even

Do not write off North just yet. They have a good side when they get it together. F/ville 1 and North will be a top game.

Woodville may cause a few upsets if they play defense like they did last week (final score Woodville 27- Forestville 2 26). If they become more consistent on offense, they could cause the other teams a few problems. Unfortunately, they couldn't keep the momentum going this week as they did not play due to a Mavericks forfiet.

i agree negyven_negy, i reckon woodville, west and south have turned the corner or are starting too and in result will see a different roster of teams for finals and possibly state champs

boys

sturt and forestville had a classic match 1st round of summer comp - buzzer beater off an inbound steal - it is so close between these teams - it will only happen on the night !

stick to trying to win x lotto

I dnt kno who james boonstopel is but u shudnt b baggin other players for no reason

i heard when forestville 1 played sturt round 1 in summer, forestville's best player was not playing. Is that true?

in reference to the player taht he is their starting center who trhough summer averaged about 16 a game. With a full team for the grandfinal, forrestville cruised trhough the game with sturt never laeding at any point.

james is div 1 standard, the boy can shoot, 75 threes in 7 minutes...

Sturt only beat west and south by 1, but cruised through north by 20 points. When sturt play together and in the right mindset, they will dominate. Should have some great games between forestville.

Forrestville 1 and Sturt the standouts with North, South, Tigers together(could be any order depending on many factors). Norwood a bit inconsistent (I don't know if they have injuries or not, which could explain why) followed by Sturt 2, West and Woodville.

Tigers are improving all the time and may catch one/both of those top two out.

Forrestville 2 injured big man back soon I think.

Centrals have two bigs developing.

Eastern hurt by players leaving.

Thats how I see it ATM.

aljosha (known as max) from sturt is sexy as. we love him, he is the hottest basketballer ever. Pity he sucks though

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nice try anon, but mod's comments appear in the thread they are in reference to and in different font.

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Are you talkin about Sturt V Forestville this friday? will it be another repeat of the summer g/f or can sturt step up and take a win? Does anybody know the key matchups to look for when these two teams meet?

WHY ARE GUYS FORGETTING nORTH IS ON A ROLL THEY ARE UNBEATEN AND RED HOT THIS SEASON I think they are goin to take the winter season if they keep up their perfomance.

I heard Sturt 1 beat North by 20. As the results didn't make it onto sportingpulse, can anyone confirm?

just becuase north are undefeated doesnt mean they will take it out. sturt and fville are undefeated, altough that will be decided friday ;)

i truly do believe west are in for a chance. If they just played smart and as a team they could challenge

west lost to fville by 25 and didnt look like a team at all.

thats because they had harry

South 33 North 26

fville beat sturt by try 17. top stuff f/ville

"i truly do believe west are in for a chance. If they just played smart and as a team they could challenge"

they lost to woodville friday night..
Although woodville are having a good season too. From what ive heard west have lost the last 4 or 5. I think your a little confident because they lost to sturt by 1 point, but sturt had a real bad off game, however theyve been abit like that this season.

However, there are 15 odd games for everything to change who knows what could happen.

in response to "Mott the Hoople" we did get a 20 pt pumping by sturt. we lost coz they started knocking down shot from everywhere and we couldnt answer back at the other end. however we walked all over them defencivly in the 1st half holding them to 4pts in the 1st qtr n scoreless in the 2nd qtr. biggest problem in our team is we dont work 2gether, if we can get it 2gether in the next few weeks we will b serious contenders for the gf

dude i play in te team i know how much we lost by....

There is this awsome player in Div. 2 for north #15, his got the lot, speed, agility and stamina, he can read the ball just like a book, and skools every1 who comes in his way..... He should be in div 1's. And he can jump OVER!!! the backboard. He can throw the ball of a cheerleaders face and catch it backwards and dunk it.....

Yeah that guy is the bomb....He's dunk on me countless times, and breaks my ankles every time we play...

Interesting round this week. Woodville vs Sturt 1 and Norwood vs Forrestville 2 will be good games. West vs Sturt 2 will be close too.

fville got up this weekend over south by 30.

Yes, Starbury and Snoop are posting from the same IP.

Anonymous wat team do u play for n wats ur number, #15 will walk all over u on the court. hes a TANK!!!!!!!!!!!

legend!

Yeah starbury is right #15 has got to be the best player in North and he has been scoring lots of points this season last week he had 20 pts.

you can put a cat in the oven, but that doesn't make it a biscuit.

A kid has to have game to make state, not potential. Potential is for the district clubs to develop.

A club like North wouldn't have a div 1 calibre player in div 3.

End of discussion.

End of thread.

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more north fags having a personal joke.... 18 div 2 is the discussion right?

sturt will win

hahahahahhaha mavricks are shit

Anonymous, what were the scores against Tigers?

draws for state champs will be interesting:

group 1:
sturt
woodville
southern
norwood
centrals

group 2:
fville
south
west
north

i believe group 2 have the harder draw but they are playing one less game then group 1. This state champs will be very close in my opinion with southern and sturt making the finals from group 1 and fville and south/north making the finals in the other. fville to take it out. no team has come within 17 of them recently and that was 'favourites' sturt...

good luck to everyone involved and have fun.

I think Norwood and Sturt from group A. Forrestville and South in group B.

Cross-over will be interesting (to see who will play Forrestville) but no-one will beat Forrestville the way they are playing. To big and athletic and well-drilled team game.

np obviously forestville was the go after reading all your posts over the last few weeks i have the feeling you play for fville.

It would be a little embaressing if your team were to get knocked off in state champs

Forrestville vs Sturt Grand Final - Forrestville. South vs Norwood play-off 3/4 - South (it looks like Norwood may have a few injuries).

Some good games from what I've seen over the weekend, South coming from 15 down to lose by 3 against Sturt in the semi. Forrestville playing very well. Umpiring of a high standard and good sportsmanship throughout.

anyone know the final results?

was a fantastic game. forrestville got up to a 10 - 1 run at the start. The first quarter finished at 15 5 with sturt needing to lift to get back into it. Fville then failed to increase this lead and to sturts credit, played some top defense and played some awesome catch up ball for most of the game. Penetration killed fville and through some dodgy passes, sturt got the lead back to 2 with 1 minute to go. fville stabilised and went on to win by about 5ish.

best players were 5 from fville and 32 from south in my opinion.

after watching that semi final between south and sturt, im dissapointed in how it was officiated in the last minute. southw were down plenty and after pegging it back down to 3, were not rewarded for their D and sturt were allowed to have a 36 second offence even though the head umpire spoke to both umpires during a time out instructing them on the shot clock!

south were very unlucky not to be playing in the gf on monday.

huge chance. fville are missing shaun (center) nate (pg) adam (pg). they would be favourites going into that match.

South 62 Vs Woodville 44

Any other results?

I think the Sturt Vs Sturt game will be alot closer than 40, more like 10.

centrals won by 10 52 - 42 we led the entire game we where up by 17 at one piont

go easy, fville played with 6, missing starting center and point guard. North shouldnt be happy with that either as they were up by 12 with 2 minutes to go...

1) No excuses. North only had 6 players, so obviously they were not at full strength, yet they still out played us for the majority of the game. All credit to North, they played a good game, and in the end we were lucky to escape with a draw.

2) 'np' isn't me!

as a member of the forestville team north deserved to win that game as we dicided to switch on and play basketball in the last 3 minutes. However i asure you we will not let this happen again any time soon as we are now determined to be contenders come round 22.

we lost??? :S

yes we were lucky to escape with a draw, thats my point.....

All the games look interesting and probably apart from Centrals vs Forrestville, a result either way would not surprise.

fville up over centrals by 31 in the end.

South 39 d Sturt 2 36

sturt north draw is interesting, woodville must be playing some good ball. fville 1 have them this week, should be interseting.

woodville tied 2 north without their starting PF or C. There was also disputes of the final score because in the third quarter i hit a three but they only counted it as a 2. besides the point the final score is a draw which is still a good result. A great game overall with both teams playing fairly well

"i hit a 3", talk ya self up mate

north are all good...but they are indivual players.. not team players.

bogan, i wasnt talkin myself up i was actually explaining what happened. how could i talk myself up by saying "i hit a 3". Incase u didnt know that in basketball it's common to score a 3 pointer so i dont see that being a way of wot u call "talking myself up". Scoring a 3 pointer isnt wot i call something to brag about, several are scored in everygame.

yep, fair enuf

if by misconduct, you mean boxing out...

they're OK, but there is one player that sucks. i'm pretty sure it's you.

whatever number you are.

north have good intensity but they rely on a few of their guards to much. should do well in finals.

They seem to rely alot on outside shooting and seem to live and die by it. I suppose thats because they dont have alot of height.

South 55 Tigers 40

fville over woodville by 17

I've heard Sturt 2 by 30

Third hand info, can't add any more

What grade div 2 teams entering in nunawading. I assume A grade is lower Div 1 teams aswell as A Reserve, my guess is most div 2 teams are B grade?

Whats the go with div 2 teams???

fville div 2(1)s ended up beating south div 1s. They were taught a lesson....

I think Norwood should actually be fifth as their game against Eastern hasn't be factored in yet. But a good effort by Sturt 2 to be where they are. Its a pity North 1 from Div 3 aren't playing in the 2's as well.

Any thoughts on this weeks round? I'm going for both Forrestvilles to beat both Sturts (self interest), Woodville, South and Tigers. Three games could go either way.

fville 1 to beat sturt 2
sturt 2 to beat fville 1
noth to beat south
woodville to beat centrals
south to beat norwood

Ok well give my thorts on all teams
Start from top

1. obviously when Sturt and Forestville play its all about who has it on the night fville has just seemed to b better on the night all but once it has been close most of the times.

2.sturt(1) my team yes I believe we are a strong team and can beat any team in the league but most top 4 teams have that potential just being able to pulls through counts we have all first years but me and have good height.

3.South have come from no were last time we played them we beat them by 2 or 1 in semis in state champs which was a shock to the system in summer we beat them by about 30 I would say and r best improvers this year.

4. North have good players but just like a few other teams can't seem to mould together they are to top heavy and need a proper point guard in the team.

5.sturt (2) they are doing well for them selves and holding their own for a div 3 team to come up I think they are over achieving for who they are but they come together well as a team.

6. West have been hot and cold this season with some weird results not much to say but don't think they have the potential to take out GF.

7. Woodville well the truth is I believe they have gotten worse and worse they have some good players but just seem to worry about to much bs on the court they prefer to play than fight and when the team starts pretending like they don't care when they r down by 40 does not look good for club or team.

8. Norwood are also doing ok they seem to play well against tougher opposition not much to say haven't seen much of them.

9. Southern tigers are a team that has potential but can get off track in a game easyly with refs or starting fights classic match up between them and Woodville could see a fight coming out of that game before it started.

10.forestville (2) don't know were they have gone started well in summer and have dropped off a lot have couple better players that should b in other side but coaches don't always pick best player pick the player that the team needs.

11. centrals well what can I say about good old centrals not the best team in the league but they always give it their all each game and play till the last second.

12 mavs well their gone now so nothing to say

sorry about the lectour im off catcha

South 44 Norwood 38

Mikele, the reason South didn't do well in Summer was injuries predominately to Div 1 players. Good write-up, but I'm not sure about your assessment of Forrestville 1. They are a very good team, came close to some good Vic teams in Nunnawading.

Mikele, how did you go last night?

fville one played sturt two
sturt one played fville 3

F1 sv S2:
slow start by forrestville, a lot of easy missed shots. started to cruise latter in the game and won easily. 30 - 35 i think was the final margain.

S1 vs F1:
where to start. Sturt were outclassed for the first three quarters. sturt were up by two and quarter time but then forrestville kicked in and finished up by 4 at 3 quarter time. Sturt proved to strong in the end and beat fville by 6 i htink. Theh fvvile boys really heald there own and can wake away with their head high after a great perfmance and were unlucky to come away without the win.

There is nothing wrong with centrals div2 team, i am friends with many of there players. They r a fighting team and are coming back. If the club had decent coaches they would prob learn something and become a real team close to the top

random, centrals are a fighting team, they have to be beucase there skill level is so low. even with two div 1 players down they didnt do that well.

north guards??? do north have any guards??? i thought they are just big men playing small. gary is alright but he is still the worst player ever to make a state team. ever.

Anonymous #38321 knows the score

why get stuck into Gary shaun? Your an idiot for posting your name and saying that

Get a life Shaun and stop acting like a kid

gary is a good player in 2s, dont doubt that. he has consistantly played well against us, but do you honestly think he is/was good enought to make state?

ok wow people make state when they younger because they grow quicker than others and develop faster but it all catchs up in the end u18 and u20 is were the truth shows through on who has been working hard all the time and the mention about centrals needing good coachs, u need a good commity to get the coachs first and then coachs get the players.
oo and 1 more thing i would like to say that i havent mention i would like to share my opinion that i thingk sturt forestville and south r prob the best clubs out of all grades in BASA because of the area we ahve to choose from is so little and if we had half the area north had their would b no stopping us :P may not agree but every1 has a opinion.

fiar point michele about area. sturt and forrestville are within a short distnace of each other yet they do well, sturt best overall club at state champs and fville 3rd i think off memory.

its mikele :P btw is this shaun from forestville div 2 better side?

thats me, the one and only. big guy anonymous, good on you for having a go.

about the whole area thing that use dribbling shit bout north and norwood are also two close clubs mabe even more so than fville n sturt. and they are to of BETTER clubs around. as for south being the 3rd best club, plz dnt give them false hope

North and Sturt have most number of teams and talent than any other clubs. They are also are the best two teams in District Basketball

lol crack a lackin im with u mate.

so Mr Anonymous (#38734) r u sayin that the state champion club of 2004 is unsuccessful u must belong in the same tool box as my friend shaun, see statue of liberty knows where it's at

pimp pimp horay

ooo but in the last 5 years i belive sturt has been the most dominate club if my memory serves me right. and for north being a good club well for the area they have to choose from and the amount of teams they have their doin ok.

mikele wat is it wit u and this area shit, and i wasnt talkin bout how good surt THINK they are i was answering back to the alagation of north being an unsuccessful club.

pimp pimp horay

your missing mikeles point. he said that in reference to area, clubs like north, centrals, norwood and southern have a greater area to choose players from as opposed to your fvilles and sturts etc... Since sturt and fville are so closely positioned, sturt are doing well to be that successful.

he is not simply arguing who the best club is.

pimp pimp hooray???

Stut is a terrible club

Anonymous, 21/06/05
would u like to back that thoery up cause i can back my thoery up just look at the records baby.

As always a close round, I'm going for Forrestville 1, Norwood and North to draw, Centrals, South and Sturt 2.

Good to see Centrals on the rise tough one with West, North capable of anything on their day, Forrestville 1 to continue on their winning way, danger game for South, a close one between Sturt 2 and Woodville.

Anon (#38885)

Not actually true (State Champs Div 1 Boys/Girls)
Under 12's 1st, 1st
Under 14's 2nd, 1st
Under 16's 3rd, 5th
Under 18's 3rd, 3rd
Under 20's nowhere, 1st

State Champion Club 1st
State Champion Girls 1st
State Champion Boys 2nd

Thats in one tourniment but over the entrie season where r those sturt teams ey???

crackers,

Again not true. It is THE most importrant tournament along with Classics. Let's look at that one as well with national and State rankings at Classics:

Under 12's 8th(1st), 1st(1st)
Under 14's 4th(2nd), 7th(1st)
Under 16's 9th(1st), didn't qual
Under 18's 11th(4th), 2nd(2nd)

The Div 1 teams have achieved great results at the toughest club tournament in the country.

Just because our State results weren't as good as our Reserves results doesn't mean they weren't bad. They were still very very good. It;s just that the Resrves results were incredible.

And remememer that the Reserves teams are basically next year's Div 1 teams anyway.

fville one over southern tigers by 35 last night

South 50 Forrestville 2 41

Centrals d West 40-36

Go Centrals two games won in a row. Its good seeing Centrals finally a winning team.

What has led to Centrals turning their game around? Is it true they have two Div 1 players in the team permanently?

no they are not in there permanently they are in there for the reason which thet know about and one has come back up two weeks ago and the other i think will be soon to come back up

I think thats great for this competition to be so even with the possible exception of Forrestville 1. Any team can be beaten by another on a given day.

Keep up the improvement Centrals.

arguably the closest competition going around. i dont hitnk there is more then 15 points difference between the top 8 teams.

I am from South

Check my earlier posts on this thread.

Selections for tonight's games, both Forrestvilles, both Sturts and Woodville. All to be close apart from F 1.

Too cold, might stay in by the fire although I'm interested in the Forrestville games, go F 2(it will help us). I was going to say Centrals but thought it might give people the wrong impression.

we won by about 20 2nite i think with injury early in game and my being sick so had 7 with 2 people bit sick and 1 injured half way through starting to make our run home.

sturt 2 beat centrals by 5

f/ville 2 over north??? Thats a big effort.

Mikele who are you with?

Who was tigers missing??

Forrestville 2 finished 3rd over Summer and I think injuries played a big part in their poor start to Winter.

aparantly north dont turn even up to training or anything anymore

the ultimate test will be whether or not we can knock of the raining champions next wk, f/ville (1) Vs f/ville (2), who has faith in us?

I'll get my tips in early this week. Both Sturts, F1 over F2 (sorry, I've picked them all year), Woodville and South. Not as many close ones as usual, but the best Woodville v Norwood and South v West.

Anonymous is a tough guy

Is it possible for Forrestville 1 to be beaten this season and if so how? We would certainly like to know.

Why didn't we think of that.

They are certainly more dangerous inside than out but can knock down the trey if they get their feet set.

Are they first or second years?

As the rules stand ATM, it would only matter if the second years had ambitions to play Div 1. The first years would get a Div 1 spot next year.

As good as they are, they still wouldn't mix it with the top five teams in Div 1 though.

A classic example of this is by beating south division 1 in melb.

... then perhaps you should talk to/convince YOUR club to vote FOR two div 1 teams/pro-rel instead of against it!!!

Beating south div 1 is no accomplishment their div 2 is just as good as them.

F/ville would not finish top 5 if they were div 1, i reckon they would be struggling for a top 8 spot.

The only one that deserves a go in div 1 from that team is the one who doesnt talk himself up.

why cant u make div 1 at ur club eagles?

I am sure there is an overlap in every division (eg. top side of div 3 can beat bottom side of div 2). It is therefore an individual players perogative to look at others clubs if they wish to play at a higher grade.

I remember North having 2 div 1 teams, and the weaker team did not win a game, or MAYBE might have won 1 game if lucky i dont EXACTLY remember - maybe rob, gary or brett could help me out.

But they went from div 1 not winning a game, to playing grand final div 2s and losing by a point. They lost about 2 games in div 2, where as they couldnt even win that many in div 1. And that was a TALENTED div 2 team...

south 53 west 20

West got 20 in a game..... what went wrong there?

Any other results

I believe Sturt 2 won by 25 over Tigers.

The only game we need to know is Woodville v Norwood, anybody got the scores?

After saying last week this is an even competition (apart from F1) at the moment, the scores from Friday didn't back this up.

Is this because of injuries or colds/flu etc?

fville 1 had injuries when playing fville 2, they were missing harry and mark.

Who do you think will get the fifth spot in the five? I think Strut 2 may have replaced Woodville after the last round (not on sporting pulse yet). Can North hang onto fourth place?

The way I see it panning out (apart from a major unforseen melt-down) is F1, S1, and South safe in their current positions. Then three teams fighting for two positions North, S2 and Woodville. A bit of a gap has opened between Woodville and West/Norwood (but West have had the bye).

From those three teams I think maybe S2 and North, but there's still seven games left and injury and illness could change everything.

I think F2 would have to win all of their games but they have had the bye also, which should help. Probably need a few results to go their way, but it's very even competition.

As you say they finished 3rd in Summer.

1) fville 1
2) Sturt 1
3) South
4) North
5) Sturt 2

i think that south will give sturt 1 a run for their money and could (Gasp) upset sturt. Forrestville 2 would be in fianls if it wasnt for that aweful start however i think they have left their run to late.

Be tough this week as we're missing a couple of players, (South to beat Sturt 1 that is).

I'm going F1, S1, South, S2 and Woodville. Not that North are a bad team, they just seem a bit inconsistent.

Be tough this week as we're missing a couple of players, (South to beat Sturt 1 that is).

I'm going F1, S1, South, S2 and Woodville. Not that North are a bad team, they just seem a bit inconsistent.

I agree with your picks Dave. Although woodville is just as inconsistant as north in my books. There will be a big fight for the 5th spot. Guess you need to look at the end of season schedule to see who will get it.

Probably becuase North are fourth, but if they lose to a team below them it appears they have underacheived, where as Woodville have came from a lower position and have gone up the ladder.

I think with the improvement of F2, Centrals and if Tigers hit a bit of form, they can have a big impact on where some teams will finish in the five.

Every team has a chance to pull back at least 1 point on the title favourite this week. All games look like being close.

My tips are; Centrals, South, North, S2 and F2. Will F2 start a near impossible run to the finals? Will North find their best form at Pt Adelaide? Can Norwood beat S2 to become a legit playoff team again? Can South beat S1 for the first time (last two games 1 and 3 point margins)? Will Centrals continue to improve or can the Tigers turn their season around?

Please post results early so we will all know the answers.

Everyone struggles against F 1 (apart from S 1 and North who seem to get the best results)and yes it will be very tough this week.

i agree with the comments of anon(#42493) as north do have alot of very talented players. but the team seams to really struggle to play as a team which is leading to there downfall. north should have only lost 1 or 2 games this season and drawn none, if they can get it together come finals time they could knock off f1 as they drew to them with only 6 players

North are able to play as a team as they proved this with a draw against the top side (f/ville
) so north are classified ad an un-consistent team

South 37 Sturt 1 65

sturt 2 beat norwood by 10

a few posts above it states they played forestville 2....?

Sturt 2 beat norwood by 15 points

Selections for this week. Forrestville 1, South in a close one, one of the games of the round Forrestville 2 over Sturt 2 (still capable of winning all of their games to reach the play-offs), Norwood and the other close game Sturt 1 and North, but Sturt were red-hot last week especially in the second half, so Sturt 1.

i havent posted for abit but you guys were talking about 1st years and 2nd years. Me and a big guy 32 are only 2nd years and atm 32 is injurded and 2 div 1 players are injurd so we lost couple people for this week but we will c friday night against north...

Yes, we only beat S2 by 3 points in the first round. They seem to play well as a team and tend to creep up on you.

Always like the trip to the 'Plex (worth travelling the bit extra to play on that court instead of the old Elizabeth concrete). Should be a good game as Centrals are improving, not quite sure what to expect, but a close one.

F2 have played the top four teams in the second round and have S2, Tigers, Norwood, Centrals, Bye and West. The Bye may be the problem but can win all of those on the way home. S2 to be the hardest and and a finals berth could hinge on the outcome.

Mikele the team you had last week against us I think would beat all but F1 even tho you were missing a couple.

Don't forget to post your results early, can't wait for Sporting Pulse.

how do people think centrals are going they had a bad start to the season well a very vad start and now they seem to be winning games how far do people think they will get

I'll let you know after the game tomorrow.

North's #15 is not the best player in the team he is one of the most usless div 2 players in the comp, he does absolutly nuthing in games apart from camping in the key

South 75 Centrals 42

we (fville 1) beat west by 30. Cant wait for sturt this week, should be an awesome (and close) game.

yeah should b good shaun wish we had full team to play u guys but waiting on couple other guys on injuries to c how they are but will cu friday...

who you guys missing? chettle sprained his ankle on friday night and i havent spoken to him since, dont know if he is playing but apart from that we will have a full strength side.

north over sturt by 1pt

we will have same team as we did against north i think missing 4 players

Any details on the game (North v Sturt 1)? Looking forward to the game next week (South v North). We should have some players back.

forestville will win this hands down no one will stop them

and no i dont play for forestville

michele who are you missing? we will be full strength i think.

what also happened against north also?

Tips for this week. Two top of the table games.

South of course (but will be another tough one), Forrestville 2 (did their finals hopes plenty of good beating Sturt 2 last week), Norwood, Woodville and Forrestville 1 to beat an undermanned Sturt 1 (not that would change my tipping).

Post results early (Sporting Pulse still hasn't got last weeks results up).

Anonymous,(#44110) ok who eva u are dont have the balls to post ur name i am the pg from sturt and you can not blame the game just on me their were many other bad passes from both teams during game just cause mine was the pass in the last play havin 3 guys all over you is hard to get pass off while out of control but this week still give it 100% against forestville even thou missing 4 like against north.