2011/12 NBL Season/off-season news/Boomers

[Johno6]

weigh.... 4/15..........

[redandblack]

Lost 86-73.

Scored progressively less each quarter.

[Gozu]

Very disappointing 4th quarter from the 36ers, outscored 25-13.

[Gozu]

For the 36ers their injury woes continue Nathan Crosswell joining Adam Ballinger on the sidelines, supposedly out for the rest of the season with a ruptured achillies in today's game against the Breakers.

In other NBL related news former Kings import Trey Gilder has been invited to NBA training camp by the Utah Jazz and former Crocs import Will Blalock has been invited to camp by the Charlotte Bobcats.

[Gozu]

Round 10 results:

New Zealand 106 (Vukona 21, Corletto 18, Pledger 18, Abercrombie 16, Jackson 14, Wilkinson 11) def Gold Coast 85 (Harvey 19, Hudson 19, DeLeon 15, Gibson 10)

Sydney 107 (Bruce 24, Bose 21, Khazzouh 20, Martin 13, Grant 12) def Adelaide 103 (OT) (Johnson 24, Simpson 19, Warren 15, Weigh 12)

Cairns 79 (Wilson 27, Warren 16, Crosswhite 13) def Melbourne 77 (OT) (Tragardh 24, Dorsey 18, Ubaka 18)

New Zealand 86 (Wilkinson 30, Corletto 15, Pledger 13, Vukona 13, Jackson 11) def Adelaide 73 (Johnson 17, Simpson 16, Warren 16)

Townsville 80 (Crawford 17, Schenscher 13, Mims 11, Holmes 10) def Sydney 69 (Khazzouh 17, Bruce 15, Grant 15, Bose 10, Madgen 10)

Perth 98 (Lisch 23, Redhage 23, Nevill 11, Knight 10) def Wollongong 70 (Martin 15, Forman 11, Catron 10)

[CK]

Very disappointing 4th quarter from the 36ers, outscored 25-13.

I have a suspicion Stephen Weigh's contract could make interesting reading, particularly if there are any clauses relating to "minimum court time". Left out there forever, with younger players itching on the bench.

Wouldn't be so bad if, on occasion, he could deign to defend someone.

[bloods08]

Things keep going from bad to worse for the sixers

http://www.nbl.com.au/teams/36ers/news/ ... -injuries/

Adam Ballinger is to have surgery tomorrow on a ruptured tendon in his left ankle that occurred in the game against the Sydney Kings, last Thursday night.

This is not the same injury that he sustained on his left ankle last season.

The injury will rule him out for the rest of the iiNet NBL Championship season.

Ballinger received the news from the surgeon this morning about the extent of his injury.

“It is a rupture of the tibialis posterior tendon and the surgeon would like to operate tomorrow,”

“Until the surgeon gets in there, I don’t know how long the recovery and rehabilitation will take.”

“I am really disappointed about the injury, but I will work hard in rehab to get it right.”

Nathan Crosswell will have surgery late this afternoon to reattach his ruptured Achilles tendon.

Crosswell will also be excluded from participating for the rest of the season.

Leeanne Grantham, CEO, Adelaide 36ers says that the club will be monitoring Ballinger’s and Crosswell’s progress closely.

“Our medical team will be there every step of the way, to ensure that everything is done to help Adam and Nathan get back onto the court in the near future.”

“Adam and Nathan are an integral part of our team, they are our captain and vice captain and their presence on the court will be missed,”

“The team will pull together and support both players through their surgery and rehab.”

Information about Adam Ballinger’s and Nathan Crosswell recovery will be released as soon as information comes to hand.

[Gozu]

I think Crosswell's absence will hurt more than Ballinger's for the rest of the season. Unfortunately Balls wasn't giving us much this season (was probably playing injured) and now the 36ers can put him on injury waivers and would have his 10 points to play with in signing a replacement and theoretically his money in the salary cap too.

As he's an aussie now they could sign a big aussie guy currently playing in Europe or if they wanted to get creative say sack Chris Warren and maybe try and entice Gary Ervin back to the NBL who's struggling in the Ukraine?

Crosswell's absence probably just means Tom Daly will be elevated to the 10 man roster.

[Gozu]

NBL games coming up on One this weekend:

Friday night: Wollongong @ Adelaide at 10:30pm

Saturday night: Perth @ Gold Coast at 10:30pm (followed by a replay of Hawks @ 36ers)

Sunday night: Townsville @ Melbourne at 10:35pm (also live on NBL Radio)

[CK]

At half time at Adelaide Arena:

Adelaide 46
Wollongong 33

Adel: Simpson, Johnson 14, Warren 7
Woll: Catron 10, Coenraad 6

Rebounds: Adelaide - Simpson 6 (3 OFF, 3 DEF), Johnson 5 (3 OFF, 2 DEF)
Woll: Catron 6 (5,1), Saville 6 (3,3)


In the early game, New Zealand defeated Cairns 85-65

[Thiele]

36ers up by 28 points at the last change

[Johno6]

What happened in the nz game

[Thiele]

What happened in the nz game

In the early game, New Zealand defeated Cairns 85-65

[Johno6]

dammit i had multi nz -9 adel -4,5 into brisbane in the cricket.... ****

[Gozu]

Great comeback by the Blaze tonight, down by about 20 at the half and get up in a close win.

[Gozu]

It seems the 36ers have signed Everard Bartlett for the rest of the season.

He played a handful of games earlier in the season for the Wildcats as an injury replacement for Damian Martin and is a former NBL Dunk Comp champion when a development player for the Breakers.

[Johno6]

Great comeback by the Blaze tonight, down by about 20 at the half and get up in a close win.

Not only am I pissed about last night as a wild cats fan
But I also had money on them. Gutted. 7 points in last term. Wtf
Pathetic. I was pretty much spending the money at half time

[Gozu]

Yeah they never should've lost that game Johno.

Julian Khazzouh in his NBA pre-season debut for Golden State today played 1:24 and had 2 pts & 0 rebs 1-1 fg & 0-2 ft against ironically the Kings.

[Gozu]

Round 11 results:

New Zealand 85 (Corletto 26, Jackson 18, Wilkinson 13) def Cairns 65 (Warren 18, Loughton 13, Wilson 11)

Adelaide 87 (Simpson 22, Johnson 21, Warren 12, Weigh 11) def Wollongong 63 (Catron 19, Coenraad 12)

Gold Coast 77 (Gibson 28, DeLeon 15, Worthington 15) def Perth 74 (Lisch 17, Nevill 10)

Melbourne 93 (Tragardh 19, Dorsey 18, Greer 18, Dillon 16) def Townsville 80 (Crawford 30, Holmes 20, Schenscher 11)

[Gozu]

Julian Khazzouh has been waived by Golden State and will return to the Sydney Kings.