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Wildcats Taipans 30/1

I agree with anon's comments re. the 8 player rotation. I was quite surprised they signed McCamey into the last spot, I thought they only needed to sign a backup Australian guard to fill in the numbers. Has turned out pretty well now though.

I don't think Tragardh is lazy, he's just not particularly gifted athletically and has to work really hard to try and keep up. He seems to be working pretty hard up here in Cairns nowadays.

I used to dislike Stephen Weigh, now I dislike Him!

does anyone know what happened with gleeson at the tigers?

what about that call on wagstaff where bloody campbell was behind the shooter and called a foul! replay show he didnt even touch him. I think bull and campbell where in competition to see who could call the most fouls!

Uh, well 6 of them came from fouling the three point shooter, although one of which was from Hire getting yet another rookie call against him.

Cairns had 14 more points from F/T alone! i bet most of those came from the on ball pick and drive.

Constantly leaving a man open was infuriating. I could see it being ignored once or twice or if the open man was missing the shot but we just about blew the game right there. Put us in a huge hole.

Our start to the 4th quarter was diabolical. We already had to make up ground, to spend two minutes faffing about copping points before we got a move on was just inexcusable.

Oy, none of that now.
There's enough time left for us to counter some of the counters being used on us (though I wish I had more faith in Gleeson as a coach). So basically I'm counting on Knight to return and save us. Hey, don't laugh... it could happen.

Soooo........

We're screwed. Who else wants the title?

I agree with pretty much all of that, kev.
To me, the difference in offensive execution between the Taipans and the Cats was pretty significant. They looked like they had a plan and were on the same page with it, while so much of ours seemed to be just winging it.
Opponents continue to pick our D apart too easily.

full credit to cairns. they shot well and played to the cats weakness which is defence. i thought the cats came out well defencily but couldnt execute offence well enough. All night Cairns played on ball pick then drive and dish and the cats couldnt defend it. The cats helped from weakside and left and open man all the time. it wasnt until late in the 4th quarter, that they stopped helping from weakside and got a couple of charge calls that turned the game momentarily. But overall, the demeanour and attitude of the guys looks different from pre-xmas. the assistant coaches dont look interested. When Bevo was coaching all the players looked happy and content and confident regardless of losing or winning and i think that is playing a big part of why the cats arent playing well.

what was with those charge fouls?
sure they were consistent.....consistently wrong !

Our media whinge about the refs certainly paid dividends. Pity the team still wasn't good enough to win even with the home cooking.

Yeah, Cairns got shafted on a few calls and basically anything was a charge all night (except the off-the-ball Redhage one, for some reason).

Well, at least Ennis dunked on Casey Frank. If things keep going the way they are, that's all that'll come out of the year.