Seriously thats not your best work.

But thanks for starting the topic off. Phoenix to shoot the lights out and win by 11. Without Martin to shutdown Roberson, he'll go for 30.

That's a great write up Jack, as usual.

Perth by plenty, Plumlee to show what a real five can can do in a league with not many.

Scrappy game.

These refs are shit and I'm a Perth supporter

Home cooking for the cats tonight!

9 fouls in under 3 minutes. Most of them rubbish calls. VM always seems to be present in poor reffing

Here come the refs!!! Thank god we have nba players in the league, no one wants to watch them. Phoenix now in the bonus, one of them a foul... it really feels like there os some evening up going on.... absolute trash. Throw in a blatantly wrong oit of bounds call fobphx way too...

9 fouls in under 3 minutes. Most of them rubbish calls. VM always seems to be present in poor reffing

Why are NBL refs like this? Every quarter of every game, both teams seem to end up in the bonus

Madgen shouldn't be on the court..no shot and no vision.

LOL what is that foul ffs

Ot was years before the shot just get on with it!!! Ffs

Here in the second quarter there literally hasn't been one possession either way where a whistle hasn’t been blown. My lord this is unbearable to watch.

How can you possibly see that as after the shot, even the gather! No home cooking tonight.

You can't get any rhythm when every possession is a foul

Pass into the back of the head, pass to no one, pass out of bounds.... yep neither team has momentum.

Easy to blame the refs but fouls are fouls, stop grabbing and moving screens. Phoenix got the ability to drag game to there level which is very poor. Hopefully gets better in second half.

"truggling to keep my attention too and I'm in the building"
Clearly not a basketball fan.

C'mon ref mate... Ruining the spectacle

Best block of the year, ref, hold my beer...

You can tell SEM are missing Benson

Cats ordinary. Phoenix somehow 26 points ordinarier.

https://twitter.com/PerthWildcats/status/1218138942018449409?s=19

Cocked that thing back and banged it on em

Perth then daylight. Creek and Wesley only two that play defence for Phoenix. Cotton mvp also then daylight. White is bloody sneakily good, just does it so smoothly.

If his name wasn't Plumlee everyone would be calling for him to be sent home
Shown sfa do far

Timberball stats nay not show full picture but 3 p 3 r a game is hard to talk up with "good screens and he blocks out"
Majok was far better to nite

Just by being a bigger body Plumlee is a massive upgrade on Hunt. They don't need the scoring from him, mostly just screening, rim protection and rebounding. Had a great save back inbounds that not many bigs could pull off.

Oh and don't forget his nice dunk in the warm up

It doesn't have to already left the hand on the shot to count in that situation. It’s whether Madgen had begun his act of shooting.

Creek is injured

Creek was -33 for the game.

Creek has carried the team physically and mentally, Wesley can still play but rest team are worse than average and that's including the every commentator favourites. This team struggling on defence. I’ll take Roberson out of below average also, but teams have worked him out.

Creek has faded as the season has gone on. He didn't carry the team at all last night.

Wesley spent too much time bitching to the refs. He's not a leader.

Every single one of those refs were completely incompetent. For a majority of the game i was sitting there thinking this is one if the most boring games I've been to.

14 fkn fouls were called in the first fkn 5min of the 2nd quarter. They wasted like 4min looking at a video review. Refs that were way out of position were making calls they shouldn't. They robbed Plumlee of possibly block of the season. Robbed the fans of seeing more of Plumlee with some stupid early fouls called on him, of which only 1 or 2 of his 4 were actually fouls. The refs were super inconsistent during the game, going all whistle happy for periods but then missing lots of call/letting stuff go. Despite being so keen to blow the whistle they missed a fair few off the ball things.

Over all it was horribly reffed. 0 impact on the result but wildly inconsistent and ruined the spectacle and game.

^^ spot on, no baring on the result, but makes for a really shitty stop start game. Shit to watch and no doubt shit to attempt to play in

Creek is the best culture builder

Timber
Plumlee was -2 +- last night with 2 pt 5 r

And you think he was the difference when on court???

Or maybe these guys were when on court

Kay +25
Norton + 18
Cotton +26
white + 28

Plumlee wasn't the difference maker but he's been in the country a week and a half, hasn't got a full preseason under his belt, is still adjusting to the refs but is not dropping his head. It's got nothing to do with his name - it's obvious he is a better fit for the Cats so comparing him to Hunt or saying he should go home is idiotic.

Plumlee played at the death when Perth had there dp and bench on, Phoenix went on an 8 point plus in that time. While he got into foul trouble last night he does look the perfect fit for Perth.

Let's be honest, the refs were shit last night.

I have watched most of it on replay, and their calls were just fucking abissmal, and that review centre is clearly a joke.
Lets just ignore the illegal screen, call the foul on the screened player, then allow a continuation 3 seconds later, and somehow turn it into a 4 point play. Fucking Muppets.

Plumlee was robbed by the refs being dickheads.
The steal and block where he got 100% ball both times.