Hoops

R18: Sixers v Tigers

Why did Marty play Christofacantplaybballforshitason, Its just a waste of a player. And why didn't Adelaide go to Johnson in the 3rd when they were getting beaten, they are a very strange team.

"Oh for the days when we had forwards who could dunk or hit threes and we had good shooting guards."

@Rhythm Willie: remember the game when Mark Davis took ex-NBA vet Acie Earl (supposedly dominant big man playing for Syd at the time) out to the 3 point like and skooled him?

Those sure were the days.

I have my spies RW

Went to watch Jonny Flynn and a game almost broke out!

Mission accomplished.

Yes I am an armchair critic.
Yes I am sarcastic and make jokes at the 36ers expense.

But how the hell else can someone who is reasonably rational and sane react to the joke this season has become?

I think it would do more harm than good to be cheering for them at this point, patting them on the back and saying that they'll turn it around next week.

"Next week" should have happened two seasons ago, and voicing our displeasure is the only way the powers that be will get the message that it just isn't good enough.

The Adelaide basketball fanbase has been acknowledged as being about as educated as they come in Australia. And we know when the 36ers coaching staff and front office tries pissing on our boots and telling us that it's raining.

RW, After what you did for Jack the Sixers could pull you in for a sesh with them

It was said! My opinion deserved a reaction but not that reaction. I don't think I can do better. I'm not an armchair critic but I don't get paid to do it. I'm not alone here. We all see what's going on and we all deserve to have our opinions. All I KNOW is that the opinion of the majority will be a fact by the start of the next season and you can all defend the unemployed!

Marcus the person said that on the 36ers facebook page too

If fans are getting their season tickets revoked for being too "rowdy", then he should get his ass sacked for saying that to fans. Screw "Sack Marty" threads for now....I say we start a "Sack Rat" thread!

Saw Petrie had a few words to say to Mayberry,from 12th row ,can just read pet rise lips and looks like he said your biased Vaughan ,then Mayberry said that's enough and then Clarke intervened.

Did anyone catch what was said / going on between Petrie and the ref at the end of the game. Looked pretty heated and Clarke went over to calm the ref down.

@Jack Toft I'm glad I could supply some entertainment In the 2nd half. I definitely served up some spicy curry to the ginger cancer! Was just giving him a little advice on which employment sight to go on in a few months. Was pretty disgusted though when he came back and said that we''ll be lucky if anyone wants to play for THIS TOWN next year! WTF! This guy is a major reason THIS TOWN is in trouble in every aspect of both basketball and business at the moment. Bring on next year! I hope our core will stay. I won't name players but we know who they are.

The crowd was boosted by the $10 ticket offer. I know that's sure as hell why I bought 2 tickets to this embarrassingly funny team of ours.

What a rabble that 2nd half was! Clarke should only be paid half of his contract this season, because he only seems to be able to coach for one half.

Thank goodness Ballinger, Goulding and to a lesser degree (thanks to fouls) Flynn and Scott were playing, they made it worth the $10 entry fee. Great to see Balls sticking it to us. He kept them in it in the first half.

DJ actually surprised me and played harder on D today. I thought Cadee started well on Flynn, and the full-court D to get the ball out of his hands worked pretty well. He was frustrated early.

To me it was lost at the foul line, you cant leave that many free points at the stripe and expect it not to bite you on the butt. Just there alone we would still be in the game, let alone the extra pressure it would have added throughout the game.

Whatever get said at half time do the opposite.

Woeful second half up by 11 at half time ,second half didn't play basketball at all ,Melbourne played well ,yet Adelaide arguing with referees too much.

Good crowd , some promotion vide Adelaide United both playing Melbourne . Might be more crowd than an Australian International one day cricket match at the MCG.
Early in the game - freethrows : ADL 7/16 . Mel 0/1
Ballinger shot well .
Flynn and Scott sat the 2nd and ADL won that quarter comfortably . From there , with Scott and Flynn back on court and an easy win . In the end , Flynn did what he liked with Cadee guarding him .

some of Adelaide fans seem un reliable, when your teams playing bad, don't BOO them, cheer them on and help them play better

Sixers are starting to find different ways to lose. It's almost expected now.
They went about 0 for 10 firing 3 pointers (some of Adam Gibson's were just bricks)in the 4th quarter. I know they were in chase mode but it made a bad situation worse.
Congrats to fans for showing up. Not much to cheer about.

Highlight of the match was post match. Some guy with a scorpion tattoo giving a bit of curry to The Rat when he was collecting the game sheet. The Rat serving it back with a bit.

Because the Solar sponsor has not been paying their sponsorship money!

Oh dear, sixers lose the 3rd quarter by 15, all too familiar a scenario for this team. Offense completely stagnated in that 3rd quarter allowing the Tigers to score off of missed shots. Again, timeout and adjustements come far too late from Clarke

Refs really aren't that bad, calling the fouls that should be called and the Tigers are being undisciplined and failing to adjust.

Will be tougher in the second half for the sixers with Scott and Flynn back on the floor.

Good crowd for a Sunday

No i don't think it wrong that you feel that way. I think it's wrong that with 1 change we wouldn't be feeling that way.It's half an hour before i have to leave to go to the game and i really don't feel like wasting my sunday afternoon but i know i will just get in the car and go because of a slither of hope it will be different this time.

Is it wrong that the only thing I've cared about all week is that Flynn doesn't get injured or get an NBA 10 day contract before today's game?

After Friday night's game I'm expecting the Sixers to start fast and be quite physical.I'll be interested to see how the referees call the game early.

I'm also hoping for another standout game from Schenscher, he was playing well prior to his fall and seems to have lost confidence since his return.

Fingers crossed for a win.

should be a bumper crowd seeing they sold quite a few $10 tickets to some of the abl clubs.

cant see us winning, however pigs have flown before.

Looking forward to watching Jonny Flynn play. Yep, that's about it really...

hahaha

First game I've gone to in years.

It's 1:30 right?

What's a good time to get there? (no suggestions of "after the game" please)

You heard it here first. Keep eyes open tomorrow.