Any idea how many tickets have been sold for game 1 in Melbourne? (Approximately)

Won't even pretend to be anything but a total biased Kings fan. Kings by 4. :p

Dammit. Of all the nights I get a Tinder date!!

Kings can't win if Bogut fouls out.

Melbourne will win if they can carry out the 3-pronged attack of Barlow drawing Bogut out the 3PG, Boone drawing early fouls on Bogut, and Pledger getting the boards of Bogut.

Kings can win with Bogut on the bench if their shots are dropping. Defensively they can't survive it if it's a tight game with both teams missing shots. The good thing is, and one of the reason why all the Melb-Syd games were so close despite the 3-1 advantage to Melb, is that the Kings match up pretty well with United, and Bogut shouldn't be giving up too many fouls to Boone down low. Kennedy is the x-factor but I think Newley generally matches up pretty well with him too.

Hoping Kennedy puts in a pearler like game 1 vs Sydney, low scoring affair where Kennedy dropped 24 and was the difference

Don't know what to expect here. I assume it'll be very close, like the regular season.

I'd like to see the Barlow-Bogut thing again. Will make it interesting

Disappointing crowd.

Will be lucky to be 7,000.

I hope United dip below 75% 3pt shooting.

Melbourne will win this easily. Sydney isn't consistent.

Good game so far good signs for the Kings with United shooting so well yet tied ball game.

Going to be a blow out now.

Hopefully Gaze learns from this 2nd Q that this squad can't put 4 benchies on together at this point of the season. Unlikely, though.

Gross.

Yikes... Syd don't even wanna show up to a massive game like this.

Hard to see them coming back

This isn't good.

Gaze left Lisch and then Bogut off for too long

United playing very well

On paper fairly even but Bogut is Kings real advantage. If Boone keeps playing like this United will keep winning for the entire playoffs

Yeah, Kings have to have a minimum of 3 starters on the court at all times. Just not deep enough.

Give melb too much confidence and it won't matter. If melb win this by 15+

I am expecting a sweeping for the kings

Something STINKS, wait is the rot at Sydney Kings.

Aw well, hope Perth v Brisbane is close game

Better start for Sydney, but need to keep this up and also survive the late 3rd Q/early 4th Q Gaze substitutions.

Adnam is great as a depth option. Hes never going to be a superstar, but he's hardly out of his league on the court. Has some flaws but he's decent

Adnam has overall been pretty great this season. Biggest issue has been Gaze playing him alongside Randle throughout the year.

What was Randle 's injury? Looks a bit slower than usual. Out of rhythm

Hammy makes sense. If you're tight you're tight. Can't manage that.

Oh look, there's some AFL players in the crowd.

I'm a bit disappointed by this game. I was hoping for more from this matchup. But you never know. Maybe this is the wake-up call they need...

You would want to hope so if your a king's fan, because they couldn't possibly get worse

Sad result, was hoping for an upset Kings win, would much rather them if we happen to get through, i have been fairly critical of White as an import, but good lord Wear the Kings version makes him look like an all star.

King's are showing that their decision not to get a 7th import is going to cost them a spot in the grand final series

If Deng had been given 5% of the opportunities that Wear has inexplicably been given this year can't help but think he'd be a useful player for us by this point. As it is he had a nice preseason then had a couple of poor showings defensively to start the year and never made it back into the rotation.

David Wear will go down as one of the worst NBL imports in history to last entire season he is TRASSSSHHHH. JVG and Gaze go bye bye together??

Cant believe no-one has mentioned how shit bogut played considering all the hype. Melbourne in 2

SWEEP

Can't blame the players. Kings players have tried their best. However from the preseason - #Wear is our PF? Where are our athletic rebounders? Where is our athletic swing 3/4? Where is our balance? Where is our coaching - no open shots, all contested shots.

"Cant believe no-one has mentioned how shit bogut played considering all the hype."

Always said Pork Chop is not as good as Angus Beef, DJ, and now Boone.

Cotton should have been MVP.

Bogut vacationing with Carmen Sandiego?!

Bogut really is a non-factor in this series.

Boone competes on the boards better than most and runs the floor really well for a big.

On top of that, Melbourne has a superior perimeter game.

Both of these factors take away Boguts strengths.

People still bitter over Bogut winning MVP, despite how it was tallied huh.

Bogut had an off-night, but so did the rest of the team. A real lackluster performance and maybe not surprising with the stupid timing of the Gaze announcement. At that point it felt like the Kings had given up on this season, and last night's performance pretty much backed that up.

If Cadee is your starting PG you are going to have a bad time.
Why/How does he keep finding himself in that situation year after year. He needs to put into the Goulding coming of the bench role and stay there.. or go to Illawara/Cairns (no offence).

Te Rangi showed up proving why he was MIP and 6th man also ... smh

sorry wrong thread this was meant to say

BOGUT MVP - LOL

Bogut didn't have an off-night, he is a liability.

As I have said many times, he is too slow to defend the perimeter or the on-ball screen, so what happened?

Vickerman gets Ware to drop 4 3PG in the first few minutes, and the Kings never recovered.

Other coaches have been slow to catch on, but they will.

Only watched from the second half onwards, but there were so many occasions when a Kings shot went up that Bogut would start heading to the other end of the court as if it would go in every time. He's an elite rebounder so not sure why he wouldn't challenge for the offensive boards when he was in usually a 40/60 chance of out rebounding his opponent. Must have had flashbacks of still being on the Warriors roster...

"Only watched from the second half onwards, but there were so many occasions when a Kings shot went up that Bogut would start heading to the other end of the court as if it would go in every time."

Bogut is too slow to do both. Boone will beat him on the break every time.

Sydney was beaten in every position on the court last night, but the biggest problem was their cornerstones Randle and Bogut getting outplayed

If Boone keeps that up, United wins the title. My biggest concern is his health. He may need to be nursed through the 5 game GF with careful management and treatment

"Bogut is too slow to do both. Boone will beat him on the break every time."

Quite a few occasions Boone wasn't on the court though.