Yeah, Cairns aren't winning this one. Adelaide found themselves last week and Conger is only going to get better. This is the time when Adelaide will confirm themselves as a top four team and start separating themselves from the Hawks, Bullets and Taipains of the league. Adelaide by 15. Trimble will have a good game though.

Easy win for Adelaide coming up.

Mediocre v bottom team doesn't excite me much.
NZ v Perth (x2) and Sydney v Melb are the games to watch.

so , a bitta media about moore at point .....thought he looked pretty good , last game......although his shots aint dropping .......if he could get a few in ....would be great......if conger can do a patterson that would be good , ..., although . ...i mentioned that before...

Although both teams have been pretty fun to watch despite the losses (Cairns in particular), I can't help but feel that Adelaide are going to lay a beatdown on the Snakes tonight.

Adelaide just 1-4 in there last 5 and Cairns 0-5 in their last 5. I think this game is tighter than expected.

Hugh Greenwood at the commentary desk for this one.

OH SHIT NATE.

Should've been and-one too

Hugh Greenwood at the commentary desk for this one.

Bullet train loving this NBL Friday so far

Accurate description so far.

does those team even play a half of decent defense?

The refs are making this league soft af man. Very disappointing

Used to wrestle unwhistled, now can't touch each other without a whistle. We will find a happy medium soon enough I think

36ers were down, referees panicked. They realised that if the 36ers lose tonight, they will not be popular.

So they made an adjustment.

The refereeing in this league is a sham. No wonder the TV ratings are embarrassing.

Do people actually watch the game or just the stats and comment?

Sizers are up by only 5 DESPITE having 9 more FT attempts.

Are the referees in the break panicking? I mean, the nost certainly want Adelaide to win, but do they just f##ck it, if it means the 36ers taking 30 more free throws and it means a 36ers win?

Be interesting what the referees are thinking here.

There first priority is to be fan favourites.

Lets see what happens if the Taipans come backand hit the lead.

ZERO chance the referees just sit back and let it continue..

3 straight 3s to start the 3rd qtr, the referees breath a sigh of relief.

Secretluy they are DYING for the 36ers to win.

Home town heroes.

Anonymous
A few minutes ago

Nba, your first priority should be English.

DEAD

LOL who cares.

NO ONE WATCHING THIS LEAGUE....

NO ONE....

sixers gonna lay 140 on these scrubs

LOL in an 8 team league, you have a team as bad as Cairns..

Clearly the salary cap is biting in this league LOL

God I hate the Sixers. Creeping toward Perth territory in the hatred stakes

DO NOT PANIC 36ers fans....Refs have your backs.

Just like Perth FANS, never ever stress, referees have your backs.

Must be a great feeling knowing this.

Really wish Casey would talk about AFL more

Well this is disgusting

Twiddledee and Twiddledum in the green shirts, the league in great hands.

SHAMEFUL flopping call on Kiany

What's happened to the NBA is an imbecile.

Jesus fucking Christ that may overtake the Patty Mills call as the worst in the history of the league.

Adelaide would be far my intimidating if they could actually play defence to go along with their scoring.

man the snakes defense would get 250 pts mini in an NBA quarter type game.

The funny thing is with all the investment the NBL have made into this league they are destroying it themselves.

And they dont even know.

Do they ever sit back and wonder why ratings are awful?

Dumbest human beings on the planet

Unfortunately Patty still has that locked down.

But this is fucking disgusting. You want to love something and it's being made so hard. It is so hard to take this league seriously and love it. I'm a fool for being so invested in this shit

Who could blame Mike Kelly?

Sixers acting like they've won the GOD DAMN GF!!

Wiley probably regretting that haircut even more considering these highlights of him will be all over the NBL's advertising for the rest of the season.

Hugh Greenwood?? surely get someone who is relevant...

Trimble charge call was bad.

Flop call was pathetic.

Common denominator being the umpires not having a clue as to what they're doing.

It's past the point of blaming the teams. They can’t help this crap.

I reckon the only way to make NBL pay some attention to the reffing fiasco is for the losing team to just take off their stars for the last quarter or even the whole second half.

Why risk getting your stars injured when % doesn't matter anyway? Turn it into a meaningless game and give the NBL the finger. (The bench players would love the practice anyway.)

Half the teams wouldn't do that since they share the same owner.

Moment of silence please for Kuany, Kelly, Nate, Melo

Surely Kuany starts ahead of...someone else?
Time for Kelly to try what hasn't been tried.
You know what is said of those who repeatedly repeat what hasn’t worked and still hope for a differerent outcome? No need to be Einstein to offer an answer.

mmm member berries

Disgraceful flop tech. That bald ref, I think it's Chris Clark, could be the worst NBL ref in the last 10 years.

Wish that one commentator would stop saying "worried him out of the points" when someone misses a shot.

Sounds AFL-ish to me. And not really an applicable terminology to 99% of situations.

They weren't consistently competitive under him though they missed the playoffs 6 of the 9 years he was coach.

It takes two wins from three games to go from making the playoffs to making the grand final in the NBL.

People seem to think there is a big difference between the two.

I feel bad for Kelly he has a rubbish roster to work with.
Credit to Trimble though he can play.

Wish that one commentator would stop saying "worried him out of the points" when someone misses a shot.

Brad Hill is Assistant Coach, I think this season will certainly be a baptism of fire

Mike Kelly alluded to the issues he had with recruiting in the interview he did on Aussie Hoopla. He was appointed the Head Coach the day free agency opened up, and although he's too smart to say it, you get a sense that he had to pick over the dregs of what was left after other teams had swooped in and grabbed the pick of the bunch. I'm disappointed they have started so poorly this year but I'm more interested in how Mike Kelly fares once he's had a proper run into next year's free agency.

and although I hate to see the snakes lose I also didn't want to see yet another year of fearne playing endless shuffle and flow offences..

Entertaining game.
Pity the thread is spoilt by the usual idiots bitching about the refs.

My personal view is that flops should just be play on, but I understand they are trying to discourage the behaviour.
Any flop call is going to be contentious, that's the very nature of the incident. I can certainly see how the ref may have interpreted it that way, from what I saw the impact was only glancing and at at angle.
Not saying I'm right, nor the ref, but its his call, and its one FT, so get over it.

The problem Cairns have is that their defence sucks. If you go back a few years to the Wildcats stifling defence, they would win with lower score than the snakes are getting. Unfortunately their stars can't score enough alone to cover that lack of D.

Unfortunately Dazza all game threads have bitching about refs.

no, it makes at least two, and only the guy in the green shirt counts

Haven't seen so much consistent ref-bagging for a very long time. Which, for me, is encouraging. Let me explain. I, too, bag and blame refs for results etc. I also know that I am biased. But to see this much "hate" on this game's refs really makes me think that we are heading towards pro wrestling's idea of fair play. Is the NBL's owner's real name Larry McManus?

I agree on this occasion with AD. I'm not sure it was a good decision, it it wasn’t indefensible. The defender went catapulting backwards from what looked like reasonably incidental contact. The commentators went way over the top in criticising the decision, it certainly wasn’t a clear charge.

I agree on this occasion with AD. I'm not sure it was a good decision, it it wasn’t indefensible. The defender went catapulting backwards from what looked like reasonably incidental contact. The commentators went way over the top in criticising the decision, it certainly wasn’t a clear charge.