I doubt our State Champs will be anything remotely close to what you mentioned above.

Ball in SA needs a serious revamp in my eyes.

While it was obviously a very well organised and patronised event saying that the venue in Auchenflower was a full house for the final is no great feat.
Ive played before a full house there in Tuesday night mixed scrubber leage at 10pm! ;)

while that article is glorifies the system used in the carnival, i think the problem in SA goes far deeper than how quickly the ladder and results are posted on the internet. We need more information on how their management structure operates, and perhaps try to emulate that system.

It's Interfuse PR fluff first and foremost. My guess is that it would be part of their contractual arrangement with BA to produce regular articles talking up the Interfuse system. The NBL and SEABL moved away from Interfuse and have pretty decent sites.

until we have a fair grading of teams - we will never have a super attractive junior programme

get the teams balanced and more will come

the clubs and individual teams need to get behind their players - not the basketball association

basa need to make it attractive - but the bums in seats come from the club / teams

we always get good crowds - only because i rev the parents up beforehand

The problem is that there is a lot of talent in SA but no one is spotting it. I am a player in div3 and very athletic and 6"2 in height. I can dunk over players shoot and evrything else. Istarted playing district one and a half years ago. There are lots of players like me out there but no one spots us. For me the reason why i am not playing in the higher league is because i have not been in the club for long enough. SA could produce better players if people were chosen because of talent. That is why lots of players stop playing basketball because of club politics

Sorry anonymous but i don't buy that, you are not playing higher cause a)your attitude, b)there is more to the game than dunking. Do you know how to move without the ball, play help 'd' etc?

I would assume that you are in under 18's? Cause anyone that is 6,2 in under 16 & your apparent ability would be playing higher. There is no-one playing in div3 that should be playing in div1, div2, most probably but no higher.

Also there isn't a talent problem in SA it's just that the system is all screwed up. Too many kids currently in div 1 & 2 are playing in divisions that are either to mediocre or too excelled for them.

Most of the clubs are too scared to make a move into pro/relegation, most probably because if will show up their lack of effort in recruiting.

At the end of the day some kids just are not good enough, (yes they will make improvments with some decent coaching)but why put them into a situation where they are destined to fail.

From time to time people make mistakes over player, I have. But if the players is good enough they usually make it. Half the kids in my div 1 U/18 last year had worked their way up from lower divisions since U16. Including one from division 4 as a first year 18. It was a top four team with only one previous state rep, a first year. So your politic story does not wash.