2016/17 NBL Season/Off-season news/Boomers

[Gozu]

Final

Bullets 105
36ers 87

whats going on with Sixers Gozu?

Our defence and general effort defensively is appalling. I lost count how many times last night Torrey Craig just wandered into the key for an easy two. I think at one point in the third the Bullets were out by 27 and they put the cue in the rack at three-quarter time make no mistake that final scoreline flattered the Sixers. We've got a pretty young team so execution and smarts might not be there but effort shouldn't be an issue.

Along with that I haven't really liked Joey's coaching this season. He's always be known as a good coach for veteran teams in that he's a bit 'hands-off' but with a young team you have to be 'hands-on' and not expect them to just figure things out for themselves. His starting lineups & substitutions have been ordinary, he's still starting Teys who at this point is a liability I've seen more airballs from him this season & last season then I have from every Sixer combined and defensively he's just not what he was. Give a young guy like Ferguson or even Drmic a chance to play some genuine minutes and don;t sub them out as soon as they make a mistake. Ferguson last night played 20 minutes and had 3 turnovers and didn't even attempt a shot because he and the other young guys are too scared to make a mistake and get yanked.

Injuries have also been somewhat of a factor Mitch Creek tore it up in pre-season and the season opener but then got injured in the second or third game of the season and is still out. DJ was our best last night after missing the past couple of games with a hammy and there was speculation all week that Randle got injured at training and wasn't going to play last night but did and was ineffective. If he was injured would've been sensible to rest him last night with two tough games coming up this round Brisbane & Sydney away.

Our defensive effort and some average coaching have been our biggest issues so far this season. We can't rely on Randle to put up 30-40 every game to keep us in it.

[Gozu]

Round 7 results:

Perth 93 (Prather 28, Johnson 16, Wagstaff 10) def Sydney 80 (Newley 34, Lisch 21)

NZ Breakers 100 (Stockton 17, Abercrombie 16, Penney 16, Pledger 14, Webster 14) def Illawarra 85 (Clarke 17, Harris 16, Ogilvy 16)

Melbourne 84 (Goulding 30, Wesley 16, Ware 12) def Cairns 79 (Edwin 12, Jawai 10, Trice 10, Weeks 10)

Brisbane 105 (Craig 34, Petrie 23, Beal 20, Kickert 10) def Adelaide 87 (Sobey 24, Johnson 20, Deng 10)

Sydney 83 (Lisch 18, Newley 18, Powell 12) def Perth 72 (Prather 13, Johnson 11, Knight 10)

Illawarra 109 (Clarke 22, Kay 17, Martin 15, Norton 12, Ogilvy 12, Coenraad 10) def NZ Breakers 78 (Pledger 16, Mitchell 12, Abercrombie 11, Stockton 10)

[Gozu]

An interesting development today from the 36ers game against Brisbane with Daniel Kickert found guilty of head butting the 36ers Anthony Drmic during the game and given a $1,000 fine. Joey Wright had been calling publicly for Kickert to be suspended.

Both Joey Wright and Daniel Kickert have now been fined $500 each for their exchange on Twitter today.

[Gozu]

Round 8 games & times:

Thu 7pm Adelaide at Brisbane

Sat 7pm Sydney at Melbourne

Sun 2:30pm NZ Breakers at Cairns (SBS)
Sun 6:30pm Illawarra at Perth

Mon 7pm Adelaide at Sydney

[Gozu]

Great start by the 36ers in Brisbane.

Qtr time

36ers 36
Bullets 18

[Brodlach]

Why not show this intensity each game

[Gozu]

Why not show this intensity each game

I agree we look like the #2 team and them the #7 team.

[Gozu]

Half-time

36ers 57
Bullets 38

[Gozu]

3QT

36ers 77
Bullets 55

Randle you little star, coast to coast on the buzzer!

[Spargo]

FERGUSON!!!

[Gozu]

FERGUSON!!!

What a massive dunk!

[Brodlach]

How was the swagger

[Spargo]

I love beating the Bullets more than anyone else, always have. Even when they weren't around I thought about beating them.

[Gozu]

Final

36ers 101
Bullets 83

Great win but we need to play with the same intensity Monday now.

[Gozu]

I love beating the Bullets more than anyone else, even when they weren't around I thought about beating them.

[Gozu]

[Grahaml]

Ferguson seems like a massive enigma. Young kid obviously and they didn't expect much to begin with it seems. But you don't pick a guy as an import who has little hope of playing more than 1 year here to be a role player off the bench all season. I'd been hoping he would force his way into the starting side as the season wore on and I note he did just that. Now let's see if he ends up putting in bona fide import type performances as he gets more opportunities.

[Gozu]

Qtr time

Kings 25
36ers 20

[Gozu]

We're back 7:16 left in the 3rd.

Kings 51
36ers 50

[Gozu]

3QT

Kings 67
36ers 66