2010/11 NBL season & off-season news

[Gozu]

Round 8 results:

Gold Coast 85 (Clark 29, Goulding 13, Worthington 12, Gibson 11) def Sydney 68 (Khazzouh 22, Sanders 13, Dann 10)

Adelaide 92 (Ballinger 18, Johnson 14, DeVries 11, Dowdell 11) def Townsville 79 (Blalock 15, Schenscher 15, M. Cedar 13, Crawford 12)

Cairns 80 (Loughton 15, Jones 14, Rychart 11, Crosswhite 10) def Wollongong 62 (Ervin 21, Davidson 15)

Melbourne 82 (Williams 24, Devendorf 18, Corletto 11) def Gold Coast 78 (Goulding 23, Gibson 13, Worthington 12, Clark 10, Hoare 10)

New Zealand 94 (Bruton 23, Penney 16, Wilkinson 16, Vukona 14) def Sydney 80 (Sanders 20, Madgen 19, Khazzouh 17, McCullough 10)

Perth 90 (Knight 18, Tovey 18, Williamson 12, Redhage 11) def Townsville 64 (Crawford 13, Allen 12, Blalock 11)

[RoosterMarty]

One player last night had a bunch of teeth knocked out, not sure if anyone saw that but teeth went flying everywhere.

I was also trying to work out why Sydney were deliberately fouling at the end of the game when they were 10 pts down, no chance of winning yet they sent Wollongong to the line a number of times, wasn't good for a few inplay under bets I had on. It was as if the Sydney plays thought they had to foul at the end of the game because that is just what happens in basketball.

[Gozu]

Yeah Graeme Dann lost four teeth and speaking of the Kings they've released import Taj McCullough.

[Gozu]

The 36ers have signed Eddie Shannon as their new import:

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/sha ... 5966484162

[Gozu]

The Kings have signed former NBA player Trey Gilder as their new import.

[Gozu]

The 36ers game in Wollongong will be on One HD 7:30 Friday night and new import signing Eddie Shannon has been cleared to play but it looks like Mitchell Creek will be out injured.

[Big Phil]

1/4 Time Scores:

Wollongong - 24

Adelaide - 16

For mine, too many turnovers from the Sixers, can't seem to get any fluency happening in the offensive end...

[Big Phil]

1/2 Time:

Wollongong - 39

Adelaide - 36


Didn't see any of the 2nd quarter, was eating my dinner but the Sixers obviously played some better ball...

[bloods08]

Get Hill off the court now before he costs us this game.

[bloods08]

Went down 81-79

Gary Ervin will win the MVP by the length of Flemington straight.

[CK]

Went down 81-79

Gary Ervin will win the MVP by the length of Flemington straight.

According to Andrew Gaze on the telecast, Eddie Shannon is MVP material, after one game . Shannon did have some good moments for a first outing, and shows a fair bit of grunt and hustle, but honestly....

The game itself summed up the Sixers' season perfectly so far. Can go with teams for long periods but when the crunch is on, lack the killer instinct and still far, far too reliant on Ballinger to bring us home.

[Brucetiki]

Interesting that the shot clock at Adelaide's end of the court was 'malfunctioning' in the first half (meaning the 36ers had to rely on the court announcer for their shot clock) and was magically fixed for the second half when Wollongong were heading that way

[CK]

The shot clock is becoming a real issue in the NBL this season, on a couple of levels. Firstly, One HD's coverage of the games are overall, pretty good, but this insistence on waiting until the last ten seconds before showing the shot clock is becoming a pest.

Secondly, yes, some courts seem to have real trouble with getting it to work properly for the full 40 minutes of a game. A game was held up for about five minutes the other night, as a number of people tried to reset a shot clock. It's hardly a new device, so not sure why it suddenly seems so hard

[Gozu]

DeVries basically cost us the game down the stretch.

[Brucetiki]

DeVries basically cost us the game down the stretch.

Agreed. Too many unnecessary 3 point attempts at the end was fatal, even after Wollongong gifted us that unsportmanslike foul (and we blew that as well).

[Brucetiki]

The shot clock is becoming a real issue in the NBL this season, on a couple of levels. Firstly, One HD's coverage of the games are overall, pretty good, but this insistence on waiting until the last ten seconds before showing the shot clock is becoming a pest.

The worst past is that it's not even in sync with the official clock - sometimes it can be as far as 4 seconds out. That's the most irritating part!

[Gozu]

Import Gabe Freeman has decided to leave the Crocs and return to the Philippines.

[bloods08]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/hod ... 5969556833

This guy is becoming a bigger tool every time he speaks.

[Brucetiki]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/hodges-tweet-talk-enrages-36ers/story-e6frecj3-1225969556833

This guy is becoming a bigger tool every time he speaks.

I feel sorry for the European competition that now has to put up with him. The club that's recruited him though gets all they deserve.

[Thiele]

36ers have release Troy DeVries accordding to their Facebook page