Hoops

Sixers Vs Hawks

Good to see ABC radio there covering a Fri game and last Thursday as well, since we've only got 2 saturday games. They'd pre-arranged an after game interview with Oscar 'cause they thought the Hawks would win.
But went to Ballinger and Daly instead.
We get praise heaped on us by the media when we win.

Great win by the Sixers. Completely smashed the Hawks. Our D shut Ervin down, most of his points coming in the last few minutes when our players had already walked off the court mentally.

Great D, poise running the offence and three point shooting by Shannon. I hope we can hold onto him next season.

Marty continues to get improved performances out of Hill and Ng. So great to see them starting to play to their ability more consistently.

Balls and Jake were great on the boards and Balls was very efficient racking up the points. Might have to start calling him Money Ball!

First game I have seen Howard and he didn't really get into the game offensively. Early on it was fine, because he was swinging the ball to the hot shooters. But later in the game, he tried to make a few things happen and they didn't come off. Hope it was just the heat and he will bounce back Sunday night.

Bruce looked in pretty good nick for a guy who has been away from professional ball for a couple of seasons. Didn't shoot at all, but took the Hawks extended defence in his stride and was a nice safe pair of hands to rely on when Shannon needed a breather. Very good work by the Sixers to put themselves in a position where they could cover Carter's injury so effectively.

Starting to see a positive pattern from Sixers management. The way they pounced on Mitch Creek early in the season and now have brought in three replacements so smoothly bodes well for the future.

Big game in Melbourne Sunday. Sixers starting to show good signs, but the next game is one they have to get if they want to start making progress on the ladder.

It appeared last night that with shannon on fire that howard didnt get a chance to light up, but damn was that a good game

Very encouraging performance by Adelaide and a much eserved win. As solid as Carter has been, given a few weeks to adjust and get in the groove, Bruce could well be an upgrade!

Great to see.
Sixers are a new team with Shannon at the helm. Frees up Ng, Hill and Ballinger to do what they do best , SHOOT not create.
Confidence in the team must be on a high.
Keep tightening up the D and your boys will make a late charge for playoffs.

Brucey is back in town!!

Ng's 3's were the highlight

MVP went to Eddy Shannon's 24 or was it 22?
Howard got hit by the heat ,Im sure.3 votes
Aaron Bruce had a couple of insides refused and will fit in well.His transitions and presence was impressive.
Brad was driving to the Hoop like no tomorrow.2 votes
Ng's 3's were flat and AWSEOME.1 vote
Wolf Creek found the basket as the Hawks said"who...wha...??"(ie he was quick).
Balls and Holmes were rebound drunk.Good to see Adam get some.
The whole Teaim(sic) played with focus and loads of energy.I thought at half time they ran their marathon with Red and Sweaty faces but the 20 point lead was good enough to stop Ervins' late charge.If someone was down someone else picked up.
What is especially good for 2nd half of the season is, the 2nd five are potent as well.
Clarkes plays and rotations seemed to be efficient.Someone can add to his contribution.

Hilarious night with the dudes behind us starting the wave and heckling the Hawks. Just goes to show that a court announcer is nowhere near as effective as 5 blokes on the piss =P

Pretty noisey anyways..
Ng is a pretty good shot. Although I mentioned that before. Although I think he missed one shot.
We were 24 points up in the third qtr.
Good D . very good D
Good offense.
Shannon probably best of a real good team.

While Aaron really didnt shoot the lights out, his defence down the court really stood out. Did a great job guarding. Am pleased from that perspective.
Disappointing crowd but..... with the 3 bombs from outside, I thinkwe made a bit of noise.
Brad Hill, a surprise again with great points and some good work.
Darren Ng, awesome defensive rebounds at times and love it when he hits 3.
Anm impressed that Daly got a go with 3 to go. Didnt do a lot but happy with him getting a go. Would have loved a triple outside but alas, didnt happen.
Great work 6ers, now back it up against Melbourne and ya never know.

can anyone out there tell me if adelaide won. I know it's new year's eve but surely there should be a result posted somewhere!!!!!

Check out the Box Scores on NBL.com.au for all the details - 36ers

anyone else seeing this ludacris performance by the refs tonight. Dont care what anyone says but these refs need to go back to social league

We gotta young point guard, sitting on the bench.
Fired up Eddie Shannon.
Meanwhile, substitution , . - five (5) out.
Five (5) on ! ? !

I think the 6ers are due and will win by 5.

New years eve game usually draws a deceny crowd, playing a good team and Aaron Bruce is back so that is bound to add at least 100 women there to see him...

For the crowd I'm predicting about 5238 or there abouts...

Crowd'll be interesting.
Twenty five bucks for a family of four is a pretty cheap way to start NYE and plenty of time after to do other things.

Reckon they'll be able to keep it pretty cool , temperature wise that is.. was cool in there yesterday, very cool, in fact..
About 7000 in there tonite, I'd expect.
Radford spoke about D on Oscar and Clarke on Davidson.
No Saville will help us.. Not sure how to stop Ervin.
Howard was pretty good first game..
Bruce and Ng stole the show , at training, looked very very good.
Gonna be overtime I reckon.

Bruce is clear to play and should get minutes backing up Shannon, especially with no other reliable ball handlers on the team (IMO).

Also have heard that Saville is definitely out tonight (hope my source is accurate on this), which should help the Sixers matchups.

I'm not heaps confident going into this game, but I'm going to have to tip the Sixers winning by 6ish

Bruce has been cleared to play!

http://www.nbl.com.au/news/article/2010/december/bruce-cleared-to-play-for-sixers/

Really excited for this game, just hope the A/C is doing a half decent job.

I am hoping our imports can adapt to the heat too, as Howard said he did just come from chicago where it was -8, now to be somewhere where its 40 degrees is going to hit him hard, however yesterdays weather hopefully helped them adjust.

36ers Will get this 1, Think the bubble is about burst!!! kings get 2nyt to, good odds 4 the kings!!!! There 1 game closer to a win. Perth playing very very averge & still 3rd no matty & jesse, damn good TEAM!!!!

29 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals; 11-15 FG, 4-5 3P and 3-3 FT in this first ever NBL game.

And Adelaide offered him a spot in the 13?!?