U18 Boys State Thursday

Sturt Def Centrals
Norwood Def Eastern

Also Forestville looked fantastic in disposing for North last night by 30 or so in U18 boys. I think South beat West easily too.

Should be a very interesting and even competition.

If by even you mean, Spehr then all the other teams next, then sure.

Did you even watch U18 Nationals.

Leopard11, the fact that Spehr is a gun has nothing to do with how even the competition might be. Not a very intelligent comment at all.

anyone know if all the results are on sporting pulse somewhere???

state champs are on sporting pulse - go to basketball, then south australia, - but instead of district basketball, pick sa junior championships off the menu

http://www.basketballsa.com.au/index.php?id=68

The State div teams from Sturt doing very well. From the website, only team undefeated is the U21W 0/1 after one game. Most other Sturt teams int he state are 1/1 or 2/2. U14G 3/3.

Well done

only team undefeated? Huh??

From memory

Sturt - overall Club winner
Sturt - State Boys
Sturt Reserve Boys
Sturt tie with F/Ville for Reserve girls

Out of 20 competitions, Sturt had 16 semi-finalists, 14 grand finalists and won 10 of those. This included 12,16,18 and 20 Boys State and were runner-up in 14 Boys State. Pretty impressive results.

What are the points allocations?
First-5pts
Second-4
Third-3
Fourth-2
Fifth- 1pt?????

Anon 829

Just a slight correction to your overall totals as you had Southerns Boys points wrong and correct totals are a follows:

Sturt 32
Forestville 21
Eastern 19
Southern Tigers 10
North Adelaide 10
West Adelaide 8
Norwood 4
South Adelaide 3
Woodville 3
Centrals 0

Cheers

State Championships...yawn, boring, outdated, get rid of them. Past their used by date. Late nights, endless travel fron one end of town to the other and if you have two or more kids playing it is a nightmare. Let the top 4 battle it out to qualify for the Classics at the end of a a decent summer season. The rest can have fun in Nuna's or Ballarat ( or even Mildura subject to elligibility). It is not a longweekend so not worth including country teams in the draw to add a bit of diversity. Same old teams, same old faces same tired grumpy coaches and refs....same old blah blah blah.
The end of the winter season should see the best Clubs/teams crowned.
Sorry..over it. And yeh...like all the other 8/9 teams in their respective divisions we got beat!!!!
Talk it up or talk it down..it won't change. Even the photographers are over it.
But do not get me wrong...we still love our basketball, just not the Champs...!!!!

State Champs also use to be about the U14 Nationals and qualifying for that - now that has been taken off the table - and it makes a bit of a mockery when you can qualify for classics from State Champs results but not the U14 nationals.

And for classics? is it top 2 in each age division?

Top 4. Automatic bids.

Sturt 18 girls out!

Boring same old same old Blue Boys too damn good. Well done !!!! Again.

With that attitude, do you expect anything different to happen.

Some clubs work hard to do well at State Champs and others accept getting beat.

Ways to beat Sturt at State Championships.

1 - Work hard, get better, win on court

2 - Try to get their div 2 kids to come over and play for our Div 1 teams

3 - Discredit Sturt by portraying them as the root of all evil

4 - Discredit the actual competition

I think we are officially at Stage 4.

Agreed, Forestville (but few others) have chosen option number 1. All credit to them. It seems that option 2,3 and now 4 are in the majority however.

Hopefully, some other clubs follow their lead and take it up to Sturt.

Norwood and north seem to have dropped away quite a bit.

Is it compulsory for Clubs to participate at Div One level in the Champs?

The problems you highlight are true in many cases your solutions are not very good. In a city of over 1Million people we should be able to have 9 highly competitive district clubs. The structure of the competition needs to change I agree but Im not sure just killing off clubs, many of them servicing the outer lying areas in key growth regions, a good solution for basketball.

Basketball was more competitive 10-15 yrs ago with a much, much lower grassroots participation rate so going to back to a smaller region and less opportunities for participation may not be the solution.

Pro/rel in some form sounds like the best I have heard.

I wasnt saying that the clubs shudn't work hard, its just a big ask to back it up again after Easter. My team made the GF and we played pretty average all weekend. We can't play under pressure as we rarely have to. Our team is a step above the rest of the division bar one or two teams so our girls dont get to develop because they dont get challenged each week. I think something like pro / rel needs to atleast be tried before the basketball in this state gets any worse.

Can I sum this up by pointing out that someone has stated earlier that it was a fantastic effort by Mavericks for being runner up ,that is the difference. Sturt would not consider that a fantastic effort.
Can i also suggest also that if you want to change the result in future; get of your butt & do it, or forever shut thy mouth & accept it.