Vic Metro were gold medalists two years ago in Ballarat, I cant believe they have dropped by that much.

The Vics dont take this tournament seriously

Dont get too excited, the Vics take 2 teams and split them i believe we only send one, so tough to really tell if they have dropped off or not at this stage. None the less a good first up result.

Are there box scores and results somewhere for these games. I went to the site that was posted a few weeks back but that has no results or fixture

SA 18/boys beat the main vic state team by 15pts

SA U18 boys have won 1st 3 games over both VIC sides and NSW 1 side. SA 100 to NSW 59.

I sold them short. U18 boys.It was SA 100 to NSW 49.

U16 boys won against ACT and both NSW teams, lost to VIC 2, don't know scores or any girls results. Will try to find out and post.

No scores but at least the results.
U18 boys W3 L0 will be top of round robin regardless of game against NSW 2 Fri am as BEAT VIC 2 who were undefeated until they played our lads. Will play VIC 2 in 1-2 playoff. (VIC 2 is their gun team).
U18 girls W3 L0. should be same final playoff as boys.
U16 boys W3 L1. Loss was to VIC 1, thurs arvo by not much. May also be in 1-2 playoff, probably depends on result of their game 5 am Fri.
U16 girls W2 L2 no other info.
Extra team in U16 of ACT so each has 5 prelim games, U18 has 4 games.

Have to say it

GO SA!!!!

sa 18/boys smashed nsw metro2 by 57pts

What about 16 boys???

16 & 18 boys & 18 girls all playing in gf 16 girls playing for 3-4 place

You can hardly expect the Victorian teams and NSW teams to come out and beat the SASI teams. Each SASI team contained probably 90% of players that will end up representing SA metro at nationals, whereas the NSW and Victorian teams had split their talent into two squads and then filled up the rest of the positions with players having less skill.

And even through that, the SASI under 18's mens squad and under 16's mens squad still lost to the Vic men in the 1v2 playoff matches. This surely does not bode well for SA metro come nationals where the victorian team will boast at least double the strength that it showed at the ECC!

In the womens groups, SASI won 18's in double OT to nsw, and didn't make the 1v2 final in 16's.

Were the teams sent to the ECC from SASI the actual state teams? If they were, hopefully a heck of a lot more work will be put into them come nationals or we can expect a miserable tournament for sa metro.

Not the state team. State trials arn't until March (or there abouts). The teams that went over were the SASI squads.

NSW 2 and VIC 2 had about 90% of kids that will be in thier state team playing

Interesting Email Trail. Just wanted to state clearly state what happened. V2 beat SA1 in the U18 grand final !

Yes V2 won the tournament !!!

Are we all also ignoring the fact that the SASI squads that were sent all know each other and have had many trainings together, whereas the NSW and VIC teams sent didn't even know who was going before they got onto the bus?
Shows clearly why SASI were super strong at the beginning of the tournament but slowed down towards the end.

how long did the tourny go for?
How many games did everyone play?

What I got told was they just ran out of legs not due to any one player. Got told all boys played well every game and played as a team thats what won them games. Well done to every boy that went great effort.

So how did the 18 girls go?

Were there any girls that stood out from SASI, VIC and NSW?

Were there any of the 18 girls that missed the AIS camp that should have been picked? If so what happens to them?

Is this event going to be an ongoing?

I've heard from a direct source that NSW 16's (there is two squads from Metro or something) that the one of the girls teams won, thats the team with Loz Nicholson and what not.

No names guys...

Under 18's girls match VIC 2 versus NSW 2, one of the NSW girls physically punched a victorian girl IN THE HEAD, and with three referees on the court they still managed to miss it. Most disgraceful thing i've seen on the basketball court in a long while.
It was a close match and just to rub salt into the vics wound, the NSW assailant shot the winning two free throws with 7 seconds to go.
NSW got carved up by a tall brown haired girl from VIC who hit a three with 20 seconds to go to tie it all up but was only counted as a two to go along with her twenty something points.

Vics lost by 1 point.
Controversy all around

I think the umpiring was very questionable for the tournament too much was let go, not up to state standard

Totally agree though I have never seen anything so disgraceful.....although we are now coming to expect that kind of bad behaviour from this player who deliberately tries to take players out, swings elbows deliberatly aiming at opponents face and is great at throwing the punches, on a consistant basis.

Is it not time that Basketball NSW takes matters in hand and sort out this situation. Makes matters worse when her parents sit there laughing and the crowd clapping her free throws like she is a hero, shame on you all, how dare you condon bad behaviour!!

ref standards way above that of PC slam and our friday night refs at home.

"Too much was let go"

Thats how other states play, thats how nationals are reffed. Basketball is a contact sport the SA interperitation of foul/no foul is soft and out of line with other states.

I have never seen a girl throw a punch in to the side of an apponents head while she is lying on the ground and have three referees on court officiating the game and NOT ONE saw the punch. Yet had blown the whistle and called the foul on the NSW player, it is going to open up the FLOOD gates, so to speak.

If she can get away with it and five minutes later try to chest another VIC player (obviously the bench has no control) then again will open up the FLOOD gates for retaliation and for every other player to start playing accordingly.

I agree with dontfeedpossums. Refs here are clueless as to how the game is played/umpired nationally. Our kids get a physical hammering at Nationals and Melbourne Classics and now PCS (apparantly) because they are not used to playing with body contact especially by big men. Here, if you're 6foot6 or taller, playing junior bball you better not play defense or you will get fouled out each week.

Learn the concept of jumping in the cylinder. Let the body contact around the basket go. If a guard barges through the key, out of control to run into some tall timber dont always call the foul on the big man.

Did anyone actually watch a few of the matches played at the ECC closely and notice that there were far FAR too many non-calls going on. I think the refs did a fairly decent job there, but they must've been told to deliberately let the charge/block call go as a nocall beacuse it happened at least a dozen times in the few matches that I saw.

And not just soft body fouls that deserve to be let go, im talking about huge, obvious and blatant fouls that NEED to be called one way or the other. I mean when both players are smashing into the end wall about 3 meters from where the contact happened, and they both hit their heads and need a sub then surely a ref cant just stand there, suck their whistle like a stunned mullet and let play continue?!

In a particular case just like the one described above, both the SASI coach and VIC coach said to the refs, "There has to be something there, either against us or for us, that just can't be a no-call. We dont want any injuries" to which the referee replied "They were both moving, it was too close to call..."

THATS THE MOST BALONY EXCUSE I'VE EVER HEARD! IF THE DEFENCE IS MOVING, THEN ITS A BLOCK. IF THEY'RE NOT, ITS A CHARGE!

JUST BECAUSE YOU YELL, DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE.

There is alot more judgement to it (block/charge/no-call) than that.