Even with Davidson out, I think we SHOULD win.

If we don't win though, we go to Sydney on Wednesday, and I've seen the Kings three times so far this year, and they've given me no reason to think that we can beat them. So it could very easily be a 2-5 start to the year.

Tonight's game is the first must-win of our season.

That said, Crocs by 5.

I think we should get this one. It would take a special effort from Rillie and that guy with the really laughably crap nickname to stop us.

Sixers by 8.

Both teams will be desperate for a win. Should be a close one. I think Adelaide should win it in the end. They just can't let Townsville get ahead. I think Maher will be the key, if he scores 25+ again, win to Adelaide. I don't think Cooper is looking that good for Adelaide, I hope they play more Mottram.

Townsville by 8+

sixers by 6 ballinger will be our player of the game. like anon said we need all the confidence for the kings.

I can't get the radio working either. I'm getting the same problem with Winamp as I did with the Wildcats game  it's saying service unavailable. Bugger, bugger, bugger.

yeah but the coverage should have.

Sutts 3 fouls in two minutes.

Yes it has

Arrggg i can NG misses three foul shots ?! Thats not good enough

Sorry, How can he miss three within the first couple of minutes of the game?

radio doesnt work on both winamp and itunes for me bloody nbl website

sixers lead 9-8

only blaze and dragons auido is working i think

I can get the audio for all games EXCEPT THE SIXERS!!!

it tells me "service unavailable"

Pisses me right off when I'm looking forward to listening to the Sixers on the radio and the bloody link buggers up.

Sixers up 15-13.

http://www.nbl.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=72605

have a look at that, i think what this is saying is that there is only live audio for the Dragons and Blaze games.....

i hope im wrong though

Just Got Blown Out..

Why can't the radio stream through windows media player like ever radio station and the AFL do?

because the NBL isn't exactly big on giving the fans what they want....

Good to see the foul shooting going well again too. Chappell probably thinks he has done his job now after one reasonable game!

FG:
Crocs 61%
36ers 38%

Adelaide 8/15 FT isn't a great start.

Down 42-29.

They also have double the rebounds. This is not looking good at all at this stage. But I am sure our coach will pull us through!

thats pretty much the game i think, what is it with pepper getting the point we should have enough to shut him down. Meanwhile our big have a high score of 4 points.

i hope so..

wow Pepper have a decent game so far 15 points 5 rebounds

Pepper gooing for a 40!..

Smyth's time is up!! Can we have a team that at least knows how to play D?? To put it simply, we suck!

Well he is only playing the Sixers

20 down and giving up +60 in a half to a team on a five game losing streak!

On the positive side, a decent coach became available through the week.

I hope you are referring to Ninnis...

I'd forgotten about him, but that sounds great!

NBL stats crashed, showing 0-0. So we are back in it!

Up against a 1-5 team who have the worst PPG-for in the league. Crocs are up 20 points and have 60+ a couple of minutes before half-time. Any chance of a comeback?

PS, Astor - always makes me laugh when someone actually uses the "nickname suggestortronic".

N.O.N.E.

I thought about it for a minute, and nope, no chance of a comeback.

Somes it up tho we have no hope if this keeps up!.. Struggling Big Time.. Sixers have problems..

Given that, as Phil said, a road team needs AT LEAST a 10 point lead going down the stretch, we will need to outscore the Crocs by at least 31 in the third!

Going to be kinda hard to paint this one as a "positive loss".

wheres the audio?:(

Do you honestly want to be able to listen to this Me?

lol..sad but true aint it :(

At least live scores stuff up and give us a little hope.

The NBL site and its score service is going about as well as the Sixers!

64 50 in 3rd.. started well!! thank god!

If anyone still cares: 3rd term underway. Chappell hit a 3 and it's 64-50.

According to the live stats the crocs have 8 players on the floor and the sixers have 7.

go team

Pepper Count - 22 points..

the thing is i hate to say it we wont at this stage..

Nick - that's nothing to worry about. When I last looked at the Dragons-Bullets game, it was 189-187 and Cortez Groves had 77 points. Craig Bradshaw had 8 fouls and Joe Ingles had a 33 points, 14 rebounds and 14 assists triple double!

Anon, Burdon appeared in 4 road games last season, totalling 6 points.

Bloody hell, what going on with these scores - 189-187!? Bit of a shootout hey Isaac. The thing about these live scores stuffing up all the time is that when some unusual does happen in a game people think it the stats stuffing up. I remember when the stats said that Herbert had 20 points against the Sixers and people were rolling their eyes and saying here we go again.

ballinger playing like shit as well, chappelle is relation to the team is not bad just overall we seem to suck only 1 player in double digits by the 3rd quarter is horrible.

They have used an 8 instead of a 0 (zero) in the bullets v dragons game.

23 down. We are U S E L E S S ! ! !

3 qtr time - 95 to 70. This is atrocious. Does Vince have a son ?

easy the boys are still meshing as a group.

haha yeah thats right they are still meshing and also Thursdays game took it out of them. That should work.

LOL, you said it Anon #153734.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm off the fetch a knife, I've had enough of this...

Two winnable road games . Lost , now we face a team unbeaten on Wednesday night . Phil better not use up all his excuses tonight!

Kings lost to West Sydney tonight...

Burdon a three!

Well, we'll go down by nearly 30, lose the boards by 20, and shoot 56% from the stripe against a team which is AVERAGE at best.

Two words: shit sandwich.

Why you are at it, stab the NBL Live Scores aswell, it might make the scores 0-0 again

Is this team actually any better than last years team?!

123abc, the NBL don't need any help to bugger up the scores, they're perfectly capable of doing on their own.

naturally

D16, just wrote this in another thread but i think individuals are better but the team is just the same, and unfortunately for us how a team works together stops with the coach....time for a change. Claxton got sacked with better results.

Another long boring season ahead.

Taxi for Smyth!?!?

They need collage players, young good players who will represent the team with pride, not players like dench and copes who are playing to make money and little else. We need players who are willing to sacrifice money to play for a team with history, a team which used to have pride. We need to start to build a new core of younger players, younger players who are ready to play, not NG and Sutton who appear to be role players and nothing more.

Another piss fu*(ing weak performance. To lose against a sh*thouse crocs side like that is a disgrace.

We have tried new players, and things haven't changed, maybe try something new and lets change the coach and see if things improve. Obviously sh*t ain't working at the moment. Screw 'gelling' these guys are professional players, they should of 'gelled' by now.

If things continue like that I'd have more fun smashing my testicles between two bricks and then using electrical tape and sandpaper to stop the bleeding.......

Just waiting for the bullsh*t Phil excuses now.

bring back reesy

Its been a disgraceful week for the 36ers but then again this week has been a really weird one across the whole league. Who would have predicted the Bullets losing at home to the Kings (or anyone for that matter), who would have predicted the Razorbacks to beat the Kings, who would have predicted the Dragons to go down by only 1 point to the Bullets, who would have predicted the 36ers to lose all their road games this week against some of the lower teams in the league? When Chappell played so well against New Zealand I was confident he had made a good comeback. That has now served to our detriment, because even with a great performance like that, we still lose games against weak teams. Apart from Davidson still to come back, we have exhausted all our lifelines.

Don't have the paper and Boti's report is not yet up on AdelaideNow - interested to know what his take on the game is.

All I've managed to get from someone on OzHoops so far is that the 36ers "didn't play very well".

Dry Back? Did you get to the game?

im sick of this year all ready

thats my 2 cents

Was at the game, refereeing was pretty even bad calls both ways but not one sided. Your boys were tired and lacked the on court leadership and ball control Brad would have provided.

Brett did well but is getting old and can't carry the team forever, Crocs defence was very good especially Galen on Ballinger, the only time he got points was when Galen was on the bench. IMO Sutton, Ng and Burdon shouldn't have more than 12 mins between them, Sutton played very average, Ng had a bad night and Burdon is just bad. Cooper and Mottram couldn't do much at either end and Copeland is old and disinterested, Dench although didn't show much heart actually played quite well towards the end. I was expecting a lot more from Chappel after the NZ game but he didn't deliver and is a dead weight you need to cut loose.

Unless a lot of players decide they don't want to keep losing and step up I don't see a good year for 36ers fans, you need to bring back that great local talent you have let slip away in Holmes, Forman, Ingles, Newley, Hill and I've probably missed out a few others. Maybe Smyth still has it but I think you have to be looking at Ninnis as the future to turn the club around from recent bad form.