the giants again disappointing lukosius. with the season on the line.put a fork in them - they"re done.

Speaking of Hancock he has been underwhelming as a NBL DP coming into the league. Either that is a testament to how good the SBL really is perhaps he was a little bit over rated.

Disagree.

I think this is one of the weaker years of SBL.

Take away your Buccs/Tigers and Redbacks (With SR) there is a big gap between the rest.

Armour away?

Where is Armour?
Is Atkinson for Lakeside injured?

Erm. Harrelson returning for Slammers??

No redhage no redbacks!!

Once again. No redhage. No redbacks. Pretty clear right now. Struggling to beat subpar lower end top 8 teams.

I don't know if that is meant to be an insult to the Redbacks by the anons above.. Take the leagues best scorer out of most of the SBL teams and they will probably not be as good.

Especially a team like the Redbacks that don't have a lot of depth at the 4/5 position.

Redbacks cant really afford to drop too many more, you really want to avoid the quarter final match up with Tigers/Buccs.

LAKOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I do not think it is meant to be an insult but it does represent their complete lack of talent pool and coaching considering one players abscence should not mean a team cannot win a game. You are only as good as your last player on the bench. Championship teams survive and win games even when the leading scorer is out.

"You are only as good as your last player on the bench. Championship teams survive and win games even when the leading scorer is out"

Bryce Cotton somewhere just fell off his chair lol. The Cats were killing it before he came in...

It hasn't just been Redhage that has been missing for the redbacks though. Also got to remember Vigor, Mawein, Wagner, Bowen, and Chappel all have missed and all have started a number of games previously. That's a considerable amount of depth lost.

To go down in close games to top 8 teams should actually prove how deep they are, to do so without the (likely) league MVP and 5 other players who have all started earlier in season. Not many other teams would be able to fill that hole.

its a pointless argument , nic knows that this was going to happen and is trying to manage it best he can at the minute.
teams that flirt with this approach are always open to copping some flack and losing ladder positions, which can be costly no doubt.
at the end of the day you have to beat everyone to take the title despite your finishing postion.
is geraldtons home court as feared as it once was?
have suffered a few losses already and most notably against the magic last week. I would be more worried about playing the s/w slammers in bunbury at the minute or wolves at Joondalup.
maybe the SBL should look at changing the finals format to stop sides just falling into the finals due to players coming and going as they wish. maybe a top 6 for men/women.
the womens comp is the same at the moment with willo-

Buccs have 4 losses. 2 of those came against Lakeside and Mandurah at home so either they took those games lightly or they have major weaknesses.

What happened to his coaching gig in Texas Waylen?

It helps their depth a fair bit but I don't think it makes them more than 5-10% better. He doesn't look like he expected to be playing and not in great shape. Still a high IQ player but nothing like he used to be.

exactly Roy ^^

meh Michael Jordan, Kobe rulz!

Some interesting and sad news on Giants facebook page just out now

Sounds like you are commenting without a lot of facts ^

What facts doesnt he have that change his post? Facts or no facts, drink driving is f***ing stupid.

Did he nearly kill people?

After this round (when the combinations are little more user friendly) hopefully Lukosius can do one of his famous "run homes".

Anon798 yes he did, one victim had brain injuries and can never work again

Link to the article is here; https://thewest.com.au/news/kalgoorlie-miner/basketballer-sent-to-jail-over-drunken-car-collision-ng-b88534736z

http://www.goldfieldsgiants.com/team/tierney-miles/

I think it should be noted this happened back in 2015 when he was living in Perth and not involved with the Giants.
Since his return to Kalgoorlie, they have since worked hard with him getting him back on the right path and he's basically turned his life around from what he was becoming.
This judgement is all part of the process and it's unfortunate others were hurt for him to finally see the light.

Eight month sentence is extremely low. WTF

Redbacks $2.50 (With SR)
Tigers $2.80
Buccs $3.50
Wolves $7.00
Slammers $11.00
Hawks $15.00
Cougars $21.00
Senators $25.00
Redbacks $31.00 (w/o SR)

When does Redhage return?

whens malpass and Kelly back and do we have a market for the wsbl?

He played on the w/end hence the two wins...

Who is the best defender in the league?

Great coaching by Lakovic getting the two wins on the weekend.
Whats the secret?

HAHA LAKOHHHHH

Maxwell would be close if not as good

If the Lightning beat the Hawks this weekend (and flames games go the right way)... would the Tigers consider resting players so that they play the Lightning instead of the Hawks in the first round of the playoffs? Or would they even need to rest any, is Armour away?

of course you would rather face the Lightning than the Hawks. Hawks have been rolling pretty well since they have had a full squad. A hiccup against Mandurah aside they have been playing good basketball. They are an 8th seed many wouldnt want to come up against.

It is quite clearly explained above though that both Lakeside and Hawks cannot make the finals. There is only one spot in the 8 still up for grabs.

Apologies misread what you were saying... forget the above comment.

Hawks to finish 8th again...
No way!

In saying that agree 100% they are a very tough 8th match up if that eventuates.

How good are this week games going to be!

Senators V Tigers
Hawks V Slammers
Senators V Buccs
Tigers V Wolves
Cougars v Buccs

What about the performance from Shervill and Padgett on Friday night. 65 points and 30 rebounds between them.

Shervill has to be on some NBL radars?

He's going to D2 college.

Read on SBL article that Shervill had a college scholarship.

Slammers are done.

No Tre this weekend, Ty back to the States, Durnin and Douglas gone for the season. Their line up this weekend will not be feared

Lay
Puot
England
Voelkel
Weeden

With complete no names on the bench. They will finish 8th, Perry Lakes 7th

Lol that Slammers team is still potent. Lay has been an absolute monster for them this season. Dont count them out now. They still have enough to win every game they have left.

Where is Tre?

WTF is it with SBL. Players are constantly leaving or returning to teams. Talk about disjointed.

"What's with the SBL?"
It's a semi pro league that takes to long to get through. People have other things to do while the season is still going! Like going to college, preseason nbl, the next job etc etc

Nichols was attending one of the dozen camps run in Las Vegas during summer league. Don't confuse it with Summer League, it's just something agents do bringing players together to play games after more games trying to get "exposure". He'll be back soon enough.

SBL needs to reduce in length then. I believe SEABL are for next year.

Not enough, they don't have enough height to contend with the best

Reduce the length = more back to backs.

Also means either double headers in Gero and Kal or triple headers for those teams.

The one this teams don't want, are back to backs.

Keyboard administrators..

Wow at Anon #278 thinking reduced season = still the same no. of games. Facepalm.

If they reduce the season why would the GF go from one game to a three game series? Another classic comment!

That is true but the league is greedy sadly.

Only the Buccs stadium and its still only just over half the Bendat capacity. But the last few grand finals havent been complete sell outs anyway.

The main issue with a 3 game final etc is the regional teams and how that is managed.

Access to hudl? What does that cost?

$25K? To me looking around I see $0 spent by the league. Apart from refs.

$0 spent by the league? I firmly believe they could a lot more without much more $ spending but cmon now, you are being a bit dramatic mate.

SBL website hosting, maintenance
SBL media articles by Pike
HUDL use
Ref payments
Weekly flights for 3 refs + a coordinator to Kal and Gero
SportsTG statistics production
Admin staff and office costs

Statistics that are jumbled up...

Were you at the game? How was the young kid Vogel?

Anyone know the extent of Mully's knee injury last night @ Belmont?

Early reports suggest ACL.

Gotta feel for him and the Magic program if it is that serious.

Playoffs picture at this point:

1 - Tigers : Guaranteed top spot as H2H they def. Wolves
2 - Buccs or Wolves: if the Buccs win today and next week, they're auto 2nd. if the Buccs drop a game, and the Wolves lose next week, they're still 2nd. Wolves can only finish second if Buccs lose both games and Wolves def Slammers.
3 - Buccs or Wolves : see above
4, 5, 6, 7 - Redbacks, Slammers, Cougars or Senators : Any of these teams could finish 4 through 7 if I calculate correct. A Win for Redbacks next week v Eagles would guarantee 4th. After that it gets really tricky should there be a 3 or 4 way tie. Cougars def Stirling twice, Stirling def SW twice, SW def Cockburn twice.... so of figure that. Cougars will make it easy by losing today.
8 - Hawks or Flames : Lightning are out. Should Hawks lose next week and Flames win, whatever the margin, Flames are through as 8th as they have the jump on hawks via H2H.

Lightnings season is over as they lose H2H to Hawks and have lost both times to the Flames.

Thats how I read it anyway :)

WOLFPACK

Are Perry Lakes the biggest flop of the year?
With the big pre-season hype, star studded line up and the constant media attention (surely they have had more articles written about them on the SBL website than any other team?) I say YES!

Losing to SW without Tre then getting beaten by Lakeside.... what a joke. #pretenders

Hawks are consistent.

2014 -10th
2015 - 8th
2016 - 8th
2017 - 8th or 9th

Hawks have a lot better chance of impacting finals than the Flames.
So hope they make 8th.

Parsons being found out. No good vets around the team to keep them focused.

Heard Parsons was reported at the end of the Lakeside game

Parsons is a very good coach!
Dont worry about that.

I guess someone didnt watch the Hawks games this weekend.

SW game was a joke. The Hawks were in the penalty for close to 50% of the game on Friday. The refs were atrocious. You cant win games when your team is sending the opposition to the line 29 times.

The Lakeside game wasnt great, but they did make a massive run to almost win. An interesting non call on the final play of the game could have a huge bearing on the playoffs. Adekponya probably should have been shooting Fts to win that game.

Hawks playing group has some issue and holes that need to be addressed in the offseason. They lack leadership on the court, They lack composure under pressure, They have a couple of players that arent mentally tough. They need to change it up. They certainly need some veteans to provide the on court leadership that isnt coming from within the group. They need to learn how to deal with adversity. They need to trust that the systems in place will get them the results they desire.

The Hawks coaches and board have known from very early in the season about the issues. They know that there will need to be sweeping changes and hard decisions made. They know that this isnt a quick fix. Everyone involved with the Hawks organisation is going to be patient and let the group evolve.

Its almost like a whole section of this forum thread dont actually watch games. A lot of comments on issues they cant understand from looking at a box score.

Saw the Hawks Lakeside game. The final Adekponya drive and no call was the CORRECT call. Defender was vertical and straight up.

Calling timeout in case the layup went in... to advance the ball. Coaching 101

anyone seen the video yet? To add to the Hawks Lightning controversy, a lot of talk that a 3 pointer from OSullivan in last quarter was signaled 3 by refs but only counted as a 2 by the score bench?

Video shows Adekponya jumping into a defender that is vertical. Obviously the call can go either way depending on movement of both players but it looks like a no call to be honest.

But given the way the game was called to that point in the last 5 mins you can understand Parsons being pissed.

Can't comment on the 3 being recorded as a 2 - didn't see it

You would be nervous to be Perry lakes this week.

You can lock 8th spot but games dont come much harder (Buccs in Geraldton) even if they havent been in the greatest form.

Flames V Giants is a coin flipper.

Anonymous "Not sure what kind of knowledge you have to go about saying Hawks are the biggest flop of the year?"

Maybe the fact they have two imports plus Adekponya, the so called “best defender in the league” in Purser and the 2 x coach of the year...
Finishing 8th by the skin of their teeth is a flop!

How does the video confirm the score bench recorded it as a 2? The scoreboard not shown on video until timeouts or half time.

Annnnnnd Sully hit his threes in the fourth, when Lakeside had no hope of winning by 20 or whatever anymore.

See SBL website - Parsons to front the tribunal.

anonymous 675, OSullivan hit the disputed 3 pointer when he came on at about 8 min to go last qtr, this was the disputed shot recorded by bench as a 2 pointer (live stats had it as 3 pts, but had to change it later to be inline with score bench) and hawks were down by 22 points prior to the shot. he hit another 3 x 3 pointers after that.

so what happens then if its clearly a mistake by the score bench? If you can see it on the video and it doesnt match what happens? Has this type of thing happened before? Surely this is a major issue as it has potential playoff implications for the Hawks.

Take your word for it, the bench must have made a mistake then! Nobody in the crowd noticed that one

Perry Lakes can protest the result which I assume they will, but it needs to be proven on both sides that the error was deliberate. If it is simple human error (and nobody wants to think that the Lakeside bench have cheated) IMO its unlikely the result will be overturned. I cant recall a result ever being changed in the week after because of a scoring error, feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
Likely result will be Lakeside's win will stand, it will be interesting to see what comes of Parsons' tribunal result and this weeks games.

If the scoring error is correct Parsons will be dealt with leniently. Needing to win in Geraldton to make the playoffs a suspension would be harsh

if Perry Lakes just lay down and cop the scoring mistake then they deserve to not make finals. If ever there was a time to kick up a fuss this would be it. The result directly impacts their playoff chances. Going to be an interesting few days.

Its likely a 50/50 call.
It wont go anywhere.

Refs miss a heap of calls each game, human error, what can you do!

Be good to no

Why were they down by about 20 late in the game against 10th place Lakeside?

cos Lakeside had scored "about" 20 points more than them at that stage, give or take a point!

They wouldn't discuss those issues, they would just talk about how good redbacka are this year.

So... the Purser family, sorry I meant to say the Hawks fans, seem a little salty today.

If Hawks don't make finals, it's a Fail.

Adekponya, 2x imports and a top 10 Australian in our league. + 2x COTY.

It was a no call, Adekponya creates the contact. and the defender goes straight up. YES, th is defender brings his arms down to about a 30 degree angle, but makes NO contact with the arms, and the ball is clearly blocked.

Damage of property, albeit his own, isn't a good look, and neither is a spectator getting hit by it. Accidental or not, the U20s head coach and previous COTY should be held accountable. I don't care if Perry Lakes does represent 70% of our leagues GDP.

lol this is laughable. Perry Lakes had a period of 6-7 weeks when they had no one avail through injury. They were starting a 16 yr old kid for periods. They had 7 out of their rotation out with injury or away. Lets get some perspective here. They win one more of those games and they are a finals team. They win 2 and they may be a top 4 team.

They were playing so poorly against Lakeside they started that 16 year old kid again in the second half... with a full team available. Searching...

The best ability is availability. Excuses are worthless come finals time.

technical fouls handed out to perry lakes wsbl coach on weekend vs lightning. tech fouls handed out to div 1 womens perry lakes coach on weekend.

Annon 768
lol this is laughable. Perry Lakes had a period of 6-7 weeks when they had no one avail through injury. They were starting a 16 yr old kid for periods. They had 7 out of their rotation out with injury or away. Lets get some perspective here. They win one more of those games and they are a finals team. They win 2 and they may be a top 4 team.

Yeah and if my Auntie had a set of you know what she would be my Uncle.

Campbell made the right call. The guy who got teched out is subpar anyway. Was block 3 times by Gavin Field without even leaving the ground. He makes little to no difference to the Buccs team. They were outplayed from start to finish.

I think he means Clarke and McDonald who were both 17. Both young. Hamish Warden also started a game or two and hes also 17. They had injuries in that middle part of the season which forced them to blood the young players. They will improve next year. The program is on the up. Needs some off season tuning, but its not all bad.

That's scary he reckons...
looks like the same team this year with an older Carlwell, an older Cassir, an older Purser. Adekponya is a virus, doesn't care about the team, much rather visit Brazil and Hawaii for the gram than honour his contract...

Tonight the SBL lost all credibility. Parsons off with a suspended sentence. Out of touch tribunal.

He is the reigning JG Coach of the Year

And he is the coach of the Hawks..

Is anyone surprised he is free to coach the HAWKS in a must win game?

8 weeks suspended sentence isnt anything to sneeze at. Thats a big term to serve if he has another issue arise. Its not like he beat someone up. He got frustrated and used bad language towards a ref. He smashed a clipboard. 8 weeks suspended for that is a pretty big punishment. Im Not sure what everyone was expecting but a suspended sentence was always gong to be the outcome.

Bigger issue is how the Hawks got cheated out of a point that would have at least put hem into OT with a chance to win and make a playoff appearance. That single mistake may end up being the difference in their season.

The real winner is Basketball

Clearly new to basketball or haven't put on a referee shirt...a dead ball isn't the time to explain a decision. All coaches are briefed on this pre-season. Games don't move forward when coaches like Ettridge and Parsons continuously question the referees. Literally every possession. The argument of referees ruining the game is old and to be honest quite redundant.

Let's let this one slide and concentrate on what a tantalising Finals series we have in front of us.

Assuming Tigers Wolves, Buccs and Redbacks all make it through (as we've identified them as the real contenders), Semis would be
Tigers v Redbacks and Wolves v Buccs.

GF scenarios:

Tigers v Wolves
Redbacks v Wolves
Tigers v Buccs
Redbacks v Buccs

I think the Tigers Buccs game is the only one that has the potential to blow out dramatically.

In terms of crowd sizes, you'd have to say Geraldton would bring the most people, Wolves second?

craig Friday thrown out of game as well on weekend. coach of the year as well.

Cant see anyone beating Redbacks.
Nor should they!
Surely Lacko cant mess this up!!

any discussion on awards 1- game left to determine the result.

Redhage should be the MVP but probably won't due to missing some games. Benjamin would get my vote

Coach of the year... Black

Most improved.. Shervill and its not even close

"In terms of crowd sizes, you'd have to say Geraldton would bring the most people, Wolves second?"

Are Wolves in their new stadium yet?

Can Wolves still finish first?

Wouldn't mind a Lako vs Wolves final for my own personal amusement (Wolves fan).

I don't think he counts, as a returning college player.

Easther has developed well as a ref. Doesn't ref with the ego of some of the others and willing to explain his calls with confidence

Voelkel probably has a stronger case for POW than Cummings

Can someone confirm if Cummings is eligible for Most Improved??

Even if they were both eligible, it would still be tight with:

Shervill averaging 16, 7 and 1.5

Cummings averaging 16, 4 and 3

Shervill hasn't been a starter all year. If he had would probably look more like 20/7

Should be 48min game.
Voelkel gets a 20/20/20 triple double.
Cummins has chance to go for 50!

I think they would want to give themselves every chance to get 2nd, home court over the Wolves would be huge come semi final time.
Although a heavy favourite Wolves v Slammers is not a certainty.
Especially with a Slammers win will guarantee them 4th spot!

"Should be 48min game.
Voelkel gets a 20/20/20 triple double.
Cummins has chance to go for 50!"

It's because the SBL is terrible this year these players are numbers like this. Average imports, only one NBL player (and an average one at that), plus the best player in the league is a retired veteran.

Yeah I agree with that.
League is weakest it has been for some time.

Only team that is better this year then last year is Tigers, Slammers and Perth (due to Redhage).

Redhage, Drew, Ellis, Wroe, Vague, Bragg

D League Naymick

Turner

Davis

Slammers duo

Benjamin (PAC12 champion)

Billups

Cmon. It isn't weak at all.

Anyone can win from 1-6 this year.

It is damn impressive the wolves have managed to finish second. With really only 1 import

Are the hawks doing anything about the points mishap at lakeside? Or is it over and moved on already

No If Redbacks win. Slammers Win. Cougars win.

Slammers go 4th on head to head 3-way tie

Hawks can't do anything about the points mishap. They filed a protest but in the by laws unless it's brought to the attention with 5 play phases they can't change it. I think they tried but couldn't do anything. It's dodgy. Doesn't help when the live stats were correct and later changed to match the score card. Hawks got a rough one there, but they just have to move on and try and win on Saturday.

Wonder who Hawks blame for tonight's loss?! Never their own fault

can guarantee you they won't even care. They got through and that's all that matters.

Doesn't matter where I watched the game from.. but I did watch!

Chalk this one up to the walking ego, Kyle Easther, for a phantom call with 3 seconds left prior to the inbound. Contact (or lack of) that would occur every second possession. Day light robbery for the hawks. Lucky for them other results went their way. The reffing this year has been some of the worst I can remember and I've watched basketball at this level for 20 years ...

^ what's your point? The stream is available on the buccs facebook page... draw your own conclusion.

^ That's the most uniformed comment ive read on this forum.. which says a lot because 95% of this forum is trash from people with no idea.

Again, watch the video of the last play and then comment.

Lol talk about anti climatic. I'm still struggling to see where the unsportsmanlike foul was

It was a regular foul call but because it was before the inbound and in the last 2 mins its an automatic unsportsmanlike. Whether there was holding or not Benjamin clearly isnt impeded. I would feel robbed if I were PL.

Perry Lakes looked like they had a fair bit of experience on their team. Almost all had played decent minutes for the MSBL side this season.

Mandurah women win ! they nearly blew an 18 pt 3/4 lead. there whole team u-21 clearly the better side. 16 yo jemma gatti niece of legend Andrew vlahov outstanding in the win.

Mandurah women win ! they nearly blew an 18 pt 3/4 lead. there whole team u-21 clearly the better side. 16 yo jemma gatti niece of legend Andrew vlahov outstanding in the win.

Decent turnout to the Div 1 final too, more than a women's WSBL GF. Also saw lots of imports out at the game, Kevin Davis, Emilee Harmon, Carly Boag, Brian Carlwell. All getting around their teams. Good games to watch, maybe should be a precursor to next years games.

Joondalup without Seb Salinas game 2 and 3 of the quarter finals. Apparently School boys or something of the sort.

"Apparently School boys or something of the sort."

What?

can someone verify for me that all the stats awards are completed ? do they keep going thru to the finals. for example does chastity reed win the scoring ave.- but she wont play finals. or can someone beat her who is involved in finals eg Stacey barr

Statistical awards are all regular season. The finals will not count.

Surely SBL playoffs are more important than junior coaching? What a casual "fly in fly out" league this is!

Redbacks $1.80
Tigers $3.85
Wolves $6.50
Buccs $9.00
Slammers $11.00
Cougars $15.00
Hawks $19.00
Senators $31.00
Redbacks $51.00 (Without Redhage)

I would take the Tigers at those odds.

Why have odds without Redhage? Is he not playing?

Slammers odds without Voelkel $1001.00

Yeah Salinas is coaching schoolboys.

Mike Ellis listed as coach, Salinas as assistant Coach on schoolsportwa website for 18s coach.

http://www.schoolsportwa.com.au/interstate/basketball/

Does head to head not matter anymore? Kalamunda women finish ahead of Slammers women despite not having the head to head. One win each but Slammers winning by 30+ and Suns winning by 6 or so.

MVP, MIP And COY???

WOW+LOL @ thinking head to head seeding occurs if you don't make playoffs. The only point of adjusted positions for seeding is to be, well, "seeded" if you made the postseason tournament, not if you're out of it. Bwahahaha!

MENS AWARDS

MVP- DWAYNE BENJAMIN
MIP- COREY SHERVILL
COY- NIK LAKOVICH

WOMENS AWARDS

MVP- CARLY BOAG
MIP- CHELSEA BELCHER
COY- GLENN CLARKE.

LAKOHHHHHH!

COY Lakovich - Classic!!!!

lol how does Lako win COY. FOH Black is a sure thing

Did Lako really win COY or was it April Fools Day four months late?

To finals come into account for COY?

*Do

No

There is no way Wellsteed will win MIP over Shervill.

Welsteed Averages- 5, 3 and 2, shooting 35%FG, 23%3PT, 49%FT
With Averages last year of- 3, 2 and 1


Shervill Averages- 16, 7 and 1.5, shooting 46%FG, 37%3PT, 79%FT
With Averages last year of- 5, 3 and 1

Did Marshall play SBL last year?

Nelson hasn't played enough games to come into the equation compared to others like Shervill

Ha ha Nener COY Cockburn would have finished a lot higher with a decent coach. Always starts with 3 guards, even if the other team has 3 big players To busy chatting refs to coach.

Black has to be a shoe in for COY. He has taken a talented side and gelled them well enough to be top of the ladder. Lacko has simply had Redhage injected and without him, they have struggled. Black has coached Tigers without some studs at times and they have still won games.

** Nener starts three guards comment** he's doing what he thinks makes match up issues for opposing teams, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but the boys trust the system and they now have probably the best match up out of the finals run. They play Joondalup who are nowhere near as good as they have been in the past. Yes they are still in second but that are by no standard where they were a year ago.

Cougars will win that series and avoid Redbacks, Willo, Bunbury and Perry Lakes in second rounds.

Yep & Tigers lost to Lakeside!!

What do you think would happen if Tigers played Lakeside & Cougars played Suns in a final this week.
Would be 20+pt wins for Tigers and Cougars.

Last round for the contending teams is all about management and reducing minutes/injuries, of course players are there to win, but the intent is not what it would be with something on the line, why risk injuries when clearly there is a bigger picture.

Matt Nielsen to coach the Lakeside Lightning next year. Confirmed from reliable sources.

WOLFPACK baby let's go

Apparently the Pack didn't fare too well against the Cougar who prefers to Hunt Alone in 2016. When all odds are stacked against them, the Cougar strikes. The lonely cougar who chooses to do things in their own way, rather than just follow the pack.
The Cougar seemed to have the entire pack by the jugular and never let go in 2016. Ripping the throat and voice and apparently the ability to shake hands right out from the pack. They never saw it coming.


#GREENBLOOD :P

Cougars are going to get cock burn-ed

#WOLFPACK

:P

East Perth have been a weird team all year so that does not surprise. Kevin Davis coming off the bench most of the year??!?!

You could say the Cougars have been Cock Burn-ed from the pounding they gave the Wolves in last years grand final :P

#BLOODISREDYOUIDIOTS

anyone think that there could be some upsets in first round of MSBL?

slammers have the potential to steal a games as do the senators. I see the upset coming with stirling. they are big/mobile , will bother the buccs.

Stirling don't have the guard play.

Jay Bowie a late out for tonight could change the complexion of the game.

Redbacks.

Wolfpack cock-burned those Cougars.

Hawks were exceptional. For a team that just scraped into the finals they looked like the No.1 seed. They were better prepared and they worked harder than the Tigers. Parson showed why he's a 2x COY.

Mike Lay has been one of the stories of the season. Out of the game for 3 years not touching a basketball, comes back in and has shown up in big time games

Lay has been phenomenal.

Great wins for Slammer and Hawks
Where is Adekponya?
Cougars only down by 3 in last minutes Could have got there. Chan out with an ankle and back next week
Seb out next week Can Cougars win both games.

Tigers had zero offence last night. Hawks scrabbled really well to get out to the 3 ball and force turnovers, where's as the Tigers were slow. I actually think Adekponya disrupts the Hawks flow when he's on the court. Feel free to disagree with me.

Good win Wolfpack, you looked hot.

Who is everyone's pick for the title? Men and Women

Slammers for MSBL, Voelkel to put up triple double on grand final night
Lakeside for WSBL, Lord their Father to bless them with their 2nd championship

I also think Geraldton

Lakeside for WSBL, Lord their Father to bless them with their 2nd championship

Big win for Undermanned Hawks over Tigers!

Does Lackovic get a new contract if he is eliminated in the quarter finals with a team that should be winning it all???

can the willeton tigers women bounce back and win this w-end or not ? see sam norwood played I wouldn't have thought she was able to qualify with enough games ? injury list ? big time player who has snuck under the radar. wolves women last years minor premiers can they bounce back as well- both last years g/finalists under the pump.

This is Lakos last season regardless. He doesn't have anymore financial backing. He has already said he's going. They are also going out in the first round.

Tigers 8th in 2008, knocked off....you guessed it Hawks (1st).

Man, Lako keeps delivering even with a $$$ stacked lineup. You have to give it to the man - no matter what situation he is in he delivers material for us.

whats the gos on Parker being reported?

Hope the Redbacks lose by 20 in Eaton, have a feeling they will get both games this weekend

Ah yes, the ref was the one that made them make a total fool of themselves