Norwood will comfortably keep Sturt winless.
North will beat Centrals.
West will get the Warriors.
Eagles to bring South back to reality.
Gambier to handle Southern again.

North will go 2-0 this weekend and leave the Warriors 0-2 for the double header.
Gambier should handle a fresh Eastern backing up on Sunday and have a 2-0 weekend themselves.

Whitmore outcoached.

In what world would you have Meldrum (point guard) guarding Jefferson (power forward) in the post????

He scored on Riley in the post once maybe twice , by the time they tried Riley on him he had over 20

West played well , Blake the difference , Kubank 2 big 3s in the 4th

Whitmore outcoached???? In other breaking news the sun is going to rise tomorrow!

Rockets lit up Centrals zone and held them to under 80. They looked more cohesive tonight. Hope they keep it up.
Dau was tough though, took it at Starling, Dowdell and McVeigh.

Good to see two more huge nights from young stars Nik Desantis and Jordy Wilson.

93 points counts as "lighting it up"?

Wowee

West V Woodviille was a cracker. Front courts of Jefferson and Truslove vs Maoriana and Perry went at it all night. Jefferson has elite body control. Meldrum played well but wasn't enough. Thomas and Kubank proving their worth by assasinating Woodville in the 4th.

Just looking at the box score Southern men out scored Mount Gambier 38-12 in the last. Anyone see what happened?

Looks as though both teams were missing players too.

Drmic is out for the season having foot surgery. Cheque books out for a replacement. DJ said no.

They definately punished Centrals zone inside and out.

Fair enough. That is significantly better than their league-tying worst 3p% of 27%.

How can the cheque books be out to replace Drmic. BSA debt was paid with a interest free loan of $30K by a cashed up 'parent' to stop the club being shut down. They still have debts and already burdoned families with $66 fundraising levy and threatened players they couldn’t play if they didn’t pay it, then raised fees dramatically and juniors have to commit to sell chocolates and do BBQs to fundraise and there is probably more to come. Denied premier league was the issue and said it was parents not paying that is the problem. If they pay for another player it won’t go down well for sure.

Already spoke with DJ so it ain't being done on the cheap!

Depends if dj is getting played per game, only 5 wouldn't be too much.
And when is wests new import coming?

12/32 triples from Southern and 3/14 from Pioneers is what happened

Bloke couldn't say yes if he wanted to

Another Tom Daly choke is what happened

Bagging out Australian players who have a proven track record in SEABL in a team down a player against a team with a recent starter in the NBL, players from his former club and a highly respected import in a familiar championship team in a comp they also are familiar with while Toms team is settling in and been showing great signs for a regional team at a home game for the Championship team. Hardly think thats choking. You clearly have a beef with him from the past. Stick to the present. 36 points vs 9 in 3's. Thats the difference. Nothing more and definitely not on Toms head. Its a tram game and he has won plenty of awards and Championships in SEABL. Let go of that one game years ago where mistakes were made and reflect on whats happened since and the same for all the other players and teams you support because every chance they too have made mistakes, and moved on to do well and people have let their mistakes go.

Sorry Mr Daly

Drmic did not play mate.

So much for the Rockets dropping two games this weekend Mr prediction.

Well done Mavs
Same story different day in the men but not at all surprising very predictable and easy to coach against
And mg didn't have 2 of their best players
Vozzo cameo in last 1/4 but no time before that
Bench players not much time at all - why - are they not going to training? Attitude? Coach favouritism toward some starters who are just poor ?
Why do Mavs keep rewarding the same people when they are so poor? 4 years now

However I did enjoy watching the women a lot of juniors that have kept going and Carmen is fantastic along with ratcliffe

Too many coaches on the women’s bench tho

Okay, no Drmic but against 3 of Dalys home club developed under the same program. Speaks volumes about the program they came out of then. Cue Sturt bashing.

Spurritt had a +40 against you Daly. Now that's embarrassing...

"Coach favouritism toward some starters who are just poor ?"

That says a lot about the quality of Mavs' bench...

Somehow don't think Spurritt would have been main guy

Apart from Thomas and Kubank, Wests locals have been terrible. And this was Kubanks 1st win after losing 6 in a row I believe. When Truslove and Spud are required to play major minutes then they're in trouble. Watching defenders literally back off into the key daring Spud to shoot is embarrassing. I think everyone overrated them this year because of last couple of seasons, other young guys haven't stepped up and there's definitely nothing coming through in their junior program. Fabian Johnson has shown flashes but has failed to live up to expectations, is he looking at going to college in future?
Unless this new import comes in and they go on a big run I think they're done. Are they getting another big or a guard?

Deano going to get his cheque book out again like he did the day before the grand final, I can't beleive any coach would pay 20k to BSA because his incompetent club hadn’t paid their fees

So Dean is the "parent" that gave the interest free loan?

I think its best for both parties being Eastern Mavs and the Vozzo family that Seb look at another club. Hang on didn't he do that with not one taker!
Vozzo is one of the last remaining members of a bad bunch of players "none being Mavs juniors" that created a shit load of crap in the men's program. Warhurst has slowly given these guys their marching orders and Vozzo should take the hint and follow suit. I'm sure he will find a club in the church league.

Truslove has had 3 double doubles since West got rid of import. Obviously you're not watching games just taking a long awaited chance to put the boots into a club legend. 20p 12r on the weekend and was probably the difference between the two teams!

Couldn't agree more #743207. Vozzo just trying to pump up his own numbers for another club or hoping Mavs will get a new coach. JW is trying to align the juniors with the seniors, something that he probably should have done three seasons ago. I genuinely hope Mavs see what he is trying to do and give him another year in the seat.

Imports are good and there is a solid base of Mavericks players wanting to play for the club.

Truslove has been great, Spudavecchia terrible.

No other club will give Vozzo a look. The kid couldn't even win games in the weak 23's program. Only reason he is getting a gig in the Mav's prem side is since they have no other options.

Truslove has been alright for West. Still putting up numbers when given the chance. Doesn't have the same springs as years gone by but patrols the paint pretty well. West don't have any other front court options unless they sign an import (?). Spud is Spud, he gives good backup mins, knows his role and runs the show. Can't ask for much more.

The constant bagging of Seb Vozzo, whoever that is, is tiring and I'm thinking he must have banged your girlfriend, better than you.
Try talking about the teams and players that actually have an impact at Premier League for a change.

Watched the last few minutes of the West/Woodville game. Baffling what Whitmore is up to. At the line with 2 minutes to go to get lead back to 2 and Woodville miss one. Finally with 47 seconds to go and the game now out of reach does Whitmore ask for a timeout after another 2 foulshots. Miss and theres no other break in play. So he ends up with a timeout left and a game they could have snuck if they had a better gameplan for last few minutes, offence looked terrible.

I saw Whitmore put his team into a triangle and two defence after halftime against North after the Rockets were up 30. May not see that much but it did confuse North who only went on to win by 27. Don't think many of the Rocket players even knew what a triangle and two was. North did smash Woodville though, game over at halftime.

Somehow methinks that anyone that's coached above div 5 knows a triangle and 2 after a few minutes

Pretty sure the coaching staff was on top of it, just didn't seem to be able to punish it on court like it should have been. It is not a common sight in seniors though, that's for sure.

Mount Gambier struggled with a box and 1 on the weekend.

Kubank has been horrid. Not living up to expectations.

Just watched the Spacequake game Mavs v Mount, great work guys really great coverage etc. Only downside was the knowledge of players by the commentary team. I know Vozzo should have the entire comp named after him but guys he is 22 so dont know how he just returned for National 18's in Townsville.

Other than that great work but maybe have a running sheet of players etc.

272 What are you smoking? Nailed 2 back to back 3's in crunch time to get West over the line against Woodville. Had 26 against Forestville 36ers and averaging 13 and 5. You’re obviously somebody who he’s dunked on I’d say.

Hanging your hat on 13 and 5? How's his percentages? West 1-6 since he got home?

Somebody seems to be a little bit jealous.

Sounds like a jealous coach who tried recruiting Tom and has now won two games for the season.

The hating in these premier league threads is getting out of hand.

Please can we encourage some actual discussion in here instead of ripping other people/teams down?

Yes, more with "Bloody good show" or "Chin up Timmy"

Good Show Wurstposter!!!!! Spiffing commentary!!!!

If Seb had the love and support that Nik Desantis has he'd be an absolute jet

lol ^

Sturt are welcome to take him back! He actively bagged the hell out of Warhurst to teammates and players at other clubs and would not play PL under him last season. Warhurst allowed him to play in the YL "Circus league" where he just went about putting up huge numbers in order to leave Mavs whilst his team lost every game and players didn't want to play with him. He is a point guard that doesn't know what a pass is.

People or his relatives need to get off this forum with the absolute crap they post about him good or bad. Mavericks and Warhurst were far too kind in allowing him back and he should be grateful that he has got a team at all. The best advice would be find a new home and new coach to play for and stop putting shit on here all the time as its getting a tad old and certainly not funny.

Hoops royalty you are a flog!!!!

the talk about vozzo playing the 1 at west is crazy. patty Thomas wasn't even in the country when vozzo trained with west. Thomas is west's captain and most important player by a stretch on both sides of the ball.. the thought that vozzo would ever get mins in West's team is comical.

Coach McLean has an open door policy over summer and Vozzo asked to train. He was cut at the very first cut.