what's not

I hate to do this being a ref myself, but the umpire who did two games at the Eastern v Sturt fixture.

Constant chatter with sturt, several warnings, then layed two T's on Eastern. Would call a foul if any one breathed too heavily on the wafer thin Ninja, in the first 3 quarters.

Not only that, but before he would call a foul to then bench, would glance at the Sturt coaching brigade. C'mon mate, you dont need their permission to call a foul...

Was very quick to disappear at the end of the game... hope the evaluator wasn't too harsh on him.

What's hot

APH

M.Bauer, played quality minutes.
D.Ng's second half 3 point shooting

Peter Maravich, are you the guy sitting behind me and shouting abuse at the umpires all night?

haha, no. I know better than to abuse umpires, as i said, i am an umpire.

It just frustrates me that the general standard of umpiring at ABL is sliding.

This guy was clearly intimidated by Sturt, and his umpiring was affected because of it. I have to give him credit for doing two games back to back, but that's the only positive i can find.

EC, no, that guy was Richard Hill. ;)

Good edition. Though I think Flop of the Week should go to Kent, for getting blocked... Twice! When you get blocked by a 6'4 Puddifoot twice in a game, you shouldn't be playing!

Hot: Tigers defeating the Panters is a good sign for the health of bball in the South.

Not: Team rebounds. Assists not being creditted.

WHATS NOT:

Watching the Pistons v Heat series by boxscores on my computer instead of on ESPN.

I am sick of un-informed comment about statistics

Re the post by Blue Collar

Team rebounds result after a shot when no rebound occurs ie when the balls goes out of court.
The program we use automatically credits the team who has the next play with a rebound.

The definition of an assist has been posted on this forum in the past.
The short version is an assist is ONLY given if the pass results in a DIRECT move to the basket which in turn results in a score.

Most of the Clubs have NBL/WNBL Statistics Panel members as their head statisticians. Further, to ensure that all calls are consistent across the competition. each club is visited twice during the season by the C-ABL Head statisticians

If you have a problem, sit with your Club's stats people during a gameand learn what it is all about.

You will find that the caller has to make on average 600 calls during the game  and they are only the ones that are recorded. There are many more judgement call, steals and assists, where a decision has to be made that results in a no-call.

Stats workshops are held at the start of each ABL season. How about attending one and learning what they are about before shooting your mouth off!!

What's Hot
The NBA final series.

The Academy, when is the new breed going to be decided?

Tigers shooting! 48% from outside, 50% FG.

Chicken Dinner's

Deep ABL rotations.

RJ's team reports, can't wait for the Classic report!

Aussies O/S. Fingers crossed Bucks pick up Bogut, could be the spark Australian Basketball needs!

Statisticians.

What's Not
Eagles - are the too Newley Dependant?

Eastern - in a slump

Parking Inspectors - no mercy

Shallow ABL rotations, dont leave quality players sitting for sake of older players ego's.

People who abuse umpires.

Umpires who get intimdated by coaches, and benches.

Multiplex - ouch.

Haters.

OGB.
I would glady attend any sessions re: statistics. Mate, you can post until you are BLUE in the face on this issue and you will never convince me that the INTERPRETATION of the assist rule in our local competition is anything other then a complete waste of time. As far as i can see, to get credited with an assist, you have to basically hand the guy the ball as he lays it up. Anything else it seems is not considered a DIRECT move to the basket.

Now, having said that, I can understand that assists of all the stats are something that is up for interpretation. It was a simple passing - not hot - comment.

Try getting up out the other side of the bed tomorrow sunshine...

Oh... and GET BACK TO WORK!

Dr. Dunk,
Eagles - Not Hot?
They lost 1 game after a huge winning streak. Big Deal.
And that loss was to a pumped up West and Truslove went for 30 and had plenty of help.
They beat North easily last week without Newley and North are going well at the moment. The big test will be vs Sturt and Woodville

Just thought i'd add this OGB...

Tigers vs Panthers Mens fixture:
88 missed shots by both teams plus 32 missed free throws - if we assume half missed on the back end then 88 + 16 = 104.

Unfortunately only 81 rebounds were credited to players - I am confused as to where the other 23 rebounds went and don't tell me out of court because there is no way it is humanly possible that 22% of the rebounds go out of bounds.

Food for thought anyway...

foxtrot, it was more a question than statement, hence the question mark at the end... but you've answered it anyway.

Blue Collar - protocol outlines a 'rebound is the controlled recovery of live ball by a player ater a shot has been attempted.' There is however an option to credit a rebound to a team on the software, which is not in the protocol, but may be practised by some statisticians. If the ball is tapped, the rebound should be credited to the person who first controls it, but in this case, some stats people may (incorrectly) credit a team rebound.

As for the rest of your missing 22% of rebounds, when there is a foul on a rebounding contest, the rebound will often not be recorded. And the ball does goes out of court more often then you'd think.

Thanks Doc.
As with most things in basketball, the stats people are slaves to interpretation. I applaud them for their efforts as volunteers.

Keep up the good work guys & gals.

Hot?

Cutting someones lunch?

ELG, I was almost going to give it to Kent again, but that would be two weeks running and three out of four for the flop. Thought I might mix it up a bit.

Blue Collar, I think you should think again about one of your previous comments:
"there is no way it is humanly possible that 22% of the rebounds go out of bounds."

Below are the individual rebounds and team rebounds for both teams from the last five NBA games and the percentage of team rebounds.

45 3 6%
37 15 29%
39 15 28%
38 16 30%
35 10 22%
49 3 6%
41 11 21%
46 8 15%
34 10 23%
34 8 19%

Surely you can't have a go at the NBA stat guys as well!
As Dr. Dunk said it is surprising how many times the ball goes out of bounds.

The Stats people for ABL do a great job - end of discussion

Double Clutch:

Maybe if he (Kent) took all the stupid accessories off he might play better, amirite?

If he doesn't place the ball on the floor after every rebound. If he works on his jumpshot to get some arc. If he improves his court vision. If he improves his post defence etc and also takes off the accessories he might play better.

Seriously I don't want to bag the guy too hard because after seeing him against Norwood I can see what Loveday sees in him. Just a shame that was a once a season performance.

Re the criticism of the ref who did both games Sturt v Eastern: My perspective saw more credit due - If you have reffed I suggest you consider what responsibility he had with virtually no support in the first game and not much more in the second. As the only ref willing to make any calls, let alone the hard ones I think your devaluation was misdirected.