DJ joining the team is making all the news!

That frontcourt just became a lot harder to stop, as Daniel Johnson returned from his European trip and re-signed for the remainder of the year with Adelaide. They now boast a versatile and strong group of bigs who could be a big problem for the Hawks tonight.

I can see the 36ers winning this one by 3. The 'Gong take confidence knowing they got close last time.

Preview: Sixers welcome DJ as playoffs hopes beckon

Will be interesting to see how Joey introduces DJ to the game, whether he is bold enough to throw him in the deep end and start him or bring him off the bench just to rest Motum. I'd love to see him start for a couple of minutes just to see if theres a wow factor working with Motum. Hopefully DJ's defense has improved and he has sustained his ability to hit the three. That could really help open up our often congested offense.

Who's minutes will he be taking?
Will Schench step up a level to compete?
Will Crawford be left sitting on the bench?
Is DJ better at C or PF.

Cant wait for tonight it will be interesting and hopefully exciting. We mustn't underestimate the Hawks Though, especially at home.

Might grab Chinese food Jack and skip the indigestion. Love your intro's.

Luke is obsessed with hedging out on the screen defence and chasing the PG to the halfway line.
Usually results in a foul or a layup by the opp bigman.
I guess Joey is telling him to do it but it just seems like a bad idea to me.

Go the mighty hawks! 36'ers in good form, see if the get the calls go there way again?

Go the Hawks !!! Should be a great game.

Should be a great game and yes will be interesting to see how Johnson fits into this lineup with Motum & Schensher.

Have to wait for Sydney NZ to play to get the LIVE TV NBL Tv.. Not bad LIVE coverage considering they are up as the same start tie and same time Zone !!!

Tom daly professional cheer leader on the bench

Well we are from SA and have rubbish Feed with NBL TV back home but we are in Melbourne on our mobile network as usual and the coverage is clear as a bell and no problems.. Perhaps that is the issue for us, live in the wrong state...

Is DJ playing?

For those who will wait until its on TV later I won't give the result away.

Not a bad game. DJ settled in ok, didn't set the world on fire but probably wasn't expected to tonight.

You know Wollongong are having a bad season when they have a whole section of the Win Entertainment Centre curtained off (the upper concourse on the right of the TV camera).

One thing I found interesting during the commentary. They reported that out of 20 block charge videos e-mailed to the NBL refs by Mal Cooper.....they only collectively agreed on one of them. For the other 19 they couldn't agree what the call should be. Read into that what you will.

Mal Cooper is a waste of space.

DJ wore #32. Whether that's because they wore the heritage uniforms tonight and they didn't have one with #21, who knows?

Couple of stats, again without giving away the result.

Brock led Adelaide's scoring with 18. He also had the game high 16 rebounds.

Tim Coenraad led the Hawks with 20 points. Larry Davidson gave them some muscle under the basket with 14 rebounds.

The next best rebound counts after Motum and Davidson were Wilson, Creek and Forman who all grabbed 6.

Rhys Martin and Gibbo lead their teams with 5 assists.

Wollongong had 8 blocks in the game, Adelaide had 3. But the 36ers 6 steals to the Hawks 2.

Does anyone else reckon that the sixers heritage jersey is 100x better than their regular jerseys?

Great to get the win, but worried about the 4/15 from Wilson at 26%.
Poor shot selection and over dribbling back in play . Nothing more to be said if you watched it, you saw it..

Yes and we also saw Gibson shoot 19/63 for a healthy 30% over the last 7 games. Give Wilson a break he has been excellent since coming back from injury besides this game, yet you still jump on him at the first chance you get....

I have no idea why Joey didn't play a zone at all in that last quarter. It almost cost us the game. The only way Hawks could score was from isolation plays. Good to get the win but should have been a more comfortable win.

Who is the guy at the end of the Sixers bench?

Wilson wasn't great tonight, but I agree with KingJames above - he has been great of late. He doesn't deserve the crap he's been getting on this forum.

The Sixers heritage jersey looks good, why do our current ones have to look so average

The other result from tonight certainly makes it hard for Adelaide, though. I guess all they can do is keep winning.

Who is the guy at the end of the Sixers bench?

Wasnt it atem atem? The sudanese immigrant whom is a dp for the 6ers?

Yes the uniforms look sweet i prefer the "fan" singlets you can get...

For the second time in less than a week, the Adelaide 36ers have defeated the Wollongong Hawks, basically keeping their playoff hopes in the balance.

Brock Motum once again paced the Sixers with 18 points and 16 rebounds, who had recorded his double double before half time.

Balanced Sixers do the double on Wollongong

Holden - as above, the 1 total agreement in 20 block/charge call clips was the result from last year's exercise by Cooper. More importantly, Rosen said it was sent to players and coaches, not just referees. However, the way it was said, it wasn't clear to me whether the result Rosen quoted (agreement on only one call), was across everyone - players, coaches and refs - or just the coaches.

How did DJ go last night? I don't meant in terms of stats, but did he seem to fit in and gel with everybody?

Wasn't Dj the guy sitting at the end of the bench :)

He appeared quite comfortable in his role off the bench and worked in nicely with his teammates, especially when getting the ball into the front court.

Also made some nice passes to open teammates near the basket and didn't give Forman much space on the defensive end.

carson forces contact and goes to the line, i just get bored
used to be a forcing foul...all things must change

A good win for the 36ers considering Petrie and Wilson had poor games and they have been such massive contributors in the past 6-8 weeks.

I found the set Joey ran over and over down the stretch strange, it allowed Wollongong to take the 36ers' bigs out of the game and keep the ball in the hands of Gibson and Wilson, neither of whom was firing.

Adelaide looked much better with a simple pick-and-pop to get the defence moving quickly and open up Motum or Petrie.