Not bad. Still think North are too high in the men. A couple of solid wins and one lucky one against Woodville doesn't offset how bad they were to start the season. Drop them a couple, move Southern up a couple and you’re about right I reckon.

This week

Sturt will show North what a real team looks like
Centrals will fall victim to a loud southern crowd
South will easily take care of West
Norwood will crush Eastern (and I think Norwood makes the 5 at the expense of North or South)
Forestville will beat Woodville and questions about Whitmore will start to be asked.

North have won 5 in a row, the last 4 against teams in the five at the time. They struggled with scoring in the first have of year but that seems addressed. Only team to score over 100 against teams other than Mavs and against top 5 teams. They will only get better as they gel better. I think 2nd is reasonable. Based on current form who below them would beat them. Sturt is huge challenge. Just feel Sturt are too small

Everyone saw the flukes McVeigh was making on the weekend. North played great but it's not sustainable. Sturt with smart coaching will get it done on the weekend.

The only one who can shut down McVeigh is Conner Henry

I didn't see any flukes!!!

Daly & Spear have been very good defensively this year. They will be able to stop McVeigh and Dech so it'll come down to north’s role players who are the same guys who started the season 1-6 or something.

Sturt are in trouble with a capital T.

Not sold on Daly and Spear stopping McVeigh and Dech.

The bigger question might be the other way. Sturt scored 123 last week, can North slow them down?

Sturt did this against Eastern. Who are giving up 103 ppg. The next worst Defensive team is giving up 84 ppg.

Sturt's TWO reserves teams would likely beat Eastern.

Even with their new guys they have given up lots of points to Forestville and Woodville.

Forestville scored a lot when Dean ran his deep bench in the last Qtr

Not trying to have a dig at the coach or the club but honestly what is happening at Mavs men?
Is it just a horrible run of injuries or players not coping with constant big losses? Their bench is almost to the point of grabbing fans from the crowd to field a team.

Mavs men are a result of at least 5 years of mismanagement. These things don't happen overnight.

Norwood women the same, goes back to post 2016 when the Committee blew the whole group up.

Continual coach rants at officials is a really bad look. Ejections and multiple tech fouls isn't the way to go with juniors looking on. Club is in bad shape indeed

My predictions this week

Women

Forestville
West
Southern v the Bye
Norwood
North

Men

Forestville
West
Centrals
Norwood v the Bye
Sturt

What happened with the Norwood coach?

Is the men's coach gone?

Where is Woj?

Woj has just accepted the vacant mens coaching position at Eastern

No one seems to know what has happened to Norwood's women’s coach , he was coaching 18 girls as well , he left his previous job early in Tassie as well. Norwood clearly didn’t do their homework on that appointment. Not one player remains from the 2017 Norwood women’s squad

Norwood women's coach left his spot in Tassie because he was sacked like he has with Norwood.

Bad management by Norwood saw him sign a 3 year deal and now the financials are with lawyers. smh

So what were they sacked for? Not breaking news that Woodville hasn't got a decent roster especially without imports.
Norwood, while not great, as said in OP, capable of pulling off upsets.
Is it more cases of player revolts than committee expectations?

White anted by assistant coach?

Maybe the answer lies with asking all the ex Norwood NBL 1 players who are at other clubs

I am sure the Norwood committee wouldn't be involved as they have an appointed NBL1 GM to oversee this

North men and women go cause upsets this week.

Why aren't we playing a double round this weekend? No juniors. Can split the games over 3 days.
Why are we running the longest season in NBL1 and missing opportunities to ensure the best players can play from start to finish?

Forgot about Norwood's GM, how's that working out, seriously? And what players of note from Norwood are playing elsewhere?

Mackay, Webber, Good, Ortlepp are a few from memory

McKay and Webber were there for 5 minutes. Still don't know how those within the clan left, normally as what happens now is the coach is sacked to appease the family.

Annetts, Freer, Herriman

Which Freer? Wasn't Freer a Forestville junior? Herriman is still at Norwood too.

Should rename The Arc Parliment House, more politics at Norwood than Canberra

Scott Freer runs Woodville now.

507 thanks for letting us know, although that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, unless of course he used to play on the Norwood women's team.

Major one I forgot was Chelsea Brooks, no relation to the Norwood Kevin.

Just saw Morell has 29pts in less than 17 minutes against central's. Will anyone do a Kobe and try to individually score 80+ against them to get in record books?

Is there a sack Whitmore thread coming?

Along with a sack Petty thread

What happened with Coleman for Southern. Only played 38 seconds

Dech injury didn't look good

Power ratings will be interesting this week. Sturt North game was great spectacle. Big upsets with Southern and South losing. Some more big games next week. You can't say this season isn’t exciting

Thanks #507, aware Scott Freer runs Woodville juniors (doing a great job too), but as #523 said, I was questioning how it related to the Norwood women's program.

I presume #448 meant Madison Freer who I thought was a Forestville junior. Also Herriman is still at Norwood as well. Aimee Herriman that is, not Scott Herriman!

Did the fourth quarter between Centrals and tigers get played? Game centre saying 0 points scored

I am guessing it was. The box score showed players playing in excess of 30 minutes

Game centre says the most was 23, and the team totals add to 150, which would be 30 minutes x five positions. I'm assuming it did get played but the fourth quarter hasn’t gone into it somehow.

Is the game centre on the nbl website the only stats or is there another site I should be using

Eastern competitive against the CJs, take him out and they probably would've won, never will you see a better example of a one man team than the CJs
Best player in this comp by a long way.

I was using the NBL1 app. That shows 200 minutes

Surely CJ is NBL standard, the way he flicked the switch last night was out of this world

Seriously though, can a replacement coach takeover Woodville and get them contending again. Take away their first month or so and they're on a massive skid. And normally the beginning of the season sees the talented teams win before others come together.
And I have no relationship with Woodville and Whitmore, just think it's amazing they are 3rd bottom which includes eastern.
Is it game plan or players tuned out or even lack of chemistry. But being down twenty something at halftime, even if it was Forestville, something is rotten there. Still time, but committee need to act and find someone to step in.

Julian jacobs out injured , this isn't helping ,

Woodville have been without their standout import for last couple of games. Is there any news on why he is out?

Several games ago Woodville pushed North, the form side at the moment, more than most teams recently (except Sturt last night)

I just wonder is this a coaching problem or a quality of player issue?

What about the games he played when they lost?

They were struggling before Jacobs went out and the cracks were already appearing. Some had them as title favourites and they certainly have not lived up to the billing.

Petty and Whitmore copped it I thought unfairly on here but they're the gift that keeps on giving. South suffering a terrible loss last night at home and I believe may have lost the split on a west team who are definitely capable of winning enough to make finals.

Injuries can’t bail these two out as their teams were under performing before then.

On a positive note - it’s great that with 5 weeks to go 9 teams are still in the playoffs hunt. Highly competitive league this year.

Firstly, Woodville are now done.

Southern losing to Centrals has to also raise some questions. Are they being found out now? Although the early loss of Coleman would have played a big factor.

South and Southern are not safe but can Centrals, Norwood or West do enough from here.

Big catch up game between Flames and Bearcats on Sunday 25th. Loser may be out of the running. Centrals at this stage the most likely to push for a spot.

Will Dech be out for the season now? Does the loss of Dech and Purchase put an end to North's run? Will the JackJumpers allow McVeigh to hang around for the full season?

Lots of questions in the Men's League with 5 and a bit Rounds to come!!

Worse thing about South's loss last night was West were all over the split in the last minute and it seemed South didn’t have a clue or didn’t care. Fouled West at Perry’s request and then jacked up a terrible 3 allowing West to go for a split tying 3.

Petty's request sorry.

Pettys position would be very unstable if he can't at least get that stacked list to the playoffs

Stacked? Not with Starling outfit year and Hulland being the softest 7 footer in basketball

Has a coach been more ridiculed since day 1 other than JP? His appointment was criticised, his interview in which he dissed Al and spoke of playing South juniors was extraordinary, now this season where he has a decent team, hits rock bottom. Wouldn't say they were stacked, but definitely a finals team.

And minus Ellison, Starling & Ciabattoni, Hulland and Mudronja for half the season, they're still in Finals right now.

On top of what is already an expensive roster he also brought out and sacked and import pre season.

Mudronja Hulland Hoppo are all elite college juniors
Starling and Johns are stars in any league, South people well within their rights to ask if Petty is getting the best out of these players and the team

Neither Hulland or Hoppo were elite college juniors.
Starling is out injured, Johns has played injured all season. Import wasn't up to scratch and was replaced by Mudronja and Hulland.

Gee people just want to make up stories to throw mud around. This team minus 2 starters including a Wollocott Medalist did beat Southern 2 weeks ago.

I think what we are finding is that the competition this year is very even except for 1 and 10 where surprises happen weekly and you can make a case for anyone beating anyone in that 2-9 range

Just 10th.

West have beaten Southern and now South in the top 5. Lost to Sturt by 5 and Forestville by 3.

Sturt 3/2 in their last 5 games.

Didn't Mudronja and Holland go to COE and in the NBL this season? And I think Hoppo made a few state teams. And Starling and John's have been reasonably successful at this level. But yep, injuries are main reason. Jamie needs to tell his mum to stop posting, making him look sillier if possible.

Always plenty of excuses from South probably why they've done nothing for 25 years

Oh good, facts turns into a club bash. How hoops like.

10 games and the only positive/informative post relating to any of the basketball actually played was that CJ Turnage had a great game.

Just the same old posts about which coaches should be sacked.

Sturt vs North was a great game. Watched on stream and there was some high level team play by both down the stretch. Good to see a could of north guys aside from the 36er boys hit some critical baskets.

Any news on Dech's knee? Looked serious.

Don't think so. Maybe a contact injury. Be surprised if he misses time.

Any news on Coleman's injury??

Even with Coleman out the game was an important win for Centrals. Lual Diing has continued to impress with almost 20ppg and 10 rpg supported by Humpries 17 & 8 and Shaquille with 15ppg. One of the teams with a weaker bench than others but as long as their starters can stay healthy and out of foul trouble they can make the Finals from here given the question marks over 2 or 3 teams ahead of them.

^Are you Humphreys?

I'm not sure about Centrals not winning without Humphreys but if we were able to have a player out of the team when playing Centrals it would be him!

Sturt would be desperate to win it and have no excuses from the position they are in now. Because it must be said, 5 mens titles in over 60 years from the self proclaimed elite SA Basketball club actually isn't very elite at all.

After watching us against North I think we have a real strong chance this year. It is hard to match up on Daly, Spear and Rasmussen when on the court at once. My concern is will we lose Rasmussen before the end of the season. If so I think we may just be a gun player short.

263 Sturts entire campaign rests on 18yo availability? Hmmm not very reassuring

Sturts strength has been in it depth and teamwork. Taking out an integral part, even if he's 18, is just as like losing a Starling.

Do they lose anyone else? Does anyone else lose players?

Umm, Rassmusan is not Starling and your whole argument contradicts itself.

Despite from Daly, Sturt has no real standout stars, and won by playing as a team.
Rasmussen scores 17ppg, Starling 18. But Starling does other things a lot better. Losing depth like Rasmussen will detract from Sturt nearly as much as Starling loss, it's how come they've been virtually top the whole way, the ability to have a rounded team. Suddenly someone will have to step up from lower minutes to higher, never know, they might produce near the same, but the whole isn't always the sum of its parts. Rasmussen would be runaway winner of best youth player.

Sturt tell the world how elite their juniors are (most are poached from other clubs) so they would surely have a replacement for Rasmussen if he leaves

So has Sturt lost top spot on the power ratings given their win loss record over the past 5 games? Has North convinced anyone that they should be higher up given they have won 6 in a row, the last five against teams which were in top 5 at the time? Is Norwood a sneaky chance to upset the top five or do they lack depth? Is Forestville deep enough to go all the way? Can South build a championship team around Hulland after losing Starling? How bad is Coleman injury and will it upset Southern's chances for the double chance? Will Central's sneak under everyone's radar and make the finals. Will both Woodville and West improve consistency to challenge and finally will Eastern win a game?

Are the CJs a sneaky chance to upset the top 5? The CJs will make the top 5 cause they got the best player in the league.

At least if Norwood make finals he can't piss off to a wedding in Bali

If that is so why are they struggling in the bottom half of the ladder?

Have to give Sturt alot of credit this season.
No imports, no Sixers and still sitting on top.

While acknowledging Sturt's efforts it is not a normal season for NBL players (available 2nd half of year) and ability to get imports into the country potentially limiting the quality and number available

Sturt have the best coach in the business and the best trio of guards. Some of their bigs are terrible and that's what might cost them in the end. Could see them going all out to try and get someone like Brine from the Eagles.

Sturt won't get Brine. Brine wants lots of $’s and Sturt say they don’t pay much!

Brine is a Gun, worth every cent, he's basically unstoppable and the main reason Forestville will be tough to beat in the finals