As always Jack Toft a great report!

I don't think DJ will be back for another few games. When he is finally in the team it will be hard for any team to beat them! I think South will win this game with Creek shutting down Tucker.

In the North vs West game, if neither Rhys or Jeff play I think North will win it. They pushed South all the way last week and should get the win this week.

For those interested the Head coach for South, Tony Casella will be on Coast FM (88.7) tonight at about 7:15 to talk about the season so far and the under 20's state team.

South men's cheer squad whell get them over the line

Can someone please tell me how long an ABL game goes for? and can you buy alchol @ the Hillcrest stadium? Im keen to see my first game @ a rockets game.

Yes there is a bar

Terrible write up mate, sum of the stuff u say is just stupid!! get down and actually watch a few games jack

anon if you think you can write better then go for it. If you can't then just shut up

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Your literary skills are amazing!
As King James said "you can't, so shut up.
Great work again Jack

'A-Nong' posted "Terrible write up mate, sum of the stuff u say is just stupid!! get down and actually watch a few games jack"

How adding to the thread by discussing the comments you take issue with, rather than just sledge from hyper-anonymity?

FYI - I don't think Tess will receive a bad reception at Siberia North tonight, but we'll just have to wait and see.

Womens winners:
Sat night
Nwd (51-60))
West (11-20)
Sthern (11-20)
Sturt (41-50)
Feagles (21-30)
Sun arvo:
Tigers (11-20)
Flames (31-40)

Agree/Disagree?

Looks like DJ is playing tonight

South Adelaide men went down by 15 to Forestville (95-80 I think it was).

Reffing was pretty inconsistent all game, with South on the receiving end of some tough calls.
Tucker looked to have a pretty quiet game, but came through in key moments for the Eagles (stats show he had a good game though)

Clarky we must have been watching different games..

Nearly time to put the screens around the Lady Mavs and put them out of their misery.

I cant even remember the Lionesses ever being this bad.

5 points in a half!!!

Westies racked up another double at North last night,both Women and Men have a W ,one each.Each had an away Win.
North lost both times ,each a L for both Men and women team.AT HOME the men and Women @ lost.
I hope I am clear in what Im saying........

Anon...no doubt about that at all....

Eagles deserved to win in the mens game as they put in more effort throughout the whole game and their pressure helped to force South to have 10 more turnovers. With it being DJ's first game south looked a bit out of sync having him in the team but I'm sure they will quickly adjust. Tmac and Isaiah in the first two games averaged a combined 40 points in this game they combined for 5 points.

South looked like at any point in the match they could get the score within a few points but it just wasn't there night which was helped by the two refs in this game whom were absolutely pathetic! Now I understand there will be a few home court calls but to be completely biased was rediculous. There was no consistency in this game whatsoever. It was like they didn't want to make any calls that would upset the Eagles bench and fans. Seriously why should someone as talented as DJ play in our local leagues when he continues to get hit and gets no calls, "Sorry you are 7 foot and a sixer so its unfair so we will only call a couple of calls when they foul you".

In the 4th the umpires tried to do a make up quarter by giving South the advantage on the calls (still no calls for DJ tho) and there was an amazing call which I have never seen happen in a game before. Tucker had the ball in the post and creek knocked it out of his hand so they both went after the ball near the sideline, Tucker was the first to grab it but creek dived to get the ball but missed and ended up taking tuckers legs out Tucker then fell out of bounds with the ball. For a few moments the umpire just stood there not knowing what to call showing his incompetence. It was clearly a foul on Creek IMO. The only other option is it is a South ball if he felt there was no contact and Tucker lost his balance. However instead the Umpire just said it was an Eagles ball. It is not under 10's basketball you can't just call what you think is fair with something that is so blatantly obvious! To make up for that the very next play that eagles had the ball on offense and the ball clearly went off south and this same umpire gave the ball to South.

After watching Tucker last night it is clear that he has the talent to play in the NBL as an import however it was also clear as to why no coach wants him and thats because he still trys to act gangster instead of actually playing the game. Its a shame as he would have been much better then all the imports the sixers had this season.

Not looking good for the North Men... 0-3 with Norwood, Sturt and Eastern in the next three.

Norwood men over centrals by 30+ at the starplex... Good team win by the flames... Norwood owned the boards as expected... Can't tell if Norwood is that good or if Centrals is that bad, probs a combo of both... Norwood will make finals and centrals coach will be job hunting

Lucky whitmore works for an employment agency then isn't it. Should not find it too hard

Crows Fan...this norwood team is pretty much the same team that won the championship 2 seasons ago, and pushed deep into finals last year....yet you cant tell if they are good or not?

time to go back to the footy.

@the answer I was trying to be a bit nice regarding centrals but yeah they are tough and centrals are a div 2 team... I do think that the Carlin kid has potential tho and is a bright spot... And as far as I kno 2 years ago Hambour didnt play for norwood but what do I kno

@Hg, good i'm glad to hear about his job but I thought this was hoops, careers....

***not careers

Can see trouble coming at South. With DJ and Creek taking 40 minutes per game in 2 slots, no time left for most of the guys who have been doing the job, sharing the ball to find the open man. Becomes a 2 man show with 9 guys watching two 36ers play. Anyone who does happen to get the ball will probably put up a shot regardless because it might be weeks before they see another one. Expect to see quite a few wonder why they are spending Saturday night getting splinters for a couple of pieces of pizza. Could see 9 new players at South again next year.

Vesta 91, I don't think that is a problem at all. It is the same at Sturt and Eastern. In fact I think it benefits these players more as they will only get better playing and training against Creek and DJ. Also South's shooters would be even more confident to shoot it knowing DJ is in there. South has a great coach and will make sure team basketball is played.

There is no way Eastern women will beat South or Woodville. They will be 0-18 at season's end. It's a record reflective of the club and their poor decision-making.

One difference with Eastern and Sturt is that the players are not imports (except for Bruce who is a point guard any way) and therefore have played with the guys for years in some cases. When the sixers don't re-sign Creek and Johnson (let's look at Newley and Ingles for a heads up) they will both be gone. On Saturday the key became a black hole from which the ball would only emerge in Forrestville hands. Guys who had previously moved the ball around for good shots were left open while DJ was double and triple teamed because it was obvious he had no intention of passing the ball to anyone. It has always intrigued me that basketball coaches think that being training fodder and a spectator is player development. Of course the coaches will say make the most of your opportunity but when that opportunity is a minute or two of junk time even if you score/rebound /block/defend it means nothing. Perhaps the post match curry is good after all.

Gets back to the scoreboard mentality that seems a bit too prevalent in SA - the high shooters get the spotlight and often bad jackup percentages and TOs get overlooked in the glory meted out to top scorers. A team and its morale can't flourish when selfish, showy play is fostered by a coach and the development of the team as a stronger unit with options suffers. Give me an honest, unselfish role player with a good IQ any day.

Not sayin this is what happened at the South game at all, just sayin!!!

Disclosure: Last anon and Vesta 91 = same IP.

How have South disintegrated, they are 2 and 1 after 3 games? Mitch has played all three games but hasn't had too many opportunities to train and DJ just got back from holidays so i'm assuming he may have been to one training, so the more these guys play together and learn the system the better they will get.
Yes they may not be available for the whole season, but having two players of their calibre join your team is important not only for the club but for the other players.
Are Sturt going to say no to Jacob or Darren for nt playing the whole season, or Eastern with Madgen and maybe Bruce? I remember Forestville and North taking on Pero for half the season and when he was with Forestville he left 2 games before finals started.
Norwood flew Todd Matthews in every other week 2 years ago and West did the same thing with Truslove when he was still in NZ. It's funny how people have very short memories...

You'd think they were 0-3!

I think last year everyone complained that the Sixers players didn't hang around and play locally and now they complain that they are playing locally!
Supporters are very fickle people...

No haters at Norwood. 3-0 both teams. Nothing to hate. Except no beer at games.

Pfft, have you seen the women's assistant coach? Trust me, haters will follow soon enough.

South's next game is against Tigers and then against Woodville. So they will more then likely be 4-1 after those games.

God help us all if the Norwood women's assistant ever becomes head coach in this league again.

Can anyone tell me why David Humphries is not playing for Centrals

Anon - want to name the 3 players - then you can be told why they left...but of course hide behind anon and just throw wild accusations around, thats the style around here.

Gladstone - journey player - North is at least her 3rd club...

Olsen - never even got a gig last season at Norwood

Smart - yeah may have not been happy, but also didnt like taking responsibility when she did the wrong thing

further to Dave Humphries he is the same boat as Hooley and Spehr this is their gap year (garduated year 12 in 2009) and if they play ABL or u/23 they will forfit a year of NCAA eligibility. new rule that came out early this year.

NCAA rule not basketball australia, same reason young new recruit at mt gambier is sitting out seabl season.

Would they still be able to train with the Senior teams?

I think those three at Norwood were victims of the U23 competition & the demise of ABL reserves.

Agree ANON
Victims of the new systems

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Some would see this as evening up the competition? to give other teams some of the spare players the better clubs couldn't use.

seems all 3 transfers made way for more junior players

Yeah, more juniors like Kelsey Ireland and Nadeen Payne.

Or do you mean Jess Foley, Kate Sherlaw and Rachel Herrick.

Sorry my mistake, you mean Zara Olikans, Jess Hansberry and Amanda Williams.

Oh and competition committee.

Funny that clubs like Woodville, Centrals, Eastern and North have members on the competition committee, and are using their position at BSA to benefit their clubs rather than making decisions that can be seen to be fair and even for the the greater good of the sport.

Ceres 50 please list those decisions you talk about . Remembering that this committee decides on stuff that BSA is keen to dodge.

A philosophy that players should move clubs to "even out the competition".

ie a movement to restrict double div 2, where teams of better players are demoted to div 3. Under the assumption that they will move clubs rather than leave the sport all together.

Yes

I am suggesting that ABA level results has nothing to do with junior results. Its not like they come out and watch the games anyway. If anything, having a philosophy of promoting juniors rather than recruiting over them encourages juniors to stay, not leave.

How does recruiting over the top of current juniors, entice any junior to stay at your club? Lok at those clubs that try and recruit every year. How are their junior prorgams going? Those same clubs are the ones who say that they cant afford and full time JDO. And so the cycle continues year on year out.

There is no quick fix, just a quick cover that comes undone once the money runs out. And a different set of committee members comes in and changes the direction every 3 years.

Ceres, how many juniors would aspire to play ABL for your club if the team gets belted because it plays juniors who aren't of ABL standard.

ABL is the highest level of basketball in the state - it's not "come and try" life be in it.

Pickles,

How many of your juniors would even know how your ABA team went last year anyway?

Crowds were quite good actually. Certainly better than centrals, west and woodville. Could have been far worse.

Thanks for that useful, thought-provoking comment. Did you watch all the games I did. IMHO, the crowds were quite good.

But how many juniors would remember where the team finished?

Or decideded to move due to their performance?

I would suggest none.

And that they would actually want to stay if they did poorly as they would see, and rightly so, that they will have an opportunity to progress quickly into an ABA team.

ie a bad ABA team would maintain juniors if anything.

Last seasons performance was adequate for the personnel. I think the juniors watching last season would've found my teams efforts encouraging.

This was a discussion about Norwood and it's coaches. Norwood juniors would be sticking around after this seasons start.

But some have slready quit or moved.

And under the current sytem in place, the U18 wont be much of a chance to play in the conceovable future, why would they stay around?

Can't you two just catch up for coffee to come to some agreement :)

Everybody love everybody come on

Why are people so unkind?

Why can't we be friends,
Why can't we be friends?

I don't think it's anything personal, just agree to disagree.