U16 SA boys as per seedings, but a fair way down the list. The SA pack is getting tight but might not be a great SA team in that age group.

Diamond Valley
Melbourne Tigers
Hill Hornets
Bankstown Bruins
Hawthorn
Knox
Eltham
Keilor
Dandenong
Sturt
West Adelaide
Southern Tigers
Central Districts
Sandringham
Basketball ACT
Manly Warringah

U16g 1st and 3rd

U18 g north Adelaide finished 7 th

Thanks Flinders.

Well done to all teams mentioned above. Just to get there is great let alone win / finish top 4. Sturt girls in particular considering state champ results. What has happened to the state champ girls club??? 12s and 14s in particular.

Do we consider classics to be more important than states?

Interesting that the travel rule got put in the back pocket over the weekend. As it is probably one of the most difficult rules to interpret, get the rule changed to allow the 2-3 steps or tighten up at all levels of the game. Nba, nbl are not good examples of the rule interpretation.

More important than "states".... Do you mean state championships????

I think the CLassics are supposed to be more important than state champs. Certainly, it's going to be alot tougher to win Classics than State Championships.

On the travel rule, it's getting ridiulous. Spin moves are not travel if your pivot lifts but does not get put back down on the ground. Likewise, stepthroughs and two-foot stops and drops steps are not travel if you lift your pivot foot but don't put it back down.

Please refs, get this right! You are killing legitimate scoring options and player's feel for the game and scoring in the paint.

I think if you talked to Forestville, they would say State Champs.

Then again, I overheard one of their coaches saying that they deserved a gold medal because they beat someone at State Champs.

Why is Forestville on such a rapid downward slide?

They seem to have access to lots of resources. Venue centrally located, fulltime staff, successful history, great facility with easy access for members to practice in, bar and canteen revenue etc. etc.

What is wrong there?????? Seem to be going further and further backwards.

Agreed with drop step and step through moves. Lost a game by 4 against a top Vic team and all step through scores were called travel when they weren't. Cost us game and top 8 spot. Yet same game they would change pivot foot on wings when going to dribble abd that was let go. Very frustrating!

Not a fan on zone defense at junior level either.

No point in expressing after the fact. Just get it right and there is no problem in the first place.

Plenty of ref coaches at the venue and always talking to the refs. Wouldnt it be great if it happened here.

I guess the travel rule isn't important anymore. Could not believe what the kids were getting away with. Happens here also but not to the extent it was there and I suggest the better refs were in attendance at the classics.

I suggest we do away with state champs. Top four after a particular round get to nominate. That's what most are really playing for.

Who coaches the u 14 Sturt girls ?

How many of the Sturt Under 14's are from other Clubs!

Where did the Sturt U18 girls finish. Didn't they get a wildcard type of entry as another team did not attend and Sturt did some heavy lobbying to get them in?

It's funny how this year this topic is very subdued, maybe because SA power clubs were poor and have gone under their rock.

Eastern, Centrals, Woodville starting to perk up a little bit!

I would consider Sturt the biggest powerhouse of all in SA & their results were pretty good. Forestville & Norwood seem uncompetitive though.

I think you'll find southern and eastern have always been up and down.

its the lions story that is interesting. pretty much non-existent 5 yrs ago to actually be competing for finals spots in alot of divisions and age groups.

so true Ruthless, that is VERY fore$tville!

Lions are on the rise due to the introduction of their U10 programme and the removal of their "State Country = Automatic Div 1" policy.

A lot of ducks have lined up in a row for Centrals of late. Moving someone on out of a position of power has helped as well.

Who would the position of power be?

I think you know who it is

Who, Peter Goss?

No don't know that's why I'm asking. So who?

Don't worry Janx - people at every other club knows who helped turn the club around, even if Centrals don't!

And I'm sure Norwood (who ever it ends up being...) will be that much better for your coaching service in future!

I'm not sure how a thread entitled 'best ever classics results' ends up talking about Centrals when their best result was 10th.

Centrals (parents) talked themselves up too leading up to Classics! Solid 10th place.

Rhythm,

I enjoy reading your posts.

Some "interesting" concepts.

So the current U18 boys group that you say had a large drop off was in U14s in 2008/09 when the new leadership took over from STARplex.

That age group only 1 team in it when they took over! That team was in Div 2.

By winter season 2008/09 the new team had grown the age group to 2 teams. One team in Div 1 (this team finished bottom in winter) and one team div 3.

By Summer 2012/13 this same group in U18s had 3 teams in Div 1, 2 & 3.

That's 300% growth and adding a div 1 team to the group and maintaining the div 2 team in that period.

The U8/U10 programs at STARPlex have been large and existed for over a decade. It took hard work by committee members, coaches to actually promote the sports pathways and the Lions to players in those programs by visiting the competitions and handing out flyers.

My question to you though is. When you had the group in U12s in 2006/07 they finnished bottom with 0 W 18 L and 412 points for and a whopping 1,032 points against. Why did your team do so poorly?? Could these thrashings go some way to explaining why the kids/including yours were not enjoying their basketball? If you added so much value, why was there only 1 team in the group by the time they hit U14s????? Why was that team only capable of playing in U14 div 2 that summer????? This is a little confusing. It's not so bad that they didn't do so well in U12s under you, you can only work with what you inherit but why were they still so poor at U14s, surely you could have left more for the U14 coach to work with??? I propose that these results demonstrate that you were incompetent at developing the U12s in terms of the numbers of players as well as their skill levels????

423851, you have missed a couple of points. That team improved over the course of the season and even though they lost all games, they improved on the return games.
Significantly, all players returned in the next season and the squad grew in size. In their return game against the eventual premiers that year they were even at three quarter time before running out of legs.