Hoops

R6: Sixers v United

aw....'what's the minimum i can do to get accross the line.'

Thanks for the link KingJames. Hopefully Joey will make the team sit and watch reruns of that video this week. I knew we were bad, but the lack of effort and defensive disorganisation on many of those plays is disgraceful.

A number of them were due to players indecision on whether or not to switch, but others were just lack of engagement, not getting back quickly enough in transition, inability to recover to the three point line or sagging too deep off the three point line in the first place, probably because they know they have a speed disadvantage and don't want to get blown by for the easy layup.

KingJames,
Great video, but for all the wrong reasons. Looks like the defence is too deep. The defender per 3 were (not quite 100%)

BJ (5), Peach (5), Luke (3), Brock (3), Teysie (2), PC (1), Gibbo (1), Jamar (1) ? (1)

I bet that video will be watched a few times this week

Its time to treat this serious, stop going out on the Gas all the time and knuckle down. You are Pro's and being paid very well. If not, come and join the real world and get shit money and work a full year.

Interestingly, Adelaide's %ages for this game, FT shooting aside, were good. United's was just on another planet.

Good game by unitied, it's been brewing for a couple of weeks now, I find it intresting that McMillan for melb can't get any minutes now

It was an impressive shooting performance, but IMO Melbourne will be up and down because they don't really have a game other than the 3pt barrage and a little transition offence. There were no signs of any inside game at all.

Not all teams will come out with a bad lineup and poor defence like the 36ers did last night. If you watch Barlow and Kickerts first couple of threes, they hesitate before shooting and then still have all the time in the world to release the shot. Good defensive teams won't give them that much time and won't allow them to get it going like that.

Going into last nights game, this is Melb 3pt stats in order of best to worst for season so far
Kickert 10/22
Corletto 11/26
Dennis 4/10
Wortho 7/18
Barlow 7/26
McRae 8/30
Walker 3/13
Tomlinson 2/15
Odigie 0/4

From Barlow down they basically hadn't been able to hit a barn door. I think the barn doors at Adelaide Arena must have been tampered with.
Last time I saw a display like that was 2002 G/F game against Razorbacks when 6ers were around 60% at half time to blow game open.
I did watch Melbourne warmup before the game quite closely And their pre game drill was all 3pt shooting. I had a check of the game shot chart, and what do you know, all their shots were from exactly the same spots as pre game drill.

Did anyone see that Melbourne United explosion coming? They have the talent, but were just not cohesive until last night.

United hit 22 three's which is new 40-min record (was 19 Woll v Syd 2014) and at 2nd best clip of any team in history with 20 makes! That his some seriously hot shooting.

Melbourne deliver killer blow to Sixers

Melbourne were absolutely magnificent, Townsville flogging Perth was a statement game but United were even more impressive and I was glad to see Barlow finally get going and hopefully he is ready to take the game by the scruff of the neck and not stand back and let all the other superstars in the team take his shots.

If I'm not mistaken, Perth play both these sides next week... Not sure what's worse; an angry hurting 36ers team or that near invincible United team? Should be fascinating viewing next week.

I know 36ers love their blackout game but that was the best case of a team losing its identity that I've seen in a long time WOW !

Who cares how many PPG they're conceding? They play at the league's highest pace, they're obviously going to give up a decent number of points. Points given up per possession is a far better measure.

Very good performance by Melbourne. Exceptional shooting performance from beyond the arc! Dennis and particularly McRae were very impressive.

I wasn't happy with the starting lineup from Joey though. I thought that lineup was playing into Melbourne's hands before the game even started.

Sure enough, we didn't have the foot speed and agility to close out on all their shooters and we let Kickert and Barlow get going by giving them an age to shoot.

I thought the three bigs hurt our offence too, because we weren't able to move the ball east-west enough to get good passing angles for our bigs to get the ball deep in the paint.

Instead, we were getting Luke, etc the ball too far out and Melbourne were smart enough not to let our bigs put the ball on the floor.

Melbourne also did a great job of blitzing our pick and rolls for Gibson early on and he was just not allowed to get going.

What really annoyed me was that Joey then compounded his mistake by starting the 2nd half with the same ineffective lineup. Should've been an adjustment made IMO.

All in all, a pretty disappointing home loss for the Sixers. Lots of work for Joey to do to get the right result against Perth next week.

Melbourne started exactly the same way Perth do with an extremely physical defense and pushing the umpires boundaries to the max. Umpires dont like to have to keep calling foul after foul on the same team as it makes them look bad. They let Melbourne get away with so many in the first half because of it. They came out in the third quarter determined to even the count up and did so. Foul count in the first half was I think 20 to 5 and finished 28-20 full time. Umpires totally lacked consistency.

Basically Melbourne monstered us right from the start and we really never got going. It may be our worst game of the season.

Interesting when they played Perth with both teams playing that way it was an extremely low scoring game ( 68-59) Fouls 13-16 Mmmmm.

Also interesting is that Melbourne have seven in their line up from 203cm to 210cm and we have three. Their point guards are 198cms. ours are 185cm to 188cm.

So can we let Wilson go please. Hes just as selfish as Ervin but not as good and way too short to be selfish in his offense. He is way too slow bringing the ball down and spends too long trying to decide what he personally can do. He is not a team first man.

Full credit to Melbourne for such a strong performance at both ends. They never took the foot off.

reffing was fantastic. Raoul kersten for Prime minister or perhaps leader of the world. seriously, did he miss any fouls? very pro-Melbourne. its times like this I wonder whether refs put money on games and swing it. might seem an unethical comment but gee whiz, he sucked bad.

and I thought he was a pretty good ref. How wrong I was.

United were just the better team on the night. Their 3 point shooting was incredible and they needed asbestos gloves their hands were so hot. Hotter than most items at an Elizabeth garage sale.

Corletto was on fire. McRae was a freak, and Barlow & Chambers, I mean Barlow & Kickett, were everywhere.

Sixers just had a bad game. Wilson looked proppy first game back and there were too many passengers on the SS Sixers. The Sixers had too many turnovers and tried to play too hard. I like it when they keep it simple. When they try too hard things go wrong.

Don't get me started on the umpiring. I thought there were too many calls on either side of the ledger that just needing unexplaining. If there was a newbie to the game, they would have been scratching their head.

I love how the expert side line coaches, have a game winning plan after the game is over. Its a shame that these experts didn't tell us all before the game was played how they would have won.

They hit more 3s (22/34) at a better percentage than we could with our feet set at the free throw line (19/35)? Wow.

For those not at the game tonight I can provide a brief and simple summary of what went wrong for the Sixers.

The Sixers apparent strategy was to beat Melbourne by matching every 3 pointer they let Melbourne hit, emphasis on the "they" because they rarely even attempted to close out on the open shooters, with a missed free throw and/or unforced turnover.

Seriously, Melbourne were ruthless tonight and with the exception of an errant inbound pass by Wortho and the general play of Patton (pun intended), the were almost perfect.

That was painful to watch - except for the cold comfort in watching a clinical display by Melbourne.

JOey may need the rocket.....

Sixers terrible still. WTF's going on?

Can someone explain what's going on at halftime? The windsail and tent game?

Everyone has a dark side......


Better get there early too. Car park spots will fill fast

Cleveland are killing Atlanta. 41-22 2cnd Quarter
Lebron has 12, West has 10 and Evans is the only hawk with double figures at tha mo.