My mail is that McVeigh is back in adelaide and will play , let's see who’s mail is accurate ,

Norwood over Eagles 88-78 - Is Brine 100%? Norwood have the size to take down the Eagles, but if Harris and Rios are shooting well I will eat my words happily.

North over Southern 92-75 - I think Southern will get found out matchup wise. Dowdell > Koop, Mcveigh > Coleman and Williams > Wurm. For Southern to win Coleman/Machar + Wurm need to put up 60+, Southern's arrogance will be their undoing.

Eagles vs CJ is a dress rehearsal for the grand final

Tassel and Smith can come off Southern bench and play a role, apart from them nothing, lack of depth will hurt them not arrogance

No one wanted to watch women's basketball even for free? I’m shocked lol

Eagles vs Flames - the commentators are talking over each other, low key beefing lol

Well, Nick Wurm just threw away their season. 10 turnovers, but the one when you're up by 2 with the ball and you throw a floater across court leading to a wide open breakaway dunk by Dowdell to send to overtime, that's just next level.

To be fair to Wurm Dowdell hadn't done much all game and wouldn’t have thought that play would have happened

Southern played much better once Koop fouled out. More importantly Deano winning Norths first mens final in years has the curse been cleared?

The question for next week is will Andy pull out the lawyers to stop Jack Purchase playing

Main talking point of the weekend is Lachies brother not getting any minutes, is big Greg threatening to walk out and go back to Sturt?

Yeah, not a talking point champ.
And I think Andy will rather have lawyers trying to find loopholes to get DJ, Deng and Teys to qualify for finals, get travel exemptions and wheel out next week.

Thanks Champ.

Holding such a petty grudge isn't healthy. Whatever Greg did to you champ, let it go.

Lycett has been doing that for years.

490 what an absolutely stupid post.
Grow the fuck up.

Interesting that Andy has kept Machar in starting lineup, has been outstanding since he got minutes when Brine was hurt. But Forestvilles biggest problem has been depth. Keeping Atuer as starter and then rotating Machar through the frontcourt would give them a breather. Not sure if Mays was tired or something else, but Green had some huge plays. Wasn't broken through much of regular season, can the tinkering now come back to hurt them?

Brine wasn't hurt. He was in the hospital with meningitis. I don’t think he’s full recovered either

How would Sturt be feeling right now, whole week knowing CJ is waiting for them!

I think Sturt would feel fine. They were top for a reason.

They were top for first round but second half form was poor with 5W-4L. Eagles, Norwood and North had 7W-2L for the same period.

North struggling to get past Southern I don't think they’re a real threat. Those sides had much more to play for while Sturt were in cruise mode the last 9 rounds

Forestville just need to turn up to win this week

Based on recent performances and quality of the games Forestville don't have too many problems.

Turnage will be like a cat playing with a blue ball of wool

644 relevant stat that won't help Sabres trying to add to their 5 titles in over 60 years

Sunday back for north. Its not going to be a cakewalk

Mcveigh will send the Eagles out in straight sets, heavy reliance on iso ball and expecting the refs to bail you out doesn't work in the finals. Throw in no Deng/Doyle/DJ or Teys to save the day and Andy must be having words with Steven Marshall to shut the Tasmanian border.

In the other match I think Sturt find a way past Norwood this week but the extra week off probably won't help their championship aspirations. Who at Norwood designated Turnage to shoot the technical vs Forestville?

CJ is unquestionably good but Sturt have some players that need attention too. To me I don't know an obvious match-up for Green. Is there anyone in the Sturt team prepared to do the hard nosed stopping of him

Calligeros

No!!! He is foul prone when playing tight denying man defence

Daly is one of the better equipped defenders to slow down Turnage, interested to see that matchup.

On Green he scores a lot of his points on breakdowns or the o-glass, I think the sturt role players will be able to do enough to keep him quiet. Forestville relied on their athleticism to beat him on the glass and he punished them.

Sturts bigs are soft, none of them will stop Green
Daly vs CJ? Daly been flat to the floor all season, CJ just clicking into 2nd gear and ready to cruise

Is there anyone in remaining teams who can stop green

#721 Respectfully disagree, as long as they box him out (Which sturt are well drilled on) don't think that he hurts them.
Sturt lacking bigs will also have Norwood tryin to play through Green in the post. Very much an advantage for Sturt as the possessions will likely end in a turnover or a low percentage shot.

Even if Dech plays north can't be favourites against any remaining team can they?