Anonymous you are exceedingly lazy. Check the CABL website. Late night's results were posted before 11.00pm

Didn't get to any games, but heard that Sturt were without Holmes and M Ng and so started four under 20s. That led to South fans chanting about them being under 10s. Haha.

Off season retirements??? Who Dave Bowley? Who else?
But you are right though, why spend on overseas players when you can spend on local NBL players! Please don't try and tell me that both Holmes and Ng aren't getting paid, you are simply regurgitating the crap your club comes out with!
It's clear that by having State coaches that it helps when recruiting younger kids like Maynard, Spehr and others. To say the coaches don't poach is naive...

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Looking at the stats I noticed the American for Forestville had another big game, he must be a quality player, Puds was right!
The American for Woodville had a solid game as well, especially getting 6 blocks! I thought he was a shooting guard!

Isaac,

The "Under 10" chant comes from the Panther Army and is "awarded" to any ABL PLayer who makes a real basic error on the court. In Saturday's case I am pretty sure it when one of the two guards (can't remember if it was Daly or Maynard) was called for double dribble. Then when Braham (?) walked back over the base line after having the ball passed into him, I think he copped it a bit as well.

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Other retirements, by the way, were Hakendorf and Vaughan. Here is the outgoing list from Boti:

GONE: David Bowley (ret), Keegan Brooksby, Matt Hunt (Woodville), Claybrin McMath (US college), Mark Paget (Southern), Daniel Peacock (South Adelaide), Mitch Simmons, Nathan Vaughan (ret), Marcus Hakendorf (ret).

NEW: Max Calligeros (jr), Nathan Kareta (jr), John Marriott (jr), Josh Owen-Thomas (jr), Jay Pozniak (jr), Nathan Spehr (jr), James Spurritt (jr), Blake Sutherland (jr).

Player = owned.

Hating against the evil empire is the reason people like you and your club will never get anywhere.

dave humphreys is injured will be back in a few weeks

To start with i am NOT from sturt. Most of the u/20 that are in the sturts abl team will do well, Yes some of the boys do come from other clubs but so what lots of players swap clubs. What about the sturt players that have gone to other clubs Doyle,Dodman,and im sure thier is others thats life get over it. Some players will never move clubs and I say good on them but others will and thats up to them and if you realy want to talk about Spher he started at torrens valley before he was at west...........

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As long as the poaching continues, there will always be talk. It's not exactly a pink elephant sitting in the corner. I know it happens so i'm not going to shy away from it.
I think it will be a challenging year for the Sturt kids, but they have two of the greatest junior coaches in Scott and Liam there to guide them and with senior players like Darren and Jacob to guide the ship they should be up there again come finals time.
As for the Panthers, well they looked a lot better than last season and ran the ball well. Besides about 8 minutes across the end of the second and the start of the third they outscored the Sabres. But simple errors and dumb plays hurt them and guys like Darren capitalized on it and made them pay.

Does anyone know why North were without Kersten and Mapunda?

Is that where he is originally from?

Thanks Player23. Very easy to misread your comment about Darren when it was accompanied by all the usual interclub sniping everyone in SA basketball can't grow out of. Thanks for clarifying.

my son was approach by more than one club since u/14s but has never left the club hes at and thats up to him, he enjoys basketball and dare say he will always stay where he is. Why make one super team? you wont get any better playing against weaker teams in fact i think you get better playing against better teams. yes some players will leave to go to a stronger club but in the long run they are not always happy and the grass is not always greener, And you dont have to always go to a super club to make state or sasi if you are good enough and put the effort in you will be looked at.....

hahaha Mitch Simmons has gone to West!! If he were any more blue he would be a Smurf!!

I just love this forum!
The 'original' poster asked "Who won in ABA Round 1", got abused for being lazy, recieved very few replies about the first round, and now we have gone off on various tangents.

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