Kings for the win.

Home cooking in Sydney. China town might be closed but all the chefs are at QDOS bank arena

#seeincredible

#HomeCooking

Casper uses CG tactics on CG

Then 2 questionable calls on United

this game is ugly so far

still ugly - Sydney need to box out or they are gaaaawn

You said it Scout.
Kings awful. Getting killed on the glass. Shooting all round poor.
Bogus continues to stand under hoop defensively doing zero.
He's no threat.

Finals or not. Kings scoring in the 1st quarter is pathetic.
Ware playing hero ball. 3 pointers not even close. 0/5. Show pony.
Finals man, drive to the hoop.
Pressure the defense.

Four import team is hard to beat

Ware crying as usual. Bogus is rubbish. United should be up by more. This could get ugly for the Kings.

Sydney would play alot better if they with the legal limit of 3 imports.

Casper Ware loves to flop on a three. Complains when Melo does it to him.

MELO on FIRE!!!!

SHEA ILLI on FIRE DEFENSIVELY!!

Ridiculous calls on CG

GO UNITED!!!!!

Cooks showing some confidence in Sydney at the half:

'We are the best team in the league - we'll be right'

Kings defensively poor. United shooting at will.
United scrambling in defense. Nothing easy for the Kings in offence.
Simple to fix.
More effort on defence Kings & drive to the hoop on offence. Stop just shuffling the ball outside.
Bogus needs to get out from under the hoop & make it difficult for the shooters instead of just waiting to catch the ball coming out of the net

Both teams playing pretty poor (Trimble and McCarron/Shea on D are the exceptions), but it's only halftime and Aylen already has a couple of the biggest howlers I've seen from him yet.

Compared to last night's game, this is Monday night social league stuff.

Kings shooting options are embarrassing.
Under 10's stuff

United by 30+. Kings cant defend & they're offence is hopeless.

Either too much or not enough Bondi Protein for Sydney.

51-39. Kings to wave the white flag.
Game over!!!!!

At least Newley is trying. The rest of the kings are below average.

Kickert has what role? Carry the water bottles.

Sydney 4 import team should be far too good in the 4th.

You know Trimble is shooting 3's & you still don’t defend it. That’s kiddies defence.
Kings out in 2 games.

Melbourne finally playing the D that vickmans teams known for

Kings haven't been in the game all night. How about next game Bogut shuts his mouth pre game.

Ware 1/11 from field & 0/8 from 3 point range.
You get paid for being that shit?????.

Long way to go kids.

United inviting Sydney to win this with some horrendous shot selection.

United choking, haven't scored in 4:30.

Eight second violation by MEL to top off the non-scoring. What a meltdown.

Can't Jack up bad 3s if you can’t get the ball over halfway

Mind you, why the hell would you have the player of the game sitting at such a crucial time? Baffling.

Kickert sucks balls

Bizarre game

that Brazilian bloke goes ok

Shaping up as an all time great choke.

Launching 3s from the logos for no reason, turnover central, long being bullied down low. It's all falling apart

One of the more extraordinary meltdowns by an NBL team. WTF happened? Just bizarre.

Got to eat my words boys. Nice comeback. United blow a16 point lead. Who wins it now. 25 secs left

Hard to beat a 4 import team

LV takes off Trimble and Long and they give up a 16ot lead because if it. LV needs to be sacked.

DV

Melbourne are a talented but low IQ team

Massive choke job and massive coaching blunder by Vickerman. As much as I like him as a coach he needs to admit that he cost his the team the game.

Taking Trimble off and then letting Goulding & Barlow start jacking up wild threes was the only way the Kings could get back in it.

Suck it Melbourne

That was entertaining in an interesting way. Melb decide to take off the only guys scoring for whatever reason.

Sad when the half time fan shooter is actually better than most of the players

The violet comebacks?

Have to say, haven't heard a Sydney crowd make that much noise since the days of Goorj. Don't know how it sounded on TV, but it was something else in person.

I am a Melbourne supporter but that was the most piss poor performance in season of piss poor performances. All they had to was hold their form and look for the good shot. That's basketball 101

Melbourne shit the bed and ruined their chance to make this a series. They started jacking up garbage aimlessly, quick into a shot clock as though the clock was their enemy while it was actually their friend - up by fucking 16!

Melbourne is done now. They just don't have the depth or gears Sydney has. Sydney in 2.

Your up in the 4th. Use the shot clock, milk the clock. Don't jack up a shot with 20 seconds left. Idiots Melbourne.

Sydney are a liability with Bogut on the court, lazy to guard outside paint so Long heaves the 3 pointers.

Go hard or go to Melbourne.

Not solely Vickerman's fault. Too many heros not enough discipline. Not enough hunger. They need a ground up rebuild

Wow, from one of the greatest finals ever last night, to one of the biggest chokes I've seen, we've got it all this year!

Sheesh, Didi +27 in 16 mins, Bogut -16, Kicks +19. Sorta backs up how it felt during the game.

Keep imports. Replace coach.

Please.

wow, that's one of the worst chokes I have seen in a while...

reafirms my view that the overall winner is coming from the other series

If Sydney didn't have their 4th import they would of lost by 2.

Inb4 someone says there will be an asterisk

...might be too late

Wow

United threw that away. They were so good for so long, committed, focused, until the last 6 or 7 minutes.

Had it in the bag, then started throwing up ill advised shots and dumb turnovers. Completely lost the plot. The crowd got involved and United could no longer handle the semi final pressure.

I think United's given them their best shot. Trimble and Long were superb. Ili shut Casper down. And still, Sydney came back.

Sydney are best team in the history of the NBL on paper. They didn't live up to that tonight, but I think we'll see a sweep now.

[At the 2 minute mark there was an incorrect call on a back court violation. Melbourne did not have control of the ball it was stolen by newley then thrown back into play.]

Just watched replay . You're right

There was also the Long continuation that should've been awarded.

Louzada got away with multiple fouls in the last couple of minutes. Over zealous D and United guards weren't allowed to cut- he was illegally blocking their path on multiple occasions.

Still, that's what happens when the crowd gets involved.

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Haha wow now there's a take hotter than the sun]

It's probably them or United of 2018. Those are the two from recent memory who stand out

Starting 5 has no weak links. Excellence all round. Offensively and defensively. Lisch is the weakest player!

The bench has Newley who would start on most NBL teams, plus Didi, Moller and Kickert. It's a helluva list now they're finally all assembled

It was like watching a car crash. So good for three quarters all they needed to do is use the clock to their advantage to secure the win. They start show boating and the coach leaves his two best players on the bench.

Unbelievable choke one for the ages.

Fair enough then

75 attempted threes after 70 the night before. What's the record? Can't be far off it

One thing for sure. People probably going to stay till the end for the next few games.

Was that Glenn Saville who threw one in from halfway and won $10,000,
or (just) a lookalike.