I'd love to mate but I'm enjoying your overachieving team come back to the pack.

I don't think your a finals team and I haven't felt that all season.

Sorry I can't answer why your coming back to pack but 36ers intensity isn't there.

I'd use BJ Anthony more as you need his agressiveness and intensity as Schenscher and DJ have no mongrel in them.

I think Cadee basically feels like he's lost his identity, he dominated when Ervin went down and now what?

I'm not sure how big an issue this is but during the Wildcats game both teams were rotating players at the rate of knots. Carter would come on for a minute and go off for 3 and come back on for a minute...

I think Frye going was the move to make. They gave him as much time as possible to find form after the injury but never happened. I saw him preseason and he was great but now a shadow of that. Now hopefully we get better defence and outdide shooting which the Sixers need.

We are 2nd on the ladder. Sure we have lost a couple of games but we will bounce back. Proud,.......you have no idea. To say we are not a finals team showd you have no idea about the game. I tought school holidsys had finished?

Adelaide will still make the playoffs. They're just not playing like a finals team right now.

2nd on the ladder... with an anchor.

You overachieved. Your roster isn't really that great. You have one 31 year import who is playing very average in a key position. You have no perimeter threats and are very predictable on offense. You will be lucky to win another game this year

Opposition teams have observed us in 2013 and now know us in 2014. We have not adjusted or changed tactics yet, hence the little rough patch we're having. My personal opinion.

Statistically Adelaide haven't been the unequivocal 2nd best team this season. Winning more than our share of close games has been misleading.

With Ervin regressing, the team making a (seemingly) sideways move in swapping Frye for Carter and experiencing significant adversity over the past few weeks, the real season starts now.

Worst case scenario they finish 4th but I think they will end up 3rd. They need to move on from melee quickly and find form on the court. Ervin and Johnson played like crap last night not a good sign from your best two players.

I think some injuries slowed them up; replacing Frye with Carter will take a while to shake-out as well. If it does, will take some creativity to answer the peculiarities the team imbalance will produce (the small forward position weakness).

Calm down. I don't think we have gotten worse I think other teams have stepped up. We have had a good season and personally finishing in the final four after last season is a good improvement.
The games we have lost our shooting percentage has changed and teams are stopping the running game we destroyed teams with, small adjustments can fix this again.

why is this turmoil? its turmoil if over the salary cap, its turmoil if the club was ran unprofessionally, its turmoil if the nbl sanctioned players n club for off/on field misdemeanors. none of this has occurred!

so....if by losing 2 away game means turmoil, check the dictionary cos right now, its a gross exaggeration to the highest level.

Sadly, I reckon Lawsy is pretty close to the mark.
Must have someone who can consistently drop a 3, otherwise we're always playing catchup to the rest of the teams that can.

I see why we cut Frye for Carter, we need more perimeter shooting. Frye had become almost a liability on offence, his lack of a jump shot had now become known around the league.

Yes we are stacked with guards but Gibbo is not consistent from outside, Ervin either. Cadee has been struggling all year so maybe Carter can be a solid shooting spark of the bench.

With the improved play of Creek, Frye became expendable. It's a ballsy move but one I think can pay off if we can fix the offence. The offence lacks dribble penetration, someone who can really drive and dish to the bigs underneath. Carter is pretty good at this, Ervin is more of a drive and shoot guy, same with Gibbo and Cadee.

Please explain

I like both DJ and Schenscher but when they are losing they aren't exactly known for their hustle play and would rather stand back and watch team mates jump on a loose ball or help on the weak side, that's where I think BJ Anthony is value.

In case you don't understand what I meant earlier Adelaide are NOT a good team, have had good games like spanking the Breakers at home but they have been a confident team and confident teams can win anywhere and want to keep playing.

Adelaide have won 4 games that I feel they should have lost this season (2 against Cairns, NZ and I think it may have been the hawks) those wins have given what is basically the same squad that's sat at the bottom of the ladder for 3 years.

Ervin is an improvement and DJ is better and Creek is better but the rest of the team have either regressed, stayed the same or in Gibbo's case, are so bloody inconsistent that you can't tell how good they really are.

Adelaide should make the playoffs and that will be proof of their overachieving and they can make a grand final if they can play fast paced games on their terms but if they can't then maybe the poster above is right and they won't win again this year.

Yep, Proud and Lawsy, must be overachieving after beating the Tigers after all the travel. When we win the next 3 at home can't wait to hear your excuses