Hoops

Norwood vs Sturt Men

The Grantham match up was great for Norwood because his extra height restricted Darren's shooting opportunities. On the other hand looking at the match up there should have been more movement and more screens - the D will break down eventuially.

Coopper did a good job on Holmes. It was great Sturt had so many young guys playing good minutes but their inexperience probably showed up on the night.

Norwood came out shooting well and overall were much better on the night.

In the women likewise - F'ville shot the lights out and the Mahony on Marino match up was a winner. Easily a better point guard and a much better defender. M Bowley was classy in her concession speech.

Cavolo, didn't realise Webber ended up shooting 6/26. I was just going by what I saw on the night, and in the first half, I think you'll find he was the one who was hot and causing Sturt the most problems.

In the second half I did notice that he missed some shots, just didn't realise it was that many! He was still creating problems for Sturt though, because he had the defence scrambling time and again.

Thanks Lethal, Matthews was the #5 whose name I couldn't remember. I agree he was deserving of the MVP as well, although Webber definitely was not far behind.

Don't normally watch ABA, but decided to get along to the mens game tonight. Impressive shooting performance by the Flames guards. Webber and #5 were too good for Sturt's array of guards. No-one seemed able to stop their speed or their clever use of picks and they just flat out drilled tough shots all night.

Holmes tried hard and he and Bowley put a good run together in the 2nd quarter that got it close for a bit, but the Flames had too many options, big men Krause and Grantham showing some good range when the defence collapsed.

I've not seen that much of Ng even at NBL level and had this idea that he was a 3pt specialist. Judging by tonights game, he is more of a Rip Hamilton type - an energizer bunny who uses constant movement to get his opponent out of position in order to score a lot from mid-range and with clever drives. Unfortunately for Sturt, tonight he never looked likely to get on a roll and Holmes scoring was not enough with the Sabres defence being picked to pieces by the Flames.

Any chance Sturt had of building momentum to get back in the game was constantly sabotaged by TO's in the first half and an inability to get any defensive rebounds in the second.

Sturt really seemed like a poor team judging by tonights performance, apart from flashes when they got a few stops and ran the floor. I'm guessing run and gun is normally their forte? Can anyone who watches ABA regularly fill me in?

Did both teams have all their regular players tonight? Sturt just seemed awfully short of big guys.

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