Hoops

36ers v Blaze Tonight at 8:00pm

Moover, I hope you are right but I have seen little this season and the past 2 to indicate otherwise. Every time the 36ers thrill their fans with a great win like the one over the Tigers (correction, 2 over the Tigers recently) and also The Breakers in New Zealand amongst others,everyone is on a high and bragging about what a great team we have who are going to go deep into the playoffs. Then the bomb drops and they go and lose a stupid game against a lower ranked team and all confidence is lost. I don't care what anyone says about Gold Coast and what a quality opposition they are when they at the bottom of the ladder and only won 5 of 22 games. The point is that the 36ers are showing no sign of consistency that will see them through the playoffs. They are still a team that can beat any team in the league and on any given day can be overcome by a lower ranking team. They are still a team with a poor road record. Consistency will give confidence, not an odd good game.

spud, I merely said the coach deserves a good swift kick up the bum. SKUX101, I didn't blame Ninnis for the turnovers, I blamed him for not working out a strategy to contain Bowen.

The 36ers have shown much consistency this season. They consistently get beaten by teams ranked below them. Takes all the gloss off the Tigers win. Disgraceful show tonight. Hodge was well contained due to Joyce throwing multiple defenders at him but what were the others doing when there were 4 of them being defended by 3 or less. I think the 36ers have an attitude problem. They went into this game complacent because of the win they just had over the Tigers. I would like to give Ninnis a good swift kick up the bum as well as he has a talented enough team to be able to work out a successful strategy to overcome the Bowen factor.

Too many turnovers, yes. They had about 19.
The main diff. seems to be freethrows 27/36 (75%)
8/13 (62%). Everything else is fairly close.

There were a few key points about the game, and reasons to why the 36ers lost:

-Bowen shot an extremely high fg %- He finished 15/23 from FG

-36ers committed too many Turnovers with the main culprits being Hodge(5) and Bruce(6)- 11 between them

-Big Luke got into foul trouble and never got into the game-36ers need his scoring and most importantly his rebounding skills

-Bowen and his ability to rack up steals. He had 8-This reinforces the 36ers lack of ball protection

-36ers didn't get to the line enough. Only went there 13 times compared to the Blaze who went there 36 times

-The 36ers had an amazing 25 Turnovers--You cannont expect to win a game by doing that

All in all I'm quite dissappointed with the loss tonight. Hodge had a great game but there is one part of his game which is starting to frustrate me--Turnovers. He had 5 tonight. I understand he also had 4 steals and 4 assists, but he has to keep his turnovers down.
We didn't shoot all that badly from the Field( 39/84=46%). Turnovers just killed us though!

Down by 13 now. :(
Got to shut down Bowen. The guy is going crazy.
27 points,8 rebounds, 5 steals
Looking at the stats, it seems as though Bruce and Hodge haven't taken good care of the ball. They have 10 Turnovers between them!

Yeah, Big Luke has 3 :(. We really need him to have an impact in this game if we are to get over the line.

Wonder if Luke might be injured. 0 points and 11mins.

Got a bit worried with Hodge, Ballinger and Schenscher sitting down together. But got thru it alright, thanks to Brett.