Hudson is still injured and won't be playing I believe.

I guess we've got to give you 10/10 for blind unrelenting hope, but Breakers by 10+

Well it's a drought at the moment, but all droughts break in the end. Now is as good a time as any.

Marty will make sure the players don't break the 'Marty Structure system' unlike the previous few games and the Breakers win by 25+

All perth supporters will be backing a adelaide win! But, very unlikely. Be intresting game, 36ers are playing relaxed and its paid off.

Definitely hoping for a 36ers win here. Would make the NZ @ Perth last round game very intense.

I do think it could happen but I wouldn't put money on it.

Is Schenscher back?

Breakers to win it , 3rd quarter slumps and all.
36ers look great but seem to fall off near the end.

Win for the breakers will make it 13 straight, moving them to 9th equal for all time NBL winning streaks

The Breakers are due a bad game. Why not get it out of the way in the minor round. It would be pretty awks if they got to the major round and went out in straight sets.

If they drop a game a home, Andre can use it for motivation for the season. Imagine them losing by a point after double OT.

So if the Breakers are going to drop at least 1 game then I guess then Perth must be going to drop 2 games

Mystro, who is top of the table? Who have the 3 losses been against? Perth are on 5 losses.

NZ: ADL, CRN, CRN, MEL, MEL, PER
PER: CRN, SYD, CRN, NZB

The R24 game will be a cracker. Perth should smash Cairns twice and Sydney as well. NZB will crush Cairns and belt Melbourne, so a loss to Adelaide will just tease the Wildcats.

Think it will come to the last game, u would have think the tigers must win one! They have to! Perth i feel play better away, they got burnt by cj in nz twice in game 1 and 3 so home court is a bounus but both nz and perth are the best teams away from hm!

Mystro,

The Breakers are a game played behind but two losses in front of the Wildcats.

If the Breakers lose one game and the Wildcats do not lose any until the final round it will be playing off for top spot because:

If Breakers win they are back to 2 games in front.

If Wildcats win they are tied but have the series on the Breakers so will finish first.

go the sixers help us out will u!

@Jack Toft Help me with the timeline. So Brett Maher had started shaving, but hadn't started arm-wrestling with Chris Blakemore before youth interstate finals?

And nobody can be as excited (or as unsocial) as Mitch Creek on social media.

Lets just say two road wins in a row is a long time between drinks.

All in all everyone seems anti nz breakers ??
There not the champs for nothing
Even with Abercrombie playing half ass there getting it done. Cedric Jackson mvp by far!
Madgen best shooter in the Kirk Penney mould but not as legendary.
Unfortunate for Hudson to be injured , Lemanis sure knows how to milk a dud . He was crap at the blaze, nows he's getn rebounds.Alex Pledger is overrated and useless tbh
One day he's swatting away shots , another day he's getn jumpers and dunks in transition .
Low output from Leon Henry this season , too bad bouchers retiring from ANBL

im not anti breakers in fact i hope they don't lose a match for the rest of the season

expect them to beat adelaide comfortably

ANBL.....since when is the NBL the ANBL?

The Kiwis call it the Australian NBL as they have their NZ NBL, which is like ABA.

NSW should have never let control of that island slip out of their grip on 1/7/1841.

Can't stand people getting caught up on "ANBL" - you understand what they're saying, so maybe try understanding where they're coming from?

Also in this boat can be football vs soccer griping when context is enough to make it clear.

I thought we were playing a less structured offence
but seems we're not . Weak at the 3 and more guards than Buckingham Palace . Nevertheless , if the guy playing the most minutes every game had a good one , we could win .

I'm expecting Jackson to have a field day, he's due for a big one.

nbl tv looks ok for me at the moment,

Mystro, I think you mean Johnson

end of the 1st and Breakers up 28-15

Radio coverage online now at Radio Sport NZ

http://www.radiosport.co.nz/player/listenlive/

Sixers down 28-15 at the first break

Christopherson is the Marty Clarke of imports.

Just another tech from marty, he can enver keep hes fucking mouth close

That tech and its timing won't win Marty any fans.

You could see in the break when Marty was talking to the ref, the ref was just looking at the ground waiting for it to end. Just had no interest in the gripe.

The segment with Christopherson was a bit agonising.

gibbo is hooot

We have no business being within three points, but oh well. Just have to stay within touch.

It'sd okay Isaac - we're not (5 points)

Haven't been able to watch at work but box score suggests we're hitting the offensive boards hard and doing better then NZ at converting second chances. Mind you, their shooting percentage is outrageous so not many second chances to be had.

We did get it to three at one point. Combination of Gibson getting hot and scoring inside reasonably well at points through DJ and Petrie.

cedric flopson on that 4pt play

didnt take us long to throw the game away

No one topped four rebounds for Adelaide.

Let's go breakers!

Im getting in early tonight. Game over yet in the Tiser, Clarke says he expect the 36ers to win yadda yadda yadda.

Firstly, u blow and secondly, eat your words clarke.

And more importantly, Marcus Camby, the game plan doesnt work obviously now unless a wonderful magical excuse is something u have to share with us all.

@Anon'040..

Offence was not the main problem.

Defence was....

Not Marty's fault the Sixers allowed NZB to hit 62% FG%.

Not Marty's fault the Sixers allowed NZB to hit 48% 3PT %.

Not Marty's fault the Sixers allowed 42 point in the paint.

Not Marty's fault the Sixers allowed 20 points of turnovers.

Stop using Christopherson as a scapegoat ffs.

He was actually the top rebounder in the team in only 17 mins.

So Marcus, I think I see your point, ......it wasn't Marty's fault. :-)

More appropriately, its not ALL Marty's fault.

Which has been my consistent message from Day 1.

I think it's completely unreasonable to expect them to beat NZ over there in only year 3 of Marty's 10 year plan! I think, before the game, if they offered us a below 30 point loss, we would've taken it. Why should you "fans" expect a team like us to beat another team in our own League?

I think we lost by 30 because we booed our team on national TV.

Marty's defensive schemes do not involve allowing NZB to stroll into the key for 42.

Kings are worse off then the sixers!
Can't have a nicae shooter like Madgey
And not support him , esp with harvey injured now

Once again Jackson plays like a MVP!

36ers need to stop the penetration and protect the damn paint!

Maybe it's not Clarkes direct fault that they scored so easily in the paint. The players have a lot to do with it, sure. But those players need inspiration and direction. They need someone and something to play FOR. Their home crowd wasn't booing them, so it can't be that. They didn't have access to the Internet while playing to read all the negativity, can't be that either. Maybe the goose at the helm needs to take responsibility, and his ranga first mate! Real leaders acknowledge every weakness and address them accordingly, Marty and radford need a good look at themselves.

And now we go from "slimmest of chances of making the four" to "can we avoid the spoon."

One step closer to season's end and a new coach.

Win or lose, that's a positive.

@NBLFacts:

Breakers have now beaten 36ers 15 times in a row which is 2nd longest streak of all time. Record is Kings over Taipans 17 straight times.

Here's another fact:
Tyson Chandler got 2 more rebounds today than the entire Adelaide team.

Another poor "Turd Quarter" by the Sixers

Daly, Gibson and Weigh were positives out of tonight.
The defence and rebounding were pathetic however.
Christophersons minutes must be taken by Cadee and Daly even though i feel sorry for him

So Marcus what you're saying is that its not ALL Marty's fault when we lose. Ok, I can live with that because as in any sport the players should also shoulder some of the blame for a teams loss. Yet wasn't it only two weeks ago when we defeated Cairns that you claimed the win was ALL down to Marty Clarke and his brilliant coaching, with no mention as to of the role the players?

Now, as for the game, the 25pt loss is disappointing, but did anyone here ever really expect us to win against the Breakers in front of 8,500 Kiwi's at the Vector Arena? Tonight was always going to be a case of "the heart says Adelaide, the head says NZ".

I haven't seen the game so can't comment a lot about it. But I will ask how an import in this league can play 18:27 and yet only put up two shots....missing both. Sure Christopherson topped our rebounding tonight with 4, alongside DJ, Stevie Weigh and Jason Cadee, but only putting up 2 FG attempts that both missed in 18 and a half minutes is a waste of space. And he made it worse by committing 3 turnovers. In comparison Tom Daly hit 3/6 in only 12:05, had 2 less turnovers and gave out one more assist (SC 1, TD 2).

I do feel a bit sorry for Christopherson though. His stint here in the NBL looks like going a long way to killing any chances he has of having a decent career, here or overseas. After this season, no NBL team is going to want to know about him, and if he can't make it here then he won't have a chance in hell of making it in Europe or even in the US.

HoldenV8, ignore the troll.

For all of Jack Toft's hype, that was a pretty anti-climactic 2nd half!

Sorry 'bout that, I was hoping the Cheerleader effect was going to kick in during the second half. Obviously, the NZ Breakers Cheerleaders don't give the boys the same lift as some of the other cheerleaders.

Beekayz - 36ers matched NZ's rebounding at both ends of the floor. NZ shot 62% and 36ers shot 45%. Both teams had almost the same number of shots (66 v 65 field shot attempts, 15 v 17 free throw attempts). 36ers missed 39 attempts and NZ missed 30. If all missed free throws resulted in a rebounding contest, 36ers got 10/39 offensive rebound opportunities (25%) vs NZ getting 7/30 (23%). 36ers got 16/30 defensive rebounds (57%) and NZ got 25/39 (60%). I don;t have a problem with them getting fewer rebounds given those stats.

I note also that the 36ers would have beaten Perth a few weeks back if they'd shot as well as they did tonight (45%). Without having seen the game, I'm relying on the box scores. From those, I can't see anything to wring my hand about in their scoring and rebounding. They also had fewer turnovers than NZ and shot better outside the 3pt line. The fault was clearly that we let NZ score at 62%, which suggests NZ were able to score relatively easily. That's also supported by NZ having 20 points from turnovers and 42 points in the paint.

From what I saw at half time and 3 quarter time, the 36ers also shot well in every quarter but the third. The game appeared to be decided by that one quarter of poor shooting, in tandem with the inability to stop NZ scoring at any stage of the game.

The 36ers still have a mathematical chance of making the 4, by the way. They have to win all of their remaining games. If we beat Wollongong by less than 23 (i.e., lose the season split), the mathematical chance of making the finals is about 0.3% and we have to finish in a 4-way tie with Wollongong, Cairns and Sydney, on 11 wins while Perth have to lose at least one game.

If we can beat Wollongong by 23 or more and get the season split, the chance goes up considerably - to 14.4%. The constant in this scenario is finishing in a tie with Wollongong on 11 wins.

So, the team has plenty to play for.

HoldenV8....

I NEVER claimed all accolades for Marty in those wins.

In fact I have been VERY consistent with my treatment. I have always been about sharing the responsibility over the group, be it for a loss or a win.

I have the utmost respect for the players and do not appreciate being accused of taking away due credit.

Marcus I think you would be a great coach.

Isaac is correct: MC has somehow maintained a trolling streak on Hoops that's comparable to the Breakers winning streak over the Sixers.

Impressive stuff. And people still go in for it.