I expect the Violet Crumbles to well.. do what they do best sooner or later.

I think you will find that Melbourne takes spot 4.

Adelaide should really already be planning for next season in regards to who they want to keep and identify their targeted needs. With the new Brisbane team possibly coming (and I say that loosely as Im not sure its happening), then it will be interesting to see how each teams roster is affected.

miracles do happen , but the 36ers needs a bunch of them and fast . Motum needs to play some D . For somebody trynna get back to the nba

home town advantage got United home on sunday . shocking calls & poor ball control in the dying seconds.

suprised the Breakers missed so many shots
lord chillington got alot of help from his team mates for once . i damn miss jessie sanders . Perry aint shit yo . finally some production from cody ellis


Wilcatds doing their thing as expected

The Crocs did so good coming back against United
they didnt deserve to be so close. those young guards off the bench shot a bunch or random 3 balls. Markovic wow . for a older and wiser player , still recovering from injury . he can still break down the defence and draw valuable fouls.

no blockgate this week . but how poor were those calls on Gladness?

i think in my limited viewing experience that the top 3 are set and that 4th spot will go to United or the taipans . United on the up , Taipans form is rocky atm

Sydney is pretty past due to hit the finals, I think they're building to it this year. But it's hard to say.

The big knock you have to have on United is that while their home form is truly impeccable, their away form is abysmal. 1-4, only member of the top 5 to not notch at least a 2nd away win, worse than all but Townsville and Wollongong.

Sydney meanwhile is 4-2/2-3 at home away. So I think this will come down to the series split.

that time has been and gone for 4th spot. the players and coaching staff and managers might say different but its done. the next 2 games of Melbourne (H) and Perth (A) loom as losses. If they are to start winning, u need luck to make it happen now. But I reckon the Top 4 are NZ, Perth, Cairns and Melbourne with Sydney right behind. The rest aren't gonna make it

Townsville too weak mentally and with no leadership. Sydney just don't have the talent outside of Madg and Childress, and Adelaide are nearly too far behind. It's Melbourne's to lose.

I think the Sixers are just as likely to surprise everyone with a 2-0 round as they are to fall short at the end against United (like the home game against Sydney) and get dismantled in Perth.

You'd think they'd be at crisis meeting time this week trying to sort things out.

The Sixers are not out of the race by any stretch, it will be hard but doable.

Last year there was ONE loss at home.

Defending the home court must be a primary concern!

Not only do the Sixers need the wins but they need to put a good product on the floor for the fans.

Joey said we need 5.5k members to be able to afford a Marquee so it starts with getting the people excited about being at the game.

that game against New Zealand... was that just aonce off?

they have proven they CAN play good basketball...

Motum has been more disruptive than ANYONE would have thought...

And Wilson and Gibbo on the court at the same time is NOT working...

we also are missing a player that we can reliably give the ball to and score that winning basket like ervin did for us last year... how many games did he win for us... (Standout the New Zealand Steal and layup....) We do not have a player whom is currently playing with the same mentality and hunger and determination to do that...

Its frustrating... because we have all seen what the team CAN do...

long way back for them now....

TVL did it years ago went on a crazy 18 or so win streak to get to the finals... they didnt shave for that whole win streak and were lead by Rob Rose... i remember a game against the 6ers during the streak where they were down by a substantial amount and my Grandpa... RIP ... said that TVL were going to win... my Dad and i were like yeah what ever... TVL just played inspiring basketball and over ran a 6ers outfit whom were helpless...

didnt the hawks do something crazy last year as well....?

Adelaide boosters going for the rosary beads early doors.

What a laugh. Give it up blokes. Your chance will be 2019 or thereabouts.

We are trying to not win the race for 8th at the moment. 4th isn't even a consideration at this point.
Wollongong start slow, then charge home pretty much every year. Whereas, the last 5 years or so have shown that if we start bad, we finish last, or there abouts. Maybe that's not the case, but we haven't won at all with Motum, have only won once with Creek, Wilson has had good numbers, but the team's played worse with him on the court. We have a lot of creases to iron out before we can even say that we aren't going to finish last.

As for the question at hand, Childress will do his absolute best to get Sydney into the playoffs, but I think Melbourne win that spot. Childress just doesn't have enough around him, whereas Melbourne has 5 or 6 options to go to depending on the night.

Yeah, Melbourne has multiple "near-Childress" options, whereas Sydney has a drop-off in quality. Big nights needed from Ben Madgen pretty consistently here on out.

Adelaide are tanking - someone forgot to tell Joey no draft system yet!!