Hoops

Alan Wiggins - Injured

Dunigan, Simpson and Farley? Thought if McKay was the man we might have heard by now.

Just heard on fox sports that adelaide have 3 people lined up as replacements. Wonder who they are?

Ayjay...Wiggins was not the answer from range.

Personally I liked the look of Wiggins despite his rude and premature intro to NBL. Looking at his highlights he is an excellent long range shooter. I think he would have been an excellent addition once up and running.

Jameel McKay looks amazing as long as he's right under the ring. He looks fast and athletic but looking at a highlight video I didn't see even one mid range shot let alone one from the perimeter. He would be great if we weren't already full of under the ring players.

Looking at United Sat night they didn't have a single player who wasn't prepared to take an open three when offered and with great overall success. Sixers had Drmic and Johnson who used up his share on Thursday night.

Sixers really need another reliable shooter from range in order to open up their offense. Sat night they just kept taking it to the hoop over and over into a condensed defense. too predictable.

I’ll wait on McKay until Big Joe gives us the heads up on how good a guy he is.

Spot on Anon, but there is no harm in generating idle speculation on a discussion based forum.

I agree with you Brunson

The Wiggins recuitment surprised me so with him out of the frame I turned my mind to who the Sixers might consider in respect to playing a similar role to Wiggins.

I couldn't imagine Whittington in a Sixers singlet either but you never know.

Good to hear it looks like it will be McKay after initially ruling him out as the replacement for Roberts for supposedly being too expensive.

It's the classic "let's throw in a random name of an ex-NBLer" syndrome.

Why on earth would we want Whittington? We need someone that can defend on the post! Whittington is redundant to our needs. Furthermore, he is extremely sooky. So no we don't need anyone like that.

Boti reckons it will be Jameel McKay

*best for Hodgson

Tough luck but probably can at the best time tbh with the NBA rosters getting trimmed in tomorrow.
Big Ads, I think Whittington would be a great fit for the Sixers system but don't know if he would be willing to come off the bench for us. Although, moving Hodgson to the bench and DJ to the 5 could be an option with Whittington at the 4. Probs beats for Hodgy as he has a record of getting into foul trouble too much so this could limit it. Saying this, the Sixers, as they always do, will probs let us all down by signing an underwhelming SEABL player which doesn't contribute. Or......... this is another Jaron Johnson situation where Roberts is back (although tensions seem to be high between him and the 36ers)

Now we wait for a tweet from Wiggins denying he has a broken arm :-).

Man such rough luck, sport can be cruel but not the worst that could happen.

Greg Whittington, anyone?

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/basketball/adelaide-36ers-import-alan-wiggins-to-have-surgery-on-broken-arm/news-story/4e8ff44e887c292feb0c0751cae5e0f3

8 weeks recovery, damn.

Article suggests he will be gone soon.

Did Big Joe cry when he heard the news?

Awful luck if confirmed true. You'd think we'll be on lookout for a replacement replacement then.

Surely they have to replace him?

I don't think Sixer fans demand more than Taipan Fans.

Both want to win it all and believe their team can do it.

The only thing I could say is Sixer fans have had a good taste of success (and want more of it) but that don't make Cairns less hungry for victory.

What? Adelaide fans standard is way higher than Cairns, no matter what the stats say. Adl demands more.

Shorter is great for the team and that showed on Saturday when he was out.

I think part of the reason Wiggins looked so out of place was because the team in general was a shit show that game. Had he been inserted into the lineup in a performance like Thursday night, where all he needed to do was play some D and grab a few boards, he would have looked better, IMO.

I think a lot of posters are selling Shorter short. Seem to recall Randle was far from perfect too.

As for Wiggins ... reading of his 'build up' to the game, not surprised by what we saw Saturday. While I'm not expecting him to morph into Julius Hodge, thankfully, I seem to recall Hodge's jump shot was pretty flat too.

What he [and Shorter] do bring, apart from their experience and other skills and attributes, is an ability, and willingness, to use their feet to get to the boards and position themselves to box out, something our much-vaunted 'Aussie core' would do well to note and emulate, though Drimic usually does reasonably well in that aspect of the game.

I got the impression of shorter being better at point guard duties than any of those that tried it here on saturday against united...... most likely ramone moore caint play pg , but would have been better at it ..

Koberulz, fan bases don’t use such analytics as a barometer of what they feel entitled to. Cairns fans would have a similar mindset as would every club.

It's Adelaide not Cairns we've had success in the past and we have expectations.

It's Adelaide not Cairns we've had success in the past and we have expectations. After a magical run during last season's regular season getting knocked out in the Semi's and in the fashion we did with all the drama around Randle and his wife's antics left a very bitter taste in the mouths of fans starved of championship success for 15 years when it had appeared all the stars had aligned last season.

Adelaide, we have a problem. It's the "fans" we have, who don't know how to support the team.

I cannot believe you guys. How can you call for either Shorter or Wiggins to be sacked? Shorter is clearly a much better fit for your team than the previous guy. He's gone home for a few days to mourn a family member's death. Family, remember that? It's supposed to be the sort of thing a team and its fans rally around.

Wiggins has had one hour of practice with his new team, and would still have been jetlagged when he hit the court. Cut the guy some slack! Your team is 2 and 2, only four games into the season. There's no need to panic, just because you haven't won every game by 40 points, with all your imports scoring triple doubles!

I forgot to add Shorter played as a SG in Turkey and then played as a PG in France after that and reportedly really struggled.

@Shano76.

No way we should be cutting Wiggins after 1 game unless this injury is season ending.

While I don't agree with the calls for the cut, I can't help but this us Sixers fans are a bit more sensitive to sticking with poor import choices than most other fans.

In the last 2 seasons we've had a) Ebi Ere (plus plus kilos) b) T-Ferg. Given our top place last season, and the retention of our quality Australian core we feel we have a good chance at a ring this year. The final pieces are the imports and we want to get that right.

Again don't agree with calls to cut but understand why our fans are 'on edge'.

Shorters family member just passed away and you want to cut him. What a quality human you are. If you bothered to find out the details he is back for next game.

How is he not a PG? Guy is basically leading the league in assist. Team looks great when he is playing.

Spot on Brunson. People need to chill. It is round 2. Wait until halfway before we can really judge. I have liked Shorter's all round game too.

Zodiac "With Shorter going back to the US for who knows how long and now Wiggins injured might as well just cut our losses dump both and start over fresh."

Shorters family member just passed away and you want to cut him. What a quality human you are. If you bothered to find out the details he is back for next game.

"A PG that isn't really a PG"

How is he not a PG? Guy is basically leading the league in assist. Team looks great when he is playing.

ME "16 ppg in the Japanese second division, I'd say you're not really worth our time."

Jacobsen is getting similar stats in the Japanese league. He held his own in the NBL.

Tickle me cosby we could not afford Hakim Warrick. United didn't want him back for good reason. Also what has Warrick been doing since he played for them? I doubt he is match fit.

For the record I think Wiggins looks average but so did Julius Hodge in his first game scoring 5 or 7 points. Wiggins came on at one stage when it looked like we were putting up the white flag however he helped with his energy including taking a charge and we got the game back to single digits. He also grabbed 4 rebounds in 8 minutes. Give him a chance to learn the offense and settle in with the team first.

Also once again we are spending most of our money on our quality Australian players. So we don't have big money to spend on imports. If you have a spare $100k+ please give the club a call.

That was from Big Joe not Joey and I think it was actually in response to some negative comments about Wiggins and him now being out injured on the Sixers FB page.

Can I ask who or what the source of these keyboard Warriors that Joey is referring to? It's unlikely to be here as I haven't seen that much negativity before this thread.

Mike Chappelle was a good guy too. Sadly was so nice the 6ers didn’t cut him before it was too late.

Seriously, reading most of the keyboard warriors comments regarding the injury to Alan last night is not only disappointing, angering and disrespectful, they are IDIOTIC and simply inhumane!!!

Let me give you some facts. This gentleman of a bloke landed at 1:30pm last Thursday afternoon after 20 plus hours of flying in an economy class seat. He then stayed up until approx. 10:30pm attending the Lightning WNBL game at Titanium as this teammates were in Cairns.

Friday he worked his tail off in a very rough, 2 hour individual with our strength coach Adam Murphy and Saturday morning at Game Day shoot around was the first time he got to workout with his teammates... FOR ONE HOUR!!!

So only 52 hours from landing and doing all the above I read these STUPID, NEGATIVE and simply WRONG comments and it’s hard to not get worked up by them because clearly these fools have NO IDEA!!!

My parents taught me a couple of things... 1. “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything” and 2. “If you’re going to say something, get all the facts first”

May I implore all you keyboard warriors to do the same or if you can’t, why not just SHUT UP, sit back and support YOUR team through thick and/or thin???

The hashtag is WEareSixers!!! Not I am Sixers!!! Not You are Sixers!!! It’s WE!!! #WeAreSixers

Big Joe needs to understand it’s a league that is nothing without the fans. Fans won’t always agree with what you put out on court. He needs to shut up and do his job running the behind the scene stuff which he is constantly telling everyone how good a job he is doing. Have to have a thick skin in sports, those rants are sad, deal with the backlash from a supporter base that wants results.

Wiggins is 10th-11th man quality. Slow, clumsy and a broken jump shot, he needs to be cut immediately. I think the Roberts sacking was a bit silly as he's the type of player we need, an athletic rebounding rim protector who can run the floor.

Wiggins needs to be cut and replaced asap, he's not up to the standard. Not sure why Joey couldn't tell that from the tape...pretty obvious imo. Surely we can do better?!

Now is the perfect time to go after two fresh imports with players starting to get cut from NBA training camps desperate for a contract somewhere as most of the imports gigs in Europe would already be sewn up.

Wiggins looked a lot like Amritpal Singh by the way he moved on the court, and clearly that's no compliment. I don't know why Joey insists on getting imports from Buttfuck Nowhere, and I don't buy that they didn't have the money, because Ronald Roberts wouldn't have been cheap and they don't have to pay him now. I don't expect NBA guys all the time but when your career highlight is 16 ppg in the Japanese second division, I'd say you're not really worth our time.

It's been a pretty poor effort with our imports this season. A PG that isn't really a PG and a PF/Centre coming off a knee reconstruction.

You've got all offseason to find imports and this is what we come up with and then replace the guy with bad knees who looks like he can't play and is now injured anyway.

With Shorter going back to the US for who knows how long and now Wiggins injured might as well just cut our losses dump both and start over fresh.

Has he got wifi yet?

Have respect for Ken Cole he is one of the greats. But yes Wiggins looked out of depth. Interesting times ahead.

Yeah he looked average at best. I know it was his first game, with probably no practice but he just looked average with the way he moved let alone his shot.

^ Haha, pay that. Boti's obsession for a guy who hasn't coached in a thousand years is a bit over the top!

carefull, this guy was personally checked out by one of Boti's heroes

Why stop wasting your time and spend a bit more a get someone half decent

"Injured"

Aka he's shithouse and they'll be getting another import