Hoops

KB Appointed to Centrals Women

Anon, I know you are meticulous with your stats, but 96 boys gone, Is that correct? Probably deserves it's own thread.

Yes, you are correct in many of your points, things have improved considerably since 3 years ago, but the exodus is somewhat reflected in the current U18's results.

Actually rechecked, there's more than 78 boys passed through, I know a number of the families personally.

The effort being put into under 10's up and the Lions weekly programme at Starplex is now showing the benefits of getting better coaching at a younger age.

IMO the exodus was also to do with the quality of coaching at that point in time in some grades and that many kids were "written off" at too young an age.

Anon

Yes 78, I have access to a list of names compiled by a previous committee member , as I said, there are many good people now in the Club and the area is one of the most rapidly expanding in the State so growth should be expected. I stated there have been positives, but also IMO and others negatives regarding loss of local players during this period.

Also it's great to see Ricky Simpson now back in the fold.

archer

confusing and contradictory statements but what the hell i will bite -

'shady deals and contracts to 14 & 15 yo' what a joke ! I know nothing like that was going on in the girls program you must be getting centrals confused with the 'best club' in adelaide
At the end of the day a lack development of the girls program saw many leave who were happy out at gawler- if any 'deals' were being done they might have stayed !!

I know this is "off subject", but I would have to agree with some of Lions comments. There have been positives and negatives in the last few years.

There is an example of a country player who is Div 3 at best, getting a Div 1 spot as his sister is a top Div 1 player.

There are 78 boys who have left the programme in the last 3 years during AJ's reign. Generally a number of players were written off at a young age (mainly "shorter" guards etc). Some statistically had the least turnovers bringing the ball down the court and the best defence.

Many of these boys had good skills and are now disillusioned with basketball.

Seen a number of games down there where opposition teams win by mainly two things, turnovers bringing the ball down the court under a press and inferior outside shooting.

Looks like they are now addressing this recently. Have had a pretty good committee and should be successful in future.

BTW - I know it's not Div 1, but ex Centrals player David Humphries as a Freshman was the highest scorer in his College Conference and Allstar 5 in the US. Had a couple of injuries at age 18 in his only year in ABL, but had potential after being the overall top scorer in the Div 1 School Nationals when he was at Trinity.

great work lion but what you overlook is the simple reason the country kids have come into the lions girls program over the last few years is there was no girls program ie. no 12 div 1 girls at all when the yorkers turned up 4 years ago . The problem has been the lack of development since then ,particularly when the yorkers girls moved up to 14's , lions could not field a div 1 u12 girls team and consequently lost a lot of what was gained. hopefully with an u 10 program underway this will change and stop knocking the country kids who have turned up to play ball and only have to meet the clubs requirements for trainings etc. It is the club at fault here not the kids. Passionate bball people like AJ have and will continue to improve what is happening at gawler but it will take time and i am sure lions are on an upward trend whilst other higher profile clubs are not