You have lost one game, heck, lets sack everyone!

Overreaction after 1 loss

It's one loss, a very bad one, they have a decent team, best player in the competition and dish that up to the fans. Well’s has certainly got do far better, start by playing players that defend first.

It's not the fact they lost it’s how they lost. Coach did nothing to change it up. Couldn’t even use a blitz to their advantage.
Can’t win championships without defense and plan B which we saw tonight both were non existent.

Just an opinion - ive noticed that Adelaide for years get exposed badly in the post - even during the Cleveland/Franks year and certainly since.

It usually starts with getting beaten by the ball movement early so the bigs pick up cheap fouls early whilst trying to keep a last line of defence or stop the bleeding.

Those early fouls means they can't contest once the ball gets to the post and they get benched for long periods to avoid further foul trouble.

That means the wings and guards start hedging to try and cover the post better.

This hedging means they don’t defend anyone properly - the bigs still punish them by getting between the defender and the rim or the defence collapses allowing wide open threes.

These threes are so much easier to hit when you’re ahead and under less pressure to score.

If they try to cover the pass out to the perimeter, the defence is too late and over commits, turning it into a 5v4 and wasting the defenders energy.

The easier scoring means Adelaide starts the offence by taking it out of the basket rather than a rebound or turnover. So, offensive transition is dead.

That means the 36ers are playing against a well set up defence with heavy tagging on Cotton and DJV and they can’t break the shackles easily.

As it was over the first three games, Adelaide averaged the least shots of any team - part of that is the slower game style they play with Cotton handling the ball.

It will only get slower when their defence is cooked.

When things are going well, 36ers need to consider speeding up the transition and have Cotton/DJV on either wing running the lanes and have Flynn or Cheatham pushing the ball with the go ahead pass.

Play that part of the game a bit riskier to kill the tag.

When things aren’t going well, just battle through it rather than going small or applying the hedging stuff that just doesn’t work.

I know Rakocevic struggled early on, but they needed him on more to work through it rather than going with Kenyon. Humphries they should have just kept on despite the foul trouble, it was already slipping away.

Just my two cents.

Probably an overreaction although Goorjian was made to look competent for once in recent history.

What are you guys talking about, those sub patterns and choices were that of a sane man.

Mike wells and the Sixers fell for the trap Sydney laid, they pressure Bryce with a long defender and make the rest of the team shoot from deep and that's exactly what Adelaide did. Instead of trying to move the ball through multiple hands they tried to shoot their way through it, keeping your import on the bench for a half because he wasn’t having a night isn’t what this league is about!

He can coach but this game exposed what Adelaide needs and it’s a enforcer who can put the team in his back physically and set some tuff screens