Either I nailed it or no one cares about this league!

It's pretty spot on, with North and Woodville having asterisks on their records.

I've enjoyed the brief write ups. There doesn't seem to be as much interest this year generally though.

Is the import group a bit weaker than other years? Only the south guys seem to be putting up numbers.

North and Woodville are interesting. Hard to fault either so far.

Losing an import the caliber of Turnage definitely impacts the league - although in saying that, Norwood lucked into McBride who is extremely serviceable.

A number of imports hadn't played since Covid, and are still finding their feet. Not to mention we've already had the likes of Perkins and Kirksey get cut, and Rios "replaced".

North and Woodville have definitely been good, but they've also had some factors go their way which inflates their record. I think they'll finish 3rd and 5th/6th respectively.

Who else would you have in the 5?

South almost certainly in the 5 and around the same standard as North. Norwood might compete for 5th with Woodville.

I assume you have Forestville and Sturt top 2? I think North and Woodville could legitimately be better than Sturt.

Woodville got a good one in Humphries. And in South's situation it shows how bad Petty really was, Starling putting up some monster games.

No respect for Bearcats.. slowly building with talented core young but gelling. Eagles look too loaded not not contest the big dance..weaving magic when it matters...shrew old foxy Andy.. cherry ripe when counts.

What I find interesting is that the comments that South and Eastern have possibly got the two best import groupings but are only ranked 5th and 10th. That begs the question, are imports who put up big numbers to the detriment of the rest of the team the way to go or do you find two good imports who can put up big numbers but embrace the team buy-in philosophy and sacrifice their stats for the betterment of the team.

From my perspective we need to consider how well a team plays as a team rather than be blinded by individual stats. From my perspective Sturt and North best fit that view so in my opinion will always be around the mark.

Eastern second best import combo.. you're laughing!
Sturt and North have exceeded expectations to start the year, be interesting to see how they go as the season develops.
Johns makes that South team a different unit, hopefully he doesn't miss too many more games.

A competent coach does too. Saturday night without Ninnis was like watching Petty again.

eh eastern only has 1 import atm

koop is a local technically and their second import is still not here

that being said

not expecting that 2nd import to make them much better than what they are currently

Koop is officially an import nothing local about him from a league perspective. Ask Rojo he knows that now.

Mavs had a second import and cut him for a non in town import.. doesn't sound like something the maveris would do.. pumpingbup new dude if going to be finals bounded... need strong competitive teams in all format to create....

Hey Hermann how are West's doing?

West cats are doing better mavs mate.. always a guarantee there... let the season unfold and then you know who the grinders are... won't be mavs..

Haha Mavs... F**k who follows them. I'm just laughing at you clown

While the Mavs are on the rise I do t think they're quite the bench mark for Corey.

It wouldn't surprise me if Mavs do what the Rockets did last year and have a big second half and sneak into the 5

Is that mathematically possible? Do teams currently in the 5 need to basically drop 70% of the remaining games and Mavs win 80% of theirs?
Can't see it happening, Mavs just got over the line against a low budget Tigers team. By far the worst depth in the competition if their imports don't have big games each week.

Maybe I was wrong, 4 ejected last night in the Mavs game.
No one talks about this league anymore.

Because it's trash

Since Chelsea has left BSA they no longer bother promoting the League at all. Sorry I don't consider a couple of generic Social Media posts a week as promotion and neither does the public obviously. Very sad, after a promising first year of NBL1 to see how disinterested BSA Head Office has become at promoting the competition.

You're a fuckwit Sebastian.

Old Mate, I'm so sorry the truth is unacceptable to you. But cool, call me names. I won’t post again because I’m scared now. Douche

Night Wing, your love for Chelsea is admirable, but she left BSA in 2020 and wasn't working for them during season 1 of NBL1 last year. Scott Ninnis's wife Rebekah was marketing manager last season.

Yes she did. And then in what has happened a few times now, BSA paid her even more to come back on as a Sub Contractor to manage the promo of the League only. Aware of the failure of Ninnis in the role, another come and gone, but there's no question Chelsea, both as an employee and sub contracted did the best job promoting the league anyone has in decades.

Let me guess Sebastian, you got cut from a team and didn't quite make it and now have your grumpy pants on?

In a city of 1.5 million people, 120 of them get to play in the best possible competition in the entire state in one of the most even, competitive years of all time.

But your right of course because Daniel Johnson, Adam Doyle, Jack Purchase, Jeremy Smith, Alex Starling, Lachlan Olbrich, Jacob Rigoni, Sam Daly, James Legan and so on and so on are all trash?

My original post stands.

Old Mate needs a reality check I think. Mate it's great you think NBL1 Central is kind of a big deal, but it's really not.

I don't think it’s a big deal at all Threat but it’s also not trash.

Old Mate I'm 57 years old! Even as an investigator you’re a douche. The league is trash and only just above NBL1 East (which is absolute trash). But hey cool. DJ is lazy and doesn’t want to leave Adelaide. The rest are has beens who never were and never will be. Other than DJ who is picking up beer money none of the rest are ever doing anything.

But hey I got cut from a team hahaha:) cute take