Why didnt you tip, JACK? WHY?

:(

Im going to the game tonight after a long week at work where everyone has been sending me American gun themed memes in email. Hopefully I get to see the 36er's tonight kneecapped... I mean treated with the respect they deserve.

36ers have been in Perth longer than the Wildcats.

Wildcats to loose due to fatigue. Randle to dominate.

So, Jack does this mean the Sixers are Elves?

I think tonight will see the Cats loose due to having just played NZ on Wednesday, so therefore we should get this one. Then again a lot could depend on Damo. Was painful to see him loose a tooth the other night. Will he suit up?

Sportsbet says
Cats $1.38
36ers $3.05
Margin -5.5 pts
Over/under 173.5

AHA! Thanks RMQ, that was Randle I saw yesterday around 5pm going into Culture Kings in the Hay Street MAll. He was wearing an Adelaide 36ers shirt and I actually said 'Damn that dude looks like a Baller'.

I'm looking forward to this one love the double header when your team is in the second game! But can't see the 6ers putting 4 quarters together on the cats in their hostile environment. Having said that with Randle anything is possible, he is a winner. And seems whenever a team wins in your gym the favour is returned these days aka the cairns games, so who knows.

Cats by 7

Bear,

Without Hodgson, they'll be the dwarfs.

Jack must be on holidays with all the fishing he has been doing ;)

Going with Cats on this one. At home and after a thumping 2 days before.

Martin shouldn't play, Cats have rushed him back too soon.

Agreed, Damo needs to sit this one out..

He had no structural damage etc though, so I'm guessing he is playing regardless of how risky it is right... Id be wary as the one thing Randle is good at, is creating contact or the illusion of it by throwing his arms around going to the hoop, if Martin is on him and Randle blows by him, could be bad.

Can't see the Cats losing two in a row, Cats by 7.

NBL needs to tweak their scheduling.
2 (or more) games a week is fine, but not 2 days apart separated by the longest roadtrip in the league.
I hope a 2nd NZ team gets up. It would mean teams could stay in NZ and play the 2nd game instead of flying for several hours.
I've flown Business class, and I don't reckon Jawai would fit.

Cats should win, but anything can happen.

As long as we dont get those awful calls that we saw on Wednesday against the Breakers, Cats should be good here..

Foul trouble hurt us and changed the game, Charles Jackson was a joke.

I'm gonna vent here about this:

At what point does Boti realise how stupid it is to include the all time head-to-head records between the two sides (sitting 65-54 for these two teams), but not include what their W-L records, or at least ladder positions, for the current season are?

Been bugging me for years.

* In his game previews that is. Obviously.

Random chart showing Wildcats results this season (opponents listed by ladder position)

Pretty solid at home and against weaker teams, while most of the red is on the road and against the better teams.
Crocs the bogey team that defies the pattern.

Most of our remaining games are against the lower teams.

GOD DAMMIT!! It's worthless now :'(

There there, Luuc, it'll be okay. I'm sure we can still get something out of the graph!

Matthew, you know the day I tip against the Sixers is the day I put on a Wildcats singlet

Wildcats fans already complaining before the game starts. Boo Hoo about playing in NZ. Cairns played last night and play again tonight, every team has to deal with it. SIxers will win by 14 points, DJ to have a big game 26 and 10. Beal will be shut down, he only performs against the bottom few sides.

Perth making their intentions felt early, straight in to Jawai, me thinks its going to be a long night for the 36ers. Hope I'm wrong.

Gibson looks like he will have a ghost game.

This might be a tad premature but I'm feeling like this will be a very lopsided game. Perth just bullying them on the inside. Hodgsons still out yes?

Damo making randle piss already

Strong return from the timeout at least.
Horrible start though.

Running at almost a turnover a minute.

Too many offensive rebounds already.

00:36 24, J. Wagstaff, Assist
00:37 42, S. Redhage, 3pt jump shot made 25-16 9
00:42 8, J. Kenny, Offensive Rebound
00:44 13, T. Jervis, 2pt jump shot missed 22-16 6
00:45 13, T. Jervis, Offensive Rebound
00:46 13, T. Jervis, 2pt jump shot missed 22-16 6
00:48 13, T. Jervis, Offensive Rebound
00:48 23, C. Prather, 2pt jump shot missed 22-16 6
01:02 13, T. Jervis, Defensive Rebound


What the hell just happened?

It was not an unsportsmanlike foul because Walker slipped. Should it have been an unsportsmanlike on Hire for fouling Creek on the break?

"6ers gameplan force the Perth bigs out by shooting 3's"

Good game plan, just like the Sixers of the early 90s!
But DJ needs to hit a few threes to drag Jawai out of the paint and then draw some fouls on the drive. I can't see us winning this with a one man show from Randle.

That is a ridiculous call my goodness.

Soft as balls foul what a joke.

Such quality reffing here tonight

That's the ballgame. Nice work refs. Awful officiating.

Well that wasn't pretty. Still waiting for Ere to do anything God knows we could use a n import besides Randle to help in some form on the court. We have zero impact and every possession feels it has to be perfect just to hang in there. This could get ugly just a bad hunch

Wildcats cheating once again on their home floor. Enough is enough. Martin has got away with so much no wonder Joey is frustrated.

Sobey with his normal dumbass play. I just want to see him play one game where he doesn't do something stupid. If he didn't do that pointless play that entire last few scenarios wouldn't have happened.

Im not as concerned with the riffing as I am with the 36ers and their lack of anything great outside of anything Randle and some rare Peach 3's, we are not as good as some think we are. Ere should be gone, sacked bring in Conklin or pretty much any other guy with a US passport haha

Wright can't afford to lose it like that.

Too late now Kobe24. The deadline has passed and we ain't paying out his contract. I think he can be a contributor but for heavens sake hit your shots.

Ps don't think Adelaide fans should complain. I thought Martin and Prather both got soft fouls on reach ins.

He has run out of time to be a contributor, i mean when the hell is this amazing contribution big game come out party going to happen. He must be on a no early termination contract because he should have been gone long ago. He is just one of many issues, before Camby pipes though.

There were some weak calls for both teams during the first half. But don't bail someone out on a play like that.

It is hard to see the Beal 3/Gibson foul from the angle they showed. If they showed a baseline shot it would probably show if it was a foul or not. It looked like it was soft but it was unnecessary for Gibson to put his leg out like that. Having said that they have been letting worse stuff go. Wright shouldn't have gone off at the referees to get a Tech.

One thing in the NBL that is always constant is you are going to get bad calls in Perth and bad calls in NZ. It is just the way it is.

LV I can't recall Prather's reach in but the one Martin got he got the ball cleanly with his left hand but his right hand was riding on Randle's waist. So that should be a foul. Watch the reply on that one.

Atleast that Gibbo foul took attention away from Ere stepping back to half court launching that shite.

Agreed Kobe24, the Wildcats are getting easy shots at the rim and wide open threes off offensive rebounds. Meanwhile, the Sixers have no inside game and are relying on Randle's great shooting to keep them in it. The odds heavily favour the Wildcats unless DJ can get his outside shot rolling.

I was quietly hoping Ere might work his way into shape by mid-season, but it just hasn't happened. He gave up a block on Wagstaff early on because he was too slow to get back into position.

Gibson once again doing absolutely nothing for the Sixers out there. I don't know if he is injured, but he isn't even trying to drive around opposing guards. Instead he's been picking up his dribble and then making tough lateral passes to the wings.

Too many passengers and not enough size. We're wasting this season with Randle unless we make some changes ASAP.

I swear if DJ shoots one more 3 I'm going to break something.

Watching DJ try and play D is comedy gold.

Ere layup, cant remember what his quota is for field goals 2 or 3, maybe one more in him!

Martin has a cry about an obvious foul he did, next play massively fouls Carlin but no call and then a soft foul down the other end... ahhhh NBL referees

The refs haven't been as bad as the Adelaide 36ers. Deplorable effort, no identity and not sure what the gameplan is or was.

These refs have been pretty physical. Putting hands on everyone.

Redhage flops and refs call USF. Teys gets a throw down and it's just a breaker up boys

Didn't get drafted for no reason, what is he 23, in his athletic prime, Perth have a good thing going with the imports they are picking.

Randle and Petrie are the only reliable players we have on the roster, everyone else is to hit and miss.

Get back on the bus Petrie

DJ is having a hideous night statistically. I'm assuming it looks just as bad live. But he's played the most minutes. This is why we need another tall.

Not saying players don't provoke but funny how so much of the niggle and overtly physical stuff seems to involve Petrie.

He seems to me to be the main instigator in a lot of the physical skirmishes.

Jawai has given away 3 stupid and unnecessary fouls tonight. He'll get a reputation if he's not careful. If he hasn't already.

And right on cue Jawai with the little tap on Sobeys face. Fair dinkum, what an idiot.

It's not Joey's fault we can't rebound. We should have played big tonight featuring a unit of DJ Petrie Walker Creek or Ere and Randle or Gibbo. This team honestly doesn't need Ere but he is handy occasionally. That import spot should go to a gritty rim protector like Charles Jackson.

wouldn't be an Adelaide game without Petrie having a sook about someone. Doesn't matter who is playing he's sooking about something.

It is partly Joey Wrights fault for the lack of rebounding, he helped very heavily put this roster together, and they are very undersized even at full health. Ere needed to be 6'9++

DJ has 1 point tonight, you better believe there will be changes coming! Whatever is happening isnt working, thats surely not happened since his Tiger bench warmer days.

Way to serve up 40 minutes of garbage, 36ers

Let's play a drinking game..

Neck ya vessel everytime Brad Robbins interviews Prather and talks about him being extra-aggressive.

Adelaide should be proud gave them a a solid 17minutes of play....

Man Perth didn't have to do shit tonight, they cruised, this was a pencilled one for them. Adelaide's roster is not in the same category, we are fighting for 4-8th thats it.

This 36ers team stinks, and it goes to the rubbish team selection, teys is ordinary, tries hard but average player, creek is good for doing dunks in the warm ups that's it, sobey is useless, ebi too fat, Johnson too soft and spends all game playing with his shorts, Gibson doesn't look like he gives a toss, Petrie must have the smallest human brain in the world, walker is a waste of an athlete, and then there is carlin! What the hell is that bloke doing on a basketball court, doesn't look like a basketball players left nut, can't catch, can't run, can't jump, can't set a screen, one time he tried to steal the ball from Randle! FML

Joey picked these guys so he is to blame

Our group for the last few minutes was Sobey, Teys, Creek, Ere and Walker. Wtf is that. Joey threw the towel in early in the fourth, god knows why. He's a moron sometimes.

It's the refs fault joeys team sucks

Well you let a overweight over aged unfit import into team and do nothing about it and wonder why the morale in team is crap and nobody wants to defend as Ere certainly can't even make out he is .
Crocs drop Conklin and we keep Ere what a joke these new owners are making our club look so un professional it is so frustrating where we as a club are heading .
If you make weak decisions it eats away at the whole club.
Yes there are other problems like what has happened to Creek and why is Gibson just wandering with the ball waving his arms around and not producing anything. Etc Etc
Why did we pick up 2 of the dumbest basketballs in Australia

Kyrie2Nation why would he risk injury to DJ, Gibson and Randle when they have another game? and you are calling him a moron......

Why would you select carlin, he can't catch

KingJames - No reason Petrie couldn't have been on the floor, Walker is bad enough playing at the 4 let alone at the 5 regardless of the scoreline.

Wright is more of a moron because he gave the game up early in the fourth. He had Carlin at the 5 and Walker at the 4 when there was 6 minutes to go, I mean come on.

Kyrie2Nation Petrie was on 4 fouls that is why he went off! Sixers were down by 22 with 6 minutes to go! Sixers are playing on Sunday! Simple concepts that you are not understanding.

In Carlin's defence, he did have 6 boards in the first allotment of proper minutes he has ever had. I thought he was ok, definitely not the main reason for that display. And Joey had lost that game with lack of game plan long before the 4th quarter started. I feel like the moron for even vaguely giving them a chance!

Yes because I don't want my team to throw in the towel early in the fourth? I'm missing so much, right.

Ebi is simply emabarssing as an import, and I'm so surprised more people haven't blown up at his lack of input. Ive been beating that drum all season and only now are other starting to admit he is done!!!

Lol

6ers are pure shit.

Jervis best third string C ever

Kyrie2Nation go find a professional game where a team is down by 22 with 6 minutes to go at an away stadium and won the game. It was a smart play by the coach to rest his players for the next game instead of chasing some unrealistic attempt at winning.

Wright gave the game up before the 6 minute mark.

"Jervis best third string C ever"

Dunno about that. Don't forget the Titans had Anstey, Pepper & Wheeler at one point.

Luuuc I reckon id take Jervis over say Wheeler tbh... He is a great piece to have coming off that bench! Adelaide would be completely changed with him in the starting 5 as one example of a team who could benefit.

I'm certainly not knocking Jervis. He's definitely worthy of more minutes than he's getting right now. Nice problem to have for the Cats. It means Nate is free to foul himself out of games at will and we can cover him. Which is just as well, because I don't think Nate is capable of not fouling atm.

Nate is as interesting to see perform as I anticipated but no where near as damaging. Guess its not noticed as much because every time he comes out, Jervis comes in and you guys lose nothing!

How good is it having Damo back and wreaking havoc with his defence. So good to watch.

People do realise Conklin is like 6ft5 or 6 if you need size it's not conklin

He plays as a big, the point is Adelaide need bigs. The Ebster is big but in a less athletic way.

Simply not good enough by the Sixers to give up 90 points and 17 offensive rebounds for 17 second chance points, whilst the Sixers themselves had ZERO second chance points.

That just points to a lack of effort.

Ebi had a poor game tonight but he isn't alone, Gibbo, DJ, Teys, Waxy and Creek all were quite ineffective for the minutes they had.

I don't think Ebi should be replaced, he still has a lot to offer the club. Moreover, if his contract is guaranteed now, it doesn't make financial sense to pay him out then go get Conklin.

The Sixers team as a collective played poorly tonight, so we cop it as a team and don't point fingers at individuals.

Lets re-group and its onwards and upwards from here.

I'm confident The Sixers will take United next game.

Well we tried to make Adelaide feel at home by busting the scoreboard in the last quarter...

But why were Adelaide wearing their Pyjamas?

Marcus you are not serious are you about Ere are you about him having something to offer .
Even you must see that this poor excuse for a basketballer let alone a NBL import
is a over the hill and in poor physical condition and a total embarresment every time he puts a Sixers top on and his continued selection is like a bad germ eating through this team.
IfJoey and owners have any respect for their supporters and members then they must replace him to show they at least care about this club as half as much as we do.
Crocs with no chance of finals and even surviving are prepared to replace a import, then how stupid it looks with us putting up with this guy.
As a long time member i like all have supported through some tough times but I
am having a real problem having a import turning up to our club in such poor shape and so far unable to be competitive about any aspect of game and our total non movement to replace to me is exhausting my support enthusiasm.

When DJ plays badly, Sixers can forget about winning. And he was really really bad last night.

Not only should he be sacked, id love to know why he has lasted this long. Seriously, the longer the club plays mum on this the more its a favour being granted to a coaches friend rather than any care about on court abilities.

I don't think the 6's were THAT bad.
There's a bit of luck in basketball, and things were rolling the Cats way last night.
DJ looked ok early, grabbed a couple of boards. Not sure what happened after that, I guess the Cats compensated and started blocking him out better.

I don't know too much about Ere, but he looked overweight and wasn't really contributing what you'd expect for an Import. Frankly he seemed barely up to "bench" quality, so I'm not sure why you're wasting an import spot on him?
Is it a budget issue?

Some weird reffing decisions. Went both ways, but possibly stilted Adelaide's momentum at times.

At the end of the day the 6's are competitive, but probably not where they were the past two seasons.

Comes largely down to attitude with the 6ers IMO.
The gap between best & worst for talented guys like Gibbo & DJ is far too wide.
I really didn't think the Cats were that great last night, but the result never felt in danger either.
Randle can't win games by himself. A little help please.

"I think DJ has the mobility to play pf in the NBL, a bit like a Dirk in the NBA"

An ageing Matty Knight still goes just fine at PF so I've got no doubt DJ can play there effectively.

Agree DJ needs to move the 4 however too late to this season. Adelaide should try get a good 5 in - Aussie or import even someone like Burston would help big time.

They had Schenscher and never played him. Joey doesnt like the bigs, its run run run and thats about it.

When discussing Ebi's production in this team we need to keep it within context.

When Ebi was announced (sight unseen) I, as with others, were concerned about his age. I had an inkling that he would not be the go to 20 ppg guy that people are expecting from an Import.

This was confirmed when we realised his conditioning needed some work and again when we saw how Joey utilised Ebi.

With such Australian talent in the team Ebi doesn't have to be that 20ppg guy to be valuable to the Sixers.

I would consider DJ and Gibbo to be our Tier 1 scorers. Followed by (at the time) McNeal, Ebi, Creek, Waxy and Creek as the next Tier.

Now that changed with Randle, so now your top tier of scorers would be Randle, DJ and Gibbo. Creek should also be developing to become a major part of the Sixer plans.

Considering the above, Joey is probably OK with Ebi's production. I would add the disclaimer that his percentages are not up to standard.

I am still willing to give Ebi the benefit of the doubt because he has shown incremental improvements throughout the year (albeit with some regressions along the way). He is a great veteran presence on the court and in the locker room (such intangibles should not be dismissed lightly).

The Sixers remain 4th and haven't totally clicked yet.

I am confident that there is another gear to this team and Ebi can form a significant part of that push into the playoffs.

Its exciting times for this team as it faces tough challenges and hopefully bring out the best in the players.

Onwards and upwards team.

The percentages are the main concern with Ere atm for me.

Gibson is not a top tier scorer hasn't been for last few seasons, creek has not shown leading into this season that he was going to grow into a scorer. The import combo of Ebi and mcnial would've been a disaster. Thankfully Randle came along. Ebi is a passenger cashing pay checks. If joey is happy with input then he needs to go too. His performances have been inexcusable. He can't make shots he is here to make shots maybe not score 20 but he needs to provide more than 2 field goals in 22 minutes of play. He needs to be replaced then it has the chance to be onwards and upwards.