Good preview Jack.

Would have to agree with all but one prediciton.

Centrals men over Norwood by 10.

Good one Jack. Who has returned for North and Tigers?

Great work Jack!

Picking Centrals over 'back to back' Champions Norwood?

Jeez, it must have been a looooong offseason :/

Dont agree with the South V Sturt girls game and the Southern V North game either.

Sturt dont have Marino and Bowley is not get fit due in hip injury. Think it will be closer than most think.

Southern v North - Tigers are going to struggle this year. Import not to make too much of a difference. With North have Boyd, Hill and Williams I predict a 20+ point win Norths way.

So what game would be the game of the round? I was considering going to watch the Norwood v Centrals game to check out both imports but now i've heard that Cooper/Krause/Thompson are all out for Norwood.
Sturt I hear have Holmes and Ng playing so they would be good to watch but it is against South!
Again Forestville v Woodville would be good to see both of their imports but it's at St Clair for god's sake!
And i'm definitely not driving all the way up to Mt Barker, not with today's fuel prices!!!

logic at BSA oxymoron

great write up Jack - finally a little bit of promotion - how hard is it - get this into advertiser come on promote the games -

There should be a bit of a write up in Saturday's paper is my guess, so stay tuned...

"SUN
Tigers - Rockets @ Morphett Vale
New courts, new keys, new canteen.
Women: Reckon could go either way."

hahaha Classic!

So how long are Krause/Thompson/Cooper out for? I heard they picked up an American to help with the loss of these guys?

MadeInThe'Laide,

Not sure if you were taking notice of last season, but the Lions Men took home the bacon last time the 2 teams played by 19. This game will still be a big one, even with the Big 3 not playing for the Flames(unfortunately). If the Lions can hold Webber and Matthews they "should" win, but you can never say never with Norwood, true hearts.

Flames definite underdogs on Saturday night

The Lions preseason form looks good (did'nt they beat Mt Gambier and Forrestville at Millicent?), but Jacob Templeton will be a big loss.

anon 598
worst post ever

I made the trip out to Starplex for the Lions v Flames game. Despite the outcome, I actually thought it was a good game to watch.

The Flames got out to an early lead mostly through defensive pressure, good ball movement and the ability to knock down pretty much every shot that came to them, from anywhere on the court.
Centrals struggled early, and weren't able to capitalize on early opportunities. This led to a big 26 point deficit to end the 1st quarter, a margin with wouldn’t get down lower than about 13 points for the rest of the game.
Centrals put up a bit of a fight towards the end but it was too little too late. The result was set from about the midway point of the 2nd quarter and the Flames ran out 31 point winners: 107 - 76

LOL
Looks like Mavs girls might have a bit of bite!

Made that same trip to Starplex as well to watch what I would have thought was the game of the round. Norwood shot the lights out from the three point line.

Was a pretty good game, but Lions lost it in Q1. Defence was wooden and the Flames burnt them.

Flames were clinical in their demolition. Played hard man on man D to stop Lions from using their advantage - they were a significantly taller and stronger team than the Flames, yet the Flames out rebounded them when necessary. Stats say Lions got more, but they got the easy ones..

Rupert's boys will be hard to beat this year - MARS will be the "House of Pain" this season. I'll be suprised if thy drop a game there.

Rupert back for an assistant coaches role at the Sixers?

Lions men tried hard but almost impossible to get back from such a disheartening start to the game, and Flames from the 3 point line- wow! But true to their names the Lion- hearted ones will be back!

Sabre Womens handled the Panthers easily. Without their 2 stars, a great allround performance by Sturt saw them take a 22 point win.

All did not look well for the Panther girls as their new recruit took contested shot after contested shot.

Sabre Men ran out winners over their Panther counterparts. Ng and Daly leading the way. Withotu Holmes or Marucs Ng, things look well ahead for another promesing year.

Only question of the night was. Why did Pilkington sit for so long. He dominted the first half and gave the Sabres bigs real problems. Then didn't play the last quarter. Why?

Im with secret sabre on this one pilkington had a massive 1st half and sat for some unknown reason in the 2nd they need him and blight on the court, to cause damage for opposing teams!
Huge weekend for the panthers!!!!!!!!

"JACK TOFT, mavs girls have more then bite"

I do enjoy the challenge of an anon poster with poor english having a go.

May I ask. What are you talking about??? they have more, then bite? what do they have more of?

Are you trying to say the Mavs girls have some bite this year?

Maybe they do, or maybe there could be wobbygongs with sharper teeth and more aggressive attitude. Who knows?

West are a champion team and to take it into OT shows the Mavs girls did have a good game on Sat. night. Well done. Can you sustain it for a season?

Jack, O/T goes for 5 minutes... Southern only had to hang on for 2 and couldn't.

Ouch,

2 minutes can be a long time on a basketball court, and sometimes a long time elsewhere

Don't let them get to you Jack.
Hope you can give another great preview this week!