adelaide 36ers 2002 roster
The 201516 season saw the 36ers sign import point guard Jerome Randle to replace Kenyon McNeail, who sustained an injury and left after three games, while the team also acquired young guard Nathan Sobey from the Cairns Taipans. Sure, the Suns treated it like a preseason game. } fill: #5b4099; One key to that mission: Make the most of the three roster spots the NBA allots to American imports. The 36ers and the BASA built a new home arena in the western suburb of Findon, which opened in 1992. } fill: #aba88f; But the 36ers weren't so tough for the Thunder to beat, even with star guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (knee), defensive stopper Lu Dort (concussion protocol) and first-round rookies Chet Holmgren (season-ending foot injury), Ousmane Dieng (knee) and Jalen Williams (strep throat) all sidelined. Find out more. The 36ers nickname comes from the fact that the Colony of South Australia was officially proclaimed on 28 December 1836. #adl-icon .d { Shipway was replaced for the 1993 season by veteran American coach Don Monson. They have also finished as minor premier on six occasions (1986, 1987, 1988, 199899, 19992000, 201617), and reached the NBL semi-finals in 1987, 1988, 1991, 1995, 1996, 19992000, 200001, 201415, 201617 and 201718. fill: #ffc528; Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed. It is also the only venue in the NBL that is basketball specific (though it does host other events such as netball) with all other venues either being entertainment/convention centres, tennis stadiums or general sports venues. fill: #ceff00; } Bill Jones was replaced as team captain by Fox who appointed Australian Boomers representative Darryl Pearce as the new captain. After the 1995 season and twice winning the club's MVP award in his two seasons in Adelaide, Robert Rose was let go by the club who claimed that his asking price was too high. While Cole was a coach who was high on motivating his players, Fox ran a much more stringent operation and the free-flowing 36ers of 1985 and 1986 became far more structured, much to the dismay of Al Green and Mike McKay who preferred a more free flowing offence. } Randall II, Robert Built on the site of a former rubbish dump, he AU$16m, 8,000 seat Clipsal Powerhouse quickly became a fortress for the 36ers with every game played in front of a sell-out crowd (at an open day for the new arena staged a week before the opening round, the 36ers sold over 6,000 season tickets for the 1992 season). After Round 7 of the season the 36ers, led by Ervin and Johnson, were sitting in 2nd place on the NBL ladder with a 72 record which included a 50 run. Things didn't get any better for the 36ers or Clarke in the 201112 and 201213 seasons. Australia - NBL career RS : Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. In mid-September 2017, the 36ers travelled to Singapore in the pre-season to compete in the Merlion Cup. The 36ers only other win against the Magic had been in 1997 at the Powerhouse. The Adelaide 36ers, also known as the Sixers, [1] are an Australian professional men's basketball team in the National Basketball League (NBL). Game 3: Nuggets at Suns, 10 p.m. Saturday's games Bruton recruited James Crawford to counter Mark Davis, former Harlem Globetrotter Kendall "Tiny" Pinder to counter Bill Jones, they had team captain Mike Ellis to counter Darryl Pearce and Bruton himself to oppose his best friend off the court, Al Green. In April 2006 the 36ers, the Adelaide Lightning WNBL team and the team's home venue, the Distinctive Homes Dome (now the Adelaide Arena), went up for sale due to mishandling of debt owed to the government by the then owner BASA. fill: #231f20; Magic 93 @ Clipsal Powerhouse The National Basketball League acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we work, live & play. He had coached the South Adelaide Panthers senior women's team in the early 1980s and later was a part-time specialist coach at the Canberra based Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) during his playing days with the Canberra Cannons from 1983 to 1992. All Leagues NBA; NBA Playoffs; NCAA; Euro League; Australia NBL; . He also had 17 points, 4 rebounds, 3 steals and finished the game with a 19 efficiency. } Long serving club captain Brett Maher, who made his 36ers debut on the night they opened the Clipsal Powerhouse, retired from the NBL having played in 525 games for the club, captaining the club to 3 NBL championships (1998, 1998/99, 2001/02), and twice winning the NBL's Grand Final MVP award in 1998/99 and 2001/02. #mel-icon .d { #per-icon .f { They also had a new head coach in former NCAA coach Mike Dunlap. } #sem-icon .c { #sem-icon .f { } However, despite the change, for the third season running the team had earned a bye to the semi-finals where this time they would face the Perth Wildcats who were in their first ever playoffs. Brisbane Bullets, #cns-icon .B { The emergence of 6'11" (212cm) centre Daniel Johnson as a scoring and rebounding threat (he led the club in scoring for both seasons and led the NBL with 8 rebounds per game in 201213), the signing of former Gold Coast Blaze players Adam Gibson, Anthony Petrie and Jason Cadee, and the emergence of exciting young Victorian Swingman and crowd favourite Mitch Creek (who suffered a season ending Achilles tendon injury in mid-201213), gave fans hope for the future. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. 3 November 2021. } #cns-icon .D { Brett Maher dishes a season high 10 assists for Adelaide 36ers On February 02, 2006, Brett Maher set a season high in assists in a Australia - NBL Playoffs game. Import players including 6'9" (207cm) centre Bill Jones, New York-born combo guard Al Green (who had been drafted by the San Diego Chargers as a Defensive back in the 1979 NFL Draft despite not playing football) and an NBL rookie in 24-year-old Power forward from Philadelphia, Mark Davis who joined the team 5 games into the season after dominating the local league with South Adelaide, combined with local players Darryl Pearce, team captain Peter Ali, young gun Mike McKay, and veteran Ray Wood to help Adelaide to a 206 record and second on the regular season ladder behind the Brian Kerle coached Brisbane Bullets who featured Australian Olympian Larry Sengstock, arguably the league's best player and former West Adelaide championship player Leroy Loggins, Ronnie "The Rat" Radliff, and the "Black Pearl" Cal Bruton. #tas-icon .st1{fill:#37B44B;} Game 3: Celtics at 76ers, 7:30 p.m. } #adl-icon .c { } Kevin Brooks was named the Grand Final MVP in what was the last ever winter season for the National Basketball League. #mel-icon .b { #per-icon .f { #tas-icon .st3{fill:#008C46;} } "How much caffeine do they have back there?" fill: none; Before the playoffs, the players got together and went to the club board demanding Cole's return, going so far as to tell the board that they would refuse to play unless Cole was coaching them. Franks, Antonius Magic 62 @ National Tennis Centre, Adelaide def. West Sydney Razorbacks 21. Under Phil Smyth, Adelaide were beaten Elimination-Finalists in both 200203 and 200304. "That import trio is going to be a tough one to beat in the NBL -- and in the NBA as well, as you saw," said Giddey -- an Australian who played a season for the 36ers as part of the NBL's "Next Star" program before entering the NBA draft in 2021. #mel-icon .b { Regular season [ edit] } Craig } fill: #aba88f; } Players. 2022 Proballers SARL | Version 3.4 | All rights reserved. fill: #fff; Archived from the original on 2 November 2021. fill: #070813; Adelaide 36ers roster. Season: League: Team: International Format. Davis also led the league in rebounding for the third straight season, averaging 17.8 for the year. The Dome had been without a naming rights sponsor since mid-2009. He also had 8 points, 6 rebounds, 1 steal and finished the game with a 13 efficiency. American Mike Dunlap[10] who led the team to the 1994 NBL Grand Final series against the North Melbourne Giants, and the 1995 NBL Semi-finals, went on to become head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats of the NBA for one season in 201213, becoming the first person to be a head coach in both the NBL and the NBA. After the story was broken in one of Adelaide's daily newspaper's at the time, The Advertiser, Cole was suspended by the club for the last two games and the team was coached by his assistant Don Shipway. } #nzb-icon .d { } fill: #69bf29; fill: #f28d3a; the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. #mel-icon .d { 12, Australia - NBL career RS : fill: #07061b; #tas-icon .st3{fill:#008C46;} #tas-icon .st4{fill:#FFFFFF;} } Cleveland, the NBL's reigning Defensive Player of the Year, added 22. #per-icon .d, } They lost their semi-final series to their nemesis, defending and eventual league champion the Perth Wildcats, missing out on their third grand final appearance in 5 years. } fill: #07061b; They then defeated the Melbourne Tigers 21 in their Semi-final series before going down 21 in the Grand Final series to their long time nemesis Perth who won their record 6th NBL championship. ^ "Adelaide 36ers sign Zac Gattorna to bolster Development Player ranks". DOWNLOAD THE FREE NBL APP: BREAKING NEWS AS IT HAPPENS Illawarra Hawks, #mel-icon .a { Once again facing the Brisbane Bullets, the 36ers won the first game of the series 122119 in overtime in front of a then NBL record crowd of over 11,000 at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. Mike Osborne continued as head coach while David Winslow was named team captain. Adelaide's 134-124 win was the first time an NBA team lost in a preseason game against an international squad since EuroLeague powerhouse Real Madrid's 142-137 home win over the Thunder in 2016, when a 17-year-old kid named Luka Doncic contributed three points, four assists and five rebounds for Los Blancos. fill: #faac32; fill: none; #per-icon .d, fill: #69be29; That day he grabbed 13 rebounds in Adelaide 36ers's home loss against New Zealand Breakers, 83-85. 1985 would see Al Green set a single season points per game record for the 36ers when he scored 31.0 ppg in 28 games played (the record still stands as of 201617). Coaches. } #per-icon .c { } Following the club's worst ever season, Scott Ninnis was sacked as coach and replaced by former AIS coach Marty Clarke for the 201011 NBL season. fill: #ffc528; Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. fill: #32aee3; fill: none; [5] Despite being so far in front, Adelaide lost their final four games of the regular season and still finished two games ahead of the top.
