Adelaide should win this one though I wish for an upset. Sixers are too good at home (thought same about Perth!) but this has potential to be a danger game with the sixers bench a bit thin. Sixers by 6.

No disrespect to Schenscher (well, just a little bit), as a Cairns fan, I'm happy to see more of him and less of BJ. When Adl played in Cairns BJ completely monstered them, but for some reason he only played about 10 minutes (maybe he lacks a certain amount of match fitness). Adl should have exploited that.

Cairns having 4 of their last 7 at home isn't necessarily a good thing. This season I think they've been playing better on the road.

I'm not sure how many taipans games you've seen this year Anon but Burston has been fantastic and probably the most consistent Taipan all season.

DJ with 21 points at half time (23 according to NBL.tv). If he could only defend just as well.....

Holden, I think DJ's defense is much better under Wright. Ease up mate and watch him a bit closer and you might be surprised he's pretty solid overall now...

@ cavolo.....I agree his D is much better under Joey Wright. But unfortunately it's still his main weakness.

Nice block in the 4th though.

Score?

Ervin with a buzzer beater for the win!

Don't ya just love the wonderful job Perform do with the NBL stats.....

So 'weak' is quantifiable now?

Guys, more than four teams have swept the doomsday double. But only four have ever done it in consecutive nights.

Live Twitter updates were piss poor considering the lack of live stats and the excitement of the game. We can blame that on Perform too if we like?

For those wanting to know about the Doomsday Double record, see the Twitter feed for @NBLfacts. I believe it's Mark Slocombe running that account.

The NBL stats for the game are now up....

"@NBLfacts. I believe it's Mark Slocombe running that account."

Only if Slocombe's a woman: https://twitter.com/NBLfacts/status/380966224814813184

legggggggo taipans ! killem Ruscoe

Slocombe could have a sex change? Markina...not outside the realms of possibility.

I loved the way Ervin played tonight, i reckon everything was as per coaches instructions.

Most disappointing for me though was the free throws, of which Ervin was also a culprit. Free throws are just technique and muscle memory.

Sasha makes a mockery of Shaq's excuses from the free throw line. oldie but a goodie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFhS5F7ubJs

Pretty unusual for both teams to shoot above 50%
and both shot reasonable 3 ball %
and turnovers < 10 excellent
but that foul shooting percentage... 47% just stinks

Frye possibly the worst free throw shooter "pound for pound" of any pro baller I have ever seen.

Andris Biedrins is the only other guy I can think of in that discussion.

Creek needs to take more of Frye's minutes. In fact, he should start IMO.

Crowd was nice and loud tonight and I think the fans in general, are pleased that Sixers are winning these close games. Would have thrown the game away in the last couple of years.

It was an extremely entertaining game tonight. Both teams played very well and Cairns hit numerous tough shots to stay in the game down the stretch. The key was that we never allowed them to get infront on the scorboard at any stage in the last quarter.

The reason the sixers win a lot of close games though is the ability of our offense to regularly get quality shots when needed. This wasn't the case last year as with many of the same players, the offense was often stagnant when the game got tight and we went for long periods being unable to score. A lot of credit has to go to Joey for this, he has got the sixers playing exceptionally well on the offensive end and is the main reason we are second on the ladder but also helps puts bums on seats as it is pretty to watch.

Probably the best game I have ever seen DJ play also, he is the best offensive big man in the league, even though he does have some work to do on defence.

The one dissapointing thing about the game night for me was the music was far too loud. Numerouse people in the area I sit were reiterating this also, and I would argue that the sound level of the music was dangerously high? The atmosphere was good enough in the stadium without the music being blasted like it was.

Officially, the average pain threshold for humans is 110 decibels for any length of exposure.

But yeah to recap, the Twitter updates were the main thing for me tonight with live stats down and not having a computer on me to stream the game. Pain in the ass.

Johnson with 33 is despicable. Should not happen.

Just watched the game on replay and by god you're wrong, anon. Look at the P&R defense on Johnson and the way we fronted him with lots of space between him and the basket. Johnson did not have to work much for his share at all.

And yes, it is an indictment on the defense when a guy torches you for 33 points, including 23... yes 23 in the first half! That simply should not happen. Is Fearne not a supposed 'defensive mastermind'? Adjustments should've been made.

fstos.....did you ever see Diamon Simpson shoot free throws? Both he and Frye are good players, but if I had to bet on either to sink a free throw to save my life.....I'd be a dead man.

While DJ was great on one end he was equally as bad at the other. Typical DJ, paying no attention to the scouting report and not carrying a hand to shooters on the switch, Cairns exploited him on every switch in the first half.

And in the 4th, everytime we play Cairns they always love running P and R to get DJ on Wilson, used to happen when Marty coached and still happens now.

DJ does have the mobility to make a better go of this, he just doesn't have the desire.

It must have something to do with a 36ers uniform.

When Diamon Simpson played here he shot 48.1% FT's.

Jarrid Frye is shooting 28.2%.

I stand corrected. Frye sucks at the FT line this year. Simpson was better in that regard. But both hit less than they missed.

It is Slocombe.

How does everyone know it's Slocombe? I'd not heard anything about the account's ownership (other than the 'she' tweet, which makes no sense) prior to this discussion.

Have just watched a video posted on the 36ers Facebook page of the final scoring play and DJ's effort shouldn't go unnoticed.

DJ was under the basket being guarded by Alex Loughton while Cam Gliddon was on Ervin. DJ moved to the top of the key to set a screen and effectively forced a change with Gliddon then on him and giving Ervin a mismatch he exploited with Loughton.

Not a bad effort by both players really. It effectively won us the game.

About 50% of 36ers games livestats crashed this season the worst it's ever been.
Creek played more minutes than Frye.
Creek played more minutes than S.Weigh... if nbl boxscore is correct.....
But I'm afraid Frye haters will not be in charge of the 36ers destiny, not even them.

Went to the game and had a great night. I thought the 6ers were pretty bad defensively and that is the area that they need to tighten up come play off time. Especially defending the 3 point line.

DJ was great but as already mentioned he scored alot on lob plays as Cairns fronted him for most of the night. 6ers took great advantage of that and fed him nicely.

I couldn't understand Joey's sub rotations. He had guys coming off only after a couple of minutes but I'm sure he knows what he is doing. Much better than the last few years!

A lot of his lobs early also came from exploiting how Cairns defend the ball screen, was very clever coaching.

How come Weigh's minutes were down so much? Was he injured? I didn't see the game but his stats seemed efficient enough.

Weigh got some early fouls. Sitting on 4 at the end of the game. He game out and first shot went in, then got a couple of quick fouls, had a break then next time out fouling Creeky I think.

Actually didn't look too bad. I can understand why some commentators don't need viagra when they are talking about him.

He has been excellent the past month or so. Good to see.