Sold 13,000 + already, heard the sold out sign is on the way to the arena. Only way Adelaide will win is if gibbo has a blinder, Petrie is the work horse, it's up to creek, pc and teys to come to redhage's party.

Really only Knight out, Ross is a blow but one that u can cover.been to up and down and not giving much points off the bench. At home, been 5 weeks and I don't no any sport that u don't get to play at home for so long.

Can't see Perth drop this one, Perth to end sure season, cats by 10

Refs have been woeful league wide. Really hope the 36ers can smash the cats, most hated team in the nation, and love it that way! Huge potential for special things if the 6ers can do it. Imagine controlling their own destiny towards a playoff push. Adelaide by 7 need this one too much!

I dont think we will win but will be pleasantly surprised if we do.

Gibbo is overdue for a big one so lets hope its tonight!

I saw this stat in the paper:

Head-to-Head: Wildcats 63-52
In Perth: Wildcats 47-27

Have we really played them 74 times away and only 41 times at home?

Seems ridiculously lopsided to me.

Most hated team in the nation, because we are the best team in the nation. Can't count the breakers, they are not Australian, so Perth are the best team in Australia. Just don't get that much people rockin up to games at that price for no reason.

Supporter base is just lovely too.

Can't see Perth losing it at home in front of 13k parochial Perth fans in Redhage's 300th NBL game.

Perth by 6 for mine.

Preview: Grand Final replay important to 36ers hopes

My mistake - he played 300 already (tail between legs)

Big game for Joey tonight, match ups and rotations will be crucial. To upset Perth in Perth would really advance us on the finals comeback trail. We need to do even better than the Melbourne game and Gibbo must get aggressive offensively to contribute extra points. We need a solid scoring stats from the bench as well.

Hopefully the umpiring will be fair denying Perth their usual armchair ride, condoning their reckless over aggressive low penalty defense. Perth will undoubtedly push their boundaries.

Am looking forward to the game, go Sixers!

Ill be going after work, havnt seen a game in AGES due to damn Hopman Cup so it will be good to get the ears exposed to too loud music by a Dodgy DJ and overpriced Food.

Adelaide's best bet is to get Wagstaff and Redhage in foul trouble early, but good luck doing that with the home cooking.

I reckon all those carrying on about refs and home cooking before the game has even begun need to get a grip. You accuse the refs of bias, yet display all your own biases in doing so when making comments about how they will perform well in advance of the game. Comments are then made after the game as if through the eyes of an impartial observer. Hilarious.

The job of a fan is not to be impartial. The bias is implied!

Perth are strong favourites at $1.20. 36ers $4.60. Line is -9.5 for the home side.

Home cooking in Perth? what a ridiculous statement! Never!

13352 tickets sold so far apparently . Highest regular season game at arena so far and just about at capacity.

Home cooking in cairns? Redhage 5 in 10 min

What are we cooking at the Perth Arena tonight?

a) Over priced hot dogs?

b) Hot chips (sorry aioli ran out)?

c) Umpires?

d) All of the above

I'll be there (couldn't possible miss Redhage's 300th game!!) Any other Sixer fans in attendance tonight?

Anyone notice how long the last 5 seconds of the 2nd quarter seemed?

The clock actually paused at 2.3 secs for awhile - went back a few times to make sure I wasn't seeing things!

Home cooking? Never!!

The natives are getting restless.
Not the normal "home town fouls" being called.
Nice! No one else gets that.
Good game going right now

Interviewing Joey whilst he is trying to coach.

Absolutely ridicolous. Gone over the line and One should be ashamed. Horrible.

Joey went off at the refs during the interview - leave him alone he is trying to coach. Its cringe-worthy and I feel sorry for him.

its actually NBL that does the production not Ten unless if you are Mish Trewartha or Lachy Reid which are a part of Ten - MACDUB

Thanks William. That makes it even worse..that it is the NBL doing that.

They've also mic'd up Gleeson and broadcasting the live feed...its all "F that". How hard is it to record, edit it and replay. Apparently too hard.

I dont want to distract from he game though..absolute cracker.

Game in the balance 97-97 with two minutes to go. Wilson kept the 36ers in it when the cats looked like pulling away in the last quarter. Could go to overtime

Wilson dribbling the absolute air out of the ball.

36ers have got some very fortunate calls down the stretch..but credit to them.

Perth getting a dose of their own medicine.

Huge win by the sixers in front of 13559 fans!

You going to whinge about the refs now oh wait that only happens when the cats win

Flopping, screens? Any team would have one. What a shocker. Still, 8 man rotation and went the distance. Gota get someone asap!

Cats are cooked for the year - too many out of form players and no matty knight

Cracker of a game. Trevor Gleeson wouldn;'t have been expecting to be live at that particular moment when he swore, unfortunate but it was great viewing.

Awww i was looking forward to reading about the wagstaff flop in the fourth quarter

Win or lose - that is one of the best games I have seen in years.

Even better with the win.

Love it when no one plays defense!

Wagstaff flopped.

Never seen a guy who camps so far over the back of his heels on defense.

Massive win for the boys, think we got lucky on some calls but over there you are always on the wrong side of the ledger. I just hope we have not spent all our fuel tickets tonight.

Great game and the tempo was as high as any game I have seen for a long time. Motum sensational and Wilson showing the doubters again that he is a player.

Not sure why Jervis was off down the stretch. Possibly due to match up issues with Motum but Brock was having his way with everyone. After a quiet start due to the 2 early fouls Jervis was great and his tussle with the Adelaide bigs was great to watch.
Daniels looks clueless 90% of the time and then makes a big play when you least expect it (followed by half a dozen brain farts).

Wildcats80, we can still whinge about them if you like, but we'll wait until you're finished crying over the flopped milk

6ers showed true heart and grit. Perth look good but nothing like last seasons team. Throw someone like DJ in the mix, won't be able to convince me this team couldn't still win it all. Teys help in the last defensive stand was beautiful, no stat but what he does. Brock has added some back bone, much like Cat used too, we've missed that for many seasons. Watch this team do something special from here id say!!!

Also so great to win in Perth, there fan base is truly feral so it means so much to shove it up them!

Jack toft a typical jealous opposition fan. 13559 fans at game, well done 36ers on the win. Just saying every time cats win especially at home we hear complaints snouts biased refs but no complaints tonight of course as we lost.

Gutted the cats lost but credit to 36ers, they are looking good. I'd hate to be playing them in the finals if they get through. Great game to watch, crowd was amazing and it was great to see both teams crack the 100. Very entertaining.

Wow, great game to be at. High quality and high scoring which is especially unusual for a Wildcat's game. Looking forward to seeing the replay shortly but Creek was very impressive in the first half, and Motum showed everyone tonight why he is Boomer. I still think that Martin gets away with an incredible amount of illegal contact that would be called away from Perth...

Jamar took some questionable shots and should have run a proper offence instead of holding it for that play down the stretch instead of coming up with an offensive foul, however his ability to finish at the rim is first class.

Any Sixer fans in Perth let me know as it would have been great to share that win with some other Sixer fans like the very first game at Perth Arena!

The production team really need to stop cutting to the coaches for 'insight' when they're trying to do their jobs. Joey looked genuinely PO'd 2 mins into Q4 when they went to him for a comment.

Best TV production of an NBL gam in Australia for a long long time, and a super game to boot.

So many players made big players throughout the game for both teams, and for Adelaide Motum and Wilson continuing to be a dynamic offensive duo and everyone else playing their roles.

That sort of game makes you excited to be a basketball fan, and the result blows this season wide open.

Stand up and take a bow Adelaide. Good luck with your finals run. But you will actually have to play defence at some point.

Spot on Paul even though I'm a wildcats fan I thought that was a great advertisement for the NBL and would be close to the game of the season so far

Not a fan of interviewing the coaches during play, I just ink it interferes with their job too much. Overall the production was good though. Also whatever you think of their fans aside they really turn out to support that team.

Loved Joey on the mic, obviously didn't want to be interrupted but remained calm, loved the 2nd give with the comment on the refs... Well they did ask the question and he answered it… Gleeson on the other hand threw the phones away… Didn't like the switching of cameras at crucial times to overhead and the corner view of the cinema chairs.. Jut wanted to watch the game.. What's with the ginormous flags ??? Thought the whole production on court and the cameras was OTT but the game was superb..

On behalf of Adelaide fans and all fans of the nbl excluding PERTH, thank you Adelaide, no better feeling than beating Perth in Perth and too see their one eye sooking fans go home after a loss. You wait, band wagon supporters, will struggle to fill half the stadium with loss after loss.

Sorry for tonight, but the refs shat themselves tonight, they have never seen that many people in a stadium before, they will be doing the under 10's next weekend!shame and embarrassing, yo be there boss.

Sorry #030 didn't realise the game being called fairly in Perth = Perth being robbed.

Weird game tonight.
I'm pretty sure the Blue team was from Adelaide, but have no idea who the Red team were. Certainly wasn't "The Best Defensive team in the league."
Martin and Wagstaff were about the only guys playing D. At times it was farcical, with Martin trying to run a one-man full court press while the rest jogged back into some loose imitation of a zone.

Shallowness of the bench was one again exposed.

Cats DESPERATELY need to find somebody who can shoot 3's (besides Beal.)

As for the refs, well any complaints just looks like sour grapes, so suffice to say that tonight's game provided a strong argument against home-court refereeing.

Nobody likes to see ugly games where neither team can buy a basket, but tonight's game was like a kid's game, hardly any defense until the dying minutes.

+1 to Paul's comments. Best TV production of an NBL game in a seriously long time!

Great, entertaining game too which made it even better. Great advertisement for the game.

Sixers close in on fourth with huge win over Wildcats

Terrible D and D grade decision making in the last 3 minutes cost us the game, not the refs, blaming refs at any time is weak.

paul +1

terriffoc game to watch

don't over emphasize the defensive deficiencies. both teams ran some great offence. ball movement was excellent nearly all night and shooting was top class

Both teams went out with a mindset to push the ball, and that makes it hard to play D because it's actually very hard to stop players and teams who are just going at you possession after possession.

I've seen some top Euroleague teams concede big scores by lower teams in their domestic leagues because they just went at them and didn't let the D get set.

At the same time, the defence could have been better last night, but let's face it, it's better for the fans the old way when the NBL was thought of as a no D league!

Disagree paul.

There was issues in the TV production.

Did I say there wasn't?

HOME TEAM
J. Beal: -6
D. Daniels: -4
T. Jervis: 1
S. Redhage: 7
D. Martin: -5
J. Wagstaff: -13
G. Hire: -4
D. UU: 4

ROAD TEAM
A. Gibson: 4
J. Wilson: 1
B. Motum: 2
A. Petrie: 4
M. Creek: 7
B. Teys: 13
P. Crawford: -10
L. Schenscher: -1

No need to get defensive paul. Just stating that IMO the production wasn't as good as you make it out to be.

I was actually pointing out the poor assumption you made reading my post. I don't think it was perfect, but head and shoulders ahead of anything Ten has done with the NBL.

I liked the roof cam and the jib, and loved how they weren't overdone but used enough to mix things up. I absolutely loved the half-time locker-room access, that was great.

Interviewing the coaches on the sidelines is a huge innovation but needs to be done better, probably while free throws are being shot or immediately after a time-out.

Miking the players and coaches is good, but is most effective if edited and played in bunches.

Selling the product with quality highlights wasn't really addressed, and that's a big one, but IF last night is a taste of what's to come next season I'll be very happy.

I love watching basketball, and I am an avid fan, but first to admit that my knowledge of "tactics" is limited.
I don't really understand why the Cats persist with the standard 3-2 (or 1-2-2) offence, when Beal is the only one who can reliably hit 3's?
They keep pushing DD to the wing, but he's far more effective when he goes inside.

DD is 42% on threes in the past eight games, Shawn Redhage is shooting 47% on the season, Drake U'u 39% and Jesse Wagstaff 35%. Beal is at 36%.

Having said all that, it's not Perth's offence I'd be complaining about the day after they scored 102 points and lost!

Yeah, but I've already mentioned the lack of D.

It's been my observation that 3's tend to come in streaks for many players. When they're hot they keep on bombing, but when they're cold, they tend to give up.

My comments shouldn't be taken as a overall query, just situational. I assume that teams and coaches have dozens of different tactics and plays, and I just thought that when 3-point shooting wasn't working they'd run a different offence?