Do you mean the Vic men, or women?

Their women just scraped home against Tassie today, 135-25, and probably would give our guys a better run than the Tassie men.

My second-favourite stat from the Vic-Tassie women's game: Tasmania turned the ball over 50 (that's FIFTY) times.

My favourite stat: Tasmania had six times as many 3-point attempts (13) than they did foul shots (2). Even better, they missed the two foul shots.

That is some quality basketball.

They got more rebounds than points, almost got more fouls than points, and one player had 5 fouls in less than 9 minutes.

50 turnovers is incredible.

In the SA Men game, Kersten had 18, Ingles 14 and Wood 12.

Direct link to the boxscore

can you fix us a link to the women's box scores?

Sure:

Must-see boxscore

The only area in which this game was even was in Minutes Played.

SA just lost Qld 80 to 52. Ingles 13 points on 5/12 shooting and Pini 12 points on 5/16 shooting with 8 rebounds. Sa went 2/22 from beyond the arc with Ingles' at 2/7 the only player to connect. Sa shot 30% FG for the game, 9% 3PT and 47% FT (8/17). Maybe the rims are a bit hard in Newcastle.

Anonymous,

What height do SA have? compared to other states they are small, thats why they shoot from outside.

SA Women just beat Qld in OT!!! Qld men are apparently huge they towered over our guys!

I'm not sure of the make-up of the team height wise but Ryan K at 6 feet tall was the team leading rebounder for the match. Indicates maybe the team lacks a strong inside force.

One thing I noticed about the mens side is that they never throw the ball inside. Even if blokes like Bungey, Hoban and the first year bloke from the Tigers have great position in the block they are just ignored by the guards which is crap because that isn't a bad big man line up at all.
This SA team doesn't have a Newley or a Holmes who can come off screens all night and rack up 30 pts and keep the side in the game, so they were always going to struggle, which is why they need to go inside more.

Give the boys some credit, It is the first day, They are all top players, and all have induvidual skill. Lets support them rather than knock them.

Some people on here just don't understand the game of basketball. Why would you get the ball inside when they are going up against players with a significant height advantage. This team will rely on shooting from outside. Good to see the girls doing well.

SA have bounced back with a solid win over WA.

Kersten and Ingles the main scorers (Kersten triple double).

Looks like QLD are the team to beat, defeating Vic quite comfortably after beating SA yesterday.



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Angela was at St Peters last night training with the Sturt ABL side!

Don't Queensland have 4-5 AIS guys?

Kersten averaging 21ppg (ranks 3rd) 8.0rpg (8th), 2.3spg (5th) and 4.3 apg (5th) after day 2. Ingles 7th in scoring with 16.3ppg, 3.7apg (9th) but 5th in turnovers with 5 a game.

Men look like a struggle to make medal rounds (top 4 only?). Fifth now, with games against Vic(2nd) and ACT (4th) to go. Will need to hit their straps.

Women 3rd with games against NSW and WA to come, who are 2nd and 4th respectively.

Aint over til the fat lady sings!
Good Luck!!

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16 points at 8/23 shooting with 0/7 from the three point line and not one trip to the line. Ouch! Damn big thud after a triple double.

Another interesting result last night was that the ACT boys got over Qld, who up until then were looking a strong outfit.

Qld smacked our boys by 30 in the first game, and have also done the Vics by 15.

Vic did the ACT by 20 when they played, and to add further intrigue SA's last two games are against Vic and ACT.

Do we play NSW at all?

A 3 point loss to Victoria 68 to 65. Ryan Kersten had 16 point on 4/22 shooting, Daniel Lalic had 15 on 7/17 and Joe Ingles had 13 on 5/13FG. As a team they shot 34%FG but 40%3PT.

A must and BIG winning margin is needed against ACT tomorrow!!

can someone please tell kersten to maybe get the ball to ingles a bit more....4/22...dear me!!.....black hole anyone??

Why is Bungey playing no minutes and how can Tom Rowe be starting?

My new favourite stat for the week comes courtesy of today's Qld-Tas boys game: in 40 minutes of basketball, Qld got whistled for 4 (that's FOUR) fouls. Total. The whole team.

And the SA boys have just creamed ACT by 35 - are they still a chance playing finals?

Libertine,

Bungey isn't playing well.

35 Point winners the boys were over ACT, they have taken 4th spot and the fat lady is STILL singing!!! Well done DK and guys!!!

U20 Women in 3rd so keep on rocking girls!!

Tomorrow the finals campaigns begin afaik.

Dick - but he was the only legit big man on the team? Lalic too small to play big at Nationals and Woody is more of a swingman. Why not start Hobo then for balance?

Why were the North boys there?!

Yeah well, every coach has different players and combos they prefer - see Boy Goorj. What sucked was that there was no semifinals.