Hoops

POTW

To keep the award in SA - Angela Marino.

(25points -narrowly over Batkovic 26 and 35 points)

Adam Ballinger wins NBL
WNBL can't decide between Batkovic or Jackson

I think its Suzy Batkovic-Brown in WNBL. 26 points 18 December and 35 points 20 December.

Might be Matthew Burston and Lauren Jackson

Love Batgirl Batkovic - you go girl!!!

Deanna Smith narrowly from player of the month Batkovic,and Lauren Jackson third in only 22mins.

Liz Cambage 34points and 17rebounds - That was easy to pick- this week's winner.

Batkovic again - Francis second Cambage third.
(Gilchrist kinda third)

Be good if Gilchrist gets it - helps in the build up v Hodge game here on Saturday. Extra people in Adelaide with the Test match and the like.

Interesting Francis and Gilchrist both won their first together 4 weeks ago and both look like winning their second together also.

Might be Gilchrist and Francis again.

Batkovic who at 29 years is 193cms, been to 2 olympics
Cambage just turned 18, 203cms likely to go 2 or 3

So Gilchrist Ballinger Hodge Rychart the last winners

So they've gone back to the "wins mean more" way of thinking? Dusty's supposedly consistent round, including that solid 2 rebound effort, means more than a 24 point performance in a narrow loss....well, for this week anyway.

Dusty Rychart

And the winner is too close to call.

Don't forget the Tigers lost. He has it in the bag.

16 points 1 rebound 4 assists and 6 TOs should get it for him surely

it has 2 be julius hodge every week or people won't go to games

Heres some statistics from the NBL Points per game: 1. Cortez Groves 24.2 Hawks 4th 2. Chris Anstey 22.2 Tigers 2nd 3. CJ Bruton 20.4 Kings 1st 4. Martin Cattalini 20.3 Taipans 5th 5. Shawn Redhage 20.2 Wildcats 7th The entire top 5 are in teams that will make the finals. 3 of the players came back to the NBL competition this year. Redhage got released from New Zealand and is performing better. Maybe the Breakers dont handle there players well? Farley averaged 19.3 points a game, .2 ahead of Black from the Bullets. The top 6 best foul shooters in the league are in thee finals. The top 4 teams in field goal percentages are in the finals. The top 10 (and counting) players in 3pt percentage are part of teams in the finals. The top 10 players in assists are in finals teams. The top 3 players in fouling are from non- playoffs making teams. Just shows, that the teams with a major player, players who share the ball, teams that shoot well are going to make the finals. Townsville was the closest team to any other making the finals in the stats and led total rebounds. Just shows that maybe Rillie needs to stand up and Newley. Also share the ball more and get better field goal percentage. Then they might have been in the finals, or at least be in the race when the season draws to a close. Maybe replacing Stacker might be a good idea.