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I have so much nervous excitement for this game. It could well be one of the greatest NBL games of all time coming up. Both teams have the ability to put runs on eachother, and both teams can shut eachother down at times. This game very literally could go either way. I don't think it will be decided until the final minute.

Fouls will decide this...

If DJ stays on court the 36ers will look good. If he racks up early fouls it could be trouble.

Go United.

Nothing would be more deflating than a blowout (in favour of Melb especially).

im overseas how can i watch this game?

Pug97 - nbl.tv has been great all season - will cost you a $5.00AU sub though.

It probably works better overseas. Australian broadband network is hopeless. Good work by Big Mal and his mates there..

C'mon 6ers! I'm praying Vaughn Mayberry does a hammies right on tip off.

Great series, both teams deserve to win. Im nervous and Perth isn't even playing. Good luck to both teams and like everyone has said i hope the players decide the title.

Pressure is on United to win and Adelaide don't give a shit where they play!

Off topic can someone explain why the banners and retired jerseys from the tigers are hanging?

That sounds like an echo

Don't care who wins, my teams out. Just want to see a game that goes down to the last play.

Adelaide fans wandering about like they've never seen an actual city before. Yet to see one without a drink in their hand also.

DJ learnt something handy from Goulding

Shane Heal all of sudden is a big Melb United fan, sucking up to LK badly.

This game is all over. Congratulations Melbourne.

David Andersen retires. Breaking news.

I don't think the 6ers have played defence in any of the first quarters in Melbourne this series.

This is awesome.

Most boring grand final ever.

Best of 7 next year.

The occasion seems to be getting to a few of the Sixers players, some of the free throws have looked horrible and numerous easy layups missed which looks to be a nerves thing. We are lucky to still be within 12 and really need to get it under double figures by the half.

Are we going to play any defence at any point tonight?

Who can stop Ware and Goulding?

Do it for Andersen

Looking forward to all of the "refs were playing for United “ and “LK has rigged the Comp" threads

Ramone Moore is stupid

Melbourne will win this.

Can't get a Boxscore on the website.
Anyone else got a problem?

Some very uncharacteristic misses by creek have been rather costly.

wow , sobey is horrendous again in a big game .

What the hell has happened to Gouldings Game?

Used to be an effortless scorer now struggling to even get a bucket!

Casey prather! Elite defender, just a top top notch player. Of only Perth had found a way to keep him.

Chuck Larkins on Adelaide :)

Really missed childress rebounding tonight. Killed on the boards, pretty much lost us the game

Well done to United, too good today. The individual talent of Goulding, Ware and Prather was too much for the 6ers. In a game 5 it is the big time players that get it done and Melbourne had too many for the 6ers, especially without Childress. Game 1 and game 3 were the big missed opportunities for the Sixers to get that away win they needed but I loved the fight and the character of the team throughout the year and this series.

Anon, all I heard Shane Heal say in the 4th was "Goulding still waiting for his first points" after missing a 3.

Must have meant waiting for his first points for the second half. My bad.

Shorter getting into it still...

Melbourne lucky to win. If Marberry didn't gift game 3 to Melbourne, Adelaide would of had this in the bag 3-1

Turn up the volume on joeys mic

whos that asian guy with MU. hes huge.

congrats to prather 3-peat

Tough to drop this but it was a great series. Just not good enough tonight.

Ware is back next season. Prather to Perth, Goulding to Brisbane. Interviews are interesting.

Congrats to Prather.
Happy to see him get third straight title

Good to see the blowout troll make their hoops cameo comeback.

Goulding showing some class post game. He has matured this year and really brought it at the right time of year. Also prather was huge! I should have known better than to write him off. He's a winner

Well done to Adelaide. Handled themselves with class when they knew the game was done, all except for Shorter.

Great series, what a ride. Adelaide just lacked balls when the chips were down. United put them into that mindset though. Most effort United has shown in any game all season, perfect time to do it

That was a very bad look to have the league owner celebrating with the winning team. It's brings down the respect of the league.

CG is the MVP for the GF series, will take that title with him to the NBA next season, as he was clearly better than either Casper or Josh, both clearly NBA players themselves

And , er , everything , um is, er , so, er AMAZING !

Sixers 4/23 says it all.

If Joey doesn't develop a better outside game we will be found out next season as well. That aside a fantastic season, entertaining and worth being there live.

Congratulations Melbourne, outplayed us tonight.


PS Thanks Jack Toft for your interesting leading game threads all season.

Next season!

Bring back John Casey!

Also Teys is a very ineloquent speaker.

Hearing him try to talk English out there made me cringe.

No need for this sooky behaviour. Let's just soak in a great season and a great showing by both grand finalists.

United more skilled and better coached today. It took them five games but they finally learned how to guard the Sixers

A bit harsh to criticise Teys' speech. He ticked all the boxes of a gracious runner-up.

It is very unreasonable as league owner to celebrate.

*virtual handshake*

Nice doing battle with you, Adelaide fans. Undoubtedly we'll pick it up again next season

Nice doing battle with you, Adelaide fans. Undoubtedly we'll pick it up again next season

Didn't think Teys did a bad job with his speech.
It wouldn't be easy to front up after a loss.

Very nice, United.

Well done 36ers. You have a strong program and should be formidable again next year.

It was enjoyable to watch but I think in 10 years I'll remember some individual milestones more than anything.

Seeing DA, an all time Australian basketball legend, in what I assume will be his last game.

Watching the much maligned CG43 improve his all around game over the past few years, maturing as a player so much under Vickerman, and tonight he entered the Pantheon of Melbourne basketball legends and NBL legends.

Deng not turning up was huge for United. He was Adelaide's only bench threat and was shooting a crazy percentage from the field and from 3, so an off night was certainly due

Bit of an embarrassing game for the sixers. If we lost a close one I could probably deal with it, but that was humiliating.

As for LK, I've never bought into the conflict of interest thing but it definitely was jarring to watch him celebrate the win. Yes, he's the owner of United, but he's also the owner of the NBL. It was yet another sign that owning both entities just is not right.

I don't know if he can move United onto anyone else, or how that works, but there will always be eyebrows raised any time United has success because of this and it isn't fair on the players to have that.

Anyway, I guess it's onto next season for Adelaide. We will need to retain DJ at almost any cost, and if Creek goes overseas it leaves a massive hole. But having said that, we also need to look at how we bridge this gap with United. We need a team that can beat United in United. Is a healthy Childress the difference? Do we need to get rid of Shorter and get a point guard who can also provide points? Is the problem with equal-opportunity offense that when nothing is working, there's no one who will take it upon themselves?

United are now the benchmark for NBL teams the way the Wildcats used to be. When we put our next team together we need to have them in mind. We need to keep our core, because we're 80% of the way there, but clearly some small tinkering must be made.

See you in 18/19 Sixers. It was real.

I reckon this season's Sixers would beat last season's Wildcats in a five-game series

Congrats Melbourne way too good on night and big pity our shooting was awful and didn't produce better result.
We need with our imports a true shooter so to open keyway more for our game style and to keep score ticking over if not working.
Whilst their shooters stole the game for them Boone and Wesley were way too strong under the basket which we must rectify somehow.
Shorter, Teys are a no and question marks on others and Creek back as captain if bigger OS things don't happen.

Congrats to Melbourne and more importantly the refs. Pretty solid game where if we counted calls you would be far under any of the numbers in previous games. Over the finals though, this will always be the series in which the players never got to choose the outcome of the games besides tonight. For one of the refs not to get dropped to 4th official shows the problem is not with the people with the whistle, it is with the person who controls them.

Would be happy for 36ers to press release that Shorter won't be signed. After a year of "Illawarra is a dirty team, I don’t like any of them". We get another twit who wants to walk the finals walk without putting up a game to back it. If you are as good as Al Green was, you can say what you want, but Shorter isn’t, so the mouth should have remained shut.

Looking forward to Creeks 10 day contract announcement.

Hey Manu. I reckon this season's 6ers with Childress fit and no game 3 halftime bullshit beat this years United too.

Over the series United only scored 8 more points in total.

Not bad from the 36ers missing Childress for 3 games and United holding home court advantage and having pretty much 4 imports (3 at current or future NBA standard).

United were being tipped to win in 3 when the series started but Joey and these young Aussie lads the 36ers have developed nearly knocked them off.

Bad luck losing Childress in game 2 but they pushed it to 5 games. They even fought to keep it to 6 points in the last few minutes of the 3rd.

Well done lads.

Stop playing the victim/underdog card uDog. It's over. Be classy now.

Sobey's a headcase who didn't even learn his lesson in Game 3.

NO ONE tipped United in 3.

I do sincerely hope Sobey does learn hos lesson though, as he's a serious talent who could yet become a legend of this league.

Talking of class did Joey continue the "we'll do the best we can" routine during and after last night's game?

I do think this loss will spur this 36ers team on.

Who are the 5 players they have resigned? If it includes DJ, Creek, Sobey and Deng then for mine 36ers are the early favourites for next season (to the extent that you can have early favouritism in a league like the NBL).

Deng's headed upwards. Real potential. And it sounds ridiculous but Creek turns 26 next month. Still a young ish group with upside and the familiarity factor only increases each year. Same program, similar personnel. It's worked for the Wildcats and it's now working for the 36ers. Just without the ultimate prize- yet.

There was no "victim" in that comment. I was saying well done to a team who performed so well even though they had a lot to deal with. Take it how you will though.

This was Adelaide's lowest scoring game since Christmas Eve.

Lowest scores this season:

75 points (at home against Cairns, Christmas Eve)

79 points (at home against United, Round 2)

79 points (in Perth, Round 9)

82 points (at United, Grand Final Game 5)

Was it me or did anyone else find the presentations a little subdued. Having a couple of Hungry Jacks workers handing out stuff, when the league has so many legends who could do this, would have been more appropriate.

Well done Melbourne , personally found this game the worst of the five, sixers were never in that game. Quite a few sixers players went MIA tonight when it mattered, very similar to when they lost to Perth a few years ago in game 3.

Does anyone have a link to the post-game press conferences?