Will non MVP candidate Chris Goulding be able to compete with the brilliance of MVP candidate Jerome Randle and the Sixers?

Time will tell....

Really looking forward to this one. Huge game.

Go 36ers , do the cats a favour and give United a beating :P

I'll be at the G, watching the Big sporting event of the evening

These two teams, on paper, have the potential to put on a barn storming high scoring, close finishing shoot out. But the first 3 games didn't really live up to that billing. Both sides are fit and in form so I'm quietly hopeful that's what we'll get.

United by panels.

36ers aren't in the same league.

I just saw the new NBL Video feature Goulding. Is it just weird or has a lot of this seasons promo videos had a lot of members of United in them. Is that because they are all made in Melbourne or is it because its Kestleman's team?

Id love to see a Randle highlight reel or an AJ highlight reel.

It's a conspiracy I tells ya!! lol

Nice to see the Strikers get their pants pulled down last night too :D

I'll be there tonight, looking forward to this one.

I dont know about conspiracy but it certainly feels a bit like marketing on the cheap. Its not like they cant grab players like when they get off the plane and say 'Can you record somethng for the video?'.

If you planned it ahead of time it could work.

I'll blow my nut if the Sixers let Kickert go to his right all night and give half arsed efforts to closing out on his 3 ball attempts

Ebi has been bigger than his 205cm overweight frame.

Been an enjoyable game so far.

I hope Blanchfield can make some shots tonight

So is the Cube showing the 5 on court stats ?? or just the game below and all the stats every now and then ?

I'm bagged for bagging the poor use of the cube and being negative, but on FB I am reading fans bagging each other and the players..

DJ isn't working hard enough
The fans shouldn't boo Goulding
The airconditioner isn't on
Someone will steal my free slap band gift
Gibbo isn't doing enough

DJ is almost every game working the bigs alone due to Peach inconsistency and missing the back door and Walker/Hodgson not enough to support him
Goulding should be booed if you have been around long enough to know why
The aircon doesn't work in the humidity again if you have been around long enough you would know
Freebies are a bonus so suck it up and get there early if you want one and steal somebody else's
Gibbo is a Point guard shoved aside for a superstar, thats great but it does effect every other player on the teams game and Gibbo is the one that created their game for them. Happens each season we bring in a shooter playing point.

All I want is to see the stats so I can follow the game and no I don't and should not have to look down at my little phone screen to see it

Score?

There it is, now the complaints about the MC mike volume, turn it up !

http://www.nbl.com.au/livestats/?matchid=139092&page=strip

No spoiler on this thread so look this up. You will be happy if you check right now.

Quite the crumble by United. No answer for Randle.

Ere saving his best for last, it seems. Amazing 2nd half by Randle... as awesome as Perth/Illawarra/Melbourne have been at times, if Randle is playing like Randle, Adelaide can beat anybody.

Yes. It is looking like a Adelaide v Perth and Hawks v United series. Two crackers indeed!.

ROFLcopter "United by panels" lol

Holt is a solid player, and he was great at St. Mary's. But I think United should have held out for a more explosive, better ball-handling import PG.

Holt is a worse defender than Randle, a turn style would offer more effort.

How bad is Melbourne can't win even when the fix is on. Wakim bailed out at least three times by his "special" friend Chris Reid. Brad Giersch was his usual inconsistent self. Thank God for Toni Caldwell, made a couple of mistakes,but at least showed no bias called the game straight.

Jerome was off in the first half but was again ably assisted by Ebi. A better all round performance although the MVP elect still finished with 26 points.

A good win.

Wonder what goulding said to joey when they shook hands Joey didn't seem to happy with what ever he said.

Anon, tonight's last quarter aside, they have been pretty good recently, you might want to check the table.

That said, I don't rate Demopolous as a coach.

Melbourne's biggest problem is they don't compete on the boards. Can't win championships if you let the other side put up 20 more shots than you. Realistically this game wasn't even close if the Sixers hit a better percentage in the first half, despite Melbourne's hot 3 point percentage.

Perfect timing, saw the last 6-7 minutes of this during the innings break at the G.

If Randle keeps his form up over the last few games then there could literally be one MVP candidate by the end of the season.

In the 40 minute era has any team scored 90 points while hitting 2 or less threes?

Toni did call a good game. Even had the guts to tell Joey 'my bad, we got that wrong'.
Brad would be the most inconsistent ref in the NBL. He has an attitude problem. Would love to see him and Mills told goodbye at seasons end. On that point, no final for either of them either.

Call me biased but why can't United run more plays for Blanchfield, he's gone from Olympic bolter to forgetting he's even on the court.

I think Holt would have been a better fit in Townsville as he seems so reserved and like he likes being out if the limelight and Norton can be the primary ball handler and Dennis would run so many more plays for him.... Remember this is a player that scored 23 in the first half of a game vs the kings and finished with 23.

Other than Kickert that will be unlucky when knight gets the all NBL first team honours and the development of Majok, the team isn't anything to write home about... Nobody else is a better player now than they were before the season started.... It's not be being doom and gloom it's me saying Demopolous is useless

Brad Giersch is a clown. Joey was asking a pretty specific question, that only had one answer, and Giersch responded with some bullshit instead of having the balls to admit a mistake had been made.

Ebe with back to back gun games! I guess he has given up the Krispy Creme's for the playoff run haha Great too see, he out of knowhere has shown glimpses of what was expected from the get go. So now if Randle or DJ last game are a little off the 36ers still have offensive options, hope he can keep it up!

According to the Herald Sun, the crowd was 2,548.

Is that true? Is that indicative of the 36ers crowds this year???

Crowd was 6950. Obviously a typo in the Hun. I take it you didn't see the game?

Clearly the Herald Sun were talking about the number of people in attendance who were illuminated, and not the total attendance. Duhh.

According to the Herald Sun, the crowd was 2,548.

Is that true? Is that indicative of the 36ers crowds this year???

There was apparently 6950 according to boti

Yeah Paul I saw most of the last quarter (on my phone during the innings break at the G!), but I wasn't paying attention to the crowd

Glad to hear the Actual number was much healthier

Fair enough, if you were at the G prob hard to hear the b'ball crowd through the broadcast! It certainly sounded loud though.