Sorry for all the typos damn I pad

Good read

Just another fan disappointed and frustrated. Join the club. I said it before and I'll say it again, by not sacking this coaching staff early has done more harm then good.

As a country person trying to convince my wife to maybe get season tickets next year, with the current product i have more hope of convincing her to buy me a Bugatti veyron. The gold plated variety. She won't even watch the game on tv anymore. I feel your pain Wayne. Your heart would have sank when your daughter said that.

See your point mr Bol.

For me the whole package was the issue

Do U think I should voice my frustration Monday morning ?

^ What he said; we may not have a club left thanks to the coaching staff and Admin's refusal to change anything. Very sad.

My hear did sink bucket man because I won't my
Daughter to love Bball as much as I do.

Sounds vindictive but I hope the sixers staff watched my daughter cry whilst I hugged her.

Want ... Shit I phone now

Anon, Wayne is involved in other areas of basketball and so reads Hoops mostly for those.

The typos are a result of autocorrects on iOS.

< also a victor resident, tired of getting home at 11.45pm or missing 6 hours with my family on Sundays, just isn't worth it to attend any more games this year, I'm glad I watched a few games at the start of the season when we where playing well.

Sorry auto correct and wine!

A non review?
You are probably right.

Just expressing an opinion.

Maybe this isn't the right forum?

Good job Wayne, I enjoyed the read. The only contrary thing Id say is that players cant play 40 minutes at a high intensity, that's been shown over and over in many different professional leagues.

As a general rule, if youre playing guys more than 80% of game time their effectiveness will drop.

@Anon

Were your girls the ones in the full cheerleader outfits?

If so we were in your section. My kids and my mates kids thought they were amazing!

I didn't think at least one foul each for Scott and Flynn were waranted.

To me the best indicator was the team mates. SOme of the fouls (Scott brushing DJ going to the hoop stickes in my mind) were so soft.

Where as other fouls, people were beaten black and blue and no call? Maybe I have been out of watching top line umpiring for too long and have lost my eye for what is and isnt a foul?

The umpiring was definitely a little off yesterday, they started fairly tough (actually quite harsh I thought) but then slackened off for the rest of the game

I rarely agree with Steeeve Carfino but on Friday night he was talking about the refs calling more fouls to clean up the game. This is contrary to what he normally says where he thinks the referees are too harsh and they should let the teams just play. I like his new thinking, if you watch Euroleague there is definitely a lot less ugly body contact that seems to be only increasing in our league

Maybe the NBL should change the rules so no one can win in Adelaide except the 36ers. Would keep alot of people happy on these forums.

Can't comment on the face painting, but agree with the subbing/coaching comments, though I'm beginning to think the real issue is the mix of players; possibly off the court as well as on it. In other words I wonder what the change-room dynamics. Suspect they reflect what we see on court - or maybe vice versa.

As for players ... in general terms we have bigs & guards, with no pure shooter & no-one capable of generating his own shots off the floor ... which takes us right back to coaches & recruiting.

As for the refereeing, while I gree the officials were far from perfect [that charging foul on Flynn was a joke], I thought they tried really had to turn a wrestling or kick-boxing bout into a game of basketball, and in general did a half-decent job. Interesting that in the third term at least you could see players [at times] making a conscious effort to keep their hands off players, and we actually saw two or three good penetrations to the basket as a result.

Love to see a lot more of it.

"I thought they tried really had to turn a wrestling or kick-boxing bout into a game of basketball"

I agree. They made some bloopers but I thought they had the courage to call a lot of fouls where some lesser refs decide 'bugger it, Ill let it all go'.

i seriously dont believe the reffing in the first half was bad. It was good, bot because I am one yed, but Melbourne decided to bully their way around.

Just at the half, the foul count was 19-9 against Melbourne. Thats why there was no call on DJ under the ring, yet goes down the other end, and yep... instant foul against us.

Otherwise there would have been a please explain.
Another sureity that there needs to be an investigation by the ACC on refs and the nbl also in general.

Wouldn't it be great if Wayne sent a letter to the 36ers and explaining his grievances and him and his family went to another game and got treated much better and got some face painting and having his daughter catch the basketball bug and then he writes on here saying how great it was...

But of course you live in a town with an outgoing board, an outgoing coach and guaranteed player personal changes at season end (damn that sounds like Perth Glory) and sadly I can't see anyone taking responsibility and wanting to do something about it.

City based teams should make it more beneficial for country folk that come into town to watch a game, but not sure what they can do.

On another subject I think it would be great during all-star weekend to get all the courtside announcers, mascots amongst other club officials/representatives from around the league together so they can learn from each other and pass on ideas that may improve the quality of the entertainment that we pay for when seeing a game (hopefully less music). I know individuality is great but if it helps then it could be good for the league in its fight against other sport/entertainment.

Good luck with everything Wayne

I'm a Perth Wildcats member and we have every age demographic covered there so I don't want to alienate any fan as at the end of the day we have a league of 8 and I don't want that decreasing for any reason