I think you'll find being the public holiday, the boys are enjoying a spot of fishing

dont make promises you cant keep

I promise to spit on you I Carumba. Shouldn't make that because I can't keep it. I have no idea who you are in the same way you have no idea who I am.

Then again I wouldn't waste my spittle on you anyway

Oversight more than laziness in this case?

Yeah, Laziness;

They couldn't be bothered putting the correct date up, the extra effort to type the 7 instead of the 6 was waaaaay too much.

Of course it's oversight.

Is it really big deal? The answer is no

Why dont you all just be paitent like everyone else

If you want to keep complaining about it then why dont u put your hand up and volunteer to help out around the Basketball SA office

Offered and told not needed!

Would be fine if they were actually out today.

BSA have not done a bad job for a change. Like everything, some of the rankings are a bit up for grabs, but generally OK.

Interesting to see how much perceived bias there will be with the draws. ie Home teams playing out of home stadiums. Would be good to see it mixed up a bit, but I expect a lot of Eagles teams will play all their games at Wayville and likewise with Sturt at Pasadena.

BTW is the Dome getting used this year?

Good point

It's a shame there are not more country teams in the mix to make it a true state champs.

Where do you find the seeding information ?

Mt. Gambier Ranked 1. Common, when was the last time a country team was good enough to go to classics? Ever. Bet making this helps some and hinders others! How can you make this sort of assumption with any credibility. Forstville will clean them up easy, Sturt too I would think. Both teams have multiple State players one would think.

Time will tell

Surely if this is the STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS all teams should be able to put their best group on the floor.

Otherwise it would not be a useful competition. Just another weekend of games. The weekly comp is for improving and this tournament is for performing.

If it was a real State Championship, it would be 1 grade, open to anyone who wanted to enter. Metro, Country, Social, etc.

anon,

Sturt and Forestville dont have country players, and they are clearly in front of everyone else.

Mavs have 4 or 5 country kids and are about 20 poins off the pace.

It's a long way to come from Mt Gambier every weekend to play ball!

Who do these girls play for?

The problem with a lot of country association teams is the lack of game practice as a team. Some associations chuck a group of players together a couple of weeks before a carnival, get a parent to coach and go for it. Others, have a pretty good programme. MG are one of those associations.

Every so often people whinge and complain about Victorian teams being taller, better etc. That is because they have a larger talent pool to draw from. Each District club has a pool of about 100,000 population to draw from and there is around 300 to 400,000 people in SA living in rural areas.

I would suggest that if those country areas were split into 3 or 4 zones of roughly 100,000 population and then the best players from living in those areas played for that team, then some of those teams would cream any Adelaide club team (without their country players)

For example, I would suggest that a combined team selected from the talents of Pt Lincoln, Whyalla, Roxby, Pt Augusta and Pt Pirie (around 100,000 population) would wipe and Adelaide team off the court.

Great, lets take that philosophy to Nationals. We should be able to combine metro into 4 clubs and clean up.

Club size is not determined by population, but rather by administration ability. Some country associaitons are the same size as metro clubs, if not bigger.

Maybe the metor clubs should be allowed to combine for U14 Nationals?

I believe any club team country or metro should play in state champs, it would be great to play against different people instead of the regulars, but i also believe that the SA country association don't contribute financially to BSA so why should they compete in an association they don't support?
Heres a thought why don't i make up my own team and throw it in the champs and see how it goes!!
Now i am being silly but what is stopping someone from doing that, get a few disgruntled people from random clubs find a coach and you could almost put together a state team!
Imagine if someone did that for the 14's Nationals
Food for thought

That sfine, but it effects the seedings for classics and they should occupy the next postion which would drastically alter the pools and affect some teams rather than others.

Wonder which club is affected the most and which the least?