‘Absolute trash’: Furious South East Melbourne coach Simon Mitchell slams players in stunning spray

Furious South East Melbourne coach Simon Mitchell labelled his workforce’s walloping by the hands of native rivals Melbourne United on Sunday at as “absolute trash” and “horrendous”.

After solely trailing by three factors at halftime, the Phoenix was blown out of the water, prompting Mitchell to explain his workforce’s third quarter as “disgusting”, saying they “failed a test” United threw at them.

“I don’t know where to start,” an exasperated Mitchell stated post-game. having misplaced 110-85 within the native derby.

“I didn’t recognise the scout being executed – guys got defeated and down on themselves early, our ball pick-ups weren’t there, our tags on the offensive boards weren’t there, we were letting guys get free run, we got beat on transition, they executed on all their plays they shouldn’t be executing on us.”

The Phoenix was lacking Zhou Qi (calf), co-captain Kyle Adnam (Covid) and star swing man Ryan Broekhoff, who injured his hamstring within the warm-up, however Mitchell refused to make use of that as an excuse.

“It was more to do with the effort, I thought it was really poor, really poor, and I can’t put a finger on why,” he stated.

“We had everything to play for tonight, we had a team (United) coming off a bad loss (against Cairns) and they had to travel (from Cairns).

“That third quarter was disgusting – there’s going to be a really long video session for that.”

Mitchell wasn’t certain how extreme Broekhoff’s newest harm was however stated the previous Dallas Maverick was “tremendously upset” earlier than the sport.

“I was pretty freaking upset when I heard the news as well,” Mitchell stated.

“That seemed to shake us up a little bit and it really shouldn’t. There were guys given opportunities who really should’ve been trying to clasp it with both hands and I think we failed in that.”

United coach Dean Vickerman revealed the choice to have a snap workforce assembly on Sunday morning so quickly after getting back from the highway performed a pivotal position within the consequence.

“It’s something that you probably wouldn’t do, when you’ve got a delayed flight and you don’t get in until seven o’clock at night coming back from Cairns, is to get up at nine o’clock and have a meeting, but we needed it,” Vickerman stated.

“I’m proud of the group. It’s not an easy trip coming back from there (Cairns) and you saw sometimes that we were super gassed, but I thought we fought pretty strong today.”

Vickerman was stuffed with reward for United captain Chris Goulding, who was excellent with a team-high 30 factors on 10-17 capturing, together with 7-12 from three.

“He’s not only putting the ball into the hole tonight, but there’s the threat of creation and his passing ability just opened up things for a lot of other people,” Vickerman stated.

Goulding completed the competition on the bench, showing to clutch his groin, however he insisted he was high-quality.

“I just wanted to get out. We’ve got young kids champing at the bit,” he stated.

“But it’s been a big weekend. At certain times we’re fatigued, so it was just a good opportunity to get out and get our young guys in and reward them for their hard work.”

Phoenix massive man Alan Williams threatened to single-handedly win the sport for South East within the first half with a whopping 20 factors and 10 rebounds, however Vickerman was rapt together with his workforce’s means to quell his affect and match the Phoenix on the boards after halftime.