The Adelaide 36ers have added more headaches for Tasmania JackJumpers after a big win which ended a five-game losing streak in the Apple Isle.
Adelaide’s Zylan Cheatham dropped his biggest score of the season with 26 points as the 36ers claimed a 97-86 win at MyState Bank Arena.
It now takes the JackJumpers home record to 1-6 and a five-game losing streak which adds more salt into an already harsh wound for Scott Roth and his men.
While Adelaide move to an impressive 5-1 road record.
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What it does do is break a three years losing streak in Tasmania for Adelaide, with Bryce Cotton being kept to just 12 points.
It was obvious the JackJumpers were going to put plenty of work into arguably the league’s best player in the game but it gave the opportunity for Cheatham to stand up alongside former captain Dejan Vasiljevic who dropped 14 coming off the bench.
The JackJumpers came from 28 points down early in the final quarter to get the score back to single digits but weren’t enough to grab the lead and the victory.
Now, the JackJumpers will head to Perth to take on the Wildcats on November 21 while Adelaide will host the Cairns Taipans on Sunday.
Too little, too late
It is starting to become a common theme for the JackJumpers who seem to drop off during the second and third quarters only to peg it back in the final five minutes of the last.
It happened again, this time against the 36ers. Down by 28 at one stage throughout the game, the JackJumpers pulled back a mammoth lead to single digits, getting within seven points with 39 seconds left.
It happened against Brisbane and the Phoenix in Launceston in the last two home games.
The JackJumpers managed to pull off a massive comeback win against the Kings in Sydney before the five home game stretch, where they lost all five games.
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Streaks continue
It is not the streak Scott Roth wants next to his or his team’s name but the JackJumpers have now lost the last five games in a row, all being at home. It takes their home record to 1-6 this season, the worst homerecord in the NBL competition while the 36ers jump to a 5-1 away record.
Wrapped up in Cotton
All eyes were on how the JackJumpers could stop star Bryce Cotton and in a game where Tasmania might not be smiling too much, they may have just laid the blueprint on how to stop him.
Tassie’s Nick Marshall and Ben Ayre predominantly rotated on Cotton throughout the course of the night shutting down his skills at the basket and abilities to run the play. Cotton became the villain midway through the second after he was clipped by Ayre which sparked the crowd to boo the five time NBL Most Valuable Player.
Adelaide break streak
For the last five times Adelaide had come to Tasmania, they lost all five games but not on Thursday night. The 36ers ended the streak in a blowout win which saw arguably the league’s best player, Bryce Cotton finish in just 12-points. The last time Adelaide defeated the JackJumpers in Hobart was in 2022.
