Anonymous
Years ago

Premier League Power Rankings & POTW Round 5

POTW

1. Jake Rios 45p 6r 2a, 18/27fg and 5/6 3s
2. Alex Starling 28p 19r 4a, 12/21fg
3. Jimma Dau 21p 25r

Any other noteworthy games I am missing?

Power Rankings

1. Southern Tigers (last week: 1)
Kept rolling out at Starplex but fortunate to play them with just one import. Local showdown against South on Wednesday looks to be a good matchup.

2. North Adelaide (2)
Showed their defence is indeed the best in the league holding Sturt to 49 points. Even with Reed playing limited minutes Starling was enough to get it done.

3. Norwood Flames (3)
Handled business at Marion and imports appear to have their roles defined. Veteran crew have hardly put a foot wrong. Match up with North looking to be game of the round on Wednesday.

4. West Adelaide (4)
Struggled past Eastern but a win is a win out at Mt Barker. Continue to get even contributions from a deep squad. Appear to be a different team when Jordsn West plays.

5. Forestville Eagles (6)
Only 1 win out if the top 5 now and DJ now probing all the doubters wrong by playing 35 minutes on the weekend. Short price title favourites now.

6. South Adelaide (5)
Have handled business against teams ranked lower but struggled with the top teams so far. Will be looking to reverse that trend on ANZAC day vs Southern.

7. Woodville (7)
Struggling to find consistency and across the board production. Also unlucky to run into DJ in his first game - would have stood a chance otherwise.

8. Centrals (8)
Playing hard and scrappy but riding a 4 game losing streak now. Need Martin back ASAP.

9. Eastern (10)
Look out League. They may not be fantastic on D but are causing trouble for other teams. Rios is the real deal. Wins are on the horizon...

10. Sturt (9)
This may be slightly unfair as they have played the top 5 teams in this ranking so far but they have lost by 25+ to the top 4 of them. A long way off the mark and you have to wonder if they're a happy team judging by their body language Saturday. Looks to be a one man show but the one man is in the wrong league!

Some big games coming up Wednesday for ANZAC Day

Questions to be answered:

1. Will Riccardo suit for Centrals?
2. CJ Reed, Eian Davis and Ivory Young all played limited minutes on the weekend,did they get hurt and will they suit up Wednesday?
3. Who wins the North vs Norwood battle for 2nd (or higher) in the rankings?
4. Can Eastern break the duck?
5. Which team will have the best crowd for ANZAC Day?

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Anonymous
Years ago

FYI after 5 games, Southerns defensive rating is the best in the league, North currently 3rd.

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Anonymous
Years ago

North held Sturt to less than Southern did. Maybe Southrrn have just played easier teams. I don't think anyone would argue North have the best defence in the league.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Why is North's defence so good? Is it just Starling on defence or do others step up?

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Anonymous
Years ago

Starling and zone.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Is the results website still down? Or you people just refusing to look at it?

According to this post north have the best defence because they held the worst team (according to this post) to 49 points?

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Anonymous
Years ago

685667, no-one is arguing, merely a statement of fact. After 5 games North's defensive rating is 3rd. Southern is #1. About a 9% difference in the two.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Take out the Southern game and North have been very stingy. Southern won the battle of O vs D that game.

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Anonymous
Years ago

You're 100% right. If you only count the games a team wins then there can be no doubt that they are the best.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Whats with everyone playing zones these days, Woodville and South played it nearly exclusively.

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Anonymous
Years ago

From an outsider's perspective it's kind of hard to follow WTF is going on when every team seems to be called North, South, East and West.

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Anonymous
Years ago

There's a south and a southern who are further south. And centrals who aren’t central and are further north then north. #leagueofourown

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Anonymous
Years ago

Who won the battle of underperforming import guards? Nate Garth or CJ Reed?

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Karen
Years ago

i love these posts from a pure comical sense

southern are always "fortunate" or "lucky"
North are always "the best" only loss was "just fell short" (35 points)
West "deep squad"
mavs "wins on the horizon"
norwood "verteran team"

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Anonymous
Years ago

and don't forget Centrals are more north than north!

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Anonymous
Years ago

Tigers have been lucky:

Round 1 - facing Sturt without their import. We know now he sucks but at the time it was reasonable to consider that lucky.

Round 2 - played North still missing players & Reed not yet in shape.

Round 3 - played Eastern in Rios' first game.

Round 5 - played Centrals without their best guy.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Tigers should buy a lottery ticket.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Might be the only way anyone can beat a full strength Eagles.

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Anonymous
Years ago

North defence = communication and trust in that communication

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Laker824
Years ago

Coaching is the key to North's stingy defense, Hawkes not afraid to apply some pressure himself in the halfcourt!

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Anonymous
Years ago

Martin from centrals out for at least another 2 weeks, gonna be tough for them coming up against the top teams. But did a pretty good job against Southern without him. Jimma Dau with 25 rebounds against a huge Southern frontline is incredible given he's 18 or 19 and a rookie.
And can Rios produce 45 every week on efficient shooting to even keep them in touch with other teams, another great individual performance but leak like a sieve inside, Wise rebounds like Lopez from Lakers.
And how long before DJ heads off, must be soon if he's trying to get in game shape and get as many qualifying games as possible.

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Anonymous
Years ago

However many hours there are before the Anzac Day game starts is how long Forestville have DJ for

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Anonymous
Years ago

West have like 7 guys averaging over 7pts per game it's probably a correct call labelling them deep?

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