A Sixers win would also be a great help to the Crocs.

Go Sixers.

hahaha

First game I've gone to in years.

It's 1:30 right?

What's a good time to get there? (no suggestions of "after the game" please)

Looking forward to watching Jonny Flynn play. Yep, that's about it really...

If tigers win wont they be 3rd

should be a bumper crowd seeing they sold quite a few $10 tickets to some of the abl clubs.

cant see us winning, however pigs have flown before.

Haha "after the game". I see what you did there.... Brilliant.

After Friday night's game I'm expecting the Sixers to start fast and be quite physical.I'll be interested to see how the referees call the game early.

I'm also hoping for another standout game from Schenscher, he was playing well prior to his fall and seems to have lost confidence since his return.

Fingers crossed for a win.

Is it wrong that the only thing I've cared about all week is that Flynn doesn't get injured or get an NBA 10 day contract before today's game?

No i don't think it wrong that you feel that way. I think it's wrong that with 1 change we wouldn't be feeling that way.It's half an hour before i have to leave to go to the game and i really don't feel like wasting my sunday afternoon but i know i will just get in the car and go because of a slither of hope it will be different this time.

Good crowd for a Sunday

Up @ quarter time
Sixers looking good
Tigers 22 - 36ers 28

walker throws someone to the ground and gets the foul in his favour?
GENIUS!

And there's a nice glimpse of what DJ could be.

Anon's mad.

That's hands down the worst call I've ever seen.

Refs really aren't that bad, calling the fouls that should be called and the Tigers are being undisciplined and failing to adjust.

Will be tougher in the second half for the sixers with Scott and Flynn back on the floor.

can someone please answer:
How come the 36ers have that ''36ers.com'' sticker over their solar sponsor?

Oh dear, sixers lose the 3rd quarter by 15, all too familiar a scenario for this team. Offense completely stagnated in that 3rd quarter allowing the Tigers to score off of missed shots. Again, timeout and adjustements come far too late from Clarke

Because the Solar sponsor has not been paying their sponsorship money!

@NBL KINGS.....According to reports from the club, we are owed money by Unleash Solar and until that money is paid, their signage on the team shirts and at the Adelaide Arena has been removed. The clubs website is currently on most of the uniforms instead of the sponsor (though I did note about 3 or 4 on Friday that still had Unleash Solar on them, which is a pretty poor effort by the club IMO).

Uncle Phil.....thanks for the spoiler alert mate, Channel 10 is still in half time.

Anyone got a livetstats link. The retards at NBL dont have livestats anymore

Holden V8..., don't look at the thread mate if you don't want to be updated re the live score.

Heated words between Peach and one of the refs at the buzzer then!

@HoldenV8...

Watching a delayed telecast,
THEN logging onto a BASKETBALL forum,
THEN into the game thread of the game you are watching,
THEN expect no discussion about the score,
THEN call out someone for a spoiler,
IS the EPITOME of stupidity.

Fair enough Rat10 and apologies to Uncle Phil.

@Marcus Camby.....you of all people on here calling someone stupid? I needed a good laugh and you just gave me it LOL

@NBL_KINGS...

Unleash stopped paying because they don't ant to advertise to a 'fan'-base that boos their own club.

Can't blame them.

Highlight of the match was post match. Some guy with a scorpion tattoo giving a bit of curry to The Rat when he was collecting the game sheet. The Rat serving it back with a bit.

Loved the first half. Good offense even though shots werent dropping, good D, crowd into it, a villain. Nearly felt like the Sixers of old. Of course that all went pear shaped in the second half as usual.

Sixers are starting to find different ways to lose. It's almost expected now.
They went about 0 for 10 firing 3 pointers (some of Adam Gibson's were just bricks)in the 4th quarter. I know they were in chase mode but it made a bad situation worse.
Congrats to fans for showing up. Not much to cheer about.

Not even Bevo, Lemanis or Goorj could coach a team to a win shooting 3/19 from deep and 18/31 from FT.

Can't complain at the Refs.

They did their best to give 6'ers the win.

Not their fault Sixes refuse to hit FTs.

That Walker call was 50/50....both were hanging on.

Feel sorry for SC...no one will pass to him for a shot.

Gibbo's shooting has dropped off in the last few games.

some of Adelaide fans seem un reliable, when your teams playing bad, don't BOO them, cheer them on and help them play better

I thought the umpires actually did a good job. The Daly foul was the correct decision. I also thought it was the wrong decision until I saw the reply as you see Daly grab Walker first trying to stop him from the rebounding contest. Also the sixers getting a huge discrepancy of foul shots was due to the different styles of play with Scott and Flynn out.

A great first half by Johnson its a shame that for whatever reason he couldn't continue it in the second half.

Gibson really needs to start driving more, that is where he is at his most dangerous. That way he can get layups, get to the foul line or create for others.

Tigers played with two of their best players only playing half a game and still beat us by 13. Unfortunately, the teams confidence is shattered by the worst coaching duo the league will ever have.

I really don't see us winning another game this season.

Good crowd , some promotion vide Adelaide United both playing Melbourne . Might be more crowd than an Australian International one day cricket match at the MCG.
Early in the game - freethrows : ADL 7/16 . Mel 0/1
Ballinger shot well .
Flynn and Scott sat the 2nd and ADL won that quarter comfortably . From there , with Scott and Flynn back on court and an easy win . In the end , Flynn did what he liked with Cadee guarding him .

Thank you SOS for supplying money & therefore a 36ers for us to cringe at.

Now, everyone else involved over the past 3,4,5 years that has contributed to our collection of wooden spoons & Australia wide ridicule MUST go.
All of them get out or be kicked out. Please SOS do this one last act of 36er deliverance.
Coaches, managers, waterboys, players GTFO !!!!!

Woeful second half up by 11 at half time ,second half didn't play basketball at all ,Melbourne played well ,yet Adelaide arguing with referees too much.

Official crowd was 5,055......great effort considering our position right now.

To me it was lost at the foul line, you cant leave that many free points at the stripe and expect it not to bite you on the butt. Just there alone we would still be in the game, let alone the extra pressure it would have added throughout the game.

Whatever get said at half time do the opposite.

Since our losing streak started, in 14 games, we've won the first half of games by a combined total of 5 points and lost the second halves by a combined total of 82 points.
This is including the 3 matches where the game was already over at half time (down by double figures) and made it somewhat respectable after half time (but were never in any threat of winning). Take away those 3 game and we've won first halves by 43 points and lost second halves by 102 points.
These numbers are quite telling. I don't understand how a team can be so competitive for half a game and be so uncompetitive for the other half so consistently.

The crowd was boosted by the $10 ticket offer. I know that's sure as hell why I bought 2 tickets to this embarrassingly funny team of ours.

What a rabble that 2nd half was! Clarke should only be paid half of his contract this season, because he only seems to be able to coach for one half.

Thank goodness Ballinger, Goulding and to a lesser degree (thanks to fouls) Flynn and Scott were playing, they made it worth the $10 entry fee. Great to see Balls sticking it to us. He kept them in it in the first half.

DJ actually surprised me and played harder on D today. I thought Cadee started well on Flynn, and the full-court D to get the ball out of his hands worked pretty well. He was frustrated early.

@Jack Toft I'm glad I could supply some entertainment In the 2nd half. I definitely served up some spicy curry to the ginger cancer! Was just giving him a little advice on which employment sight to go on in a few months. Was pretty disgusted though when he came back and said that we''ll be lucky if anyone wants to play for THIS TOWN next year! WTF! This guy is a major reason THIS TOWN is in trouble in every aspect of both basketball and business at the moment. Bring on next year! I hope our core will stay. I won't name players but we know who they are.

Did anyone catch what was said / going on between Petrie and the ref at the end of the game. Looked pretty heated and Clarke went over to calm the ref down.

Saw Petrie had a few words to say to Mayberry,from 12th row ,can just read pet rise lips and looks like he said your biased Vaughan ,then Mayberry said that's enough and then Clarke intervened.

If Radford is saying that to our fans after a home loss then seriously, fuck the garden gnome off out of the club with a "never to return or be put to death" clause put in (sorry, just got through watching an episode of "Merlin" where someone was banished from Camelot under the same penalty lol).

His comments clearly show that he doesn't care about being here anymore, so why bother keeping him?

If fans are getting their season tickets revoked for being too "rowdy", then he should get his ass sacked for saying that to fans. Screw "Sack Marty" threads for now....I say we start a "Sack Rat" thread!

BG04 took it to Marcus Camby, good work.

Do you guys listen to yourselves?

An anonymous person on the internet said that Mark Radford said something, also called Hearsay and almost always dismissed in legal proceedings.

It must be true.

There mus be SFA to do in Adelaide on Sundays because people are just inventing / looking for reasons to vent and hate on something.

Not to mention BG04 was just being plain rude to a loyal servant of the club.

If you think you can do a better job BG04, by all means, please step up.

This year's outfit has found new ways to surprise us at every turn. Hopefully we get to see what most of these guys can do next year under better coaches, but still here in Adelaide.

Marcus the person said that on the 36ers facebook page too

It was said! My opinion deserved a reaction but not that reaction. I don't think I can do better. I'm not an armchair critic but I don't get paid to do it. I'm not alone here. We all see what's going on and we all deserve to have our opinions. All I KNOW is that the opinion of the majority will be a fact by the start of the next season and you can all defend the unemployed!

IMO this is the most disappointing season ever for the 36'ers.

Finally, I thought at the start of the season we had a team that could easily make the finals and that I would be keen to see a lot more than my normal 6 games a season (I have other weekend etc commitments and live in the country).

As it turns out I have not been motivated to see one game this season (other than every game on TV). I admire all those fans that have supported them.

Biggest let downs of the season for me are Schenscher (not good even before his injury), Gibson in recent times ( he could hardly hit the ring from outside even today) and Crosswell. Cadee needs help with his jumpshot, but shows some promise, Petri started the season well, but his finishing has deteriorated. Weigh is solid, but not a game winner.

Oh for the days when we had forwards who could dunk or hit threes and we had good shooting guards.

The "first five" have failed every time in the latter part of the game when often we have had a good lead at half or three quarter time.

Our 3 point and outside shooting has been well below ABL level, Weigh was the only person to hit 1 three in the last quarter when again a number of open shots were attempted. Maybe we need a specialist shooting coach.

We may as well use the best local players available (bench warmers) for the rest of the season to see who can step up and the fans can start to enthuse about for next season.

RW, After what you did for Jack the Sixers could pull you in for a sesh with them

Went to watch Jonny Flynn and a game almost broke out!

Mission accomplished.

Yes I am an armchair critic.
Yes I am sarcastic and make jokes at the 36ers expense.

But how the hell else can someone who is reasonably rational and sane react to the joke this season has become?

I think it would do more harm than good to be cheering for them at this point, patting them on the back and saying that they'll turn it around next week.

"Next week" should have happened two seasons ago, and voicing our displeasure is the only way the powers that be will get the message that it just isn't good enough.

The Adelaide basketball fanbase has been acknowledged as being about as educated as they come in Australia. And we know when the 36ers coaching staff and front office tries pissing on our boots and telling us that it's raining.

Jack Toft, (off subject, but gee they need some "shooting" help don't they)

I am intrigued. How do you know I had a brief shooting session with him in the back yard?

I only spent about 30 minutes with the other "Jack" just before his ABL breakout game against Forestville after which he was invited to train with the 6'ers.

He seems to be doing well in the US now however, but IMO would have potentially made a lot more money if he had persisted with Football.

That Seth Scott dunk was N.A.S.T.Y!

I have my spies RW

"Oh for the days when we had forwards who could dunk or hit threes and we had good shooting guards."

@Rhythm Willie: remember the game when Mark Davis took ex-NBA vet Acie Earl (supposedly dominant big man playing for Syd at the time) out to the 3 point like and skooled him?

Those sure were the days.

Beekayz, and add Cattalini, Brookes etc.

Cattalini would come out with an assistant way before warm ups, start shooting tons of close shots, also practising one handed's , releases etc before gradually moving away from the ring, he was a great 3pt shooter.

One Div 1 US coach has all his players start every training session with close to the ring one handers.

Funnily enough, when the 36ers were 5-3 this season Petrie was shooting 50% from long range, and since he has made 4/19.

If the defence actually had to guard Johnson (whose dropped for 38% to 25% this season) and Petrie on the three-point line the 36ers would be a completely different team.

Why did Marty play Christofacantplaybballforshitason, Its just a waste of a player. And why didn't Adelaide go to Johnson in the 3rd when they were getting beaten, they are a very strange team.