2014/15 NBL Season + Off-season news/Boomers

[carey]

36ers and the Redbacks should amalgamate.

[Gozu]

36ers and the Redbacks should amalgamate.

Little bit harsh putting the 36ers in the same category as the SACA spuds

A good win over Melb Utd tonight 90-77 to end the 7 game losing streak. Schenscher (obviously buoyed by my rev up last night) picked the perfect time to start hauling in the rebounds and BJ Anthony made an excellent contribution in the second half too. An ugly game at times but a win is a win now Perth in Perth on Sunday

[Failed Creation]

36ers and the Redbacks should amalgamate.

Little bit harsh putting the 36ers in the same category as the SACA spuds

A good win over Melb Utd tonight 90-77 to end the 7 game losing streak. Schenscher (obviously buoyed by my rev up last night) picked the perfect time to start hauling in the rebounds and BJ Anthony made an excellent contribution in the second half too. An ugly game at times but a win is a win now Perth in Perth on Sunday

I was happy to be there to witness the win.

[Gozu]

36ers and the Redbacks should amalgamate.

Little bit harsh putting the 36ers in the same category as the SACA spuds

A good win over Melb Utd tonight 90-77 to end the 7 game losing streak. Schenscher (obviously buoyed by my rev up last night) picked the perfect time to start hauling in the rebounds and BJ Anthony made an excellent contribution in the second half too. An ugly game at times but a win is a win now Perth in Perth on Sunday

I was happy to be there to witness the win.

Did you enjoy it, FC? The crowd looked a bit down probably due to the 1st Test and no doubt the losing streak. I watched it on TV probably the best game I've seen Schenscher play all season.

[Failed Creation]

36ers and the Redbacks should amalgamate.

Little bit harsh putting the 36ers in the same category as the SACA spuds

A good win over Melb Utd tonight 90-77 to end the 7 game losing streak. Schenscher (obviously buoyed by my rev up last night) picked the perfect time to start hauling in the rebounds and BJ Anthony made an excellent contribution in the second half too. An ugly game at times but a win is a win now Perth in Perth on Sunday

I was happy to be there to witness the win.

Did you enjoy it, FC? The crowd looked a bit down probably due to the 1st Test and no doubt the losing streak. I watched it on TV probably the best game I've seen Schenscher play all season.

I've been to two games this season, after not being to any in the past 14-15 years. I underestimated the atmosphere, despite the half-empty stadium.

Schenscher was fantastic, as were Gibson, Wilson, Anthony and Teys, in my opinion.

To those who have never been, but have thought about it, give it a go.

The 36ers are doing a special on ticket prices for the game against the Townsville Crocodiles on December 27th.

https://www.proticket.com.au/Events/Details/3235

[Gozu]

I've been to two games this season, after not being to any in the past 14-15 years. I underestimated the atmosphere, despite the half-empty stadium.

Schenscher was fantastic, as were Gibson, Wilson, Anthony and Teys, in my opinion.

To those who have never been, but have thought about it, give it a go.

The 36ers are doing a special on ticket prices for the game against the Townsville Crocodiles on December 27th.

https://www.proticket.com.au/Events/Details/3235

Sweet, must admit I haven't been to a 36ers game since the mid-late 90's and last game at AA was the NBL All-Star game in 2005.

[Gozu]

Round 10 results:

New Zealand 77 (Ibekwe 18, Jackson 15, Webster 14, Pledger 13) def Perth 66 (Redhage 19, Daniels 16, Beal 13)

Adelaide 90 (Gibson 16, Wilson 14, Anthony 12, Motum 11, Petrie 11) def Melbourne 77 (McRae 22, Worthington 19, Barlow 12, Kickert 12)

Cairns 77 (Weigh 16, Tragardh 15) def Townsville 61 (Conklin 22, Blanchfield 16)

Wollongong 82 (Carson 16, Martin 15, Nevill 14, Ervin 13) def Sydney 77 (Childress 34, Brandt 12)

New Zealand 92 (Webster 19, Jackson 18, Vukona 11, Abercrombie 10, Wesley 10) def Melbourne 87 (Dennis 24, Kickert 20, McRae 13, Barlow 11, Worthington 10)

Perth 97 (U'u 20, Daniels 17, Knight 16, Wagstaff 14, Beal 10) def Adelaide 76 (Wilson 26, Petrie 14, Gibson 10)

[Gozu]

NBL games coming up on TV this weekend:

Friday night: Melbourne @ Wollongong at 9:30pm (One)

Sunday afternoon: Sydney @ Melbourne at 2pm (Ten)

Big upset tonight the Kings beat Perth 78-74 in Sydney. Josh Childress had 17p, 10r, 7a, 4b for the Kings and Jermaine Beal had 16 for the Wildcats.

Must've been that stern working over the 36ers gave Perth on Sunday.

[Gozu]

Round 11 results:

Sydney 78 (Childress 17, Garlepp 15, Madgen 13, Cadee 12, Duinker 10) def Perth 74 (Beal 16, Ross 10, U'u 10)

New Zealand 96 (Webster 21, Carter 19, Jackson 13, Ibekwe 12, Pledger 10) def Townsville 84 (Blanchfield 16, Conklin 16, Steindl 15, Norton 10)

Melbourne 103 (McRae 30, Barlow 16, Kickert 14, Walker 11, Dennis 10) def Wollongong 98 (OT) (Ervin 31, Forman 20, Carson 10, Coenraad 10)

Adelaide 90 (Gibson 17, Motum 17, Petrie 16, Wilson 16) def Cairns 86 (Craig 28, Tragardh 18, Wilbekin 11)

Melbourne 105 (McRae 30, Kickert 22, Worthington 16, Barlow 11) def Sydney 101 (OT) (Madgen 22, Cadee 21, Garlepp 15, Perry 13, Duinker 11, Ellis 11)

Cairns 83 (Gliddon 18, Wilbekin 15, Tragardh 13, Burston 12) def New Zealand 59 (Vukona 18)

[Gozu]

NBL games coming up on TV this weekend:

Friday night: NZ Breakers @ Sydney at 9:30pm (One)

Sunday afternoon: Perth @ Melbourne at 2pm (Ten)

[Gozu]

A good win by the 36ers tonight at home over Townsville 91-84 in front of more than 7,400. Brock Motum scored 25 and the 36ers were without Jamar Wilson too.

That's 3 wins from the last 4 games and making a run for the last playoff spot.

[Gozu]

Round 12 results:

New Zealand 97 (Wesley 23, Abercrombie 18, Ibekwe 17, Jackson 10) def Sydney 85 (Madgen 25, Garlepp 24, Cadee 10)

Cairns 100 (Weigh 21, Tragardh 17, Loughton 15, Gliddon 11, Craig 10) def Wollongong 93 (Ervin 24, Carson 16, Davidson 14, Coenraad 10, Martin 10, Nevill 10)

Adelaide 91 (Motum 25, Creek 15, Petrie 15, Teys 11) def Townsville 84 (Conklin 18, Markovic 16, Blanchfield 14, Henry 12)

Perth 81 (Daniels 18, Knight 18, Beal 15, Redhage 12) def Melbourne 80 (OT) (Dennis 20, Corletto 15, Tomlinson 11, Kickert 10)

[Gozu]

Ripper win by the 36ers in OT tonight in Cairns 84-77 without Jamar Wilson again too. Brock Motum leading the way with 27 points.

That's 4 wins from the 36ers last 5 games now with the Breakers at home on Sunday.

[Gozu]

NBL games coming up on TV this weekend:

Friday night: Melbourne @ Sydney at 9:30pm (One)

Sunday afternoon: NZ Breakers @ Adelaide at 2pm (Ten)

[Gozu]

Round 13 results:

Perth 86 (Beal 22, Martin 17, Daniels 11, Jervis 10, Wagstaff 10) def Wollongong 77 (Carson 17, Ervin 16, Coenraad 13, Forman 13)

Townsville 93 (Conklin 21, Norton 21, Markovic 16, Gladness 11) def Sydney 92 (Madgen 23, Brandt 18, Cadee 11, Perry 11)

Adelaide 84 (Motum 27, Creek 16, Schenscher 16, Teys 11) def Cairns 77 (OT) (Craig 16, Wilbekin 14, Bruce 12, Weigh 10)

Melbourne 82 (Worthington 18, Kickert 15, McRae 14, Dennis 11) def Sydney 68 (Garlepp 18, Childress 15, Ellis 12)

Cairns 79 (Loughton 22, Tragardh 18, Weigh 14, Wilbekin 12) def Townsville 75 (Conklin 33)

New Zealand 81 (Wesley 18, Jackson 16, Webster 12, Abercrombie 11) def Adelaide 74 (Wilson 21, Motum 19, Anthony 11)

[Gozu]

Unfortunately for the 36ers BJ Anthony went down injured in the 4th quarter yesterday and today it's been confirmed that he has ruptured his Achilles tendon and will be out for the rest of the season.

[Gozu]

NBL games coming up on TV this weekend:

Friday night: Townsville @ Sydney at 9:30pm (One)

Sunday afternoon: NZ Breakers @ Wollongong at 2pm (One)

*Both games on One this weekend

[Gozu]

The NBL have announced their monthly award winners for December, Melbourne United's Jordan McRae was named player of the month and the NZ Breakers Dean Vickerman was named coach of the month.

[Happy Endings]

Just seen the ladder on Fox.

Couple of questions for the experts.
Is it top 4,5 or 6
Are we any chance of making it
Realistically could we get within a bulls roar of NZ or Perth???

[Gozu]

Just seen the ladder on Fox.

Couple of questions for the experts.
Is it top 4,5 or 6
Are we any chance of making it
Realistically could we get within a bulls roar of NZ or Perth???

It's Top 4 mate, unfortunately very unlikely the 36ers will make the playoffs. We need to beat Melb in Melb tomorrow night and beat them by 30+ points which would even the season series with them at 2-2 and give us the points differential if we finished the season with equal records. Then from there we would need to get to level pegging with them (36ers 6th at 7-11 and Melb 4th at 10-8) and hope the Kings fall away too as they're currently 5th at 7-10. I think the Kings currently lead the season series against us 2-0, so we would need to win both of our remaining games against the Kings and cover the points split if we both get ahead of Melb and finish with identical W/L records.

Still 10 games to go in the regular season for us but things seem to be creeping away from us, especially if we don't have a huge win over Melb tomorrow night.

Eve if we made it to the playoffs I would expect either NZ or Perth to beat us 2-0, we've beaten the Breakers once this season but I doubt they would drop one to us in a best of 3 series. I don't think we match up that well with Perth (which is a shame as they're certainly not as dominant this season as they were last season when we lost to them in the Grand Final series) and would expect them to beat us 2-0.