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Years ago

36ers to play US College team on August 4th

From their newsletter

The Adelaide 36ers will kick off preperations for their 2012/13 season with an exhibition game against travelling US college team, the Nicholls State Colonels.
The game will be held on Saturday 4th August at the Adelaide Arena.
Adult tickets are only $10.00 with children 15 and under FREE.
Tip-off is 7:00pm.
Tickets are general admission and will be available at the door.

Only just over a month away!

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LC
Years ago

Nicholls State was the school of Anatoly Bose, and currently has three Aussies on their roster, including;

Prest, Lachlan (SA)
McBeath, Sam (NSW)
Smith-Hyde, Linden (NSW)

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Thomo
Years ago

awesome will be there

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anon
Years ago

good one clashes with ABA
Why not play on Sunday

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skip
Years ago

Probably because the US team will be elsewhere on Sunday.

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anon
Years ago

good one clashes with ABA
Why not play on Sunday

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KingJames
Years ago

No offense to Nicholls State but this wont even be a contest. Sixers will win this one by 30-50 if they try.

Nicholls State's tallest players are Prest and McBeath at 6'7.

It is great to see the Sixers play college teams but they could at least get a team out that will give them some competition.

I would prefer to see the Sixers go up against a much more competitive ABA All-Star team.

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benno
Years ago

sixes should smash them Nicholls state suck!

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Anonymous
Years ago

I'm old enough to remember when the reigning NCAA champs (Arizona) came out to play the 36ers in '97 I think it was.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Its a great idea, no matter how good or bad Nichols state are as it gives the 36ers new group a chance to play with each other, even trial/unearth a new import or 2 if they want to, plus the college team features a few aussies so a chance to keep an eye on them and see how they stack up against a NBL team as possible future pick ups.

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Years ago

yeah i remember when wildcats toured was a later date than that.

6ers will be rusty and ? at full strength.

Will probably go - reckon nicholls state have played in a few ncaa tourneys recently.

whereabouts in sa does prest hail from ?

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LC
Years ago

Nicholls State have not played in an NCAA tournament recently at all.

The fact is that Nicholls State is an average team in a weak Southland Conference. Good training nonetheless for the 6ers and NSU Colonels.

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Tornado
Years ago

Myself and a few mates will be in attendance, will be a good opportunity to see how they plan to use the twin towers, see if Creeky has developed more of an outside shot and the dynamic Cadee can bring to the team.

Will we have more players signed by this stage though??

At the moment we only have;

C - Schenscher
PF - DJ
SF - Weigh
SG - Creek
PG - Cadee/Crosswell

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Anonymous
Years ago

Yea, good point need a few players, i guess its also a good oportunity to trial a few Aussies for the remaining spots aswell.

At worst im sure they will have a few CABL ring ins to round out the roster, and again this just provides a opportunuty for our local talent to show the 36ers coaches what they can do.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Arizona played Sturt, not the 6ers
but yes Brett and a few other ring ins were in the Sturt team

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natwhereyouat
Years ago

Arizona also came to Wollongong I remember.. Michael Dickerson went off for about 40

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Jake
Years ago

Arizona played the 36ers. They had Bibby, Terry, Simons. I think Ninnis was playing ofr us at the time.

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AK-47
Years ago

Pretty sure Lachy Prest was from South Adelaide, will be good to see a couple of Aussie boys running round!

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Anonymous
Years ago

Yes, last time Arizona came out they just played Sturt but the time before that when they were the current NCAA champs they played the 36ers at the Dome.

I remember Leon Trimmingham doing a massive dunk and some booster from Arizona handed out some NCAA champs t-shirts and my brother and I got ours signed by some of the guys like Mike Bibby etc.

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Anonymous
Years ago

What a complete waste of time.

Sixers will win by 50 and there will be no-one there due to ABA etc on at other local stadiums.

Once again, sixers showing a complete disengagement with the local basketball community.

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Anonymous
Years ago

While it is a shame that it is on the same night as the last round of State League, I would assume that NSU are touring Australia and have a strict schedual, meaning they are only in Adel that night.

Unfortunate, yes. But at least the guys get a run
together.

My main concern would be who is going to play? Luke S, DJ, Creek, Cadee, Weigh, Crossy?. Problem is you cant bring up any youngsters as they will be playing that night. At least that core group will have a good preseason hit out!

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Anonymous
Years ago

anon nice excuse.

How about playing the game in the afternoon so basketball fans can go to both?

How about playing the game in conjunction with South Adelaide's ABA fixutre that round, given the opposition includes a South junior?

I assume this also means Creek, Johnson, Daly? other 'squad members' will have to choose between their NBL career and local club?

As mentioned above, just another example of the Adelaide 36ers lack of real interest in working with the local basketball community.

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