I forgot to mention what the Breakers have been doing over the last 5 days. A Scotty Ninnis wine tour is out of the question, so I guess they have been sitting in their hotel room watching all the permutations of Bandersnatch.

so anon, if I was stuck in your city for 5 days, what attractions do you have?

Sixers should get this one by 10.

Adelaide ain't that bad! Fishing, Hahndorf, Henley Beach, Fringe Festival, mountains of red wine...could be a lot worse.

I did wonder due to the short turnaround if they would stay here for the five days but though they would probably go back home to spend NYE with their families, a bit rough on the players that.

Hopefully they did the smart thing and spent the five days chilling at the beach.

Not that it helps them but I quite enjoyed the Adelaide nightlife the couple of times I've been.

I'm a big fan of the discotheque.

Hopefully they did the smart thing and spent the five days chilling at the beach.""

Hope they weren't playing with the rays swimming next to shore at Seacliff the other day! They were a decent size and I reckon the rescue helicopter was chasing a large one off.

I feel a cheeky lil Breakers win tonight

Breakers have come out focused. They might get a win but Adelaide usually finish stronger than they start.

That Homicide rant about Bullets. Love it.

Only Adelaide can make the Breakers look like the Warriors on offense.

"I feel a cheeky lil Breakers win tonight" ¬ Manu

Phew.

We just won thanks to chromosomal natural selection.

Breakers finally get going offensively only to waste it away with porous defence.

I haven't seen the "Triple M rocks "-style marketing since 1998 but it still exists on an advertising board in Adelaide.

Foul count comparisons showing Perth Differential Home and Away.

Hoops.com.au Gold!!!

Froling always looks on the verge of a tech foul.

Long is a beast in this game!!

Love reading Perth fans get progressively more terrified as Adelaide rises.

"I haven't seen the "Triple M rocks "-style marketing since 1998 but it still exists on an advertising board in Adelaide."

Not as good as the SAFM ads.

"Play with a frown on your face"

Let's go.

@UTA it was PMFM in Perth.

Wish we'd adopt Perth's grass roots program. Wildcats got that right and it's been paying off for years.

Isn't there a joke about AM radios in the PM?

NZ have missed a ton of open looks and sitters and that's really been the difference so far. Neither team playing anything resembling decent defense.

Breakers looking shaky against that half court trap

Pete? Apart from Hire all the Wildcats players are from interstate.

HT ADL 49-41 NZB

What about Jervis and Vague?

Perthworld

I meant the schools program. Met with the previous Sixers GM for a bit and he always envied how Perth approached schools and grass roots programs.

Little High 5 from Harry Froling to Ken Cole. Nice!!!

Why was that Nice!!!

If you were AdelaideWorld you would know.

Froling very impressive 1st half. Great luxury for Joey to have 2 centres so gifted offensively in DJ and Harry. It's rare in the NBL to have your starting and backup centre being able to shoot the three so well.

@Pete got you. Cairns also very good with schools from what I've seen online.

Yes Vague too as I forgot he is in the main squad now not a DP. Jervis from Kalgoorlie.

Grown man reference :D

Fooling trying to settle Sobey. LOL

Sorry Froling. Totally unintentional

Terrible call on Sobey. Not an offensive foul.

Sobey understandably very pissed off about that offensive foul. Was clearly a rubbish call and stopped the Sixers momentum. I would be pissed too if I was sobey considering he is regularly targeted by the refs for flopping and when weeks flops, he gets the call. Plays like that show further shouldn't be a flop rule as our nbl refs are clearly not good enough to tell the difference between what is and what isn’t a flop.

does Homicide keep pronouncing "en route" as "enn route"?

Down 6 with 6 left - DOYLE TIME.

Nbl refs call the game by FIBA rules. Flopping is in FIBA rules

Oh my. Long is beasting Wiley.

Shaun Long might just will his team over the line

Probably time to bring back Sobey.

I love how homocide calls out players, even the ones from New York

Wiley probably should've taken the opportunity to milk that contact and head to the changerooms with how badly he's been dominated tonight.

This isn't the first game Joey has sat sobes when it’s been a close loss. What’s he thinking?

Wow Conger has had a shocker.

Kind of regretting my decision to take Long out of my Fantasy team!

Froling probably should have played about 3x as many minutes tonight.

Breakers imports have significantly outplayed the Sixers imports. 20 point turnaround in the second half so far. Without Teys this game would have been over by now

Shea....................

Interesting that in the Adelaide huddle before free throws, Froling is doing the talking.

Getting interesting now.

Especially if NZ take too long in back half

I generally don't like the 'what was the coach doing' stuff but sitting Sobey so long and the lack of playing time for Moore... Objectively, his subs have been baffling. Teys was very good but man Conger was stinking

Long has been enormously impressive but he could have easily been called for several offensive fouls which may have changed the outcome of this game significantly.

Agree Duncan, I also feel that Drimic should have gotten a lot more time considering how much New Zealand have played zone and the poor games from Wiley and Conger.

Also I don't know how that long move cannot be a charge after that call on sobey earlier, pretty disgraceful reffing.

Curtains.. it's over

Reffing has been hard but as I said previously Adelaide has not been strategic. Can only complain about the things you can change.

Biggest problem for the Sixers have been the rotations more than the refs IMO.

That being said god sobey has been hard done by

Tourism SA must have paid the refs to ensure NZ won, to encourage more teams to stay in Adelaide for extended time.

Can't have been that the team that played better, got the win.

Does Joey need to be careful with how he is limiting players thinking long term? Do you think benching players for what appears to be personal issues between coach and players will result in them looking to resign elsewhere?

Go breakers. Made big plays down the stretch. Richard came up big, along with Long and Webster. Wow where to now Sixers?,

Count Tai Wesley as well.

Froling needed more minutes

Moore needed to be told to get other players involved - his hero ball in the last quater was embarasing

Deng was a liabilty that was exploited by breakers

Conger does not seem to have a role, is joey doing anything other than fitting players into pre-dertermined role - regardles of their fit ?

36ers run a zone offence that my u/14 coach ( legal in those days) would have laughed at.

Joey does not seem to have anything to offer the team in trespect of containing a centre like Long or Bogut, with Froling and DJ, he has the fexabilty and inteligence avaiablke to plan and implement almost anything.
Teys played well

platers worth paying tonight
Sobey, Froling, Teys and ?
DJ made a great effort but just did not have an impact

Moore, conger and Wiley were just totally neutralised, and there seemed that there was no plan B for how to get them to be productive.

JMHO

The best most enjoyable auduble for me was NZ coach telling ili that "he is smarter than that" when subbing him off after the backcourt violation -----when almost every player in the NBL knows he's actualluy not - which is why it happened :)

"Teys is a spud playing dying minutes"
How long would a compilation of his cheap shots run for?

Disappointing for Sixers fans. Lots of opportunity, but the Long arms of the Breakers were too good

Conger has had minimal impact with the club. Agree that he doesn't seem to have much of a role. Feels like he gets the start because on paper he should be able to outperform Drmic, even if he actually won't.

Froling was great in the bits I saw. Teys solid too.

DJ's key thing is offence yet he only had 7 shots. So what was he out there for?

Long and Wesley put on a show. Long's game was one of the best by any player this season. 28 and 18 with 3 blocks is huge.

But near the end, Adelaide were down abut 5 despite Richard going 6/6 3P. On one hand, you can lose worse than that, but on the other, any result like this against another team vying for that fourth play-off spot is critical.

Sixers got outplayed and outsmarted. Long played the game of his life and Richard being 100% (6/6) from behind the arc was awesome shooting.

NZ were the better team and this game highlights why they have been so frustrating this season.

This was a wasted opportunity as Brisbane lost to Cairns. Hopefully United take care of Bullets.

Howdy Pete, what did you think of that one mate?

I'm happy with that result

Joey was out coached and our players out played.

Conger would have to be the most expensive and overrated import in the league. He had too many minutes and Drmic not enough.

Moore has been a shadow of his old self...disappointed we are stuck with him next season to be honest. Over dribbles the ball, poor shot selection and a streaky shot at best. I'm not really sure what he offers?

Deng is hit or miss but is easily backed down and abused. Another liability if he isn't contributing offensively.

DJ needs to be smarter. Can shoot the 3 so should have tried to nail some and draw Long or Wesley out of the paint.

Doyle...should never play. How he is on a professional basketball team is beyond me.

Wiley was out hustled tonight, that's where his game gets going and he didn't bring it. Looked to be a little hampered by a corked thigh or something.

Adelaide looked flat all game and it was obvious NZ wanted it more. They made the adjustments and corrections they needed to from 5 days ago and the Sixers had no answers.

And, how do the Breakers get away with not 1 but 2 cross courts violations???

1 of those umpires is an absolute Muppet week in, week out....like Doyle, has no right being a professional.

Adelaide = LOL

Isaac, Drmic will play more time when his body is fully ok again. Just look at the way he is moving at the moment and for sure he is not 100% but still trying his best.

still school holidays ?

Where is young larkins. Kids brings enthusiasm to bench. Team seems dysfunctional. When tough not enough get going. Frustrating for Joey.teys is giving good minutes.

School holidays...nahh just grumpy old men doing their stuff

Despite the massive games from Long and The Grown Man (yet Adelaide still winning the rebounding count), the difference in the end was the three point shooting (particularly Richard). Pretty much a role reversal from a week before, where NZ were atrocious. It helped that in the 2nd half NZ limited the 6ers transition and forced them into tough half court sets, which is usually where Adelaide have problems and let other teams scratch their way back in. Big win for the Breakers.

Why did we have Moore, Wiley and Conger out there tonight against that zone in the 2nd half... need quality shooters not people chucking contested midrange and unable to space the floor. There any chance of playing DJ and Froling at the 4 wouldn't mind seeing that more.

That a really enjoyable game... great seeing a centre completely dominate a game but did DJ even play ?

Wiley playing injured with a bruised pride after today's game

Wesley was sensational as well

Majok Majok won't be getting any career progression in a Breakers uniform.

If it wasn't for Sobey and Teys then 36ers should have lost by 20 as they absolutely sucked today.

Breakers vs Wildcats is a massive game on Sunday now

Did Adelaide struggle against the zone? That's a shock

Richard hits 6/6 3pt shots. That was difference. Anytime someone does that you will win. Most of them were at crucial times in the game. Commentator mentioned he was 0/6 last week. Shooting approx 35% from 3 for the season. Sixers shot less than 30% from 3 and took over 30 shots. They either drove into trouble under the basket or there up bricks. A very poor team game. Conger was woeful. Had a huge open look from 3 and was lucky to hit front of rim.

It really is surprising how just about all NBL teams struggle against a zone considering how frequently teams are playing zone defenses these days.

Their struggles against the zone are something I will be watching intently going forward.

Did New Zealand by chance 'red' (full-court trapping press) much last night?

That was a great game to watch.
Joey didn't coach well, his body language towards his players near games end was odd, the team seems to take on his persona when things get tough...
NZ has huge potential and that was a good win for the league, exciting stuff to come.
The refs and their interpretation of the charge rule......FFS

Was at the game last night. Can anyone clarify if Wiley sort of subbed himself on towards end of 4th. He was waiting for a sub, then when ref signalled subs, he raced on and went straight to other end of court to give instructions to players. Joey then saw Wiley on and look surprised and quickly pulled someone off, after which Joey looked bewildered at what had just happened but it was too late to rectify.

The block/charge/flop call has become a real problem. Been going to games for 20 years and seems like this current crop of refs have no idea what to call and make different decisions for the same call. One minute they call flops and then they call charges. And then all they know how to do is call techs to rectify when players get frustrated. Last night they made so many calls which were in complete contradiction to each other. Bad defence and flopping is rewarding massively by the refs, hence players drop like flies. 50/50 calls seem to be going defenders way too often with refs just reacting and guessing. Last night Teys tried to draw a charge, two refs blew the whistle, one was going to signal for a flop while the other called a charge. If the refs are this far apart on the call how can their be any confidence in their decisions. It does have a massive impact as it frustrates the players, the refs put themselves under more pressure and we have patches in games where the refs lose complete control of everything and the game gets ugly. One problem is refs will only call a charge if a player flops as per.

I noticed the commentators have also been silenced a bit in regards to the charge/flop/block calls.
Refs please note - unless it is 100 percent a charge (yes folks 100percent)then it is always a block/flop, its not that difficult....

Why the focus on Wiley? DJ was the issue last night - so much so that Joey sat him for much of the first half and mid-way through the last quarter he had contributed just 6 points, I think it was. Could have been ill/injured - certainly played like it - but if so we haven't been told about it.

Needs to be reminded that he is 7' tall, more or less', and so can safely turn and shoot a mid-range jumper over most defenders in this league. At the moment he can't see past that retreat shot that is both step-back and fade-away [usually two different things] and he is over-striding on the step-back so he is both off-balance and unable to drive back up though the shot, which he needs to do if he is to even hit the ring.

And as for Doyle - there's a reason he is put out there. It's called control and ball distribution/team work. Moore and Sobey are all too often all about Moore and Sobey; in other words, once the ball goes into their hands it doesn't come out unless they take a shot or lose possession. At least with Sobey that happens fairly swiftly, but Moore seems incapable of moving the ball up the court at tempo.