As mentioned already in other threads, Brad Davidson is a bit sore from a strain and may not play his regular minutes in this game.

This might be useful for those hoping to listen in to the game:

Game tonight will be broadcast on 990AM in Perth from 6.45pm.

Live Radio (you will need Winamp or similar player to listen)

What time does the game start S.A. time?

yer what time?? 7:30??

90 minute difference.

Current time in Perth

Tigers @ Taipans underway. NBL schedule page in the Match Centre is a bit funny:

"Taipans 3 def by. Tigers 9"

Good win by the tigers, in a low scoring game.

Just found an article written by Boti a few hours ago on Adelaide Now:

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22563030-12428,00.html

Sounds like there may be some concerns for Davidson's fitness......

umm yer already been posted about davidson??

Might explain Davidson's reluctance to shoot the wide open shot over the last couple of games.

cant get live radio workking.. why??

Yeah I canty get it to work either...local radio site is 'under construction'

yer i no any help??

Nah, you'd be able to pick up the feed to what ever program was on before the game, sucks but doubt the internet feed is working tonight. Ahhh one day we will have free to air games, just like the Port and Crow fans get....yes im a dreamer haha

damn Chappell foul in 15 secs.

chappel looks like his doing all rite not that we can see it??

or hear it!

has any one else's scoreboard crashed?

is live update f*****?? is that radio stream working??

Yes, grrr

Stuck at 8-11 for me.

Wait, now it's moved - 15-25 - Adelaide up! Great start.

25 - 13!!! Sixers

mine just refreshed to have us up by 12 with 1:19 to go in q1 25 13

I've got 25-13 Adelaide's way with 1:19 to go in the first quarter.

Ballinger with 9, Ng with 5.

End of Q2 25-15

same here.. Ballinger Legend!!!!

ninja kicking ass

N-G for 3! 29-15 11:25 Q2 Now has 8 points.

DARREN NG!.. playing average :D

Very good start, and Chappell is still due to put some numbers on the board. If they could go on with this, surely people would have to agree the overhaul has made us reasonably legit!

He is easy to miss but where is Trahair?

4 point play to NG and another basket to Ballinger. Go Sixers. Is it just me who has some money on the sixers at 4.75

Dr B i forgot to get the bet on ...we where even better for the under 10.5 and over 10.5 spreads. Why such disparity in a 2 horse race?


Ninj 9 points in around 4 minutes.

Perth coming back via Redhage - 9 points. Sixers by 8.

9-0 run from Perth?

what happened??

same scenario 4 me too mate keeps coming up service unavailable.

14 - 2 Run by perth, Redhage killing us with 18 so far

Chappell for 3!!

45 each at half time. Both teams shooting at some of the worst shooting percentages I have ever seen. Redhage with 20, but he has taken more than 20 shots for that.

at the half both teams scorching the net at 33% FG.

Good d on Loughton , 6 points early and noting from there.

Coop 3 blocks at the half.

Phillips found his spark to join Redhage's domination, but im content with 45-45. Turn it on in the 2nd half and we score a big win out West! We got pumped in the corresponding game last year, so just good to see a competitive team!

45 all at halftime. Redhage having a night out (20 so far). Chappell 5 points but 2-8 (AGAIN!).

We were up by as many as 15. Halftime break probably welcome.

Got winamp but no sound..blast.. 45-45 is good though.

Play of the game so far:

12:00 : 36ers [30] A. Dench - exits the court

Our advantage gained on the boards has been offset by just too many turnovers, 12 in a half is not good.

54-50 Wildcats up

Davidson 3 pointer, Mottram 2pt made

7mins left in 3rd. 6ers 55-56

Sixers up 58-56!

8ers 58-59

Chappell is not the only one who can't shoot. Poor shooting nights all around.

Good spread of scorers for Adelaide. Looking decent for them to be up at this stage (or any stage!). In both of Perth's losses, they've given up points to guards. Ng and Maher doing the damage here.

6ers 66 all 2 mins left

in 3rd qtr...

Redhage with 30FGA and not even 3/4 time.

Phillips feeding Redhage well - 9 assists. But Redhage has already put up 30 shots in less than 3 quarters.

Has anyone managed to get live streaming to work?

Because knowing the NBL website, it will crash at the worst possible moment of the game.

Sixers 14/14 FT at the moment...keeping us in it.

I'd prefer Ballinger or Mottram on the court than Dench - he's not really having much of an impact...

72-68 6ers

# Name PTS RBS AST FOUL
5 B. Maher 11 3 2 1
6 M. Sutton 0 0 0 0
8 D. Ng 13 3 2 2
11 D. Cooper 4 4 1 0
12 N. Mottram 7 3 1 4
14 B. Davidson 7 3 5 0
20 M. Chappell 7 2 1 1
21 L. Copeland 6 3 2 1
30 A. Dench 0 3 0 1
54 A. Ballinger 13 7 1 2

start of 4th qtr

72-68 9:41 left in 4Q Sixers down :(

Our shooting percentage 28% and 20% (of 3pts) is horrendous. I'm surprised we are still within striking distance of Perth.

Is it just me, or has Davidson not graced the court after half time?

Make that 74-68 8:44 remaining...

Ng off, Sutton on 7.08 left

Return from the 3 spot - Copes and Chappell combining for 4 from 22 :(

Dench Haters? he just hit back to back triples

I'd prefer Ballinger or Mottram on the court than Dench - he's not really having much of an impact...

That's great and all but 81-76 down 6:05 left...

Maher just subbed off...

and he hit the last 3 pointer...

He's not improving our shooting percentages much - 25% so far...

surprising considering the fg% that someone hast pulled double figures in rebounds.

Dench another 3

Phillips is up to 14 assists even though the Cats are shooting badly. Pretty impressive.

36ers still in touch but will want to close it up now - 3 minutes to go.

Redhage, with 37 FGA, must be getting close to a top ten record - anyone got a media guide handy?

score anyone? im stuck on 3 minutes left to go..

92 88 52 seconds left

92-88 54 sec to go...

These stats on NBL.com seem odd. So many missed shots but a relatively low rebound count. Very poor shooting from both teams if this is correct! 92-88 with 44 seconds to go. Would be a big effort but we can still do it...

Sixers need a 3 then a stop, then a basket in 44 seconds..... GOODLUCK.

down by three with 44 to go Copes on teh line and has made teh first

Copeland at the line-hits the first 92-89 0:44 left

92 89.. 44 seconds to go

Copes misses our first free throw in the last 40 seconds... 3 down

The score better not be one point wrong like last game!

missed the 2nd for our first missed FT of the game

down by 2 with 4 secs to go

We have lost it 4 seconds 93-91 Copeland foul.

95-91 FULL TIME

lost by 4 damn redhage!!

All over...lost 91-95. Good effort tho boys!

lost by 4 Redhage getting the 40 points mark from the line.

low scoring defensive game, suits the Wildcats style..

you cant expect to win when you shoot 29%

Why take Maher out at 5 mins. to go and put Sutton in?
Mahersy doesn't need a rest with 5 to go. Was the game right there.

Game over, Perth 95 - 91.

Redhage with 40 points but from 40 attempts. I have never heard of anything like it!

Not a bad effort from the Sixers, obviously missed Davidson in the second half. Also no return to the court from Motts, don't understand? I thought the result would have been worse for the Sixers all in all.

Apologies to Dench for my earlier comments. He was far from our worst. Nothing to write home about though.

Actually, no real highlight performances from the Sixers, and only lost by 4. If only somebody could learn how to shoot!

actually brett was taken out at a similar mark last win. Shame we lost but a good effort i guess, we need 1 more contributor still.

How do you rate that game? Coughed up 40 to a (surprise surprise) small forward, but got within basically a bucket (ignoring last couple of FTs) on the road while Davidson missed the latter part of the game. Chappell was again luckless from the field, but then again, pretty much everyone in the game was. Had a bunch of turnovers, but outrebounded a decent frontcourt and didn't give up a load of offensive boards despite Perth shooting poorly. 41 three point attempts?

Just concentrate on the next game and a decent eight day gap until they need to play in NZ?

Not sure if its been mentioned, but Redhage set a new club record with those 40 attempts on shot over taking James Crawford's 36 back in 1987. Also equaled the highest amount of shot attempts taken against the 36ers by any player.

id rather see dench get his 9 points inide the paint not on the 3. 9 3 point attempts is terribe for a 7 footer. he should be banging inside and eating players like luke martin 4 entree.
Dont get me wrong i like the guy and think he has great potential but thats a stat that surely has to be fixed. he can shoot granted but surely theres a better option. how about setting some big screens or a pick and roll for the easy bucket and if that doesnt work at least bang into a few poeple and make them hurt and earn the win. lets get physical should be playing all training until he gets it.
just a vent as that stat line is rediculous

Those 41 3pt attempts also equal Adelaide's record, unless more were taken in that shoot out against the dragons last year. (Don't have the stats of that game handy)

the thing is he is never going to change, we knew he was like this when we got him and now we have to grind our team while he floats around the arc.

The game write-up is already up - http://www.nbl.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=72446.

Come from behind..........we were also a fair way behind at some stages of the game too. We did a decent job considering it looked as if the Sixer's thought getting the ball though the hoop wasn't the object of the game and Redhage is one of the top 5 players in the league.

Take a look at the boxscore. The live stats showed Redhage with 40 FGA and both teams shooting 33% or worse.

Reality is Redhage was 16/24 and Adelaide shot 40% to Perth's 48%. I think they need to look at their code.

Adelaide only had 31 three point attempts, not 41 and most of the guys shot reasonably well rather than what the live stats had us believing.


Forget about my previous post based on the wrong stats - sounds like they did well and mostly got beaten by hot shooting from Redhage and Crawford. Narrow loss over in Perth wouldn't have Smyth unhappy IMO.

Awesome game tonight folks, 36ers fought hard and were a good chance right to the finish, ...reading this thread, no mention made a a very very good DEFENSIVE game...yes..true..the 36ers played solid D, percentages were down all night...with even Brett having an off night.

My first sighting of Chappell..very interesting... made some great positions..did some good defensive work..BUT, the shooting hurt us big time...and watching him run onto court...that back looks seriously damaged?

All in all...proud to be a 36ers fan tonight they certainly kept the crowd quiet for a good part of the night...a couple of well timed time outs by phil also slowed the pace when the cats looked like getting away (redhage was unstopable..remisnicent of the game a couple of years ago when dusty had a day out for 40 odd?

still got high hopes for the rest of the season.

maher was off for only a couple of minutes...but back on for the last 2 ish,

this may not be viable..but...can anyone tell me why...after Bretts first FT (when we were down by 3 and 7 secs on the clock)..rather than take the 2nd FT why didnt we bounce the ball out to take a 3pt shot?

is that too simplistic?

bounce back for 3point shot would have been good.
and we would have won comfortably with a fit davo and chappell.

The corrected box scores at least explains where the 150 or so rebounds went.

Why do I fall for trusting that NBL live scores will work every year? The 'live' game they were broadcasting was completely different to the one that was actually played. Very annoying.

I think we did will all told, but I would have thought our best option defensively on Redhage would have been Mottram. Was he getting torched by Redhage to not get a look-in in the final term?

Boti was obviously in a hurry to get his report in to the editors (fair enough, since it was in Perth & finished late SA time) because he also mentioned Redhage had 40 shots, so must've taken it off the live stats. Dangerous reporting!

Not a terrible loss for the 6ers really. Perth are a tough unit & if Redhage is hitting 16/24, there's probably not a ton you can do since he's too big for any of our 2/3's to defend & too quick for any of our 4/5's. And if he's hitting 3's (4/5 last night) then that makes him even tougher to guard.

Chappell is starting to become a concern though. Obviously he wasn't going to come back from injury in tip-top form, but he really hasn't even shown a glimpse of potential yet. I wouldn't be giving him too much more than a fortnight to show something on the floor before looking at a replacement.

up by 15 at one point is that correct- chapell needs to lift and dench - too many need to lift type players - similiar game style all after minutes - needs to srettle on a 8 man rotation and lets the others sit - get tougher hungrier and learn roles - why play some of these guys who contribute little
had depth but very ho hum depth

According to someone at the game, Dench kept us in it down the stretch with two big 3's. I don't expect a tonne from Dench, but so far, I think he's played his role fine.

me, what do you mean Maher should have 'bounced the ball out to take a 3 pt shot'?
You dont mean deliberately miss and hope one of your team mates grabs the rebound do you?

yes..that is what i meant..is that a problem?

The usual result of that play would be to give the ball directly to the opposition, and not have an extra point to show for it.

The correct way to do it is to have Jordan coming from outside the three point line to put back your missed free throw. Unfortunately of course, even when Michael did it it was a violation.

I was at the game ad noway redhage took 40 shots. 24 i think is the right number. 16-24. he tore ballinger, chappel and anyother poor sap who went up against him.

Maher was great for you guys. mottram was dissapointing. if you guys kept newely, wow what a team. anyhow, i think the 6ers will beat a fair few teams. a playoffs calibare ball club.