we need to finish in front - forget the great start FINISH IN FRONT.

" Mr Clarke may not be safe ,you average 20 and 4 against us , and we understand that you are the key ? " " That's right! I am !! " Aaron replied , in a little bit of excitement .

Tipping adelaide by 2 with crosswell to hit a critical 3 pointer somewhere in the game.

Have you been sniffing paint Smith?

Looking good thus far. Cmon 36ers !

Petrie with the ankle breaker

Crosswell a turnover within 6 seconds of getting in the game. I'm not sure if that is the type of veteran experience we are after.

Adelaide in control yet down at the first quarter.

New import 4 mins no points no shots one rebound,same outcome tonight IMO

Unbelievable offensive goal tending not called. Lazare tries to dunk it and misses the dunk, the ball goes off the backboard and the ring is shaking and down and the ball then goes in. How is that not goal tending?

King James you should be supporting the kings, the more games we lose the higher the chance we lose Clarke! :0

KingJames,

That is called 'a friendly roll'.

We do not have offensive goaltending in the NBL.

What are you going to call next? Illegal Defence?

KingJames...are you going to call goaltending on DJ's putback for Cadee?

Ben Madgen, tearing it up. should be playing NBA.

Gibson seems to be trying to pick the team up on his back and do his thing. (in spite of what coach says.)

"We do not have offensive goaltending in the NBL."

Marcus Camby, once again showing your intelligence on the game. Perhaps go check the rules.

The DJ one was close but thanks to my NBL.TV being pixelated at that moment and no reply it was hard to tell. It looked like the ball was already in and then he grabbed the ring, a play that you probably see every game.

Christopherson cant cut the mustuard, not his fault though, he is just out of college.

Another poor decision on marty's behalf.

Ok, offensive goal tending most certainly called in the NBL.
If the ball is above the level of the ring and on the way down with a chance to score then neither the O or the D are permitted to interfere with the ball

That's my understanding of the rule anyway

Can someone with a black & white shirt confirm?

Interesting game to watch thus far
Madgen is a very good 2 Guard

Sixers would look great with Gibson & Madgen (1&2)

Anon, Clarke cut CJ who was more capable and more experienced so what do you expect?

Perry, I agree he was a poor selection by Clarke and made even worse the decision to get rid of CJ.

Looks like the Sixers are falling apart again in the 4th. Hopefully this is Clarke and Radford's last game

I am rejoycing in this loss, surely they cant keep clarke now....:D

@KingJames..

My bad....there is offensive goaltending (interference) in the NBL.

Cheers Anon'264...

I'm sure I have made other mistakes in the past.

Just over two minutes and they are back within 2 shots........

Not settling for the outside shot in the 4th qtr is working, go figure.

still cant win it from here, another narrow loss.

@Perry....I thought you were 'rejoicing in the loss'?

Getting worried?

Guys,

Don't blame Marty.

Cheers.

Marcus C.

Bye Bye Marty.

I am rejoycing in the loss, its great, no more marty and his below mediocre coaching. Fingers crossed.

Sock Metry!!

@Perry...

Thats pretty poor form.

This game is crucial to the team's chances of playoffs.

Our import is that bad, Clarke must have hand picked him.
Well this should finally be the end for the so called coaching panel. But what irrepairable damage have they caused?

Perry, why do you believe Clarke will be sacked? Surely not because you read a story by a journo who couldn't get a quote from the Chairman.

Sack Marty.

even if they dont sack the coaches, atleast if we dont make the play offs then marty will definitely be gone.

lol marcus camby has been trolling you guys so hard for weeks now. keep going son.

The club need to seriously bite the bullet and sack the coaching staff please.

The player need a new voice, new direction, new insipiration. Someone who believes in them, delivers passion and instils confidence in the players.

Is Daly injured? How come he didn't get court time tonight against the Sydney Guards?

^ because he isn't good

So what does the mighty Marcus prophesies now?

Get rid of this waste of oxygen called Clarke now - FFS!!!

We last won on November 16. 51 days ago.

:-(

I'll throw in $20 of my own money to help payout the coach if the club is struggling for funds.

Anyone else willing to chip in?

Marcus is an obvious troll, well played Marcus.

I'm in, I just want clarke gone and for the 36ers to suceed, whatever that takes.

Guys...

I know you are a little disappointed with this result.

You can take heart that the guys (and Marty) put up a great game and almost snatched it in a hostile environment.

Just unlucky that it fell a bit short.

You guys have said many times you'd be happy if the 6'ers were competitive...well today they were very competitive.

Thank you SIXERS you loss tonight and sportsbet odds have now
Paid for my season tickets.

Well played Marty well played

Now don't let the door hit your useless arse on the way out and don't forget
To pack you red headed garden knome as carry on

Kings played Garlepp, White and Dann for about 20 minutes each. Crosswhite only played 15 minutes. We lost the rebound count.

Madgen is so tough. Had we grabbed him when we could, he might've been the next Maher for the club. Run him alongside Gibson and that's a tough backcourt.

Hostile environment??? I would have thought Adelaide was more hostile

only kept tabs on the Fiba stats tonight and after being in the game at 3/4 time I thought we had a chance. Stupid me!! open the last giving up 14-5 in the first 4 minutes. GAME OVER!

Is it too much to ask to have your best 5 starting the final quarter? for gods sakes there's enough time outs in the final quarter to give grown men, professional ballers 10 minutes of court time!

Well played Thommo, for some ridiculous reason I put $20 ON the sixers thinking this run has to be broken eventually!

Heal should get a lot of credit for finding a way to make Kevin White this season (and Alex Gynes last season) into a useful NBL player.

I think everyone is over CJ, no one will ever know if he would have made a difference. Looks like your import is a dud, think he was more useless tonight. Guess the Crocs aren't the worst team anymore.

@Ando...

Yes Adelaide IS MORe hostile than an away stadium for the Sixers.

Sixers played better away...from the home booing and the Sack Marty chants.

And Thomo, it's gnomb, you got it?

Squid I think you will find it is Gnome :-)

Just checking to see if someone was onto it!

Any coach that spent over the clubs own budget forcing them to shut up shop isn't the type of coach we want in Adelaide.

There is such a level of consistency with the Sixers ATM. You gotta love that! Marty should be proud of at least that. No team in this even-standard league is more consistent than Adelaide.

I'll write the press release in case it saves the 36ers some time:

---

Three seasons ago, we put our trust for the rebuilding of the 36ers as a team in a well-regarded coach in Marty Clarke. While he was yet to prove himself in the NBL, he had strong rapport with the younger players we need to attract to build our program, presented a strong case in his candidacy and is well-considered amongst his peers to the tune of Boomers assistant coaching responsibilities. Our selection panel was unanimous in backing him.

We were also enthusiastic about his support from the reigning championship assistant in Mark Radford.

At no point did we think the return of the 36ers to a place of power in the NBL would be easy or realised quickly. However, it remains very much a goal of the Adelaide 36ers and it is for this reason that we have come to an agreement with coaches Clarke and Radford that we will take a new direction after this season, and begin down that pathway immediately.

Both coaches, to their collective credit, have enjoyed strong support from players to whom they have offered a role of mentorship. Their commitment to the club and professional approach have not wavered. But the Adelaide 36ers are in the business of entertainment, aiming for success on court and the results have not come.

Any coach or player who relocates to our city, to dedicate themselves to our cause, has our appreciation. We absolutely wish both Marty and Mark good fortune in their future endeavours.

A caretaker coach will be announced by the club in the next few days. Towards the conclusion of the season, we will formalise the process of searching for, and appointing, a new head coach for the 2013/14 season.

---

Gold Isaac.

Issac: Madgen is so tough. Had we grabbed him when we could, he might've been the next Maher for the club. Run him alongside Gibson and that's a tough backcourt.

Gee doesn't Madgen get up for games against the 6ers! Can't believe he wasnt offered a spot from 6ers when he returned from College!

Don't want to take a pass at Clarke's resignation letter do you?

There is absolutely no payoff in replacing MArty and Mark @ this late stage.

The only positive is that it will clam rabid 'fans'.

Save the money, let Marty finish the season, then re-asses.

Isaac you should put in your application for the CEO position!

@Kevin...

Madgen and Bruce were sh!t 2 seasons ago, especially under Moose.

There is no shame in NOT picking them up.

Wasn't Bruce playing under Marty two seasons ago douchebag?

Marty,

No one is fooled by your "Marcus Camby" psudonym here on Hoops. Hand in your resignation to the club and stop trying to argue every little call during the game and every little point here on Hoops.

Adelaide want you gone.

How many weeks did it take in 2013 to fill Footy Park after the damage was done by Neil Craig?

Give the owners good steady income, act now and the fans will repay you immediately. Act later and there is a lot of financial burden that one of the owners needs to finance.

2012. My bad

Great press release Isaac, now hopefully the Sixers will actually go ahead with it.

Marcus Camby you are a bloody idiot - there is no way anybody could be so stupid and not be an idiot.

Clarke - FFS fall on the sword and take that other piece of shit Radford with you. I have had enough and I am quite certain the rest of the sixer fans have too!

It's interesting that the reason given for CJ's release was that we needed a guard who create his own shot - and then we proceeded to recruit a guard who is significantly less capable of creating is shot than CJ was (he could always get off a three even with someone in his face due to his high release point whereas Christophoson needs some space to get off a quick release).

Ive got nothing against Christophoson and I hope for his sake we keep him on till the end of the season, but from what I've seen in 2 games he's not really up to NBL standard.

i agree that we need to get rid of marty and mark but there is no point paying a whole lot money when their contracts expire at the end of this season.
put up with this for the rest of the season and then put the money we have retained on a good coach for next season

@Spinner..

I am trying to put an argument across to not waste money on another coach when the season is done.

What is so idiotic about that?

The more money you spend on the payout x 2 then a new coach and assistant, the less there is next year.

Is that hard to follow?

Mutley, I actually wrote three paragraphs of a potential outro media conference statement for him, then the iPad refreshed when I switched back to the tab and I lost it.

To be honest, I think the coaches should ideally be replaced, but I don't like some of the hatred from fans towards Marty. It's not as though he's been lazy or malicious or dishonest. I'm pretty confident he's doing his best and what he thinks will work, but it simply isn't. Well, not consistently enough to have the success needed. Sure, he's probably stubborn, inflexible, humourless and maybe sees his players too positively when maybe they could be rebuked here and there. But he gave up a good gig, tried what he could and so be it.

Jake, you wouldn't say that even jokingly if you saw how my business was run!

Camby, x games ago, the season was far from lost. It'd be tough from here, but now mostly worth it to salvage some support from paying customers. Forget the "true fan" junk -- a fair portion of the potential crowd are far more fickle. And their $x/ ticket is worth just as much.

And yes, your five year remark in another post put you into troll territory.

Or keep Marty and finish the season 5-23. As that is what will happen.

It is with great sadness yet wiTh some satisfaction that I enter this entry. I have watched SA crowds over the last 20 years or so through juniors nationals etc and one thing has always stood out. You are an ugly crowd ugly parents syndrome is what comes to mind and it is obvious it has carried on into your nbl crowd. You have the name. You are loud. You are arrogant. You are pathetic. Well you got your wish. You have bagged the shit out of your team forever and finally got what you deserve. You probably won't have a coach Team. Players or any one to bag next year so good luck to you. Everyone will move on and no doubt you will all move on to bag the nbl or some other team. Well get over your selves. You deserve what you get. You are losers with a capital l and good luck if you have a team next year in getting any one to play for you. Because no one will ever be good enough for you lot. You are the pits. Boooo to you. May you all rot in hell

^ Early frontrunner for the "Dumbest Comment of the Year". Congratulations!

Especially this line: "You are losers with a capital l". - You can't teach this sort of comedic genius!

Whoops, meant Bolter's comment.

Ha ha you wish. @ anon. I'm with u

Trying to find a boxscore for the game - kinda hard when according to the NBL website the latest news is that the Sixers lost to Breakers!!!

Great press release Isaac, a job in PR beckons

The boxscore is on the NBL website.

The fans have come to expect that this season is a lost cause and that nothing can save it now. They will be looking to next season for better results. They will come back next season knowing that the current coaches have been replaced. What is important now is to choose carefully the new head coach and with the right coach, hopefully the right players will play for the 36ers. It should be the top priority right now and current players need to know before they commit to next season. The height of frustration this season and the previous 2 will heighten the expectation of next season and fans will want to be a part of it. After all, despite the doom and gloom of the last 3e seasons, still around 4,000 people attend games.

Hey Jack, how do Isaacs balls taste?

better than your mother's

That doesn't explain why you have to wash Isaac's

EC, from the look of last nights crowd it wasn't as high as the posted 3,997. Are they trying to say the arena was roughly half full? Didn't look like it was.

Isaac Ben Madgen playing great in Sydney, you dont really think he would be doing the same if he was in Adelaide. This is the home for breaking players, the lsit is endless and growing.

Clarke is killing this club.

Do something about it or there won't be one.

Has anyone checked on Bolter? It's always awkward when a guy / girl goes off their meds and posts on the net. I mean, I know we joke around a lot on here, but that's the kinda personality that ends in a mass shooting.

Also, why didn't Magden or Garlepp get any minutes here? It's a growing list of SA talent that we couldn't nurture.

The sad thing is with a bit of smarter recruiting a couple of years ago we could have signed Madgen, Bruce for quite reasonable prices, Madgen would have signed as a minimum player for the kings as the 11th man im assuming, Bruce would have probably cost a bit more say 80-100k, if we had signed both for 3 years at the time we would have had them both for a combined around 140-150k, imagine that, if you divided the salary cap evenly accross the positions you essentially have 200k per position or 400k for the guards. So we would still have room for Gibson and/or an import or a solid aussie guard like Carter (another guy we should have kept)or Crosswell

Imagine if we had the brains to do this, which i for one wanted, Madgen came back after a huge college career at the same school/level as boomers like Barlow and Worthington, how we didnt snap him up straight away is beyond me,

We could have had a guard rotation of

SG Bruce (100k)/Madgen (50k)
PG Gibson or import (150k)/Carter or Cadee(100k)

Just imagine that as our backcourt rotation.

Sure Madgen would cost alot more to retain now, but if we had locked him in for 3 years in his rookie season along with the others i reckon those prices are fairly realistic, assuming 150k is about the max for a NBL player.

To me a starting backcourt of Cadee/Gibson doesnt cut it in the NBL right now, Cadee may get there and i was a fan of his signing but he isnt there yet, we need a good import starting with Gibson if we want to make a run at the playoffs.

I love Gibson and see Cadees potential, but if i had the choice right now between a combo of Bruce/Madgen or Gibson/Cadee im taking Bruce/Madgen even though Gibson is probably the best player out of them. If we had recruited better a few years ago we could realistically have all 4 of them in 36er singlets right now.

It would be great to have Madge in a 36ers uniform.
He is a credit to himself and SA. He was pretty much overlooked by every club, Sydney gave him 11th spot and he worked his way in. Got opportunity to play, started slowly but found coach who uses his strengths to teams advantage, Rest is history. Probably wouldn't have happened in Adelaide, be waiting in the corner to shoot the ball and end up on the bench.
In my opinion "sad but true"

Over the past 5 years there has been absolutely no improvement both on and off the court and it gets to the point where enough is enough. Poor coaching choices have been made, little effort has been put into marketing the club, players have been treated poorly, coaches have been treated poorly, the stadium has remained untouched, in game entertainment is watered down at best and the club is now staring down the barrel of another wooden spoon.

@548

I agree 100%. Every year I feel we are going to turn a corner and start heading towards be a major player in the finals again. Every year that feeling gets quashed.

We need a change but I feel that this season like the last 5 seasons is gone.

If we had Madgen for the last three seasons, do you really think he would have come on like he has? My feeling is we probably would have killed his career like all the other hopefuls that we have had. Ie Creek, Hill etc should have come on quicker than they had.

Agree with you Ando, the best thing Madgen did for himself was to stay away from Adelaide. Although Clarke lacks any ability as a game day coach, he was renowned for developing players. Current players who have had more than one season with him have gone backwards.

GOO KINGS

I think Madgen is the type that would've run with his opportunities wherever he was, and been too good to ignore. No matter the coach.

Will MC please go to the board and recommend a replacement but stop short of where and who. Then see if the board get the hint. if not, i will give up on sacking (.)

@Isaac...

If the crowds are fickle, then I must question whether (in the event of a coaching change) they'd swarm to the 6'er games knowing the games have zero playoff chances?

Yes you may have a few 'knowledgable fans' come back to the fray but is it worth it?

Better that the board has the time to assess their options now and save the money for next year.

The five year comment was from Marty, which I used in jest.

Yea i agree Isaac re Madgen, thats why its soo frustrating to me that we didnt make him a good 3 year offer as soon as he returned from college, even before that, he was willing to take an 11th man spot for the kings, so it wouldnt have taken huge money, he came from the same college/level as Wortho and Barlow and put up amazing numbers so it would have been a fairly safe bet that he would do well in the NBL even if he didnt get to Boomers level.

I remember the year he was a 36ers development player i heard on interviews guys like Smyth, Farley raving about how good he was, Farley predicted he would be the next big thing in SA basketball from memory when asked who was the best young player he had seen training with the 36ers, which is why i took an interest in his college career which he put up amazing numbers, sure it was a Div2 school put his numbers were better than most aussies put up in any college d1 or d2. When he came back and played a few games for the Mavs i heard smyth maybe on kg and the general or something like that in the media talking about going and watching him and how good he thought he would have been, how do the 36ers just ignore this stuff and let yet another star SA player go elsewhere is beyond me, sure Smyth missed Ingles and Newley, but they only played a couple of years of NBL each then went to Europe to me missing Madgen is worse as he will likely play 10 years of NBL, and could have easily been in 36ers uniform if the coaches/club made a real effort to get him initially and i think it would have been a very good educated guess that he would turn out to be atleast a solid NBL player, even if you didnt predict this seasons form. His numbers at ABL level match up to guys like Hill, Bruce, Ng, so you could easily suggest he would be of similar level to them based on that aswell, Hill and Bruce are starters and Ng was a decent rotation player. Madgen also has good size for a sg, so i cant see what made the 36ers pass him up, even if we had offered him the 11th spot before the kings i reckon we would have had a fair shot of getting him and then he would have proven to be better than Ng, Hill, Herbert before to long and the rest would take care of itself.

Marty has done a good job bringing young talent to Adelaide in Creek, Johnson, Weigh, Cadee but possibly missed the best out of the lot in Madgen (Creek may surpass him but i dont think the others will, some would argue Johnson but imo Madgen is better and smarter player) and he is a SA boy who probably would have been cheaper to sign than the others in the first place.

I honestly beleive we could have had a back court rotation of Gibson or star import, Bruce, Madgen, Carter or Cadee had the coaches done a better job at looking after and recruiting/retaining some of these guys. How GOOD would that have been, we wouldnt be in the mess we are in now with those guys in our team even with the same coaches.

Our front court is fine for me, not perfect but we havnt had as many slip through the cracks or be let go, maybe we could have kept/got Hill, Holmes, Forman but the guys we have instead are just as good or better so not so worried, where Madgen and Bruce or Carter along with Gibson would be sooo much better than Gibson with Cadee and Crosswell and if we had a Gibson/Madgen starting guard rotation it wouldnt matter who was coaching, our team would be far better than what it is now, id almost guarantee we would be top 4 instead of the kings.

Its all in the past, but another poor selection/decision by the coaches, which is just made worse by there top young talent not being anything close, this was a large reason why Smyth got let go, so why does Marty not get the same and he has won far less games than Smyth did.

Am i being too simplistic in suggesting maybe as a general rule any Aussie returning from college avereging more than 5-10ppg at either d1 or d2 should be heavily targeted especially SA players and any SA player who leaves the AIS should be heavily targeted, if we had done that properly we would have had all of Ingles, Newley, Madgen come through our club, how much less painfull would have the last decade been.

Sure they wont all work out, but the ones that do, even not all superstars ala Madgen, Newley, Ingles, Forman, Holmes, Hill would more than make up for the few that wouldnt, i would guess there havent been too many SA players put up decent d1 or d2 college numbers or come straight out of the AIS and have not been decent at NBL level. These guys initially would not be overly expensive to recruit either so can be a good way to get a starting level talent for a lower wage, by taking a risk (educated at that) on good SA talent.

Our first years team under clarke could have easily been something like

C Schenscher/Forman (Forman wont actually play C, Ballinger would slide over for 10 mins a game)
PF Ballinger/Holmes
SF Hill/Herbert/(Creek)
SG Import guard (DeVries)/Ng/Madgen
PG Carter/Kersten/Daly (Bruce)

(Bruce and Creek waiting in the wings to come in as they did)

I basically blended the Fleet HSH team with guys who played for the sixers around that time for Ninnis or in Clarkes first team, picking up a couple of SA guys with college experience in Madgen and Kersten which is what i wanted them to do, i would have been happy to grab Schenscher instead of an import pg (Winder) and risk the weaker pg rotation, and just signed Forman instead of Johnson and i still reckon it would have been a better team and one that could reasonably easily been held together for a number of years.

Plenty of good talent and SA talent at that for the crowd to get behind and follow year after year.

Then you could just retain the bulk of them for the next 3 years and i guarantee things would have been better, you could even move Weigh and Johnson in for 2 of the forwards say Ballinger and Forman over the journey and we still would have a good core, but wouldnt be too fussed if we didnt get Weigh and Johnson and kept Ballinger and Forman either.

Some would say the PG rotation is a bit week, but Carter and Kersten (if he was still interested in playing NBL, another AIS/college returnee from SA) were good young prospects and proven to be ok with the support of a import guard imo, and if Madgen came through like he did and the pgs were struggling we could have got a more pure pg, we also had Bruce come in mid season which would have helped pgs as there are not many pg rotations better than bruce/Carter imo.

To me Clarke got too focussed in getting his guys from the AIS and imports who play his way and without flair and creativity, which usually means they are not match winnng/stud type imports, which isnt all bad, and has landed us some fairly good players, but has meant we have missed out on/lost good players especially Bruce and Madgen, both to me are top 4 Aussie guards in the NBL, how the 36ers dont go heavily after Madgen and not even really try to retain Bruce, i would have matched Sydneys offer or close to keep him, he would have been as good if not better than Warren our import anyway, Howard also would have been decent if we used him properly let him play with flair and freedom offensively like Farley used to for example, Winder, Warren a similar storey and DeVries just got injured (which is no ones fault).

All in all there have been a lot of things that could have done better in recruiting, and some of this goes back to previous coaches and management aswell, in isolation many decisions have not been shocking at the time, ie Ng for Madgen at the time didnt look like a bad decision it just hasnt worked out well, but i think we could have made room for both, and should have. The roster is still ok, its just the way they are used which is on the coaches and why sooo many are frustrated, even without thinking of the players we have missed out on/let go.

@Anon'646...

Yes Crowds like winning.

But will they like to attend games (even wins) with no chance of progression above 5th?

I think that 'fickleness' you spoke of will probably make them stay away regardless of who is coach.

This is now a good opportunity for Marty to utilise his development skillset and give more time to up and coming talent.

Master Chief, no, it's not showing up. Do you have "Master Chief" in the Name box before you post?

Isaac - Chose that alias in the account settings but didn't insert it manually before each post. Is that required or just an idea to make it show?

Thanks.

Yeah that obviously worked. Thanks again.

I think Christopherson DOES have the ability to shake a few players in this league :

- Luke Schenchser.
- Daniel Johnson.
- Nathan Crosswell.
- Pero.

741- That is why the offence is so terrible at times. Weigh passing to crosswell when it should be other way round. Seems to be the only guy finding open looks through plays but is not a shooter.

Croswell is a drive and dish/score player. Has hurt Adelaide many times in the past. Wouldn't dismiss him having an impact under better coaching either.

Chief, you enter it once and then it should remember it from that point.

36ers have two of the top five three point percentages right now - Weigh at #1 and Gibson at #3. Bit of a decline after Petrie though.

Weigh needs to see more looks then IMO. I am a weigh fan.

Yeah thanks for ya help.

JA - Remember BA brought in a YAP Rule .
Young Australian Player under the age of 23 had to be in each teams ten . Ninnis signed Chris Molitor to comply. Returning College players were too old , so they made it under 24 . Clarke signed Daniel Johnson for 2 years as the nominated YAP , to comply , and for 2 years .
Later , this rule was scrapped .

Yea, my line up didnt consider that, but we could have atleast put most of it together, just take out one of the forwards and swap Johnson in to fill the YAP rule, the guard rotation was still possible, which is my biggest frustration,

i enjoy watching the kings play as im a fan of both Bruce and Madgen, but its frustrating as im like the 36ers could have easily had both of them with a import or Gibson, how much better would our team be with that guard rotation, even with the exact same forwards and centres as we have now.

the YAP rule was one thing that didnt help guys like Kersten from memory, didnt the sixers want him at one point but he was a month or 2 over the limit and they had filled the rest of the roster and ended up with Molitor to fill the YAP criteria?

"36ers have two of the top five three point percentages right now - Weigh at #1 and Gibson at #3. Bit of a decline after Petrie though. "

The list on the NBL site is wrong, Weigh and Gibson are actually #5 and #7. That is still pretty good but as you say most of the team has dropped away badly since early in the season.

^^ Rather than wrong I should say the list is poorly done. For some reason it doesnt count Grabau, Saville, R Martin and Ballinger who have all shot between 23 and 41 3pfga (and are making between 42 and 48%), definitely enough to be considered in the top five list.

Reminds me of classic commentary from Gaze (I think) who said three pointers werent Grabau's specialty. Yeah, he only hit 45% of them last season!

He wouldn't run?

Get rid of crosswell nobody even has to play D on his outside game clogs it up for everyone else