Tied at the half. Quality game so far.

KG23

Yeah, this is the Nicholson mindset that I wish she would bring to the Opals.
Another good opening half.

I feel like a lot of players get too tentative at Opals level - backing off from the type of play that got them selected in the first place. I doubt they're instructed to, it's just natural to defer to the established vets.

Lightning made a meal of that 3rd q. That was ugly.

Flyers hold on for the win.

That third quarter got them the win where Cole lifted. Russell was massive - 20 points and 19 rebounds!

Slightly unusual finish with Lucas throwing in the towel 8 down with 1:40 still left.

I'm not a fan of having to wait until Saturday for the next match.

Feel like Adelaide should have won that. They did so many things wrong but somehow got back within 3 at the end. I have a feeling Southside close it out in 2 now.

Great come back from the Flyers.

I wonder what Molloy will use as his excuse after the next game?

Lightning-Southside is off to an interesting start. A battle of tempos in the 1st Q with neither team getting the upper hand.
Love Adelaide's aggression but they need to learn they don't need to force something immediately if they don't get a good option from the fast break.

Flyers just too solid & composed. Didn't make the little flurries of loose play that the Lightning did and that was about the only difference. Nearly 50% from 3 didn't hurt either.
Great fight by Adelaide right to the end.

Southside deserve to be in the GF and hopefully O'Hea is back in time so they can give it their best shot.

Good fight from Adelaide but Southside too good.

Westbeld is hot af

Boomers set themselves up perfectly in that first half. Great style of play.
I still don't trust them not to choke it away though. I'm hoping they keep it going and we get a game 3.

George won't be able to defend very hard for the rest of this game due to foul trouble.
Makes a change from the usual reason of apathy.

Dog act from Cunningham

Not sure what to make of that match. Canberra's hearts really didn't look in it for most of the game. No one was particularly effective for them until the game was in its death throes and Nurse & Griffin started to score freely.
I expect it will be a very different story in front of their home crowd in game 3 though. I got a bit of a rope-a-dope vibe from them today.
Melbourne would be concerned about how trash their offence is whenever Lindsay Allen is not out there running things. They need to come up with some set plays other than aimlessly running clock and then jacking up a desperation shot at the end of it. When they're rolling like they were in that first half they are fun to watch though. Ezi & Cayla need to both stay well away from foul trouble in game 3.

Cunningham should be suspended. She already did one flagrant foul against Canberra this year.

Dog act from Cunningham

Game 3 day/time has been announced - 7:30pm on Wednesday

Fouling..I mean frowling is no saint either! Lol

if Crystal Langhorne had not been injured - Adelaide would have been right up there. Adelaide did a great job considering a couple of key injury setbacks. That home game against Southside showed how good they could be.

Cunningham should be suspended. She already did one flagrant foul against Canberra this year.


That was a retaliation foul after Rocci wiped her out and nothing was called. Rocco gets away with so many fouls if you pay attention to her game.

This game( situation) Froling instigated it ( pretty normal for her) by trying to walk through the Melbourne group with elbows held ridged and high and then deliberately connecting with Cunningham, who brought her hand up "under" Froling elbow, to which Froling went fir the Oscars move of the offended head flip, when no contact was actually made. all Froling could give the Oscars a run fir their money when it comes to trying to draw a foul, have done it since juniors, girls used to scream at the drop of a hat lol.

Cunningham is certainly a bit of a hot head, but flagrant and unsportsmanlike she's not.

Storm in a teacup. Sounds like salty supporters!

There are enough prima-donnas in the NBL getting rewarded for head-throws, acting and flopping - why shouldn't the girls in the WNBL get in on the act as well??

Cunningham is a tough player like Dellavedova who gets labelled wrongly from those who don't know much.

Froling is just as dirty, and plays the dramatics , Cunningham is hot headed and won't put up with the crap the likes of Froling and Rocco get away with

Nurse ain't dirty fool.

Few people on here have a few motives behind bagging out Cunningham's play. If Boomers lost game 2, we wouldnt be hearing anything about this!

It would very disappointing if Cunningham or Frowling or both got suspended for that incident. The Spectators want to see the best players playing in finals and cos it's finals you will always get some heated battles and exchanges. Get a grip people!

Slap on the wrist and move on, hopefully. Certainly not worth a suspension.

#883, funnily enough, this video was posted by the opposition, in this case, South Carolina. All these haters are on this forum are either one or all of the same Canberra members who are hating on twitter. Get a life, this isn't AFL no one cares. You are clearly worried that Cunningham will have a huge game; if you know about her stats you will know she has her best games in a hostile environment; the environment you are trying to create for her.

Canberra also flops and whinges to the refs' tens times more than any other team in the comp; every player does it in every game.

Almost guarantee that the Cunningham haters are either or the Canberra journo mentioned above or the Canberra radio flog; they know who they are.

LOL at all the outraged d*ck pullers and their conspiracy theories. Cunningham did a dirty play, deal with it.

How ironic that a Canberra supporter gives dirty comments on this forum! Case dismissed.

Don't like Cunningham at all as a player, nor Froling or Rocco for that matter, not a Boomers or Caps fan, but when you look at the crap Rocci gets away with, the dramas Froling brings( and always has) and put Cunningham into that mix, Cunningham doesn’t start it, but she sure as hell has the last word. she’s agro big time and not one to mess with.

Canberra have a reputation for wanting teams that challenge them to be reviewed and players suspended, shame other teams don’t do the same to them

But they also seem to pick players that like to play the victim card, those players are the ones that hang around ( since Gorris took over that is) Graff was a way better coach

WNBL stars fume as Cunningham dodges ban despite high contact charge

Canberra Capitals players Marianna Tolo and Keely Froling have hit out at the WNBL after the league's review panel didn't suspend Melbourne Boomers WNBA import Sophie Cunningham for Wednesday night's semi-final decider.

Canberra, the city of sooks! Obviously they don't think they can win unless they get an advantage! #cracksappearing

No surprises anywhere here. Froling is the biggest pain in the a*se in the whole league, very closely followed by Cunningham. Both as bad as each other.

Not a good look for the WNBL to have players expressing their negative views on a tribunal result. Do WNBL issue out fines for such comments? I know they do in the AFL.

What an absolute beat up this incident is!
The way people have describe it I thought someone had actually hurt someone! It was a minor Scuffle with both in the thick of it!!
Very poor reactions from Canberra side only suggest a lack of confidence going into game 3!

RUN AT ME fool. Get out of here with your small-minded comments

Hope Boomers wipe the floor with Canberra, can't believe I’m actually writing that, as Molloy doesn’t deserve the win , but Canberra are pathetic the way they always cry foul, when in fact they are some of the worst offenders, Froling grinds so many people gears-

Not a good look for the WNBL to have players expressing their negative views on a tribunal result. Do WNBL issue out fines for such comments? I know they do in the AFL.

Two Capitals stars face financial sanctions for several juicy social media posts that questioned the WNBL's ruling on a controversial semi-final scuffle.
Canberra on Tuesday night confirmed to foxsports.com.au that it’d received a penalty notice from the league after centre Marianna Tolo and forward Keely Froling publicly took umbrage at the $250 fine handed to Boomer Sophie Cunningham by the Incident Review Panel (IRP).
Tolo and Froling have been cited for breaching the 'public criticism’ rule and issued a please explain. They and the club have 48 hours to respond to the WNBL.

I am disappointed in the Capitals behaviour in regards to this incident. They are the defending champions behaving anything but classy. Expected more from that organisation given its proud history!

Shows no respect at the end of the game when Boomer stop playing D and let Capitals dribble it out, to only find Nurse wanted to still score? Stay classy as always Canberra!

All the flogs have gone silent, what a surprise.

How many chances does that useless prick Molloy get before he gets sacked or doesn't get his contract renewed.
How many stars does he need to win a flag?
He had 2 Americans, 3 Opals and 4 national New Zealand players.
What is going on at the Boomers.
To all the owners of Melbourne, get your shit together and sack Molloy!!!!!!!

Poor form from Garrick to be complaining afterwards. Melbourne never had the lead. They simply weren't the better side.

A semi-final exit is reasonable from Melbourne, who aren't as stacked as Canberra.

On Molloy, he is a good coach and will be there next year!

What a disgusting display from the Canberra crowd, refs played a big role in the first half letting so many things fly by from Canberra, travels and carry's galore from caps, and those two quick 3 seconds calls on Ezi , yet Tolo and Griffin were camping most of the night

Capitals lucky Allen got injured and couldn't contribute much. But good luck to them, they will need it against flyers!

What a disgusting display from the Canberra crowd, refs played a big role in the first half letting so many things fly by from Canberra, travels and carry's galore from caps, and those two quick 3 seconds calls on Ezi , yet Tolo and Griffin were camping most of the night

Thanks Guy

The best two teams all year progressed to the grand final.

Kudos to Melbourne and Adelaide, who were brilliant in defeat. What a quality WNBL finals series we have in 2020.

Looked like Garrick was making an elbowing motion like someone on Canberra was throwing elbows and Goriss looked unimpressed with what she was saying. All just speculation though and the two best teams ultimately made it through.

The best two teams all year progressed to the grand final.

Didn't care who won but felt Nurse didn't need to take that last shot with 4 seconds left.

As good as Nurse is; Cunningham played better than Nurse last night! Just saying.

Irrelevant when her team didn't win the game

Barely better than nothing, given the awful success rate of the streaming.

But the main thing I don't get is why the stream doesn't get archived somewhere so you can view it later. Right now it is live or nothing. For people in WA in particular the time difference is a killer. But for any given game there's gotta plenty of people who might be unable to watch it live but would catch the game later on if they could. It seems like such a fundamental thing to me. The time and expense is all in getting the telecast done. Once they've done it they're limiting how many people can view it.

Game 1 of the grand final series, which should be a good one.

Tip-off time is exactly the same as the Cairns-Wildcats game, which is a genius piece of scheduling by the league. Well done.

Southside will be given all they can handle by ... their mystery opponent today

I got Southside by 8

Great game by Capitals. Toughness shone through. Felt Flyers ran out of gas due lack of rotations. Capitals should win it now in 2.

how do Canberra do it all the time ? - city of 500,000 but deliver all the time - year in year out they get it right. Well done.

Nice combo of the refs wanting Canberra to win and Southside losing it on turnovers just like last week, to give Canberra the win.

Nurse is a superstar. Canberra won both those finals games because Southside turned the ball over and were unlucky enough for Nurse to end up with the ball and sink a three. Epoupa very good also. It's flogs like Tolo and Froling that put a bitter taste in my mouth. Tolo just seems like a less melodramatic version of Cambage. I'd much rather see the likes of O'Hea with a championship under her belt than either of those two.

And GOD can we please never have Suzy commentate another game. Utterly painful.

Epoupa is twice the player Nurse is. She won this game with her many clutch plays. Flyer's Cole should be controlled by the coach once her luck started to fade. Also an unfit O'hea and an ever mediocre Clydesdale helped Canberra's case. You can not expect Mitchell to save the day everytime.

Clydesdale is a liability. Blicavs too with her shooting, lucky she can rebound.

Caps seem to be a lot of peoples favourite team

Well done to the Caps, a great organisation. Anyone lashing out at Tolo is way off the mark. One of the most respected players going around.

Wow, Capitals win their ninth title matching the Wildcats but have done so within a much shorter time frame. So consistent.

Shout out to my guy Guy Molloy who's also super consistent but in a different way.

Was a great game of hoops showcasing Australian women's basketball.

Was surprise by the lack of use of bench players from both teams. Only playing 6 players obviously hurt Flyers more.

Great GF series by Bec Cole. She heavily carried the team in both games!

Perthworld
A few hours ago

"Wow, Capitals win their ninth title matching the Wildcats but have done so within a much shorter time frame. So consistent.

Shout out to my guy Guy Molloy who's also super consistent but in a different way."

I'm assuming that you mean Molloy is a coach who continually has star players and yet never wins a grand final series!!!!!

Cole should be going to Tokyo, she has improved out of site since she left the Boomers.

Now what could the reseaon be?

Perthworld I'm assuming that you mean Molloy is a coach who continually has star players and yet never wins a grand final series!!!!!

I'm far from a Molloy fan, but when the 3rd-best roster finishes in 3rd place that doesn't strike me as a reason to sack a coach. I mean at least the Boomers beat Canberra in a playoff game. Southside couldn't do that and you don't hear too many calls to sack Chambers (and no should there be - she's a great coach). Melbourne have had some very flaky seasons but I thought this season their results were pretty much in line with their talent.
Canberra has legit international-caliber stars in Epoupa, Nurse, Griffin & Tolo. That's always going to be tough to beat.

Molloy's Boomers did push Capitals to 3 close games in their Semi Final and didn’t go out in straight sets. Boomers have less talent this year than Capitals and Flyers.

Tolo outplayed Russell in the GF series. Tolo should have got best defensive player of the year! No doubt Flyers will chase more talented bigs for next season!

Russell had a tremendous season overall, but yeah Tolo had her number in the GF series. Adding that reliable mid range jumper has made her more of a weapon offensively too. She's had a great last couple of months and I'm stoked for her (and the Opals).

never underestimate Tolo - she held USA's no. 1 tall Griner a few years ago and was doing well at the Sparks until her ACL