Possibly the real COTY and MVP over in this thread? :P

Tonight?

Bullets will need to be perfect to take game 1. More realistic is their entire frontcourt ends up with 3 PFs 2 minutes into the 1st Q, and Te Rangi is matched up on Kay for most the game.

Perth by double digits, with more than double the number of FTAs.

Exceptional Jack.

And what AngusH predicts is a very likely possibility.

Tonight?

Heh heh heh... ham and pineapple pizza... the perfect pre-armageddon food.

The prophecy... I'm hearing whispers from the grave again. They said they wouldn't return. A bullet ambush imminent they tell me. An ungodly fucking firestorm raining down upon Perth they say. HEAVY artillery.

The BUZZ is BACK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSJcpB9B0Y

Cotton's over/under is 21.5 on Beteasy, get on.

Will I be able to stay up late on a school night is the biggest question

Perth should win by 10+
Brisbane will need a huge game from Patterson to have a chance

It's funny that you people don't know what's in store

Free cheeseburgers in store?

I hope your right Manu. I really do

Double cheeseburgers for finals?

10.20 tip off? Yikes. I guess accounting for OT... Maybe bring the game forward half an hour given the halftime score of Syd-Melb.

Jokes aside Manu.

I'm more nervous for this game then I should be. Its probably going to be a better game than alot of people think, and is a danger game for us. If we do underestimate bris. They are capable of putting us to the sword.

It's going to get real hot in here soon...

Oh you know it, Flop. As I said, I'm hearing voices again. Not a good sign for Perth

It's not the heat that gets you, it's the humidity

The voices you are hearing are probably just Gleeson warming up his voice to get the refs to hear him.

His voice does carry a long way, and you may still be in range to hear it

Nah Flop, I hear dead people

Can you talk to them?

Tell my grandad he's a tosser and still owes me 10 grand

I'll rob his grave for you?

Nothing worthwhile in there. I was there.

He gambled everything valuable away, alot of it stuff that was permanently borrowed from family.

We all have shit people in our families I guess. They can't all be Damian martins

That's a shame, mate. We can't all rescue people from burning houses.

BUZZAS by 4

Hopefully Bairstow has been doing non-stop cardio the past 2 weeks and is able to sustain more than 15 mins of high quality play. That could be Brisbane's best chance, outside of maybe Gliddon and Cadee playing like Curry and Klay.

I let out an audible groan as Gliddon hit his 1st from deep. We don't need him being on.

Gliddon played 3 minutes and gets subbed out?

Massive hustle play from Kay and cotton

Forgot Gliddon could dunk.

I hate it when I'm right.

Damn you Gliddon.


Sucks that I'm always right

Gliddon!!

Huuuuuuge flop from beef.

The foul was there. But so was the flop

Lemanis keeps throwing Davis out there to guard opposing PGs, yet I can't remember a single time when something positive has come out of it.

The Gliddon Show tonight

Gliddon was due a night like this after all the stinkers to finish the season.

This is junk ball tonight

Gibbo playing some great D on Cotton. Vintage Gibbo.

The bullets are playing the game on their terms but if terrico could hit half of his open looks then the cats would have a 10+ lead

Cats have missed some bunnies, bullets setting as many screens on cotton as possible, its getting to him.

Geezus me timbers

Beautiful 4 point play by Aylen there.

Another example of why the flop rule is so ridiculous. Gliddon gets penalized for playing good D. Wagstaff fended off clealy. Gliddon gets his 4th and if he didn't hsve 4 is another T away from being ejected from the game due to a highly subjective call from the ref which was clearly wrong. That ain’t right.

its not the ruke, its the ref, he wont be doing a GF.

Wagstaff, half his foot over the line, and its called a 3, garbage

Cadee having a ripper, proving why he's getting paid the big bucks.

Thing is, if J-C-3 ain't giving you buckets, at least you know he's locked in on D /s

Cadee what a spud just one shot attempt with 3:22 left in the game.

As a Kings fan I can confidently state that Cadee will probably hit 5 threes in a row in the last 2 minutes with the game out of reach.

This is on the 36ers though allowing a team like Brisbane to get into the playoffs.

Bullets score just 4 points in the final quarter absolutely pathetic.

2 pretty disappointing games tonight.

Think we are all just gonna have to wait for per v Mel

Lochie Read said game 2 starts at 1pm? Really? I thought it starts at 2pm.

Brisbane time

Believe it's 2pm local too. ?

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Why did Lemanis allow Cadee almost 23 mins of playing time when clearly his head was not in the game?

Give Kendle more than 6 mins ffs (and I actually think Kendle is trash).

Is Spudee Lemanis' love-child?
Only plausible explanation.

Really hope that Perth don't ease up (nor get overconfident) in game 2. It will be good to finish this in two and get a break.

Great to see our bench getting a run, but gees they were unproductive.
Wagstaff, gees we need some kind of thermometer. He's always been a bit inconsistent, but his swings between hot and cold are getting extreme. Hopefully he'll be game-winner in game 2.

Perth have a super advantage playing at home because of the time difference. Is it any surprise teams fade out in the last quarter when it is about 11pm-12am according to their body clocks.

Fading out is one thing but 4 points as a team in the fourth what garbage.

Heavy artillery

So much for all those DOPEY posts about how the mighty Cats would miss the playoffs. Bullets looked scared and out of their depth

Cadee starting sums it up.

I'm not a Brisbane supporter, nor am I saying it is why Brisbane lost, 4 points in a quarter is inexcusable!

Just merely pointing out that Perth have an added home court advantage that others don't have due to time differential - especially night games.

"Perth have a super advantage playing at home because of the time difference. Is it any surprise teams fade out in the last quarter when it is about 11pm-12am according to their body clocks."

Tornado, Brisbane don't have the same time difference as other eastern states cities, this time of year. They don't even have as big a differential as Adelaide, who beat Perth in Perth, at night, in last year's semi finals with a 20 minute difference in relative tip-off time.

Moreover, Brisbane scored 50 points in the second half of their Round 5 game in Perth, which would have finished around 10:30-11 pm (it tipped off 30 minutes earlier than last night's game).

Given this sort of background, I think it's not reasonable to attribute their second half performance to the time differential, even in part.

I don't think Kendle is trash, he is at least aggressive and looks to put points on the board, which is more than you can say for Cadee. Kendle is also a better defender than Cadee, which while also isn't saying much is a significant enough given Cotton is on the other team.

The Cadee/Gliddon backcourt looks good against Chinese Taipei but looked shaky as hell as an NBL backcourt even before 2018-19 kicked off, and at this stage all it's clear to me that on a good team in this league Gliddon should be no better than your 3rd option on offense, and Cadee should be playing 8-14 minutes off the bench.

If Cadee is your starting PG you are going to have a bad time.
Why/How does he keep finding himself in that situation year after year. He needs to put into the Goulding coming of the bench role and stay there.. or go to Illawara/Cairns (no offence).

Te Rangi showed up proving why he was MIP and 6th man also ... smh

I didn't compare him to Goulding, I said he should start on the bench like Goulding.

Brisbane made the finals, when at the start of the season I think many (including myself) thought they wouldn't.

Granted they made a lot of changes along the way, but they made it. Perhaps that was their goal for this season, and if so, kudos.

How they managed to bring in 3 imports, and still have Spuddee starting will remain a mystery.
If they can maintain their core, clean some of the crap off their bench, and get a decent import backcourt in place, they could really threaten next season.

Cadee has the right connections, haven't you heard Heal tell us how good he is over and over.

Yep you stuck up the doubters Giblet...What a joke!

4:50pm - WTF ??!!??!?!

Should the Bullets fight back and win Semi-Final Game Two this Saturday 2 March, this will mean a third Semi-Final will be required to determine who will qualify for the Grand Final Series. The tip-off time for this game has been updated and Semi-Final Game 3 is scheduled for 4:50pm Monday, 4 March at RAC Arena and will go on sale to members immediately after Semi-Final Game Two

That's got to be AEDT

Public holiday in WA

4.50pm perth time it is 7.50pm eastern.

WTF @ WTFing when it is Labour Day in WA on Monday.

Yeah, I take back the excessive "?!!??!?!" and just leave it at WTF? because that's still a bizarre tip-off time. Hopefully it is moot.

Night games in every other state have tipped off at 4.50pm WA time all season.

Exactly.

Night games in every other state have tipped off at 4.50pm WA time all season.

Given it's a public holiday and therefore people being at work isn't a concern, it makes sense to have it tip off at the same time as eastern-states games.

Friday game 1, Sunday game 2