Would expect Adelaide to get this and stay in touch with top 4.
It's disappointing that this is the only game on today it would have been a good warm up to Melb v Sydney blockbuster

Adelaide will be fine this afternoon, best feeling going to a game knowing you got the w even before you get there.

Need this one got united next 0 and 2 this weekend and it will be tough for them to make the 4.

Goddamnit Jack, it's BANANA SKIN. As a veteran of the term that was made up three days ago, I know what I'm talking about.

Enough of the banana peel games.

I'd liket to introduce the concept of the Avacado Import.

Exotic, looks good, smooth and adds flavour.

But expensive, gets smashed and gets served on toast.

First Avacado matchup: Melo Trimble vs Jacob Wiley.

Point taken Manu! I'll make sure I don't slip up again

I'm on board with avocado.

I thought Cairns might win one more game , but watching them on Thursday I don't believe so , now .

The problem with banana skins is when you peel all 4 sides you get 4 skins....

"I like it!
it is spelled avocado btw"

Can't spell something I can’t afford lol.

Nah... just a brain fart not helped by auto co-wreck.

Any other nominations for "avocado import"???

Real avocado import showdown special is Trimble v Conger imo, because Conger is much more pathetic than Wiley.

Hall v Wiley is the second-tier matchup

Newbill my boy v Moore doesn't qualify because they're both good lads who do their bit

I thought Boone.

Avocado tends to go bitter when it's cooked, and he is looking a bit cooked lately.

Instead of the Premier League, could the Mt Gambier Pioneers join the NBL?

Trimble is a shooting guard. Get him next to someone who can actually run a team and make smart passes, and he'd be more effective.

But shit boy, defend!

Drmic is a wanker

Mayberry should not be allowed to go to the video, he actually gets the call wrong every time he reviews it. And he just act like a total tool out there, how is he one of best refs?

Shut up Teys

Drmic is a pussy.

I feel like Cairns have a shot at this since the Sixers lack of three point shooting bar DJ has been glaring.

Ooooooooooo. You meant that lol.

Joey looks tired or sick?

He actually made a good point about the under utilisation of Jawai though.

Rob Loe's hair.

https://www.hoops.com.au/forum/44154-rob-loeE28099s-hair/

Fake count by Joey on Newbill, which didn't work.

Joey is cooked and has lost it.

What is it now, 18 turnovers by Cairns? And Adelaide has only just hit a 10 point lead.....

And it appears to be another game where the 36ers can't buy a free throw.

#046 I meant behaviourly plus it's only Cairns. In terms of losses right now agreed it's Gleeson.

Geez Moore is playing bad

Jawai > 36ers at free throw shooting.

Get Moore off now Joey

Brad Hill looks like a pretty switched-on bloke

Trimble and Jawai stepping up. 3pt game.

36ers are 14/25 from the line......

Like the Illawarra game, this one should be over by now. But its not.

The Cairns Taipans are thr Australian national edging champions.

And video Vaughn strikes again - thanks for holding up the game for no reason.

Video Vaughan? I love it!

Make up travel call?

What the actual f Melo Trimble, what the actual f

Did Trimble think they were down 2?

Shocking last play by Trimble. Down by three get drives to the basket and was never looking to kick it out to a shooter.

Man that was a dumb play. Taipans needed a 3 and Trimbole goes in for a drive to the bucket? And to make matters worse he missed and committed a foul.

Cairns had their chances tonight. Their consistent lack of execution late in games reminds me of Brisbane last year...

What was Trimble doing driving to the bucket when they were down by 3 and only 5 seconds left in the game?

yet*

Why the heck would you go for a two when you're down by 3 and you have free players to kick the ball out too. I rate Melo but that was stupid!

Trimble gives Adelaide an early Christmas present.

TBH.....a lucky win.

"yeet" -Melo Trimble

Sixers look awful. The top four is already set.

Not sure being the best 1-13 team in NBL history will be much consolation for Mike Kelly at this stage.

Triple win by Joey today.

The W, great minutes into Majok and great game opportunity for Doyle.

Master stroke instead of playing those minutes to Drmic and Harry who are inform.

They're still in the top ten!

Trimble brain fart....Devon Hall skipped off the court at the end of the game like he needed a wee wee.....fucken soft!!

Adelaide did not play well.

Free throw shooting is flat out bad. Perimeter defence not good enough.

Moore and Teys played like headless chickens.

DJ and Doyle got it done for Adelaide today

Not a fan of the Joey countdown...also Mike Kelly shouting a Majok about to shoot free throws...
bad sportsmanship imo
I've seen both in NBL games, but by the fans...have no problem with that, but coaches, that's a no-no

Oops..I mean I've seen both in NBA games don't have a problem with the fans, but coaches shouldn't be doing those sort of things..

Spot on #086 no other game and this game was absolute shit.

Adelaide make free throws and game is over at half time. Missing a lot this year and it's costing wins.

I don't buy the theory that the Taipans players are a talentless bunch of losers, unfit to compete in the League
As in my other posts I argue Mike and Jamie haven’t figured how to stop making their charges look bad.
As an example, Rob Lowe is dismissed as useless by plenty of punters for failings like ....well, presumably like his stepping away from the obvious offensive threat in the low post (mid first half, v Adelaide) to guard a weakside assignment.
Hey, Lowe has understood his options since he made the U16 rep team as bottom age player.
But since, he has also learned, as every Pro player must, that ' yours is not to reason why’, just do, even if it makes you cry. Lowe is following a programmed rotation, a rotation that the rest of the team has absorbed. No-one was surprised. No-one on the coaching staff was exasperated.
Just another dud.
Newbill is another obvious example. He no longer plays to make a difference; he plays when the others have made a difference. [ He must now, each day, be calculating the career cost of joining a dud programme,]
In Jamie’s effort to reduce Fearne’s Britanica to a Readers’ Digest short story, too much has been lost, and nothing like enough substituted.
Thanks heaps Jamie. Wake up quick, Mike.
As for Brad, terrific guy, terrific player as he was, there is a clinical explanation for why he rarely makes eye-contact with the world: it won’t help the Taipans for me to go on about it, but clearly he’s not helping.



When a player

Wasn't Joey counting from 3 to point out how long people were in the key?

Reckon he was but it's better to make it look worse than it is right?

Of course