2023-24 NBL Season + Off-season news

[mighty_tiger_79]

Solid 1st half from Adelaide

[Gozu]

Sixers beat the Kings 95-82

Another good win and a new all-time record Adelaide crowd of 9,580.

[mal]

Are Sydney just making up numbers?

I think they are. Talk a number of the players aren't happy with the new coach as rumours start to circulate of Brian Goorjian's return to Sydney next season.

MT79 on the ball
Guru's info looks to be correct

[Brodlach]

Mitch Mc’s playing minutes decreasing game by game

[amber_fluid]

Mitch Mc’s playing minutes decreasing game by game

And we’ve started winning coincidentally.
He’ll have to be moved on at years end as he’s not in our best 5 or even 7.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Melbourne United win by 1 across the ditch

[mighty_tiger_79]

Tassie lose last night by 1 in OT

[mighty_tiger_79]

Adelaide looking the goods on the road

[Gozu]

Cairns beat the 36ers 111-101 in OT.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Just 1 bad qtr costs them in most matches

[Jim05]

Just 1 bad qtr costs them in most matches

12 points in a quarter is a effin disgrace.
Sack every single one of the useless **** involved with this pathetic organisation

[LaughingKookaburra]

Jesus the 36ers are dead set rubbish. With their resources, support and traditional stature in the league there is absolutely no reason they shouldn’t be playing finals most years. It’s not like the AFL where you have to grow lists that take years to flourish. Most under performing organisation in Australia for many years now given their stature.

[amber_fluid]

Jesus the 36ers are dead set rubbish. With their resources, support and traditional stature in the league there is absolutely no reason they shouldn’t be playing finals most years. It’s not like the AFL where you have to grow lists that take years to flourish. Most under performing organisation in Australia for many years now given their stature.

Let’s not forget the Redbacks here!

[MW]

Jesus the 36ers are dead set rubbish. With their resources, support and traditional stature in the league there is absolutely no reason they shouldn’t be playing finals most years. It’s not like the AFL where you have to grow lists that take years to flourish. Most under performing organisation in Australia for many years now given their stature.

What resources? Tightest owner in the league who refuses to invest in talent for years.
Support does not translate to wins without decent players on the court
traditional stature? The days of late 90's, early 00's are long gone.

[Brodlach]

Jesus the 36ers are dead set rubbish. With their resources, support and traditional stature in the league there is absolutely no reason they shouldn’t be playing finals most years. It’s not like the AFL where you have to grow lists that take years to flourish. Most under performing organisation in Australia for many years now given their stature.

What resources? Tightest owner in the league who refuses to invest in talent for years.
Support does not translate to wins without decent players on the court
traditional stature? The days of late 90's, early 00's are long gone.

Spent a lot of money last season for nothing


Until we can attract another quality coach we will continue to struggle.


Mind you if we are getting sell out s every week and not winning, almost no point in spending more money

[LaughingKookaburra]

Jesus the 36ers are dead set rubbish. With their resources, support and traditional stature in the league there is absolutely no reason they shouldn’t be playing finals most years. It’s not like the AFL where you have to grow lists that take years to flourish. Most under performing organisation in Australia for many years now given their stature.

Let’s not forget the Redbacks here!

The Redbacks haven’t been in the top 3 or 4 biggest organisations in Australian cricket for 30+ years. The Sixers have a massive following and are regarded as one of the biggest clubs in the NBL. Essendon are probably the only other organisation who rate similar. The point is that the 36ers grossly under perform.

[DOC]

Essendon?

[LaughingKookaburra]

Jesus the 36ers are dead set rubbish. With their resources, support and traditional stature in the league there is absolutely no reason they shouldn’t be playing finals most years. It’s not like the AFL where you have to grow lists that take years to flourish. Most under performing organisation in Australia for many years now given their stature.

What resources? Tightest owner in the league who refuses to invest in talent for years.
Support does not translate to wins without decent players on the court
traditional stature? The days of late 90's, early 00's are long gone.

Last year spent more money than anyone else in the NBL - Beat the Phoenix Suns and missed the playoffs. Dead set….

[Gozu]

I know it's a technicality but I highly doubt the 36ers really had the highest roster spend last season. I know "officially" they did but most thought the Kings with Cooks, Vasiljevic and their three imports had the most expensive roster just they were able to use the loopholes in the salary cap better than we did like getting certain players listed as "marquees" and therefore only a percentage of their salary counts against the cap. Both Cooks & DJV were said to be on very good money last season.

The problem with the 36ers is the owner and until that changes not much will likely change. He's got no basketball knowledge whatsoever but always wants a big say in which players are signed, how they're used and how the coach coaches. I almost felt a bit sorry for CJ as coach as every single decision is by committee involving the owner and the CEO. When Jeff van Groningen was fired as the GM, rightly, the owner never bothered to hire a new GM and just thought he and the CEO two non-basketball guys could cover it.

The next coach needs to be a strong veteran coach like a Gleeson or Goorjian who can tell the owner to butt out and get out of the locker room. Conner Henry the coach before CJ tried to do that and got fired on the eve of his second season as soon as he got out of quarantine leading to CJ's rushed hiring.

Two positive things are McCarron's 3 year contract finally ends this season and Vasiljevic is supposedly open to re-signing with the club on a longer term deal, so much so the owner is said to be involving him in decision making for the roster going forward.

[Gozu]

Round 15 results:

Brisbane 80 (Smith 19, Harrison 13, Bannan 12, McDaniel 12) def Tasmania 77 (Doyle 19, McVeigh 17, Crawford 13, Magnay 11)

Adelaide 95 (Kell 27, Humphries 18, Dech 13, Wiley 13, Vasiljevic 12) def Sydney 82 (Adams 20, Glover 12, Noi 11, Hunter 10)

Melbourne 82 (Goulding 24, Dellavedova 14, Travers 13, Hukporti 12) def NZ Breakers 81 (Lamb 22, Jackson-Cartwright 21, Mathiang 13, Cheatham 11, Rubstavicius 11)

Illawarra 108 (Clark 25, Froling 23, Robinson 21, Harvey 19, Lee 12) def Tasmania 107 (2OT) (Crawford 24, Doyle 19, McVeigh 17, Magnay 13)

Cairns 111 (McCall 30, Miller 25, Gak 21, Roberts 12) def Adelaide 101 (OT) (Humphries 28, Kell 25, Vasiljevic 19)

Perth 100 (Cotton 34, T. Webster 20, Pinder 13, Usher 10) def SE Melbourne 79 (Creek 36, Williams 12, Ayre 10)

Brisbane 110 (Sobey 25, Smith 19, Harrison 18, Norton 18, White 12) def Illawarra 103 (Harvey 29, Froling 15, Robinson 15, Clark 13)

Sydney 105 (Adams 39, Valentine 23, Glover 13) def NZ Breakers 76 (Le'afa 15, Gliddon 12, Jackson-Cartwright 12, McDowell-White 10)