Hoops

36ers v Wildcats, 11 Oct 2018

Still acts like a pig though.

Too bad Gleeson still acts like a pig.

Yes every team gets a little at home, it's a part of life.

2 years ago Cotton got a call on the last play of regular time from a very soft touch from Gliddon. Wildcats just snuck into the playoffs by 1 game and won the whole thing.

Agreed

DJ is that good at it he can accidentally elbow Cotton in the face while driving o the hoop and get the +1 for it

Some bad calls both ways, but a few howlers from the refs yesterday.

The refs always seem to have their protected species and DJ certainly does get some favourable calls. But seems to be a couple of guys on each team get that treatment, so probably evens out.

Even with all that home-cooking, they couldn't get up.

Be good if they did sack t.white, as those on hoolahoops wanted . then we would have won , last nite....
i think they may only have 2 imports and are very good ....imagine 3 imports ...oh my goodness.....
still , the refs are against them everygame , now....

No woeful efforts from Adelaide. Drmic/etc would hope for more, but you can usually wear an off night from your 5th option more easily than if it came from DJ or whoever. Just beaten by better percentages, especially some interior work from Kay and Jervis who were very good.

Thought DJ had a bit of an off game which shows how effective he is on offence that he could still go for 20+ and 10+. Being able to rattle something in or draw fouls is very useful when you are a great FT shooter. Thought the team settled for questionable looks too often. Didn't really manage any gimmes inside against solid D.

I like the look of Froling and McVeigh. Quality rookie crop.

Vague showed something too. Always saw his name on rosters but assumed he was some tweener nuff nuff. He could be useful, even for a very strong frontcourt out West.

Good scout by Perth.
Adelaide were the worst team against a zone last year and the worst rated catch and shoot team. Saw a lot of zone last night! There isn’t much to Adelaide’s zone offence besides the usual stuff you teach juniors, get a high post player flashing and opposite dive on the reversal.

Very happy that Perth ended up with Wildcat Jervis rather than Bullet Jervis. The 5 spot is looking great for us this season.

Agree sixersrockstar, i understand the players doing it though, when you don't get rewarded for taking the big hit and you see a guy flop or flail get the call, why take the physical hit when you can just "accentuate" the contact and get rewarded

that is the problem J. They make different decisions and then seem to make calls to even it up for their past failings.
Nothing worse than seeing players called for flops and then seeing refs make charge call for players taking the bump and falling.

Lot of complaining on this thread. I expected both teams to be much rustier after coming home from USA, but it was a great game, Cats got out to the early half time lead, the usual Gleeson messing with the lineup in the 3rd to give 36ers a sniff. Refs were disgraceful, but that hasn't changed (didn't they hire some famous overseas official to train these bums).

Wiley looks good, but was just in early foul trouble. DeLeon looks like the typical PG with a chip on his shoulder, but not as good as the ones we are used to seeing. Drmic will bounce back, had a stinker. DJ was dominant. Sobey did what he has to do every game in the 2nd half.

Kay is a monster. Jervis had a big game cashing on the minutes Brandt is working his way into. Ppl complaining about Terrico including myself, but we've been spoilt with multi cat guys like Tokoto and Prather, White's job is to take the offensive pressure off Cotton which is exactly what he did in that first half, didn't need to in the 2nd as Bryce had the ice in his veins. Norton will get better every week learning from Damo, already a massive upgrade on Kenny. Most impressive thing for me about the Cats is they scored 99 pts, we've always relied on our D, but seems we can also put up a big score now. 3 big scorers this year Cotton, White and Kay is much better than last year Cotton, Tokoto and Wagstaff.

Wasn't he owed one after the dj flail earlier? The peoblem is when they are genuinely run through like kay its called a block

Refs seem to have gone from one extreme to the other. Last 2 seasons handing out flop calls willy nilly, last night the players were trying so hard to get a flop called, doing everything they could falling backward with the greatest intent, refs playing their own game and calling charges on everything. Very bizarre. I guess we are going to see a lot of players on the ground this season. Jelly legs Brandt who can somehow chest up to the biggest of players, fell down and got the call.

Sixers first half was horrible. Wiley was really getting lost in D. The switching defence was all over the place, with players questioning each other, making their offence slow and robotic. Moore just lazy on defence, gives Hire no respect on d and he hits open 3. Drmic open a lot of times and Sixers just don't pull trigger and pass to him, not that he was hitting his shot anyway, but they just never seem to find him when he is wide open. Perth were good at using open man. Their screens to give each other space were good and they looked slick offensively with lots of movement.
Early days though. Not going to win too many shooting in the 30% range in first half compared to Perth 57%. Sixers were 2/12 from 3pt at half time. They should have won this game though after coming back from 15 down and getting in front. They blew it. Cotton was amazing at the end.

Yeah that Paige chick was awful, what happened to Neroli and Abby?

Happy with the win last night, thought we played in patches, it looks like with 36ers if you can slow DJ you have a fair chance of beating them. He faded in the 2nd half and we got going. Terico will be a good foil for Cotton if he can continue to shoot like that, teams won't be able to double on Cotton.

Horrible refereeing. Poaching each other calls and calling fouls with no clear vision of the players.

Who is this page cooper that people keep referring to

May be a bit early to judge the 36er's roster as well. At the start of last season we started out awful and we ended up in the Grand Final. The season before I believe, same thing. Season before that, same thing, then we pick up someone by the name of Jerome or something?

Every Sixers fans worst fears were realised tonight, this team doesn't have enough quality players

god end this season now if Teys is going to get 20 minutes a game!! I don’t wanna watch anymore. Guy hit one decent three and a mid range two and is rewarded with an extra ten minutes!

Great game, I loved that Adelaide kept coming back. Perth looking very good offensively, in addition to their trademark D.

Hated the uniforms. We looked like marshmallows. Why can't we just wear red?

Could it be that Steindl is back? Made some good shots.
Cotton is still the Money Man, Kay exacyly what we needed, and Jervis in great touch.

White was interesting. Started quietly, then looked to be just a shooter, before stepping up his inside game.

"I thought the standard of basketball was pretty low for both teams tonight. "


Adelaide maybe. Cats looked pretty good to me!

"How awkward was Page Cooper just staring at the camera in silence then"

Yeah, if we can keep her away from broadcasts that would be nice.

But either way, I thought the standard of basketball was pretty low for both teams tonight. Maybe a bit of jetlag between them? Either way it was not the NBL basketball of last year and not the kind of ball I like watching. I'd like to think that this is just some early season jitters and that the pace picks up soon.

May be a bit early to judge the 36er's roster as well. At the start of last season we started out awful and we ended up in the Grand Final. The season before I believe, same thing. Season before that, same thing, then we pick up someone by the name of Jerome or something?

Teys playing minutes is a concern though. Joey's love affair with him needs more thorough investigation.

^ EFTPOS machines should be installed by Feb

“Alsogoodto see him take control.of team after game and get boys into huddle. Showing his experience”

Experience at losing?

Add me to the list of people wondering if the goal-tending rule has changed.

Plus minus shows who can play D and who just can't play D.

Moore was a major disappointment, he is usually really good. All white needs to do is hit open shots, get cotton that extra bit of room

End of the day Perth has ent all their money and Adelaide had none to spend. Need to switch up a few plaers so there is more to choose from. Looks like there is an issue with roles intertwining that a few have to sort out and work out where they fit. Got in each thers way a few times. They’ll settle and Joey will adjust when he see his own mistakes withsome of those rotations. Frohling needs more time on court. 3 of the bench are not up to this level yet and shoud be traded up. Rushed last 50 seconds and wrong player under the basket, change that and its a win. Usual start to a Sixers season.

Paige Cooper needs a lot of work, that was very awkward..

Adelaide fans are definitely upset

How awkward was Page Cooper just staring at the camera in silence then

Was a fun game to watch from a neutral stand, looking forward to seeing Adelaide come up and take on my Kings, should be a great game

Anon plus minus is a useless stat

Can't deny that there were a fair few head-scratching decisions by the refs in that one. Add me to the list of people wondering if the goal-tending rule has changed. Like Mock, I enjoyed Norton doing some Sobeying after we were on the wrong end of some earlier.

Pretty happy with the Cats in that one. There may not be a lot of star power but there's a solid list of options.
Jury is still out on White. Scoring was good but most of it was handed to him on a platter.

Wiley is the new Michael Carrera.

T. White still a bum? 20pts y'all.

Drmic with -21 in 24 minutes. At what point do you remove a player that is haemorrhaging points like that?

LOL King of floppers Sobey got TROLLED by an obvious Norton flop.

Cotton was SUPERB.

Drmic was his usual poop self.

Gleeson was just laughing in the last quarter, just sitting back and saying to Nielsen this 36ers team is wank hey?

Geez, you know you f’ed up when koberulz tells you to stop complaining!

The usf interpretation sucks, but they did this last year too, you need to make a play on the ball. Refs clearly still don't know what a flop is, called some shockers both ways.

The USF was an easy call.

This thread has about five posts that aren't one team or the other whinging about the refs. Both sides need to grow up.

Another BS usf.

^ Thank you ^

Dermic
Fronhloing
Dang

Yes some tasty away cooking tonight

I guess you can afford Wagstaff jacking up garbage when the refs call your flops.

yep why dermic on and not fronhloing or dang under that basket. joey hopefully will review some of his choices and fix it

Wagstaff three to ice the game? looooooool.