Half way through the second and Hawks lead by 10 (35-25). Wollongong shooting 50% from both inside and outside, Adelaide shooting................ Hawks are also easily leading the rebounding but being reckless with the ball.

Balls has 6 rebounds and 9 points after picking up 2 very quick fouls and sitting most of the 1st quarter.

As near as I can tell, we went 7 minutes without a made field goal in the 2nd - 6:59 to 1:00. That's when the Hawks built a lead. Have come back a bit in the last minute or so.

Oops - 6 minutes...

Half time and Hawks lead 41-31 (19-17). Sixers offense disappears for virtually half the second quarter and were only outscored by 1 bucket!

Aw Man!

The sooner this season is over the better

Even the blxxxdy NBL radio isn't working, probably a blessing in disguise

Sixers only lost to the Hawks by 27. (87-60)

Why did they only take 9 players when they have 2 games in two days.
Clearly they were not interested in winning, just get the season over.

So having a look at the stats it would appear to me that the Sixers let the Hawks dominate them on the boards and didn't box out or close out on the Wollongong players.

Ok I'm hoping the boys simply held back for tomorrow's game.

Yeah no radio so i checked out. Had a look at the score and i'm not surprised. Its sad that as a long time fan my care factor its pretty dead at the moment, and it seems i'm not alone.

Don't be harsh it is a three year plan. How pathetic

The 36ers should have had the advantage of facing a Wollongong team backing up from a tough win over the Gold Coast last night but it seems that they played their usual away game. Not looking forward to tomorrow night. I'm hoping we can win but they need to improve significantly if they want to avoid 2 wooden spoons in a row. Especially to a team that lost some 14 games in a row this season.....

I'm a big fan of DJ but 1/14 from the field, 3/6 at the charity line, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 turnovers in almost 22 minutes game time is pretty bad, even for the 36ers in the last 2 seasons.

Only 9 players played doesn't mean they only took 9 players on this weekends road trip. There may well have been a player or two that Clarke didn't use. Wouldn't be the first time its happened.

Wow, wow, wow and most of you morons want to get rid of Ballinger!

Hmmm...so Wollongong are playing for their playoff spot. They have a chance of sneaking into top 2 if they kept winning and Townsville faltered. Even if that wasn't there, they have 3rd place to play for - facing Townsville a much tastyier propositino than NZ first week of finals. And that's on top of needing to keep winning just to be sure of making the finals.

Stack that against what teh 36ers had to play for....okay, I can see how motivation might be a problem.

From previous posts a few people made the road trip this weekend. I'd love to hear what the game was like to watch, folks?

peter i think your forgetting about the wildcats

think rose summed it up pretty nice, non event.

my issue with Ballinger on this team is that he does not get enough looks in the post early in the offence. Worst case he kicks it out, most times he is going to get a decent look. To me his issues stem from playing out of position and the offence using a lot of high screens getting our bigs up near the foul line. Just get a legit center and half our issues go away.

Balls should be cut... Balls has no Balls... Balls is a liability...rant rant rant! Balls is the only player keeping you lot from looking utterly discraceful. What a joke. On'ya Ballinger.

Ballinger would definitely be the first player picked.
We need a legitimate centre so he can play in his proper decision.
Unfortunately, we will probably pick more guards, as we have several times this year

Gotta be the worst coaching debut ever. And this idiot gets called up to the Boomers?? Clarke is a moron & the 3 year plan will bring no success & empty stadiums. Sack him now...

Nope a 27 point loss is disgraceful idiot! Balls is no good at his role just like nonone else is any good at their roles on this team either. Start again, no one on tho team I have any interest in cheering. Sad times.

You're right Jacob. Maybe that's the secret of their success - slipping of people's radar! :)

Great job guys.......don't worry, 3 years to get it right. Bloody shame most of you wont be there after this year! Fantastic as always Marty.......shame you are there after this year!

But being the crazy fool that I am, I'll still get my two season tickets next year. Can't get any worse than bottom - but then again, if another team comes into the league, we could make it to 10th and go for the 3peat of the bomb shelter!

Guards be damned, this team needs height (and the scoring/defensive/rebounding) skills to go with it. A running offense isn't much good if the defensive end suffers because we get killed on the boards through a lack of a strong, TALL centre and good a couple more rebounding forwards who can step up and play strongly time after time when the starters are getting a rest.

DJ is a tall centre (6'11), but right now he's not ready to be a regular starter. He needs someone like Luke Schenscher or even Matty Burston to learn from. Until then, we either start games with an inexperienced centre or an out of position power forward playing the 5 spot.

Was at the game tonight. The 36ers were putting in an effort the entire game (I know you can't tell from the scoreline) but what they lacked most was shooters. Losing Ng, Herbert and DeVries has really hurt. Ballinger was the only one capable of making a shot and played a quality game but without much support. Bruce was getting looks and taking shots but missing. Shannon was OK. Johnson worked hard but had no luck with the refs - I was surprised at his FG numbers as he didn't seem to play an awful game or anything. It was a pretty intense game and the refs were letting a lot go, especially within the arc.

The Hawks' score cube only shows fouls, so couldn't easily tell who had scored what.

But no one this season has consistently looked a threat from long range and that was the biggest problem in this game. They worked to isolate Ballinger a lot and had more luck than the Cairns game.

The 36ers did take 10 players as Daly was there, but didn't suit up - not sure why. Reasonable number of 36ers supporters went over for the game and were acknowledged by the Hawks and fans.

Hopefully heading up for the Kings-36ers game this evening.

lets not lose the plot -1 game where a player goes 1 of 14 -so what -shit happens as far as shots going down. What has been missing is running a decent offence and ball movement so that opposition has to work on D not just hold their spots while sixers bounce the ball in one place and then try and drive without the floor spread or D at least broken up.

So lets contain ridiculous comments-of which there may well be a few since most of you -like myself, never saw the game. I don't care whether sixers lose remaining games if they use the opportunity to run different things and use players in a way which clarifies future decisions about the team.

Some of the team are playing for their futures and a bad score-line may reflect things other than lack of effort.

Please moderate your predictable doom and gloom and player observations based on no observations.

I am looking forward to watching today's game. especially considering Kings were crap and with limited adjustment and moderate imports they have turned their season around- although of course they are still bottom.

BTW I think 1 D Johnson is probably due for a good shooting game ..... good luck to him.

I agree with you Tom

Don't worry guys, Marty Clarke has it under control, its all part of his plans, its working beautifully! As a Bombers fan, it reminds me of Matthew Knights last year. With financial troubles, losing seasons, will the team be around for much longer? I hope so. Hope we can turn it round against the Kings, I hate to say it but I will not be holding my breath.

+/- for this game. Interesting to see that despite his poor shooting, Daniel Johnson was on for most of the key positive runs from Adelaide. (Excuse quick bias: Forman +36 in about 20 minutes on court.)

Wollongong

Larry Davidson (36)
Glen Saville (36)
Oscar Forman (36)
Gary Ervin (33)
Mat Campbell (18)
Rhys Martin (3)
Zac Delaney (0)
David Gruber (-2)
Tim Behrendorff (-6)
Tim Coenraad (-9)
Tyson Demos (-10)

Adelaide

Mitchell Creek (4)
Daniel Johnson (1)
Jeff Dowdell (-9)
Aaron Bruce (-10)
Rhys Carter (-14)
Jacob Holmes (-22)
Adam Ballinger (-24)
Eddie Shannon (-30)
Brad Hill (-31)

Actually, to be 1-14 from the field, and still have a plus/minus while on court in the positive, in a blow out loss, is a truly amazing effort. Just imagine if DJ could hit his shots as well!