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Sack Marty and Radford!!!!

*remaining*

Stat, you don't need to explicitly state that you will be a coach.

I've percieved Brett to be a proud and loyal club man who would be concerned about the club remaind relevant. Brett publicly stating that he has no confidence in the coach damages public perception of the organisation, regardless of whether he's echoing the sentiment of much of the fan base.

I imagine Brett would instead state he'll do whatever he can that will best help the club, which could imply "I'll coach if Management decided it was time to remove Marty".

You were good at the start here , but lately your behaviour is inappropriate , even if the headcoach argues with the refs for most of the game.
So , goodbye Mr Radford ... I'd prefer someone here more befitting.

Hold the boat just one moment.

Does someone ned to travel to ZImbabwe a la John Saffron style to see a witch doctor to put a curse on the coaches?

Europa63, a nice conspiracy theory, but haven't we said that Marty needs to wear a tin foil hat?

I guess the only problem there is that noone has ever heard Maher indicate the slightest bit of interest in coaching

I saw Radford call Clarke back from arguing with the ref , over in Perth , but clearly ,there's frustration now. Things are broken up out there.

Clarke was having plenty to say , Radford called out,
maybe a player said somethin also.

Clarke is rude ... to the refs ...
Seems they told Leeanne that the Tech was on a player
not them.

Watched the replay tonight and I could see why we went small with Weigh at the 4. This was the best I have seen him play this season, because he was working his way into the key and using his height to score over his man finally. This is how he should be playing, not jacking up threes most of the time!

Having said that, I thought DJ was looking tired halfway through that last quarter and Simpson needed to be brought in for him. He made a couple of "I'm exhausted and on autopilot" defensive errors where he showed on the ball-screen too early and the ball-handler just had an open run to the basket. Those two plays resulted in an open layup and the and-1 three that Warren scored.

If Simpson had come in with about 6-8 mins to go, DJ could have had a blow for 2-3 mins and then returned to close it out with Simpson.

Another one that got away. I'm praying that Rabbit can find some confidence, because he has lost the plot in the past few weeks. He's gone from a knock-down shooter to a guy that's too scared to take his shot at times. The Sixers need him to snap out of it or we aren't going to win any more games this season.

Better watch out for the Gong too. Ubaka should help them quite a bit and they're only one game behind us now. There'll be no coming back for Marty if he wins the wooden spoon this year.

I would love Smyth to return as coach. He would make it fun again & he would be fresh!

Maher as his assistant - BRING IT ON!!!

Why doesn't Radford just become a stand-up comic.

Would like to know why Radford screamed at Simpson like a naughty child when he subbed out? He didnt appear to have done much wrong.

Creek lazy? I must be watching a different guy. Diving on the floor, playing tight D. Creek and Herbert are our best two defenders in the backcourt.

The five that started the last quarter were Warren, Bartlett, Herbert, Weigh and Johnson. We were down 4. Cairns had Wilson, Williams, Warren, Crosswhite, Loughton. Basically both teams were running 3 guards. With these lineups on we scored 4pts to their 4pts.

8:18 We subbed Ng on for Bartlett. Made a 2-0 run with this lineup.

7:16 Grabau came on for them for Williams. We scored 7 to their 5 with this lineup.

4:25 Bartlett then came back on, they went on a 9-0 run and you know the rest of the story.

In the 6:16 that occured before "that" moment here's Weigh and Johnson's contributions.

Weigh- 4pts, 2 turnovers
Johnson- 2pts, 3 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal, 1 block, 1 foul

Would Johnson and Simpson been a better combo at the PF and C spots? Should we have run Warren, Herbert/Ng, Weigh, Simpson and Johnson?

We outrebounded them 6-4, but gave up 3 offensive boards. Would Simpson have denied some of those? Lots of questions. All I know is you have your best players on the floor in the clutch unless they've been totally awful, are injured or in foul trouble. Simpson had been playing fine. Cairns kept Warren on despite his quiet game and he won the game for them in 1 play.

Chris Warren's last quarter numbers up until Warren's 3......

0/2 threes
0/1 twos
1 turnover
1 foul

I'd have liked to have seen a Herbert, Ng/Creek, Weigh,Simpson,Johnson lineup at some point, especially down the stretch.

Stat/Issac, it is difficult to argue against facts using hypotheticals however at the time I considered Johnson's performance for much of the game as being relatively lacklustre (my perception only).

Both Crosswhite and Johnson looked stuffed halfway through the last and throwing a fresh Simpson at Crosswhite might have completely nullified his influence. Sure Johnson finished with 13 points but I recall 4 or 5 of those points come after the '9 point play' when the outcome was done.

Inserting Simpson for Johnson earlier in the last might have brought fresh energy into a tiring combo and in particular created more opportunities for our shooters to get open looks or at least draw more fouls out of a tired Cairns outfit. On reflection though, Weigh did appear to be playing the post quite well.

We'll never know and I can continue to hypothesise all I like, it won't change the result.

Seemed that the finger pointing was at Clarke who was talking to the ref for a long while.
Whether invective began to fly from Radford , I couldn't see or hear that.
Sounds like they'll be sayin that the ref misunderstood what was said.
Our players go at it pretty hard here for a week (other than Weigh ) and that was stupid from the coaches to do that.

With regards to uniforms, Im still waiting for my Blaze members shirt to arrive. The manufacturer stuffed up the original delivery (incorrect sizes supplied) and havnt been able to fix the problem yet!

Statman i agreed with u til i saw the game. Cairns got a couple of easy offensive rebounds due to being to short in the last. Simpson should have been subbed in or played the whole last qtr in place of Bartlett.

Why have him if u dont use him in the clutch?

Absolute stupidity & embarassing now!

Are yer sure the tech was on Radford ?
The Advertiser talks about suicidial idociy from Clarke who reckons there was a 'misunderstanding of wot was said' on NBL.com
Maher sounds like a pretty good coach on TV.

Ok didnt see the game at all and only going by box scores and the 'commentary' on here, but can someone explain why all the angst over Simpson sitting on the bench in the 4th quarter

From what Ive read the Sixers were down in the last with him on the bench but managed to claw back to level pegging before the tech foul which shortly after Simpson came back on. What did the group Clarke have on court actually do so wrong that Simpson would have fixed?

Sure Clarke is making some monumental errors this season but this seems to be one occasion when the rotation he had on the floor was actually working?

I agree isaac & Fearne is now talked about as the 'Wayne Bennett' of bball up here. They want him in this role for 20+ years. I was nervous with him at the start but love him now. Lemanis also needed time to get it right & good on the club for being patient!

Lemanis is a good positive guy & won the respect of blokes like Penney, Ronno, CJ etc as well as being passionate about NZ Bball.

Find one of these - it's not Clarke, not by a long shot!!!!

Argh, my head still hurts. As always, too many questions and too many answers. I can understand why previous head coaches prefer not to attend the games.

Marty was quoted before the game as stating the team still set individual goals and as an example highlighted Diamon Simpson "being the best rebounder in the league".I can't see how this can be achieved in 18 minutes of a game. But perhaps herein lies the problem, individuals don't win games pursuing individual goals, teams win games by working as a collective units to outplay opponents.

And while on the man, if Simpson is too fatigued when the game is to be won then just how valuable is he to the overall success of the team? If the coach chooses not to run him then something is afoot on the bench, especially when the defensive enforcer in Daniel Johnson is sucking hard and only 1 substitution is made in just over 6 minutes of a very tight last quarter.

Aaron Ferme has done a excellent job of establishing a team and game plan that brings out the best from his roster. If only Clarke was capable of doing the same. Alias the more games I watch with Marty as head coach the less confidence I have in his ability to achieve this objective. But....we gotta keep faith because he's the coach.

I spose a shortlist of coaches would have to include guys like Joyce, Stacker, Molloy, all have there flaws but are experienced and have all coached in the playoffs.

I think after 2 rookie coaches in Ninnis and Clarke we need to get an experienced coach. Who else is out there??

Out of those 3 id go with Stacker, he is currently at the AIS, so would have good connections with the top young talent, and always was good at getting good young guys to the crocs, is proven at NBL level, Townsville often over achieved with him as coach in my opinion, and he appeared to have a good relationship with guys like Brad Newley, who he recruited to the Crocs and would be my number 1 target if i was the 36ers, so would atleast be worth a phone call, even if he is happy to stay in Europe, cant hurt but try and Stacker making the phone call may help.

Still, as Brett Maher said in commentary, its a good thing to go back to your 'home' town and win and while Hill may not have been a huge contributor for Cairns in their 2 games here he's still come away with 2 wins hasn't he...

Marty and co are now just the laughing stock of Adelaide! Johnson can't guard anyone and Warren is the biggest spud in Adelaide import history. Keep this up Leeanne Grantham and you also will be on the outer!!!!!

Brad Hill tweeted ' nice to win in Adelaide as i'm not used to it'. Very clever tongue in cheek stuff to rev up the imbecile that cut him!!

Carfino has mentioned something brad hill put on twitter that would upset sixers fans.

What did he tweet and did it upset sixers fans?

Just Marty for now. Let the new coach decide his staff. Radford is obviously as frustrated as the supporters & needs a better leader. He was part of a c/ship side 2 yrs ago so he can't be that bad. I'll say this again - Clarke is an asst in our national program. WTF!!!

I see absolutely no reason to keep Clarke!

I have been surprised that this hasn't been mentioned already, but it kind of has been in other threads, but I thought I'd throw it out there as a seperate topic.

What were people's thoughts about having 3 person officiating on ABA games last weekend?

Both positive and negative comments would be appreciated, but also keep them constructive thanks.

A couple of questions would possibly be:

** Were there any massive differences into the way games were officiated last weekend?

** Did games continue to flow and be well managed or did the 3rd official act as a 3rd wheel?

** If used in the playoffs, would it be a positive or a negative? Would that provide inconsistancies from the way the rest of the season was and is going to be refereed due to the 3rd person?

From what I saw on the weekend it was somewhat successful, and with more practice and regularity it would be beneficial for the league.

Interesting to hear your (constructive) thoughts...