Given that winning still matters to overall standings Perth should approach this game wanting to win.
Adelaide for the sake of their fans need to put up a respectable showing.

Surely they could arrogantly throw the game to show how good they are

All Adelaide have to do is win just one quarter out of 4 to avoid finishing ninth in the Cup standings. Only trail Cairns by half point.

Hopefully Brandon Paul will be playing.

Have read that Paul is playing.

Hopefully Brandon doesn't have the same in between seasons diet as Lamar Patterson. Imagine if he turns up here as a dud?

What is mind boggling with Patterson is that he plays in the Puerto Rican league in the lead up to the NBL season, that was why he joined the Breakers late because he was still playing there, so in theory he should be in tip top shape from Day 1. The guy must really let himself go early in the off-season.

Anyway according to Boti the Breakers released Patterson when he got injured but haven't announced it yet. WMW has been signed as a temp replacement for C-Web even though he hasn't arrived yet and has to do 2 weeks in quarantine so I think once C-Web comes back they'll say WMW is staying on as the replacement for Patterson.

Thanks Perth for winning the nbl cup...I'll bet after you win against Melbourne united..I have know doubt Perth will win it..

Why wait? The odds will go down if you wait for that win.

Awww... I liked 'em

Massive unsportsmanlike foul by Crocker not called on that block.

Good one, Clint

:/

How many 3 ball attempts by Perth though. Take it to the rack, get more fouls.

We're getting Kirkupped today

Thank you Brisbane for choking yesterday.

Steindl needs to be locked away in the gym until he can hit wide open shots again, dudes a massive liability at the moment.

Rest Cotton and Mooney.
Adelaide got this game why risk them.

Adelaide got this game why risk them.

Is there going to be a cup presentation?

Wish they would shut up about how much of great event the Cup was. This game would be a sell out in either Adelaide or Perth. Instead we got 10 people in the stands

Hmmm they're claiming attendance of 4,019 on the box score.

Attendance figure = tickets sold + No. of times Heal says to be able to + No. of times Henry says aiiight + No. of times Trev yells Heyyyyy!

Whatever this 36ers team does at halftime, they should stop doing it.

Holy...

Only Adelaide can produce this. Man what are e we doing.

Adelaide lose this it's safe to say Conner Henry has to go

Yay we scored!

Like the Globetrotters playing against the Generals, smh.

What is our lowest ever quarter score? That had to be in ply there.

Got away with about twelve fouls hand checking Giddy that quarter

We scored 6 points in the first the other day!

There have been an abnormally large amount of times this year where the Sixers have had massive runs go against them, it is far more than I have seen before. The fact it has happened multiple times without the coach seeming to be able to make appropriate adjustments is really not acceptable.

Yeah, numbers inflated by the SEM attendance who bailed.

JvG recruited Henry, who was a one season Wildcats dud and clearly not up to NBL. He's the one to blame.

#050 so did I. Yet everyone seems to have forgotten how bad he was.

So bad the Wildcats had a winning record and made the playoffs.

The only reason they sacked Henry was because they had Bevo lined up.

Oh look here comes Zodiac the Henry defender. Apparently Goorjian is supposed to look up to Henry, an all-time worst take made on here yet he continues to double down. How embarrassing.

Let's not forget due to COVID candidates like Caporn, with no NBL experience, declined the Sixers role so Henry picked up the scraps.

In saying that these kind of massive runs against us are squarely on the coach. I know Henry has still got 2 years left on his contract but the Sixers really need to have a look at this situation at the end of the season.

These kind of results are unacceptable.

Fuck off, PW.

Paul looks the goods.
Henry had no answers after half time.

I expected that response, for some inexplicable reason you're still in the Henry camp despite results proving he isn't up to being an NBL coach. You're either extremely stubborn or related to the guy.

Read what I just said you clown and stop fucking trolling.

Never count this team out. Champions for a reason.

They serious complaining about the giddey foul lol. Looking for something to blame instead of a offensive capitulation in the second half

So does Goorjian and every other coach in the NBL still supposed to "look up" to Henry? Whatever that means. I called you on that baffling take yet you stuck to it. You still seem to think you were right.

I'll quit now as he won't ever admit to his awful, incorrect stance from earlier in the season.

Man, what a win to top off our cup run.

It's coming home, it's coming home, the cup is coming home!

Glad we don't have to accept the cup after an embarrassing L.

Perthworld, you didn't understand what I said then re: credentials and you're not reading what I just wrote, you're just looking to troll as you always do.

Henry needs to go.

Wildcats nab the first nbl cup. And hopefully the only one that needs winning.

Never has a more pointless award existed in sport lol.

Who would've thought at 26-point lead wouldn't be safe in a game between Adelaide and Perth?

No, I understood what you meant about credentials and explained to you with examples of how you were wrong yet you chose to ignore it.

Wildcats nab the first nbl cup. And hopefully the only one that needs winning.

Never has a more pointless award existed in sport lol.

1st half against United
1st half against the Breakers
2nd half against the Wildcats

Three of the worst halves in the clubs history all in the same season. There has to be some serious soul searching.

Yeah, reeling that in within a quarter was beyond my most optimistic thoughts. That was nuts. Cats record breaking nuts.

BP3 looks a nice addition. He gets a pass for losing his mojo in game 1. No such excuses for his teammates though.

No, your example was you didn't like Henry as coach of the Cats he was sacked after one season therefore he's going to suck as Sixers coach.

Three of the worst halves in the clubs history all in the same season. There has to be some serious soul searching.
100% on the coach.

I'd like Giddey to keep shooting more. Is a hell of a talent.

The example was Demopolous. Stop making stuff up to hide your tracks. Keep making those incorrect hot takes.

Can we all just take a moment to enjoy this forum one last time before "perf home cooking" comments return. 7-1 and the comments will still return next Friday

Who is the big dark guy who sits at the back row of the bench and comes out when there's a time out?

Cotton back to back MVP no doubt about it..

I went out at halftime thinking it was academic.

WTF happened.

What was Henry doing allowing a 19 nil run?

Amazing to watch that game without looking at hoops then reading the entire thread 2 hours later...quality post game entertainment

Does Connor Henry know you're allowed to play a zone. Has not played 1 second of it all year and a 19-0 run, may be worth a different t look defensively. Couldn’t be any worse.

Respect to Zodiac for the #026 post.
Made my #024 post look silly

Conner's definitely not blameless, but honestly there’s not a lot he can do when the team has only one healthy, NBL quality big man.

Perth just flat out smashed us with offensive rebounds in the second half. We actually had more rebounds at half time and ended up losing the count by 14!

Noone on the bench was going to stop Mooney once he got going in the second half.

After all the mistakes of the last two seasons, particularly losing talent like Creek and Sobey, you can’t just replace that and expect to turn it around in one season. Of the guys playing big minutes, only DJ and McVeigh have played on the same team before this season.

Humphries, Dech and Giddey were great recruiting moves. BP3 looks like he might be another good call. As impatient as I am to see a contending Sixers team, I think we have to give JVG another offseason to see if he can strengthen the bench and then lets see if Conner can build the kind of competitive spirit Perth show year in, year out.

finally some sensible comments . Thanks Beantown

but honestly there's not a lot he can do when the team has only one healthy, NBL quality big man.

particularly losing talent like Creek and Sobey, you can’t just replace that and expect to turn it around in one season.

I think we have to give JVG another offseason to see if he can strengthen the bench and then lets see if Conner can build the kind of competitive spirit Perth show year in, year out.

Lovebroker, agree 100%. Hopefully Isaac stays, so we would have Isaac, DJ, Jack, Sunday and hopefully BP3 (assuming rest of season goes well and he wants to stay), the rest can f$&k off. Crocker, despite his defence, has not been an impactful import. Maybe a decent 3rd import if we still had that rule, but not a 2nd import.
Interesting off season. I'd like to think we can still make a run if Isaac gets back soon and BP3 settles in, but no team with the passengers you posted can make finals.

Is that Adam Doyle doing stats or something on the Sixers bench??

Beantown, they gave up a 26 point lead. It wasn't due to a few offensive rebounds (an area we've seemed to struggled in for years now. I wonder why that might be). Yeah Pinder has maybe the lowest IQ of anyone out there, but that had nothing to do with the result. Hell, Perth 'only' scored 25 in the 3rd, that shouldn't be an amount that changes games to the degree it did.

All we needed was a couple of buckets at any point during Perth's run in the 3rd and the game was probably over. Instead we didn't score for half a quarter and managed 3 points in about 9 minutes. ANOTHER ridiculous stretch of just not being able score. Again, that's not due to giving up offensive rebounds - it was happening even when he had Humphries - it's a problem at both ends of the floor, a problem that should have been addressed by Henry by now. Are there no plays in our arsenal to give us a couple of easy looks to settle us down?

It's sad that if teams can slow down Giddey, unless McVeigh or Dech go wild, we have absolutely no offence. Our 'star' player in Johnson can't get us buckets when we need them, and unless he's drawing fouls (which in games like today, where he's extra lazy, is what he's more concerned about than anything else and hurts us) and putting up an efficient 20+ is basically a net loss out there. We have shooters, we scoring inside and out. 5 points in a quarter after we'd had probably our best half of the season in pathetic and the coach is a massive part of that.

24 you are on the money.

At half time, Perth switched to a half court trap defence once the ball crossed the half way line. The ball was continuously double teamed on the sideline. The offence called for the screener to slip to the basket, but when the other three defenders are trapping that is not an option.

There was no identification, no adjustment and correction by the coaching team. Game coaching is the immediate short term problem that needs to be addressed.

Sure they have a squad that is not balanced and won't provide much rebounding, and no go to scorers, [and management must own the blame for that] but to give up that lead that way, thats game coaching.

5 times in a row we got trapped in the same place on the floor. No offence change.

You can't have a 18 year old playing great than 8 minutes a quarter, they will fade throughout the game. Our defence was sluggish as the game went on, we closed out poorly.

BP and McV were a headache, so Conner let’s them wear pine.

" Lol, we need Bryce as mills backup."

I love Cotton but no, not in a full Boomers roster situation. Need is definitely the wrong word.

Pinder looks a little lost, as does Conner.

Yes Sixers only have a very small base of players which making it extremely difficult especially when best player out and was waiting for decent import.
Think dumping on Henry bit premature as think done well with what is available and definitely improved our defence .
Though hope he learnt from last nights game as hate losing to that arrogant buffoon.

Wowee, as a Cats member who has seen Cotton from day 1, and he still surprises me with what he can do. It seems like he's still getting better, the Cats are less potent on offence this season, yet he's actually upped his passing game, plus gets multiple steals per game, and the level of clutch is ridiculous.

For me it's hard to look past Gaze as the greatest NBL player ever, but man, if Cotton plays out his career in the NBL then he's almost a dead cert for at least the #2 position.

Twentyfour I agree with you, our offence is another huge problem. But why do you think that is?

As I stated above, if opponents lock down Giddey, its game over for us. That's because we haven’t had another guy who can easily create his own shot AND setup others. DJ, like nearly all big men, needs someone to set him up. Crocker, McVeigh and Dech also need to be setup to score consistently.

I assume that they thought Sloan would be that creator when they signed him, but unfortunately he couldn’t do it. So Henry’s been trying to keep his team afloat until BP3 got here. Frankly, I think he’s done ok, given he can only rely on an 18 y.o. rookie to run his offence and once Humphries went down, had only one NBL level big and almost no defensive presence at the rim.

I’m not saying Henry is perfect, jury is still out IMO, but I am saying I think this is primarily a personnel problem. Lets see what Conner can do with BP3 running more offence. Hopefully the guy is more than just a 3 pt shooter!

Lol, yes, your sarcasm is on point.

I don't want to be harsh on Mud though. He’s been chucked in the deep end as backup point and he’s not ready. I’m fine with him getting more time to develop as I think he could offer something down the track. But he should’ve been a DP again this season.

Connor Henry needs to stop whinging to the refs the whole time and worry about his players.

His rotations and offensive setups have been very underwhelming so far.

So unfair that the NBL scheduled all the Cats-Phoenix games to occur before today.
I am mentally and physically bracing myself now for the onslaught of sympathy that LV will be showering Perth with for the foreseeable future.