I agree. For the sixers to make the playoffs, they must win tonight! But they must also win their remaining 4 games to have any hope of making the playoffs as I believe you need 15 wins for the season to make the top 8.

Having said that and the consistency the sixers have shown this season, I believe the playoffs are out of reach!

SILLY!

Sorry to say PLAYOFFs ARE out of reach.I Agree with LJ ,It be a miracle if sixers win last 4 games,but highly unlikely the way they have been playing this season.Cairns play well at home.

To think that before the season started, the
36ers were tipped to finish around 4th. Also to think that a thought went through my mind at the time saying I am not happy with that, we need to do better. 4 months later............better not say anymore.

I had hoped (and thought) the sixers would have finished around the 5-7 mark at the start of the season. But I guess injuries and non performing imports hurt the chances. If only...........

you do realise Cat`s back for cairns, played his 1st game back from injury last week and got 19points. Looks like he hasn`t missed a beat. Hate to say it but no chance

Hodge scored 6 of our first 12... 36ers 12-2!! :-| Just crazy.

Well I was always confident!

Great balls of fire!!

Killin them.

Balls and hodge dominating.

Hodge, being invisible, is going to be hard for Cairns to stop!

gone from 11 points up to 1 point down.......great!

up by 1 at 1/4 time

Balls 11 points

Hoodge 8 points

they cant win with ng dodman copeland hodge and dench all on court together. Taipans on a run. Voldemort is a knob

18 points to Balls

Don`t know why we are so suprised when we blow a big lead, seems like it`s the only thing we do consistently. May be we are wishing things will change

LOL Cairns are a qulaity team on paper, just gotta keep the scoreboard ticking over and try to contain as best as possible.

Let's just hope we can get the ball to Ballinger in the second half!

22 Ballinger
20 Hodge


KEEP these imports next year.

36ers with 5 point lead!

3 point lead at half time

Hodge and Ballinger doing all the work... Cairns will surely wake up to it at the half.

first he was Holmes then Donaldson and now nothing.

Last three games he went for 34, 17 and 27 and now 20 at half time.

Kobe Byrant could be out there going for 100 and they wouldn't have him on the stats list.

I see there has been some adjustments to scores at Half Time, according to the NBL website, only Ballinger, Hodge & Ng have actually scored!!!

Yes - The 4CA commentators made mention of that at half time. Said it was something they hadn't seen before. I don't recall an NBL game reaching this point of the game (half way through the third quarter), with only three scorers for a team and they're leading!

Really poor standard considering the other matches have finished. Should`nt be too hard to keep up you would think

Hey can the someone with a working radio link, please keep the updates. Thanks. Do we really only have 3 scorers???

Yeah, so they keep saying on the radio. They said Mottram missed an easy shot and joked that perhaps he didn't want to be on the score sheet.

Hay - Mottram scored! Now Cairns will have to defend someone else

Mottram made a bucket. four players on the scoreboard now.

77 (36ers) - 68

Radio says Darren Ng just got his 4th foul. Have to watch that, given he's been the only other effective scorer, after Hodge and Ballinger.

I wonder if Davidson is wearing himself out defending Black, so not getting on teh score board? Black's only got 7 points, but 5 assists.

Sixers up by 9 (77-68), with 2:41 to go in teh third

Dench just scored! 77-68, 1:50 to go in teh third. Foul shots to Cairns.

Mottram scored and gets benched, Axel comes on and scores :-) it dosnt work Voldermort you can't screw everything up (Just Joking). Impressive effort as was the Tigers game. Go Sixers!

Comon sixers. Keep it going!!!. Appreciate the updates.

Dench just dunked and Cattalini hit a three

Missed shots at each end, last shot offence being run by 36ers

Three quarter time - 81-71, Sixers ahead. Go 36ers!

By the way, with Blaze beating Wildcats tonight, the 36ers have to win this one to have any sniff of making the playoffs. They lose and it becomes all but academic

is it 81-71 going into the 4th??? thats wat it says on the NBL site

Coommooon. Need to scorin to continue in the 4th. Get to the line and close this one out.

Ballinger has 29, how much does Hodge have? I am guessing 32 points?

yer 32

According to radio, Hodge has 30

Sounds like Cairns are making a run though

Early turnovers to the Sixers is costing us!

Hodge up to 34 points (on layups ;-)

score??

36ers 87 to Taipans 78 Just over 9mins left in the 4th Qtr

Time out Cairns - 87-78 36ers. Cairns ball when they resume

www.nbl.com.au

Cairns Taipans vs Adelaide 36ers Live Scores

Yes the NBL Live Scoring is working tonight.

Find links above for radio coverage.

Lets go sixers!!!!

Cairns on a bit of a run. Commentators confident Taipans going to run over the top of us. They definetly seem to be controlling the tempo by the sounds of it.

CMON SIXERS.

we can get this!!.

(radio feed is so bias)

Motts dislocated shoulder!.

Hodge IS playing, just name dosnt appear on the live scores. Grab the total minus all other players points and you have Hodge's stats.

Mottram goes down - shoulder injury. Radio guys saying it's dislocated. (Naughty word). 87-84 Sixers. About 7:00 left

Shit..Mottram dislocated shoulder

mottram out with his shoulder, lucky this season is getting shorter. At least we are up.

radio feed expected. Ever tuned into ABC Adelaide its the same both ways. be thankfull we have it..

Come on Ballinger and Hodge, get us this win!

Balls hits a BIG 3!

Damn - Cairns hit the front - 92-93. Come on 36ers!

cairns running away with it.

good time out by phil.

Jawai hits 2 - 92-95 to Cairns. Time out 36ers - good call!

It's proposterous that we consider the NBL live scores to be "working" even though we have to add up everyone's scores then subtract that from the total to come up with Hodge's score. Disgraceful, I've emailed NBL.com.au to register my disgust, I encourage others to do likewise.

good call 5 minutes to late

SIXERS BACK UP!

Wow - Hdge hits 2/2 foul shots and Cooper dunks it. IWho is this team playing in 36ers singlets?

Sixer 1 point up, with 5:00 to go.

Hodge again. Scores and fouled. Sixers 4 points up. Not sure about the time left

I think my eyes are playing tricks on me D cooper 3point made would love to see him add that to his game

comon sixerssssssss!!!!!

Ng scores, then Boodnikoff hits a 3. Hodge drives and dunks, has a bonus shot. 101-98.

I think about 2:00 to go??

Hodge 37 points!!

37 points for hodge!

NBL site reads 100-95 2.33 left. Correct????

2:03 to go.

36ers up by 5, Abney with 2 foul shots

Hodge - 39pts

Ballinger 34 I think

2:03 left

103(sixers) - 100 2 mins remain

1 min remains 4 points ahead.

Ng scores, has a bonus shot

36ers 4 pts up

less than a minute left

108 - 103

under minute to go

41 seconds left

36ers up by 3

36ers' ball

38 pts for Hodge!!!
33 for Ballinger
3 point game :S

3 point game... 36ers in front.

Darren Ng fouled with 31.6 seconds left

Ng to shoot 2

Got them both!

36ers up by 5 again

go Sixers!

Yes! Cattalini miss - Hodge gets the rebound. Shots for Hodge.

22 seconds left

Got one!

Sixers 6 up

Cooper rebounds the second and has shots.

We're going to win this!

SIXERS WIN!. yerrr

comon!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 CONSECUTIVE MISSED SHOTS.

bad...

Woohoo! 36ers win : 111-105

Way to play team!

shit yeah!!!!!!!!!

yeah, ballinger - hodge big to say the least

Go Sixers! What a win

Ballinger & Hodge, WOW.

Oh my god, Phil 4 PM

WONDERFUL!!!!! At Last!!!! YOu Beauty!!!!!!

SIXERS WIN! 111 - 105!!!

dont forget ng was huge for us too

Phil very nice coaching.

Hodge HUGE.

Ballinger BIG.

Ng played consistent.

Nice Allround.

CMON SIXERS!!!!!!!!!

YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brilliant!

well dreams come true
get on board for a very exciting ride
how big in the next game now - wow this is awesome

From the radio coverage

Hodge - 38 plus a lot of rebounds
Ballinger - 36
Ng - 24

98 out of 111 points

Reminds me of the North Melbourne Giants championship year when Tim Dillon, Scott Fisher (the "twin boulders") and David Graham used to score nearly all of their points in every game.

any decent box score

Great result by the 36ers .

3 players, 98 points :O

One can only imagine what may have happened had our import been changed earlier.
Despite his obvious defensive deficiencies, one has to give Darren Ng a great deal of credit for what he has achieved this year.
It is so good to have both imports going crazy out there on the same night too. What a pity we did not get to see this one!

Joshuapending, you will probably have to wait until Match Report is up on nbl.com.au.

That is where the true Box Score will be.

Unbelievable, we scored 111 points, and after our 2 imports and Ng, our other scorers were
Dench 6
Davidson 2
Mottram 2
Cooper 2

12 points from the other 7, (six excl Sutton) players.

The NBL Live box score is okay - you won;t find Hodge's numbers on there. You can get his points by adding up the players who do show in teh box and subtracting that result from the 11 total for the Sixers. I don't know about the other stat lines (rebounds, assists, fouls) for him though.

Otherwise, take WhoMe! advice and wait for the full box score to go up on nbl.com

OMG! I know Im still drunk but am I reading right?

Bloody awesome result!!!!!

Hodge possibly for POTW week even with the Melbourne loss?

anon source?

just wanna no his rebounds etc, the radio said a lot so keen to see the possibility on a triple double since he is generally around that mark when he plays good.

Hodge 39 and 10

Balls 36 and 10

MASSIVE.

http://www.nbl.com.au/boxscores.aspx?mid=7827

WOW great effort i say sign Hodge, Ballinger and Ng on 3 year contracts and build the club around them! they are all in awesome form and both Hodge and Ng are under 25 so have plenty of basketball left in them! I would be happy to see Hodge and Ballinger as our import tandem for the next few years, not too many better in my opinion!

also just noticed Hodge made a 3 pointer!!
If he develops a half decent jump shot to go along with his ability to get to the hoop, Watch out, he will be a big time scorer for sure! along with his decent all round game!

I hope everybody has hopped off the don't retain Hodge bandwagon

All sorts of kudos should be given to Phil and the coaching staff for recuiting Hodge - it's just such a shame that he wasn't brought in earlier. A decision that will probably cost the Sixers a spot in the finals.

It's challenging finding an import mid-season who can contribute immediately and Julius has a great combination of speed, length and athleticism which makes him very hard to stop in this league. Would have loved to see this game.

yea, i reckon if we keep him in the league for the next season or 2 he will be MVP callibre for sure!
Phil seems to do well with his fresh face imports, KB, Farley now Hodge, pity he didnt pick Hodge up to start with.
Good win tonight, heres hoping we can win our next couple and sneek into the playoffs!

Hodge used to play in the NBA, if he didnt develop a jump shot there or in junior ranks i doubt he will in Adelaide!

I think its that brace thing he wears when practicing, they make you set the ball too far infront of the body, so you cant get enough vertical extension, so the shot is too flat

yahooo,, well done team..and volde

Just got home, haven't been bothered reading through all the posts. Great effort by the team, 75 points out of our import duo is ridiculous! Doesn't look good for that horrible coach though, as it is very clear NOW if not earlier that this roster had the goods to make the playoffs.

Note, any player who can go for 39 in this league without a jump shot, obviously has some serious weapons in every other department to almost OVER COMPENSATE for his fault! Good to have a import to get behind and barrack for again without worrying where his next Turnover will come from! PLEEEEEEEEASE SIGN JULIUS HODGE for 08/09!!!!

Awesome stuff. Great effort by the big 3!

what a difference it makes when you keep the 5 players who are getting it done for us instead of subbing every two seconds

Anon #16955, hindsight is such a wonderful gift. Based on the last 2 weeks' performances, how confident were you that they would win this one before the game started?

Hodge, will get Player of the week (as long as Ebi doesn't go off again). Not bad for a new import with only a few games under his belt. He seems to have adapted quite well to the league.

Hodge last 6 games averaged: 26 ppg

Ballinger, was going to say he has been off lately
with 12,15,19 (still good numbers) but then hits a massive 36 and collects 10 rebounds.

Darren NG WITHOUT Maher hit...

20,24,30,20,24,24 = 23 ppg

Brad Davidson is in his best form of his career at 13 ppg

So Adelaide should be getting the wins, they can certainly get the points.

Next year if Hodge and Ballinger stays, who knows, maybe both of them can make the MVP 1st and 2nd?

Hodge is a TEAM PLAYER.....PERIOD! He has nothing left top prove in that area of his game.

Anon #169555, excuse me for showing little confidence but would I be right in saying that I saw last Saturday's game in Brisbane and you did not? That game had such a profound affect, that it is difficult to be confident. I am thrilled at last night's win but confidence will come when they string together 5 or 6 consecutive wins, and when the season ends with more wins than losses. Great game last night but it needs to continue. Not like the Sydney game here 2 weeks ago and then followed it 5 days later with the Perth rubbish. If I wasn't a supporter and passionate about the game and the team, I wouldn't be making these comments as I couldn't care less. The schedule has been really tough in the last 2 weeks and there has been some injuries, but when you have 2 players that can't control their tempers and end up with Tech fouls and ejection from the game, then they are not acting in the best interest of the team. Once again, a great team effort last night and hope it continues so we can still have a run at the playoffs.

Fox Sports News pronounciation...

Julius "Hedge" and Adam "Balalinga"

:S

Great result and huge efforts from Hodge, Ballinger and Ng. Wish we'd at least got to see this on Fox, if not at the Dome.