So it can't be discussed?

Win all 5 and Adelaide claw back to .500 which is highly unlikely.
Get Humphries and Giddey back soon and 2 or even 3 wins is possible.

I see them being 9 and 15 after this patch of games. Playoffs unlikely.

Jesu Christ, I understand it's off topic and that people will rightfully plead the case of the breakers but the league is truly attempting to screw the hawks. They starve them of games and then give them three in a week at home - whilst the players & staff will gladly welcome those games, how many families can afford to attend three games in six days? A bit ordinary but anyone can see it’s all part of the plan to transplant them to another location. Larry & co can point to these games and imply that the support clearly isn’t there.

Their owner in St.Louis will be loving it! Not long now...

the league is truly attempting to screw the hawks.

All these teams are either in the playoffs or close too.

If the team is what it is today, we will lose 4 of the 5 games (we win the NZ game).

If the team has a fit Paul, Humphries and Giddey, and they all start with starting minutes, then we will win 4 of the 5 (losing to red hot Sydney).

If the result is 3 losses or more from these 5, the season is over, we would need to be 10-2 for the rest of the season to make the playoffs.

We actually need to win against Sydney as there is a growing chasm between 6th Sydney and 7th Adelaide. Sydney have 2 more wins and 4 less losses than Adelaide with 2 games in hand.

Santa said it best yesterday on Overtime. Shorten the rotation, the majority of the minutes should go to (assuming fully fit) Giddey, Crocker, Paul, DJ, IH and McVeigh, the rest should be getting spot minutes.

Larry wouldn't shake your hand Lovebroker. We’re all beneath him.

If you owned a yacht you'd reckon hoops schmucks are beneath you too

Well said KET.

I'm done with the Sixers season. Henry can’t coach- I stuck up for him early, hoping he’d settle. But you can’t keep playing Pinder and having stuffed up rotations, no real game plan and not utilising our major weapons. It’s like this season is just about Giddey’s stats and making NBA. I know injuries have hurt but we’ve still had winnable games/chances to win.
I really don’t care what happens now, that makes me sad as I’ve loved the club since I was 9 years old, 36 years.

Have some faith! It's a new coach, new team and playing in covid times doesn't help either. I'm sure they will find their feet!

Every team can make the COVID excuse. Other teams can make a stronger complaint about schedule impact. Injuries they can claim - two starters out, and Sloan as another starter had to get swapped out.

I was especially impressed by their work at the start of games
and frustrated at the end.
I got the impression of them winning during the first half of games, before the let down, and see frustration of Conner, Crocker.

Who does people think 36ers have better talent then overall?

Against which teams should 36ers have won games taking into consideration injuries/Sloan swap out when comparing talent?

I think perhaps a couple of Sydney losses? Even though they had two good imports still playing.

I had 36ers wooden spoon based on talent. Someone has to finish around bottom, why is it necessarily the coaches fault if your team is lower end of talent and your top players suffer injuries? Adelaide at the moment is roughly on par with what i expected. They were slightly above pre-NBL cup.

When IH returns I think they will be good, however I think it will be too late to make any battle for top 4.

KET, I think you under rate the talent in the team whilst I probably over rate the talent.

I have the following teams with more talent
Melbourne
Sydney

Teams I think are debatable are
Perth - If they didn't have Cotton that team is dead last

The rest I have Adelaide with more talent. The problem is the coach is terrible

Ha ha anon, not saying I'm important or anything, just frustrated. No need to be a d$&khead about it, probably just comes naturally to you I guess.
Thanks for the feedback.

Against which teams should 36ers have won games taking into consideration injuries/Sloan swap out when comparing talent?

At the start of the season I had the Sixers finishing 5th. That was with the assumption Sloan would be a good but not great player and unfortunately he turned out to be a dud.

Currently 7th with the injuries to Hump & Giddey plus all the Sloan/Kendle BS which dragged on for too long is a decent effort really. Not sold on Paul yet.

What isn't decent though is the massive slumps the team has for a quarter or a half that are so large they pretty much rule out any possibility of winning. That's on the coach. If they can play okay for 75% of the game it means it's not a talent issue but a mental issue.

We had a couple of horrendous opening quarters at the NBL Cup one I think against United and that disastrous game against NZ, possibly the most disgraceful performance I've ever seen from a 36ers team. Plus that terrible third quarter against Perth.

That's all on the coach not having his players mentally prepared to play either at the start of game or coming out of the half-time break and Henry's game plans and substitution patterns have left a lot to be desired too.

Ideally we would make a coaching change over the offseason but he's still got 2 years to run on his contract so who knows.

If you say so chief. Was just my thoughts, nice to know you care

At the start of the season I had the Sixers finishing 5th. That was with the assumption Sloan would be a good but not great player and unfortunately he turned out to be a dud.

Not sold on Paul yet.

that disastrous game against NZ, possibly the most disgraceful performance I've ever seen from a 36ers team. Plus that terrible third quarter against Perth.

Ideally we would make a coaching change over the offseason but he's still got 2 years to run on his contract so who knows.

That's all on the coach not having his players mentally prepared to play either at the start of game or coming out of the half-time break and Henry's game plans and substitution patterns have left a lot to be desired too.

Paul is a gun, right now he is doing well whilst the team has left him on an island to create himself, imagine if there was some structure. As frustrated as I was with Paul's last 2 shots against SEM, what other options did we have and he was 'hot'.

Marty Clarke era box scores say hello.

In his TO's he seem to be saying the right things, but coming out if it the team seems to do something else.

Point out any Marty Clarke coached games where we should've beaten a team comfortably but then lost to them by 45 points?

Then like you would with kids when things go haywire for a quarter he does nothing about it lets them play through it and tries to get them to learn from it something a pro-coach like Goorjian, Vickerman or Gleeson would never do.

Kelly and JVG promised Giddey a starting position to try to divert from the implosion they created with Joey Wright and Kevin white. They were high giving each other after first few games, but as per lamelo ball, has killed team culture, now they're calling the season a development season! Even though besides McVeigh, the only player developing will be gone next year!

Macca bright been outstanding so why he doesn't get m o re minutes is perplexing.. ok teys and Dillon are vets so lets get minute in Mud Man and Owan ... forget the deadwood - kinder man ain't lighting no fires... need to have some positives come season done time... not the same as ...coach Henry get into your trickery bag and let's show something to create excreiment - let's get up and about

No offence but Adelaide are crap.

coach Henry get into your trickery bag and let's show something to create excreiment