Wow. Randle hits Ebi with a nice pass at the basket in the dying seconds of the 1st Q, Ebi blows a wide open layup, Breakers board and then Cedric with the halfcourt 3 on the buzzer, so we're 23-25 Sixers instead of 20-27... could end up being big if this stays close.

Sadly I am one of the 70 something percent of the population that the nbl and for that matter the Adelaide 36ers have chosen to exclude from being full supporters of their team. I would love nothing more than to sit back and watch the game probably now started but,

I HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED AS BEING TOO POOR TO MATTER APPARENTLY.

THATS RIGHT I DONT HAVE FOXTEL!

Neither will I watch it on a 2" screen.



As much as I will be at every home game I don't matter, like the majority of Australia.


As a supporter of the sixers not mattering really sucks!


In a few years as has happened in the past people will say, 36ers, who are they.

Well i'll just get my glass back to half full and go outside and watch the chickens.

Go Sixers!

Not really the Sixers fault that free-to-air isn't willing to give the NBL even 25% of as good a deal as Foxtel did. Download the NBL app. Or get Foxtel Play. Neither is free, but they're both cheaper than Foxtel.

#hardtoavoidfoultroubleifyoureapostplayerwhochallengeshots

Great job by the worst ref in the NBL, awarding FTs to the wrong Breaker.

So whats happening in New Zealand?

In the back yard its really interesting, my big proud Cochin rooster Chris has just disrespected Mel my best hen and all the girls have run off and are avoiding him. Even the feral pigeons and spoggies are tweeting their hearts out. Boy is he in trouble.

Go Sixers

Lucky you.
My day is a forgettable one so far, as the Adelaide 36ers have excluded me from being a part of that fun, by not providing me with neither a rooster nor any hens.
So I'm stuck at home watching basketball on tv.
It's a close one as we approach crunch time.

Top win, 6ers.

Wow did the sixers really win, great!!!

In local news another of my hens, Adelle had a late lay (up) and on leaving the nesting box and assessing the Chris situation she crossed to the other side of the yard to avoid having to say hello!

Go Sixers!

Good to see we didn't come back rusty. Pretty important win that one.

I thought Joey's coaching was fantastic. Loved hearing his time outs. Great Win 36ers.

Breakers probably loved hearing them, too. ;)

NZ played with little intensity until the final quarter and never deserved to win. Kudos to Adelaide

"Sadly I am one of the 70 something percent of the population that the nbl and for that matter the Adelaide 36ers have chosen to exclude from being full supporters of their team."

On that logic, the NBL and Adelaide have excluded 100% of the population from being full supporters of their team until this year.

There has never been a deal where every game was on TV, let alone FTA TV. This year the NBL is on FTA and STV for the first time since 2001.

BTW, typically short thread after a 36ers win! Super performance, their defence was outstanding, doing things proactively and throwing NZ out of their offence.

They spread the floor very well at the other end too, Johnson completely outplaying Charles Jackson in a real statement performance. DJ loves playing NZ.

If Cedric Jackson produces form like that first half consistently the Breakers will miss the playoffs. If he plays like the second half more often they'll get back on track.

The top four is wide open now, the 36ers can win the series against Melbourne, Illawarra and NZ so their destiny in their own hands

Great win by the Sixers, and somewhat unexpected. DJ appears to have played a blinder.

This is a great win but they must maintain it to have any hope of finals. Their games against Illawarra are qualification games so long as they knock off all the teams below them.

AyJay,

What is the update on the chooks? Perhaps their weekly going ons could be provided in their own thread- "Keeping up with Ayjay's chooks"

As I too don't have pay tv, I'm actually interested in ayjays chooks! I'm not a pheasant plucker.....

I too, have no Foxtel. But I wasn't ridiculously cheap and paid the $60 for the NBL App

BigAds

The situation was extremely tense in the back yard with the girls upset and the sixers game in the balance.

The tension became too much between the offended hens and poor dejected Chris, when suddenly our long lost family giant Brahma rooster missing since 1941 and believed to be walking the earth "appeared".

Cluck Norris had returned.

He took in the situation at a glance and let Chris live.

Cluck Norris glanced at me and he "knew"

Cluck looked towards the Tasman in the last minute of the game and the NZ Beakers were afraid to score.

Sixers to victory.


Adelle looked at Cluck Norris, recrossed the yard tweeting Hello is it me your looking for?

Peace returned to the hen house.

Go Sixers

Do you think the 6's can make the 4 from here? Or have they left their run too late?
Winning a split only helps if you manage to tie, so it would helps against the Hawks and/or NZ if there's a tie for 4th, but I can see them catching MU from here.

As someone mentioned, Breakers looking vulnerable at the wrong end of the season, really does keep the top 4 and the finals open.
If I am reading this right, Adelaide and Hawks still have 3 games to play, so that could almost become a battle for 4th spot.

I'm afraid the adventures of Cluck Norris may steal the NBL's spot on TV.