Now that's a write up...really good! Is Starling playing tonight is the big question.

Ummm yeah great. Thanks for stating the obvious, and those one liners about GOTW really indepth.

Starling is free to play, why wouldn't he be playing?

#569, just spent 10 minutes typing that up, obviously didn't go into detail. Really liked your writeup, oh yeah, you didn't do one. Why don't you add onto it champ, with your in depth insights!!!

Great write up, good to have something to generate some interest and discussion. I have done them in the past but no time this week or last. Will hopefully again next week but great job by OP.

OP here. Enjoyed the writeups from previous years and week 1 this season, saw in round 1 write up it hadn't been done so whipped something together quickly. Haven't user the site before so had to use the app to get boxscores. Imo, at this stage of season you can't read too much into results until full teams are together with NBL guys, but it's good to get good input into season without too much bashing of clubs and players, then it descends into name calling and post gets shut down.
Been able to flick through some games and try and find the best one, was lucky to watch the last 5 minutes of West/Southern and see the comeback.
Would be great to have proper conversation on here and talk about players to watch. As I mentioned, Akok Machar stepped up big time as a rookie for West, going against bigger brother Machar and other brother Malith getting minutes for Forestville. Stories like that need to be highlighted instead of the usual Webber bashing and the ridiculous crap concerning Starling and Rigby Alphabet.
I'll see how I go tomorrow and try and get a women's preview done, or at least start one next week.

Hey, called it an upset. And South IMO aren't as good as people think till they get some depth when Sixers finish. And the big question for them is quality of coaching, not talent. But this is what it's supposed to do, create civil discussion.

Well #662, looked like I nailed it with West upset, see how they go with South game.

South men need a coach. Man that was tough to watch.

South women coaching wasn't much better if at all.

Basketball genetics, plus absolutely nuts about playing and training basketball. Norwood had the 3 younger brothers but politics moved them elsewhere. Akok dominated 16 2s but the div 1 coach never gave him a chance and said he wasn't talented enough to ever play Div 1.

Harris got good support from Rios last week???
Shit he must have been good in the 5 minutes he got on court. Wouldn't have played any more than that cause he's 36 and is at the end of his career.
At least that's what everyone was being led to believe, as justification for why Forestville needed him to be an unrestricted player.

Just went from boxscore, and according to that, Rios against Norwood played 36 minutes and scored 17 points. Where did you get your factual information???

Someone from the 9 club's not named Forestville will fill you in on what the previous post was referring to.
It's all in the last sentence

That is what was said at meeting of clubs talking bylaws. Basically he will be 7 or 8 man with minimum minutes. Then Forestville stepped up last week not allowing a new player for North to play even though there was conflicting legal opinions

Letting the CLubs in this State have any say is conter productive. Anyone who knows SA basketball politics knows this.

If only anyone at BSA had any idea.

Petty was absolutely woeful. Has he coached at any decent level previously? Just unbelievable decision making and looking puzzled most of the time.

Ahh, ok, I get it now. Thought I had stuffed it up in writeup, but just Forestville shenanigans.

Looks like south peaked in round 1.

I could be mistaken, but I am certain someone has mentioned the word "cheat" on this forum before.
Can't imagine the one person in the competition they ALL would be referring to.

What?

Hey sixtiesrockstar, might have gotten a couple wrong, but on the money with my west/Norwood, then Norwood/south upsets, insert laughing emoji.

One week of scouting and South are sorted. Coach has no Plan B.

What happened to West v North. No results up?

Score up now. North by nearly 30. That's an upset!

Maybe north aren't so bad afterall.

Maybe explains why Forestville was running scared of one player

Was the new player the difference?

Why aren't all replays and box scores available

Replay are available.

Stats program has been an issue all.season. maybe just maybe changing programs weeks before the season started wasn't a good idea.

Where is the west north replay?

They're in the process of rebuilding the stats and once it's done the replay will be up.

Thanks. I'm curious to see how North held West to 63 points

West held themselves to 63. Their imports were awful.

It's a new stats system (Atleast in SA anyway)

So some supporters miss out on replays till then?

The scoretable people I spoke with in the preseason specifically said they were going with something different this year and this would explain why none of the NBL1 Central stats are available via FIBA Livestats.

177, are you saying that they're now intending to switch back to the old system?

Where is the Saturday nights game Woodville vs Centrals men's game. Women are up but not the mens.

I still don't see box scores for West v North men not the replay of that game or the Forestville game

https://nbl1.com.au/games/f9ca8822-7b55-11eb-9e56-8205bb8987e9/central

West v north men box score

#340 - I see them...they are there now

Someone is reading these posts because the video is up now too...maybe they'll read that they shouldn't have put Woodville & Centrals on Saturday night and make them play Sunday as well. All other teams had 1 day of rest between games. Not an even playing field.

No one made them play Saturday. All clubs we're offered the option of moving to Friday night but either Woodville, Centrals or both declined to move.

Hot take 351. Maybe get your facts straight first though.