 6ers still find ways to lose games they shouldnt, such a shame, genuine almost good team.

did they really call a timeout before the 2 shots for martin? im just going by the NBL site? how about calling it after he makes both and advancing the ball, really quick shot 2 or 3 then foul again..

*Rolls eyes* hmmmmmmm

Good effort though. Hopefully they can back it up on sunday. At least they have 3 days to rest b4 the Breakers @ home.

man what a disappointment. We just cant get a back to back win.

Weigh shot 4 from 14 in 36 mins ?!?
Creek shot 3 from 6 in 8 mins !

that is disappointing.

how disappointing my tab bet gon3e - top work boys that was a cracker effort
with jonno not fouled out game was ours
the man is a gun
i think rotations are fine we getting enough looks need condidence and up tempo defence
cant wait for sundy gunna be a cracker
confidence frompushing kings to limit and cats win

Well, that sucks. Ballinger injured and presumably Helliwell combatting Khazzouh. But even if Khazzouh is so hard to stop, there's less of an excuse for Bruce, Bose, etc.

If we're Perth's bogey team, maybe Sydney is ours.

I am still shocked why in a game where the Sixers needed to win they would take Simpson off for the last 7 minutes in the the 4th quarter (he came back on with 8 seconds to go).

I am even more shocked why they would play Darren Ng for the last 7 minutes of the 4th quarter after he had only played 5 minutes for the game. He played all his minutes in the second and came off with about 2 minutes to go. So he had been off the court for about 28 minutes (2 minutes, 10 minutes half time, 10 minutes 3 quarter time, 3 minutes end of 3rd, 3 minutes start of 4th) before Clarke put him back on to play the most crucial part of the game.

How Helliwell can play 27 minutes and not get a single rebound while kazzouh pulled in 21 is an absolute disgrace. Weigh y so shit?? Im gonna get off now before I throw the computer out the window

Another crushing loss. JK too much yet again. The FT count was interesting.

More thoughts here

http://36reasons.blogspot.com/2011/12/questions.html

That is fine I am still happy not to have Bruce on the team regardless of what he does against us.

Clark must be getting paid more by Sydney than he is the 6er's cause he just finds ways to lose games against these guys.

WTF does Simpson have to do to actually be on the FREAKING court in the last minutes of the game. Difference of going to overtime and winning in reg time.
Creek well done, he will go play somewhere else and Dominate Weigh in a few years and Clark will still be going on about his 3 year plan.

Isaac ever OTHER team is our bogey team. For Simpson to be benched for last 7minutes of regulation, shows genuine uneducated coaching from Clarke. Please i dare someone to argue this point? Diamon is a stud and can go and go, yet he cant play the majority of a 40minute game, c'mon Marty, admit it you're out of your depth a bit and panic and somehow i guess forgot he was on the bench still??

[quote] somehow i guess forgot he was on the bench still??[/quote]

Hahahahahaha Thats gold!

aww http disabled :(

Isaac ever OTHER team is our bogey team.




Cats aren't.

Agree "anonymous". Creek and Weigh should be splitting the SF role. No reason he shouldn't be getting 12-24 minutes a game. If this doesn't change soon the Weigh "minutes clause" theory will gain momentum.

Times like these I wish we kept ninnis haha.

Perhaps with Ballinger injured for most of the season, Clarke is wrapping Simpson in cotton wool because he can't afford to have him injured as well. What other reason could he possibly have for his system that stinks of poor judgement.

That's it guys, start planning for next season, sorry, no excuses for losing in that way. I would have accepted a miracle shot by Sydney but not a stupid foul to end a season.

No point wrapping an import in cotton wool - saving him for finals they are very unlikely to make?

Three points in five minutes of OT.

Aaron Bruce has reportedly attracted NBA attention (along with Kazzoo) & the 6ers didn't try to resign him? Something is not right with your decision makers over there! Clarke may have been a little unlucky tonight but he does seem to be sinking as opposed to swimming in the big mans shoes!

Just me again. Wanted to be the 100th poster on this thread!!

Those subs make absolutely no sense - especially Simpson.

Rather sick of this.

Also, with the photos Weigh obviously has of Marty with a hooker or whatever, does the club get those back once the season ends and we've met the 35mpg quota?

Well I'm glad when working my finances to save money by not getting a 36ers season ticket. What a waste of time. A coach who has been there over 2 years and nothing, with his years of experience, he has given nothing, changed teams each year. When does one learn that keep a team together for more than a year and you have experience. Maybe the owners of the team do not understand winning form. I know we are down under but the top of the ladder is that way up.
Talking to friends today many are pulling to plug and leaving after this season. Even a new coach there will need to be a lot done to make people interested in the 36ers again.

My morale is low after this loss. It's inconsistent.
You win one game and lose the next. There is no momentum to win one and win the next to build a streak.

The coaching moves continue to baffle me. He shows no improvement. I want him gone. Sooner the better.

It's going to be a painful slow season this year as a season ticket member. I'll weigh up in the off season whether to renew or not.

I'll be there Sunday with a negative attitute. I'm expecting a silent crowd. I'm expecting we'll get thrashed by 20-30 points.

The Balls injury doesn't look good. I'm fearing this might be a final season.

Let's see what happens.

Disappointing to lose, but

All this talk of rotations get you nowhere guys. During the 7 minutes Simpson was on the bench we outscored the Kings and took what should have been an unbeateable lead in regulation. What more can you ask? Who cares who is on the bench, who is on the court if you put yourself in a winning position, and should have won? How is it Marty's fault that his coaching and rotations nearly won the game for the Sixers? They had a freaking two point lead with two seconds left on the clock. But don't let the facts get in the way of having yet another gripe session guys!

Fact is, we scored what should have been the match winning basket with two left on the clock. Save for a miracle shot, the Kings should not have been able to equalise under any circumstances. So either DJ had a brain fade to foul, or the umps found another ghost foul on Kaz (as the anon poster above suggested). Can't blame the coach for either.

In overtime it seems we were out of personnel and out of skill. Going to Wade for the save three times in overtime is not going to win you many games. But the Sixers were always going to lose that game once it went to OT on Sydney's court, with our front court decimated.

Why would anyone declare that Simpson WOULD have won us the game in regulation when he was on court for the whole of OT and we ended up NOT winning? Pfft, the quality of considered comment on this forum has definitely dropped in the last few years...

End rant.

"Why would anyone declare that Simpson WOULD have won us the game in regulation when he was on court for the whole of OT and we ended up NOT winning? Pfft, the quality of considered comment on this forum has definitely dropped in the last few years..."

You forgot to pencil in two key factors as to why OT was different then the 4th quarter

1. Prior to over time Simpson was on the bench for 7 minutes before that and then 3 minutes (or is it 2 minutes?) during the end of quarter break. So he was out for 10 minutes, do you expect him to be as effective then?

2. DJ was fouled out so that makes it a lot more difficult for Simpson to be effective without another quality big man out there.

So you think it was a smart move to bring in Ng who had barely played to play the last 7 minutes and take off Simpson and replace him with Helliwell for those 7 minutes even though Simpson was possibly playing the best for us up to that point. Would Sydney take Khazzouh off for the last 7 minutes and put on Martin Iti instead? of course they wouldn't! Clarke continues to make poor coaching decisions which is reflected by his career losing record and is why if the Sixers don't beat NZ this sunday that he should be replaced.

You guys can use Challenge Stadium next year when we move to the Perth Arena if you want?

Seem to play the best there!

Hey come on, it's not all about the wins and losses...... it's about, ummmm....

Who cares if it was a draw at full time and they did well. THEY STILL LOST
What hope do they have with the coach?
What point is there getting a new coach?
Might as well let the coach play out his season. Yes i said play, he obviously isn't working hard at getting the team up to win, probably unfit team as well. Watching some of the game they were not up to what Sydney were doing. Watch carefully at the end and see how tired 36ers were to the kings.
They only won the game against Perth as the sub coach knew how they play. I will never post on this team again as me and my mates who paid big money to watch a losing team have decided not to renew the season tickets next year. Maybe in a couple years time. I think they are trying to out do St Kildas AFL drought, I know one thing they are doing at least a good job of that in comparison. Will not be watching them against the kiwis that will be about as interesting as watching grass grow at cricket.
Oh you cannot blame the players excepting the ones who stayed the last 2.5 years after all the COACH decided to change them for a winning combination.
Nathan your probably the only one left of 2 years ago who could still play good basketball. Maybe the yank should go home and the other guy return to piano lessons

KingJames,

1. Yes. He is a pro. But who cares, as I said, we won the period whilst he sat on the bench.

2. Your point being? You blame Clarke for the loss whilst elevating Simpson to demi-god status. See point 1.

Can you prove the Sixers would have won the period by a more comfortable margin if Simpson was on the court? Maybe it was Simpson's D in the third that had us giving up a comfortable half time lead? But you didn't see the game but can positively blame Clarke for the loss?

Do I think it was smart to bring on Ng for 7 minutes in the third? Didn't see the game, but Ng seemed to be pretty handy in those minutes. Four points, a couple of boards, a few threes didn't drop (but which I am happy for him to take). Why? Are you telling me that it was because Ng was on court that we lost the game?

This has been said a hundred times, but why not once more....We got rid of the last coach because a finals appearance one year, then losses the next with average players wasn't a good enough result. Fast forward to now and we have a quality junior coach with a much better list of players, but to date his record is worse than the previous coach and we're only half way through his second season!...How many times can this be overlooked?

Does he not deserve to see the season out like Ninnis did?

"Can you prove the Sixers would have won the period by a more comfortable margin if Simpson was on the court?"

Sixers out scored Perth 22-12 in the 4th quarter last game with Simpson playing 8 minutes of it. Simpson also probably rates in the top 5 players in the league currently. So I would say it is a higher probability that they would have done better with him being on rather then Helliwell. Once again would Khazzouh be replaced by Martin Iti or would Worthington be replaced by Tom Garlepp for the remaining 7 minutes of the 4th, regardless of what they did in the 3rd quarter?

"Are you telling me that it was because Ng was on court that we lost the game?"

No I am saying it is a low percentage play to bring a hot and cold player whose defense most consider to be average off the bench after sitting on it for almost 30 minutes. If he was brought on in the last 2 minutes for free throw purposes then that is fine.

If Clarke continued to win games I would be fine with those decisions but since he continues to lose games I see a huge problem with his low percentage decisions.

a key factor is that our supposed best player had been a zero contributor and know sounds like is injured again

36ers are going in under manned almost every night whilst this happens.

The team cant carry Ballinger in such a tight competition. We cant afford to go into games being a 60 point team playing better personnel.

We need to bring in a big asap that will help the team.

Bruce continues the ax-chops.
Three wins instead of 3 losses if he played for us , instead of against us. Top 4.

Alternatively KingJames, you could congratulate Clarke for his master rotations in the 4th, which got us back into the game, and into the lead, and which had us in an apparently unloseable situation with two seconds to go.

I am ambivalent about Marty's future with the Sixers, but at least criticise him for something he has done wrong, rather than something he apparently did reasonably well. Your hindsight assessments, without even having watched the game, blaming Clarke for that loss is unreasonable.

XY you seem a bit blinded by the whole Clarke thing, not sure how you can defend anything he has done. He kept a very good player on the bench during a period of the game, that he had to be in for. Imports are your money men, play them during the money periods of play. The fact the game went to OT, just shows that Clarke doesnt see the big picture, a supreme coach will always see every outcome play out in his head before it occurs. Clarke didnt see the game going to OT and needing Simpson ready to go from the start of the 5th period.

I wont sit here and listen to anyone genuinley endorsing Clarke at this stage, he is a big reason the 36ers brand is not doing a good job in this state.

Dear Marty,

Thanks very much for leaving my boy on the court despite his poor performance. His last coach didn't put up with poor shooting, lack of defence and turnovers. It is good to see that winning games isn't important to you ("W/L doesn't matter")

Someone's Mum

We were robbed!! Their back, it's been a nice few days not reading this shit from fools!! Hope we win Sunday to shut you clowns up!! 6ers have been great and recruited very well, how good would they be if Balls was up and about and at his best. Marty's fault too im guessing.No wonder players leave and never return.
Get real, support your team and if its not your team piss off!!

Kobe 24, it is pretty clear XY is being pretty balanced in his assessment.

Isaac, I didn't mean wrap Simpson in cotton wool to save him for finals, I meant to save him for the rest of the season.

Everyone who is talking about not renewing their season tickets and following through on it is contributing to the death of the 36ers. Whilst Clarke is at the helm and doing a lousy job of it, it is very frustrating but whilst the team survives in South Australia, that can change for the future. If they shut up shop altogether because of lack of support, then there won't be an opportunity to see better times in the future. I want the 36ers to stick around but the coach to go. Fail to continue to support them, the 36ers will also go. So can I suggest to everyone to stick around and support the team to ensure their survival and future enjoyment of the sport in this state. Patience and perserverance is required and the rewards will come.

+/- for the game:

Sydney

• Graeme Dann (13)
• Julian Khazzouh (10)
• Anatoly Bose (7)
• Ben Madgen (5)
• Kevin Ratzsch (2)
• Luke Martin (0)
• Aaron Bruce (-1)
• Luke Cooper (-1)
• Jerai Grant (-15)

• Adam Ballinger (4)
• Darren Ng (3)
• Daniel Johnson (-1)
• Chris Warren (-2)
• Nathan Herbert (-2)
• Mitchell Creek (-3)
• Nathan Crosswell (-4)
• Wade Helliwell (-4)
• Stephen Weigh (-4)
• Diamon Simpson (-7)