taipans by 3

Coenraad played last game. Davidson expected back.

Hawks might have lost a few recently, but I don't know that they're struggling as they've all been very close and competitive. Being without Davidson is a serious out - not like they could afford to bring in Dunigan as Perth did.

I agree with Isaac, the Hawks have remained competitive throughout and will be much stronger with Davidson back. I want the Taipans to notch a win but I think that the way Rhys Martin has been playing lately and with their lineup back to normal the Taipans may have to wait another week.

2hard2pass needs to get it to rhys martin more often.

NIce win to the Taipans Nice shooting Grabau

And with this result, Adelaide is dead last...

Hoping Sav spares an apology to teammates and fans. Very bad timing. Grabau would've had eight points in a couple of seconds?

Gordie is clearly a quality coach, grand final series three times working with low budget team and always very competitive. Love him in Adelaide.

37-17 fourth quarter and OT plus 94 for the game is pretty good for cairns since they usually struggle to score over 10 points a quarter..

Cairns have a much higher winning ratio in high scoring games, they just cant figure out how to do it consistently!

Who was it that played tonight? Where have the flat, lethargic Taipans that I've been watching all this season gone? Sensational. I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight ;-)

They looked a lot more alive with Steindl benched and Dusty Rychart absent, and Aaron Fearne managed not to do his usual trick of taking off anyone who starts to get on a winning streak.

And I said it last week and I'll say it again now: Grabau is classy.

You'll note that the person griping about Gordie was too ashamed to even put an alias to the post.

3 OT games and a loss by two.

Would've had this but for Sav's tech.

I dont think anybody was griping about Gordie somehow.

no shame in losing to Fearne, great Coach

Larry didn't look angry at all. Should get the doc to check him.

Haha!! Gee he's a good player, incredibly valuable to the Hawks. If you were doing a top 15 in the league youd be silly to leave him out ;-)

Supposedly in the press conference Grabau said Saville didnt foul him on that "play"

possible chinese whispers, would need to hear the full audio.

That 4th Qtr was pretty awesome. Love how Carfino and Joyce constantly refer to Grabau as a non shooter when the guy hit 45% from deep last season and is now going at 55% this season lol.

^ that's because Carfino's a moron who knows very little about the nbl

j0yce was making me angry with his calling. Bagging Taipans players, talking when he and gordie coached with the boomers. At one point when he grabau hit a three with a man in his face, he said it was only due to his defender being sucked into the paint with Trigger who was a good 5 meters away.

That refereeing was an inconsistent joke last night. I didn't really care who won but Wollongong (Demos in particular) have a right to feel hard done by.

Yeah, Joyce is an absolute *beep* of a commentator. Yelling out "Woah! when players dived on loose balls was one of the worst pieces of game-calling I've heard. He's generally just way too abrupt.

Carfino had a Brick Tamland moment (the guy from Anchorman) last night. Wilson made a spin move and Carfino said *quote* 'I like spin move'. I hope the blue bus was ready to collect him after the game.