Luuuc
Yesterday
Fri 7:00 - Adelaide vs Bendigo (ESPN)
Sun 12:30 - Canberra vs Perth (9Gem & 9Now)
Sun 2:30 - Townsville vs Geelong (9Now)
Mon 5:00 - Sydney vs Southside (9Now)
Tue 7:00 - Townsville vs Bendigo (9Now)
All times local
Cosmo Spacely
Yesterday
Level of effort by Adelaide is embarrassing.
Baller23
Yesterday
Maybe Hurst not the key reason for the lightning woes? Bendigo are going to be tough to beat for all teams in this form. But Adelaide absolutely have the cast to compete better than that.
Luuuc
Yesterday
Dean is already a significant loss so fingers crossed for Basham.
But yeah, disappointing game by the Lightning. That 0-20 run in the 1st quarter was horrible.
SamCro
Yesterday
Watching the game live tonight in Adelaide it's plain to see that Lightning don’t have any real commitment to defense. Sami absolutely lit up Steph Talbot in the 1st quarter which definitely required some defensive changes from Ninnis. Great to see KG get back some real spring & athleticism into her game tonight as she completely mauled the frontline of the Lightning!
Juice
A few hours ago
They have no faith in their systems. Ninnis coaching someone else's stuff. Should be better next season with a preseason. For the past 2-3 years This has been and still is one of the top 3 rosters in the comp.
retired
A few hours ago
What happened to Dean.
She played some minutes in a game and then did not even travel with the team when they played the Flames in Sydney.
Thought maybe she was not happy with minutes and possibly quit.
Jayhoops
A few hours ago
Lightning had the #1 ranked defense and #8 offense under Hurst. Clearly Ninnis shouldn't be tinkering with one of them!
From what I read a week ago, Dean has a broken finger.
DMc
Today
Commentary last night said Dean has a broken metacarpal (commonly caused by punching something, or by doing closed fisted push-ups according to Kevin Love!)
+
Today
Dean was there last night on the bench. I would be very happy to have her back - a quality PG with a great work rate.
Lightning's shooting at 34% & 33% could not match Bendigo's 41% and 47%.
IMO - Lightnings offence needs a bit more in and out - a lot of 3 point line pressure is exerted on them - some in and out offence will make the D sag.
Spirit played very good - shot extremely well.
Adelaide did not defend the on ball well - blitzed the dribbler but many times Griffen received it easily off the P&R and scored. Maybe the defensive rotations for Lightning were out - often Bendigo had 1 or 2 players wide open on the 3 point line with no defender anywhere near them.
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