Adelaide are "down limited bodies," Trevor Gleeson said, after getting "outworked at home." He wants scoring beyond Bryce Cotton and Nick Rakocevic, and on Zylan Cheatham, who rarely looked at the rim: "I don't care if he's open for a 3, shoot the goddamn ball."
"I want them to see sometimes that we're human. We have bad games." Adelaide 36ers' Zylan Cheatham on why he retweets critics who come after him on Twitter, then bounces back to silence them. Early in the season, "a lot of people gave up on us, wrote us off," he said.
"We haven't got that much depth to have our 2 imports down." Adelaide 36ers coach Trevor Gleeson, on John Jenkins III and Zylan Cheatham. He said Nick Rakocevic, whose early-season role was bringing energy off the bench, has "really stepped up."