Are you sure Isaac? My computer tells me it's 7:25 Singapore time. Sportal says that game doesn't start until 10pm EST.

Yeah, 7:28 in Singapore now. Game is 7:40 there. So 12 minutes I think.

Tip off will be 9:10pm SA Time, 9:40pm AEST (Vic time)

NBLTipping has 9:10 Adelaide time, and Quentin would've been going by the official schedule I'd say.

Maybe there's 20 minutes of launch speeches?

Tip-off is at 8pm.

The live score board keeps refreshing but nothing is changing.

Im gonna assume tip off is at 8 as well

any truth to the rumour pero is out ????

also how bad is this that the nbl dont televise it,

new franchise new country, game 1 of the season,

anyone could see the marketing advantages of this.

From Curious on OzHoops:

Disappointing crowd. Less than 1000. Hope the game is close to get lots more there next time.

Update at 8:15pm local time

From Sportal live scores

The opening game to the 2006/07 NBL season will be commencing shortly. Running late due to longer pre match ceremony.

yeah from a predicted 6000 out of 10000 its shockingly way off,

Score in 1st Quarter 5:27 left

Singapore 12
Adelaide 14

i'm an idiot. Just checked Ozhoops, he/she knows someone at the game.

great to see the nbl live scores living up to there lofty standards

NBL has removed scoreboard link. Now showing 36ers 14-12

sixers 21-15 at some point in the quarter,

He's not at the game. He knows someone who's there.

Live score

36ers 21, Slingers 15. 1:40 left in the first.

Sixers up 24-17 now. no idea what time

In the final minute of the 1st Quarter. Adelaide lead 24 to 19

sixers 24 - 19

19-24 sixers up by 5

Scoreboard on nbl website going up and down I don't what it is doing.

on sportal Adelaide lead 21 to 17 at quarter time.

hmm now nbl shows the score as 21 -17 ?

sportal is working

if your believe the nbl site its 31-29 slingers way in the 2nd

sportal still showing 1/4 time

Slinger 31 Adelaide 29
On nbl.com.au

slingers 37 sixers 34 on the nbl site now stil 21 - 19 on sportal

on sportal 6:36 left to half time

Singapore 34
Adelaide 31

34 - 34 now

sixers 43 slingers 41 on nbl site

Up 47-43. Would really appreciate being able to know who's doing well, but obviously it's not to be.

yeah, do you know if anyone from here went over ?

45-47

would be nice to know if brett hit no.1000

48 each at the long break

Darren Ng's parents went over, Damrob as well. And Phizzer from the forum lives in Singapore I believe. I have messaged Darren's mum, but not sure if she'll receive it in Singapore or have the chance to respond.

no stats? :(

Just for anyone who is curious: Fox Sports 1 is currently showing a replay of the FIM Motorcross, and Fox Sports 2 is broadcasting the India v West Indies One Day game. So in other words there is f*ck all on there at the moment, and yes, the NBL game should have been on.

Nevertheless it is great to see the NBL and it's live scoreboard have had a thoroughly typical start to the season.

on a side note if the crowd numbers were true that is really bad, you would think they could get more the 1K to a game.

Damien from Damrob has come through with the goods: 48 each at half-time. Maher 13, Horvath 12. For the Slingers, Chandler has 13 and Knight 12. No word on the crowd.

Gee guys, give the live scoreboard a break...its the first game in a new country, and who knows what the communication levels are like trying to feed those scores back to the live scoreboard.

59 sixers
55 slingers

nbl.com.au

It's probably using standard FTP or similar. No excuse. I work live on servers in the US all the time every day and have far fewer problems. Cybersports provide live output of full stats that they could be using. Is there anyone that doesn't think their live scores thing has been a waste of money?

59-55 sixers way on the NBL site.

cmon, sixers should be able to wrap it up easily =/ especially with a small crowd.

sixers 60
slingers 57

62 sixers
61 slingers

2:35 3rd qtr

I agree, we work all day on servers in the US and they rarely go down.

Looks like a close one, 62-61 Sixers with 2:35 left in the 3rd...

sixers 63
slingers 66

3 qtr time

Damn those pesky Slingers.

66-63 Sixers down at end of 3rd..

too close for my liking, this really is a must win to start the season as backing up to the hawks will be hard.

make that

sixers 62
slingers 66

strange how the score goes backwards so often

Got to love live scoreboards,, 66-62 Sixers down now.

Must have lost a point for uniforms or not having a scorer....

Hehe

Looks like your on top of things Skip...

I am just repeating everything you say :)

SLingers 68
36ers 64

11:08

68 all
9:50

slingers 74
36ers 68

77 slingers
70 sixers
7:50

ah crap they are edging away

Down by 7. Uh oh.

slingers 85
sixers 76

uh oh indeed

5:25 to go

We are going down to the new franchise again...

88 slingers
83 36ers

88-83

NBL has 88 - 83.

C'mon boys......bring it home!

oops...sorry....cmon sixers!

There appears to be a really bad echo around here...

90-83

90 slingers
83 sixers
3:10

Still looking rather grim.

We have 10 capable scorers - what's gone wrong?

They obviously have too Isaac!

Agree Isaac - shooting at 90 with the team we have is waaay too low. Should be capable of scoring 100 - 105 without a problem, then try and get it done on the defensive end...

92 slingers
88 sixers

56 seconds

4 points - 1 minute left

Down by 4 in the last minute. Come on!

With 56 seconds left..........

slingers 92
sixers 88

56 seconds remaining, this is off sportal

feels like the longest time out ever

Lost 91-98. 2-3,000 people according to Janet.

Damrob: Horvath 22 and 10, Maher 19, Farley 14. Chandler 21 for Singapore.

isaac where did u get the top-scorers from?

That's the score that shows on NBL now.

Disappointing start to the season and another first off loss to an inferior opponent.

Nooooooooooo.......damn it

im glad horvath hed a good 36ers debut though, he's far better than dusty (sorry isaac)

That is a very quick drop off in scorers.

Horvath is the real deal, but the rest of the combination may have a long way to go.

Hawks by 25 on Sunday.

marquin chandler looks promising too, hes only $82000 in the dream team

Agreed. A poor start against a team we should beat. Losses like this one mean that we now MUST beat Wollongong on Sunday.

Any boxscore predictions anyone? I'm going with Ng 2-7 FG, Nash 2 points, Hill less than 10 minutes, Copeland 3-12 FG.

Good for Singapore I suppose, but Jesus we have to be winning those games if we are going to get anywhere this season.

Alternatively, given the number of new faces, it might take Adelaide 8-10 games to figure out how to play with each other.

Mutley, by that token, we'll cop a beating from the Hawks who are fresh, at home, and familiar with each other.

Yep, most likely. And not to mention Sydney next Wednesday!

nice last sentence there mutley!

i mean the one b4 that

we cant waste 8-10 games though and our problem is the games are so close so they dont have much time to work on things between games.

does anyone know who started?

Hi , I went to the game. Starters for Adelaide were

Brett
Farley
Lanard
Majstro
Horvath

Before the game there were very few people but in the last 10 minutes before the match a good crowd started to build up so janet's numbers may in fact be a bit on the low side though it is very difficult to judget in the big stadium and also there were clearly a lot of younger kids who most likely were not counted in the official numbers . This is typical Singapore , people turn up just in time but it was a strange feeling compared to being at the DOME.

We can all have our views about why Adelaide lost but in my opinion the team only has one driver and that is Brett.

Re other players ( stats from Prowess Basketball-game box score)

Darren ( 7 points -5 rebounds) went to the basket and had a good part to play in particular in the first half.

Despite 14 points Willie ( 1 rebound, 3 fouls and and 1 AST plus 3 TO) was nowhere to be seen when leadership was needed.

The Maher - Horvath combination was the most positive you can say about the 36 ers .

Mark Nash will wish to forget this match ( FG=0/5, 3pt =0/2, FT=1/2, TR =1, ) and maybe Copeland should also do the same ( FG3/10, 3 pt =2/7 , 8 points, 4 PF, 2, Rebounds, )

No idea why Brad Hill only got 5.16 minutes ( 0 point) but he seems to be the chosen person to sit on the bench as soon as he does something wrong .

For the Slingers Chandler ( 21 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and strong ability to put the ball on the floor) was a surprise. Aaron Trahair woke up in the second half and scored 14 points overall when it counted but the real strong players were Melmeth ( 12 point, 8 rebounds, 3 assists,4 steels), Ben Knight ( 19 points , 6 rebounds) and super clown Mike Helms ( 19 points, 8 rebounds despite also 5 TO).

The Slingers have 2 good - very hard working and up tempo PG's in Brad Davidson and Jeremy Kench.
While the stats do not show it , I felt that this ability to rest Davidson and keep the up tempo was a major difference to the 36 ers combination totally relying on Brett ( 40:41 minutes).

The nbl.com.au report states 4212 peole at the Indoor stadium and that seems to be reasonable correct.
Not such as bad number given an 8.00 pm start on a wednesday evening .

Boti states that he wrote his article from singapore and that there were only 1800 people which seems strange compared to the nbl.com.au reporter - but maybe he finished counting early in the evening to get his article to the newspaper in time.

Smyth:

"Give us four to six weeks and we will be a different group."

I wouldn't read too much into the loss. New team, have heaps to play for in their first ever game. Different conditions up that way with the heat and humidity - their players have been able to train in that for weeks whereas we haven't.

Plus it's only the first game of the season. It's a pity to lose any game, but I still give us every chance against the Hawks this weekend.

So what have you been doing in the pre season Mr Smyth? Season could be over in 4-6 weeks.

thedoctor backed Horvath to topscore, so not all is lost! He's also my captain in the fantasy league, and a bargain at $48,000!

we were missing no players due to the world champs. we had one of our imports here all off-season. we had nash available with no ABL team. we didn't have anyone (don' t count sutton) at the ABA finals. we had one injury to wheeler, and a minimal one to cooper, while other squads have had far more issues. we had the blitz and three full pre-season games .

4-6 weeks is a long time to wait - 8-10 more games. i hope he is underpromising.

thedoctor - You might want to share some of the winnings with poor Double Clutch. He put his entire personal fortune of $10 on the 36ers to win this one. Out of pity, and given that he's on holiday, I might give him a day off from being mown down on The Parade.

Also, Slingers are paying 5.75 against Perth later this week - might be worth a punt.

Taipans have shortened to 16 for the season, Dragons to 31.

Kings are out to 4.50.

Crocs and Kings even bet for their game on Friday - wouldn't touch that one in a hurry.

sounds like Phil is full of excuses already.

guess we'll have to get used to the oh we don't need to win this just not lose by more than....

we didn't prepare for this game (sydney last year)

our minds weren't in it

hate to tell you Phil but the season starts game one, not four or five weeks into the season when the season could be all but over.

While I agree that the result is disapointing championships arnt won in the first few weeks. As long as we see improvement from game to game as the team gets used to playing with each other then I can see us in a good position at teh end of teh minor round. Thats when we have to step up to the plate and play our best ball!

In saying that Id like to see Hill getting more court time - lets hope last night was just a one off and his time on court will increase with Lanard being used more as an impact player in spurts off the bench

The problem is that we have ten guys that can all play. You can't give everyone time. Phil tried to give all ten players court time time at the start of the 99 season too but realised about 4-6 weeks in that he couldn't. Maybe his memory is short and it will take him 4-6 weeks to work that out again. Problem is who don't you give the time to? Probably depends on who you are playing but maybe 2 of Ng, Hill, Cooper and Nash need to play 5 mins or less to get a good rotation going? Or are we too old to have an 8 man rotation.

For those who don't know Smyth shops at the supermarket I work at.

Next time he comes in, I will apply the same standards he applies to himself in his job to my job.

I will get a quality tomato, and try to sell it to him as a potato. When he refuses to buy it as a potato, I will put it out the back and not let it see the light of day. I will then pull out an old rotten tomato, that it sill ok in patches but mostly is useless now, and try to sell it to him over the ripening tomato out the back which will be great with a little sunlight. This will be at full price of course.

When he complains that the quality of the food is terrible, I will reassure him that despite the fact we have had months to get our quality in order, it will be fine in 4 to 6 weeks, and he should keep buying our rotting food anyway. Don't let the fact that you may die from food poisoning in the 4 to 6 weeks before we get our house in order discourage you from shopping with us.

Also the price of everything will be double the cost of the local competitor, because we didn't send someone down to see what they had to offer.

Message is, Smyth I want to see a team next Wednesday with offensive sets which gets us in a position to shoot higher than 31% from our starting back-court. I want to see a rotation that gets Maher the rest he needs to be effective and injury free all year long and gives time for Brad Hill to develop. Doesn't matter if things don't go to plan, as long as a system is in place to maximize our player's talents, and keep an eye on future development. Unlike last year.

Congrats DC, one of the better posts I have read, especially the analogy.

He is kidding.

I posted last week after the trial game that it looked good this year because our game would not stand and fall on the basis of the performances of Maher and Farley like it had for the previous 2 - 3 years.

Game 1 of the new season and absolutely nothing has changed. Very sad. We need some players to stand up and start giving us something. I am sick of watching the lack of consistency that has characterised the Sixers for a number of years now.

It is time to stand up a play with some passion, and not drop soft games like this one.

(#97052)you agree with everyone ? I'm a tad lost I thought DC's post was the opposite of Statman's everyone getting ahead of themselves.

DC great work but think we'll be seeing some mouldy old tomatoes playing this season.

why is there no boxscore?

brilliant dc...worthy of a basketball

52-cans, I've linked the dodgy one from the 36ers site. Looks like the NBL had problems with the stats.