XXXX
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VC Finals 2023

There should be some good games this Friday, pity they aren't all, or at least mostly at the SBC. A lot of Dandenong teams with Grand Finals at home, doesn't seem very fair. Favorites, on previous results, on the girls side would be:
12's Dandenong
14's Kilsyth
16's Sandringham
18's Melbourne

The 12's looks likely to be very close. Kilsyth and Sandringham would be big favorites. In the 18's Melbourne were clearly the better team during the year but Dandenong beat them in the first final, so will be interesting.

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BlueBoys
Last year

From what I've heard, SBC booked out their courts for a tournament for another sport completely? So there’s no games at SBC, so BV turned to Dandenong and Nunawading to host the games. If Knox had have made more finals and was at SBC there’d be be complaining about home finals there too. Very hard to find neutral venues that are good level venues for finals without some form of home bias unfortunately!

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LC
Last year

How's that...the State Basketball Centre sold out to Cheerleading instead of hosting, wait for it... the Victorian Championship basketball finals!

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Bluey
Last year

Basketball Victoria forgot to book the courts for the VC GF's? lmao

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hoopie
Last year

Or just *assumed* that BV would be given priority over anyone else's access to the courts?

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Biggie
Last year

From what I've heard BV supposedly overlooked booking SBC for the VC finals. You'd think this booking would be made as soon as the VJBL calendar is set.

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Phizzer
Last year

I heard the cheerleading was booked before they even had the VJBL calendar, so not entirely the fault of BV.

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Manders
Last year

Except that they always know finals are around this time, so pretty funny if not weird. How many people do they employ down there?

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XXXX
Last year

Had a look at parts of most the finals on the BV Youtube Channel, there were some great games. The 14 boys final was amazing, anybody who hasn't seen it go and watch the last couple of minutes. The 18 boys was close too, but it would have been great if both teams had all their players available. On the girls side all the results were pretty predictable other than the 18's, great win by the Dandenong girls over a very good Melbourne team.

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hoopie
Last year

Yep, the u14 final few plays were something else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoehcdnqmcI

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MICHAEL_MACGYVER
Last year

It blew me away that Dandenong was allowed to host games when there own teams were playing in them. Could have used Casey Stadium down the road to host them surely?

I mean if Casey Stadium is good enough to host Club Champs two years in a row surely there good enough to host VC grand finals?

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Phizzer
Last year

I hear what you're saying, but Casey Stadium is hardly "down the road" from Dandenong Stadium.

And yeah, BV should have booked the State Basketball Centre.

Having said that, I'm actually not convinced there is such a thing as home court advantage for juniors. I mean travel time, familiarity etc, but not sure that actually impacts player performance in a game to be honest.

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MICHAEL_MACGYVER
Last year

in the case of the 12.1s (Frankston Vs Dandenong) it would be....not so much for the other clubs playing....having said that you'd have thought that more effort would have been put into not having so many Dandenong teams playing VC finals at Dandenong....my two cents...always feels like the legacy clubs get looked after over and over with these things.

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hoopie
Last year

How many of the legacy clubs are on the committees which decide these things?

(Rhetorical question)

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Anon
Last year

So if SBC hold all finals next year, do Knox move?

Home games don't hold value when it comes to finals for Juniors. Are you going to move the classic? Do you move U14 nationals if the host makes the final?

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