Beyond this season, hopefully a good atmosphere tonight no matter the result encourages a pick-up in season ticket sales for 2014/15.

I am in shock!

https://www.facebook.com/theadvertiser/photos/a.176602446946.125562.92701406946/10152056955126947/?type=1&theater

The West has them on the front but not on the back. They apparently couldn't resist the urge to make another "fragile (Darren) Glass" joke again.

Not a Crow in sight can't wait to to hear Jack Toft's view on this...

Hopefully Adelaide don't choke (and Perth don't bring their A game) and this can go to game 3.

Hoping this works out to be a classic series. Wish it was 5 games :(

My advice to Joey, pay attention to the matchups and NEVER EVER allow Ervin, Cadee, Gibson, Teys to be on the floor at the same time. Run the offense through DJ and get the bigs to own the glass. Leave the little league players for regular season :)

RazzieMagoo,

Almost.......The Crow-vertiser wouldn't be the Crow-vertiser if it didn't do a Crows story. There was a little Crows story "Flag Dream Still Alive" that got slotted onto the back page, so not quite 100% NBL!

Expected this, it's worthy of it. C'mon 36ers!!

Haha 'flag dream still alive'. Please.

That's an Adelaide Crows article.

Far more unlikely unfortunately.

The Alan Black article was more talking about how he expected when they moved from their old place to the Perth Arena that the place might feel very empty and he was somewhat surprised that even more people turned up. It was also talking about the fact they have now been in 28 final campaigns straight.

@Jack - LOL of cause they just had to squeeze one in. I thought it would have been - 'Pressure on government to act as unemployment hits 12-year high.'

About time the 36ers were getting decent media coverage here in Adelaide. Boti has played almost a lone hand in this for a few years.

Crows? Who gives a rats backside about the bloody Crows? (One day the 'Tiser is going to realise that not everyone is a Crows, Power or even AFL fan).

Wait, there's other sports in The Advertiser besides AFL and cricket?!

A 5 game series might be considered too draining for the NBL and mainstream media, so I don't see it happening (not that they won't consider it in the future mind you)

Good coverage in The West. Back page story on the Game 2 loss. But I'm staggered at how poor the NBL is received by the national Sydney based morning news programs. Was flicking through all channels this morning and not a single mention of last nights game on either ABC 24, Weekend Sunrise or Today. Mind you, I only started watching from 8:30am but I doubt it got a mention as I saw the same highlights of every other sport on all channels.

They covered every other game played last night - AFL, NRL, the overrated A-League and GOLF! This is one of the NBL's biggest issues it needs to fix. It has to get back into the minds of the mainstream media again. It certainly deserves it. 8,200 tickets sold in 2 hours, plus 13,200 in Game 1 and another expected 13,000+ for Game 3 would suggest to me there is plenty of interest in the NBL. At least in Perth and Adelaide. You know, not everybody lives in Sydney, but you would never guess it watching the morning news.

Anon said it perfectly - Such a closed shop in Australian sport with the media.

I did see a little sports snippet on Weekend Sunrise about Adelaide tying up the series, but it only went for about 10 seconds and the "highlight" they showed was Wagstaff crashing into the cameraman.