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mal wrote:How does the finals system of games work ?
What are the advantages for the teams that finish top, top 2, top3, or top4 ?

The higher you finish means you have home court advantage against a lower ranked opponent in the finals.

The way the playoffs/finals work is the Top 2 teams get automatic entry in the semi-finals with home court advantage over their opponents, the SF series are Best of 3 games. Teams 3-6 now as of the new system started last season play in 'Play-In' games to determine entry into the SF's. The Play-In games are single games I think it's 3 vs 4 , winner goes into one SF the loser gets a double chance. 5 vs 6 is single elimination the loser is out the winner goes on to play the loser of 3 vs 4 in a third Play-In game to determine the other SF opponent. The two winners of the Best of 3 games SF series advance to the Grand Final series which is Best of 5 games. Teams that finish the regular season 7-10 obviously don't qualify and their seasons are over.

It's a bit convoluted now but probably better than the previous longstanding finals system of only the Top 4 teams qualifying and the rest their seasons are over. It was one thing when it was an 8 team league but once SEM Phoenix came in as the 9th team and then Tassie as a 10th team something had to change.

Sydney Kings assistant coach Fleur McIntyre has been announced as the new General Manager of the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA and will leave the Kings at the end of the season.

https://nbl.com.au/news/mcintyre-accepts-wnba-role

36ers beat Cairns 88-71

Ninnis can not do much more to get the job.

DOC wrote:Ninnis can not do much more to get the job.

@amber_fluid

Spargo wrote:

DOC wrote:Ninnis can not do much more to get the job.

@amber_fluid

No denying he’s done a great job and has the W’s to show it but I don’t think he’s up to it and hope they find someone else who’s been involved more heavily at this level or above.
This team should be playing finals and goes to show how shit CJ was doing.

amber_fluid wrote:

Spargo wrote:

DOC wrote:Ninnis can not do much more to get the job.

@amber_fluid

No denying he’s done a great job and has the W’s to show it but I don’t think he’s up to it and hope they find someone else who’s been involved more heavily at this level or above.
This team should be playing finals and goes to show how shit CJ was doing.

How we didn’t play in a GF last year, let alone miss the play offs completely shows how shit of a job CJ was doing. The problem was after the shit storm that occurred when Joey Wright left then CJ was the only person who was left to take the job.

Round 17 results:

SE Melbourne 104 (Creek 31, Ayre 23, Stattmann 16, Foxwell 12) def Sydney 98 (Adams 24, Noi 19, Valentine 13, Bolden 10)

Illawarra 95 (Clark 17, Blanchfield 16, Harvey 13, Froling 12, Lee 10) def Perth 77 (T. Webster 16, Cotton 13, Doolittle 11)

NZ Breakers 94 (Jackson-Cartwright 25, Cheatham 20, Lamb 18, McDowell-White 13) def Tasmania 88 (McVeigh 22, Doyle 19, Magnay 15)

Melbourne 93 (Lual-Acuil 33, Goulding 23) def Brisbane 77 (Sobey 19, McDaniel 12)

Adelaide 88 (Vasiljevic 28, Kell 11, Humphries 10) def Cairns 71 (Mayen 15, Kuol 13, Armstrong 10)

Perth 103 (Pinder 23, Cotton 21, Sarr 18, H. Harris 11, T. Webster 11) def SE Melbourne 91 (Creek 29, Ayre 23, Foxwell 10)

Illawarra 89 (Clark 29, Harvey 19) def NZ Breakers 85 (Cheatham 19, Jackson-Cartwright 18, Rubstavicius 17, Lamb 13)

Sydney 98 (Maluach 18, Adams 16, Valentine 15, Bruce 12, Hunter 12, Bolden 10, Glover 10) def Melbourne 86 (Travers 15, Clark 10, Dellavedova 10, Ili 10, Lual-Acuil 10)

DJ signs for 3 more years.

Booney wrote:DJ signs for 3 more years.

Great news!

https://nbl.com.au/news/dj-locks-in-new-deal

36ers beat Sydney 85-78

Gozu wrote:36ers beat Sydney 85-78

Good win. Sydney are shizen

Adelaide are $91 to win the lot, I’ve had a few shillings on them at those odds.


Kings are $10 as a comparison

Brodlach wrote:Adelaide are $91 to win the lot, I’ve had a few shillings on them at those odds.


Kings are $10 as a comparison

$126 last week, I may know of someone who had a dabble.

Back to earth today

Tassie beat the 36ers 109-86

Round 18 results:

Tasmania 94 (Crawford 25, Doyle 17, Steindl 14, McVeigh 10) def Cairns 86 (Miller 31, McCall 20)

Adelaide 85 (Humphries 20, Vasiljevic 20, Kell 15, Cadee 12) def Sydney 78 (Adams 21, Valentine 12, Hunter 10)

Illawarra 89 (Clark 19, Robinson 16, Froling 12, Harvey 10) def Brisbane 76 (Bannan 11, McDaniel 11, Sobey 11, Harrison 10)

Melbourne 99 (Lual-Acuil 16, Cameron 15, Clark 14, Krebs 12, Travers 12) def SE Melbourne 83 (Nader 18, Foxwell 14, Ayre 13, Gak 10)

Tasmania 109 (McVeigh 26, Doyle 17, Crawford 15, Macdonald 14, Magnay 11) def Adelaide 86 (Kell 29, Vasiljevic 21, Wiley 11, Starling 10)

NZ Breakers 89 (Cheatham 24, Jackson-Cartwright 19, Mathiang 11, Rubstavicius 10) def Perth 78 (Pinder 21, Cotton 13, Wagstaff 13, Usher 11, Doolittle 10)

NBL ladder with 2 rounds to go:

Melbourne 18-7
Perth 16-9
Tasmania 14-12
Illawarra 12-12
Sydney 12-14
Brisbane 12-14

NZ Breakers 11-13
Cairns 11-15
Adelaide 11-15
SE Melbourne 10-16

Ending the season just like it started.
Absolute rabble of an organisation

The champs are about to play