Harry Froling in for Schensher

How long is Schenscher out for? As usual with games involving the Crocs, gotta ignore how it looks on paper. If the Crocs play harder than the Sixers, they can take this game.

Crocs by 12

Can definitely see the Crocs getting this one. Wouldnt even consider it some massive upset either at this point. I have to think at some point soon the 36ers will click and their talent will be hard to stop... but not sure if its tonight. If its scrappy itll be crocs if the 36ers can run will be them by plenty.

I'm expecting the Sixers to bounce back in this one.

Luke "Hollywood" Schensher is believed to be out for i month i think i read.

After last Wednesday v Perth Dennis said Schenscher would be 4-6 weeks with torn ligaments in an ankle

Gibbo is out.

The great Mike D'Antoni once said the aim of the game is to score more than your opponent does.


How many championships he win compared to a coach like, say Pop, who's defensive minded first and foremost????

Adelaide players run into the ground at training.

Gibson out, likely due to too heavy a training load.

Conklin goes the whack, again, reckless beyond belief but not even a foul.

#TOOHARDBALL

Wow. Conklin's HT interview. Dropping the F bomb.

Unprofessional all round. Fox Sports should nevee have quizzed him on that..just leave the subject alone.

No it's not, it's just over 1 a minute
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Conklin F bomb during intervuew. Another fine coming.

Conklins elbow accident. Wouldn't fine him for incident as why would you interview him at half time?

He's a legend according to Cam Gliddon, wonder how the taipans feel about him endorsing swearing during interviews. Pretty dumb tweet from Gliddon.

Yes, Conklin should be more professional. But, just the way Heal went about it..i didn't like it. Rush under a guy's nose and immediately ask him questions solely about the issue - they could at least ask him about the game first.

Steindl shoots some ridicolously well guarded/contested shots. Stupid.

Gliddon an absolute disgrace condoning language like that. Will be sending cairns an email about this. Very unprofessional but he's a nobody anyway.

Agree too many fouls and game ugly not a good look for TV but wow the players really don't know how to play proper d fence, Get better I say. Leagues fault for allowing the scrappy shit into the game in the first place!

So are we still pretending Conklin doesn't recklessly throw his arms and elbows around?

The fouls ruined that game. And the turnovers. Not a great spectacle at any point.

Conklin's elbow was just another careless play by him, no malice in it the same as the Martin incident.

I didn't think all the fouls made the game boring. You can't just say "Let them play" if it is a foul it is a foul. I don't think there was any less soft fouls then other games.

Sixers looked better without Gibson. Unfortunately it was a Golden chance for Sobey but he stunk it up.

I don't know what to make of Ere. He looks in better shape now but he seems to do nothing and then all of a sudden he does a few things which saves his job for another week.

The defense was a lot better tonight! Not sure whats going on with DJ's foul shooting lately.

Randle needs to learn to pass and keep working on his defense!

It was good to get an easy win for a change. Now they need to focus and play very well against Perth next game.

Another low-scoring game, another Sixers win. As I said in another thread, they play their best ball when the game is a little slower. They need to pick their moments to run but just dial back the overall pace a couple clicks

We won tonight because of our defence. If both sides click we can go far.

Adelaide won because Townsville are an extremely talent-ridden squad and are lucky to have scrapped 3 wins so far this year

Joey has talked about how the players had the chance to play with instinct this game and it paid off. Interesting with lots of talk about coaches having too much control over players with constant plays. Something in it and more of a balance needing to be found.

Do we have a video of Conklin's interview anywhere?
I was at the game, so obviously didn't hear it.

Just a hint guys, the FOUL troll is the blowout troll, probably best to ignore.

Conklin effectively said it's an effen tough game, pointing out Jawai's hit on Abercrombie. If people are looking to take action on contact from this round, number one should be Teys, number two Jawai and then Conklin.

How is Jawai's clear play for the ball that happened to collect Abercrombie high worse than Conklin wildly flailing his elbows around a mere week after seriously injuring someone the same way?

koberulz, we disagreed on this in the other thread. Not sure you can say Jawai's was a clear play for the ball. Was a big swipe that wasn't even close to the ball - we all know Jawai has a tendency to let his anger get the best of him.

That's not saying that Jawai's was deliberate. But reckless..yes.

Honestly, I see that play happen pretty often, simply because the offensive player's head is between the defensive player and the ball. Usually, though, the defensive player is significantly smaller than Jawai, so it goes unnoticed.

Jawai intended to foul Abercrombie, misjudged it and smashed him in the head. Conklin had no intention to foul, was bumped while in the air taking a shot and threw his arm back as his body rotated from the hit. One was intentional contact and the other wasn't, but neither deserve further sanction.

Paul, DJ pulled through inside his own cylinder, his elbows were tucked in

To compare that to what Conklin has done twice now isnt right

Mark Dalton has stated publicly that as a player you know when someone is around you and suggested as much that Conkllin has swung with intent twice now. And that is a guy who knows about elbows.

I concur with the line on Teys

I really don't understand how the NBL managed to stuff up the uniforms so badly this year. Having the Crocs wear grey on the road will never look professional.

There is no debate here, Jawai's swipe was careless and reckless, as was Conklin's act and that type of play should be penalised, end of story...

That's not only my opinion by the way, that is a fact based on the evidence presented before everyone who watches a replay of any of these or similar incidents.

Anyone with an unbiased view and some common sense for how the game should be played according to the rules, that is!

Looks like they cut Conklin's interview out of the half time break. Was hoping to see it.

Tolo, when I paused it DJ was just out of his cylinder. Regardless though, Conklin was still in the air on his shot attempt after being bumped, to suggest it was some sort of intentional hit is silly. If only more people had the common sense of Damian Martin and Mitch Creek.

Must say, the nets in Adelaide are pretty ugly. Any time a ball is scored it's kind of an eyesore. They even replaced them and lo and behold they've gotten worse!

Conklin's elbow to Creek's chin looked accidental. However, his take-down of Ere with his left hand on his (conklin's) opening quarter dunk was clearly intentional. It looked intentional at full speed and slow mo replay confirmed it. He created the contact, grabbed Ere's shoulder and pulled him to the ground. That says more to me about conklin as a player than the elbow accident.

One of the most grating NBL games I've watched for a while... that charge call on Leon Henry on Ebi Ere. Jesus

Paul are you saying Mark Dalton doesn't know what he is talking about?

I don't think Mark ever left the ground to know.

How is that relevant or factual?

Many many NBL and Olympian players I have spoken to would ban Conklin if they were in charge. He knows what he is doing. 2nd time int an accident

Relevant because that's what I was talking about in the post you responded to.

Guys, what play are we talking about?

Anon they beat a pretty depleted Crocs out fit. He didn't play amazing but hard to dog any guy on a 24 point win.

He did some good things last night. Was one of his better games. And he didn't just have 5 mins or good play, then nothing else, he contributed throughout the match (only had 4 points at half time, but scored in every quarter, which is a positive).
But on the other hand, he shot 4/12 (13 if you count the shot he didn't get off on the 3qt buzzer), so there's still room for improvement.

The only minor concern for me was Randle. For a guy who's so quick he seems to have trouble keeping his man in front of him defensively.
But given there was no Gibbo, Creek was forced out and Peach was on one leg it's still a pretty good result.
This week will be a big test though.

What anon we have a import that has no resemblance pf defence And only there to score which cannot challenge as even coach agrees and gets a 11 points at very poor average and set ip[ wiytj set plays and gets 11 and wow we are supposed to be excited with .
Guess what he has not got any younger pr got fitter or regained any fitness or any movement to defend .
This against bottom team.
Simple keep him and we will not make 4

disappointing attitude Paul, your posts suggest your better than that

Ebi is improving as I expected a professional of his calibre would.

Although there are still much room for improvement, the signs are there for a promising into the second third of the season.

At this stage, it would be riskier to find a new import than stick with a known quality.

A bird in the hand if you will.

Anon '633 your def right about one thing, I've conceded he will unfortunately be here till the end. Cant see the 36ers making the playoffs from here...

Ummm....The Sixers are in the Top 4 already.

Ere is clearly regaining fitness, and with it mobility. In the first few rounds he wouldn't drive, and struggled to get up the court. Now he's putting the ball in the floor and being offensively aggressive. There's also an improvement in defensive movement too. When he first got here he wouldn't have got upstairs for a dunk like he did on Saturday. I'd be surprised if he doesn't continue to improve his form given that he now has more offensive options and isn't just stuck with throwing building materials from outside the ark. He had a few slips, trips and ball handling errors but they were mostly through trying to be positive. The whole team had some clangers so you can't hang it all on Ebi. I'm not saying he's amazing but he's getting better and will be another scorer for the opposition to worry about as the season wears on.

Umm where tou sit after 9 fames dowsnt dictate where you will finish. Stop trolling, the 6ers wont have the goods compared to the better teams over the course of the season. More than 4 teams that are better than us.