Hoops

Sixers v Breakers, Dec 10

"That drive into the key was a decent move. If he hadn't lost a handle on the ball he probably would have drawn a foul."

How can it be a 'decent move' when he lost his handles?

That drive into the key was a decent move. If he hadn't lost a handle on the ball he probably would have drawn a foul.

The umpiring was terrible both ways, as usual. How NZ didn't end up with a flop warning until the last quarter is a mystery. Paul Henare questioning 4 players fouling out is a bit rich with the hands-on way they play. "When does that happen?". You tell me Paul, NZ have had 4 players foul out on 3 occasions in the last couple of years.

Shorter looked a little shell shocked at what Perth serves up and gets away with. He probably has never played a game where refs allow so much crap on court. He’ll be better next time and ramp up a gear.

The team organization looked a bit shakey at the death but at least you can work on it at training. When you play so deep and spread the minutes it can mean they all start looking at each other instead of getting it done. Shorter seemed to want to wind the clock down at the end but then the options weren't there when he wanted to get the offence going.

Going on the logic in previous comments it looks like tripping over is flopping right?

Drimic May have lost his balance but that doesn't mean it is not a flop.

He did so in a contact situation against a player with the ball.

Drimic was no flop, he did trip, so it was just a "no cal"l.
Really worried about Sosa, 2 assists is not his game and he let Sobey, Teys bother him far more than I would have expected given his experience. He seemed to take it personally and kept trying to score on his own.
Hopefully growing pains.
Penney might have to go to "on balls" to get open. His offence and Abercrombie's are vital going forward.

Hodgeson sat with foul trouble too. All the big fellas were getting fouls against the quicker blokes.

Nobody is whining about 4 players fouling out because all the fouls looked legit.

4 of NZ players on the bench fouled out and all you guys bitching about is a flopping call?

If they referee’d the Defense , they wouldn’t be caught out all the time second guessing what happened. Too many call over this eeek alone which has called the effect and not the whole action.

"To be fair live it looked like a massive flop by Drmic and with the Sobey flop earlier it's a tech, it was only on the replay you could see Drmic actually lost balance"


-Dumb comment. You call it how you see it. And you dont make stuff up or guess. It was the WRONG call, regardless of what Drmic reputation is.

I agree Snooch. I was courtside and the Sobey “flop” happened right in front of me. He just lost his footing and fell to the ground. He wasn’t trying to deceive the refs into calling a charge.

Just because the defender falls over doesn’t automatically mean it’s a flop every time. There are other reasons why the defender isn’t able to keep their feet!

The problem for Drmic and Sobey to a lesser extent is that they have reputations now. So when they hit the floor the refs automatically call a flop rather than actually assessing the play on its merits.

such bad refereeing. again.

NZ bigs couldn't handle Johnson and Deng. Too quick for them.

Regardless of the player if you can't tell the difference between a flop and an obvious trip you've got no business officiating professional basketball.

Pretty hot on the refs. No fines will result but amazing that they got hammered the poor old refs.

Pretty rich the Breakers always get good home cooking in NZ

Talking to Scott Butler is a waste of time. That's going to close to a fine.

Henare's spitting the dummy in the presser.

Spot on we saw after that Drmic do another flop, he has a reputation he's known for it and thus doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Corey was the "kiss of death' for the Breakers. We did well to only lose by 3, after never being in the game.
Childress, Johnson, Sobey too good for us. Deserved win for 36ers.

Thanks 6ers! :)

If we blew that I would have started a petition to get Joey sacked.

Rubbish. You could tell live he just lost his footing.

To be fair live it looked like a massive flop by Drmic and with the Sobey flop earlier it's a tech, it was only on the replay you could see Drmic actually lost balance.

Just wait until New Zealand score to call the tech, so just give away another 2 points as well. WTF?!

That tech on drmic was the worst call of all time. Sosa stood on his foot. Just pitiful officiating

The only thing that makes Homicide somewhat passable is when paired with Redhage.

Homicide is crushing it today, getting better and better weekly

Homicicde is THE NUMBER 1 biggest COCKHEAD in NBL commentary. Don't bother arguing, I'll just keep talking over you because I AM RIGHT

Ventilated jeans just make sense in the summer months it's that simple

Pretty sweet call that you wouldn't bank on getting away with too many shot clock violations on the road.

Jeans like that should be heavily reduced as scratch and dent stock/smaller price because some material is missing. I'd say Creek is just a smart shopper.

Because he doesn't have an onion to wear on his belt? Who cares if he's sitting there in his PJ's.

Apparently we're not doing shot clock violations anymore.

Why is Creek rocking up in ripped jeans?

Unprofessional.

I reckon Sixers will come out strong and lead by around half a dozen at quarter time.

Missing our best player again will likely be too much to overcome. Would love to see Sobey finally have a breakout game but I don't think his head is right this season.

NZ by 12.

any eastern states posters able to give any feedback on his recent visit ?

great bloke, works with the best ! would be great if we could have got him to visit sa