Dunkman
Last month

Sixers v hawks 7.30 AEDT

Should be a beauty, can Sixers get over last second loss to JJs, I'm not certain. Davis is a fantastic player but got bounce the ball less. Hawks will be in for the kill. Hawks by three.

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Master Chief  
Last month

I think Adelaide will win.

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The Phantom  
Last month

Sixers to win to give fans that ever slight hope they can still make finals before the carpet gets pulled out against some bad team or they get thrashed to disappoint once again.

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Dunkman  
Last month

Game will start late due to early game shot clock F up.

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Beantown  
Last month

Can anyone explain why Davis didn't get two shots to end the quarter for Hickey’s foul? It was before time expired I thought?

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Dunkman  
Last month

Nice little altercation right on 1/4 time, Harrell and Davis in it and coach Tatum right down there throwing his weight around. Tatum got a tech, Davis was clearly fouled but didn't get the call. Wells giving his two bucks worth as well. Sixers been very good

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Kruger  
Last month

Home cooking rife , no hope for Hawks

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Dunkman  
Last month

Humphries and Mayern defensively been great

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word14  
Last month

Genuinely not a clue who's winning the championship this season

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LaPark  
Last month

Almost frustrating to see the 36ers play like this. Absolutely talented team who've been nothing but inconsistent and probably won't make the playoffs because of it, despite the amount of talent they have.

All too familiar unfortunately.

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Ushiro  
Last month

Yet another game where it is very evident that Adelaide need a quality back up centre when Humphries is off the court. Most other teams have at least one and some teams two that can provide back up minutes. With all the outside shooters, not needed for offence but defence is where that person is missed.

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Dunkman  
Last month

Humphries plus 23 in a half, very good, Davis also very good, like how Mayern developing, his D a feature. Harrell doing the entertaining and rest all chipping in. Hawks just can't get anything going, defensively poor.
As some commentators have said previously re winning it all, someone will come out the pack. Who, I wish i knew.

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Anon  
Last month

Foul after the qtr time buzzer

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LaPark  
Last month

Here we go again...

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Dunkman  
Last month

Game on, Sixers going away from what worked to iso.

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Dunkman  
Last month

Horrible call on Davis, clear D foul by Hickey.

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Knockdown3  
Last month

Davis was called for a kick-out on the 3.
Quite incredible when Goulding does the same thing every game.

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LaPark  
Last month

Surprised there was no challenge on the Davis call.

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Dunkman  
Last month

Cotton is the leader in the kick out, Davis didn't actually kick out, horrible call. Choke going down again here.

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LaPark  
Last month

Humphries sitting on the bench. Get a clue.

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LaPark  
Last month

Lucky win to be honest.

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Luuuc  
Last month

Never in doubt

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Knockdown3  
Last month

I legit expected that Harvey 3 to go in

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word14  
Last month

A win is a win, but Adelaide's season is still very much hanging by a thread

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LaPark  
Last month

36ers probably lucky Tatum wasted that challenge on the foul against Martin.

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Uncle Phil  
Last month

Sixers need to work out how to put a full 40 minutes together, there are just so many huge ups and downs in their games. Why on earth was Humphries sat down the stretch for so long?

Agree that kick out call on Davis was poor, especially with what Cotton regularly gets called in his favour.

Bizarrely, that unconvincing win means the 36ers have swept the season series against the Hawks.

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Knockdown3  
Last month

In every interview that Davis has given, he's been very articulate, and gives a thoughtful, considered response to the questions.
Such an impressive young man.
Besides obviously being a great on-court talent, I'm super impressed by his demeanour

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Dunkman  
Last month

Why when hawks are in foul trouble does Davis dribble the air out of it then chuck up a three, get it to the rack, certainly with his dribbling skills. Sixers probably deserved the win but they got keep their foot on throat. Good game overall.

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Master Chief  
Last month

Going up by 20 plus too early in the game is always fools gold. Hawks are a great team and were always coming back. Adelaide do go into their shell a bit, but that's basketball sometimes. Good win by Adelaide, and great effort by the Hawks. Adelaide are far too talented to miss the finals, such a shame.

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Derider  
Last month

Disappointing loss, but that second half was very encouraging. Defend like that against Melbourne on Saturday and we'll be fine.

Unbelievable shooting from Days at the end there. Shame he left it so late. Also shame Harvey went so cold after keeping us in it in the first qtr and that Kell had his worst shooting night of the season. Good comeback though.

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Ushiro  
Last month

Humphries on the bench due to sitting on four fouls, backs up my earlier post that 36ers need a quality back up centre to cover him.

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Dorito  
Last month

Was a big fan of hickey until the last few rounds, I don't if it's just me? but he's constantly complaining and his attitude is taking a turn for the worse.

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Fun coolers  
Last month

Also good to see matt weston NOT behind the bench , now all you need to do is move completely away from the coach and get off camera

Soon he will be challenging ref calls

I hear he and the owner are in the change rooms after games too ,

Know you role and shut ya dam mouth , The Rock

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KET  
Last month

I'm glad the NBL has suddenly decided that the kick out foul exists but it was on character for the NBL to decide to call it when it’s *not* a kick out.

36ers won’t make the top 6 but they absolutely don’t deserve to anyway. The way they go from playing confident and competently to absolute garbage is astonishing.

There is nothing worse than when Adelaide go full iso mode where they dribble any momentum out of the game and completely play Humphries out of it.

After turning it over or putting up the inevitable low percentage shot that misses, they then proceed to decide that defence isn’t a thing to worry about which leads to Humphries being on an island to deal and end up getting into foul trouble.

Then he gets to be honest validly frustrated and we see his offensive side struggle when he forces it.

No club is capable of putting themselves out of form and opposition into form like the 36ers, it’s the only consistent thing about them.

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KL  
Last month

Using the NBL predictor, Adelaide may only need to have one win on the road (Cairns) and then win all their remaining home games if the JJs can only manage one more win for the season from here. However, two more wins by the JJs will mean Adelaide will need to beat a team like Sydney, SEM or Perth away to make it. Their percentage should improve enough if they can get that many wins. If Brisbane win the games they will be favoured in and beat Adelaide then they too can make it if the JJs only manage one more win. Otherwise they are going to need to win games against the likes of MU, Perth and the Hawks. Beating NZ away may also be tough. 3 more wins by the JJs probably makes it all too hard for both teams. NZ can be a real spoiler for all these teams starting with the JJs on Thursday. Same can be said for Cairns.

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Perthworld  
Last month

Sixers to win to give fans that ever slight hope they can still make finals before the carpet gets pulled out against some bad team or they get thrashed to disappoint once again.

Correct, but in the meantime Sixers nation:

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Sebastian  
Last month

For those complaining about the kickout foul...the coaching staff viewed the footage and "did not challenge". That tells you all you need to know. Clear foul, move on!!

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SixersFan  
Last month

"For those complaining about the kickout foul...the coaching staff viewed the footage and "did not challenge". That tells you all you need to know. Clear foul, move on!!"

Actually no it doesn't. It is not like they got to sit down and watch multiple angles of it. They have about 5 seconds to make a judgement call from one angle and thought the risk wasn't worth it. Neither replay showed a kick out but thanks for your input

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Rat10  
Last month

Re the kick out foul, I don't mind the the NBL calling it but they've set a pretty definitive precedent to not call this type of foul which made this a particularly bemusing call.

As Uncle Phil said Cotton does this all the time and never gets called for it - in fact it's always called on the defender. People defend Cotton saying it's his "natural shooting motion" but his acting ability tells me otherwise. Goulding also kicks his legs out consistently and it's never called.

So if you're going to call that on Davis then please call it on Cotton and Goulding. I very much doubt we'll see that though.

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Anonymightymouse  
Last month

Cotton jumps forward, that's why it's not called a kick-out. Defenders have to be in his landing spot before he takes off or else contact is called a defensive foul.

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Sebastian  
Last month

That's the longest 5 seconds ever! If you need more time (which they didn’t) call a sub, give yourself more time. Still need more time, call another sub. It’s not rocket science.

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cavolo  
Last month

Sebastian, you make a big assumption that Wells didn't challenge it because he thought it was a foul. I suspect however that since he only had one time out left, he didn’t want to give that up in case the challenge was lost. Given how the game was going and the Hawks big come back, he knew he would need that for game management which ultimately helpied them given Days Hope shooting late and avoided a baseline inbounds late which they stuffed up in Tassie the other night.

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Dunkman  
Last month

In euro basketball the kick out is an offensive foul 99% of the time. Goulding and Cotton get mugged all game and are two of my favourite players but they milk it. I would prefer refs calling the grabbing fouls on them. Davis was very harshly done by imo but refs don't get 100 replays to see it.

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Sebastian  
Last month

Cavolo, Adelaide had 2 time outs remaining when Davis was called for the offensive kickout

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cavolo  
Last month

Thanks Sebastian, great pick up/correction re number of time outs left. Play by play shows Adelaide were up by 13 at the time with 5:25 left. My supposition of wanting to store time outs up his sleeve (Wells) due to the momentum of the Hawks and other game factors is why I think he didn't bother to challenge.

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KET  
Last month

Whether or not someone challenges has no baring on what the right call is though.

You can argue that mistakes happen and that's what the challenge is for, but that’s different to saying they didn’t challenge because it was a kick out.

If the refs had their time again they probably wouldn’t call that - reflecting what people on here and the commentators said, it wasn’t a kick out let alone a "clear" one.

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The Phantom  
Last month

Refs are always going to protect the star players, obvious Bruce Lee kickouts will sometimes get called, but slight extensions will generally draw a foul in a split second decision. But a bit late in the season to make it a point of emphasis, if anything they need to bring it in preseason and even have the refs scout the prime suspects. Then the coaches will learn if it continually gets denied in challenges they'll stop. And challenges are strategic, a coach should keep them up their sleeves for late in games if game is close, or to try and get a foul back on star players if they get into trouble, the only ones they should challenge is definite out of bounds, not calls that are open to interpretation like blocking fouls, even during commentary how many times are they wrong so they're reluctant to make the call and they have the benefit of what the bunker is seeing as opposed to turning to an assistant and having to make a quick decision or relying on players that have never fouled in their lives. Otherwise it's a big gamble most of the time, it was really brought in to make up for absolute clangers, not maybes.
So just imo, move on most of the time early. There's always been bad calls, it's just we have the technology now to correct some of them. If a play is missed, it's just like the old days, don't need intense scrutiny for a non game changing foul or two points. If teams brought in a fine system for players constantly swirling their finger and they're wrong I bet it would reduce them.

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Dunkman  
Last month

It would have been nice for the replay in the game against Spain when Bogut got called for the foul. I'm still angry about it.

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KET  
Last month

I'm also angry

Where’s the HQ again

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Knockdown3  
Last month

Yeah, that was infurating but not surprising.
I always wondered if it had been another team playing against Spain in that game, if they'd have made that call. I feel like it was easier to fuck over Australia.
Not to mention Rubio's theatrics in the following WC.......

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