So does anyone know what the maths behind Adelaide securing 6th tonight?

No maths if they win, they'll be in. Lose and then there'll be a number Tassie have to win by against cairns tomorrow to knock them out

Only starts to get interesting if Perth end up winning by about 30+

Pre loading at Patriots bar watching the warm up game, tonight has blockbuster written all over it can't wait.

Cheers. So not impossible but highly unlikely they miss out?

I think both games need to have 40 point margins to change the standings so that won't happen.

Correct MC, it would take 2 huge blow outs by Perth and Tassie respectively

Thank you, very kind

I think the magic number is 74 points. So if Perth win by say 37 Tassie would need to beat Cairns by 37 to knock us out of the Top 6. Not impossible but I suspect the Sixers will try to live up to their end of the bargain tonight.

We're 0-3 against Perth this season and lost those games by 15, 24 and 7 points.

Yup. The current difference is 73 points

Should be a beauty, hopefully both sides turn up, I'm hoping for a cats win and United loss to get cats to second. Hopefully cats by two.

Feels like if the Sixers can keep this below a 20 point loss that'll be a good performance from them given how they played last week.

Unless Adelaides defence shows cracks and Wells cracks it at halftime, it should be cracking game. Rillie might crack the whip to put a crack in Sixers hopes. Cotton could crack another 40 piece tonight to cap off a great scoring season and crack open a wine and some crackers to celebrate a cracking win. If Adelaide lose by a lot it might leave a crack open for Tassie to slip in, would take a cracking effort to get a blowout to get in. But Roth would have to be smoking crack to think they have a chance, but you never know if Rillie has a crack at the refs all game to win big. But unless a big crack emerges in Cottons driveway preventing him from getting to game, he'll be cracking those fingers in warmups for another big night.
Should be a cracking game nonetheless.

Cracker of a piece, Phantom. I won't ask which crack you pulled it out of LOL

What are peoples tip for when in the game the 36ers are up shit creek?

Or "living up to their side of the bargain" as it were.

Are we thinking 1 and a half quarters?

I'm forecasting 5 minutes into the game. Like a 16-0 scoreline in Perth's favour.

Cracking post Phantom

Missed the memo, apparently it's a beauty.

Prelude to grand final if things fall into place...2 power loaded teams no one wants to play..

Harrell with the Harden foul bait!

Harrell can't keep this shooting up

Fun game so far.

Dare I say cracking?

Cracking game so far, can Sixers keep it going is the question. You could also say it's a beauty.

Home cooking going on here, two quick fouls on Harrell were rubbish.

Meh fouls were there. Seen similar calls both ends

36ers making the most of their shots at the line and hitting Perth better off turnovers, but terrible from long range. Perth hitting their 3's though, so both teams got areas that if they improve can win them the game in the 2nd half.

Don't agree, want cats to win but I believe a few fouls have been called differently at both ends. I’m not certain if it’s the coaching but I don’t remember having as good a season as this.

NBL refs. The worst in all major leagues in the world. It's not hyperbole, it’s not a hot take it’s just an objective fact.

Should have been Cadee having as good a season above.

Would be great if they could keep Davis for a few years. He is a great player

Humphries one shot attempt at the half and didn't get a single play ran for him or receive the ball on a single roll. Hard for a guy to get a rhythm if none of his teammates are ever looking to get him the ball.

Humphries was always going to be a victim of the Harrell signing

Well said Eagle. Defensively he's looking lost out there too - plenty of easy buckets at the rim and he's well outside the key. Really hope we look to get him involved in the 2nd half.

That's the frustrating Davis sometimes. Doesn't wait for a good shot, just takes the first shot.

Refs miss the 1st foul and then make the incorrect call on the 2nd.

Mayern lol nice

He loves playing in Perth

I'll take back every bad thing I said about Lat Mayen after that

If cotton doesn't lose the ball they don’t call that contact. No wonder defenders get frustrated

Settle down Bryce, Jesus H Cracker

Bryce loves playing in Perth too

You know Cotton is pulling up to take that shot, so not sure why they keep playing off him on the switch.

Unlucky Harrell but that's the right call

That Perth local ref got Harrell

You have to review, why hesitate idiot?

It's a loss if the foul sticks

How long do you want to make a challenge lol

It's a foul cmon

That being a foul on Mayer is ridiculous, if you are going to call that, there is no possible legal way to defend Cotton. Utter crap home cooking.

Congratulations Adelaide.

36ers don't win close ones really, so no surprise they lost this, but they didn't get blown out, so they did enough.

Game like this massively shows up the lack of bigman depth for the 36ers though. Mayen isn't big enough to consistently play the 4 and Gritschi is still unplayable in anything other than garbage minutes.

I know that they've beaten Sydney a few times in Sydney but I find it hard to see Adelaide progressing, they get one extra game though, yay.

Assuming cairns doesn’t win by 65 or whatever.

Questions is who sixers playe after they take care of Sydney.. Perth always going to win in the jungle..

Adelaide missed Martin tonight. Cotton is almost unstoppable when he's shooting like he did in the 2nd half

I think Mayer was unlucky, was a tough call for the ref and too close to overturn.

Could have gone either way

Cotton is clearly the MVP, yes he does get a lot softish calls which make him impossible to guard. Excellent game, maybe a cracker. Davis went to iso in the second half, Harell got a couple of dodgy calls.

Assuming cairns doesn't win by 65 or whatever.

Sydney does seem to be a matchup which Adelaide like, the 36ers are completely unpredictable though. There have been ridiculous fluctuations from game to game in their performance and then within games themselves. There was a period in the 3rd quarter tonight where Perth worked back into it where the Sixers stopped hustling, playing D and getting into any decent offense for 5 mins - this was really the turning point. Yet at numerous other times in the game, they looked on top.

The huge pendulum that swings between good and bad so quickly with this team is something I haven't seen before, and makes them completely unpredictable. I think that’s why Sixers fans feel so frustrated watching this team, it seems they could be right in the mix for a championship if there was a better and more stable mental element to the team, but unfortunately, that hasn’t been the case. I wouldn’t be surprised if they beat Sydney, but also wouldn’t be surprised if they get blown out, it’s like all possible outcomes are on the table with Sixers in their current state.

Most promising part for Adelaide was they maintained intensity for the whole game and no signs of imploding.

Just ran into a good team shooting the lights out when it counted

They should beat Sydney if they play like that, particularly if Adams is out.

Adelaide need to box out better though. Pinder got way more o boards than he should have

Sixers are surely favourites Sydney are woefully. No adams. Wheels falling off. Big spenders lol

I don't see Adams getting suspended - low impact.

Goorj blaming the refs for Adams and Kuol stupid fouls, unbelievable. Eye poking has to be a suspension, you can't attack eyes and walk away in any sports no matter how low the impact and I don’t know how you can rate impact on eye gouging.

What an abject failure this season already is for the Sixers. Despite spending a gabillion dollars, the owner of the league buying in to the club, paying for Harrell, and the obvious bias towards the Sixers in the last few rounds to get them into the 6, they finish with one more win plus having played an extra game, than last season. Yet they will pull their d*cks to the media, saying what a success it is to make finals after all these years. A season where it is harder to miss finals than make it, and they come in with a losing record. Ninnis's win percentage shits all over Wells and that is a cold hard fact that nobody can deny, and the club won't acknowledge.
Absolute fools gold of an organisation run by a bunch of clowns who have no idea about basketball, but think they do.

Pablo get ready to eat humble pie. Seriously you think Sydney better than sixers. So when sixers play how many finals game play off will you take to admit been massive forward growth. So fickle. Did sixers get this far last season
? When did they.? So clearly massive effort.

Pablo get ready to eat humble pie. Seriously you think Sydney better than sixers. So when sixers play how many finals game play off will you take to admit been massive forward growth. So fickle. Did sixers get this far last season
? When did they.? So clearly massive effort.

This aged well....


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Totally disagree, Davis is instrumental in everything Sixers do, stats in garbage time, lol. Punters were saying Perth would be better without Cotton when he was injured and they were winning. Basketball is a game built on stats, they have to come into it. Considering also Cotton plays nearly all game are his stats in garbage time. Daylight, again lol, it's close and any neutral observer would agree, not like the biased commentary who only see points.

Wells confirmed Martin will be back for the play-in game.

Good game. This game is one the Sixers can kinda live with losing.

The key to beating Sydney is defence and getting the locals going - you know what Davis and Harrell will bring good and bad.

I also said the following week after Sixers got beat that Cotton was now the mvp, in previous posts I said as of that round Davis was mvp. Have a cracking day phantom.

You beauty. Is Brian still a great coach and will the boomers ever find a coach that will do the grunt work doing qualifiers then take a backseat at major tournaments? Or mind changed again.
Keep cracking.

If you don't like reading what I say move on, in a free world you are allowed different opinions but you are probably tied to the trump band wagon so it’s understandable. I’d say the Goorj has aged but history will show you he’s been an excellent coach. I’m hoping a coach of Australia does all the work and if unavailable for some tournaments then his already appointed assistants do it. Yes it’s a beauty of a day and I’m having a cracker, hopefully you can as well. Keep happy.

As a cats fan, I was surprised at how little Adelaide used Humphries. At some stages, it almost looked like the players had decided to freeze him out although I'm sure that wasn’t the case. With Doolittle tied up with Harrel, they would have had Pinder in foul trouble if he had to defend Humphries more often.

It was great to see Cotton and Davis in the same game. An established star and an emerging one.