Hoops

Taipans v Sixers, Feb 5

Cairns would have to play a lot better than they did against us to beat NZ. Everything is against them, travelling, shorter rest, NZ home crowd and they would have to shoot the lights out from the three and get that percentage up from 25% to around 55%

Most likely NZ will blow them well away.

An upset would be nice though!

No. Cairns can still make it if they, NZ and Adelaide all finish 14-14.

"Am I correct in thinking that the BIG news out of this game is that Cairns' hopes of a post-season are now officially dead?"

No. Cairns can still make it if they, NZ and Adelaide all finish 14-14.

Jut one small game situation that say a lot to me about DJ and Joey.

DJ is being defended by Trigger at times last night.

Neither he, the rest of the team or the coaching staff could orchestrate a play to get him the ball in the post or in a situation where he can use his speed, size or skill set to take advantage of Triggers defensive inability.

On the other side of the coin Cairns exploited DJ all night.

Admittedly DJ was a victim of probably three terrible calls but on two of those Cairns went at him and exploited his Axel Dench like lateral slowness on D to put the refs in a situation to make those calls.

Who decided that DJ will just pop on nearly every pick or hang around the three point line so much.

I would much rather play Melbourne than the Hawks.

Great effort from the guys tonight, they kept coming back and did not give up.

Worst umpiring of the season I think and in this game of flops, guesses, missed calls and inconsistencies it is just possible the result was perverted.

Gibbo definitely salvaged his pride, played a gutsy game.

Creek really firing in damaging bursts.

Petrie, walker and Johnson solid.

Ebi, well he really needed Joey to set some plays for him to get some early open looks from range and recover his confidence after Wed night, but it didn't happen.

Sixers will always struggle without some consistency from three point land, leaving us driving into concentrated traffic. Cairns gave us plenty of open looks from range because it was apparent that no one wanted to shoot, allowing them to contract their defense and invite us to run into the brick wall over and over.

For all that we stayed with them and almost stole the game.

Good luck next Friday and may the gods set us a level playing field and Jerome is back.

Go Sixers

DJ should be scoring 20-25 points a game consistently with his inside-outside touch. The fact that he's not is reflective of both the player and the coach. He's surrounded by too many mediocre players (Walker, Creek, Petrie) who drag him down to their level.

Think he's referring to the umpires...

The margin blowout against NZ is what killed us. Plus so many miss FT over the last couple of games.

Can't say the last 2 days have been great however like my coach once told me; players win games, teamwork wins championships.

And two teams who exude that teamwork and confidence have been the Cats and Breakers of late titles.

We were living on a dream that one player could be the be all/end all. End all it might be without him.

Love how blatant Joey was, he was so pissed he said just flop!

maybe not foul on the three!

Rumour has it that Phill Jones has (or is about to) re-sign with the Cairns Taipans for the 2010/11 NBL season.

If this is true, he will be joining a small group of announced signings in Crosswhite, Grabau, Loughton and Rychart.

Obviously this is just a rumour until something official is released by the NBL.

Looks like little has changed since 2 days ago

Taipans are more than capable

man, i hate maths.........

I think copter had a slight brain fart Jack...

@ROFLcopter, I hope you are not dumb enough to my wind ups seriously

@Bear

It would be a sad way to end the season for Randell and the Sixers

If Melbourne win their next game against NZ they can't lose top spot, which means they WILL have home court advantage against the 4th place team.

Wonder if they might chose the "throw" their last game ( play their bench much more than usual) against NZ, if needed, to ensure NZ finish 4th rather than face Adelaide imn the semi's with Randle back on court.

@Jack Toft

I am worried about the 36'ers chances for the finals if they blow this game, more to the point I would be disappointed in not being able to see Randle in the play-offs.

The best team, of course, should get it done...