With the rim so hard..score could be under.

Breakers by 17

Breakers by 7.

A win today would put Adelaide 3 games off 4th spot with 10 games to go.
Still a chance.

Yep plenty of games left to make the finals if we're good enough. However, I think NZB will be too good tonight in the NZ-like conditions down there in Tassie.

Breakers by 5

That offensive to school boys

Even traffic cones are more inconvenient than Sixers defence

With the rim so hard..score could be under.

Although Sixers D is more of a factor.

These rims are a joke surely there some FIBA minimum standard it's like the local YMCA

Even Jesus can't save those rings

Those rings are the basketball equivalent to scratching a chalk board

How long til Giddey packs up and heads to the US?

Once Adelaide can't make too 4 he might as well

Pinder and Crocker are genuine duds. Who recruited them?

Tech Henry up again. Bloke is a hothead fool

Cant half tell Connor Henry is a career assistant coach... it looks like he is acting in a bad movie half the time..

What the hell happens at halftime in the 6ers change room. Always the 3rd quarter.. fix the problem... for f....sake going to cost the season. Must win game tonight. Need big big big turd around...

and Caporn got offered the job but declined.

Need big big big turd around...

Come on Giddey get that triple double.
We don't care if Adelaide get smashed by 20+

We looked a lot better recently with McVeigh playing all of Crockers minutes when he was injured. There isn't much point in playing Crocker anymore, he has no upside and it isn’t like we are going to sign him for next year. His boneheaded plays cost us big in that 3rd quarter. Henry may as well give his minutes to McVeigh to let him develop further and encourage him to stay next year.

I’m not sure what to make of Paul, he doesn’t quite seem to have enough playmaking ability for my liking to be a top level import. However, I don’t know if it is because he isn’t a fit for Henry’s coaching.

Frustrating game to watch as a Sixers fan. Delaney always plays well against us.

Last name Smyth?

How often are we going to get burned by the same shit.

Fuck yeah motherfuckers.
Giddey got dat triple double.
Nothing else matters.

Kelley
JvG
Henry

Name me a worse owner/GM/coach trio in NBL history. It's not like money is an issue either.

One point of prediction damn

Not playing McVeigh is ridiculous

Starting BWM won me my fantasy H2H 13 assists and 4 steals boom

McVeigh should actually take crocks minutes, they should just waive crock now and look at developing the Aussies with more court time

Solid effort Bteakers.
Adelaide woeful. Don't pretend to play defence.

Brandon Paul only got 7 shots and some shots of those he forced, is that his fault?
Jack McVeigh needs to be kept to one position [probably a 3] to give him a chance to settle defensively because at that end of the floor he is not moving at all and seems to be getting worse week by week [ he is not the only one ]
Defensively I just cannot even see what these 36ers are trying to do.

Agreed anon, they'd be the changes I’d be looking at.
Keep McVeigh , Dech, DJ, Isaac and punt the rest, coach included.
Very ordinary team, but that’s what we expected. Still frustrating. Giddey will be a big loss, but least the focus can be on building a team that can play together for a few seasons.

I thought Purchase was the Humphries replacement.
This season DPs have been travelling.

Got a laugh out of watching old Teys on the bike for ages only to get 47sec of garbage time.

Sixers any lose a few duds Teys, Dillon etc but will suck while Connor Henry is coach.

Wins don't matter.
For Giddey it's about draft stock. They're entertaining to see even if getting belted.

* may lose a few duds.

A win today would put Adelaide 3 games off 4th spot with 10 games to go.
Still a chance.

Yep plenty of games left to make the finals if we're good enough. However, I think NZB will be too good tonight in the NZ-like conditions down there in Tassie.

Henry is a fraud.

Crocker isn't up to it/

Paul isn't good enough to be an import in the scheme of things.

JVG is a cancer.

New coach and quality imports next season and we are a solid unit.

Does the owner have the cash/balls to sack Henry with two years remaining? If not, won't matter who the players are. Maybe a good bloke but doesn’t seem up to it. Injuries have hurt as well as dud imports. But his gameplan and rotations have been baffling.

Shamir coached well.

There was even some two side action on offence. Some pin down screens and curl cuts. And swinging the ball side to side.

1987 Darren Perry with Brisbane perhaps? I remember he was very young and ran the point.

It's obvious Adelaide were never going to challenge this year. It's all been about Giddey.
Adelaide worked out to be the best landing spot for him .

On paper at the beginning of the season the 36ers looked good in terms of local talent, but imports are almost always tough to predict if they've never played in the NBL before.

Sunday Dech was on the up at Wollongong, Giddey was a player any team would've taken, Humphries and DJ both in the top echelon of big guys in the league and Pinder was coming off playing in Europe. But again the importance of great imports was shown. Can't blame it all on coaching, I think they mostly scouted the imports badly.

On paper should be making the playoffs.

We have 2 elite bigs, one of which is the second highest paid local, so we aren't scrimping on the roster.

We have average to above average back court of Giddey and Dech, both with good attributes.

The imports was a bit of a mess, it became clear just a few games in that Sloan was not comfortable playing second fiddle to Giddey. If the Sixers had a 'deal' with Giddey and his reps, then Sloan should have been moved much much earlier.

I think the coaching is a big issue, the subbing looks off and unexplainable, BP has very little structured for him, yesterday they went away from Humphries.

I fear Henry will be retained as he has an injury card to play at season's end review.

We have a very solid 7 man rotation (when you add McVeigh and Crocker), which is not as bad as that sounds in a 40 minute game.

No I don't think Crocker is an all star but I think he is decent for a budget level import, we could do much better and we could do worse.

" On paper should be making the playoffs."

Pre-season I had this argument with people - On paper we should be close to the bottom.

“We have 2 elite bigs, one of which is the second highest paid local, so we aren't scrimping on the roster.”

Having two “elite” players on a team is meaningless if every other team does too - Adelaide might have a good front court but the reality is the only two teams with equal or less star power than Adelaide are Hawks and Cairns.

“We have average to above average back court of Giddey and Dech, both with good attributes.”

That's not above average. Yes they have played better than expected but compare with other back courts - look at Perth with Cotton, look at Sydney with Ware, Cairns with Machado etc.

Adelaide also have a lot of very average/below average players on the bench - they have zero depth!

“The imports was a bit of a mess”
Yes - my preseason prediction I said they got the imports wrong and it would cost them because they needed two stars. Not one star, two stars. They started with zero and now perhaps have one.

Look at the rosters on paper - tell me who is worse than Adelaide?

Hawks/Cairns maybe?

NBL is stacked, having DJ/IH/Giddy doesn’t get it done.

Adelaide are still achieving a bit better than anticipated to be honest.

Pre-season I had this argument with people - On paper we should be close to the bottom.

Having two "elite" players on a team is meaningless if every other team does too - Adelaide might have a good front court but the reality is the only two teams with equal or less star power than Adelaide are Hawks and Cairns.

That's not above average. Yes they have played better than expected but compare with other back courts - look at Perth with Cotton, look at Sydney with Ware, Cairns with Machado etc.

Adelaide also have a lot of very average/below average players on the bench - they have zero depth!

Look at the rosters on paper - tell me who is worse than Adelaide?

Hawks/Cairns maybe?

NBL is stacked, having DJ/IH/Giddy doesn't get it done.

How should having two elite players guarantee top four?

Humphries & Johnson
Sobey & Law
Tai & Corey
Goulding & Landale
Cotton & Mooney
Creek & Broekhoff

How do you squeeze all of those into the top four? Machado and Oliver would be considered two elite players on paper as well.

NZ have struggled more than anticipated. SEM I had top 4 and people criticised me - maybe I had good luck on that one.

Perth I had top 4 because how can you assume they won't get it done when they do year after year? It’s like when everyone underrated spurs year after year during the Tim Duncan period. Spurs with Duncan = Perth with Cotton.

Koberulz lists out pretty well that just about everyone has a few elite players.

Given Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, SEM being what they are - as expected by a lot of us - yes NZ underwhelming but will probably have a run and finish 5/6th, Brisbane being reasonably close to where Adelaide are talent wise, why are we criticising Adelaide for doing worse than expected?

Seems like they’re doing pretty much on point?

I still can't believe Harvey Lister head hunted JvG for the Kings job. It was either a fabricated story in a club media release to stroke JvG's ego (surely he applied at the very least, after being in the NBL wilderness for so long) or I really don't know. First decision = appoint Gaze as head coach, Tigers family for life!

Sixers hiring JvG is doubly worse though since it was clear what was going on in Sydney at the present time and not buried away in the past like what happened in Brisbane.

We we so excited.

On Friday will post a video to show just how excited we are

Interesting how firm Henry is on starting Pinder (though he hasn't in every game of the season). Crocker and Humphries back, and still didn't want to mess with Pinder's role, when you think any of those two or McVeigh gave enough bench impact to elevate someone.