Anyone know how long Dech is out for?

He didn't play today but the Rockets were impressive in beating the Bearcats by about 15. Speaking of relying on too few, West struggles to get any contributions outside of the imports and Akok

Dech 4 to 6 weeks out

Some interesting results. Are west now done? Any hope for Woodville? And the biggest of all... are South now done?

SA probably heading into a lockdown so there is a fair chance of a pause in the season

TNT that would put West 9th. McLean would be on the hot seat if that's the case.

Lockdown? Isn't there 1 case?

Why are results and replays not available for all weekend games on the NBL1 app

#452 and there you have it

All basketball cancelled. BSA don't have a tough call to make. They (like all sports, indoor and out) can't play

Friday at this stage

You'd think if teams have not had the opportunity to practice all week and there are likely to still be indoor restrictions in place of the weekend that NBL1 will postpone those games until the following week.

They wouldn't allow players to not train all week and then play Saturday, would they?

Ummm, why wouldn't they. Level playing field.

Probably no games this weekend.

Surely some mid week games at a neutral venue would be a better option than multiple double header weekends?

Why at a neutral venue

Probably because stadiums aren't sitting around unused in middle of week except in lockdowns.
Doing what the did the other year and having a full round played at arena on a Wednesday if that's available, would clear up some backlog.

And cost thousands of $$$

There's much cheaper ways to do it. Cheaper than running games at 5 different venues.

Once the lockdown is over which I'd predict will be 2 weeks based on the delta strain and if we get more cases, it would make more sense to run all games at Titanium - more spectators would attend for multiple games - that's revenue. Open some food stalls - additional revenue to compensate the cost. 1 location for all players, coaches, etc to attend. Easier to filter crowds and more seating for social distancing. It's not rocket science. Yes local clubs will lose their revenue but hey that's life during a pandemic.

After the lockdown there will be ongoing restrictions on indoor venues and contact sport. There are other issues regarding The Arena or any of the non BSA venues as well. It's not as simple as you make it out to be.

#762 exactly

NBL1 South and Central games scheduled for this weekend have officially been postponed.

Numbers rising in Vic and NSW have to be a concern to any potenial end of lockdowns and further restrictions after that. NBL South has the added issue of teams across three states.

Real possibility both Leagues are done.

Central should be fine. South trickier due to interstate teams.

Indoor sports will have more restrictions than outdoor sports as before. May get a week or 2 slapped on top. Arena logical in terms of location, unsure of logistics. And expect fans to be limited to start with.
And food stalls in a pandemic? Also don't fancy $10 for a bucket of soggy chips or cold hot dog. BSA will have to cover cost unless they come up with another genius plan.
It'll be a race to the finish, older and/or small bench may play a factor if it's 2 games a week for 3 or 4 weeks. At this stage of season, training tends to taper off to rest sore bodies and niggling injuries to get them right for finals. This will probably work best for Sturt amongst teams.

Why are West/North game stats and game replay still not up on NBL app?

They say north won but what do they have to hide?

As with every game that hasn't worked the NBL1 use a differnt system which has flaws. If there's connection issues then the information is corrupt. I'd say given there's no more games right now they haven't fixed it as a priority.

Double header this weekend - load of shiittt BSA - with no spectators which will hurt clubs on their bottom line. Club have been hurt enough last/this season already. Let's push 1 game to next week and hope that they can at least have some speccy's.

The Delta variant is going to hit 15,000 spectators at footy game just like it would for 50-100 people in a basketball stadium doing social distancing with masks. MCG proved that. Load of crap SA Health.

You need to contact BSA Operations Manager to understand why two games this weekend and not next weekend. I can't see any logic in this decision

Big night for basketball, but also some significant results in NBL1

South second to bottom game today against Eagles, things are not looking good at Marion, that list should be challenging for the championship not wallowing in 9th spot

Took Woodvilles 9th spot who luckily had training run against the Mavs. Both teams are a joke.

Mavericks probably have some factors out of their control impacting performance but South don't have any excuses whatsoever
NBL Players, Woollacott Medallists, US College players, Australian Juniors, Starling who is up there with Turnage as probably the best player going around, why are the results so poor? Things aren’t adding up there.

Johns, mud and codey all DNP

Why didn't they play?

Injuries

Injuries? Cmon have to do better than that. Shouldn't be in this position in the first place, should have plenty of wins in the bank already and preparing for finals, instead South are 9th, 2nd bottom, season over.

What are the factors out of Mavs control to be consistently this bad every week?

Maybe the injuries were really bad headaches they get every week at trainings and games.

The coach is the factor because no one wants to play for him.

Can't believe I'm saying this but after watching a bit of NBL1 Central today give me those Olympic refs anyday!

#626 what a stupid comment. 3/4 of the SA panel are novice referees and you're comparing them to international level referees. You sir/madam are a moron.

Noive referees? Pardon.

I'm sure people understand the point I'm making. Obviously th Olympic referees should be better but the game is also 1000 times faster, more phyical and higher skilled.

Wow, someone pissed off a referees mum!
But on another point, it's going to be a wild finish with finals alive for a few teams.

South OMG what an implosion!

Is it really surprising with that idiot in charge. Surely, surely he has to be let go.
Computations of working out top 5 will require a degree nearly. Has the league ever been so close. Will southern miss out. And any news of how long Dave Humphries is out for, they got lucky with draw this weekend to get into 3rd.

Eastern Mavericks torn it up this weekend across the double header round.

Eastern (women) snuck by one team and as expected smashed the U18 division 2 team pretending to be NBL1 level.

Settle down.

I was more talking about the men's team losing by 50+ both game smh

Also as expected

Eastern are great for the promotion of the league. Provided 6 of the weekly top 10 highlights this week! Getting dunked on and blocked but they are in it.

get on a forum and kick a struggling team while they are down to feel good about yourselves when the whole Central comp is a joke.
Pick your best team and take on the other NBL1 conferences, you would get smashed. The standard of most Adelaide teams bar a couple of imports is terrible.

Or you can go on a forum and kick a whole league. Hater much???

I'd rather the whole Central League be a joke (which it is not) than the Clubs try and keep up and spend the same money as other states, and go bankrupt.

How do you score 4 points in a quarter? They set themselves up for a whack.

Dech maybe, Purchase yes... ole Deano's pulled out the Andy tricks.

Lol. Which club is going bankrupt

Person/s kicking Mavericks on here probably from South trying to deflect attention from their own shitshow

Just ordinary basketball fans laughing at the shit show at Mavs. It's not club specific lol

Coach brings it on his team with his behaviour and attitude. Finals team with imports apparently.

Want Dean get money.

Mavs were always a basket case club. Now they are the absolute laughing stock of the competition with massive player walkouts and massive losses each week.

Mavs are barely 25 years old, still getting established on & off the court, it takes time, small supporter base, tight budget, don't have the benefit of being around for 60+ years.
Most clubs struggle in their formative years.
Maybe the jokes on South who haven’t won’t a title in 25 years or Sturt who have won 5 in 60 years?

Mavs are barely 25 years old, still getting established on & off the court, it takes time, small supporter base, tight budget, don't have the benefit of being around for 60+ years.
Most clubs struggle in their formative years.
Maybe the jokes on South who haven’t won’t a title in 25 years or Sturt who have won 5 in 60 years?

I feel for Mavs import Will Wise who copped a lot of BS on this forum. He is literally the only player the club has.
Just his offence alone taken out of Mavs current play and they lose by 74 and 87 over the weekend.
A lot is wrong at Eastern but its certainly not this guy

Someone has to score the points. Rios was top or near top scorer in league there a couple of years ago and was a bench player last year, and according to cheatgles was going to be again this year. So someone is definitely taking the shots, in this case Wise. He's ok, but allergic to the paint and can't guard a tree.
And what's this 25 years nonsense. That's crap. Certainly travel, or perceived travel, is one of factors that put players off. And the past 2 coaches, despite being knowledgeable, don't have good people skills, hence the player drain.

If a club is established in 1995 that would make them barely 25 years old

Apart from Wise not a single Mavericks player would get a spot at any other team.

I meant 25 years as a club is a terrible excuse. Only reason Wise could play anywhere else atm is the pandemic. Unless he's unbelievably cheap, normally a club wouldn't waste an import spot on him. Even now he wouldn't start on most teams.

And league rules in regards to poaching mean they can't approach players to come join them in becoming stronger.

"League rules in regard to poaching...."
Sturt know about this?

Sturt introduced the new poaching rules. After 20 years of blatantly using State, SASI and messaing kids directly they got worried when one coach left Sturt for another club and told their ex-player families.

New rules. BSA at its best.

#175 Wise is not worth the hassle. His off-court issues/activity is not what any club needs!

I think the point is that Mavs are in a massive world of hurt and if it wasn't for Wise a D2 16 boys team would beat them.

247 what level did you play at? Cut from 16s div 6 cause you couldn't catch the ball a been a hater ever since? For someone who despises Eastern you seem to know a lot about them.
Stay away from playgrounds and public toilets you freak. Scary to think there’s people like you out there still walking free

276, I'm not 274, but some of the better 18 1s would stand a good chance against the Mavs ATM. That's not bashing them, it's fact.
It sounds like you are connected, or at least know the club. Can I just ask where a lot of players have gone during the season, surely not all of them are injured. That's what I would be concerned at. I've said it plenty of times, Rojo knows the game but he can't control himself with the way he acts with people. I know a few Norwood boys during his reign there, and they said there was no chance the would follow him anywhere, even the get minutes. This in part because he wouldn't give them any at Norwood, that may have been the pressure of a certain family. And I don't know KB from a hill of beans, but most of the same guys said they would move because he gave them a chance, despite pressures and even some tough demands he made of them.
Might have blinked and missed it, but was there an advertisement for the Mavs mens job, or did they just headhunt Rojo. If they only offered it to him they've made their own bed.
In terms of juniors, Eastern would be the smallest club by a mile, yet they manage to put competitive teams out during the past and decent players.
As with the Central's women, their men need a boost, severely lacking in fielding a competitive team every week, especially if you factor the inability to get imports they want. In professional competitions, there's a draft. That can't be done here. Most of the other clubs would argue that they've developed their local players in juniors, so bad luck. But then you look at a team like South for example and they've benefited by a large amount of juniors and brought in players. Could a case be made for the interest of the competition by injecting some cash from the league and look at some development players from NBL. I think in a previous thread it was mentioned that club's need to show junior development was a condition of entry into the league. If that had been the case earlier, Woodville girls program would have seen them omitted, yet whilst Easterns juniors don't dominate at junior levels, for some reason it doesn't translate to seniors. The Mt Barker region is growing and maybe that will increase numbers in juniors and the ability to be stronger financially.
But what is the problem currently, there's all the speculation going on, and most club's wouldn't air there dirty laundry in public, but how will there be a solution otherwise. Include the central's women as well. A couple of years ago there 16 girls were dominant, undefeated I think until they lost in grand final. I think there is only one player left from that team, the rest went elsewhere pretty damn quick.
Anyway, it's pretty embarrassing looking at those teams. Hopefully someone can come up with a solution for the good of the league.

There's some major BS refing right now....Tiger stadium is pretty bad on both sides but at least consistently bad. Refs taking notes from the olympics, anything that breathes too hard call a foul.

So its bad because they're calling fouls. I'll take that kind of bad.

Thankfully the era of Petty finished tonight with the most expensive team in the League now destined to finish 9th. Hopefully the Club can see the error of its ways the past 5 years and head hunt some actual workers with talent to take over their Mens, Womens and Junior programs because right now all 3 are an embarassment given they're the second largest club in Adelaide.

And now hopefully Hullard joins jenny craig. What a bust he has been this season

Why did Starling play last week and not this week?

South certainly had the cattle to win it all. Just the wrong guy at the wheel! Learn and move on.

Expensive lesson. Nothing new for that club.

If Hulland and Mudronja are the 2 best players BSA HP has to has to offer then the talent id, people in charge and development procedures all need a drastic overhaul.

The boys results over the past 15 years would back that up. Problem is every change they make has been a change for the worse not better.

On a strong note for the league how good was the refereeing at West v Eagles last night. Only 2 ejections which is pretty good.

Hard for the game to develop and progress when we have some of the "athletes" going around reffing, some back to back. Development across the board in every aspect continues to be a mess in SA.

lol 639

Yeah that sounds brilliant. As usual the refs must have done a great job!

#641 I'd take a stab at #639 bring facetious

645 thanks Captain Obvious

So it looks like north just sneaked past central's into top 5 by beating southern. Any word on Dech?

584 so Petty officially gone or that's just what you are hoping?

Petty will be gone and Ninnis will be in.

Does any responsibility lie with the committee or is this all on Petty

Who ever on the committee signed off on the appointment needs to go if they haven't already. Petty didn't have the resume nor experience for the role but talked his way into it offering great junior progression through to the senior team and a host of other promises that he never delivered on.
It has been a costly failure for the club, end of a really bad three years.

At least with Al Green they played hard and caused some upsets. Pettys had a far bigger budget, talked his way into opening the cheque book with big promises and came 9th. This season was marred with injuries and absences, every team endured them and besides Eastern every team managed them better than South.

Petty wouldn't get another gig in SA after that surely.

Grossly unfair!! Petty had an NBL list in an NBL1 comp and finished 9th!

In fairness to Petty I think we've all seen Mudronja is not an NBL player. Hulland has some attractive attributes but not the intangibles such as work ethic and desire to be an NBL player. Johns is now a football player who plays basketball and won’t be up to the standard he was in his Southern days. Hoppo isn’t living up to the hype although he did get inconsistent opportunity but has he really taken any steps forward? That’s not all on Petty but he is overall responsible for the 9th place finish on a big spend.

Madronja has confirmed that he is one of the best Australian players in NBL1 Central. Not getting involved in the Petty debate but you are a little bit dumbdumb, 808.

He is one of the better players in NBL1 but still not an NBL player.

812 so you are expecting Mudronja to get back into the NBL system after his stint with South?

What was as you say dumb dumb about any of what was said in 808's post?

Thanks Sixers
Which NBL club will pick him up?

Learn to read he said NBL player NOT NBL1 player.

Now Sixers compare that to Harris who is not an NBL player either. Harris is a higher scoring (marginally), 1 less rebound, 1 more steal, 2 less turnovers. Shoots the ball better from 3 (3 times more attempts), shoots the ball better from 2 (twice as many attempts). Mud is a good NBL1 player and that is it.

On 40% shooting and 4 turnovers a game... dig a little deeper into those numbers like the NBL clubs would.

And Harris team wins

On that logic Turnage Brine Harris Spear Starling are still good enough to be in the NBL and they are better players than Mudronja. Sounds like you are conceding his professional days are over Sixers

Sixers looking after his bestie. What a shock someone with the sixers name would look after a sturt import. Fits the mold. Probably advises BSA too.

Bro, c'mon you kidding? Are you so mentally limited?.

Starling/Turnage in an import mid to late 20s.
Spear late 20s
Brine is 30

How are you making this comparison?

How many times in the past decade has an Aussie 21 yr old put up numbers like this at this level?

You are just funny. Happy to have the Harris conversation. Like Mudronja, Harris is on the fringe too and with continued growth will be a pro. I highly doubt the Pro door is closing on Mudronja just yet.

Rasmussen has more of a chance to be a pro than Mudronja.

Sam Daly better than all of them.

I think the point is Harris is in an NBL program and seen not to be NBL level. Daly has had a chance and fallen out. Both are equal or better than Mudronja. That's the level he's at. The jump from NBL1 Central to NBL is too big for people to think he's good at one level he belongs in another. He's good at NBL1 Central level, he belongs in South or North would be a fairer statement.

Good luck to all 3 btw. Not hating on any of them. It's the fan boys on here that need a reality check.

Maybe a coincedence but Mudronja Hoppo Hulland were consistent splashed all over the high performance hoops pages heaps of hype and exposure and now for whatever reasons are struggling with the expectation that is attached to their names. But a Rasmussen and Olbrich 2 great prospects heads down shunned all that socials stuff and let their games do the talking, those 2 players look set for pro careers. Great advice for young SA talent, don't get ahead of yourself and get seduced by all the spin flying around and be careful who you take advice from.

Was good to have a talented guard crop in Adelaide this year. If we could get more fringe NBL level bigs plus more imports back, the league would be looking bright.

Rasmussen and Olbrich younger that's why. Don't worry they'll get the same attention as they get older as the other three.

846 spot on about the fanboys, middle aged men acting like teenage cheerleaders! Pull your pants up tie your basketball boots up properly, take your backpack off and put your cap on frontwards. The amount of hysterics about junior players that comes out of SA at times is cringeworthy. If you've got to tell the world every 5mins then maybe they aren’t that good to start with.
Let juniors develop and play without all the over the top hyperbole.