Prather out for Perth.

Complacency and resting players makes me nervous.

Hard to see the Cats losing this, but stupider things have happened. Will be interesting to see who steps up.

Another game where a role player has to step up, Beal hasn't taken over for awhile.

Should be a good game.

Beal & Perth had a quiet night and still went to O/T with MU. Bother their other losses were close also.
I think MU are favourites for the title, and will remain so with HCA in a series, but IF a team could upset them, it would be Perth.

11-0! Stop the game! Leave the arena! It won't get better than this!





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:~(

Usual bullshite complacent start. Been like it all year.

Whole starting 5 subbed, and deservelly so.

The 5 for 5 sub- disrespectful?

Why isn't Tommy Garlepp playing?

Garlepp has food poisining

No Garlepp, no Hill. Old Man Knight suiting up again.

Man, Cadee... for a "PG" he attempts some woeful passes.

You know, I'm not an NBL head coach, but I'd probably try run something with Childress that doesn't involve him catching the ball behind the 3pt line.

Perth looking to feed Jawai and Carter playing D with his hands on his hips... jesus christ, put your hands up and play the passing lane.

Jervis benefiting from the Kings mobbing the ballhandler with 3 defenders every time they enter the key.

Too many times this season the Wildcats started with a half arsed attitude, for it not to be an issue now. Can't play like that in the playoffs.

Perths bench have saved the teams bacon a few times this season. Jervis > Jawai.

I would love to see the Kings +/- when they play zone on D. Not a good M2M defensive team, but a god awful zone defensive team.

Interesting that Beal and Jawai have no rythym after sitting 20 of 29 playing minutes

so those who say childress needs to go...

Anyone who says Childress needs to go can be safely ignored.

That flop by Wagstaff on Childress though...

3 qtr time, bench points: Wildcats 41 to sydney 6.

More telling: Wildcats starters 20, Sydney 53.

Wagstaff's 3pt % vs the Kings is roughly 10000000%.

Childress is a great player period. You can't fault him for sydney being crap.

Fair Dink ^^

Or even for him being injured. Despite his injury problems, having a player of his talent is worth the gamble. The real problem is import spot #2.

Oh god please don't. I don't ever want to have to cheer for Wagstaff.

Credit where credit is due, amazing night for Jervis. For all the help the Kings gave him around the basket, great rebound and assist numbers.

Well that was shit. Worst game I can remember.
The Cats starting 5 just kind of wandered onto court, gave the Kings a 11 point head-start, then sat down and let the bench humiliate them.
I know there are "reasons" for the Kings' current status, but they were pathetic, an embarrassment to the league.
Jawai waddled around for about 10 minutes, Beal wasn't allowed to shoot, the DP played more minutes than most of the starting 5, with about 5 minutes to go the Cats gave up playing defense (and didn't put much into offense either) and it was still a shellacking.

Anyone who things Jawai is out of shape, should take a look at the fat slobs Sydney dredged up.

The only highlight of the entire game, was somebody FINALLY made the half-court shot. He won $1,000 and a Sydney Kings' contract.

"He won $1,000 and a Sydney Kings' contract."

He was last seen giving the Kings contract to a beggar on Wellington Street who used it as a substitute to a Tally Ho.

Perth's bench aint that great, Sydney were just crap.

I don't know if Perth's start was really that bad, or if the whole thing was just a joke.
I have NEVER see so may professional players so completely lethargic and disinterested.
Either way, it was bloody unprofessional and not worth watching.

Gleeson benched his entire starting 5 after two minutes. I don't know if this was a calculated insult, or if he just did his nana.

Have to agree. That game sucked ballz.

Cats rested Prather knowing they should win anyway.
Kings then had players out, which probably only served to make the Cats even more complacent. Hard to be fully switched on when you look over and see Ben Knight suited up for the opposition.

Happy to see Jervis get to show his stuff though. The only thing he has lacked this season is opportunity. Stoked for him that he got the chance to shine tonight.

"The only highlight of the entire game, was somebody FINALLY made the half-court shot. He won $1,000 and a Sydney Kings' contract."

GOLD Dazz, gold

Hard for the Cats to be to motivated about that game, wasnt pretty but their games never usually are. Having Prather out sucks from a highlight potential perspective. They got the win, no injuries be happy with that.

The Kings have sucked all year, now they have more outs and no time to replace them with only a couple of games to go. Never going to be pretty, but full credit to Childress. He was the only player giving it his all.