Shit scheduling but with Tassie and Bullets circling the drain everything has opened right up for the Sixers now, if they get serious. Should be a close game too given the two previous match ups this season.

Cairns W at home by 4 points
Adelaide W at home by 6 points in OT

DJV hit 4 3pts already in 5 minutes.

Jesus #6 for DJV.

31-7

DJV a tad warm out there.


6 straight



6 of 6

Make that 6 before he finally missed one

#7 fuck!

All-time record is Ian Davies with 13, in serious danger.

Imagine having NZ Breakers and Cairns in your league and claiming it is the 2nd best league in the world LOL

My word these 2 franchises are absolutely just stinking piles of shit.

Imagine paying 1 cent of your own money to watch this Cairns team LOL

wow DJ

Vasiljevic 21
Taipans 12

Sixers up by 26 at QT.

Cairns are not NBL standard
Either they are gambling against themselves or they are one of the worst "pro sporting teams" in Australia.

Its one or the other

Cairns are pure trash.

On one end they don't adjust to DJV.

The other end they just jack up threes in hope of matching the Sixers.

I hope the crowd boos this team.

An absolute disgrace.

Benching DJ, I mean.

LOL everyone losing there mind at DJ
Where was this against the Wildcats the other night?
LOL Biggest FRAUD in the league

Well, that's not what I expected. Cairns might have thought the same as I thought and just didn’t turn up as the win would be easy.

I predict Cairns will be booted out of the league in the next few years.

They add absolutely NOTHING to the league.

They simply devalue it.

Absolutely embarrassing

LOL and that Armrstrong thinks he is going to the NBA?

Hey jacket, good to hear from you.

Thought I'd log on for the first time in a long while, after my snakes have shown a special kind of ineptitude here. And Jacket is still at it hahaha. Quite sad.

Jacket, either you started your hoops commenting career as a child, or you're a proverbial Peter Pan. Please mate, for your sake, put it away and join the real world.

As for the club, is it time for a mutiny? Probably.

Nice to see you back Manu, sorry your snakes are being trounced

What do Cairns add to the league?

Seriously, what do they add to it?

They used injuries as an excuse for all there Embarrassing performances earlier this season which ONLY LOSERS do and now they are at full strength look what trash they dish up lol

How many have they lost at home in a row?

Imagine taking your family out to watch this trash, paying for tickets, parking etc and the team could not give a shit.

I would ask for a refund.

Imagine paying your hard earned to players who could not care.

They shouldn't have to be told, but Adelaide have to be disciplined now. No excuses for letting this get too close. DJ is not going to hit 7 again, and Cairns will adjust. Are they good enough??

Imagine commenting on a forum for a league that you don't follow. I’d be asking for my money back.

Can Sixers blow this possibly, certainly Ariana P egging DVJ to go for the record.

LOL Cairns are 5-18 LOL about to be 5-19 LOL

Stating facts

This team will be gone in the next few years.

They will give the licence to another frnachise.

Wait and watch.

Interesting how the Taipans emails aren't making a big thing of their AGMs.
I'm subscribed to their emails and just searched both "AGM" and "Annual General Meeting" verbatim. No Taipans results since 2022.

1968 Beetles are playing in the background.

Keep Waardenburg and Armstrong if you can. The rest... Gak as a backup centre okay. The rest can go. Future of Forde and the board?

Diehards will say 4 games in 8 days. But that ain't it.

Absolutely brilliant start by Adelaide coming off travel from Perth, huge credit to them.

Out on a limb..sixers got this.
Perth sixers GF. Has that feel to it.winning form going in play-offs for both..Hawks can be off and on. Kings are trash.

How does Damon Lowery still have a job? Just about the worst commentator (and commentor in general) going around.

Groves would be worth keeping.

Dunkman, he doesn't get on the glass enough imo.
If Waardenburg goes, yeah probably ask Groves to come back.

I'd be looking to tap into that NZ Breakers shooting guard well, which we had success in DJ Newbill, and target Matt Mooney. Give him a larger role.

Lowery doesnt understand how percentage works

Is DJ the first player in NBL history to hit 10 threes in a game with 2 different teams?

Stop this carry on! lol

Lowery doesnt understand how percentage works

I've been lucky enough to go to most NBL sides’ games at most arenas and Cairns convention centre is a great arena, the fans and atmosphere is right up there with the best, I love it.

I wouldn’t be backing Tasmania to screw it up to be honest. Adelaide will likely finish 7th/8th.

Nevertheless, a very very important *big* win.

If Sixers miss play offs on percentage, I'm not certain DJV throwing up those late threes for a record is worth it, different if you are a top two certainty. Congrats to Adelaide, it surely was a tough road trip and to play the first quarter so well was smart as well as excellent.

Where to for Cairns, they really don’t look happy, Waardenburg should join Roth to play the four, back up five, even if McVeigh comes back. There is some better players out there, some not seeing much time, would like more opportunity. Forde probably deserves another shot but I’m not certain you keep to many that are there.

Which frnachise should they send the licence to Jacket?

Good to see and a big percentage booster too which is now virtually the same as Tassie although they remain 0.5 games ahead. It's all in our hands now if we're serious and come out with that sort of intent and great defence in the first.

Next up Sydney in Sydney Friday night.

word14,

No, Shane Heal hit 12 3pts in a game with Brisbane and then Sydney.

Both 14-15 is a best case scenario for 36ers, I feel.

It'll be about percentage which means Adelaide will want to win solidly and lose marginally IMO

13 Ian Davies vs St. Kilda 1985
12 Shane Heal vs Townsville 1994
12 Shane Heal vs Wollongong 2001
11 Darryl Pearce vs Newcastle 1988
11 Brett Maher vs Brisbane 1996
11 Derek Rucker vs Brisbane 1998
10 Ebi Ere vs Adelaide 2008
10 Jason Crowe vs South 2007
10 Andrew Gaze vs Brisbane 1987
10 Lanard Copeland vs SE Melbourne 1995
10 John Rillie vs Perth 2009
10 Jermaine Beal vs Melbourne 2015
10 Bryce Cotton vs Cairns 2020
10 Chris Golding vs New Zealand 2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBL_(Australia)_All-time_Records

Although Vasiljevic's first 10 3pt game seems to be missing from that list.

"Some of the three-point makes were incredibly contested, off balance and from way downtown buckets too as he chased down the 10 three-point performance he had against the South East Melbourne Phoenix for Sydney back in NBL23."

https://nbl.com.au/news/dj-shoots-36ers-to-big-win-in-cairns

Interesting, though I must admit I don't remember that game. I noticed on the NBL broadcast they had Shane Heal doing it three times so who knows what the deal is NBL record keeping has always been crap.

Cheers Zodiac

Sixers last 5 games:

@ Sydney
vs New Zealand
vs Brisbane
@ SE Melbourne
@ Perth

I would back them to beat Kings in Sydney again especially if they play like they did today, they look very wobbly. Both home games should be wins if remotely serious. SEM in Melb likely a loss. The final game in Perth good chance Wildcats might get some rest into some players. I see us going 3-2 or 4-1 if Perth do us a solid.

Tassie last 4 games:

@ SE Melbourne
vs Illawarra
@ Melbourne
vs Cairns

I can only see them winning one of those the Cairns game.

Sixers should finish 14-15 perhaps 15-14 if Perth down tools in the final game, Tassie to finish 13-16, just can't see them getting to 14 wins.

As any intelligent person knows, Cairns are hamstrung by a small budget and rely on redemption players and getting lucky on imports.
No team in the league would have stopped that buzzsaw in the first quarter, after that it was an even game.
Don't know what's going on with Waardenberg, just looks totally disinterested and waiting for the end of the season.
Will likely lose Armstrong, would say he'll get a shot in NBA.
So they'll have to rebuild again in offseason, will Forde want to go through that again or take a break and wait for a spot to open up elsewhere.
So they'll likely take a chance on some young imports and guys looking to start or restart their career.
Special mention for Lat carrying on at the foul line pumping up the crowd and proceeded to brick the first one.

Geez, Forde didn't miss them in the presser. And justifiably so.