United to win

CG43 top scored in just over 20 mins - playing restricted mins post-injury

And watch out for Jock Landale - after last game - he will be an angry man

Yikes still no Sykes! Agree with above that Landale should dominate so unUnited to win this one

No coffee for SEM, coffee is for winners

With so much at stake with the NBL Cup, if Melbourne get 7 points from this game, and at least 5 from the game against the Hawks, they will end up with 37 points. They need to make up 4.5 points on Perth who play NZ and then the Sixers. They need Perth to drop a game to snatch top spot.

Sen will win against Melbourne...sem is desperate to win..without Hopson, white and maybe lil I don't think they will win.

$150K for first
$100K for second
$50K for third.

If perth will get the $150k

Putting all other NBL teams on notice. Look out for Phoenix when they get back Sykes, Pineau, Gibson and add Broekhoff. Some serious depth will be at Mitchell's disposal. Definite Championship contenders.

Is Broekhoff definately not playing in this game? I thought it was a game time decision.

Ili passed his fitness test so will play

There is no harm in doing that either.
If you split money amongst all players, dps and coaching staff it's less than 10K each.

United to win.

But I'm not too fussed who wins. I'd prefer SEM made playoffs over Perth or pretty much anyone, and they need all the wins they can get without Sykes.

Perth will make the playoffs.

But I'm not too fussed who wins. I'd prefer SEM made playoffs over Perth or pretty much anyone, and they need all the wins they can get without Sykes.

Not worried about Perth

More that I'd like to see SEM in the playoffs, and with United a few games clear on top we hardly need the win

SEM taking points away from MEL already with that first quarter win. Nice.

The blueprint seems to be out on United now.

Put Baba and n Adnam

He's old and soft.

Apparently only 28. Boy, he does not age well at all.

Karena is smart

Breakers. Let's swap trist for him when he gets dropped from sem, when Ryan b comes in.

OT.

Jock "Undefeated" Landale misses a wide open look to tie it up.

A bit embarrassing to lose to Phoenix with so many guys out.

Melbourne still win the finals...white and hopson injury free I'm pretty sure they will win...

What is with the picking off players as running down the court. Seems like the centres are easy pickings for Gliddon. Has happened the last few games. Agree with Gaze ,for once, not part of the game

Quality win by SEM. Ground it out. That's the win of a playoff team

[A bit embarrassing to lose to Phoenix with so many guys out.]

Perhaps, United had more talent out there

A bit embarrassing Perth, Illawarra and Brisbane, Cairns aren't doing Better isn't it? They're the only teams not severely impacted by absence

United- White, Hopson, CG, Ili all missed loads of games

Sydney- Cook, Martin, Kickert, Didi

NZ- Loe, Patterson

SEM- Pineau, Gibson, Sykes

Ade- Humphries, down an import

Cairns- Deng

Did I miss anyone

Sydney Glover too

A bit embarrassing Perth, Illawarra and Brisbane, Cairns aren't doing Better isn't it?

Hodgson missed a few too didn't he

So many injuries this year. More than ever before. Wonder if this is related to training loads and covid

[Perth are clear favourites for the Cup and sit second on the ladder despite pre-season predictions they would go closer to the spoon than the playoffs, what the fuck are you talking about?]

Do you actually read people's posts or just run your opinion?

Look at who Perth has beaten and the players their opponents were missing

Given Perth's mostly been running a full strength team or close to, I should hope they'd be right up there

And I'm confused as to how much better you think they should be doing.

They're currently outperforming their expectations.

[They're currently outperforming their expectations.]

Are they?

If you told me 6 weeks ago:

- United, SEM, and Sydney will be decimated by injuries

- Perth will have a good run with injuries

- Most of Perth's early games are against SEM, United and Sydney

I probably would've predicted Perth would be top 2

To put this another way, "expectations" are subject to many factors

If United, SEM and Sydney were similarly healthy as Perth, then Perth would probably be 4-7 and 8th on the ladder instead of 7-4 and 2nd. Perth have won several close games when their opponent was seriously undermanned.

What LV is saying on a night where United lost to SEM sans Gibbo, Pineau and Sykes Perth win only because they face undermanned opponents.

So the "undefeated" United have lost three games now.
Player A and B have been injured blah blah.

" despite pre-season predictions they would go closer to the spoon than the playoffs"

Perth with Cotton predicted closer to the spoon than the playoffs?

GTFO of here

That's the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a long time.

If people saw Perth going 7th - 9th they’d have to be a special kind of stupid.

I wouldn’t be criticising United though, having injuries can cause problems and equally sometimes team stuff it against other injury ravaged teams, see Adelaide. I think Utd will be comfortably top 2

[What LV is saying on a night where United lost to SEM sans Gibbo, Pineau and Sykes Perth win only because they face undermanned opponents.]

United is 10-3 despite missing 2 players in most of their games, and missing 3 players in a couple.

Perth is 7-4 after mostly being full strength, and have mostly played opponents with injuries, sometimes multiple injuries.

What is up with Melb United rotations???

With all due respect, Sam Short playing minutes in first qtr? and Mcdaniel starting. Both were made to look very ordinary by Adnam

Dillon Stith sitting on bench for the entire game? Unless he is injured what is the reason for that.

He isn't at the level of most imports in the league, but he is definitely a better option than Short, Mcdaniel, and at this stage of his career, Barlow.

I really think Vickerman is a very average coach with the rosters he has had over the years

any players back for United for the next game?

In every season under Vickerman United have been favourites and spent the most yet only won the title once. He has severely underachieved.

So he had a bad rookie season, as do most coaches, then has finished second place or better all but one year since?

And that's underachieving?

What the actual fuck are you on about?