Serious question - Why are junior games held on Friday nights anyway? To me that seems like a terrible time to schedule anything. Don't people (including families with kids) do other things on Friday and Saturday nights - more so than other night of the week, causing plenty of commitment clashes?

Wouldn't Saturday morning to afternoon be better suited for this?

Saturday has an AFL showdown in Adelaide, so that would be suicidal. Some of it may hinge on availability in Perth so they don't run two games on one night.

I think Wildcat Fan meant why is junior ball on Friday night? It's the nature of the beast. There are so many junior district teams that games are played all day Saturday and most evenings. Remembering of course that most juniors are attending school and/or uni all through their junior years. I would have thought each state suffers the same issues with junior district ball and even social ball for that matter. It's just that the level of commitment is greater for district - one game plus two trainings a week and pretty much every long weekend for tournaments. So it's the juniors, their parents and all the coaches etc who are impacted by NBL scheduling.

I think Wildcat Fan meant why is junior ball on Friday night? It's the nature of the beast. There are so many junior district teams that games are played all day Saturday and most evenings. Remembering of course that most juniors are attending school and/or uni all through their junior years. I would have thought each state suffers the same issues with junior district ball and even social ball for that matter. It's just that the level of commitment is greater for district - one game plus two trainings a week and pretty much every long weekend for tournaments. So it's the juniors, their parents and all the coaches etc who are impacted by NBL scheduling.

Interesting perspective, thanks for that. Im not sure what it is in Perth, but I remember playing junior ball at Perry Lakes on Saturday afternoons. I don't know if they play on Friday's though. Going by the attendances at Perth games, I don't think they do!

I'd say avoiding an AFL game would be far more significant than avoiding junior games, so maybe the Sixers had to choose between one or the other.

I would imagine that Network 10 has the biggest say in when these games are held.

I would imagine they don't. Venue availability would be the primary concern.

It's not like the games will be on TV within five hours of happening anyway.

Previous post is a response to skip.

36ers final now confirmed for Friday night.

Tigers are saying their home game is now Sunday so it seems like Adelaide will be on Friday regardless of the Wollongong/Sydney scenario.

"Sydney are really annoying aren't they. I thought Heal was bad enough but then they have their arena booked out the whole weekend and all the other clubs that are higher seeds have to wait and see because the don't have their house in order."
You do realise the Kings don't own the venue, right?

doesnt matter if the numbers are still good even when there is a clash people should be given the option to attend if the wish
i want to attend the game but if juniors are on ill have to go to that
considering this is a basketball final the basketball community should be the ones attending