Cadee: 36ers' DJ must be loud to stay in title hunt

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Former Adelaide 36er Jason Cadee believes game two of the NBL26 Championship Series is the moment for former Sydney King Dejan Vasiljevic to stand up and help the franchise stay in the hunt for their first title in 24 years.

Needing to turnaround a devastating 44-point loss from the series opener at Qudos Bank Arena, the 36ers face a must-win situation with the championship all but gone if they go down at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre tonight.

And while Adelaide's six-time MVP in Bryce Cotton will look to make his mark on the series following Sydney's dominant defensive effort in game one, Cadee said Vasiljevic needed to make his presence felt on the game if the 36ers are a chance.

"I think DJ really needs to be more aggressive," he said on the latest edition of basketball.com.au podcast Cut to the Jase.

"Because if they're going to guard Bryce the way they do, then DJ, you can't sit back and wait for stuff, you've got to seek it.

"If that means you go 2-from-12 or 2-from-14, then so be it.

"You're not going to win by you just waiting for it to come to you."

Vasiljevic, a two-time champion with the Kings, had just five points in the series opener, going 2-from-10 from the field and 1-from-5 from the three-point line.

While his superstar teammate, Cotton, was on the receiving end of a defensive masterclass from Kings coach Brian Goorjian and his players - kept to just 10 points off 4-from-12 shooting.

But many experts and fans were left wondering where the offensive adjustments from the 36ers in trying to free up the league's best scorer.

Cadee gave a recipe he thought could help lead the 36ers to victory and put the Kings in some tough situations defensively for game two.

"I think there's an element for Bryce, where I think if I'm him, I want to screen," he said.

"If I can 50 screens tonight, it might hurt me but I think we can score 50 times off my screens, that's 100 points, because I genuinely do (think that can happen).

"The people guarding Bryce, they're not helping so if you can actually screen, you're taking out two people with one screen.

"Then you should be able to get some easy cheap stuff, which will then make Sydney go 'oh hang on a second, can we keep doing this' because they're just punishing us with easy shots."

Cadee also believed Goorjian would create an "us versus the world mentality" with his group in the lead up to tonight's contest in front of a hostile 36ers crowd.

Game two tips-off at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre at 7.30pm (AEDT).