Hoops

Perth vs Townsville, Fri Nov 6th

Personally I think the "clear emphasis" is nothing more than your own imagination. I saw no evidence of it.

4 fouls in the first quarter does not indicate any form of stamping control. Crocs got called for 6 btw. Maybe they're the ones who should be complaining.

Yes, the eye test tells me that membership is down, which Marvin pretty much already told us at the start of the season, so no surprises there.
Hopefully things can still build as the season progresses.
I was always curious how having every game televised live would affect attendance numbers. Maybe that factor has affect Perth more than most places. Foxtel costs the same here as anywhere else. Can't say the same about NBL tickets though.

Thought last night was easily the biggest crowd of the year.

Quite a lot of the seats have "I'm available for membership!" pamphlets on them, so a lot of members have obviously left.

Is that you Brian?

@SC : He shuffled Hire and Beal back and forth for the final minute or 2. I counted atlas 3 exchanges. It was like something out of a NFL game. Hire in when Crocs were in offence and Beal in when Cats were(no doubt for his FT shooting).

At one point he subbed in Hire after Cats scored and then Crocs turned it over immediately so subbed Beal back in about 3 seconds later. Can't remember seeing that in an NBL game.

"refs clearly under instruction to call a foul everytime a Wildcat farted."

Not sure if Dazz was at the same game I was at!

Why does the foul count have to be dubious? Mix of intentional fouling late, Wildcats trying *NOT* to foul late, and the fact Crocs were pretty happy to shoot from outside while we kept hammering on in the paint.

Sure, a little home cooking along the way but game style has a lot to do with foul count. Didn't help that one of the Croc's key bigs was playing with half his brain on the game and the other half sitting with Bob Boosalot up in Row 10.

"Interesting that he didn't reappear after the break."

Calf injury, according to the coverage.

I enjoyed that win :)
Perth show glimpses of what they are capable of. Not sure I get Gleesons rotations though. Crocs have well exceeded my expectations this year.

I like what I'm seeing of Prather at the moment, if only he could shoot the 3 more consistently.

I don't think anyone from the Crocs is in a position to talk trash about Perths attendance. 10000 vs 500. Hilarious.

I think most of all, I'm glad no one on the Perth team had a brain fade and tried to run through Conklin or anything stupid.

Had a giggle at Conklin's half-time comments. Sounded so defensive and angsty.

7/9 3pt shooting for the Crocs from the 3qt buzzer beater. That's horrifying to be on the receiving end of.

How did the bench call for a sub then? Ridicolous! 2 seconds into the start of the play TVL denial defence and bench buzz to get a sub! Seriously.

Jawai was on a warning before grabbing the ball again then. Technically, it should have been a tech.

Kenny is the best player in the league in terms of whose the guy who best fulfills his role.

Here come TVL!

Maynard's body language doesn't look good does it?

I notice his latest Facebook staus says. 'Aaron Bruce thinks it's funny the "36'ers" rode a 5 game strech of beat downs to the wooden spoon after going to the playoffs year ago... Must have made some great decisions in the off-season. Keep up the good work brains trust'

Also, Joe Ingles finds it hilarious

I always thought it was Aaron that wanted out of the team, but maybe that wasn't the case.

Big flop by Wagstaff there.

You could tell. First bump was bigger but he kept his feet. Second bump was minor but he somehow went flying a metre across the floor. He knew Conklin would bounce back with another bump so knew he'd just have to fall to the ground.

see what happens with quick ball movement, how we should play all the time.

Don't have any sympathy for Jawai. He needs to adjust in the same way that Vukona did a few seasons ago.

Thats the thing with the reffing in the NBL, you either get 95-90 or this crap. There is basically zero middle ground.

Players take every single inch they can in this League. I get it, but they ruin the game with it.

Thanks, Roy. Amazing how some people can miss the point because of their own issues.

I give up. Just crap call after crap call on the grapple, shoving for position, twiggy touch stuff, and yet nothing in response to all the mouthing off.

Hard to respect the reffing when it's so inconsistent and inaccurate across games.


NBA League Pass is looking attractive again. At least I won't be throwing things at the TV.

Same shit different day for the Wildcats, no cohesive offense, this is not a championship winning team in it's current form. Pretty simple with us at the moment throw a full court press at us and we struggle to inbound it, then we are throwing up absolute garbage.

Worrying signs for Perth.

Only up 3 and shooting significantly better than TVL.

JETT!

I think we are all hating on the REFFING, not Perth right now

Why is it every game at Perth Arena turns into an ugly pile of crap?

What s-house reffing in the last few games (& I don't go for any of the teams).

Redhage pushes off Kay who's running close beside him and gets the benefit of the foul.

A guy runs into Young setting a legit screen and then runs into him again when Young has regained his feet and Young gets called for offensive foul.

Knight gets chased down by Kay who runs in front of him and the ref imagines there's contact and gives the benefit of the foul.

Conklin loses his balance and a foul is called in his favour.

Beal attacks Djuric (?) who shoves him with the body and with arms overhanging instead of straight up and no foul is called.


In Melbourne vs Sydney, guys cross the key between the time the ref hands the ball to a foul shooter and the shot being released and yet there's no lane violation called. Twice!


Wtf am I going to tell the kids I coach when we see such rubbish refereeing in our country's best basketball? Go watch NBA if you want to keep faith in the officials? Accept that refs often make mistakes, so keep your cool when they do cos it will be the ref's fault not yours?

FFS!! Use the rule book, refs!

Anyone want to play a drinking game? Shot everytime the commentators mention the elbow incident.

Yep. That flashback of Homicide was hilarious. IMO the league is missing that personality among the imports - i think teams do so much DD on players these days and try so hard to avoid any of those real confident, interesting guys because they link that with character issues. We have a bunch of fairly moderate, conservative and too well behaved imports ;)

Game hasn't even started and I can feel the tension, wonder if it will be a fizzer, or a clinker???

If the wildcats focus on evening the score physically, they will lose again. This game is about putting leather ball thru iron hoop and the team that's focused solely on that will get the win, I must say the crocs are looking good ATM!

@another anon - You never know, they might have used the flight to hug it out and forgive everyone.

Right?

Ahh, ok. My bad.

You used the word retaliated and I went ahead and assumed that you knew what it meant.

Oh. So you're saying that Conklin's actions were both intentional and accidental. Righto.

Even by troll standards that ^ was a pretty lame effort

Would be disappointing in a way if Conklin was suspended for this game. I'm looking forward to hearing how loud he gets booed!

I really like Rucker, he is best I reckon that we have so far...

Well I don't know about ugly, but I can't imagine that Conklin would be expecting standing ovations when he rocks up.

Will Jawai play?
Will $Beal snap out of his 50cent daze?
Will the officials let them play or overcall the game?
Will Conklin be as aggressive?
Will Stiendl's legs recover in time after a long flight?
Will Jett play two decent games in a row?
Will the Croc's confidence remain or will the martin incident have some impact on players?
Will a fast start by either team be enough, doesn't seem it ever is?
Will the crowd turn ugly???

So many more questions over this game, can't wait...

If Townsville has somehow replaced Adelaide as our bogey side, I will be pissed.