well all I can say is congratulations to the warriors - men and women.

i had their bags packed

they have made me eat humble pie this week !

Leon Karvelis looks to have the goods. Great job on Gerlach who found the hustle a bit hard to handle. Will be interesting to see how the guys go with no genuine big guy. Good luck to Brooks in his new job.

Yeah Woodville did quite a good job on him. Leon & also Cam Wilson played him tough. Having said that, I think the Tigers need to get the ball in his hands more often. Good things happen when Snake gets creative, despite him being a little turnover prone. Still finished with 20 odd points and 6 boards though.

Also worth a mention was Ben Hodges who had a typically quiet 22 points & 7 boards.

Will be interesting to see how Tigers do against South this week. Woodville take on North which will be a good indication of where they really are. Perhaps North discards Birmingham & Mapunda will prove their worth to their old side.

Does anyone know if Hardiman will be ready to play next week?

Great write up HA! Hope to see more of those as the season progresses.

Thought i'd chuck in my two cents...

Woodville certainly play an attractive style of defence and looked the far better side at that end of the floor virtually making the Tigers defence appear junior-like.

The game was one that seemed dominated by the guards. Birmingham and Wilson especially for the Warriors with cameo's from the supporting cast. Snake Gerlach was good for the Tigers and had to work extremely hard. Contrary to your comments HA! i believe that he needs to move off the ball more, perhaps in an Andrew Gaze style?

Ben Hodges played a great captains game. Quietly going about the business of racking up 22 points and a nice contribution on the boards. Between Pudds and Bowley there weren't too many going around so 7 was quite good for the undersized forward.

Hoban was seriously dissapointing i feel. I would have liked to have seen more protection from the Refs but regardless, he seemed passive on offence.

The difference for me in this game was the ability of the Woodville guards to play solid extended half court pressure defence.

Brad does sometimes seem a little lazy off the ball. He also seemed a bit frustrated on Sunday as well, as Woodville did play him well. I think Brad's biggest strength though is breaking down his defender off the dribble (and after the dribble, the man has read the David Stiff playbook, that's for sure!) and creating shots for himself or team mates. Too often the ball is in Clarke's hands for too many of the 24 seconds.

Hoban was certainly disappointing. The refs weren't too flash, but it really didn't effect either team, I didn't think. I still say that Gerlach has to be one of the unluckiest guys in the ABL as far as getting calls goes.

Hardiman looked great in warmups! Seems to have nice elevation on his jump shot, and was throwing down some reverse jams.

Thought Braitwaite was OK in his 16 or so minutes, though I'm not sure his stats reflect it. I'd say Wood was probably worthy of more than the 15 minutes he got.

Reeves was the surprise packet for me. I knew Birmingham had game (though 21 points was a bit surprising!), but Reeves is an undersized big man who is largely untested at ABL level. Came out very confident (hit the 1st shot of the game, on a 16 foot pull up). and stayed tough throughout the game.

HA!...not sure if you were at the same game as me....but generally if there is over 100 cars in the car park, it means there is more than 100 people at the game....and if you had a look around and knew how to count past 100....then you would have realised that there was over 200 people there....dear me!!

Hardiman the hottie hopes to be up and ready within the fortnight, he was walking out on it and it appeared to be just a sprain.

Jay, hodges isn't captain anymore, he stepped down last week and was replaced by clarke, with hoban named as vice. HA!, i agree with cameron, u obviously don't have very good counting skills.

Great game to start the season. I think both teams can go back and take positives from the game.

I think that most under rated player in the contest was Ben Hodges! Played a great Ex-captains game. His shot selection was great, and I'm sure he shot well above 50%.

I was severely dissapointed in the refs. I'm sure I've seen that short dude make some seriouly WAK calls out in the social league. so how the hell he got an ABA gig I don't know.

My opinion of the Tigers this year is that they are a far deeper team. Taking out Pokie and bringing back the likes of Woody, and Mr Schmall Matty H has added big depth and big hops. Plus I feel that the breakout of Sherif Hobo is only a matter of weeks away. I think that those 3 boys should be attacking the rim a bit more tho. Does any 1 know woodys 3pt attempts to FG made? Admitted he hit some good shots but its like he just slot into Jingles catch and shoot mode.

Alas this week I'll be missing the game at Marion. I'll be there is spirit! I'll have a double black for yee!

How's Jingles going btw? Has anyone heard?

A 6 banger in a brown bags thanks!

OK, so maybe 100 was a little under-estimated. But it certainly wasn't a rocking crowd like we have seen before at the Cage. There were still plaenty of viewing places vacant!

The number of cars in the car park could partly be due to the bike competition going on behind the stadium, as well? All I know is the atmosphere was pretty ordinary. In fact, I think the Woodville people were making more noise than the Tigers folks.

Hopefully more Tigers faithful will cram into Marion next week!

J Bags, logon to the SEABL homepage and check out the box scores for news on Bo-Jingles. The lanky swingman is playing reasonable minutes and putting up reasonable numbers, without blowing everyone away (has to be expected - it's a tough league).

Memo to the Central ABL - the box scores down here are available not long after the game is finished. Wakey wakey folks!

The news on the Central ABL site has not been updated since September last year. No previews, no write-up, no stats.

To whoever is responsible for that site, if you are too busy to maintain it, please find a volunteer to assist. There has to be someone out there willing to put up some information. We know the game write-ups have been done (they're on the Sturt site), so almost anyone could get them online.

"HA!" good to see you liked the shirt, I wore it especially for you (even though i've no idea who you are!). It was a great game to start the season off especially for the Warriors and their young players. Hopefully we'll see more. And being a ex tiger it was good to see those nails being hammered in, especially seeing as we play them this week.
But it was also good to see Woodville come out and make a statement first game to all those doubters!

Clubs are requested to e-mail stats and game reports to BASA within 30 minutes of game finishing, so they should have results of all games well before 9 am on Monday's.

Are they also allowed (and/or willing) to email them to me? If so, I would put them online. Or set something up so that they could upload them instantly themselves.

It would really only work if all clubs were happy/able to do that though.

I don't have a problem Isaac and I have sent Stats to you in the past, but South played away last week, but I will talk to all other Club Stats people to see if they will(can!) include you in their email list for games results.

Much appreciated. I look at it this way -- people want to see them and in the best interests of the competition and health of SA basketball, they have to be put online somehow.

I can appreciate that the person who would normally do this may be too busy, so I'm one person offering to get them up for fans to see. Fingers crossed!