Hoops

Hawks v Sixers Fri 28th

Our Biggest issue is who Joey is being out coached by.
Talented players can only give you so much!!

While we even guarded pretty good! and gotta lotta rebounds!! at the start, the bench not as good at it and gave up the lead.

The promo shot was from 1992, the commentary from then too.

"Illawarra, Illawarra, Illawarra"

We started pretty good, unforunately the bench not as good. Carfino is confused about a lotta things, but Carter and martin in the same game fried his brain. Perhaps we shouldda fouled Clarke there with 1 minute to go. Nevertheless, illawarra too good overall

They are still dreaming of there days back on the Gold Coast, and hoping they will be back their one day soon.
Cocktails and Dreams Baby!!
Remember when????

seems to me, teys got the go-ahead over creek cos teys correct me if im wrong was a player at the gold coast. also seems that its majorly important to have as many of the ex blaze team members on court at any time rather than have the guys who wanna be there.

im sorry, but so unsure how teys is part of the starting line-up. im sure there's a good reason behind it given teys never saw any game time earlier in the year, now suddenly gets a fair slice of the pav.

however, what the coach does is far better than what the coach has done in the previous 3 seasons.

I think a lot of the 36ers are passionate.

Creek just tends to show it more..not every one is the type to fist pump and get all pumped after a big play.

Johnson is the only one you can single out as not displaying prototypical passion. (Could just be his demeanour but doubt it).

But Petrie, Gibbo especially, Carter, Teys, Ervin and even BJ seem like passionate dudes. By passionate they all play hard to win.

Isaac, interested to know how you define passion in your book?

My take is that a passionate player wouldnt talk about his AFL future when the current club he plays for is vying for a potential championship

The guys behind the visitors bench aren't related to anyone that plays or works for the Hawks. They've been going to games for years!

Obviously I don't hear everything that comes out of their mouths but the things I've heard is just normal trash talking that you'd hear on any basketball court. Never heard anything out of line said.

Some of the Dragons players go to games and you should hear some of the things THEY say to the other teams haha my lord!

I just don't see what Carter really gives this team that Cadee/Gibson already do.

36ers , IMO, got rid of a scorer (which they needed) to get a guy who doesn't really do anything well. Like what does he add to the team?

People compliment his defence...yet Clarke and Martin went off last night.

And people have no place criticising Teys after what he did last night. He did everything asked of him I feel. Was very happy with what he did.

If you want to criticise anyone, criticise Creek. When he plays well people say he deserves more mins (fair game)..but when he does absolutely nothing like last night people blame Wright for not giving him consistent mins (not fair game).

This talk of Essendon is disgusting -- not so much the content of it -- but the timing. Dude should be focussed on winning the championship.

Hawks are peaking at the right time of the season. Could be a very interesting series if it went Perth-Hawks

Everyone jump on the Hawks bandwagon!

Gong deserved the win tonight. Outplayed us in all departments. We stayed within range but were just short of good enough all through.

Any team that tries to stay with Woolongong by trading baskets will lose.

Joey seems to be trying to bring Teys up to a finals standard player and I think he has made the wrong choice in not putting that work into Mitch Creek. Creek has the potential which just seems to me to be suppressed by his limited court time. He is young and keeps being brought in intermittently and cold!!! He needs to be backed and used as an important offensive player in the set plays, with continuity in his court time. He is usually subbed out just when he is getting warmed up and on the verge of losing that hesitancy. He should be encouraged to up his game aggressively and keep going. He would be better for starting with the best quality line up. If he fouls out later it wouldnt matter as we are not using him well any way. Either Creeks a dud (not) or Joeys no better than Clarke as far as developing Creek is concerned. No development coaching at all. Either back him or send him off to someone else or another sport. I personally think he is an exiting talent and we will lose him due to the lack of faith shown him through his court time and position in our side.

On a more positive note we did have a period of better shot selection in the last quarter and hit some great shots from range.

This was spoiled somewhat by ErvIn who after several brilliant and sensible shots had to make that ego play at crunch time. Turn over and goodnight. I looked at that and said thats probably the game. I think that was with about 3 mins to go but will have to watch again to check.

Joey has to keep ErvIn's ego in check. He does great things and then, bang, ego play, turnover.
If missed shots under the ring went on his turnover stats he would look very ordinary indeed.
He needs a strong coach to keep him thinking clearly. 6/16, not good enough and he denies better shooters their opportunities. He's not enough of a team player, negating his great talent.

After an outstanding start to the season we now need to adjust to the improved standard of play in those teams now pushing us to have a genuine chance of bringing home a flag.

For those who say Teys is now earning his place in the starting line up I would say Teys is playing well. He is not doing anything wrong, but he is not going to give us any thing more than being a good team link player. Not up to the standard we need to contest finals as an elite all rounder. With mediocrity we will lose. I would rather see the effort put into an x factor like Creek while we still have the chance. A very narrow window of chance at this stage of the season.

Having said all that I have been enjoying this amazing season with Joey and really hope we can keep this fantastic, never give up aggressive style of play right to the last game.

Great quality game and exceptional play from Martin and Clarke. Joey was on the money: they were hitting TOUGH shots!

Gotta love the plethora of baseless "Teys is shit" comments on Hoops.

Also, I heard Star Wars music in the background of the post-game analysis on Ten. Was that actually playing at The Sandpit?

(Bill Woods kept calling Rhys Carter Rhys Martin all night. Close, but wrong)

Hawks kept hitting hard hard baskets. Sixers lack one or two pure shooters. Or a Rotnei Clarke or Rhys Martin.

I was calling for Creek to be signed up for ten years only a couple of weeks ago. But that was a very bad game. Outplayed by Carter and Teys by some distance.

At least the 48% 3pt shooting by the Hawks his time was not all open shots.

In a perfect world, drunken jerk NowhereGong fans will die in a fire. A cheap one. Those guys were just assholes.

My gut feel is that Wollongong desperation at home can get it done, should be close either way.

The Hawks have come alive in the last half of the season. In the first 14 games, the average score was 77:83, this half they are now averaging 87:82.

Looking at the individual stats, there's been a slight improve from all the plays from the 2013 games to the 2014 game in all the key areas, but emphasis on all the players. Maybe the sum of everyone's little 1%'s makes a difference.