think the team is playing like a Conroy's hammy

For the Kings, Crosswhite (and end-of-the-bench Carter) is the only one without a point to his name. For the Sixers, Hill, Cooper and Hambour? 4 points from Farley?

Jacob and Nashy have respectable statlines, and that's about it.

Current 5 for the Sixers is Hill, Hambour, Forman, Rychart and Rees. Who's playing the two!?

Offensive rebound to BJ Carter!?

Hambour scores! Just Cooper to go now.

I think Phil has conceded - bringing Hambour on - he doesn't even bring him on in the last 2 mins at home if we are up by 12 or more (not that that has happened much this year.....)

I'll mention this now before all those people out there who can't seem to acknowledge that we are in some serious trouble: Adelaide is without one of our best players (Maher) and have a couple of others carrying injuries, and are playing a tough as hell team on the road.

That this is the exact same excuse for this type of performance that Hunter could have used last Saturday.

But they didn't have to.

Footnote: Farley, 4 points and 1 FG: what are the chances he's sooking after the three-quarter freeze-out he copped on Wednesday?

(Mod: Added some bold. Very good point.)

At least we've contained Smith to 5/1/2 at the half. ;)

You'd have to guess that Bruton and Barlow have just been hitting everything, and the rest are filling the gaps.

Here we go to start the second half. Nash, Farley, Holmes, Forman and Rychart. A shooting guard and four forwards!

Down by 30. Now 41!

down by 41..... this is terrible gosh im so anoyyed right now!

The pricks have been hitting shots all season Isaac

Man, i hope the kings dont win it this season.......i hate them with a passion

105 at three quarter time, and they're running a lot of their bench with Bruton.

Hambour scores again. Sixers start the final term with Nash, Farley, Holmes, Hambour and Rychart.

Sixers go on a 6-0 run before Barlow hits 2 to have 20.

Would rather Jacob taking the point than Hill.

Well shit, Jason Smith sucked, there goes my win this week for dream team.

Who else had Maher in their starting five? That sucks.

Yeah I did Isaac, thankfully not Smith as well

I had Maher too, when and how did he hurt himself?

How I feel for Jake, the only guy that busts his Moltens all game, with his scoring, rebounding, & assists has to play chump time? FFS, Willy should have been out there for the Fat Lady humiliation, not Jake. Dusty, nice score, but 0 fouls?
Our shooting from the hospital stripe (no charity from Sydney) was atrocious, but still earnt us a good portion of our points.
Last quarter soft? Kings bench play major minutes & commit only 4 fouls? Maybe that's why they're not starters.

I didn't think it could get any worse than the Hunter loss, but there you go.

Something has to be done, shoot a hostage and cut someone.

Cooper would be up there for me at the moment, as he has been absolutely useless for the past 10-12 games after being so productive last season and the first 10 games of this one. This was also why I was against signing Paul Rees again as, in the event of Cooper playing badly, Rees is no longer a viable backup at centre in the NBL. Rees has more altercations with opposition players/coaches than blocked shots this season. We are week in the middle, which wouldn't be exposed as much if Farley played ANY perimeter defence.

Good to see Holmes have what from the online scores looks like a solid game, and I'm happy to see Hambour get some playing time. He should get Cooper's minutes in the game against the Razorbacks. Dusty scored well, but only 3 rebounds!

The Kings have shot the ball really well all year from 3 point range, so you have to wonder why you would be running a lineup like Hill, Hambour, Forman, Rychart, and Rees. Of course you are going to give up three pointers!

I don't know when Maher did his hamstring, but if it was before he left you have to ask why they wouldn't take Brad Gerlach so that we had more than just 2 guards dressed for the game. Perhaps we should have asked Goorjian to borrow Luke Martin for the night!?!

Boxscore is online

Farley 2-13 FG. 50% Kings, 43% Adelaide. 42%-32% from outside. We beat them from the stripe. Hurt 51-39 on the boards. They fouled more. Almost double our assists. We had 23 turnovers (Holmes 7, Hill 5, Forman 3). Beaten in every quarter.

Probably worth noting that the boards difference came from offensive rebounds alone.

FG attempts: 104-72!

Scoop wasn't the only one playing in the off season.
While your're think'n about that, backtrack a bit & ask yourself when Neon Leon had an off season break.

I think Holmes probably has superb stamina - witness the season during which he carried Eastern. Played some serious minutes that year.

If you start moving Farley to the bench you might as well cut him.

The increase in turnovers over the past few games is alarming as throwing the ball away IS NOT something that Adelaide teams have historically done.

Also, given that we played most of the night with one guard plus 4 front-courters, how the f*ck do we give up 26 offensive rebounds?!?!

It will be interesting to see if Boti can find a way to blame this on (insert ex-CEO here).

Townsville is trying to out-do us: down 36 after three.

Jeff Brown maybe? What was that, about 1997?

It's just such a shame with Farley as, I have always thought, one of the best things about his game was his passion and intensity. And that seems to have disappeared.

i think the boys should do some team bonding, maybe go see a movie may i suggest the bad news bears !!!!!

man with no maher i thought it would be a loss but this is shocking


not making excuses but as a whole i think the NBL schedule this year has been farked to many long trips and conjested games look at a lot of the better teams strings of losses it comes of the back of 3 games in 5 days or 4 in 7 etc.

no excuses though this one sucked

On a positive note (God only knows we need some positives right now) the worst of the road games are out of the way. The remaining seven games of the season and particularly the 3 at home are all quite winable games. The team has to focus on winning everyone of their remaining games. A lot of confidence will be gained winning the remaining games for the finals series. As mean as this may sound, Farley needs to move out from his family for the next 2 months. The difference between last season and this season is having his family with him. If he has a job to do and family is interfering, he either moves out or re considers his position on the team. If the two aren't mixing, something has to give. By the way, I am quite prepared for all the flack that I will cop for making such a harsh statement so go ahead, fire those missiles.

A bit harsh to Forman in that list when played in position he has contributed well. If you paid attention you will have notice Phil using Oscar more on the interior to cover the disappointing games Cooper is putting in at the moment.

didnt see the game last night (thank god), so its hard to judge, but the stats are simple to read Turnovers a joke, rebounding an embarrassment, the question that must be asked...is the coaching staff doing anything to solve these probs??? a couple of thoughts..
1) holmes has never been a fave of mine, but this year has changed that, is playing some serious ball and getting the results !! long live you jacob!!
2) Farley seems to have lost interest, cant afford to cut such a talent..find out what is missing and fix it coach!
3) have been a big oscar fan but he seems to have lost confidence, early year shoioting ws fantastic..now abysmal..again..coaches..help him fix it!!
4) coops not sure if hes up to it, had a great start defensively..again..looks like confidence
5) Brett..is still a legend..but maybe have a look at his games recently..shooting "appears" (coz i havent checked) way down..3 pointers not dropping?? struggling with FG's

This team seems to have a massive confidence problem..only the coach can start to fix that!!

So Anthony if Coach Phil has been playing Forman on the interior in replace of Cooper can you explain why 6 of Oscars 7 shots were beyond the 3 point line. Just what we need our 4 n 5 men standing on the 3 point line hoping to get an open shot. Great game plan!