*Dau

Few others that seem common knowledge

Hunter from pioneers to west
Spear to sturt
Valk and fauser to flames
Johns , Cody and Isaiah to south from southern
Centenera and humphries to Southern
Adcock to centrals
Lampshire to eastern

Premier league to NBL1

where is Kubank going to?

Kubank to mt Gambier along with Desantis. Johns and Humphries the only real decent names on second list, maybe Spear.

Leah Metcalfe to return to North women

North looking really strong with recruits.

Spear will rip up PL. Thomas is back in the US and won't play this upcoming season. Jordan West to follow Spear to Sturt.

Why Spear go to Sturt instead of West ?? $$

If Sturt were chucking $$$ around surely they would buy some imports unless this year they've finally had enough and decide to do so. Would actually be a good time to with mt Gambier gone, southern a shell and north looking like they took a swing last year and struck out. Plus despite Turnage Norwood are even unbelievably even more lacking in depth. Forestville the only spenders again so this year would be a good opportunity to go for it. South might have opened the chequebook but have an idiot leading them.

Given the ruling by BSA allowing Forestville to treat Rios as not a restricted player I see the 2020 season being somewhat under-whelming for reasons given above. Only potential interest will be if South can get a third import to challenge Forestville

Whos going to challenge them on the court? North lose their lynchpin, south gains him but hes playing footy and a bad coach. Southern lost most of starters, if not them all actually. Norwood thinner than an anorexic on a diet with a rookie coach. Who else is their? Most have lost pieces, sturt may well be the big improver, calling it now.

Who do southern actually have besides Humphries and their cheap import?

South has Starling Morris johns + potentially another import. South and potentially Sturt as only teams worth paying to see Forestville play against

Apparently Humphries bringing a mate from WA, Centenera is shit now so that's a waste of time. Maybe if they get a decent import they might be ok. Good to see loyalty is based on a chequebook.

Rumours have it that Rigby Alphabet is turning down a Mt Barker mansion to go North

I hope for Rockets sake by north you mean Centrals

South don't have morris

is Eastern getting anyone else? Isn't lampshire like 40?

Eastern are a irrelevant club
Coach can't even return a call from a quality import that has played pl before and is all ready to go

souths recruits may be good players but all three of them will be playing games of football on a saturday before premier league games, none of them are putting a focus on basketball, its just a side hustle

Well it seems BSA wants an uncompetitive season to launch NBL1

Anyone remembers Petty's article about culture, seems if you put the team second you're welcome.

There is no way Scott Lampshire is a Mavs, he hasn't been around for close to a decade unless you count social comps

Exactly,who's Scott Lampshire?

Heaps of south juniors were made promises by petty, all training for nothing now

Thanks Jamie

Eastern has probably has so much trouble recruiting they wouldn't even acknowledge a good recruit if it hit their face

In all fairness if Eastern put together a team of old guys who have retired over the last 5-10 years (Lampshire, Gerlach, Braithwaite, Phillips, Scanlon, etc) they would still be better than what Eastern have now.

what do they even have ?

The above South post makes about as much sense as a Petty timeout. If they struggle early, would a mid year sacking be possible? Maybe Deano to the rescue!

If south will really have a roster of that caliber, then they will need a coach of that same caliber for it to work

All the recruits would have known him from a couple of years ago when he was assistant, surely they would realise how bad he is. Or as assistant was he just part of furniture. Or are they thinking they'll just ignore him and coach themselves.

south players don't care, they will be so sore from playing football they just need to worry about not getting stuck in traffic and getting to the game on time to pick up their pay checks

south won't sack petty mid season, they wanted to but he had a contract locked in

Returning to North.

Brandon Holloway is Dave Humphries mate coming with from WA. Very solid PG.

1. Holloway
2. Humphries
3. Centenara or am I missing someone
4. Koop
5. 6'10 big white guy out of WA.

Is it nbl1 this year? Heard something on the Adelaide game.

So southern has no tiger juniors? Spent big on Humphries, 10k, Holloway must be getting bit also. Centenera is washed up, definitely won't start. One budget import, will they get another, if so will the savings on one mean a decent new one. Who's this big from WA?
Anyway the balloon finally burst, after years of waiting.

Adcock was one of their only remaining loyal juniors and even he walked...says a lot about the management really

Ummm...Adcock was a Forestville junior.

^^ Hilarious, southern fans don't even know their own players.

ok jamie

Rigby alphabet no longer heading back to mavs?

Where is he going?

I certainly dont think it is a one person attack on Jamie. South Adelaide handed him the keys to the station wagon so those involved at board level are equally as clueless about what it takes to be a successful coach at this level. This coming season will be a massive test to see if he can coach with a $ team?
His mission statement to the club upon hiring him was development and promotion of South juniors into the PL team, 12 months later that has changed to the Southern Tigers playbook of hired guns at any cost.

Woodville looking strong how did Whitmore fit Mcgriff, Mcgee, Standbridge and Thomas in his budget??

Whitmore promising a co commentators seat at ABL Grand Final....bloke is a media behemoth

Thomas not there, going to US apparently, McGee would get peanuts and other import looks bad therefore cheap. Still expect their zone though. Don't think McGriff will have a season like his previous at Norwood.

I wonder how many seasons it would take for whitmore to realise that zone doesnt work at PL level

March.

This season will actually be quite exciting, I expect the finals to look completely different to last year.

Forestville have bought a championship.
South, Sturt and Woodville big improvers and may sneak into finals.
Norwood will always be around the mark.
West will be in the bottom half and North waiting to see who they sign.
Tigers will be battling for bottom 3 with Mavs and Centrals.

Zone only works I guess if you are the eagles and in a final vs pioneers , then it's ok to use

Who's centrals got? Considering they're just playing with the trinity team in reserves

That's Centrals team. Sapwell should be back, quit his div 2 school because he was stuck to the bench in his junior year, quit PL last year because Ricky wouldn't let him shoot everything. Good to see he's a stayer!
Other than that no one, losing Diing to NBL1, Centenara went to southern. Who knows if the Sudanese kids will do a South game and not show up. Cupboard looks pretty bare.

Forestville buy another championship with their legal team!

Talking of bare cupboards, any import news at Eastern? What about locals?

Is it worth borderline PL players to move to Eadtern? Does it enhance their ability to get into PL or better to stay at a stronger club and improve with training with better players?

No real junior development at Mavs has caused them grief now and will for a number of years. They have had some really good juniors that have made Aus squads but lost them all. The Mens program is just a wasteland for players from other clubs that cant make teams or have been moved on from their clubs for a variety of reasons and most that come to Mavs play purely for themselves.

#494

Imo no.It's definitely better to stay at a strong club and develop than play PL and get smacked every week in reserves and PL

What exactly is stopping every club bar Forestville and southern getting sponsors to pay for players? But unfair they're the only clubs allowed to spend money.

^^ lol. Or spend money on lawyers

^lol. Or actually read the by-laws

^^ lol Or at Presidents meeting agree to the interpretation of what is meant and then change their minds and roll out the lawyers with no communication advising they have had second thoughts. I wouldn't rely on a handshake from anyone down there!!! Who runs that club now: Andy, Colin or is there someone else?

Surely there must be good younger players out there who may be displaced by being recruited over by other clubs prepared to shift clubs to prove a point to their original clubs!

southern style so your saying the president is doing the right thing by the 100's of juniors and making sure there is a club for them in the long term and not lining the pockets of a chosen few

Someone shat the bed at Southern, jumped out of it and still covered in it, moved on, now trying to throw it all back in there.

The good ole saying "leave an organisation better than when you came in" might a good value for certain individuals to learn to live by.

Southern were in a better position, but now are going backwards at a fast rate.

those unhappy people were pretty happy to cash in for a few years, now the taps stopped dripping they have bailed, considering its really an amateur competition they should probably focus on getting real job and stop bludging off of basketball clubs

IMO most problems at clubs are brought on by apathy of members, myself being a culprit. Never been to an AGM until a few years back and was really surprised by the lack of attendance. Again, imo, that's why clubs get complacent with same board members being elected by the same die hards that always attend. Yet members complain about club finances, coaches, seniors taking money from juniors or vice versa how can we get money out of juniors to prop up senior programs. If it was compulsory and candidates laid out their platform to be elected then the majority of the club can democratically elect who they think will do the best job. Then if they fail to deliver they get the chop.
Would be interesting to see if there are any records of voters against a list of total members at all clubs AGM. I would guess 5-10% and that's generous. But doubt there would be records based on current committee being glad to get in and not exposing lack of interest.

Throwing money at Senior teams to buy players was only was masking the real issues. Club definitely in a better position now.

Issue at Southern was the previous committee failed to collect junior fees. Senior teams were run on sponsors who have now not renewed.

New committee have tried to use sponsor money to pay back debts. But sponsors would rather success.

How can you fail to collect fees? Did they not send out invoices or did they not follow up overdue fees?

A fair amount of both for an extended period of time, then people had stopped playing and they couldn't be recouped.

That has nothing to do with the Senior programs or the staff, and everything to do with committee.

Whilst it’s not a bad thing for the change in leadership to try to get back into the black, sending the club backwards is not the way to do it imho.

Happens to some degree at all clubs. Many are now realising they need to collect fees up front, or enforcing no pay/no play cut offs.

I'm seriously interested to hear how the Club is better off now than 12 months ago. Apart from the changes to the Committee which were well overdue.

Most do.

But Southern has a situation where they trusted someone and that person said everything was ok, but it clearly wasn't and they were 100k in the black.

Can’t blame that on the senior team when the same committee set the Budget and paid the players and coaches.

Saw that central's men have announced they've signed their imports but haven't named them, any gossip there?

South have just welcomed their new import to town with the following on Facebook:

"South Adelaide Basketball Club are pleased to announce the signing of Tanner Giddings for the 2020 Premier League season.

Tanner is a versatile big who joins us after a successful stint in the Canadian NBL where his team competed in the playoffs, and has championship experience playing professionally in Denmark.

As you can see from the highlights package, Tanner brings size and athleticism and will be a lockdown defender along with Alex Starling in the frontcourt.

Welcome to Adelaide and the Panthers Tanner, the 2020 season is shaping up to be a big one

Tanner Highlights:
https://youtu.be/4lQTtSutBzU

#gosabc"

My question is how do South have all this money? They have never seemed to spend big before but with Johns, Starling and Giddings for this year they seem to be splashing it around. Have they always had this money? Is this going to send them down the toilet like Southern financially?

I would be thinking them and Forrestville would be favourites this year?

South is financially well managed. I wouldn't worry too much

And what happens when South get a second restricted player later in the season.

So who has each club recruited as imports/nbl players

South has the biggest junior player base,I wouldnt be worried about them at all financially

Jamie would have no more money than Al Green did, the question should be what did Al spend it on

himself

North men been very quiet after a lot of announcements last year. Lose probably the best/most consistent player over the last 5 years. Moved into brand new stadium, will they be able to compete again or did they throw everything at it last year. McVeigh officially re-signing would help but losing backbone of defence and rebounding a huge loss.
Obviously need a big for an import and logic would say an import guard.

How much does McVeigh cost ?

Whatever it is made all star 5 last year over Starling and is better value for money over a 30 yo wanting to play football too

Obviously 3 new starters with imports and Bj gone.

Going to be a fair gap between top sides and bottom sides like Mavs
Around 50 points

If south can't win and make grand final with that lineup there is something terribly wrong

But most know that

If they sack Petty and pay out contract I'm sure there are good coaches that would take over for nothing to win title. So this contract talk isn't really a factor.

Heard a rumor North has talked with Riewer a bit from Centrals last season. Would be a good import guard for North. Him and McVeigh would be fun to watch together

If riewer comes they must be keen on Boone his girlfriend

If riewer comes they must be keen on Boone his girlfriend

Think womens teams is full. Riewer is playing in Croatia right now, so I wonder if he would leave.

Sam Johns and Brad Ficken unveiled as Norwood SANFL players

Weren't Tigers supposedly broke? Have announced two women’s imports & a men’s import + rumours of Humphreys.

Perhaps the people who left weren’t the problem, maybe it’s those who stayed.

Centrals making some moves judging by their
Facebook.

Humphries confirmed on Facebook. Must still have an open cheque book.

Can anyone at all confirm or deny NBL 1 inclusion for 2020?

Centrals making moves. New training singlets and a kid from WA. Heres his Bio. Look out Forestville!!!

I am about 196cm tall and am good at most sports, my passion being basketball. I have been playing the piano for quite some time now and played cello for one year. I am considered by others to be a good communicator and also listener.

So right now would it look something like

Forestville
South
North
Woodville
Southern

Norwood
West
Sturt
Centrals
Eastern

North and Southern lower and Sturt and Norwood higher

By great recruiting means opening chequebook despite previous year stating developing within. And could revisit awesomely but if coaches terribly it doesn't mean much.

Premier league is 100% NOT an NBL1 conference in 2020

To be fair, South opened the chequebook last year too: nobody wanted to play for them apart from Jonnek. They got lucky that Southern imploded and Starling had issues at North.

Despite the presidents voting 9-1 yes , please explain how you believe the premier league is not going to NBL 1 this year

Or did North have issues with Starling?

Both, obviously.

Because the NBL1 is already announced for 2020.

2021 is probable at this stage. But it's not happening for 2020.

^^you obviously know nothing

Ohh it's happening , you are just clearly out of the loop , if you have a president go talk to them

^^Or you're not in the know. Let's go with that since the issues were visible and documented on here last season.

^^ so if you have issues do you bury your head in the sand and assume issues can never be resolved. You need to keep up to date!

Resolved by switching clubs...

Back to topic, any word on imports? Or any other signings?

Who is Forestville signing as their third restricted player - Teys?

Yep teys is signed

Wow. Forestville will be strong. From last year lost Deng and replaced with Brine and an extra year of development for their juniors. Team to beat

Southern Tigers with another signing this morning and the following on their Facebook page:

"PL SIGNING | We are excited to announce the signing of Viont'e Daniels for the upcoming 2020 Premier League season.

Import Viont'e Daniels comes to us following his graduation from Washington State University where he was a 2 year starter. He is a great 3pt shooter, a tenacious defender, and he prides himself on his playmaking. Playing in the Pac 12 conference he consistently guarded the best guard on the opposing team, which includes lots of future NBA players such as Lonzo Ball and Markelle Fultz.

He led the Pac 12 in assist/turnover ratio his senior year, and led the league in 3pt FG percentage at 45% the year before. Overall he is 3rd all time on Washington State University 3pt FG percentage at 42%.

He brings high offense, while also bringing tough defense. A team first guy, a humble person, and a coach on the floor for us.

#HearTheRoar
#ClubTeamPlayer"

I didn't think they had any money? Please someone elaborate on their finances.

Heavy resume for a PL import

Career averages of 6.2 ppg and 2.7 apg

Tyson-Thomas to Norwood women.

This Vionte guy has played in the Pac 12 and started. He would have to be one of the best credentialed imports in the league. There's no way he is out here for peanuts.

As someone else mentioned surely now it has to be a case of the people still there being a bigger problem than those who aren’t. Or have they fallen into some cash no one knows about?

Yes he started and apparently a great 3 point shooter but averaged 6.2 points and 2.7 assists. Something not right here

He will dominate at PL level. The problem is you have amateur PL coaches who have little to no insight on international game nor expertise to evaluate imports. Very high level imports out of college come much cheaper than people realise.

The issue could be with this guy if he has been oversold, gets out here and realises he is not playing in 15k seat facilities, with access to training courts, s and c coach etc etc etc. That can go pearshaped really quickly.

I think you'll find that southern has both of that...whether they deserve it or not is a different issue

I thought they had no money so weren't going to get any imports?

Or have they "restructured" their other staffing to be able to pay for it?

They did advertise for a finance officer, maybe they are trying to get in early before they start. But I thought they already had a point guard coming from WA with Humphries.

Daniels appears to be more of a combo guard who played the SG at Washington state. So maybe they ars getting both

Reached out to Schenscher apparently.

Plus last years women's league mvp who wouldn’t have been cheap either.

Humphries asked and got 10 grand, this import guard probably a bit less, WA guard around 4 grand, Koop the leftovers after post match meal. Women's import a package deal with coach husband, at least 10 grand between them. So about 25 to 30 grand on mens team, don't know who else they got for women. Compared to previous years probably a quarter of their budget, in terms of other clubs, about the middle of the pack.

What happened to Max Calligeros. Is he the missing big?

Also I wouldn't worry about finances. They can always have a special levy on juniors again

Went back to Sturt hasn't he?

This import guard is much more credentialed than Turnage was. He's be on the same as his first year deal minimum. Laughable to say it’s a quarter of the previous budget I’d say it’s at least on par with2019 spend.

But they are $100k in the red because of a failure to send out and receive fees.

Why would you spend money on seniors which loses money, especially with the sponsorship decrease, and get rid of junior management which makes money.

Classic Basketball SA thinking which leads to a loss in junior coaches and players over time.

Southern are spending more than they did last year but less than 2017,2018.

I know CJ Reed played in a different conference to Daniels but his stats were significantly better for the Div 1 college he attended. So who is more credentialed then. Is he better or worse than CJ Reed?

Can't compare the 2. Daniels by far as long as he has kept developing himself through college at that level he will be far better. Probably will average 25+ a game.

Humphries will shoot enough to average 25 as well , if you are right that's 50 points sorted

That gives them 50 points. Not sure 50 will win too many games though

Their other import is a monster too ex Harlem globetrotter he will probably average 20.

Ohhh they then got rid of the one currently playing reserves?!? If that is the one he won't average 20 in PL

Why not? also highly credentialed and killed reserves last year.

stop posting Koop

So the above are saying Turnage, Drmic, Johns were payed less than Humphries, new import and Aussie point guard. Don't think so champ!!

Humphries is 10k minimum. 2 imports. And a recruit from WA.

Against Turnage, Drmic and Johns probably they only ones being paid.

I'd say 2020 is paying minimum what 2019 paid.

Drmic and Turnage on WAY more than Humphries and new import. Koops getting peanuts, few of the previous players got petrol money. Not even close

Did Drmic play in 2019? I thought issues arose in 2019!

Drmic played the first half of the season before needing surgery on his foot, from memory. It wasn't serious, but needed to be addressed in order to be ready for NBL preseason.

The second import they brought in was to replace him.

Humphries on more than Drimic was

That's ridiculous if true. Southern simply over paying players

Drmics 1st year was on 30k. Was set to sign at Norwood with KB but was offered that much and unless Norwood matched it he was a tiger. Might have been playing games to push up price, but potentially nbl starter could command that interstate. Humphries with no nibbles from nbl simply can't compete with that despite being a very good local and freeing up restricted spot. Plus he's from here and only moved interstate because of job, relocating not a big deal. Kid that Centrals have signed is in same boat, unlikely club paying his expenses, just looking for somewhere for him to live with local family.

So does anyone know who are each clubs imports/restricted players

North Adelaide very quiet this year. Usually they'd be posting all over the place about their PL team

North has put a few of their women signings up, will definitely contend again. But all I've seen is their preseason training jumping over hurdles. No mention of imports etc. Given that Starling has been their anchor it should be interesting. Desperately need good point and big man, as well as McVeigh returning.

So North will struggle?

It will depend entirely on 1. whether McVeigh is restricted or not, and 2. their import(s). Seems unlikely that they miss out on finals.

North women will be very strong this year

Will probably scrape into finals

So who are North's two imports?

Tobias Dowdell and Aric Miller.

Is that a guess or you know for sure?

Where's the big import from Eastern last year playing?

South after round 3??

Dau resigned by centrals. Doesn't seem to be going to college anymore

All very quite from Sturt, West, Eastern and Eagles on social media about their teams......Is this a good thing or bad?

Jimma signing doesn't necessarily mean he isn't going to college or leaving mid way. They have to announce something.

sturt west eastern and forestville rarely ever announce anything (apart from 6ers for forestville)

So is Aric Miller back at North. He is a gun!

Miller is back we hear. Go Rockets. Gun for sure.

My mate said he thought he saw Aric at airport. Maybe he was right

West - probably not proud of the product they're about to put on the floor this season.
Sturt - Incompetent and un-organised when it comes to senior programs.
Eastern - same as West.
Forestville - Don't need to announce anything when you're the reigning PL Champs.

Southern sign another one.

Brandon Holloway from the SBL in WA.

Will Southern be a competitor in the comp?

Southern won't exist as a club after this season financially
They're in such mass amount of debt how are the affording to sign all these guys

They're a chance unless they go bankrupt when the first series of payments are due.

They describe him as "a true professional" but I suppose the Southern defenders here will say he's playing for the love of the club.

Their spend now has to at least be equal to last year. I’d tip more.

Gotta love their former hirearchy/PL coach. Shit the bed and leave for others to clean it all up.

It's the PL coach that sets the budget? Righto, old mate.

The issue is that they have debts and aren't making money from all these players they are signing.

Their putting the club under further financial pressure for something that is a lost cause and it will be junior fees increases that will pay for it for years to come.

Both basketball operations and club administrator made redundant and roles reduced in hours to save money ,

I know how to save money , stop paying players 10k

its a third tier league, anyone saying its good for clubs to be wasting money on absolute hacks that will never make, second or 1st tier grade basketball in this country are morons, have a look what is happening to country footy with so many clubs disappearing because they spent themselves to oblivion

Is it confirmed Aric Miller is back or is this just speculation as most things are here

Rockets Eagles final in both Men and Women.

Rockets women maybe but men have lost Starling and got who?

Anyone have scores from practice games Norwood and south played against Victorian team?

Any confirmation of where Thomas ended up signing?

Thomas moved to the US.

West and Central's announced import each.
SIGNING | Welcome to the Bearcats Robert Sampson! Robert is a long, athletic forward who is a great rebounder and shot blocker. Offensively Robert can shoot, pass and dribble at a high level for someone 6'8 in stature.

Coach Corey Maclean had this to say about the new import: "What we really loved about Robert was his ability to play both inside and outside offensively. We see a great passer and a big that will stretch the floor with his playmaking and shooting abilities. We expect a double-double each game from Robert as he is an elite level rebounder on both ends of the floor. We can’t wait for Robert to touch down in late February and get started with our group."

The Central District Lions Men’s program would like to announce the signing of Spencer Williams for the 2020 season. Coming off his Senior year at Coe College averaging 12pts 8rbs and 1.5 blks per game, shooting the ball at 76% from the field and earning conference player of the week honors throughout the year. Spencer currently sits at number 7 all-time blocks at Coe College even though only having played there 3 out of 4 years and will provide a great interior presence and rim protection for the Lions this season. Spencer comes from the same college coach as former Lions player Chris Clausen along with a high praise for his physicality and work ethic and will bring a high level of toughness for the Lions this season. Welcome to the Pride Spencer!

And West's other one.

SIGNING | Welcome to the Bearcats Nate Sheppard! Nate is a 6'6 scorer who averaged 19pts per game in his senior year at Malone. Nate amassed an impressive 1,700pts over 117 college games.

Coach Corey Maclean has this to say about our newest import: 'At 6’6 we felt Nate could be a versatile scorer and have the ability to play multiple positions on the floor. Nate can shoot the ball, attack the rim as well as score from the post. Nate is showing us he understands the game at trainings by making the right plays on both sides of the ball. He has also shown that he wants the ball in his hands late in close scrimmages. We are excited to see what Nate can bring to our group."

Are you guessing about Drmic?

Drimic and McVeigh on the Rockets. Nice 1.

If you are from Forestville the answer is yes!

south fully locked and loaded lol

they played a scratch match yesterday against themselves and still managed to lose

Rockets will be good for Drmic. He looks like he needs to enjoy ball again. Will do that with McVeigh at North. Will be fun to watch.

Hopefully he enjoys it more than Starling did.

I am sure the team at North will also enjoy it more!!!

Yeah Starling must have hated it at North, it showed by him staying on for 3 years instead of his usual effort of leaving every other club after 1 year.
Maybe North weren't the issue.

I didn't realise the Starling-North relationship was so bad last year.

The same people that loved him while he was there seem to enjoy taking pot-shots now that he's gone.

Maybe dig deeper and find out why he is no longer at north and what it took south to get him

Sounds like a pretty chaotic season at North - all very hush hush.

From my understanding Starling was being held accountable for commitments given to the club.

For over two years North were supporting Starling's efforts to become a permanent resident of Australia. Starling then chose to leave North coincidentally just around his permanent residency was granted.

This was Starling's decision.

What about Drmic and Miller

North aren't getting Miller.

So how are they going to have Drmic, Dowdell and Miller on the same team, theyre not Forestville. Plus theres only one ball, no way gunners like Drmic, McVeigh and Miller will coexist.

Probably the same people who start everything on here who have no idea what is happening but think they do!!

It makes sense.

North is now an absolute power in boys basketball in South Australia and the divide between them and the others is growing.

With new stadium, NBL1 and sponsors rolling in it is definitely time to expand their Premier League pathway as players seek to launch from their development pathway into the elite collegiate and pro ranks.

if we are still talking about crap intel, when do woodville announce Patty Thomas :)

Next week I believe.

Next week I believe.

Sturt,Eastern and Forestville (probably all set with no changes from 2019 Championship team) all very quiet. Any news from these clubs??? Be fantastic if someone in the know put together:

Top 4-5 team contributors from 2019 PL season
2020 Key ins:
2020 Key losses:
2020 Season Prediction

Pretty sure North are ok in boys thanks to the influx from Woodville. That gave them the talent and depth to build on nothing more.

And one or two age groups does not make a powerhouse.

435 yea I agree. Norwood seem to have talent come in and just go backwards year on year at an alarming rate.

North have found the perfect balance of recruitment and player development it seems. They have some talent coming through now that I've heard the likes of Kentucky, Cincinnati, Utah, UCLA are starting to recruit. Big name college coaches will soon be sneaking back into town to recruit kids in SA but this time it will be at the Rockets.

#421 but North need to be careful they don't grind these kids into the ground with all the commitments they have as well as schooling commitments.

#439, I think you exaggerate but wasn't that Sturts approach in the past?

I think you will find every club is trying to develop players at junior levels to higher levels and offer them higher level pathways and opportunities for each athlete to consider in their goalsetting. I believe Sturt are very good at this too.

Having said that a club and people in those clubs aiming to do it and actually have the capabilities and abilities to help make it a reality are 2 very different things. Parents just need to recognise this when considering their options.

Parents need to also appreciate that for 99.99% of all kids schooling must be a priority. Some coaches push their kids too far with commitments burning them out and leaving them with an uphill battle with schooling

^salty div 4 parent?

Centrals announce their 2nd import, 6 2 guard. Averaged an astonishing 6 points on 21% 3 point shooting his senior year in a div 3 school. Looks like Lions and Mavs will be in a battle for that wooden spoon.

The Central District Lions Men's program would like to announce the signing of Gebereal Baitey for the 2020 season. Posting an impressive Senior year at Emory College among the top few leaders in the nation for steals per game and known for his leadership on and off the court as well as being a tenacious defender. Gebereal was one of few student athletes at Emory College receiving honors for making a significant impact on the Emory Community. Gebereal comes to the Lions on the back end of a season playing for the Loughborough Riders in Europe and will bring some great leadership and experience to the Lions.

Is this any major change or news?

He averaged 9pts at 38% from 3 his senior year. Don't lie.

My mistake, was looking at this and thought was senior year.
https://www.emoryathletics.com/sports/mbkb/2017-18/bios/Baitey

But his European experience was basically playing at a university, not as a pro.
In every single way he is complete opposite of Riewer

Squad starting to take shape. Hopefully North can now compete with all the other stacked squads and make finals

Eastern have announced their 2 imports
Just need now 8 other non social team players

Dante Thompson and Dane Miller. Might now just squeeze North out of finals contention

^ unfortunately genius there's a team that is way better called the cheatgles!
And Drmic and McVeigh are basically the same player. Btw,who's going to get them the ball? Better imo to have gotten a pg, Riewer would have been perfect.

^ so correct. I'm now worried North might be wooden spooners!!!

#117. They are used to playing with Randle so I don't think they have too much to worry about playing without a PG who can actually distribute the ball

Eastern potentially have the best imports in the league this year, lets just hope rest of the team can keep up(pass the ball to them)

#125 they're not clearly favourites idiot!

^ ummm how is 125 am idiot as they never said clear favourites but a tongue in cheek wooden spooners comment

"North still to announce the second import signing."

Drmic is their second restricted player.

Even North couldn't afford another import anyway given how much they're throwing at McVeigh and Drmic.

#146 as if they can have mcveigh, drmic, import + import

#125 clearly the idiot making the statement earlier that north were clear favourites. She then said "I'm now concerned ", sounds like the one and same.
What's their finals record the last few years, biggest choker since Michael Huchence! And add Drmic who shit himself in unloseable grand final a couple years back.

"Throwing money at Drmic and McVeigh"
I know that North got them for the same amount Norwood paid for Turnege alone.

What are the figures then? Otherwise I call BS

I heard They're making $35000 each.

$35000 each, ha ha ha ha. As if.

So much BS. Only a handful of people would know a little bit of information and certainly not for each club

All I see is Norths roster starting to look strong and will be nice to see when done to see if they are mid pack or a contender

Pretty sure contender.

North would hope they're a contender given their spending.

MvVeigh, Drmic, Dowdell, Harding, Marshall, Schild, Aistrope and co will go alright I reckon.

lol schild

Maybe the eagles

Dewitt , Rios , teys , harris , Mays , brine

I reckon Hawkes ahould worry about winning a finals game before we make em favourites.

On Norwood they are looking very strong. Another year of experience for the Webber's and they are cherry ripe to explode onto the NBL 1 scene.

I reckon Hawkes would agree that winning a final is more important than couch potato, pre-season predictions.

Ask the Department of Immigration...

Did someone et sent back?

Where's Legan? OVER STAYED his welcome?

Is that true? Did he get sent back to the States for awhile? He's been in Australia forever hahahahah

He overstated his VISA and has been refused entry back in. Norwood have decided to move on and not put anymore time into getting it all sorted.

Pray tell, who is looking into this alleged drug use, immigration? Rubbish.

Perhaps with NBL1, gambling and the need for all players to get an ASADA certificate for registration we can see some drug testing take place because where there is smoke there generally is fire.

Who are the four clubs. I am sure others as well.

'ASADA certificate for registration'....not aware of this. Is this new?

Legan did not overstay his visa. He in fact spent most of his offseason taking Australian teenagers over to America and coaching them against high school clinics. Maybe we should ask the Webber's why he’s not back? Because the grapevine is saying that the president knocked his return back because his visa was taking to long to be organised

Seems poor planning by Norwood or it is a convenient excuse to upgrade their import spot.

The ASADA certificate is a new requirement

Is Legan seeking permanent residency leading ultimately to citizenship like Starling?