yes only four teams are capable of winning the finals

North1 beat West 96-34 playing with only six players. The team i think will win is north thy are 20 games unbeaten from last season

Norwood1 are awesome

yes but west is well to tell the truth have the same skills as a bad div 4 team

they have pretty good guards who's accuracy on the threes are good. They do not have an inside game.

Just wondering what team do you play for Stevie nicks

sturt a theird and because of inter-club turmoil they don't stand a chance against north or norwood

Some one else i understand you play for west

norwood 1 probably or north 1- the have got to be the only teams who can win it

what do you think of the north 1 team???

I think they are a good team. The reason i am saying this is because they beat Forestville 2 from u18 div2 by a good eight points. Even though they north1 were less athletic they managed to pull off an impressive victory at State Champs.

good point

I play for North 1 and we are play ing the C grade. The other North2 are playing in the B grade. The div4 North team are playin in the C grade also.

Can anyone tell me the results of the Friday games.

Sorry I have no idea if we are playing South at the moment. We are tryin to negotiate with the other North2 team for a swap so that we play in the B grade instead of the C grade.

Anyone in the same pool as u18 div'2 sturt team??

North 1 was in the B grade competition which the (ex div3 team)Sturt team was also playing but in different pools. We only won 1 game and lost 3 games. The only game we won at the carnival was against the team that won the competition. We lost two games by a point each to South Adelaide and Forestville2 both div2 teams. The biggest loss we had was an eight point loss to a more athletic MELBOURNE TEAM. The team we beat in the carnival beat our North div2 team in the semis by seven points. Lookin back at how the competition was we had a good chance of making Grand final or making finals if we played a little bit harder. How did other teams fair in Melbourne?

great and in the next couple of weeks i have to play north 1

I have to admit the game against SOUTH team which had mixed players from div3 and div2 was the best game i have played in a long time. The game basically was a three point shoot out. We were up by 10 points in the last three minutes and South held their nerves and scored four three pointers. Good work players from South div3 i hope we can have another game like that in the near future.
The other game we played against Forestville 2 div2 team if they were playing in div3 they would be one of the best teams. They finished summer season in third spot. The team had a few injuries but we were playing a full strength team. We were leading by two points in the last 2 min but they scored four points. We had the opportunity to score one of our players was fouled with 14 secs to go. He went to the free throw line and made only one shot. If he made all the shots we would have drawn at least.

i have just seen the ladder and results and its interesting to see that the div3 comp is a close one. Especially the 3-6 position. Its a 2point difference. All those teams 3.Sturt, 4.North2, 5.Forestville, 6.Southern are all fairly even matched teams. Which one of those teams do u think will not make finals and why?

These are my reasons and the order will be below

Sturt- By the looks of them they are an ok team but there are to many individuals and they don't have great 1-3 men (not many can nail a three in a game)

North 2- again they have an ok team but the x factor just isn't there. They don't seem able to play out the entire 4 quarters only three

Forestville- Depends on how they play. If the wan't to win they will but if they don't all put in they won't get far. The way they play is extreamly strange

Southen- No offence to Southen but with the attitude they have they ain't gonna get very far. The whole team is full of individuals. If they play as a team they might even make the semi

Top 6

1 North 1
2 Norwood 1
3-5 North 2/Sturt/southen
6 Forestville

Anon your analysis is spot on. North2 i think are probably the best team to make third spot but i agree they only play well in 3 quarters and after that they ran out of legs.
Another team i think have the same problem as North2 is Norwood2. Norwood 2 have the best offence i have seen in the comp. They always ran out of legs in the last quarter. I f Norwood2 work a little bit harder they may cause a lot of upsets.

Big games this friday. Southern are playing Norwood1 and North1 are playing Sturt interesting to see how the results will be.

Sorry about Norwood 2 but i've only seen tem play once this seanson

Last night North 1 def Sturt 28-26 in a match that looked more like football game then a basketball game. Sturt was leading formost of the game until a tec foul was calledon a sturt player. North then scored 7 of the last 9 points to get the win. Sturt would have won if it had made more than just 9/28 foul shots

Thats crap North1 was going to win the game anyway. The two teams played a great defensive game. Both teams could not hit any of their shots. I think Sturt got away with many fouls which the umpires did not call. They should not complain because the umpires were calling fouls against us the whole night. If we had better umpires we could have won by about ten points. Sturt also had no chance because they cannot shoot well. A warning to the other teams about Sturt is they don't play fair.

We watching your game, it looked like you play as fairly as sturt. Sturt did get away with many fouls but so did you. Stop making excuses because your team plaed a terrible game.

How come it say on the score sheet that i have in my hand this very minute that sturt missed 9 foul shoots. don't talk shit and have information that backs you up.

Just seen sporting pulse site and i am happy to see that South2 beat Forestville. Great effort by South2 players by upseting a top five team.

yep that good for my team too

RESULTS THIS WEEKEND Sturt41-35North2. North1 90-25 South1. Any other results from this weekend.

Another tough game by Sturt but they won. Both teams were evenly matched in strength but Sturt's defence won the game.

I think it is about time people were quite honnest on this forum. Sturt don't play physical they are a bunch of softies and there defence is ten times better than their offence

I am dead serious about that statement i made before. Prehaps they are the roughest team you have played because you are so used to playing soft teams in a low grade

easy brix, the Pasadena UIC reads Hoops regularly

The games this weekend have been shockers. There has been two big upsets. The first big upset is the Southern vs Forestville game i thought Southern were going to win the game but they lost terribly. The other game was South2 vs Woodville i thought South2 was going to win that game to keep their finals chances alive. The comp has began evening out and all the teams are getting more competitive. At this point in the season i see that the top 4 teams in the ladder are of similar strength and any one of them can win the comp.

as if you guys are complaining about rough play? no wonder your div 3. ive seen worse stuff then what you guys are complaing about. Aaron from sturt has elbowed people to the throat and head without a call. Rob from west has pushed people over and even thrown a small punch without a call. Half the southern team gets away with big hits. thats div 1 basketball, and your whinging about your so called rough play, haha.

Roughplay thats what i mean. Kenny from Norwood1 in div3 got blocked and pushed by a div3 player in North1 and he lay on the ground. The game was stopped and an ambulance was called to pick him up. Some other players i have seen them purposefully tripping other players and so on.

hey settle down all of you. It si rough out there but you all gotta get on with blaying basketball

Any results from the weekend?

Sturt beat centrals by 15-20 points. Does anyone know who that massive guy for centrals has come from

North1 beat Forestville 67-41. Does anyone know the results of the
Norwood1 vs North2 game

Last nights game North2, North1 and Southern won their games at Hillcrest. Southern56-Centrals28 and North175-38Woodville. North2 beat Forestville by 20+points. Any other results.

Brix whats wrong with Sturt why did you guys have such a close game with South 1. The last two times we played(North1) them we beat them by 60+ points. Is there something wrong with Sturt?

in our team this week we had three div 4's (one of them has been playing in our team for most of the season) so we only had another three players including myself. We played bad and south played very well

Excuses

Is this the South1 team i think thats just a dream. South1 winning they lost to us 'Centrals' even though we lost half of our team which made finals last season in the summer league.

Someone else even last season your team finished at number 11 in the table. There is no way in hell you think you can even beat Centrals. Because West has quit i now think you are the bottom of the table.

North1 61-36 South2 any other results from the weekend like Sturt vs Norwood1

Norwood beat sturt by three -the score was in the mid 40's. i thaink it was 47-44. There was some incident late in the 4th quarter that left a sturt player having to leave the court in severe pain but otherwise it was quite an good game to watch from the side lines.

half of woodvilles players seem to have left, they only had 6 against north last night and played the 5 or so minutes with 4 players. they played pretty well at the beginning of that game and either they got tired or north picked up or both.

I think Sturt is goin alright cause they have lost two close games to the top two teams. Good work by the Sturt players for trying to beat Norwood. Ithink the finals are going to be a close one between the top three teams.

maybe your team will win more games if a certain player starts shooting better than 28% every game.....

Someone else what a change in heart the post you made before you were trying to defend yourself and before there was any controversy you thought of posting again congratulating Centrals. Please say what you mean and mean what you say.

This is what i think about all the teams in the comp
North1- Their game is too predictable and they still win.

Norwood1- They think they are the gods of basketball in div 3 and play as if they own the league.

Sturt- They are still deciding on what sport they want to play between rugby and basketball.Personally i think they fou too much.

North2- They play the egame as if its a social game. Thay start out alright and play their last quater as if they are dead.

Forestville- Where to start they are horrible in offewnse and for a fact there are only two players who score all their points. If the players do not take risks they are never going to be any good.

Southern-They think they are a tough team and they always end up losing important games. They play hard but their shooting percentage is horribe.

South2- They are untalented bunch of individuals. All they know to do is stirring trouble. This is basketball and not a sledging comp. Please do not think you are good.

Norwood2- I tipped this team to be in the top 4 at the beginning of the season and all they have done is let me down the whole season. They are probabley have the best offence a but they do not believe in their own abilities as a team.

Woodville- The advice i can give you is play as a team. Pass the ball around and at least have all your players playing every game. The reason you are not doing as well is that i never see a full team every time you play.

Centrals- It is very hard to tell you where to start. Defensively noone does it except for the big guy in your team who is 6'6 or something. The other thing is that noone in the team really knows how to shoot the ball or even just play the game.

South1- The team looks physically capable of winning a lot of games but you just give up. You could be one of the best teams but you
do not have the desire to play the game. If you lose to Centrals there is something wrong with you.

Ans u claim south1 (11th) is a contender when South2(7th)with more wins.

The truth is South1 are good there only trouble is that some of the players play out of position. Like the pointguard is as tall as any div3 centre. ASnother reasonis that they have no confidence in their game. South2 are not any good. Their centres and forwards are weak. They cannot rebound. Their is only one player who can play and that is Iglesias

Can anyone please tell me what are the weaknesses of Sturt North1 and Norwood because it is too hard to beat them or even play a close game against them.

Two things:
That stadium did you play at and having five players isn't so bad you may get tired more quickly but you will have a better game personally, well i do anyway. If it was up to me i would only have six/seven in a team


any other results

North Player you get this right. You had a dogy ref, if i got $100 for every dogy ref iv'e had this season i would have well over $170 by now and the second thing is iv'r played with five players before against the best team that was going around and we came within 2 points of winning. It only matters how you perform on the court each game so get over it

Okay let me put this straight we have seven players in our team. That game we were playing against Southern four players were injured. So we had three fit players. One of the injured players decided that he was still going to play. The team now had four players, so this is what we did we called up a player who does not even play for the club. During the game there were only four players playing against a Southern team with eleven players. The extra player in the team was crap. He did not even have a point. In the Southern team they also had two players who also play for the div 2 team. So anonymous we could have easily forfeited the game. Plus everyone knows how bad the refs are especially at Morphet Vale. The Southern players were also talking to the ref for every call he made against them trying ot change his opinion. So if you talk about a team with bad luck thats us. If we had a full strength team we could have probably beat them by 30+ points. Considering they only beat us by 6 points.

Its interesting to see how the top 5 is shaping up.
1.Norwood1
2.North1
3.North2
4.Sturt
5.Forestville

Southern have a small chance of making it if they win their two remaining games and Forestville lose the next two games. Anyone has any opinions about the teams and how you think they will fair in the finals.

Number 35 for centrals is Richie Medhurst. he believes that he rules the league!!!!!! haha.

Is #35 the big fat player in the Centrals line up

nahh he plays guard, hes always looking for a fight!! so give him one!

Friday nights result North1 37-27 North2. Any other results

south 1 lost to south 2
sturt lost to southern

who gunna win finals? who are the contenders?

grand final between North 1 and Norwood 1


the rst of the teams are just to Inconsistent

Thats my tip also but the Sturt team as i know it will probably have some Div 2 players to help them in their finals campaign i hope no team cheats to make the competition even

Results from the weekend Norwood1, Sturt, North2, Forestville and the Southern games

Norwood 2 46 sturt 46

Sturt came from 15 points down to take the lead but 7 missed foul shots in the last 5 mins cost them a win they didn't earn

What about the Forestville game i wanna know who won that game.

Before i go i want to tell everyone that i always believed that Norwood2 was a good team as we can see from the results. They have not lost by a lot of points to the top teams. Proof the draw with Sturt, the one point loss to North2, seven point loss to North1 and an eight point loss Norwood 1. I do not know why they did not make finals. I have declared in this forum that they have the best offence in the league but they are the most disappointing team in the league.

F'Ville beat Woodville.

yet another 6th finish, thats 4 years in a row, never made the winter season finals.

no it was the second worse seasnon iv'e ever played in we got worse as the season went on.

I play for North1 and i am already seeing that it will be a hard finals now that Southern are in the finals. Our first finals game will be against North2 which will be a grudge match between the two North teams. This game as far as can tell will be a very physical game as North2 will not wnat to lose to us four times in one year.
Norwood is also another tough team to beat. The ony way to win against them is if you can shoot and play a good defense. It will be an intriguing final to see who will win the comp.

North1 50-30 North2
Great game between the two teams. North1 started very well leading 15-5 in the first quarter. In the second quarter it was more of an even game North2 mounting a comeback. The second quater ended 25-15. North2 started the third quarter with a lot of steam and at some point of the game they were 8 points closer. The quarter ended 37-27. North2 looked to have enough momentum. North1 in the last quarter stopped North2 by a couple of good blocks, steals and rebounding. They were completely shut out in offence scoring 3 points in the fourth quarter. All in all great game to watch both teams giving their all to win the game.

Go on North 2 beat those dirty southern cheats and there stuck up coach

I think when we played them in the state champs they played pretty well. The reason we won was because of some outstanding plays by everyone in the team. We dd play another time in Melbourne B grade and we lost to thm by a point in a game we should have won because we had the lead the whole game until one of their players hit the winning shot with a couple of seconds to go.
Another reason i think North1 are good is because we beat the team(Sadringham)that made grandfinals in Melbourne by 10 points. I think we could have cut it in the competition and probably be somewhere between the 5-8 spot on te ladder.

nah your joking yourself about 5-8. everyone in div 2 is bigger, stronger and faster. saying that you would make it in div 2 is rediculous. Fville 1 in div 2 beat south div 1 convincingly... does that mean they deserve to play div 1??

Its like in div2 Norwood1 finished around 7th 0r 8th. The North team was supposed to go to div2 as a second North team from earlier seasons. Our team is faster bigger and stronger than most of the teams. Proof we had eight games during the season that we scored over 70 points, scoring 90+ points twice. North1 team had ten players but after the club sent their application late and we missed out on a div 2 spot we lost three very good players who really wanted to play div2. Our team has good athleticism especially from our three guards who work very well together.

Its North 1 vs Norwood1 will be a grea finals game. With North1s awesome three gurds against Norwood's big men cannot wait for the game on Saturday.

north you have got to realise that when you beat fville, they were in the middle of a 10 game losing streak. if you played them on tehir current form, you would have a lesson taught to you.

Its 10:30pm at Wayville.
About Forestville2 i think they are awesome and i do not dispute they can beat us at their current form. I think they can play very well from the time we beat them. Good work by the Forestville making finals that was the best comeback i have ever seen by a team.

10:30am