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36ers at Spirit - Fri 21st Nov

DJ:

"Have only seen the timeouts from the foxtel Dragons vs Sixers game"
Ooops, I forgot Poxtel've only just started showing games.

"(that was woeful). Scotties timeouts than were pretty bad, but than we were getting smacked all over the court. Still felt he needed more direct comments and to be a bit more harsh"

Thanks DJ, sounds like Scottie's got a bit of work to do on his time-outs. I'm not sure of the morale of the crew, but if Scottie's losing it in his time-outs, he may not be setting the scene for a team turn-around. Obviously I'm making an uninformed generalisation, but maybe clear, concise directions, & a bit of ego stroking might be the way to go.

Have only seen the timeouts from the foxtel Dragons vs Sixers game (that was woeful). Scotties timeouts than were pretty bad, but than we were getting smacked all over the court. Still felt he needed more direct comments and to be a bit more harsh. But that could have been an exception as that game was done and dusted early and the players lacked any motivation to try and get back into it.

Yeah. Pretty good.vanexel31
(Hill was bad tonite, but can give more than that)

yeah our back court is unhealthy i agree, but hodge can both guard spots giving us bruce maher hodge and davo. but i agree, id keep hill in the back court, hodge at forward and cut coopers minutes. cooper and hill i believe to be inconsistent, but hill has proven to be more valuable than cooper. but in saying that we'll need balls to sub for luke at centre meaning we cant have both on the coart for an extended period of time. i think depending on who we play as to who gets th 8th man mins, hill or cooper.

At the moment, KingJames, your right.
Would have to agree, on their present form.

Not having Poxtel, I'm in the dark about Scottie's time-outs, does be give direction when we stagnate, or just bark?

Normally you would. Yes.
Tonite, well if he didn't put in 'cause he wanted to start ?

but holmes is proven. had a rare off night i agree. id play holmes 33 mins anyday rather than give hill 13.

Scottie's 3 time outs, I was refering to last post.

Re box scores. Holmes is the worst.

Maybe he could see they switched off.
Maybe tried to fire them up ?

xztatic - did you see the box score of what hill contributed tonight? 13 minutes for 3 points on 1/5 shooting, 3 boards 3 assist but 3 turnovers. I like brad hill think he has potential, but with 6 legitamate scoring threats in the side were better off giving minutes elsewhere. aaron bruce only played 23 minutes and jocob only 20. i like what mike d'antoni did with the suns, use 8 guys have themall get good minutes and a good flow of the game. Its bretts last season hill will get his chance next year. He just needs to be more consistent to warrant taking pt away from jacob. jacod and aaron should be playing more than 20 and 23 mins respectively.

Last quarter. Scottie 3 time-outs, Bevo none. Thoughts?

Yes. Your right and the coach.
Sick of losing away games

Might have been a comfortable half time lead. And, they put the foot down in the second half, and we didn't do enough. And, Holmes not contributing.

Isn't that rhyming slang for something starting with useless?

Ray Hunt was reffing

I don't normally enter into player positions & court time discussions, but if Brett's out tomorrow night, & taking into account the back to back game schedule. I'd leave Hill in there, & bring Eze into the 10.
Radical maybe, but he's fresh, plays smart, & knows Jules' game.

Not sure that you can pin-point the Spirit's 3 point barrage as what brought us down, they had 30 attempts. Our 3 point shooting was lethal, so encouraging there.
To me, Gruber was the one that slipped under the radar & did the damage inside. Their other high scorers are expected to get their numbers. Him, not so. That's something that wouldn't have been anticipatedan, & we obviously didn't take him seriously enough.

Maher unlikely to be able to back up

i agree king james, dont play winitana unless were up 20 or carrying injuries. find an 8 man rotation and stick with them guys, that may mean no playing time for hill, winitana, and ezy but so be it.

my starters and 8 man rotation

c luke
pf balls
sf hodge
sg maher
pg bruce

holmes
davidson
cooper (only limited mins)

sorry
hill
winitana

Didn't think Holmes would start tonite, but probably start tomorrow, with Brett unable.
If he's gonna sook out and lose the game for us...
19mins 4points.. very disappointing.

joshuapending:

" solved the live score, dont know why but i just dont have it on firefox, launched it in safari and its there. I have adblock insalled maybe that has blocked it"

You may have been unlucky trying to crack into the live-scores while their net traffic was high. Did it attempt to bring up the link & kept timing out, or didn't the link work at all?

In Thunderbird, Adblock will ask for permission to allow a link via the orange drop down bar if it hasn't been given passage before.

For the livescore link (Firefox).
To the right of the scrolling main pic on the NBL home page, is a pale blue rectangular box with "NBL LIVE SCORES - CLICK HERE".

Was late getting onto the betting for this one. Took Sixers 11+ @ $3.85.

Was tempted by Ballinger to score more threes than Low paying $2.80 but best to wait and see how Hodge impacts the plays... At the half their tied at 3 each so maybe a good move to stay away from that one.

Hodge is all world at missing the first (and sometimes the second and third) shot and getting his own "O" board.

: )

Hey Isaac mate, any chance you could set up a betting site? I come here for the basketball.

Love your work. : ) : ) : )

Wish I had it as easy.

Should be a W

Hope we push out to about +20, then Scotty clears the bench

I think Rush is out