Will be competitive because its a hawks home game.
If Adelaide run and gun early and Wiley goes off again sixers could win by 25+.

Drmic. Adelaide can have him.

I really like the look of Naar. His jumper is ugly as hell, but I can see him blooming into one of the few starting-quality locals at the position.

Froling is such a turd. I called it in the pre-season. Too big for his boots. Bona fide wanker at such a young age, it's impressive really

Enjoying this one

... until the refs decided to demand the spotlight

Ridiculous.

Wow. Harsh double tech on Wiley. Think I agree with Joey on this one, the tech foul was when Wiley circled back.

Another NBL game destroyed by the refs, that ejection of Wiley is disgraceful.

Wow the umpires in this league are embarrassing

I think that's definitely the M.O. against Wiley going forward - try get in his head. Always seems to be on the verge of exploding.

OMG WORST FUCKING REFEREES EVER

LOL... delay of game?! It bounched off his head after the make. Wow.

Didn't want to see Wiley out of the game but if you start pushing refs that is the way it will go!

I so want to know what was said!!!

Jett said something along the lines of "Jacob, I question your level of masculinity in so far as it pertains to your ability to prevent me from scoring the ball from close proximity to the basket".

Can we all take a minute to appreciate how bad Adelaide's defense is to allow this Hawks team to score 60 points and we're not even at the half.

Yeh if you're giving up 63 points to the hawks in a half, that shows major defensive deficiencies. The Sixers won’t be going anywhere this season until they start playing both sides of the ball.

65-53. Hawks. HT.

The refs have lost the plot in this league. Constantly losing control of foul calls. Guessing on wether a charge/block or flop. Again a Sixers player gets ejected for nothing. The refs need to get the oranges out from under their armpits.

It bemuses me how guys like Naar who are around junior national teams and COE at young ages can develop such a horrible jumper.

Aelaie 36ers. They have no D.

Joey perpetrates the siege mentality which doesn't help this team.

I think the point is that yes Wiley acted dumb but that he didnt deserve to be ejected for that

Sobeys' TOs are hurting the 36ers. I'd rather he attack the paint than either (a) make 50:50 passes or (b) shoot tough mid range jumpers

Sobey ought to be suspended for that shit

Andersen's high elbow isn’t unsportsmanlike? Wtf

Very crude foul by Anderson. Surely unsportsmanlike at the very least.

You get a tech for Wiley's behaviour not a double tech and ruin the game. Yeah yeah Adelaide always whinges. So would anyone if you copped the shit these refs dish up. Every coach whines coz the standard is horrendous. Kelley and braswell both given them serves in pressers this week but nah it’s only Adelaide that whinges mate

And this game is on free to air. This is embarrassing on so many levels.

Usf on both is enough actually

What's the diff bw usf and tech?

Why did DA get both?

Wow it's easy to get thrown out of a game these days! Haha

Sobey gets a tech? Anderson was stepping on hes foot..
Why the refs not looking at the footage before the wild calls

Unsportsmanlike yes but dropping Sobey on his ass well done.

Actually I think the technically correct call should be DA usf and Sobey tech

Actually think the fracas will help ADL rather than the Hawks. ADL are a team who can use that emotion to bring out their best. It's their MO.

F**K!!!!! How away supposed to encourage people to watch nbl.

For all the shenanigans and the horrible D that Adelaide are playing they'd have to be happy to be only 10 points down. Watch the refs call every little bit of slight contact in this 4th quarter.

Andersen stood elbowed into Sobey then stood on Sobeys foot.

What's Sobey meant to do, wait for Andersen to stop stepping on him?

Froling is a turd

Congers layup doesn't count hahaha what is thisssss

Be no-one left at this rate.

WTF
Missing so many free throws and shot selection is shocking.
Seem to be playing into Hawks hands (or is it talons?)

Turdy sixers.

Did I just see the guy who poured the drink on Marcus Thornton sitting behind the Hawks bench and with a neck brace on?

Who 'spiked' 36ers Powerade bottles at 3/4 time?
Struggling to get the ball into front half, never mind setting up for a good shot.

Hard to watch

Is Johnson in the doghouse. Not sighted since early in the third.

We love you 'cause you're from Wollongong.

*clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap* *clap*

Do they still do this chant?

120 points great job Illawarra.

Adelaide got robbed in each of the three 'incidents' in the game. They gave up after Wiley was ejected (I am still not sure for what, he was yapping no more than Jett was). But it was just the in game stuff - Sixers couldn’t buy a foul in the first half. The result was farcical (Joey manufactured most of the farce) but the umpiring ruined the spectacle.

AJ and Jett have been poor so far this season. How is it the Sixers enable them to score 19 and 18 ??

Yeah, I'm serious. Wiley getting a double T for a single incident of mouthing off is extraordinary. Sobey getting T’d up for Anderson standing on his foot, comical.

First quarter was good. Second though the refs made it a mess. How many fouls did they miss on Adelaide shots? Actually miss is the wrong call. Ignored is probably a better word.

To get him off of his teammates foot? You guys serious?

Anderson has been pulling this shit his entire career. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Anderson got Sobey in a head lock on an earlier play so he was pushing his luck a bit.

You guys keep going on about the calls as if those calls solely made us lose.

I would like to know from our coach why Illawarra, who is second last in scoring, was allowed to score 120?

I would like to know from our coach why Illawarra, who is dead last in 3PT %, was allowed to score @ 47%?

We made Jett and Ogilvy look like all-stars out there. Jett is SEABL level at best.

Our defence whilst not super stellar was good last year, this year we have regressed again, why?

Refs explanation to Joey for the techs is he got the second for coming back in for a second go. Watching the replay the ref gives Wiley a tech when he is walking away cursing. The refs are a complete joke. Wiley never came in for a second go as he never left the first time.

What quarter and time was the fight? I want to watch it.

Refs explanation to Joey for the techs is he got the second for coming back in for a second go. Watching the replay the ref gives Wiley a tech when he is walking away cursing. The refs are a complete joke. Wiley never came in for a second go as he never left the first time.

What quarter and time was the fight? I want to watch it.

The man does speak some sense after all. Wiley should have certainly been thrown out

Unfortunately this is the inevitable result of Joey's attitude.

He can coach no question. He can certainly build a team, and his style is entertaining and high-scoring.

But he refuses to push D.

If you look at how the Perth game progressed, the difference is obvious. Gleeson didn't try to outscore NZ, he tried to contain them, and it worked. Joey just keeps trying to push the O, and I'm sorry but you can't give up 40 freaking points in one quarter and think you're in with a shot.

And then, when things get tough, he loses his shit.
Any wonder his players follow suit?

Wiley shows all the signs of being a douche.

The suggestion that kicking people ought to be ignored if they did something to deserve it is comical.

Does anyone know what Coenraad's technical was for? The commentators said Coenraad and Grida were the only Illawarra players T'd up, but Adelaide had two techs as well and yet shot a technical free-throw. I'm assuming Jett was the third but they also specifically said later on that Jett wasn't T'd up.

Commentators said they had no idea why Coenraad copped a tech, as he didn't do anything. At worst, he walked over, non agressively, hands down, to (apparently) try to cool things off.

I'm aware of what the commentators said, but it bore little resemblance to reality with such frequency that I'm not really inclined to put any stock in it.

Fuck the Hawks. That was disgraceful. Mutual fan devastated with today's game. NBL looking like a joke with the officiating today

Coenraad was the first person 'in' and gave Wiley a footy-esque bump with his shoulder, alone it was harmless, but in this situation it would be considered an act that could have made the situation worse.

Well that was some whacked out game.

@KR, do the commentators not get the same audio feed we hear? So many times they'd be saying they didn't know what was happening, or just getting it wrong, right after the rets had explained it.

Yes, Jett was tech'd, as were Coenraad and Grida.
Didn't look to be much in the Coenraad one, I can only assume that when he rushed in maybe he had some choice words.

I thought the 2nd on Riley was a little harsh, but I guess if you're going to tech Coenraad and Grida for rushing in, then him turning back for another go probably deserved it.

Getting ejected when your 2nd is a flop, was a bit rough too.

I don't have much sympathy for Wiley in that. Short of something supremely offensive and personal being said to him, he's theoretically in control of his actions in response to Jett. Pursued him, danced around and came back including shoving a ref. Just unnecessary. Rucker talks about the refs restraining the emotional side of the game, but leave it at flexing and the first bit of chesting. Rest is just ridiculous. Wiley has to take a lot of responsibility for how that played out.

He played a master game previously. Has himself to blame for not being able to do the same again that round.

Hawks will take a lot out of that game, but neither team seemed all that convincing despite the high scores.

Great to see better games from Jett and AJ and Cedric did some better things in this game.

Happy to see a nice high scoring game and Blanchfield played really well.

Is it just me or would we perceive 36ers differently had THEY been the team that Mika went to because it's amazing how they don't have anyone that can settle down a situation and no true locker room leader.

I wish they just replaced Jackson with someone who can shoot, Jett would be even more effective with his barging drives if there was a little more space.

Nbl needs to learn from the Wiley ejection

A simple situation that should have resulted in one tech foul, and somehow they over refereed it and ended up issuing an ejection, with 3 techs

Coenraad did make slight contact but his arms were by his sides. That suggests peacemaking was more his intent, and the bump was incidental to his purpose of getting in front of Wiley and slowing down the aggression

Tech not necessary

Wiley- one tech obviously enough

Agreed LV. The situation didn't get out of hand and diffused itself quickly. One tech on Jett and Wiley to put them on notice and get on with the game. Similar to the Randle-Ware situation, so important to have a feel for the game, their jaw-jacking wasn't in danger of spilling over so let them play and let the spectators enjoy the show.

If you watch the replay the refs reviewed the Anderson contact on Sobey and Matt Townsend changed the call to an Unsportsmanlike foul which gave him that and the original tech so he was then gone.

I thought Drmic came in more aggressively to a later incident than Coenraad did to that one. To cop that and then something subjective like a flop warning (where it's often getting knocked down too easily rather than faking a fall) is harsh. I think Drmic or Sobey have been in that place previously.

Goulding threw his head back on a play recently where contact wasn't even made. That's when you want to issue a tech or fine someone.

More fun:

The NBL Game Review panel is also reviewing an incident between Nathan Sobey and David Andersen in the third quarter of yesterday's game between Illawarra and Adelaide. A decision on whether charges will be laid will be made tomorrow.

My opinion is that Coenraad was definitely rushing in "aggressively" to defend a teammate, but I don't think he actually did much. As I said, maybe mounted off.

I don't really know how best to deal with that on the spot?

drimic lucky... third man in....andersen in trouble ...imo...