Adelaide enhanced their National Basketball League finals prospects and dented West Sydney's with a 122-100 away win over the Razorbacks at Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre.

The 36ers started the night on 7-10 in 10th position, one place below West Sydney on 8-11, but were too offensively potent for the struggling Pigs to subdue.

Sparked by a match-high 27 points from in-form forward Adam Ballinger and some deadly three-point shooting, Adelaide dominated the second half.

The 36ers nailed 18 of their 35 long bombs.

A breathless first quarter included a double digit amount of lead changes and ended with Adelaide holding a 39-37 advantage.

The Razorbacks were levelled at 47-47 early in the second quarter, but nine straight points gave the visitors an advantage they never surrendered.

The Pigs trailed by nine at halftime and weren't able to reduce the deficit below eight for the remainder of the game.

The 36ers blew their lead out to 27 halfway through the final quarter before the home team staged a slight rally.

Ballinger, who last week produced one of the season's best individual scoring performances with 46 against Singapore, had totted up 13 by quarter time.

He got plenty of support in the scoring department.

Veteran Lanard Copeland supplied 20 points off the bench, drilling six of his 10 three-point attempts.

Guards Brett Maher and Darren Ng and centre Axel Dench, all scored 16 points, while forward David Cooper contributed 15.

Guard Troy DeVries topped West Sydney's scoresheet with 21 points while forward Liam Rush was another sound contributor with 18 points and seven rebounds.

West Sydney hit 14 three-pointers of their own, five by DeVries and four from Rush and out-rebounded Adelaide 52-39.

It was West Sydney's eighth loss in their last 10 games.

Adelaide coach Phil Smyth said he believed his team had turned the corner with two wins in their last three games.

He revealed Maher had been in doubt for the match until the warm-up after suffering a hip injury in practice two days ago.

"There was actually a question as to whether he would play tonight, but he loosened up in the warm-up and he was okay, he didn't train this morning because he was so sore and stiff," Smyth said.

"The physio spent most of the day with him and once he got going he said he felt okay."

Smyth said Ballinger was in outstanding form and he was pleased with the improvement of big man Dench and was looking forward to the arrival of import swingman Julius Hodge.

Adelaide had focused on taking away West Sydney's transition game and making it a half-court match.

His Razorbacks counterpart Rob Beveridge admitted Adelaide had been allowed to play the game at their tempo and along with DeVries admitted their team had been picked apart by the 36ers.

"They shot the ball fantastically, but at the same time I felt we let ourselves down with too many mistakes that allowed them to get confidence," Beveridge said.

He said his team had to learn from their mistakes, while DeVries said the players had to dig deeper both individually and collectively.

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