Morphett Vale was good. Games were all close and of a good standard, good atmosphere and well refereed. Much better than last season. Well done BSA.

Let me understand: the pre-eminent summer league competition in South Australia, with all its hype and build up and we have one of the 10 main clubs forfeit!!!

What a disgrace!!

Charon the competition is about development.

It's about ensuring that players in the 18-22 bracket can play at the highest level possible and develop their game further.

It's not ABA. It's a development league.

I for one enjoyed the night and enjoyed seeing such a wide ranging mix in each team.

What is the issue with having a draw? A lot of professional sporting leagues have draws in their minor rounds. Are you calling the AFL and NRL out for not having overtime during the season as well?

I noticed you had a go at BSA and somehow blame them for games running late. Now you're suggesting games should have overtime as well. Imagine how late games will run if they have to play overtime.

Your post was very negative about last night but only mentioned lack of atmosphere and games running late as issues. How is either BSA's fault? If you want more atmosphere get people to come watch your team play. I completely disagree anyway, I thought having all Division 1 teams playing at the one venue was a great idea and thoroughly enjoyed getting to watch a number of high quality games.

I also noticed you offered no suggestions for improving the competition. Considering it was week 1 of the first season of the competition I would think BSA are open and willing to tweak it to make it more enjoyable for everyone involved.

I think it's important to distinguish between guys and girls. The guys comps are pretty good. The girls comps are going to take a few years to build. But overall it is a major step forward. Last year was a disgrace!

Who won all the boys games?

Regarding the atmosphere: I play in our second team in U23's. I would love to go out and see the best of the U23's play and see what I must achieve but that is impossible with all U23 games being played on the same night. So in my mind you are never going to get a great crowd to these games as BSA have made sure a key group who may go and watch cannot go.

Secondly, is there a worse place to watch basketball from an atmosphere viewpoint than the Dome with all three courts being used. What atmosphere can you get for the middle court and the side courts are not much better. Coaching for the middle court is a nightmare.

port adelaide comp was good, goodish crowd, torrens valley dominated in their game (their top side) some teams only had five or six players this will have to pick up or there will be teams pulling out due to lack of numbers. overall good start to a very good comp, good to see that it has brought back to district basketball kids who had walked away - that has to be a huge positive.

i'm for one is waiting to see how it pans out. U23s has mainly been sold on the basis of being development and for the div 1s especially development for ABA, however, if you speak to the guys in that grade who currently are in ABA squads they'll all tell you that they believed development was better with some of the older players in reserves, e.g. Crusher, Truck as they learnt from them and obviously "toughened up".

With the u23's current phasing I believe they shouldn't have regionalised it, as players are soon going to lose interest with playing the same teams week in, week out. Talk to seniors who've been involved in regionalisation and there's more against than for it.

anon 953. the majority of clubs train on mondays and would rather train then send half the squad for a game

what happened to the div 2 fully timed games?? easier to stick them all in div 2, what happens when sturt 2 plays for instance south 7, can see a masacre coming along

i dont think it is a very good idea! you get better by playing against stronger oppisition if you are 20+ you should be playing against men. this comp is hurting the reserves comp and causeing complications in for under 23s to train with the ABA teams as well as reserves. Dont understand why is has been braught in

What I am curious about is this phase system and pro/rel. This is a development competition and I know that some clubs are using it to do just that and may in some cases have stronger team 3's made up of older players than their number 2 team. They decided that they can compete in Div 2 and have chosen accordingly. What happens when there is a movement in the phaes seeing the 3rd team go up above the 2nd team. Can a club then at the end of a phase simply change the names in each team to do what they set out to do in the first place. To me you can't dictate to clubs how they develop their players and to have a pro/rel phase in a development league smacks of that.

If you don't think that can happen have a look at the results last numer between Sturt 2 and Sturt 3 where the 3 team beat easily the 2nd team. What happens when winter season comes around??

#011 that's the whole point of pro/rel

If Sturt 3 ends up being better then Sturt 2 then the better team plays in the higher grade.

If Sturt 7 ends up being better then Southern 2 then the better team plays in the higher grade.

I disagree. The youth competition was about developing players for ABA. Many old players are coming out of the woodwork who at 21 or 22 may be better players at the moment but will never make ABA as they have no intention to commit at that level. That is why some teams are putting better players down a grade.

Pro/Rel leads to clubs playing players at a level which they, the club, do not see in the best interest of the competition longer term.

Further to the above perhaps they should have stuck to their original plan of more than two division and only have pro/rel at lower than Div 2

I was talking to some players who played in Youth League Division 1 and they said that it was faster and of at least as high a standard than Reserves games that they played in over the winter.