Battle of the booty's tonight. Surely Adelaide can take this one out. Then again they are the hardest team to bet on, hoping for a 10 point win.

Sixers would be favourites for sure, but hoping for a change in our luck tonight.

Well I learned that the vessel used to contain molten steel is called a ladle, so thanks, Jack :)

I don't trust either of these teams when it comes to tipping, but Adelaide really ought to get the job done.

Heck of a start by Sydney

Adelaide look terrible. Still waiting for Ebi Ere to do anything, anything at all.

Even Ere's flops are terrible

He is a joke, and Joey has taken this far base for a ride bringing in his buddy who can't do much on the court any more. This team is lacking an extra scorer and he is taking up the spot.

Loving Al Harrington's mindset today. Very few guys who can defend him one-on-one in the post.

Adelaide just gave up 39 in a 10minute quarter. Joey needs to look at what they are trying to achieve on defense. Thats just unacceptable if you have playoffs in mind. Good to see Harrington starting to make some things happen.

I'm not minding Homicides commentary this game. He seems to be getting better and is not as annoying. Much prefer Rucker though.

Homicide is getting better each game.

Is it home time yet?

Childress loving this! Man the 36ers kind of deserve this for such lazy import recruiting. Seems every year things have to get really bad before the right changes happen.

lol @ Homicide 'get that sh.... get that outta here!'

Petrie didn't get the memo.
He's actually trying.

Joey has no answers at all for this. They didn't look great against Cairns, and now they just stink.

This is some seriously insipid "defence" being played by Adelaide

Harrington's so fat, he needs 4 sweepers to mop up his sweat.

Luuuc they are so passive. Randle is the only positive about this team, real nice to watch.

Hendo8888 and Ebi is so fat he just cant play basketball anymore haha

I'm not complaining. This is entertaining stuff.

45 is a good halftime score.

Usually.

Yep, I'd rather fat and scoring 12 and 8, than fat and have 0 and 2.

Probably the most entertaining first half I've seen this season as far as passing goes.

Ere should have never been signed we definitely need a scorer. If you looked at his recent euro numbers you can see where Joey was going though. He can't buy a basket. Hopefully he gets it going or he won't last.

LOL... nice little DJ rant by Homicide

Sixers Fan he has ample time to find his shot, it isnt happening and when the team starts to struggle it really gets exposed more so. He simply isnt a go to option for the 36ers when they need a bucket, so what the fuck is here for at this point! Im just about past boiling point. Bring in a guy who can help win games.

Sixers Fan he has ample time to find his shot, it isnt happening and when the team starts to struggle it really gets exposed more so. He simply isnt a go to option for the 36ers when they need a bucket, so what the fuck is here for at this point! Im just about past boiling point. Bring in a guy who can help win games.

Homicide's commentary is seriously growing on me!

'We got an ant, we got a mosquito, and they both can fly!'

Did Homicide just refer to a player as an Ape ? Racist hehe :P

Homicide is def keen on the Antman nickname.... Ebi is slugman i guess.

Ebi Ere is the armadillo... low and slow.

Well that's the Sixers season done. Putrid.

Game on. This is great stuff

Kings have stopped going inside to Harrington... the press is really throwing them off. That travel by Garlepp was tragic.

Wow, the refs are giving everything to Adl right now.

Bad travel call, worse 3 second call. Now a 3 point play off very little.

Uhhh no call on Randle there for yanking Cadee back on the inbound?

Refs are reacting to the crowd.

WOW Julian just fouled out... not smart! Refs being sucked in to the emotion of this. God I love Basketballl!

Some serious home cooking here for Adl.

Plus some serious bad O by Sydney

Hit your FT's Sydney

No excuse for all these missed FTs, especially the amount of times we've missed both attempts.

I think the Kings put money on an Adelaide at half time odds.

Thats an extremely soft call on Harrington there.

Especially after "letting them play" so much at the other end.

Refs really shat the bed in the 4th Q, but Kings shot themselves in the foot with all those missed FTs.

Haha my reverse psychology worked!!!

Great comeback and fight from Adl.

Horrible execution, poise and FT shooting from Sydney.

Terrible last quarter by the 3 refs. That was completely one-sided and basically cost Sydney a win.

Credit to the home crowd. They were awesome, and it definitely helped.

Not sure I blame Cotter for this one, he wasn't at the line missing FTs. I thought the refereeing was absolutely shithouse in the 4th Q, but if we make our FTs (or even half of them in that Q), we win.

The travel and 3 seconds calls weren't as bad as the Randle steal. The ref is shooting 'don't hold him Randle', the ball gets inbounded, Cadee is held back, Randle steals it, no call.

Great spectacle and great result BUT Adelaide have some serious issues to deal with. Randle can only carry them so far. As for Sydney, just shaking me head, hard game to swallow.

Games like that is why I love sport.

Hendo8888 I'm totally with you man, even if that was any other 2 NBL teams, just a great sports event!

As a Kings fan, I'm just floored. I think mid-way through the 3rd I had a real bad feeling about how things were going, as soon as we stopped hitting Harrington at the FT line in our halfcourt offense.

That's pretty much our season done, bar a hot streak combined with a few teams ahead of us losing half their starters to injury.

I feel for the Kings in a way, the way they played for so much of that game was so much fun to watch. Thats the way i felt they were going to go about it all season, wouldve been crushing for their fan base... and I'm not trying to be a smartass, i feel that sort of pain. Injuries have hurt this team enough before a collapse like that.

I think the suckiest thing is that there's been a noticeable improvement in every area this season for the Kings EXCEPT for on the court. The atmosphere at the games has been a big step up, and people are actually talking about basketball in Sydney. But the move to Homebush combined with the lack of results, I got real concerns about how this season is going to impact the Kings going forward.

Only Sydney can make history. If a team can not handle a full court press, they do not belong in this league.

Did anyone else see Sideshow Bob going off at the refs after the game?

Childress was given it to the refs from the Harrington nudge foul onwards.

Yeah jack I did, guess the overall frustration of it has put him to boiling point. Some pretty emotional based calls went Adelaide's way i must say. But even after all that, surely after being out by 24, the Kings dont lose that one.

Sydney are done. Concerning for them off the court going into Homebush. If they can't get things right with Childress they won't ever. Don't know if sacking Cotter is the answer as who replaces him that will clearly make a difference?

For those that didn't see it, after the game Childress caught up to the umpires at half way going crazy at them and continued it all the way into the players race. He really should be suspended for that but being the NBL it won't happen.

Adelaide fans, you can thank the 36ers import for the massive 3 Ball In the corner which tied the game at 95-95
He is clutch, no doubt

The umpiring was shocking all game for both teams. It was what we should all expect with Aylen out there.

Pathetic 3 quarters for the Sixers only to steal it in the last quarter with Sydney being complacent and then being over run.

I have been very critical about Petrie but it was a bloody good effort by him tonight. He might have got a bit tired in that last quarter so we can excuse him for that.

Great game by Randle. I still want to see him play better defense.

Gibson started the second half on the bench and rightly so. In the 4th we looked better when he wasn't out there.

DJ finally had a bad game.

Some sloppy play by creek in the first half but did some important things in the last quarter.

Hopefully the Sixers can pull their head in and come out motivated next game instead of just expecting everyone else to do something.

Your right Rag, was a huge 3, and Ebi was more over due than 9 and had month pregnancy! Cloth wouldve been if he had backed it up and made the next one that wouldve put the 36ers up 2. Think ill much rather than the import who delivered 33 and was going hard even when we were struggling for the first 3 quarters.

Having just watched the last qtr back again these are my observations.
There was only one actually bad call - the 3sec on Khazzouh. The refs apart from that actually did a pretty good job. The fouls called were there.
Sydney lost because of an inability to hit free throws. Plain and simple. Missed free throws is bad basketball.
As good as Randle was, Ebi Ere was the most influential player in the last qtr. Big shots, stops and rebounds. He was absolutely huge in the last term
The Sixers were better without Gibbo on the floor.

@ snooch, respectfully disagree. The non-calls were as bad as the actual calls. Tell me that Randle's steal on the inbound pass to Cadee wasn't a foul, considering the ref had just warned Randle about exactly what he then went and did to get the steal - grab Cadee and then beat him to the spot. Tell me that the call on Harrington at the end was consistent with what was happening on the other end.

Again, Kings should have won regardless by making even half of their clutch FTs and have no one to blame but themselves for that, but the fact remains that without the refs calling the game the way they did, Adelaide don't win this game.

Go back and watch it again. It was a no-call on the inbounds and a foul on Harrington. The refs were right on those calls/non calls imo.

Sorry Angus those two plays may have been fouls but Kazzough's handfull of Petrie's singlet and Cadee's charge on Petrie were also let go. Harrington's happy feet were not called all night either.

I lost a bit of respect for Childers both during and post fourth quarter.

I was also hoping to see that Kobe24 and Hendo88 would be at the game to see the one% that Eri does off the ball and within the offence, in the hope that they could offer an "informed" opinion, but unfortunately not>

Didn't see the singlet grab, but to quote Goulding on the Cadee-Petrie 'charge': "Lol if peach ever says anything to me about flopping after that collision with Cadee I'll laugh."

I got no problems with Childress getting fired up at the refs. Suspend him, fine him, I don't care. Great to see an import so passionate.

Sorry Angus but quoting Goulding means very little. Tbh I don't even remember that call.
I do remember Cadee tunneling DJ in the first qtr that went uncalled though.
The Kings didn't execute when needed and the Sixers did. That was where the game was won and lost.

Flopsy Goulding may no the right way to fall, but the way Cadee was limping after the hit suggested that there was no flopping as far as Petrie was concernrd.

Beattie & Durant

Re Ebbi, I agree he is not top tier import however as a second tier import at least he had some size to play half court D on Harrington & also at least he is a money player who is wiling to use his experience & shoot the ball in the clutch
From the free throws or 3 ball or taking it hard
He provides plenty

LOL Sydney, just LOL

Cadee was a bit ginger a few times.

AngusH so what if it was a foul on Randle, Sixers lost the ball straight away and committed a foul. Garlepp could have been called a blocking foul at 5 minutes left in 4th or Harrington's obvious foul in the back of DJ at 4:29 would have given Sixers 2 shots. Harrington's foul on Randle was a clear foul

Fairness to Cadee he has had a smashed pelvis and multiple operations and rehabilitation. I think we can excuse him when he appears strained after a lateral knock. Wouldn't take much to knock anyones hips and lower back out and he has a lot more to contend with.

Reffing was appalling all over against and for both teams. Completely inconsistent so hard to call if it led to the win or loss, it was just what it was.

"KingJames didnt your lovechild Aylen call that foul Harrington on Randle??? Clearly it must have been wrong then!!"

Nah he gets them right every so often, a bit like Sydney's foul shooting tonight

"Ebi Ere was the most influential player in the last qtr. Big shots, stops and rebounds. He was absolutely huge in the last term "

I have been saying Ebi will come good when given time, I am happy he is proving me correct.

I've said it all year, and it continues to be true every single game. Ere is a quality import... For one quarter of each game. It's the other 3 that is the problem.
Sure, he's not going to go out and score 10 points every quarter, but up until 3 quarter time he had 2 rebounds and 0 points. That's not an anomaly, that's what he does every game without fail.
If I could be bothered, I'd go and check the game by game stats of 'good quarter' vs 'other 3', I'd be surprised if 75% of his positive stats didn't come from those good quarters. That's just not good enough. If I went to work at my 9-5 job and only put in effort/achieved results between 1pm and 3pm, and did nothing at all for the other 6 hours, it wouldn't matter how much I achieved in those 2 hours, I would get fired.
I'm more than capable of giving an informed opinion, and that informed opinion is that Ere is a liability for 75% of every single game. His good quarter is as good as anyone else's in the league, his bad 3 are as bad too.

Hendo8888 im with you, he was obviously atrocious for 3 quarters and finally earned his spot for 10 minutes. Camby is a troll, but not sure what Rag is on, perhaps same guy... but for 3 quarters we needed another guy to step up, and he was MIA, ill be happy to swap him from a 4 quarter performer. believe it or not they do exist!

Sydney were amazing for the first 2 quarters, especially the first. Credit to Adelaide for not dropping their heads and fighting back.

Few times that lead could've really blown out to 25 plus, which mentally screws you but they hovered around and the Kings after that monster 39 1st just started to tighten ever so slightly. What's amazing is in the 40 minute format there is usually so much less time to make up big lead margins, so this was great to see.

There was home cooking in the second half, no doubt about it, but that's basketball sometimes, especially when you have a big and loud crowd.

I think that is as entertaining a game as I've ever watched, just remarkable stuff all around. Sydney were unstoppable early, Adelaide dogged in dragging it back, Petrie making up for a couple of poor performances with an absolute gem.

Not sure what Ebi is paid but his performances in the clutch have paid it back. Kobe24 a player who does whats required in the 4th is such a valuable resource and shows why he is here. Ebi may not be hitting shots early, but his experience and clutch performances have been very important in us winning the games we have. Do you want to gamble that for a player who may be able to score during the game but will be questionable when it really matters? Ebi has delivered when it really matters. How much is that worth?
Great spectacle for the league, need to get this out there and get the 8000 crowds back.
In 1st qtr Sydney could probably have turned their backs to rim and still got it in. Seemed unstoppable, but Sixers kept plugging away. All stepped up. Creek hustle and intensity got us a lot of momentum in last. Old man Petrie superb all game. When you have momentum you get the calls. Refs are human... aren't they.Kings failed to handle the heat when it mattered. missed free thows. Khazzough fouling out. He just dropped his shoulder into DJ right in front of ref.

Delivered in the clutch? What scored 6 points in the 4th last night and made some free throws the other week against cairns. Hasn't done much else throughout the season, rubbish pick up.

He has been consistently ordinary throughout the season. Will have to produce quite a bit more throughout a full game for more than the odd game to convince me.

No credit where it's due Kobe, Ebi was clutch in the last qtr last night. Not just scoring but coming up with rebounds and getting stops. But that doesn't mean he's proving camby right - he was terrible for the rest of the game and the Sixers need a more all-round consistent performer out of their second import spot.

I also disagree with the notion that there was "no doubt about" home cooking with the refs. I've watched the last qtr 3 times now and am just not seeing it. As I said, the only blatantly wrong call was the 3sec violation on Khazzouh. Sydney missed 8 free throws in the last qtr alone - maybe Childress and others should be yelling about that.

Kobe24, thank God that your not the one that needs to be convinced. Your vendetta has become tiresome and any comment irrelevant.

Hey it is what it is. If he plays like he did in the 4th every game every quarter then he more than valuable. Otherwise, i jujst think people have short memories and low expectations for finals. Your import has 2 points in a blowout for 3 quarters and because he has set such a low standard for himself people are happy with one quarter. Lets not forget it was Randle who put this team on his back and said enough if enough. But ill end it there, can only hope its a sign of things to come...

"The refs think they're rock stars though, talking trash to Gibbo telling him this isn't the PlayStation haha"

So what do the players and coaches think they are. They've been abusing the refs and their calls all game, every game, all season, every season for years. Maybe the refs are just enjoying having been given licence to talk back.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander and it does add entertainment value and that's what the league is about this season.

I'm not happy with one qtr only Kobe, but I'll give him credit for it - he was a big reason Adl pulled that win out.

Snooch im with you he was great in the 4th that 3 was huge. Im just not ready to go ahead and say he is the long term help the team needs to win playoff games.

Josh Childress was reported for his post match behaviour towards the game officials!!!!

It was a good quarter by Ebi. 8 points is only 2 under his season average for a whole game, after all. And shooting 40% for the game is better than his 33% average, too. But other players were more important in the last quarter, particularly the other import. If only we had two imports that good, maybe we wouldn't need to make a record comeback.

But hey, to be fair to Ebi, he's improving. He's gone from making four free throws to justify his import spot to playing a whole quarter. Maybe we'll see an entire half out of him before the season's over?

Yep Randle was the force behind the comeback for sure, but Ebi was very influential in that last quarter at both ends of the floor.
But I agree with others, one quarter a game isn't enough from your import. The team needs more to be a legit playoff threat.
The other factor is Gibbo - missing again to the point the team looked better in the last qtr without him on the floor. He's supposed to be one of this team's leaders too but he's only played 2 good games this year. They need more out of him regularly.

Glad to know I'm not the only one being harsh on the Ebi Ere situation. I think people get confused on these forums between logical negativity and hating for the sake of hating. Its not a vendetta, just as a season ticket holder, I've seen may imports come and go and some that simply shouldn't have been here to start with...

Re Gibbo being MIA - After the match, Joey said Gibbo is still struggling to get over his preseason injury. Joey wants more from him and I'm sure he'll get it once Gibbo's back to full fitness. Joey also praised Sobey for the energy he brought into the game and Ebi for his sheer effort and hassling in the 4th. He also reckons Randle will get a 40 point game this season!

Randle was brilliant when talking after the game - he said all the right things and is 110% certain he's going for the championship. He also said how he loves being a part of this team - more than any other he's played for - and he intends to "stick around for a while" - Great news!!

Id love to have Randle back again next season and more! Gibson is probably also getting used to not having the ball in his hands to make the plays as much now Randle is running the show.

A import gets 10 points and and many praise him and of course Joey again mentioned him in his press . Wow.
He had a ok good qtr which supposed to do in every game.
He still overweight and over the hill,
And anyone things we are going to win finals with him in a league that now has quality imports are kidding themselves

I'd be more inclined to believe the injury thing with Gibbo if it wasn't just a constant in his game over a long period of time. He played 2 cracking games when Randle first got here and has disappeared again in the last 2.

I'm sure Joey wants more from him - you can tell he wants more from him. I still believe it's an attitude thing, when he's aggressive early he can go on with it but too often he's far too passive. I guess time will tell as to whether he comes good.

As for Randle, I think every Sixers fans would love for him to stick around. He's the ultimate pro.

Bretts the man he had 8 to be precise haha Im with you man just crazy the glass half full support he has got to this point.

Thank you Bake for highlighting the vendetta.

Ebi tries hero ball...doesn't drop, he gets abused...OK.

Ebi tries, now it drops, get gets no love again.

Moral of the story... Produce for more than a few mins per game and you won't need to resort to hero ball, regardless of the results.