Oh wow fantastic.

Those times are melbourne times, so 1.30pm here in Adelaide for the U18 boys :)

May be a slight delay as it looks as though an ambulance has been called for in the u 18 girls game

nothing too serious i hope ?

sturt get a bronze in u14g, north bronze in u16g - both teams did well exceeding expectations

Tigers player hit the floor pretty hard in the U18 girls final with 3 minutes to play.

Apparently reported some pain in arms and/or neck, so ambulance called as a precaution. Player could not be moved so game was delayed by 20 minutes or so.

Tigers still managed to defeat Dandy at the restart.

Also watched boys final with Sydney Comets hanging on against Sturt.

Sturt boys seemed to spend too much time trying to win it with the long shot. Were way more productive when driving against the defense (especially #7) ... but looked a pretty good effort from a young Sydney team.

Have to agree with the U18.

They had much better height but not size.

Sturt boys let them off the hook by shooting poorly from the perimeter most of the game.

Press was effective but I think is a hard game to play in the last game of a long tournament.

Interesting that the commentators think that Vic Metro should have two sides in all Australian Champs.

Your thoughts?

If the talent was spread across two teams reasonably eventy, then VIC Metro would not win a national title. If they had an A and B team, the A team would be contending for the Gold, and the B team would be competing for leftovers...

Don't forget that some of the under 18 teams were missing players this weekend, so maybe this tournament is not a true reflection of how strong the affected teams really are.

The more interesting question around national junior champs structure is the variation between states.

Why do most states have metro/country, but Queensland have north/south ? I have no idea of the history behind this.

So given that in the other states the metro team is always way stronger than the country team ...

Would we get more even competition if all states still had two teams, but the split is geographic e.g. in Vic you could have east/west.

Of course, how to split a metro area evenly would be the challenge ... but a geographic split rather than metro/country would give a whole new dynamic to junior champs.

And what's all this about Vic dominance ? Don't forget a Sydney team won the boys and a Qld team won the girls at national schools in 2011.

Good Vic players don't even try out for the schools

@737

That u18 sturt team is actually the opposite of what you said. Theyre a lights out shooting team. They live and die by the 3pt ball. Today, unfortunately, they died by it.

So Southern to be bashing another club for success after there own failure.

Keep bringing cutting the tall poppies down fellas.

As they say.

Proof is in the pudding.

Not sure how it's a knock on that U18 sturt team for making the grandfinal. How dare they!

And I'm sure it's just a Southern mentality to think you're superstars after losing a GF. I'm sure the Sturt boys are very dissapointed.

back to the topic - the coverage was fantastic for those that could not make it interstate

anon #365815,

As a sturt person I do not doubt that Southern could very well win this coming Friday in numerous grades including the U18 Boys.

That said, if they do win this Friday it will not change the fact that Sturt are State Champions and National Classics silver medalists and Southern are not.

But I would not expect someone from Southern to understand that some meaningless Friday night game the week after classics is not a true measure of a teams year performance.

Haha woops my bad. I'm very "disapointed" with my grammar. I'm not a Sturt guy so don't really care about Fridays matchup. However, above post sounds pretty relevant.

Would love for other Adelaide clubs to give credit when credit is due. Think they earned it in this case - they demorolised a full strength Waverley team on their way to silver.

Their performance can only be good for basketball SA.

And anon your point is?

I doubt if Sturt will have

a) its full team;
b) any concern about actually winning this week.

Placing for all the SA teams:

U12 Girls U12 Boys
5) Eagles 6) Eagles
10) West 11) Southern
14) Mavs 12) Woodville
15) Sturt 14) Sturt

U14 Girls U14 Boys
3) Sturt 11) Lions
6) Eagles 12) Norwood
7) Lions 13) Sturt
14) Southern 14) Southern

U16 Girls U16 Boys
3) North 7) Sturt
7) Eagles 9) Eagles
13) Norwood 12) North
14) Sturt 16) Norwood

U18 Girls U18 Boys
7) Eagles 2) Sturt
11) Mavs 9) Southern
12) Southern 11) Eagles
15) West 15) West

Agreed,

From what I saw and had in refereeing, Dandenong was a higher standard than MSAC. But at least the tournament was consistant from game to game, with good communication and professional attitudes.

I think the biggest thing Adelaide refs can learn is their ability to communicate and have conversations with players.

Adelaide refs are blunt and always 100 percent convinced they are right. Players understand that refs cant get it right all the time! If refs admitted it they would be better off.

I noticed Melbourne refs have two-way conversations with players. Rarely happens here. Welbourn is the only one i can think of that does it.

That's what I found here in Adelaide a few years back when playing.

The Refs were precious and not willing to communicate with players and/or coaches. Always thought they were right and never admitting getting things wrong.

I understand the job is hard and some calls aren't always right, but a bit of communication would go a long way and add some respect.

I couldn't believe ,not one three second call in both my boys classic and nunnaw matches?
Well done SA teams.Good to see some opposition teams supporting sa teams against victorian in the 14`s?That wont last long?
Lets take it into the weekend .

#039, I'm tipping that you don't actually understand the 3 or 5 second in the key rule.