The Adelaide 36ers have overcome a Nathan Sobey masterclass and a late scare to break their four-match losing streak with a 95-88 victory over the Brisbane Bullets.
Tokyo Olympian Sobey poured in a career-high 36 points against his old side, single-handedly giving the Bullets a sniff of success at a sold-out Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Sunday.
Dejan Vasiljevic (23 points) top-scored for the Sixers for the seventh straight game, while imports Jacob Wiley (21 points, 12 rebounds) and Trey Kell (18 points) stood tall.
Nathan Sobey came out on the losing side despite a dominant display for Brisbane. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS)
Wiley fired Adelaide to a 7-0 head start, forcing Bullets coach Justin Schueller to burn a time-out barely a minute into the contest.
Sobey drove Brisbane's response, scoring 12 first-quarter points to give the visitors the lead before the Sixers recaptured the momentum to take a 27-23 advantage into quarter-time.
Vasiljevic started the second term with a pair of triples to stretch Adelaide's advantage to double digits.
After a quiet first half, Kell enjoyed a big third quarter to extend the 36ers' cushion to 11 points before a 7-0 Brisbane burst either side of the break trimmed the margin to four points.
Wiley piloted Adelaide back ahead by nine points in the fourth before Sobey and big Tyrell Harrison led another Bullets surge.
Harrison scored seven points - two dunks and a three-point play - in 37 seconds, sandwiching a missed dunk from Sixers centre Isaac Humphries and an errant layup from Kell, to suddenly tie the scores.
Adelaide had the final say, though, with three-point bombs from Vasiljevic and Kell combined with an unsportsmanlike foul on Brisbane forward Josh Bannan enough to see the home side prevail.