Melbourne at home.
United by 19.

United are just flying at the moment. They'll win by 11.

Perth by 15, and Hoops.com.au chokes in a fog of smugness

In the alternative, Melbourne wins and Perth fans go nuclear giving us an unexpected finish to humanity, although not totally surprising if you're truly honest with yourself.

MU playing too well and are so deep i cant see them losing to anyone at the moment.

United by 15+

Melbourne would want to win to keep a little buffer between them and Perth on ladder.

Perth need to win to keep within reach of top spot and don't want to slip towards third.

Also a potential grand final preview so plenty to play for.

Copeland again on commentary? I hope this is the last time.

NBL are compounding their commentator appointment fails with Copeland now seemingly a regular.

To a point.

#thatawaycooking

28/33?? I hear that right, jeez

That can't be right, surely

Don't complain about foul count, United settling for 3s and fade away shots. Typically low foul count plays

Landale & Barlow. Seriously! Defensively poor. Barlow was responsible for the run Perth made from 19-12 down. Poor passing then just leave your man & give them open shots. Just not going to work against Perth.

Okay had to check, Mooney is not 28/33
It's 18/33 from 3

Great hustle by the Cats jabroni squad to get some momentum going our way.

It's still Perth then daylight it seems no matter how much United spend.

Melbourne choking hard.

Better D than most of his players are managing

United look like a tiring away team. You couldn't make this stuff up.

Yeah, typically poor form from Vickerman. United look like garbage.

Mooney barely competing with any one for rebounds, why is United effort so low

Maybe they are upset over a lack of frequent flyer miles this season.

Perth got into Melbourne's heads early and put them off their game. Just doing what they do so well, and will do so right up to when they lift the trophy.

Gleeson proves again that he’s the best NBL coach by far.

Jervis killing his own team atm

20 point lead gone, disappointing.

8 minutes of bonus

Melbourne playing like an under 12's team. Bad passes, turnovers, poor shots & defense.
Call it now. When push comes to shove Perth are just too good.
They win the Championships

Magnay is hopefully enjoying this one from his hotel room. He's such a good decision maker.

Feels like only one team actually wanted to win this one.

Damn that was sweet

Yet another airball from three by United. Classic.

First year out of college Mooney is a beast, shame he probably doesn't have the genetics to fit into a role on a modern NBA roster.

Sure Europe will snap him up.

Mooney

Melbourne probably just tired from the strenuous commute down the M2 every week, must be taxing.

Time for the Wildcats to set Mooney up with a local woman, lock him in like we did with Cotton.

Mooney is NBL's version of prime Kevin Love. Owned Jock. Legit has a claim at MVP.

Cotton is bricking his threes but still a huge positive contributor.
I'm not gonna agree with any praise of Mooney though. Dude is just a pure competitor and I love him.

Juuuust pump the brakes a little guys, it's one game with plenty more to go.

United are going to as tough as hell come playoff time and if the Magnay thing does indeed happen, we can just pray that it doesn't mess up the chemistry with Mooney. Damn that was an enjoyable win though.

Was fully expecting the cats to get smashed this game.

Love it when the reverse phsych trick works on the universe to prove me wrong :)

Perth demonstrated why they've won 5 titles in 7 years

Disciplined defense, played the percentages, rebounded hard. Unselfish offence with everybody knowing their role and the big guns executing. Tonight that was Mooney.

United were atrocious. They were due a bad game and damn, was that bad.

CG sloppy as, and no one else stepped up offensively at all other than JLA and Landale in moments of the 1st. They were dismantled, shut down and gradually lost confidence to the point where it was all just iso ball or drive, dish and shoot a somewhat contested three because no other options presented.

Their first loss with a relatively healthy roster I think. (Missing one or none).

Lol at whoever said Landale not close to Mooney

Been fairly even between them this season, Mooney looks better statistically but that's mainly cos he plays 34 or 35 minutes a game and Landale plays 28 or 29. Minute for minute it's pretty even and both guys been hugely important on the top 2 teams.

This one might be decided in the playoffs, with JLA and Magnay nice sidekicks on the undercard, and Cotton vs United's legion of guards the other main event.

diabolical crowd numbers.

diabolical crowd numbers.

I loved seeing the Wildcats show other teams in the league ways to dismantle United as that should make for a far more ending to our season rather than seeing the top team go on a Bullets type run in the way to the title.

United was atrocious and Vickerman is a tool but seriously, why didn't Hopson get up a shot until the 3rd quarter, he has came into this game looking quite damaging and I feared his impact coming off the bench.
I like Goulding but commentators turn me off him by mentioning his every bowel movement but this game he looked so disinterested that even the commentary stopped singing his praises.

I think Landale is better than Mooney but maybe that's because I want to see Mooney as a battler which is fitting of his game that is so full of effort whereas Landale doesn't feel he needs to impact the game as much as Mooney, I'd have loved to see him playing at Cairns this season with their big man woes and the fight that would come from Landale to prove his worth. Right now my All NBL first team big men are Mooney and Finn Delaney (Vic Law was more impressive and I think Martin and Humphries look like they could dominate also with an injury free season) but Landale just doesn't look hungry enough to dominate games and should that be acceptable for All NBL 1st team? Finn on the other hand looks like his busting his arse trying to get his team over the line and I love that desire and he seems smarter this season than previous with less silly fouls.

Both Mooney and Landale are top tier players in the league.

I don't have the stats with me but both are good in their own right.

Mooney is a much better rebounder and has a nose for the ball.
Landale is a better shot blocker.
Both can score, Landale looks more comfortable from the outside but Mooney's percentages with less attempts is incredible.

Mooney is younger and I could have a higher ceiling, he seems slow but had good IQ and a penchant for rebounding.
Landale is more established and potential more rounded game now.

I don't know either's ceilings.

Who would you build your team around?

I would say Landale only because he is a local and Mooney take up an import slot.