Anonymous
Years ago

NBL away teams mental weakness

So far the Grand Final series has been boring, consisting of two blowouts. Very dissapointed. Note I am a neutral.

I believe this is due to the mental weakness of NBL players when playing away from home. They are professional athletes yet rarely perform on the road. It is really frustrating. Although we go on about the refs a lot I think this is the main factor with a more minor one the refs also being homers too much.

Thoughts?

All I want is to watch some tight games.

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Anonymous
Years ago

This post is boring

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Pete
Years ago

Adelaide came back from 18 points down to beat the Wildcats by a point in Perth 2 weeks ago.

And done.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Game 1 was hardly a blowout. It was close all game until the mid 4th.

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Isaac
Years ago

Sixers were leading in G1 before it slipped. It was still a 7 point game with 32 seconds left. As you commented in that game thread:

"All of a sudden 7pt game, miracle comeback time LET'S GO."

The second game of each SF series was decided by a single basket, and won by the road team in each case.

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Udog
Years ago

Game one was pretty close when you consider Adelaide was 7 down within the last 90 seconds. A couple of loose balls their way and it would have gone to the wire.

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Anonymous
Years ago

You lost me at 'boring so far'.

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Chairman Of The Bored
Years ago

Hasn't Adelaide won at every venue except Melbourne this season?

Hang on, why am I even spending time replying to this?

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Anonymous
Years ago

"You lost me at 'boring so far'."

It may be exciting if your a Sixers fan. Remember I said I'm a neutral. But I turned off the TV during Game 2 and I am hardcore NBL.

and yes isaac, I was desperately trying to see something happen when it went down to 7pts in Game 1, which didn't happen. Game 2 was far worse.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Boring was watching Perth and/ or New Zealand playing 8 years in a row. Unless you are a Perth or New Zealand fan

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CT
Years ago

don't believe it's mental weakness at all. take a bunch of 6'7" guys, stick them in a plane, fly them across the country between timezones with very little time to adjust between games and see how well they do.

to some extent I think this is why certain teams (Perth, NZ and Cairns) tend to build a good rep as being difficult places to play as these are the most difficult places to get to.

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proud
Years ago

I get what you're saying as you listen to old cricketers say when they went to England for an Ashes series they took a siege mentality with them.

Whether they aren't saying it in public or perhaps showing it on floor as much as I'd like (Shannon Shorter flexing isn't my idea of siege mentality) I just don't think we have really seen that kind of dominance from an away team ala Wildcats in a Cairns semi final series last season.

I wouldn't call the grand final series boring but it's certainly had an inevitable vibe about it

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Anonymous
Years ago

"fly them across the country between timezones with very little time to adjust between games and see how well they do."

But this is Adelaide and Melbourne. Close.

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Anonymous
Years ago

"I just don't think we have really seen that kind of dominance from an away team ala Wildcats in a Cairns semi final series last season."

"I wouldn't call the grand final series boring but it's certainly had an inevitable vibe about it"

Finally someone gets my point. You nailed it!

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Big Ads
Years ago

The duration of the flight between Adelaide and Melbourne is not the issue, it is passing through the time vortex which visitors experience when leaving Adelaide airport

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Anonymous
Years ago

Drmic and Sobey know refs are looking to call anything (whether it's because they are too soft to call fouls on the home team/rigging it for LK's Melbourne) yet still make bonehead situations up to make it easy for the refs to ping them. How amateurish.

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Anonymous
Years ago

On second thought the title should read "NBL referees mentally weak by capitulating to home crowds"

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