2012/13 NBL Season/Offseason news

[Gozu]

Round 3 results:

Cairns 88 (Wilson 22, Edwards 14, Hill 14, Tragardh 14, Loughton 13) def Sydney 68 (Madgen 26, Crosswhite 12)

New Zealand 73 (Abercrombie 15, Vukona 15, Corletto 13) def Townsville 71 (Ervin 21, Blanchfield 16, Holmes 11)

Adelaide 85 (Gibson 21, Johnson 16, Schenscher 15, Weigh 11) def Cairns 81 (Steindl 19, Wilson 16, Tragardh 14, Loughton 13)

Perth 74 (Lisch 16, Knight 14, Redhage 13, Bartlett 12) def Melbourne 65 (Braswell 18, Goulding 16, Scott 16)

Wollongong 84 (DeLeon 15, Gruber 14, Martin 11, Forman 10) def Townsville 66 (Crawford 18, Blanchfield 14)

[Gozu]

Former Tigers/Wildcats centre Luke Nevill was today released by the Indiana Pacers.

Also in some bad news for the Kings James Harvey has been ruled out for 8-10 weeks with a broken arm he got in Friday night's game against the Taipans.

[Gozu]

Looks like Daniel Joyce is going to get another NBL shot he's been brought into the Kings team as replacement for Harvey at least for this weekend. I wonder if Heal will be able to resist force-feeding him minutes?

Also the Breakers Mika Vukona was named NBL player of the week for Round 3.

[Gozu]

Confirmed today that Adelaide Arena has been chosen as the venue to host the comeback of the NBL All-Star Game on December 22nd.

The last time Adelaide hosted it was in 2006 when Rashad Tucker got MVP and previous to that was in 1995 when I think Robert Rose was MVP.

[Johno6]

i might rock the spot that day

[Brodlach]

$27.50 to get in on Sunday or wait 30 minutes to watch on TV????

[RoosterMarty]

$27.50 to get in on Sunday or wait 30 minutes to watch on TV????

That is a ridiculous price for an Aussie basketball game!

[Johno6]

yep
will be watching from teh comfort of my own lounge.

[Gozu]

NBL games coming up on TV this weekend:

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

Sunday afternoon: Wollongong @ Adelaide at 2pm (One)

* Note the game on Sunday is on One not Ten

[Gozu]

Breakers with the comfortable win over the winless Tigers last night and a bit of talk import Kevin Braswell could be on shaky ground.

[Johno6]

Very disappointing loss by Adelaide today
Stopped watching with about 3 mins to go. But saw final score ended up 14 points
Nice ally tho in third

[Gozu]

Another 4th quarter collapse, not good not good at all.

[BZB27]

It seemed like they were rushing too much in the 4th qtr trying to make fancy passes and not clamping down on D, even though Dalyon(not sure on spelling) tore it up in the last 5 minutes.

[wristwatcher]

Very disappointing loss by Adelaide today
Stopped watching with about 3 mins to go. But saw final score ended up 14 points
Nice ally tho in third

I was at the game and it was a sweet ally but that ended up being the turning point as there next 5 forward fortes all ended up being fancy ass attempts at million dollar basketball. We went from 7 up late in the third to lose by 14. As pretty as it was it was the point were we got our ambitions and capabilities confused and as for the coach waiting to call the time out until we were 11 down with 1.52 on the clock Im no BBall expert but i nearly called it when they drained 2 x 3 pointers in a row to take the lead for the first time. Piss poor coaching and our heads dropped literally.
DeLeon was outstanding for them. he is a gun and tore us a new one once our heads dropped and our D dropped off.
Johnson with 5 turnovers in a row for Adelaide spudded it up like a potato farmer
A really enjoyable first 3 quarters but you would want to be a red hot keen fan and lover of the game to take your kids and missus at nearly $30 bucks a head for a 40 minute game.
I can think of a couple of more entertaining ways to spend around $150 in an hour

[Gozu]

Round 4 results:

New Zealand 75 (Abercrombie 20, Jackson 19) def Melbourne 64 (Scott 25, Ballinger 15, Goulding 15)

Sydney 92 (Bruce 25, Madgen 23, Henry 18, Garlepp 12, Lazare 10) def Townsville 87 (Ervin 16, Allen 14, Crawford 12, Holmes 10)

Wollongong 77 (DeLeon 23, Hurdle 16, Davidson 12) def Adelaide 63 (Petrie 16)

Sydney 71 (Madgen 22, Crosswhite 14, Henry 13, Lazare 12) def Cairns 69 (Tragardh 22, Gliddon 10, Loughton 10)

[PPLions]

Adelaide's roster is solid and has depth.
The Sixers have genuine size in Schenscher and Johnson and a very capable guard in Gibson.
Surely Marty Clarke must be under pressure to have the team better performances than the loss to Wollongong.

[wristwatcher]

Adelaide's roster is solid and has depth.
The Sixers have genuine size in Schenscher and Johnson and a very capable guard in Gibson.
Surely Marty Clarke must be under pressure to have the team better performances than the loss to Wollongong.

They were really good and honest for 3/4 but i would agree. His use of the time outs was questionable at best. Schenscher seemed a touch under used at times and Gibson looked sharp albeit a little to fancy at times. One point i,ll disagree on is Johnson. He had a shocker. Its the first time i have seen him play live so its unfair to assume i know heaps about the guy but his game yesterday was like watching a turd floating round in a bunch bowl

[Pag]

Adelaide's roster is solid and has depth.
The Sixers have genuine size in Schenscher and Johnson and a very capable guard in Gibson.
Surely Marty Clarke must be under pressure to have the team better performances than the loss to Wollongong.

They were really good and honest for 3/4 but i would agree. His use of the time outs was questionable at best. Schenscher seemed a touch under used at times and Gibson looked sharp albeit a little to fancy at times. One point i,ll disagree on is Johnson. He had a shocker. Its the first time i have seen him play live so its unfair to assume i know heaps about the guy but his game yesterday was like watching a turd floating round in a bunch bowl

Yesterday wasn't a regular Johnson game, he is usually a lot better than that. Just a once-off shocker.

[wristwatcher]

Hey we all have shockers (i saw your work on GrassRoots - jokes) and my neighbours who are members said he was awesome last week so your probably right.

[Gozu]

I agree the onus is all on Marty Clarke. This 36ers team has championship contender depth and his very poor use of star recruit Luke Schenscher so far is on him.

The 4th quarter collapse against the Breakers was unacceptable (especially as they don't seem to be near as good as they used to be), fell over the line at home against Cairns who were playing their second game in consecutive days and then this game many expcted the 36ers to win at home and were up by 2 at the end of the 3rd only to lose by 14 points. Not acceptable.

Clarke is in the final year of his 3 year contract and he'd want to pick it up quick smart especially with such a loaded roster.