Hoops

Wildcats vs 36ers, Feb 14

Looked to me like Ennis only took three steps. Definite travel, but not as severe as some are making out.

Dwayne Wade was not an uncontested breakaway.

The NBL can't put a travel call on the nightly news, they can put a breakaway dunk on.

That's all its ever going to come down to. If you think otherwise, well, you're the one dreaming. The travel affected nothing and ignoring it gave the NBL something for the highlight reel. When they rejigged the ref's department this year, I have no doubt the need for highlights was discussed.

Let's be clear, a ref that calls a travel on a uncontested breakaway dunk would get dropped for a month. The NBL would be furious with him.

Yes that runaway dunk no call cost the Sixers game.

"Tatolvoch...attacked Joey."
HAHAHAHAHA....no. Joey reached out for a Wildcats DP, Tatalovich put his hand on Joey's arm to stop him. Wright may merely have been offering a handshake, but Tatalovich's actions were perfectly understandable given what had just transpired. Joey's were not.

"In court that would be self defence."
Rubbish. Self-defence doesn't give you the right to beat people up as long as they touch you first. Self-defence gives you the right to defend yourself. Once there was no threat from Tatalovich, which was the case immediately after his hand was removed from Joey's arm, Joey's actions would have been considered battery. Tatalovich would have a reasonable self-defence claim, as he actually took no further action than was required to prevent unwanted contact.

"Why is the guy who edits video even on the court after a game."
He's part of the coaching staff. He sits on the bench during games. Why shouldn't he be out there?



"If I am the judge Ennis gets a game, Joey gets a suspended penalty"
No way Ennis gets more than Joey. Both threw punches, Joey's connected and Joey's a coach. If one gets it worse than the other, it should be Wright.

"I wonder what really threw Joey off the handle. I would hope a little push wouldn't have sent him off like that."
He reached out for one of the Wildcats DPs, and Tatalovich grabbed his arm to stop him. So Joey punched Tatalovich. Sounds reasonable.



"Sixers were shaking hands like gentlemen until Joey was pushed and fair enough."
Feel free to join us in reality any time you'd like.

Ennis was a pretty cool and composed player before Xmas. It's something that stood out to me as being impressive for a guy of his age & experience.
But this year, yes, he gets sucked in easily and often by opponents, to the point that he is targeted every game. And fair enough too. If a guy is mentally weak then that's something to exploit.
He was in the thick of it again last night and should be looking at a penalty.
He wasn't the one who started it though. There are some far more experienced people who would want to have a good look at themselves after that, and ask themselves if they're serious about their team challenging for a title. Because it's still very much on the cards if they can get their heads right.

Just watched the 36ers v cats replay and I've noticed that Ennis shows his inexperience and immaturity in a pro league. There has been a few incidents with Ennis involved eg. The tigers game, 36ers game. Needs to be more pro and save the show time for the championship celebrations. Btw I'm a cats member.

@Mayor Martin is the Captain this year, Redhage is not but let's not let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Something about mountains and molehills.

So because it's not "unusual" we'll take no notice of it. Hey, you guys say that apparently Redhage flopping is not "unusual" so let's just roll on by.

"Nick the Dick Marvin"? Just sort yourself out Mayor, you have a bloody mental problem.

Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish.

I love it when Ervin is in the right frame of mind and helping the team. It was just so noticeable that when he was injured, Cadee got a chance and the team seemed to look like they actually enjoyed themselves and being on the court with each other. They seemed to share the success of each other and encourage each other and were flourishing in that environment.
Ervin coming back from injury would take a few games to get the rust out but they haven't seemed the same as the Pre-christmas Ervin team. Some of his best plays were when defenders were looking to block his layup and then he does a sweet over the shoulder pass to his teamate. That was when Ervin was in the right frame of mind.
Noticed last night Carter did a drive-dish to Big Schensch which took him completely by surprise as someone was actually passing him the ball rather than just using him as a screen or post up.

I obviously don't know what was being said, but some of the body language between Ervin & Wright during the game looked really bad. It's not a good look to be going off at your coach as you're subbed from the court.
I don't see how that stuff can be anything other than toxic in a team sport where being on the same page and having common standards are an important foundation.

It has been very obvious for long time and have been challenged on here my views that Ervin is the problem stopping this talented line up from performing consistently .
All teams woken up to him and has not adapted and continues to run into brick walls and chuck up a shot or just chuck the ball.
Think players put up with it now just totally frustrated and obviously coach has no answers leading to his frustration.
Joey is hundred times better than Clarke but so is any half population but being shown up badly by better coaches and until he sorts out our defence of outside shot and get some structure into our offence we will bow out of finals quickly .
Axing Frye good start but not sure Carter was the answer.

The worst part of all this is that the Sixers will need to play at Perth 3 more times this year if they want to be winners. Unfortunately with behaviour like that they are nothing but losers. It's pathetic to see a team play passenger defence all game and then when the game is over show some fight. it's 40mins too late and wasted.

Not a fan of decision to play Teys over Creek. What does it say to Creek? Yeah you're a good player and deserve your chance. When your chance comes it's, um yeah we're gonna play some scrubba and you're gonna come off the bench. Coach can word and justify it any way he wants, but all the player hears is "you don't rate me". Just my opinion.

Have heard Joey use the term "chemistry" many times before. Looks like the player that affects the "chemistry" the most is Ervin. He seems to have too much "ME ME ME" in him. The best the team have looked this season was when he was injured and not playing. Without him the group really seemed to enjoy playing together and wanted each other to do well. Maybe we should start Cadee, Gibbo, Creek, DJ, Peach and use Ervin as the spark off the bench.

I agree that Creek was a loose cannon in there, but to be fair, Ennis HAD just taken a few swings at him...

I agree that this is a very selective picture, I wonder if they some of the incident that immediately preceded this?

http://twitpic.com/dviokp

Have had a look at the incident.

Props to BJ for getting in there and restraining Joey.

Creek was making matters worse by continually confronting them and getting in their faces. He wasnt defending his coach/calming the situation down..he just wanted to get amung.

Thought it looked funny..BJ restraining Joey (rightfully so) and Creek just walking on past and in front of it all to keep it going.

Now if Joey had smacked Gossage in the mouth - he probably would of got a standing ovation!

They looked smug because they had just thrashed a team who apart from Petrie put up zero effort.

Great look for the league - Wright is an embarrassment, isn't he meant to be calm not running back around for a cheap shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TSbpyxIcgg

lol... yeah, definitely looked like Joey tried to break it all up then got someone's hands on him, thought it looked like a bit of an overreaction if it was indeed aimed at the DP (he seemed to push the kid out of the way after the initial fire up). You'd think it would have to be bad to get a coach to react like that, even someone as "passionate" as Joey...

Certainly looked like Ennis threw a few jabs early on in the mix...

Pathetic Creek should have started.

3point land 3/9 pathetic

When is Joey going to realize we HAVE to have a credible outside game.

Keep playing this way we might not win another game.

I really don't know what to say except to say I am happy I am going to work and that the Olympics are on.

if all else fails, I bought a new biography today so that'll keep me interested.

the game. meh

Looks like it's Teys starting

So, if Creek starts Ennis will force into him and Creek will have to sit. Later , the refs are not looking to get silly, so start Teys for the early fouls.

Cats 4 Life, 'Caddee an x factor'. Hahaha. He deserves less minutes than Teys.

Just saw this list on Ozhoops:

Mon. 2/2/2009 6:30 AM Cleveland @ Detroit
Fri. 2/6/2009 12:00 PM L.A. Lakers @ Boston
Mon. 2/9/2009 7:30 AM L.A. Lakers @ Cleveland
Fri. 2/13/2009 1:30 PM Boston @ Dallas
Fri. 2/20/2009 12:00 PM San Antonio @ Detroit
Mon. 2/23/2009 6:30 AM Boston @ Phoenix
Fri. 2/27/2009 2:30 PM Phoenix @ L.A. Lakers
Mon. 3/2/2009 12:00 PM San Antonio @ Portland
Fri. 3/6/2009 12:00 PM Dallas @ New Orleans
Mon. 3/9/2009 6:30 AM Phoenix @ San Antonio
Fri. 3/13/2009 11:00 AM L.A. Lakers @ San Antonio
Fri. 3/13/2009 1:30 PM Cleveland @ Phoenix
Fri. 3/20/2009 1:30 PM Golden State @ L.A. Lakers
Mon. 3/23/2009 4:00 AM Houston @ San Antonio
Mon. 3/23/2009 6:30 AM L.A. Clippers @ Toronto
Mon. 3/30/2009 4:00 AM Dallas @ Cleveland
Mon. 3/30/2009 6:30 AM L.A. Lakers @ Atlanta
Fri. 4/3/2009 11:00 AM Cleveland @ Washington
Fri. 4/3/2009 1:30 PM Utah @ Denver
Mon. 4/6/2009 5:30 AM Phoenix @ Dallas
Mon. 4/6/2009 11:30 AM L.A. Clippers @ L.A. Lakers
Fri. 4/10/2009 10:00 AM Philadelphia @ Chicago
Fri. 4/10/2009 12:30 PM Denver @ L.A. Lakers
Mon. 4/13/2009 8:00 AM New York @ Miami

Is it possible to record One HD onto your dvd recorder?

"Not all games are live or even available delayed on NBL.TV see Wollongong @ Cairns game from a few rounds ago. Totally blacked out that one."

What are you talking about? Not only do I remember watching it at the time, it's available here: http://www.nbl.tv/vod/type/mp4/videoId/1l51mejx1czzn19d5g4fdy16kz/title/Cairns%20Taipans%20Vs%20Wollongong%20Hawks

^^ all games are live on NBL TV...

Tipping Wildcats by 3

"Perth have a stranglehold on top spot"
Hardly.