Hoops

NBL schedule released, tips-off Sep 13

With only 10 teams in the league, each team visits each other so often that even away games will start to feel like home games for the players. I am thrilled that we don't have a home game on the 13th December as the previous schedule showed it to be an away game and I agreed to a Xmas function on that night. Then I started to regret it in case the new schedule showed us having a home game on that night.

"Schedule may be subject to change." I chuckled at that!

Okay, I'm going to try to paste in Adelaide's schedule. The format is Round, Date, and Game (Home team first):

1 Wed, 17/09/2008 South v Adelaide
1 Fri, 19/09/2008 Adelaide v Townsville
2 Wed, 24/09/2008 Adelaide v Sydney
2 Sat, 27/09/2008 Sydney v Adelaide
3 Thu, 2/10/2008 New Zealand v Adelaide
4 Sat, 11/10/2008 Melbourne v Adelaide
5 Fri, 17/10/2008 Wollongong v Adelaide
6 Sat, 25/10/2008 Adelaide v Perth
7 Sun, 2/11/2008 Adelaide v Sydney
8 Thu, 6/11/2008 New Zealand v Adelaide
8 Sat, 8/11/2008 Adelaide v Cairns
9 Sun, 16/11/2008 Gold Coast v Adelaide
10 Fri, 21/11/2008 Sydney v Adelaide
10 Sat, 22/11/2008 Adelaide v South
11 Sat, 29/11/2008 Adelaide v Wollongong
12 Sat, 6/12/2008 Adelaide v Melbourne
13 Wed, 10/12/2008 Adelaide v Townsville
13 Sat, 13/12/2008 Perth v Adelaide
14 Sat, 20/12/2008 Adelaide v Gold Coast
15 Sat, 27/12/2008 Melbourne v Adelaide
16 Wed, 31/12/2008 Gold Coast v Adelaide
17 Wed, 7/01/2009 Adelaide v Wollongong
17 Sat, 10/01/2009 Adelaide v Cairns
18 Fri, 16/01/2009 Cairns v Adelaide
18 Sat, 17/01/2009 Townsville v Adelaide
19 Wed, 21/01/2009 Adelaide v Gold Coast
20 Sat, 31/01/2009 Adelaide v Perth
21 Wed, 4/02/2009 South v Adelaide
21 Sat, 7/02/2009 Adelaide v New Zealand
22 Fri, 13/02/2009 Wollongong v Adelaide

I am a bit "Jack Toft" with that too. We play our first and last game away. The four other teams who play away first, also play away last game (Melb., Towns., Woll., and South). New Zealand start home and finish away, but the NBL gods obviously like Perth, Sydney, Cairns and Gold Coast - all have the priv. of starting with and finishing with a home game.

Personally, I always like to finish with a home game as in a close one the crowd gets the team over the line.

Don't like games 4 to 7 (4 on the road). Last season, that was our undoing - Brad injured in Perth, wheels fell off without Brett...chooks went off their lay. We have four home games in a row though....