I posted in another thread SA beaten 61 v Qld 94 with Dodman only playing 14 mins, any word of an injury?

how did the boys play any stand outs in the game.

How about Patrick Mills? 35.7 a game, 4.3 Assists, and 4.7 Steals (next closest player has 2.7 steals). 52 points (3 from 18 3 pt) against NSW!

I meant 13-18 from 3pt.

I'm adding something to the header of the site so people can easily track this tournament. If I miss a game, please drop me an email.

Pat Mills, the next big thing?

Mills is going to St Marys .

Should do well over there, has all the tools to be a great point guard in the college system.

looks like pat is left with a crap team in nationals again, and has to score 90% of the points for the team, and take on 80& of the work load... would be interesting to see how he went with a decent team to his side

No, I've seen Mark Cowan, Shane Heal and Scott Ninnis from the Dragons. Bruce Palmer as well, don't know who he's working for, I think Ian Stacker.

Go the Fishlick! (Ref in both SA girls games)

Big Bob, what do you mean 52 points against NSW? He scored 40 against them and shot 5/13 from the arc. What are you on about?

I was just reading OZHoops here....

http://www.ozhoopsboards.com/viewtopic.php?t=10931

Just checking the stats leaders for these comps, I have the following dumb question: what is a defensive assist? Why is everyone in the top 10 averaging 0.0 DAs? If everyone is averaging 0.0 (as it appears), how do they select the top 10? Why bother keeping this stat if it's meaningless?

(Yep - that was actually four dumb questions.)

Luckily for you Bo, I am able to answer your question(s).

Defensive assists are no longer an officially recorded stat, however, whoever is processing the combined stats, has obviously left it on there, despite them not being recorded in the games played.

A defensive assist is (was) recorded when a player takes a charge, and various other things that directly created a turnover, without being an actual steal. There has been a change recently in the interpretation of a steal, which has encompassed some defensive plays that were previously rewarded with a defensive assist. Now you are credited with a steal if it's deemed that your actions led directly to a turnover, regardless of whether the ball is kept in play. Taking a charge, however, gets no credit anywhere on a box score these days.

I have no idea how the top 10 are picked, though. The program must assign it somehow?

I can tell you one small tid bit on defensive assists though. Andrew Vlahov, in his first season of NBL after a stint at Stanford, led the league in defensive assists in 1991. I hope this allows you to sleep a little better tonight, Bo.

Thanks for that, HA - but there'll be no sleep for me tonight.

I'll be up from dusk to dawn pondering what other inane statistical categories have either crashed and burned (like defensive assists) or that I could invent.

Here are some starters:

1) Ring tap ratio: you know those athletic players, who aren't really very good, but can leap out of the gym? They're the guys who continually jump up and stick their hands near the rim after the ball goes through the basket just to show, you know, that they were so supremely positioned that had the initial shot missed, they would have been RIGHT THERE to spectacularly tip-jam the ball home in a feat of such breathtaking power and athleticism that spectators would have instantaneously leapt out of their seats to high-five the nearest spectactor, irrespective of whether they knew each other.

The RTR would keep track of how often these players did this. It's important stuff to know.

2) High-fiveometer. How good a teammate is Player X? Track his high-fives to find out. Does he only do it as his teammates head into a timeout? Is he skilled enough to high-five a teammate while running back on defense? Can he use both hands? Does he value-add by occasionally going a high-ten, or a ruffle of the hair, or a butt-slap? Crank the high-fiveometer up to find out.

3) Pre-game layup percentage. Underrated stat: you might think that guys using the pre-game warm up to attempt ridiculous dunks or that really cool reverse layup they've been working on after practice has no bearing on the game to follow. Wrong.

A NCAA team, South Western Central Alaska State, worked out that if their pre-game % fell below 90%, they'd lose the game 8 out of 9 times. They started charting it, and now they only lose 7 out of 9 if it goes below 90.

(OK, I made that bit up about the NCAA team - but man, pre-game layup stats ARE IMPORTANT.)

Bo, I hate to repeat myself, but time and time again you get me in stitches....lol.