Excited for the game for sure but does anybody think there is a situation where Trev will call for Dexter to come on, would Adelaide fans love to see that or do you just think that Trev will just keep him on the bench ?

I'd like to see him used as a spark off the bench if the game starts like United/bullets game and fans are feeling a little underwhelmed and the crowd have had nothing much to cheer about as neither team can buy a basket. Dexter comes on and the place erupts as he stands next to Teys... that would be terrific

The last eight Adelaide home games have resulted in 194 fouls called on the visiting team and only 133 on the home team . Also 11 opp. players have fouled out to Adelaides ZERO.. smells like a sunday roast for the Adelaide dirty floppers...

Perth should be allowed more people on their bench to help 'hold back" the players if there's another scuffle. At least make it look believable that they are actually being held back this time.

I can't imagine there will be any incidents this time anyway. The high standard of NBL officiating should keep things calm....

We love Sunday roasts, especially when it's pussycat grilled to perfection

Adelaide should win making it 4-0 for respective home teams.
Perth have a chance if they play like they did in the 3rd quarter of Fridays game.

Hehe, all good. If Perth can bring the intensity and fight it will be a good game. Adelaide I find to struggle when things ain't rolling.

Perth may be flopers but very rare they get involved in physically or hurting player's.

Adelaide celebration after every point and game is like a game 5 of a grand final. Both coaches should get teed up before the whistle.

Personally I think a blowout either way

There are 3 certainties in life.

Death, taxes and this being the tightest game called all season after the rumble in the jungle Friday night. If anyone breathes on their opponent it will be a foul, could even wind up being unsportsmanlike.

This could end up favouring the Sixers though. In fact, Damian Martin might get fouled out before half time. And Matty Hodgson might foul out in a minute's worth of courtime.

In a game where playing smart and composed will be a major factor, I expect Walker & Tokoto to be the difference between the teams today.

Be interested to see how the Walker V Larkins rematch turns out. I reckon walker needs to strap his ankles for this one. Might cop a sly bite for that headlock sling.

They called it tight friday. Brandt fouled the air that hit sobey and majok blocked the ball that then assaulted a cats player twice. They dont need to be tight they need to be in the vicinity of right and consistent.

If Adelaide are going to win this afternoon they have to hit towards 50% from range and make 20+ attempts.

The rest of our game will be fine if we can do that.

I don't know if they need to do that much to win today, but if that team is hitting at 50% from outside on that many shots then they're not going to lose to anyone.

I think their best chance of winning is to go with an all-trolling starting 5 of Larkins, Teys, Drmic, Shorter & Creek, and play that combo for as many minutes as possible, with Sobey & Childress off the bench for some quality backup trolling.

I hate the fact that it's in the middle of the afternoon in Summer. It's much easier to spend 2 hours inside a stadium knowing the weather is crap outside. Would they ever consider going back to Winter?

Girls on the beach or Gleeson's annoying gob....
Decisions.

You know when there's boobs or a penis on TV and they make them fuzzy so you can't see properly? Is it possible to get them to do that to Gleeson's face?

Perth win today they will be 2nd, NZ 3rd and Adelaide 4th.
Adelaide win NZ 2nd, Adelaide 3rd and Perth 4th.

The music is painfully loud again. Can't hear the announcer

What was the tech for?

Perth aren't shooting the lights out tonight.

Childress lands on the shooter no foul, drives the lane and has the ball hit he gets the call.

Childress come to play. Wants to make amends for this 3rd qtr performance in Perth.

Awesome block on Walker.

Childress is finding it easy to score on Tokoto

Cotton should receive a flop warning for all his flailing about when he shoots. It's the same principle in that he's trying to fool officials

Officials are fools enough as it is too

That is a ridiculously soft foul for creek. Are you kidding? Will we see it at both ends? No otbwas a 3sec call on perth on a play with only 4 players up the court.

The refs are actually not calling all the fouls committed on the 36ers but Wildcats fans still not happy.

This game deserves a better thread than one with J commenting on it.

Stupid 'Cats fans.

I love that the two wins have given you some hope and you're all tense and expectant again

Don't worry. Sure Perth will make a comeback at some stage so you can stop whinging.

Wagstaff less contact than Childress block lol

I should have said there are 4 certainties in life.

The 4th being J complaining about every call that goes against his Wildcats.

Go home steindl

Creek in beast mode.
Perth looking shaky

"I don't even think the ball touched the floor on that possession" - immediately after a layup from a bounce pass. LOL.


One way traffic so far :/

Rat and uncle Phil are you happy with that call getring called eveey time? Thats what i asked for

Don't worry Perth fans. The scrip usually goes: Adelaide play a great fast tempo game and the opposition team rack up fouls. Then at half time the refs freak out about the foul discrepancy so they even it up.

This is so classic

Everybody needs a hobby Mr. Anonymous.

Do we seriously have a hungry jacks chant. That is beyond sad

Cotton has already drove and finished a couple times, strange comment. If players could do it at 100% they wouldn't be in this league.

Where was he contact to his face :s

Its unfortunate that the only call perth has received attacking the paint is an absolute shocker. No way a foul amd it had to be a shooting foul too

Perth fans, your team is shithouse right now and all you can talk about is refs or things that annoy you about individuals on the opposition. Pathetic but very enjoyable

Charge? Really???

What a dive 9.6 from the judges

I hope this is the 2v3 first round playoff series

Lol anyone that says tokoto pushed him anymore than any other rebounding contest has no idea.

Ughh... Cats outside shooting regressing to the mean, and Tokoto predictably resorting to dumb shit instead of playing basketball. Game over.

Perth getting frustrated.

Bring back Prather next season please

There is no greater salt into a wound than a Sobey dunk. Grrrrrr

Adelaide thought they had Perth at half time last game and let it slip. Lets see how they come out this time.

Kenny showing his wares again. A couple of good games followed up by multiple turnovers, no energy. It is so disappointing that he is contracted for next year.

Does anyone know how many points the Sixers need to win by to get the season series? I'm guessing about 30?

Big difference this time Udog.
Perth were only down by 1 then.
Down by 22 on the road I can't see Perth winning

14 to 3 fta. That is a significant discrepancy when both teams are attacking the paint. By no means saying it is the difference in the game, just to be clear adelaide should be winning. But id suggest that differential should be halved which would make for a more interesting second half

Kenny has had a good month IMO, plus Damo is not 100%, thus the current cats guard rotation

No Healy is a babe too.

They're always hotter when the Cats are losing

"Why is Kenny being played so much lately? That's the problem he gets too many minutes.“
Obviously you haven't been paying attention lately.

Perth were shooting the lights out in the first half in Perth though. Very uncharacteristic.

No Healy = Jo Healy

Any Perth fan blaming the refs, should leave this thread now. Terrible shooting and even weaker efforts on defense is what is losing this game, all they hype was built and this game and rather than playing like Wildcats, they are playing like pussies. This game had everything to play for, and we have not fired a shot yet. This is a true reflection of how we have played all year.

"Good hustle from Perth". Yes after giving up 2 offensive rebounds.

Come on how is that not an illegal screen?? What is this?

What, where was there any contact haha

Qantas Lounge

Ok cats are down because of poor shooting. But these shooting fouls are soft and only one end

Thanks for the info on points % guys. Home court is going to be critical for a Perth-Adelaide semi!

The fatties of Adelaide want their hungry jacks

(Takes bait)
Yeah, Perth have been terrible since Gleeson took over

If we are calling 3 seconds like the first half then in the name of consistency surely johnson was im there dor more than 3? Unlike the perth calls he was actually the player with the ball and actually scored. Not saying its the reason for the loss, but its not consistent

Why comment on the refs then, if it's the same every game nothing will change.

If the players cannot get them selves up for this game, not sure what you expect from the coaches .Just mentally weak from the Cats today, and that is on the players not the coaching staff.

Drmic the man

I think it is the reason for the loss.
That one no-call is worth at least 30 points

Haha Who was that looking like a crack addict on the bench

Someone unbolted that crappy rim on the Wildcats end in the first half and moved it to the other end.

This game doesn't matter.

Gleeson is just laughing, saying let them have this one boys, save your energy for the post-season

Plus HJ's probably can't afford to give away 13000 burgers every week

"Must say I have respect for Perth being the only team I've heard not make a big deal about possible free burgers from missed free throws. It's embarrassing."

Its never mentioned at games to the point i don’t the think it’s a thing in Perth, even after missed shots

Finally we get Dexter & Teys

Teys is my MVP for this game for what he did in the last game!

Captain courageous in for his 7minutes court time

Hahahah wtf was that

Teys thugging it up immediately

Hodgson with a nice elbow into Kenny, nothing doing? Sixers fans upset about it like they were cookes?

Moore wants Adelaide to lose

Also another solft foul on moore. The refs are terrible again

The old half time foul count even up by the refs. Right to script.

Great coach Gleeson 200 wins well done.

This game is over time to give spuds like Teys, Larkins , DKD and Steindl a run.
They might make the game more interesting

Keeping Coke in this team is the bigger issue, they have resorted to using Walker as the centre rather than him, says it all really about this team and their mind set this year.

We are right behind you Gleeson.

I'm in the pub at the beach anonymous. You can see my moobs later.

That ref better not call finals. That is probably the most inept call of the season

The worst call i have ever seen in my life. As straight up defence as you can play! It was inside the 3pt line ffs. If you needed proof adelaide has rhe best homecooking thay was it

How is that homecooking? That call disadvantaged Adelaide, should have been count 2 plus one free throw

The ones that hurt the most for me are when the expectations are high. (i.e. not this game. This is just a thank you sportsbet type of game)

New rule changes bloody suck this year

That is just plain embarrassing that a big man cannot not even make a simple put back.

If cooke wasnt fouled how was it a foul on kenny deg went straight into him? Im genuinely interested, what am i missing?

"Vaughan I'm bleeding bro."

"You're not bleeding Jesse"

Deng

Is Tokoto playing tonight?

If Childress maintains this form he will be tough to stop in finals

Moore unsportsmanlike? His hands on the ball?

Don't think Moore was USF either, if he got ball everyone’s would celebrate it, wrist isn’t far off.

Get Cotton off for ffs, nothing to be gained by playing him now.

Luuuc, the fact you had low expectations for this game as a Cats fan AFTER they have just beaten the 36ers by 21, shows just how poor the Cats are this season. Youd like to think you could win again a few days later...

"This game is not over"

LOL

Lol sobey faux tough guy

Kenny gets aggressive in junk time...shows he can do it but generally just to lazy when the pressure is on

Brandt would destroy Sobey.

"Kenny gets aggressive in junk time...shows he can do it but generally just to lazy when the pressure is on"

Think the case is he plays to coaches instructions not that he isn't lazy. If Gleeson told him he was the first shooter option he would

Sobey I'd a first class dickhead.

From what I've seen, Gleeson gets frustrates when Kenny is too passive

Is it over yet Corey?

Protected the % a bit atleast, 28 down to 12.

Margin < 30 is misleading but I'll take it

Given how comprehensively outplayed they were, not bad to only go down by 12 which will limit damage to percentage

Terrible first half cost us sadly, were ordinary when the heat was on, at least they didn't shut up shop, but need to be better from the start. Same game style as Friday night, except this time we gave them a too big of lead.

As bad as were from the three, sixers were worse, so why not play a zone for a lot longer Trev, we couldn't contain them man on man.

Adelaide will be near impossible to beat at home. They get the calls they need and get away with blatant ones when the other team really needs it. Im sure NZ would agree

"From what I've seen, Gleeson gets frustrates when Kenny is too passive"
Haven't noticed myself but will keep a look out for it.

To me it looks like he comes on for Martin and plays the same role on offense to not disrupt the other guys.

Martin/Kenny basically start off the play then become spot up shooters. I’d be happy to see Kenny go in more, he has a big body for guards to stop.

Adelaide play a great brand of basketball that generates good shots. That gets it done in a series.
Perth relying too much on individuals this season and just don't have enough of them.

Will see in the play offs, which team can improve the most? Adelaide can't get better other than hitting the 3 ball.

When Perth turn up to play, ain't going to end up like today. Adelaide are just cocky bunch of bitches. When they are winning all good.

Celebrate like they won the championship. Wtf no respect

Perth didn't earn respect playing that badly though did they.

Great comeback game from Adelaide. Gave up too many points in the second half though. I don't like when Joey calls off the transition game so early to use up time. Whenever he does it we have missed shots, turn overs and inevitably go backwards. Would have been better to keep up the tempo, win by more and keep our percentage higher.

Three point shooting poor again and if we don't improve that we just might get found out come finals.

Mitch Creek, you played a fantastic game but you gave up on three, clear three point opportunities which you should have taken. Confidence comes from practice and your three point game will affect your NBL opportunities. Well done all round though.

JP has gone missing, anyone seen him???

MVP!

"The worst call i have ever seen in my life. As straight up defence as you can play! It was inside the 3pt line ffs. If you needed proof adelaide has rhe best homecooking thay was it"

Actually the USF call on Steindl was correct. His plan was to just foul so it would be a side ball. Just because he tried to disguise it doesn't make it not an USF

Yes I couldnt believe that USF I honestly dont know what he could have done in that situation

Despite what the Perth fan believes, it was a foul; but I wouldn't have given it an USF

The new rules a crap

"Yes I couldnt believe that USF I honestly dont know what he could have done in that situation"

He could have actually tried to play defense instead of purposely fouling to stop the play.

Waxy was hitting dat three ball like oh sheeeeeeeeeeyat

Yeah Adelaide fan here.....

Brunson, I can't tell if you are being legit. He was running with him hands in the air. At most it was a blocking foul and bonus free throw. It wasn’t even a breakaway as steindl was pretty much still on basket side.
If that’s the correct call then fiba are ruining basketball

Not that the call had any real impact on the situation anyway. If it's a normal foul call Childress probably hits the freethrow and Adelaide gets 3pts; instead he had to earn 2 points from the line and they turn it over.

Definitely not an unsportsmanlike, should have been an and 1. The ref can be heard saying it was obvious when the other ref asks if it should be reviewed, not sure how that was an 'obvious' unsportsmanlike.

Don’t understand the rest of the whingeing on here about the refs, there really wasn’t that many other bad calls I could see apart from that phantom foul on Teys. It’s a pity when game threads like this one get taken over one-eyed posters lacking intelligence. Speaking of intelligence, Tokoto played a very low IQ game, you don’t just shove a guy on a rebounding contest when you already have two fouls in the first half. Him going to the bench is when Adelaide took control.

Good to see the Sixers rebound after the loss and awful third quarter on Friday and an important win as home court is obviously going to be vital in the playoffs. The 36ers defensive intensity is far better at home than on the road and that’s the main reason for their previous two losses and then why they got the win today. Joey needs to find a way to get the team to improve the defensive intensity on the road if a championship is to be had.

It was nothing to do with the new rules. The clear path rule has been in place for years.

Only players I'll keep for next season is Martin, Kenny, Wagstaff, Cotton.

You're crazy if you don't want Brandt back next year

Could there be anything more boring than perth losing every game because of the refs...

Brandt and Steindl are contracted for next year.
Not sure if Kenny is contracted or not seems to be playing well over past month.

I feel that all Cats and Adelaide players turn their 'Prick Meter' up to 11 for these games

Should of been a blocking foul on Sobey as he and Brandt ran to the otherside.

Anon above needs to check out which way the world is turning. 10pm in perf. Bahhh

Perth fans getting dramatic. Precious untouchable behaviour is nauseating, as if Perth players aren't known for consistent thuggery.

If we suspended for a game or two everyone who does a dick move, there would be a lot of suspensions including to plenty of Perth players.

Teys is an USF and locals spend the game booing every time he touches the ball next time he’s in Perth.

Also Sobey was being an idiot to Brandt, deserved a warning by the ref

They did this to Illawarra last season and it didn't end well, both team's are at fault. No need for suspensions but 4 days later and still talking about it. Bet next time Perth will probably go for that knockout.

Adelaide is a great squad but very cocky and think they are the best team in the league. For all the issues Perth has had and still a chance to finish second with only 2 scores 100% are going ok.

Time will tell for both team's, Perth hasn't clicked well for most part of the season.

7/8 NBL team players, coaches and fanbases call the Wildcats dirty. Surely this isn't anything new to Perth fans. Joey also said he loves how Perth play.

I think the Perth reaction is what happens when you feel like you own the league, which is funny because if Melbourne fans felt that way they'd be somewhat technically right.

Aren't both teams appealing the suspensions?

I didn't make that quoted comment, don’t attribute it to the wrong person.

You’re acting as if a DP is untouchable, who cares that it’s a DP. They don’t need to be wrapped in cotton wool.

Perth’s history of dirty behaviour is why everyone else is brushing aside Perth fan base hysterics, I think that’s a point you’re struggling to get.

Joey isn't acting innocent. What he said was he doesn't think Teys deserves 2 games for an incident that wasn't as bad as others (in his opinion) from throughout the game. He agreed it was absolutely an USF but doesn't believe it warrants 2 weeks suspension. The appeal, from that I can gather, will include other incidents from the game as comparison.

What he's saying is that there was a reason why Teys did what he did, not that someone got "shit-mixed for absolutely no reason".

Whether or not he should have said anything prior to the appeal is another thing, but he's not acting like Adelaide was innocent in the whole thing. And he was also very high in his praise of the Perth franchise, but I guess that's been lost somehow..

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/basketball/adelaide-36ers-coach-joey-wright-says-he-has-nothing-but-respect-for-perth-wildcats/news-story/cc91608b0520d69ed8d3f6bfd824854d

"Which player in the league wouldn't react the way Teys did if he saw his young teammate, in the dying minutes of a game, get suplexed for absolutely no reason when he was just trying to box-out a much bigger player? Why is this a recurring theme for the Wildcats, where they think its ok to start shit but when someone stands up to them they blame everyone else?"

See what I did there...?

Snooch, yeah anonymous is doing a strawman argument which is why it's funny that I supposedly can’t get my head around an argument I haven’t even touched or engaged in.

Anon also pulled the "we are talking specifically about X incident" while also saying “provide specifics of instances”.

DKD still started the fight even if he was provoked to protect his teammate he still started it. Which I don’t think Is something to complain about anyway

"Yes I see that you completely missed the point. Are you really trying to say that Teys was justified for hitting Cummings, because Walker allegedly hit Larkins (an incident where no footage exists)?"

If you really didn't see Walker get an USF for throwing Larkins around like a rag-doll a couple of minutes earlier, then I can't help you.

But no, my point (much like KET) was that you can't blame Teys for DKD's actions any more than you can blame Walker for Teys'. And that you shouldn't whinge about your DP getting clobbered after your team just clobbered a DP.

Two down to one for Teys

DKD stays at 2 weeks. Appeal thrown out

I would have liked to see 2 --> 0 for Teys and 2 --> 1 for DKD, but whatevs.

Umm, it's an independent tribunal. Not sure there's any "home cooking".

I'm not trying to justify the Teys hit on Cummings, just pointing out that it's hypocritical to say what Teys did was substantially different to what Walker did.

High impact was downgraded to medium impact

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/basketball/adelaide-36ers-captain-brendan-teys-twogame-ban-cut-to-one/news-story/93e2ae4bbada0216b53e7a570bf97a0d

You're arguing arguments we aren’t even arguing and you’re completely lost on a sequence of logic, there’s not much we can do it’s like reasoning with a wall of bricks.

Teys one game, DKD 2 games - sounds reasonable.

This was entertaining but I'd now going in circles

Perth fans (I’m one); most of the league hates you, it comes from supporting a successful team that plays a style that isn’t flashy and tends to blur the lines between legal and not. You are loud, passionate and arrogant. You’re team will be blamed for any and all happenings on the court...get over it.

Adelaide fans; Perth fans hate you’re team. Over the span of 25 years we have the best rivalry of any 2 teams. In the past your team has played flashy arrogant basketball that tends to annoy us Perth fans especially when it’s in our building where you’re players (and coach) have been involved in 3 dust ups. We will blame you for everything...get over it.

Punishments are correct and I think both sides should be happy no player of any value got suspended.

Timberball, yep, we can tell you are a Perth fan by your grammar. "You're team" you mean "Your team" You're = You are.

And yep, I'm an Adelaide fan, you can tell because we are grammar nazis who speak gooder than you.

Perf fans are more better at gramma and speling.

Every person has an opinion and wtf has grammar got to do with anything? It's a hoops forum not an essay.

Just remember who is the most successful team in the nbl history.

When you reach our level then there might be time for a discussion.

Creek and co have more wooden spoons than trophies, might as well hang them on the rafters.

leave my grammar out of this she is not even that promiscuous anymore

Teys anus would look good hanging from the rafters at the Perth Jungle

yes it would, it would be easier to crap on Perf fans :)

Remember that time ADELAIDE came from 25 down at 3/4 time to beat Perth in Perth

Was it 25? I thought it was 26.

Remember that time when there was a basketball league that had been around for 40 years? Where any team but one that was any good/successful kept folding or struggled through years of financial hardship? One team managed to win 8 times because all the competition kept disappearing.

Success in a broken league is better than nothing right

At least it seems from now on you'll have some decent competition outside of NZ

How many teams no longer exist that have won championships in this league? Plus the fact that Brisbane and Sydney weren't in the league for a number of years after earlier winning championships.

Nobody is arguing the amount of wins. The point is that there have been many teams that could have been in the same position or better now but they no longer exist due to financial issues. And there is a lot.

*yawn*

https://www.instagram.com/p/BezF0HsDjto/?taken-by=swizzedits

Says it all :)

It doesn't say much of anything really. If you like that kind of show try Dirtgirl on ABC kids. It's weird and annoying too and looks like that and you can watch it every day kids.