Sturt Men - In my opinion

If Darren and Jacob play

Daly
Ng
Bauer
Holmes
Warbout

if Darren plays and Jake does not

Daly
Maynard
Darren
Gower
Warbout

if both don't play

Daly
Maynard
Bauer
Gower
Warbout

I'll take a punt for you, but I don't know all the ins and outs just yet...

Norwood- No real change but is Cooper playing?
Todd Matthews/Andrew Webber/Sam Grantham/Keith Krause/Dan Thompson

Sturt- Again unsure on players like Ng and Holmes but doubt Holmes will be playing. I hear Clay is coming back after the college season but will he effect his eligibilty playing for them?

Tom Daly/Corey Maynard/Nathan Spehr/Brandon Brine/Jan Warbout

Forestville- Tough one as I hear they are picking up a couple of new players.

Brad Sullivan/Brad Gerlach/Scott Arnold/DMT/Mottram

West Adelaide- Brad Davidson/Josh Bond/Kurtis Phillips (???)/Chris Molitor/Blake Truslove

North- Kersten??/Zorich??/Rhys Elliott/Luke Mapunda/Nick Hambour (???)

Centrals- Matt Clarke/Matt Atkins/American/Zane Reeves/Daniel Carlin

Southern- Shane Boal/Tristan Braithwaite/Michael Florence/Josh Wood/American?

Woodville- Cam Wilson/Robert Cameron/Adam Miller/American/Josh Knight

Eastern-Ben Madgen/???/Ben Dearman/Brad Hill/Shane Breheny

South- Jarrad Hirst/Luke Frost/Jeremy Read/Tom McKenzie/Steve Pilkington

Like I said, this is just a guess, so throw some corrections at me!!!

Isnt Maynard going O/s?

where's dodman
birmingham be starter at central
paul smith southern returns starter position

Brine is at Southern. Clay ineligible because he is at a Div 1 college. D Ng playing. M Ng playing. Holmes maybe. Maynard leaving for Bryant (where Clay is at) after season. Dodman is at Eastern.

How is Zane Reeves (Lions) looking after his time last year in Victoria?

woodville have 3 U.S. imports

It seems Centrals have decided on an American by the name of Wade Pidock, a 6'8 (realistically only 6'7) 25 year old Forward out of Division 2 college West Virginia State University. He averaged 13.8 points per game and 5.7 rebounds in 2008 and in 2009 averaged 11.2 points and 6.6 rebounds. It seems he likes to shoot the 3 pointer a lot as he was one of the better shooters from beyond the arc in the league (sounds like a former wookie from the sixers!)
Found an interesting story about him actually..."The leading scorer on the University of Charleston men's basketball team is facing a misdemeanor battery charge following an incident with a West Virginia State player outside a Charleston nightclub.

In a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, Charleston police said UC senior Anthony Anderson punched West Virginia State senior Wade Pidock in the face during an argument around 2 a.m. on Jan. 4 outside the Boom Boom Room, a bar on Capitol Street.

How appropriate is the name of the bar and what happened outside? We love unintentional comedy. And we wonder if West Virginia State and University of Charleston are bitter rivals. If they weren't, they are now."

On paper Eastern men look the goods after Ben Madgen is back permanently in May.

Will Tess Madgen play for Eastern women? (scored around 25pts in her last WNBL game)

Will Templeton, Bolton and Harvi will play any games in the college off season?

(woodville have 3 U.S. imports) I think this is a joke, ABA should not have imports surley the clubs can find players in there own back yard, If you coach your younger players well you wont need to get imports

Player23, if you think that's an interesting story, can I point you towards a library? ;)

I think imports within reason are good for the (and any) league. Adds something new and different. Adds flavour to the NBA, the NBL, to Europe, to workplaces and cultures outside of basketball even.

If it's any good i'll wait till it's out on DVD!
I'm not much of a reader, but thanks for the suggestion! ;)
I'm pretty sure it's in the by-laws that you are only allowed 2 restricted players (imports/NBL players player greater than 25% of available cort time) per team. But I thought that our league had a "one import" rule.

Woodville have signed up 6'4 forward Brady Brink from St Johns University which is a Division 3 college in the MIAC.He played a bit of Professional Basketball in Germany last season for Team FC Schalke 04 where he averaged 10.5 points/game, 4.5 rebounds/game and 2 assists/game, but prior to that he averaged 17.4 points/game, 8.4 rebounds/game in 2008 for St John's.

check the reserves score from last night , Brady Brink made his debut for the warriors.

player 23

you seem to have missed one import that will surely start for an ABL front runner.

Riley Luettgerodt 6'5 205 SG
University of Hawaii (NCAA)
Born: 08/04/85

seems he was shopped on this website some weeks ago, he will be here very soon. But for who??

Yeah I missed that one Mavs, seems he gets here in a week. I'm looking forward to buying a drink from him at the bar after the game!
I don't know if that will be the starting five there though anonymour, he is only 6'5 and plays the 2/3 spot so unless they are running with 4 guards it will be unlikely. I still think they will start DMT and more than likely bring Cambpell or Sully off the bench.

I have heard Sully wants to retire but Andy has refused! Lol...

any new players at the tigers this year? seems like they have been rather quite compared to other teams in the off season. Looks like they will be running small without Bungy!

Paul Smith...lol

Apparently Padgett played 4 Southern the other nite against woodville in a trial game

a few things lads ....

south have an American - 3 man apparently !

f/ville have american too - 6'4 shooting guard !

do centrals have an american coming ? anyone heard who ?

tigers have made changes but no american- wood gone to Cairns ... not as small as some teams !

yanks should definately be allowed in league - 1 per team ... its hard enough to keep our local talent here (eg burdon/sutton/wood) when every other league can offer more coin and more opportunity to nbl - we have 1 nbl team compared to 3 in qld.... everything possible needs to be done to retain local players and bring in better players - this will help the standard and help improve junior players by not giving them 'easy' aba debuts cause they were next in line!

The import at south is canadian big guy!

south big guy very impressive in recent scrimmage

Who's that Anon, Adam Blight?

Heard that Holmes has agreed to play and that Both th NG boys will suit enough to qualify.

PG Maynard/Daly
SG Ng/Smyth/Spehr
SF Ng/Bauer/Kloasen?
PF Holmes/Fish
C Warbout/Gower

was the south big guy impressive in their 2 losses to the pioneers or their loss to the state under 18 boys???

Norwood will struggle without cooper and thompson.

Matthews, webber, grantham, krause and ottey is how they started last weekend.

Hear they are looking for american big real fast.

Sturt must be hot favorites now with "Jake the Musc" and "Ng 1 and Ng 2" (think Dr Zuess) A lot of pressure for those blue baggers.

my prediction is that Norwood chokes

Wooden spoon must be a toss up between Woodville and South. Hard to see North fire too many bullets without Erik the Viking.

Reckon Lions and TIgers will make sure there are plenty of big cats in the top 5

Jack - interested to hear why you think Norwood will choke when they clearly already have proven they can perform?

Also it's good to see that your eternal optimism for Southern hasn't faded. IMO they are nowhere near the top 5.

There will be a lot of pressure on Norwood to three-peat, and I hope their wheelchairs have enough oil to keep them mobile.....

They aren't bears either, sneaky bastards

Well, current squads are listed on Central ABA website.
Seems t be a few names not quite the same as previously predicted, maybe the clubs just haven't updated BSA yet?

Central Districts Lions
Wade Pidock
Scott Rose
Ky Oliver
Toby Lightheart
Lachlan Parker
Ben Todd
Matthew Clarke
Daniel Carlin
Scott Herriman
Brett Maksimovic
Zane Reeves
Matthew Atkins

Eastern Mavericks
Andy Sakkas
Cameron Myles
Stuart Breheny
Jordan Dodman
Daniel Lean
Ben Dearman
Shane Breheny
Matt De Cure

Forestville Eagles
Riley Luettgerodt
Jordan Robertson
Charles Newland
Nick Blair
Brad Haydon
Luke Hoban
Adam Doyle
Sebastian Wise
Reece Turner
Scott Arnold
Doug Macdonald-Taylor
Brenton Campbell
Brad Gerlach
Brad Sullivan

North Adelaide Rockets
Ben Groves
Luke Pike
Nick Mikic
Ryan Kersten
Rhys Elliott
Sam Biermann
Michael Zorich
Nick Hambour
Brett Collins
Matthew Lycett
Erik Burdon
Dallas Quigley
Tom Rowe
Andrew Geer
Leif Burdon
Luke Mapunda

Norwood Flames
Peter Hooley
Caelum Cousins
Josh Krake
Owen Giovine
Ben Howell
Sam Grantham
Keith Krause
Dillon Ford
Corey Ottey
Andrew Webber
Daniel Webber
Todd Matthews

South Adelaide Panthers
Lachlan Prest
Brian Finniss
Tim Pickert
Sam Gazzo
Cameron Bruce
Jack Jennings
Callum Deacon
Daniel Peacock
Adam Blight
Luke Frost
Sam Harding
Jarrad Hirst
Jeremy Read
Thomas Mckenzie
Matthew Davies
Steve Pilkington

Southern Tigers
Darell Holmes
Tom Pinyon
Matthew Williams
Luke Foran
Scott O'Connor
Sam Hemmings
Michael Florance
Shane Boal
Brandon Brine
Jarryd Fildes
Joel Goodenough
Tristan Braithwaite
Paul Smith
Mark Paget

Sturt Sabres
John Marriott
Blake Sutherland
James Spurritt
Nathan Spehr
Jay Pozniak
Josh Owen-Thomas
Nathan Kareta
Max Calligeros
Tim Klaosen
Thomas Daly
Corey Maynard
Jan Warbout
Chris Donaldson
Andrew Braham )
Mark Bauer
Adam Gavranich
Todd Smyth
Todd Gower
Marcus Hakendorf

West Adelaide Bearcats
Steve Watts
Brad Davidson
Josh Bond
Benjamin Vordermaier
Kurtis Phillips
Daniel Zacharjak
Matthew Dubrich
Rhys Daddow
Ben Evans
Adam Pearce
Blake Truslove
Anthony Spadavecchia
Shane Crothers
Paul Rankin
Rory Craddock
Christopher Molitor

Woodville Warriors
Peter Nelson
Matt Hunt
Rob Cameron
Brady Brink
Luke Stanbridge
Josh Knight
Chris Furness
Christopher Clark
Dominic White
Andrew Kielczynski
Brad Goodchild
Ben Mckay
Gavin Kargans
Adam Miller
Cameron Wilson
Mark Egel

add pero to north.

daniel wilson and gary birmingham to lions

So are the Ngs and Holmes playing for the evil empire?

What is aHarry Harvey doing?

Tom pinyon from southern tigers is probobally the best under 20 player in the aba ive seen this year