Perth will clobber the Phoenix. Had they not choked away the game away the game against the United away they would be in a good position. They were the better team for majority of the night

They were at home with the refs on side . No more

Blanchfield, Steindl & Norton need to step up their play.

They choked it away because only have one star, Cotton, no White ( well you have a White but the wrong one) no Kay, unless Cotton gets help you can see the cats going down. As jack says, no home cooking ain't going down well either.

Phoenix by 6.

To be fair to Perth, they hadn't trained in almost a week up until a couple of days out from the game. Some players had some rust.

Hopefully a week of practice under their belt will see better outputs.

That's the problem with Perth, Cotton will get his 30 or close enough and Mooney is a good bet for a double double but they don't have much support.

Their bench is WORST in the league.

That's the problem with Perth, Cotton will get his 30 or close enough and Mooney is a good bet for a double double but they don't have much support.

Their bench is WORST in the league.

That's what wildcats do. But nba guys to get get championships

That's what other teams try to do as well. They just aren't as good as Perth.

cats probably have weakest bench and starting five would also not be in top 4 for talent. One DP on the starting 5 and I am not sure Norton or Blanchfield would start on many other teams.

Norton and Blanch are both starting quality aussies. Remember teams tend to fill imports around whatever aussie talent they can acquire, generally. Starting quality aussies are usually not import quality for the same position though. Guys like Landale, Kay etc are the exception.

Nice start by Perth, good game.

Maybe the pussy cats aren't done after all?

If Cotton gets his citizenship and they bring in plumlee then they are back into contention

Perth should have beaten the United last week now need to go on with it

Hahaha I was the first reply. I said Perth will clobber tje Phoenix

1. Why are the bench people (Perth) and coaches wearing masks? (No need.)
2. If you are going to wear a mask perhaps someone should show you how to wear it correctly.

Both coaching panels wearing masks, is because indoors in Melbourne.

Gaze is the best commentary man, even with duds he makes it ok.

Simon Mitchell sucks
Two years in a row worse defensive team.
The people pumping him up last week after an ok game haha

Zodiac, maybe this Perth team is a lot better than you think.

"Both coaching panels wearing masks, is because indoors in Melbourne."

What's that got to do with anything?

Sack Mitchell

Travers will be in the NBA in a few years. Bairstow a good backup big, how hasn't he stuck in the league?

Travers will not be in the nba, most overated youth player in te nbl.

Flogstaff played well

Wow, that was a beat down. Did not think this perth team had it in them to blow anyone out. Bryce is just on another level. I am not sure there are many superstars that are happy to simply not get there's when it works to the teams advantage. SEM dared every other perth player to beat them, and they got so confident Kev white was shooting step back triples!!! Crazy

Cotton had Blanchfield stand up with him, Mooney is exactly the 5 that Gleeson needs. The rest of Perth chip in and do what they have to.

Mitchell has coached well, if his players play defensively like an under 12 side, not much he can do.Today defensively they were crap. Adnam can score points, his D leaves a lot to be desired, te Rangi not certain what went down today and Wetzell struggle tonight against Mooney. They were all crap.

Blanchfield maybe has settled in and now playing to his potential, time will tell.

They were poor defensively last season. Then Mitchell comes out and brags they recruited players to be better defensively. But they are just as bad. It's on him. The rotations are poor. The zone was terrible. Poor coaching

Never going to go anywhere when you have Te Stinky as a starter. Yuck.

I think Gaze talked about it in the commentary, bounce, bounce bounce, he described it as chocolate, a little bit is fine but to much will make you crook. Gliddon never got a chance to shoot, he never got passed the ball.

Did Todd fuck your sister or something, Zodiac?

Perth offence was a different machine vs Melbourne, hard to compare stats when a guy only gets half the looks

Steindl in the dog house

Clint was injured

Blanchfield needs to play like tonight every night.
Didn't think I would say this but Kevin White was ok too.

SEM beat the hawks, give perth credit they forced SEM into a heap of poor action

"1. Why are the bench people (Perth) and coaches wearing masks? (No need.)
2. If you are going to wear a mask perhaps someone should show you how to wear it correctly."

Is there a sensible answer to this rather that "it's Melbourne" Becasue that makes no sense.