Take anything Anstey says with a pinch of salt....just like his players do!

Yeah so true Isaac, the more I think about it, how could anyone really take Anstey's opinion as a valid one. What has be done to show his opinion should be respected from a coaching and scouting point of view. If he is so bad, dont report the incident.

On another note, is Worthington injured or just done? Looked woeful all series and is surely now considered a financial issue for the Tigers.

They won by 39 without Ervin but agree it sounds like sour grapes to me.

What a flog !

They won a big game 1 with Ervin notching 27, by 16... Anstey cant win either way with poor statements like that.

Well that's a knee in the balls

There would be coaches in junior levels better equiped to do that job.

It's possible he didn't want to get Goulding offside by not pursuing the charge.

I just assumed Anstey wanted a legitimate excuse for why he kept photos of Goulding's groin...

...and felt the need to show others.

Definitely sour grapes but you can't deny some merit in the statement after winning by 16 & losing by 11 with Ervin and then winning by 39 without him.

trolling

Joey's media antics had a purpose that was effective...something good, savvy coaches do.

Whether you like or dislike Joey you have to appreciate his coaching capacity in all of its facets.

I agree about how wrong it is that ex-players are given NBL roles because of their playing experience over seasoned coaches in the lower levels. When I did my Lvl 1 coaching accreditation the teacher made the opening remarks that one of the reasons that Australia punches above it's weight in International Competition is because of the great coaches we have at Junior/Club level. Things could be better if many of these great coaches were appointed to professional roles.

alexkrad, difference between SF1 and SF2 was partly homecourt advantage. One difference between SF1 and SF3 was likely the crowd riding Goulding into the dirt and the Tigers not having much of a back-up plan. They put up 32 threes to our 16 even though they were shooting at 22%.

Also seemed like Wright made it a real focus to work inside early with guys like Johnson and Petrie who are agile and can get to the line.

Early the score was still close. With 6:30 left in the second, the margin was only 8 despite all the noise and action. Then Morrison got another, subbed out and was effectively a non-factor from there. It was then that the game started to blow out. Morrison had a gimme at the end to give him 3 points for the game.

16 + -11 = +5

Do you seriously think booing Goulding but not Ervin playing was the difference between 5 points and 39?

Wright making the focus on bigs rather than guards is a direct reaction to Ervin not being available.

I think it was primarily a reaction to going away from that in SF2 and it not working. The foul trouble and rattling Goulding set up the early lead and then it compounded from there. 39 points was the final margin but they were stitched up with foul difficulties far earlier when the margin was not that extreme.

Anstey - Make sure brain is in gear before engaging mouth !

I haven't seen enough of adelaide play to know whether his comments have merit or not. But i have read so many times on this forum from adelaide supporters that they believe the team functions better offensively when ervin is not playing.
Now that an 'outsider' makes the same comment its just "sour grapes".
I agree that anstey should not be making these comments and quite possibly be sour grapes but surely there must be some merit in what he is saying?

Just bumped into Al Green.

Quoted Anstey from above.

Was not impressed lol

Less so with Goulding :p

It was a good adjustment by Joey to refocus the Sixers attack through the big men. They lost their way a bit in game 2 with all the long shots.

I think Anstey was just throwing out the first thing that came into his head with regards to Ervin. Sure the Sixers can be good without him, but he has an important role on the team as a closer.

One of the main reasons Marty's teams lost so many close games was because Gibson and Cadee aren't go-to scorers at the end of games. Ervin is.

Spot on Beantown.

Hopefully this will piss Ervin off and he will have 2 30+ point games to sweep Perth out of the championship :)

Only 10 minutes ago I read this on the NBL site. I was wondering if anyone had posted a thread on this site. If not, I would have started one and what I would have started with was exactly what Isaac said. Sour Grapes Anstey. No doubt Ervin has been hurt by the events of game 2 in Melbourne but even without him on court in game 3, he got his revenge.

alexkrad, booing Goulding but not Ervin playing was definitely the difference between 5 points and 39? It is almost the same difference between Goulding's score in game 2 and game 3.