Hoops

2014 GF Series - Game 3

"How is that a charge on Schenscher when Flophage is in the semi-circle...?"
That only applies if the offensive player is airborne, and doesn't apply at all if they push off. Schenscher pushed off while on the ground. No-charge arc doesn't apply.

@EC ...? The Wildcats

I know it was a financial pain in the ass to not have the front of jersey sponsor, but I do like the look better. One of those frustrating things about Australian sports.

Wait, is an ostensibly sentient human actually trying to pretend Ervin wasn't guilty as sin on the knee to Goulding's groin? Because that one could have been added to the list in the old saw about the only certainties in life being death and taxes.

Big Ads of Perth, huge credit for the name :D

Well done to the 36ers, massive achievement to go from the cellar to the bright lights and take it to the game three decider. Amazing season and with a little judicious recruiting/luck with the imports will be back up there next year.

I won't pretend to be members of the Gary Ervin & Joey Wright Fan Club, but I'm sure few of you guys are members of Ennis & Gleeson Fan Club, so I figure its not really necessary :)

Huge effort all up, and like Boti has said, massive credit to people like Dean Parker who have helped pave the road the on-court team has followed.

Looked like a knee to me.

Perth just too good yesterday

People need to give Gleeson some credit for the way he managed Greg Hire during the Finals. He was key player in both G1 & G3 after being a bit of a non event during the minor round. I thought Hire had gone backwards this season but his finals play, although not eye catching or flamboyant, was a thorn in Adelaide's side. Matty Knights also stood up yesterday and Redhege made Adelaide hurt in the first half.

Disappointed that the Sixers lost their way in the end because the 34 point blowout didn't truely reflect how close these two teams were.

Great season

Was a very interesting game, sadly I couldnt get a ticket (sell out) but was enjoyable to watch. Congrats to Adelaide on their rise up the ladder.

Steven suck my left one11111 and toft!!!

Yes I couldn't see any of the Adelaide fans booing any Wildcats player - I mean just look at the respect afforded here to Redhage.

Joey made some bizarre decisions today - when GE was just jacking up shot after shot while Gibbo looked on from the bench in the 3rd ....I no comprehende.

Games were over called but glad to see most see the better team won.

> 6 successes from 28 straight trips to the finals smells a lot like underachievement!

Smells a lot like par for the course or better to me, once you consider how many of those 28 seasons had 6 teams making the playoffs and how many had 8.

Congrats to the Wildcats and all of their non-Cats4Life fans
Plenty of controversy in the series but after the dust has settled I'm satisfied that the better team won, and that's good enough for me.

Congrats to the 6ers also for being the only team capable of making this a competitive series, just a year after finishing down the bottom. Plenty of talent and plenty to look forward to I'd imagine. Hopefully some of that amazing support from Friday night translates into season-long support next season.

Congrats Cats - you didn't just beat us, you humiliated and destroyed us.

Worthy winners - we had nothing when it mattered.

Enjoy the well deserved title.

ADL can take a lot of positives out of this year.

Some slight adjustments roster-wise and they"ll be right in the mix again next year in terms of top 3 teams.

Upon reflection:

- Teys. What a find. Deserves a much bigger role. Kid can play

- Too guard heavy. If Cadee walks its not too big an issue..i always thought imagine the 36ers had Ced instead of Ervin and a floor-spacing shooter like Burdon instead of Cadee.

- Creek. Some tough decisions need to be made. Granted he didn't get the mins he wanted or may have deserved, but even when he did play i didn't see too much. Thought he didn't develop as much as what he could have this year. So a decision is needed on that SF spot -- because right now he is awkwardly / on the verge of being awkwardly in the middle. Potentially taking up too much of the points/salary to come off the bench but not yet ready to star

- Good core group: Gibson, Petrie, Wright.

- Need more outside shooting. Pretty much everyone minus Gibbo could be considered somewhat inconsistent and up and down shooters.

Game Recap now up on PnR:

Perth Crowned Champions

Don't care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are number one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bet u understand that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to the Wildcats on the great season. Definitely the bench mark with some great performances and some great support from their fan base.

Ervin won some games for us but probably helped lose some too. He was out muscled in games 1 and 2.

Some one called Maher an idiot because that's what you call a 2 time champion, Olympian & has a court named after him. Redhedge will have a terrible acting award in a daytime soap at the Logies named after him

Perth deserved to win they did all the little things. Watching Redhedge & Knight act like the got shot every time someone touched them was terrible. Brett Maher was calling Redhedge out over twitter.
Bring on the next season.

It was a GF Series that deserved to go to 3 games and it went three games.

Well done to Adelaide who have found their Mojo this season and have made their fans proud.

Well done to Perth who were the dominate team all season and whose championship it was to lose, but were able to secure it.

I'm looking forward to Season 2014/15 !



Cats 4 life, perhaps don't drink and post, or if you do make you post more lucid so we can attempt to understand you. Did you hit your head while you were imitating a Redhage flop?

How many times do we have to explain we were booing marty not the team and we put up with his crap for 2 seasons before we resorted to that.

Congrats to Perth. Was always going to be tough. Was confident we could do it but wasn't overly surprised it got that blown out.

Well done to Joey and the team.

Congrats perth. Made plays and got the calls they needed to play their scrappy style.

Chin up sixers, great season, can't wait for next season already.

Perth crowd......
Don't boo players and coaches as they collect the runner up awards, that's just disrespectful.

I can't believe what i'm reading 6ers came from bottom of the ladder to the grand final. Perth came from losing the grand final twice in a row to winning it. Both teams improved on the result they had last year can't we all just get along and celebrate everyone's victories? congratulations to Perth and hopefully 6ers will get the next one.

Dominant win from the wildcats. The NBL needs to look at the way that charging fouls are called and the punishment handed out for flopping. Perth played to the rules as they were being interpreted by the officials on the day so can't really blame them for being dirty. If the NBL truly wants to get there league more recognition and fans then they really need to start with the consistency of the refereeing and the soft calls that are constantly made.

I may be a 36ers fan but I am also a fan of basketball in general and would love for more people to get into the sport. At the moment the top tier league in this country looks and acts like an amateur league. Ticketing issues with game 2, starting a grand final decider at 11am because 10 wanted to have a replay of some 60's show at 3pm or whatever, massive discrepancies between the quality of the "show" between teams, it just doesn't look good to the casual observer.

After this 3 game series, I for one would be asking why not a 5 game series?

Nothing to do with who won or who is playing, I would just like to see us go a little NBA and have 3 game series in our semi finals and a 5 game series for the grand final...

Is there a reason we don't consider this, that anyone is aware of?

maybe we should remove charge fouls from the game. we should not be rewarding players for getting in good position on defense. would that make 36ers fans happy! refs have not cost Adelaide this game. they have been outplayed.

If 36ers have been playing better, then the refing shouldn't matter. Refing should never have an influence on your game. Different refs have slightly dif interpretations on the rules. Players should adjust so.

Creek and Cadee on for Teys and Ervin after about 2 minutes in the third. What is Joey doing?

Bowtie, if kids are on here, then set a good example and commend the players and for playing fair and having sportsmanship yourself

Carfino can get fucked keeps accusing cats of flopping. Knight on dj was legit you cunt

Great play to finish the half, left the Adl defense looking pretty stupid.

Redhage may have flopped but he is killing the 36ers all over the court. Sucked Carter in beautifully.

I don't know why Joey puts Cadee and Creek on the floor at the same time. In fact, I don't really know why there are on the floor at all. Is anyone in foul trouble yet?

The Mr Floppy drinking game:

Every time Redhage runs into someone and waves his arms around, you have a sip.

If he gets a foul called on the other player you take 2 sips.

If he gets a tech called, you finish the bottle.

I'M PISHED

Adelaide fans smoking already and resorting physical violence.. Typical

He stood there and jabbed him in the guts

Carfino that is

Did Mayberry then ask Redhage if he was OK???

JUST GIVE THE GAME TO PERTH NOW ...

Carter jumped on him! Carcinoma said redhage flopped ! Bullshit

What did Carter do??

Does Redhage know how to set a pick without moving his arms?

Ever since becoming the Wildcats coach Trevor Gleeson has said all the right things and acted in the way the fans wanted of him and he has got us here!

I can't see the crowd turn on him but he would be sweating bullets more than anyone not affected up in Queensland.

Good luck to both teams and I hope triple figures can be reached by both teams

Go Perth

Just remember what Adelaide produced in their last play-off series decider.

I'm sure the Tigers haven't forgotten

Game day baby and I'm more excited that Steve Carfino with an invite to Stevie Weigh's birthday party.

Looking forward to a Sixers win, but won't be too disappointed if Perth win as like I said above Perth fans must be anxious about being so close for the last 3 years without any result.

Either way, whenever the Sixers return to Adelaide airport, there will be 16 virgins waiting for them spreading rose pedals at their feet.

He can be in a moon boot all he likes (although I don't recall hearing anything of the sort), he still played. As did Lisch.

In a moon boot before game 3
knob!!!

Jack is a very funny dude. Great posts