2024-25 NBL Season

[mighty_tiger_79]

Wildcats doing enough against the 36ers

[Brodlach]

Humphries has had a crack at the disconnect between the coach and players.

Here we go again

[DoublebluTiger]

As a few posters have stated previously this season, I went along to the Wildcats game last night. I think it's the first game of basketball i've seen at this level for about 35 years!

As others have stated, everything is a good product except for the actual play of the 36ers. A crowd of approx 9500 there last night.

My uneducated observations and I can be pretty harsh critic for someone who's has no playing experience at any level

36ers were outplayed. Wildcats were just better in all facets of the game. Pure and simple. 36ers shooting appeared to pretty poor. Many times I thought they were in good positions to make the shot and it just didn't go in, particularly from close in.

Wildcats looked clean and fast with their ball movement, organised in their movements as individuals and as a team. They knew they could score where as 36ers were hoping they could score.

Bryce Cotton is a smart man. It took an overt display of whinging to the refs early in 2nd quarter after a non foul call (admittedly I thought he was being held) to get them on side and from then on got he got a very good ride on the 50/50 calls.

Wildcats Dylan Windler is a smooth mover and sweet shot.

So it's another big loss for the 36ers yet the fans continue to come and most home games have either been close to or have been sold out. Does the home crowd numbers reflect the resilient mentality of a basketball supporter? The team is not great and they're getting pumped by big margins. It got me thinking as if the average follower comes to the game because they love the sport as much as if not more than the team? IE If someone with buckets of money wanted to launch a new team based in Adelaide would it see fans walk to the new team or stay with 36ers because they love the team?

[amber_fluid]

I think basketball in general is big here in Adelaide.
I go each week and there is always crowds of 9-10 thousands each game.

I take my 2 teenage kids each game and it’s the product and atmosphere they like not necessarily the team.

As with this generation of kids, winning isn’t really as important as the day/game itself.

I’d love to see another Adelaide team in the NBL.
I’d also like to see a new purpose built stadium to host them and the 36ers.

Can’t see it happening anytime soon though to due to building costs at the moment.

[mal]

NBL is a very entertaining product
I'm now into my 2nd season of following and have watched most games
Agree with AF, a 2nd SA team, with Derbies would be good

[Gozu]

I remember about 20 years ago there was some legit talk about getting a second team up in Adelaide but nothing came of it. I really don't think we have the population/interest for a second team. Perth's a bigger city and more basketball mad than us getting 13k every home game but the Wildcats brand is so strong there they know a second Perth team just wouldn't be sustainable.

We just need the muppet that owns the 36ers to sell it so we can get back to a sense of normalcy. The talk is he's been trying to sell the team for the last few years and is willing to sell cheap but LK as owner of the NBL doesn't want him to sell cheap as it would devalue all the other teams so supposedly LK has stepped in and funding/overseeing the 36ers now with the owner taking a back seat.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Adelaide

[Spargo]

Adelaide

Road win

[Gozu]

Round 14 results:

Melbourne 76 (Goulding 19, White 14, Clark 12) def Cairns 66 (Groves 20, Adnam 12)

Illawarra 102 (Kell 18, Harvey 17, Froling 15, Hickey 12, Olbrich 11) def Brisbane 84 (Prather 28, Bannan 17, White 10)

Perth 116 (Windler 24, Pinder 23, Cotton 21, Almansa 11) def Adelaide 92 (Vasiljevic 23, Davis 19, Harrell 13, Humphries 12, Mayen 11)

Tasmania 95 (Doyle 23, Drmic 19, Deng 16, Crawford 13, Macdonald 10) def Brisbane 86 (Cook 20, Prather 18, Bannan 17, Harrison 15)

Adelaide 111 (Davis 30, Harrell 25, Vasiljevic 19, Humphries 17) def Sydney 96 (Adams 41, Cooks 16, Noi 12)

SE Melbourne 110 (Sobey 25, Wieskamp 22, Hurt 17, Walton 17, Hunter 11) def Illawarra 105 (Harvey 20, Froling 18, Hickey 18, Kell 16, Days 13)

NZ Breakers 92 (Mooney 23, Fall 21, Mennenga 11) def Cairns 68 (Groves 21, Edwards 16, Waardenburg 11)

Also NZ Breakers star import Parker Jackson-Cartwright has been suspended for 5 games for grabbing, pushing or manhandling a referee and that suspension began with last night's game in Cairns.

https://nbl.com.au/news/jackson-cartwright-suspended

[Gozu]

The Brisbane Bullets have announced the signing of import Josh Adams as an injury replacement for James Batemon who is out for the rest of the season with a hamstring injury. The 6'2" combo guard returns to the NBL having previously played with the Tasmania JackJumpers in the 2021-22 season and was playing in Greece this season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/bullets-confirm-star-signing

[Gozu]

36ers beat Melbourne 100-81 in front of a record crowd at AEC of 9,588.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Wildcats win in NZ

SEM 10pts up away to Tassie in 3rd qtr

[Gozu]

The Sydney Kings have announced the signing of third import Lamonte Turner for the rest of the season. He's a 6'2" PG who played in Serbia last season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/kings-bolster-b ... ith-turner

[Gozu]

Round 15 results:

Sydney 110 (Adams 32, Noi 20, Toohey 17, Cooks 15, Oliver 13) def SE Melbourne 101 (Sobey 23, Walton 22, Hurt 13, Wieskamp 12, Glover 10)

Cairns 108 (Armstrong 28, Edwards 28, Groves 17, Higgins-Titsha 14, Bradshaw 12) def Illawarra 105 (Harvey 23, Kell 22, Days 15, Olbrich 15, Lee 13)

Adelaide 100 (Davis 28, Harrell 28, Vasiljevic 19, Humphries 12) def Melbourne 81 (Goulding 18, Ili 14, Krebs 13, Dellavedova 10)

Sydney 91 (Adams 21, Cooks 19, Noi 15, Oliver 14, Toohey 13) def Brisbane 86 (Prather 18, Norton 14, Bannan 13, Harrison 12, Adams 11, Cook 10)

Perth 96 (Cotton 41, Henshall 11) def NZ Breakers 86 (Fall 28, Mooney 28)

SE Melbourne 105 (Hurt 20, Hunter 17, Walton 16, Wieskamp 15, Lewis 14) def Tasmania 91 (Crawford 16, Deng 14, Te Rangi 14, Hummer 10, Krslovic 10)

Illawarra 89 (Kell 19, Harvey 18, Froling 15, Days 12) def Tasmania 84 (Macdonald 19, Deng 16, Crawford 13, Krslovic 11)

Brisbane 83 (Prather 31, Harrison 13, White 13, Adel 11) def NZ Breakers 74 (Mooney 21)

NBL ladder after 15 rounds:

Illawarra 14-7
Melbourne 13-9
Sydney 13-9
Perth 12-9
SE Melbourne 11-10
Tasmania 11-10

Brisbane 10-11
Adelaide 9-11
NZ Breakers 8-13
Cairns 4-16

[Gozu]

The Sydney Kings have rescinded the contract to import Lamonte Turner after he failed his physical upon arrival in Sydney.

https://nbl.com.au/news/kings-void-turner-contract

[Eagles2014]

How did 36ers lose that, both in normal time and overtime, shocking errors

[Gozu]

Round 16 results:

Melbourne 90 (White 23, Ili 20, Loe 15, Goulding 13, Dellavedova 11) def Sydney 88 (Cooks 21, Noi 19, Le'afa 10, Toohey 10)

Tasmania 104 (Deng 26, Doyle 22, Drmic 16, Crawford 13) def Adelaide 103 (OT) (Davis 39, Humphries 21, Harrell 19, Vasiljevic 12)

Illawarra 108 (Kell 31, Days 22, Harvey 19, Hickey 11) def NZ Breakers 100 (Mooney 33, Mennenga 24, Lopez 16, Bolden 11)

SE Melbourne 105 (Hurt 32, Sobey 31, Wieskamp 16) def Brisbane 86 (Bannan 23, Prather 21, Cook 11, Norton 10)

Perth 105 (Cotton 32, Windler 15, H. Harris 12, Henshall 10, Pinder 10) def Tasmania 73 (Crawford 16, Doyle 15, Drmic 14)

Sydney 91 (Noi 27, Cooks 19, Adams 18, Oliver 15) def Cairns 87 (Edwards 25, Armstrong 22, Galloway 12, Bradshaw 10)

TBC.

Also the NBL have released a statement on the arrest of Cairns Taipans guard Jackson Makoi on domestic violence allegations in Sydney in 2023.

https://nbl.com.au/news/statement-on-jackson-makoi

[Gozu]

Very sad news with the passing of 36ers legend Darryl "The Iceman" Pearce who was the starting shooting guard on the 36ers inaugural NBL championship team "The Invincibles" in 1986. He has been inducted into both the Adelaide 36ers Hall of Fame in 2021 and the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002.

The 36ers will wear black armbands and observe a moment of silence in tonight's home game against the Illawarra Hawks.

https://www.adelaide36ers.com/news/vale-darryl-pearce

RIP

I believe another 36ers legend Daniel Johnson was going to have his number retired to the rafters at tonight's game but not sure if that is still going to happen now.

Updated:

Looks like DJ's jersey retirement is still going ahead tonight:

One of the NBL’s all-time greats will be immortalised tonight, with Daniel Johnson having his iconic No. 21 jersey hung in the rafters at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

https://nbl.com.au/news/johnson-gratefu ... retirement

[dedja]

Terrible news, so young.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Chris goulding