Vander18
Last year

All Australian Basketball League

Interesting news from Melbourne Central Basketball Association (who run basketball at MSAC, including Melbourne Tigers). Very interesting to see if the concept takes off.

" MCBA is thrilled to announce to all our domestic and representative basketball community the launch of the upcoming All Australian Basketball League (AABL)!

The AABL is non-for-profit organisation founded to pay forward basketball knowledge to the next generation of elite athletes, with all games being held at MSAC Saturdays between 11.30am - 1pm.

ELITE PLAYERS
AABL is a domestic league for players age 16-20years that exhibit superior ability and aspire to play at elite levels incuding American College and professionally.

ELITE COMPETITION
The league offers offers a hybrid American-Australian style of play. A fast paced, physical game that allows for the game to flow and players to showcase high level skills.

ELITE COACHES
The coaches are all professional coaches with high levels of experience (NBA, NBL etc) committed to mentoring the next generation of Australian junior talent.

Flyer - Athlete Explainer

UPCOMING KEY DATES 2023

September 27 & 28th
COMBINE
(Open to males aged between 16 and 20 years old)
Registrations now open
September 28th
PLAYER DRAFT (120 players will be selected into teams)
October 7th
ROUND 1 (commences at MSAC from 11.30am - 1pm)
December 9th
CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND"

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Dr Dre
Last year

Anything is better than the NPP & SDP junk that is served up by Basketball Victoria run by the so called High Performance Head Coaches. Just wait for BV to try shut it down.

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McBlurter
Last year

Sounds similar to what I've seen out with lakeside and their saturday comp.

"with all games being held at MSAC Saturdays between 11.30am - 1pm."

2 x untimed games on each of 4 courts? So looking for 2 leagues of 8 teams?

"ELITE PLAYERS
AABL is a domestic league for players age 16-20years that exhibit superior ability and aspire to play at elite levels incuding American College and professionally."

So a tier below rep, and want to make sure the extra game the rep players take part in don't mean the gap gets wider? Or fees for 16 more teams?

"ELITE COMPETITION
The league offers offers a hybrid American-Australian style of play."

And ABA ball? Maybe Tigers colours instead?

"A fast paced, physical game that allows for the game to flow and players to showcase high level skills."

Iso heavy?

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Manders
Last year

Sounds like the intended style of play is completely at odds with the Tigers style of play (shuffle). Likely to be dominated by selfish players.

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hoopie
Last year

Obviously it will be a money earner for the Tigers, and I expect a lot of interest based on what they promise.

Thinking longer term, if this league is preparing promising players for the US and professionally, might the players have to sign a contract so that Tigers also get financial reward if said players do go professional or to the US?

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DeepWombat
Last year

The domestic league sounds like a feeder to their US tours program.

In my experience, Aussie kids going on most US tours are somewhat misled about whether that will create any interest in them for future US college scholarships (hint: it will not).

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Manders
Last year

Agree DeepWombat. It says that it is not-for-profit, but I expect it employs people and no doubt will involve US tours where people will make some money. They are fun, create great life experiences, but that's what people should think of them as. If anything comes of it beyond that, we’ll great.

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