Mosquito fleet will lose.

Interesting to see what the crowd is....and if Perth give them value for money. I sure hope so.

Same in Melbourne today. Full house, sold out weeks ago. I hope they get value for money.

This game gonna be boring.

As a 36er fan living in Perth, today will be my only chance to see them live this season. I realize that this game means nothing, but I will be pissed if the game resembles a training session.

All clubs cannot lose sight that there are still fans paying shit loads (especially in Perth) to see a game, plus the quality of the product broadcast live on FOXTEL.

Actually i think the quality of the games this round has been the highest all year. Most gamea resemble glorified pick up games allowing high scoring, some nice dunks, some big individiaul performances (30 pt games) and a very good OT game.

The games have been less meaningless.

But i think the quality has made up for it.

Wow.. glad I didn't watch the NZ Melb game... score looks like they're resting for the meaningful games..

They posted a pic from the lockeroom on FB..

Lol, 6ers a bit sloppy early.

Sobey with a big jam!!

Petrie with some muscle....LOL

About time. Enjoyable game early!

I never liked Sobey.....UNTIL NOW!!!

Hire is a flog!

Hire bumps people all the time and throws them over the court. Happens to him once and he loses his mind. Can't handle a dose of his own medicine.

Sobey has some fire

Sobey is in beast mode!

6ers to shit to make playoffs so they go out to injure Perth players. Go back to your dump of a city so the good teams can play.

Wow.

1. Redhage just bowled Creek over..full on push.

2. That was hardly a leg lock. Hardly anything.

Did Joey bench Gibbo? Good on him!

What is anon on about regarding ladder and seedings?

Yeah, the ladder was settled on Friday night when we lost to Illawarra.

Sizes fans can complain all they won't. You are in the playoffs this year but no new to get all emotional. Take a chill pill.

You ARENT. In the playoffs

Want a mulligan on that post Wildcats80?

6ers only 4 attempted 3s for the half!
Lol

And I thought this game would be a run of the mill snoozefest.
This is fun

Same rules for us, people just want to play in Perth for the for the crowd and city. It's ok though, one day a key player might want to play in your shed in front of the 4 people who's Centrelink payments are high enough to afford a ticket...or can you trade in food stamps now? To be honest I just thought they'd give them away to make it seem full

^^^ lol

Entertaining on court and the forum!

Joey should have benched Gibson 25 games ago.

DJ is a pile of poo

Randle is putting up too many shots. Perth look home here.

Wow, D Martin just pulled Teys pants down on that play.

36ers have no answer for Greg Hire :p

LOL @ Randle coming back in garbage time once Martin was out

Wonder what Jawai's +/- was today

"Perth finish top of ladder with 105.53% points percentage vs 101.80% Melb Utd. But for playoff seed you split a tie with head to head only and it went 3-1 to Melbourne."

Continuing to insist this is true doesn't make it so.

Or, you know, everyone else is right and you're the only one who is wrong. That's the more likely explanation.

Except that United would've turned up to play and gotten a win.

Splits are only used for playoff seedings, not general ladder position.

Overall ladder is between all eight teams so whoever has higher points % is top.

You can't split two teams in isolation and then apply it to the whole table.

"Should have not tanked vs Kings!"
Minor Premiership.....so near, yet so far...

6ers +/- for tonight...

Petrie +2
Hodgson -3
Walker -3
Sobey -4
Teys -7
Ere -11
Creek -12
Gibson -18
Johnson -18

Final totals for the season...
Creek +53
Randle +47
Johnson +32
Teys +7
Sobey +3
Johns +3
Petrie 0
Larkins -3
McNeail -6
Hodgson -7
Carlin -14
Ere -16
Walker -41
Gibson -80

Will try to put together some 5 man unit results in the next few days.

"The TV news reported Gibbo signing up on a $200K/yr contract with Brisbane next year".

Hey Jack

Assuming he doesn't plan to work any harder than this season, it must be spot in the Brisbane Public Service!

MACDUB is one of those guys who predicts or posts what he wishes may happen, or has happened. No matter how much you hate the Wildcats, Creek deliberately locked legs with Redhage. It was the most obvious call of the season.

Ever since Randle engaged beast mode in this league I've been looking forward to seeing how he went against Damo. Was worth the wait.
Don't know if it was on the tv telecast but in his brief trophy acceptance speech Damo singled the ant man as an extra tough cover.

Na, the refs need to show some leeway to players rotating their ankles. If your ankles aren't straightened immediately then who knows what might happen.

It's an interesting application of game-theory...

Cat's took a calculated risk not flying 3 sore players to Sydney. Had we not done that, and won, then we have to assume that MU don't rest their players, and presumably they manage to win at least one game against NZ, so would have made no difference.

Conceptually, Perth may have been "top of the table" for an instant, but really not since the season finished with their victory.
At that point the rules regarding FINAL placings come into effect. Not that the rules refer to final placings NOT just the play-offs, so the final placings have MU on top.

At the end of the day, the Cats banked too heavily on their "easy run home." They gave up sloppy wins on the road, and when it comes right down to it, the game they NEEDED to win was their final home game against MU. THAT was the play-off for first spot, and MU won.

It's always been that way.

Overall ladder in a tie is based on points percentage if tied.

Only head to head/mini league is used to split teams for PLAYOFF SEEDING purposes.

For a NBL nerd you really don't know your stuff.

Check the media guides.

Oh FFS:

61. NBL Ladder

61.1. Placings on the NBL Ladder during the Season

61.1.1.
The positions on the ladder during the regular season shall be determined by the ratio of games won over games played.

61.1.2.
Should two or more teams be tied with the same winning percentage during the regular season they shall be ranked by the number produced by dividing total points scored against into total points scored for.

61.2.
Final Placings at the End of the Home and Away Season

61.2.1.
Positions on the ladder will be determined by the ratio of games won over games played.

61.2.2.
Should two or more teams be tied on game winning
percentage at the conclusion of the home and away fixture, final placings shall be determined by the win/loss ratio in only those games played between the tied teams.

61.2.3.
Should there still remain a
tie; rankings shall be determined by the difference between the total points scored for and against each team in only those games played between the tied teams.

61.2.4.
If teams still remain tied, rankings shall be determined by the points for over the points against percentages for the entire season

I have no idea where you're quoting from, but it still agrees with me, so I'm not sure what the point even is.

Damo tweaked his ankle in the Sydney game in Perth, and hobbled off at one point, but not until he has chased down a loose ball and cut his knee.

Considering his career form with injury, particularly coming back to early or taking the risk to play but then making the injury worse, then it made sense to rest him.

He was rested by not playing. Why is it "a joke"? What difference does it make whether he joined the team or not?

The decision to rest him was probably more precautionary than anything. I don't think flying would have mattered that much in his case.

The other injuries obviously made those players less suitable for flying.

Why do you have such an issue with him travelling?