Im predicting a big win. We lost in Perth eaier this season after building a 15pt lead early.... But this time round we have a healthy Davidson and Julius (i love that name haha)

No Caporn, surely means the 6ers aka Davidson will run the remaining Perth guards off there feet. If he can get it going defensively like he did against Sydney in that second half....it'll be a very long night for cats fans.

36ers by 17

Does the last post classify as spam? haha

1st Qtr 5:01
Wildcats 14
36ers 9

Hodge Watch - 2 Points, 1 Board, 1 Assist

hodge not on the scoreboard or what?

We are only shooting at 25% so far. Need to improve.

8 on 6... now 6 on 5... hardly fair.

End of the 1st Quarter


Wildcats 28
36ers 24


HODGE WATCH - 2 points, 2 Assists, 1 Rebound

2nd Qtr
11:04

Wildcats - 28
36ers - 29

NBL site

9:25

Wildcats 30
Sixers 35

Maher and Balls both hitting shots.

Just watching the Play by Play section. it lists hodges stats in there.

5:33

Its tied up at 37 each

Balls on 16 points

yeah i saw hodge in that section. how poor is it that he is still not listed, its little things like this that are so annoying and just shows how unprofessional the NBL real is. Hopefully we can pick up the pace and get some separation on the scoreboard.

2:07

Wildcats - 41
Sixers - 43

Hodge has made little impact on the game.

whats the score now? hows hodge going? i saw him at training earlier this week and he looks very impressive!

cooper looks to be going ok again.

sixers have added a new import. that has got nbl scores confused, too hard, just call him sutton that will fix it.

Half time sees the Sixers up by 6.
Wildcats - 45
Sixers - 51

Ballinger and Maher dominating the scoring for us with 16 & 13 points respectivly.

Cooper is doing nicely too with 7 points, 4 boards, 2 blocks and an assist.

For them Loughton is doing the damage with 12 points and 8 rebounds.

Hodge did nothing that quarter from what I can tell.

Its just been posted on Ozhoops that Hodge has gone down with a left knee injury.

That is tragic if true.

if the hodge insident is true, I LOVE OUR LUCK.

Wildcats have come out swinging in the 3rd quarter.

10 - 0 run sees them up 55 - 51.

:-(

HODGE HAS RETURNED TO THE COURT AND MADE AN IMMEADIATE IMPACT..... with a foul.

Copes hits his 2nd Three for the game to tie us up at 57 each.

The they score again. 59 - 57.

Balls now on 19 points.

skip, im already sick of you bagging hodge. F*&^ Off and give hodge a chance.

Relax Kobe and have a beer

Im not bagging him at all. He entered the court and fouled within 5 seconds.

Settle down kobe.

I can't tell whose name Hodge's score is against. How does anyone know how he is progressing. I thought his score wasn't shown and it was the difference between the total of individual player's scores and the game total. It doesn't make sense. Surely the NBL have had long enough to know there is a Julius Hodge now playing for the 36ers. For God's sake they had to approve it. Why can't they get his name up on the scoreboard?

Hodge for 2!

Wildcats 72
Sixers 67

Hodge watch - 4 points. 3 Boards. 1 Assist. 3 Fouls.

Hodge nails 2 free throws.

6 points now.

Alrite alrite im settled now that hodge is starting to turn this game.. :p

Foolows up with an assist to Ng.

72 each.

7 seconds left in the 3rd.


Hodgewatch - 6 points, 4 boards, 3 assists

End of the third and the scores are level at 72.

i'm sure he will. i based that on nothing but pure hope alone.

72 a piece at the final break.

Big 14 point quarter from Redhage. Both he and balls on 21 points each.

72 - 74 Sixers

11:38

It might be 72 all at 3qtr time and hodge a bit better . but nbl scores are not good . this is his second game, he's been here 2 weeks, wish they could put him on the score.

10:10

Cats 74 - 76 Sixers

9:36

76 each.

Wildcats hits the lead 78 - 76

Redhage and Balls both on 23

7:27

Cats 80 - Sixers 77

7:00

Still 80 - 77

Hodgewatch - 7 points, 4 boards, 3 assists

6:23

Cats 81 - Sixers 78

Hodgewatch - 7 points, 4 boards, 4 assists

81 - 78 Cats. 6:23.

Surely its 'Maher Time'....

6:18

Still 81 - 78

Hodgewatch - 7 points, 5 boards, 4 assists

Skip

How do you know how many points Hodge has?

Maher just subbed out for Copeland. Still a few more minutes to Maher time it seems.

Im just following the play by play.

5:44

Dench for 3!
81 each!!

4:36

sTILL 81 A PIECE.

I hope the damn scores dont freeze up with 30 seconds to go like they did with the Kins/Tigers game,

Still tied.

4:14 on the clock.

Hodgewatch - 7 points, 5 boards, 4 assists

Foul shot hit.

Sixers in front.

81 - 82

4:14 to go

Maher back on court. Dont think he has scored this half.

Hodgewatch - 8 points, 5 boards, 4 assists

The foul shot was his. Fouled by Redhage outside. Only hit 1 from 3 tho.

3:19

Wildcats score and hit the lead

83 - 82.

83-84 36ers, 2:10 left.

2:10

Sixers take it back!!!!

83 - 84

86 - 83 36ers, 1:30 left.

Hodgewatch - 9 points, 6 boards, 4 assists

1:30

Cats 83 - Sixers 86!!!

85 - 86 Sixers way.

58 secs left!!

According to your stats skip Hodgewatch should read 10 points, 6 boards and 4 assists (8 + 2 = 10) =)

com sixers. 1 point ah

Correct

Hodgewatch - 10 points, 6 boards, 4 assists

We lost, all overr. AHHHHHHH

down 3 with 9sec !

Cats lead by 3 points with 9 seconds to go.

Phil calls timeout.

Cats lead by 3 points with 9 seconds to go.

Phil calls timeout.

who had that last shot, i see a d-board to wildcats but does not list who shot it.

We lose.

90 - 88.

:-(

1 point loss ah shit

2 point loss ah shit

It cant be too often that a team loses to a team that only shoots at 25%!

9 - 11 back to the struggle to get to .500

its a real shame, it was a very winnable game and our schedule does not get any easier, especially next home game is the kings i think so you doubt we will get that.

season may have just slipped by us?

What happened to Maher? Did he get injured? His score didn't change from half time, or so it seemed.

looks like they brought ballinger in for a clutch 3 in the last few seconds - did not work (

What was Ballinger doing of the court in the few minutes prior and with a game which could go either way? The last few seconds is too little too late.

Aw, I thought we were gonna win it when we were 3points up about 90secs to go. Seems they won it with their better offensive rebounds.
And yeah looks like still had a chance 9secs to go.
So very close, and hodge doing better as game went on, I thought we were there.

Hodge - 8 Turnovers - had the chance to win it in the last few seconds but turned the ball over

Redhage had 8 O-boards and went to the line 18 times. Didn't Adelaide have trouble guarding Redhage in the pre-season? They did a fine job earlier this season on him.

Box Scores:

http://www.nbl.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=73741

Hodge with EIGHT Turnovers!

If someone before the game told me that Cooper would lead the team in minutes, especially after Dench's form in the last couple of weeks,
and only one other player on the floor would have gotten more minutes..

would not have believed them..

Are our other bigs that bad,
or am I underestimating Cooper?

AWESOME game 36ers,

some great d, some bad luck with a couple of horrible hometown calls in the last minute.

Hodge..loved his drive, just held on to it a little too much on occasion...but man he drives sooo hard at the basket..love it!!!

Coops...did some good hard work in d again...couple of great rejects and rebounds

Copeland showed some real fight, the guy might be old..but he works his but off.

Darren...fired some great shots, but he took a hammering again.

the game between Ballinger and Rogers was incredible in parts

the whole game was fantastic..and to go down by 2 was tough to swallow....the comment above about "me" being was posted by me, from the game and was true..I was asked to leave the VIP section as the wildcats directors had complained..geez..can you believe it...so..instead we were moved courtside just past halfway..so..guess not real probelm..but..how sad are the wildcats fans?

Well it may not be that easy to just give him the ball 30 times a game as i am pretty sure the other team would have done there homework and would implement various defensive strategies to starve Ballinger of the ball. Its not as if every single team in the NBL is not aware of who Ballinger is and we just throw the ball to him with no double triple teams faced by the passer.

Rogers, Redhage & Loughton might be 3 reasons why Balls didn't get the ball 25 times.
I don't know why I'm explaining this to someone who can't remember his password, but I'm that kinda guy. : P