no creek for the vics?

Qld pushed by NZ quite literally! A very physical game. No Payne either for Qld. BA seems to think the game didn't happen. Only appears on LiveStats. Not in results or game reports??

Tippett wasn't released to play

Turnovers seemed to be a key issue (27-13) and rebounding (33-46) as well as FG% (38-46) and 3pt FG% (25-42).

After a tough 2 point loss to NSW yesterday, it sounds from the previous comment, that the girls struggled to be in the right mindset for today's game. It will be a big challenge for Simon to get them back on track. Hopefully a win against NZ tomorrow and then WA, will help build some confidence before games against QLD and TAS.

After being down by 6 in the first, Greenwood hard to stop!

Pat Emery (NSW) massive game from the 3 point line.

Dayyyyyammmm what a game.... Nail bighter 4th quarter coming up....

Wow tough game, sure they felt it was in their grasp when Hooley hit the big 3. Lots of positives to take out of this game.

Who's their match up in the first cross over? My understanding would be WA, then a Vic semi.

In other news Vic smashed QLD 112-78 with Creek top scoring with 28 and 9.

So shows how big this game was. Tough loss but once again a great effort!

They would have had a NZ then QLD semi if they won.

8 up at the half and went down by 8 is not a great effort.

Hooley and Carlin almost 80% of the points and Hooley took about half the teams shots.

Where were the rest of team?

trying to get the ball off hooley

How are the girls going?

Becuase Casella says we were going to win it from the 3 point arc yet the genuine 3 point shooters have put up less from the arc than the bigs have.

Why is Ellison and Prest shooting so many 3's when Spehr and Isaih aren't.

Just a query. We deleted our U20 comp to follow what was happening interstate on the presumption it would ensure player retention and a pathway to bigger and better things.

Why then do we have a U20 Australian tournament. Does it serve any purpose and should we look at replacing it with an U23 tournament??

BASA destroyed the Under 20 comp when they were forced to go to fully timed Division 1 games.

Moving Under 20's away from the standard "div 1" lowered the profile of the compeition and it ended up a farce.

Under 20's should and could be brough back. Move Under 12 1's away and have a Divison 1 night of Under 14, 16, 18 & 20s.

Then you'll find clubs and players taking it more seriously.

No reason why Under 20s and Youth League can't worked together. Maybe bringing back Under 20s will mean BSA will allow limited overage players, like every other "youth" league in every other sport in Australia.

As soon as I pressed send I considered that.

Centrals, Southern, Sturt, Forestville, Norwood should all play 12s with their Div 1s.

But they don't need to

They can play with their clubs Div 2s home and away as well.

anyway back to the topic, the reason cassella wants them bombing away from 3 point line is because that was all he ever did

U20's was a terrible competition to start off with. It should not be classified as a junior competition so should be played mid week. I would rather watch an U12 Div1 game than an U20 game.

Seriously, why do so many people care about U20's? If people put more time and effort into shoring up their juniors the senior comps will be better quality. Instead, at the moment we have terribly skilled and deficient players playing at a very high level.

STop blaming the competition and work on your game.

U20s was a terrible comp because of BSA/BASA

Anyone with a memory that extends to when Under 20s was played at the end of a Division 1 night would know the potential an Under 20 competition has.

There is not the interest in U20 in the girls. They lose numbers from U18's on and U23 was an attempt to keep them interested.
Basketball will be lucky to survive the impact of other sports with the state of stadiums, umpires and costs all contributing as not enough bang for your bucks. Girls are wasting their time playing a sport with no profile or pathway and definitely no money.Unless they are the wider thicker variety of female they should focus on netball which has better press and much, much better looking bodies.

Really girls should play netball?

One professional league in the world. and only a handful of those players get decent $$s.

What kind of crowd did the Thunderbirds get on Sunday? In the one legit netball competition across all 20 countries in the world that play the sport.

Any female wanting to play a sport professionally should be choosing either basketball or soccer (as much as I can't stand soccer).

But surely they should be playing whatever sport they love? That they enjoy?

Under 20 competition died because of BASA. End of story.

"Under 20 competition died because of BASA. End of story"

"U20s was a terrible comp because of BSA/BASA"

Rubbish!

BSA just did the humae thing and pull the cord. People, get over it. It was a terrible comp, terribly coached and really if you are a decent U20 you should be playing Div1 or Reserves.

The right decision was made. Focus on juniors, 19yr olds do not need to be hand held. It was a glorified social comp so they should move on, move up or move out.

ACT men with an eye bulging 42 turnovers vs VIC! 136 v 41 the final margin. SA with a solid victory over WA 81 v 60. In VIC v WA in first round the final was 85 v 57. Every game is different and can't read too much into the WA results, what I will say is either team at their best is good enough to win. Let's hope the SA boys can get it done.

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Dickhead look at the SA girls in maitland absolute beauties each and everyone of them, gorgeous looking girls

I hope the SA boys can do it but beating the vics would be the equivalent of The Boomers Beating Team USA... Not the dream team the boomers beating them would have been in an entirely different category again.

Put up a good fight boys and do SA proud against a very strong victorian outfit.

SA had trouble keeping the Vics off the O boards 23 out of 48 total, as well as struggling from 3 (3-14). Creek with 14/30 5/10 3pt 35pts 9 reb 5 as , Drmic with 10/24 5/14 3pt 26pts 5 reb 5 as 4 to. For SA , Hooley had 10/23 0/6 3pt 4/4 ft 25pts 7 reb 4 as 4 to, Spehr 5/10 0/2 3pt 3/4 ft 6 reb 3 as, Carlin 4/10 4/4 ft 8 reb 6 to 2 blk.

Thought SA did a good job forcing a low % 38/97 FG 12/32 3pt but rotations might have been slow and this lead to (along with TO count 10-18) 38 more shot attempts. Hard to beat anyone with those numbers.

Still a realistic chance at bronze, good luck guys.

I take it by you 'Go Vics' comment imnoballer you approve of this state team? As opposed to all the other ones you're criticizing?

Spehr needs more shots. May have something to do with P. Hooley's shot selection.

SA bronze, Vics beat QLD by 7