Will have to be a miracle Maher may not be playing 2nite as well

Is there any live radio feed for this game? I know its on fox, but i dont have it. :-(

Reality, has Maher pulled up with hammy soreness again?

i have fox skip :)

Cool, Can I come round?

Hey skip - save yourself the trouble - Im watching it and it aint pretty!

although Coop did get our first 4 points!

I think he twisted his ankle last nite

huh? it has already started???

aww crap. i didnt think it started til 8:10 our time.

well the guys rae at least showing some passion - Willie and Reesy just got in a bit of a tangle with Grabau from Cairns - ended up in a double foul with Willie and Grabau - Reesy got away with it - HA!

battling on the boards but putting up a great effort so far

Oscar ust nailed a 2nd triple - whoops and now a third.....
Cairns 25 - 24

HA - Reesy ran away after the 1/4 time siren on a fast beak - and still missed the layup

1/4 time Cairns 25 Adel 24

Oscar has 9
We are actually winning the boards so far and battling hard...

any word on why maher is sitting out?

Putting up a good fight so far

I tuned on a bit late so didnt hear the preamble from Carfino - all i have heard them say is taht he is being rested

yep you could skip but by the time you got here it would be all over

Can anyone give us the real score on Fox , i know that the livescore is probably screwed up any way

Melvin Thomas is a knob - threw a punch at Hambour with 28 secs to go in 2nd 1/4 - Four foul shots to come

Thomas just too old - too slow and cant handle a bit of pressure from a young kid!

Burgess on fire - too big for us and has 19 points and 10 boards at half time
Cairns 61
adelaide 46

down by 20 but outrebounding them

we lead in the turnover department!

Willie chatted with Carfino - keen to fire up in 2nd half - Im guessing he will be jacking up shots from all over....

FG C 56% AD 36%
R C 23 AD 29
TO C 3 AD 8
A C 12 AD 8



thats as fast as I can type - sorry about that

Brett has reinjured hammy - MRI in the morning hopes to play next week - more a precaution him not playing tonight

Rees also just hurt back wont be playing second half

Smythe just joking that Carfino may need to suit up for Sixers....I suppose at least he wouldnt be commentating then!

Oh dear - its geting ugly.........

7 mins gone in 3rd

74 - 50

Refs rae letting a fair bit of contact go but we just cant execute any offence at all and they are doing as they like....

74-52 go team. shame about all these injuries, at the wrong time. We should have rested brett longer when he first got the injury.

there is no offence!!!!

86 - 60 at 3/4 time

just a bad night and clearly undermanned
Oscar has looked good and showed good composure 17 points with 5/7 from 3 point line
Gower and Hambour wil benefit from court time - have made some sily errors but still busting their asses and trying hard

Correction - Its bretts calf that he hurt last night - will have scans tomorrow to check it out but should be ok

The refs are honestly stuffing us.

And why didn't Melvin get ejected? You can't just punch a guy, then raise your fist again and basically get away with it.

no

the refs are letting a lot go....but they are in no way costing us the game - we are being outplayed on all levels and are clearly undermanned

but yes - Melvin should have been ejected

thtas what happens when its all bench players on the ourt....

Oscar with a season high 21 points
showed some good thngs - just didnt have enough help

Final score 103 - 79

Stop saying that ttghis is a pathetic performance u wankers. The sixers are clearly under manned and i'm sure if Maher and Rychart were fully fit and playing that 20 pt decifit would be erased easily. So stop bagging the sixers. This is for all the people saying what a pathetic performance it is by the Sixers.

This is definately not a disgraceful loss. Cairns are a very good team and were at full strength tonight except for Stewart. We had no Maher and Rychart and this is no surprise to why we lost by 24. Justif think if Mee and Catallini were injured for example. Im positive they would have struggled too.

Definately not a pathetic performance - some good signs from the young guys. Also some silly errors buts thats what you get and they will learn from the experience and court time. Also some very good interior defence from Coops and co with numerous shot blocks. Jacob again had a heap of ofensive boards - if only he could hit all those putback/tip in attempts.
Also a great game from oscar - was looking to drive a lot more in the second half which was a great sign

It shows though that unless we are fully fit and firing we will struggle in the finals - lets hope Dusty, Brett and Reesy are all back and ready for Wed night - if not for the knockout final at home

We do have Gower, I'm feeling pretty good about that tonight.

agreed an effort was made with limited players. However i will say nash is a waste of space get rid of him hes not up to it.

You can't blame the absence of Maher and Rychart for the poor shooting. Nothing is going in for them. Its the shooting percentages that's killing them. I don't think there was much assistance from Gower and Hambour. Gower 1/6 free throws is not good when they are unchallenged shots. Even at ABL level you would expect better. Same with Hambour who could not convert 4 free throws after a Tech foul and only made one. If they made a quarter of the shots they missed, the deficit would have been adequately made up.

The thing is if Maher and Dusty were there and someone like Hambour/Gower got on court, the opposition would gamble and leave Hambour to double, Maher, Farley or Dusty. Last night there was no need to gamble and thus it was pretty much one on one defense all night.

So you've thrown inexperienced players into the mix and expecting them to shoot better?

It was always a case of a loss tonight, it was just a matter of how much. After watching the bench put in a pretty good performance the night before at the end of the game (even thought that was over) I expected a bit more - FT shooting there is no excuse, but those guys need some plays run for them PHIL - It almost seemed after halftime that willie was running stuff for Coops, dont know if that was a phil directive or willie trying to boost his coops confidence a bit after getting schooled for 20 & 10 at the half!

I watched this game on Fox and apart from the first quarter, it was a weak performance. Only one player shot above 40% from the Sixers compared to seven Taipans.

In this game we needed Hill to continue his form and Holmes and Nash to pick up some of Rychart's missing efforts.

Rees for 4 and 6 in 10 minutes was serviceable. Oscar's 21 and 7 was solid and it was technically his career high (his 23 in Perth should've been 20, but there was a scoring mistake). Cooper was better than the last two (scoreless) games, but 8 and 5 up against Burgess' 27 and 15 is a significant difference. He did have one block worthy of the Fox highlights at least!

And I think Hambour and Gower were OK if you ignore the crap foul shooting - they haven't really had all that much experience shooting pressure free throws, so I'll excuse that this time. Gower had 5 boards as probably the most undersized forward in the league, and Hambour made Melvin flinch and cock his fist just by standing up - I would've ejected Melvin for that. You can't aim a punch like that in front of kids in the crowd and cop a little foul. Hambour did nothing wrong in that sequence. He also had that fantastic block.

Now, I feel pretty bad in saying it, but I thought that Holmes was rubbish in this game. I will always hand him credit for not giving up, for always staying an offensive option, but 5 of 18 FG is shocking, more than half of his boards seemed to be tip-in attempts, and the turnovers came thick and strong. The official box has him down for 7. Fox had him for 9 near the end of the game and even that seemed a touch low. A friend watching the game with me was yelling out "fadeaway Jacob, fadeaway" and he complied nearly every time, hitting the front of the ring. Maybe he was unlucky, getting stripped of the ball too often when other nights he might've got the call and scored from the line?

We just weren't a competitive team. We had a professional basketball player air-balling a free throw. We had players putting up interior jumpers that hardly looked like hitting the ring. At times, we had two offensive options on the court, and they were shooting at about 30%.

If Cairns weren't almost as hopeless from the free throw line as we were, that could've been a 30 point drilling.

So, we were missing Maher and Rychart. Have a look at the Hawks vs Tigers box. Wollongong rested Saville and played Ballinger a token 7 minutes. Yet they beat the #2 Tigers... The night before they rested Saville as well and Ballinger played just 11 minutes - and they just lost to the Bullets in overtime.

Isaac
I agree with most of your points, all of these problems stem from an obvious lack of depth of talent, no interior defense or post offense, and therefore no where to go if our perimeter game isnt firing. As long as our sallery cap is pretty much taken up by 3 players, it will allways be a problem, our starting centre has been a back up at best for a number of years and his back-up is well beyond his use-by date, problem is we cant do any better under the current sallary and financial restraints.
Salary cuts to prime players or a major overhall is the only way to fix the problem. (4 0f last nights team probably on min salary)
All that said if our lineup is fit and firing it is capable of good things. Our best is brilliant our worst is embarrasing as it was last
night.

That wasn't a disgrace, given that we were so out-manned. Good to see that we won the boards, something I would not have thought possible without Rychart.

Poor free throw shooting, but that is nothing new for Adelaide. We only have two types of free throw shooters here: excellent and shithouse! Gower's 1-6 wasn't good, but at least they all hit the rim (those who saw the game will know what I mean by that).

I would have liked to see Oscar get the same number of shots Holmes and Farley did. I'm a little dissapointed that Nash gave so little over the past two games, given his excellent form for the 5 or 6 before that. Hill was pretty ordinary, as was Cooper. Burgess did whatever he felt like. I couldn't even tell who was guarding Boodnikoff as he was so wide open the whole time.

It's a pretty good thing that Cairns couldn't make a foul shot either, and that Aaron Grabau was playing, otherwise we might have gone down by 50!

I would revise your "taken up by 3 players" to "taken up by 4 players".

Anyway, as much as people will disagree, any reasonable improvement to the team is only going to realistically come from paycuts to any of three of those four (I wouldn't dare ask Maher to take a cut) or one of them not being retained at their requested price even though they've all been contributing pretty well. And Farley is signed, so that leaves two.

Unfortunately I could really see this coming down to Dusty, but I don't know Holmes' option scenario. You would obviously prefer to keep them, but there's no money in dropping Rees/Hambour/Nash and probably Coops either.

If Dusty doesn't like the Sixers best offer, I'd go after Hinder and at least see what price you could get him for should the Pirates fall over or otherwise and field something like this.

G: Maher/Farley/Hill/x
F: Hinder/Holmes/Forman/Nash
C: y/Cooper

Then get a minimum for 10th man (I'd take a guard like Gerlach or a Bungey just because we already have that small-forward glut), and use the spare import spot for an affordable import centre (doesn't have to be a stand-out).

Or you could play Hinder as the starting C (something that Dusty is too short for) and you've got a decent 8-man rotation there and you're filling gaps with a minimum and an almost-minimum. I just can't get past the fact that our roster seems to have that pool of small forwards: Rychart, Holmes, Forman, Nash, Hambour. That's half of the squad mostly suited to one position (though the first two can hold their own at PF).

Or for those who've lost all faith, swap out Cooper for a Behrendorff (free agent). Or Vanderjagt (also a free agent - 210cm lightweight, but does well if given the court time - Friday night: Cooper 0 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, 4 blocks in 24 minutes; Vanderjagt 20 points, 8 boards, 4 assists, 3 blocks in 36.).

(Meanwhile, Dusty will get picked up by the Dragons and average 25 and 15!)

"I wouldn't ask Maher to take a cut"
Maher is a great player and leader,
but he has been one of the benificieries of years of over spending, surely he is not exempt from any sensible rationalisation of salaries. He along with others
would understand it is going to be very difficult to win a championship without some give and take all round ,or as I mentioned before a major overhall. ( Hinder an excellent player but more of what we have, we need some muscle and interior defense and offense)

James Hird and Michael Voss are 2 examples of great club men who took a hit in the pay packet to benefit their team. Maybe Brett would be open to the idea, no harm in puting the idae to him and see what he says

Maher is already contracted so I don't know if this is the best time to approach it?

Plus I can imagine the coaches defending their franchise player against that sort of request.

Maybe they'll get Dusty down a bit, drop Reesy and then upgrade at the C spot. Same as this year but switch Rees out for a better centre (to either start or share minutes with Cooper) and replace Hambour with a guard to even up the roster?

one of the sixers problems is the black hole factor...both hill and holmes ..are black holes... tneir favourite moves are always no pass and involve themselves! And the problem is compounded by nashy and oscar not being ME players enough which at times means we don't have enough offensive players in the rotation. I thought Hambour and gower did well last night apart from the foul shooting. And i can accept that ...as ugly as it looked and they can only benefit from the experience. For Christ sake Phil give Hill and Holmes a rocket you are the coach and stop being mr nice guy. And while you are there give nashy and oscar a rocket.. to accept that they have earnt the right to take more shots ..both shoot at a good percentage and the team needs them to take greater responsibility.

Dusty Rychart, is that you??

Why does a guy like Holmes with the vert leap he has keep settling for crap shots that are either turn around fade away jumpers or challenged put backs.

He needs to have a sit in the corner and work out why he sucks on offence. Phil and Steve need to step up and take responsability for giving him way to much freedom.

For those of you about to say yeah but he gets rebounds....there would be no rebounds for him to get if he made the shot the first time.

Jacob's bone headed offence cost the sixers close to 20 points with crap shot selection and ball handling that a div 4 player would be embarrased by.

IMO the sixers would be a better team without him going forward, swap him for Hinder or another big and let the fun begin.

Maybe a bit harsh Kent - but I have to agree with your points. We all aknowledge that Jacob has a great deal of potential and is starting to realise it bit by bit. Maybe he would be better off under a more structured system (dare I say it with Goorj) Then Adelaide could use the extra cap space to invest in other options. Also its possible taht Oscar could be allow to take up more responsibility as a forward without feeling he is in Jacobs shadow all the time?

Could you please tell me when the Adeliade 36ers will be coming to Adelaide?

How much tickets cost?
When will they be coming?

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