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WNBL Round 15

I reckon your 5 is spot on.

Yeah it's kinda apparent who should be the MVP based on that. Allen second, Taylor third. Coffey and Cole to round out TOTY, unless they homer it and put Suzy in instead of Coffey.

So by my count, the multiple Team of the Week members this season were
Griffin 11
Taylor 6
Allen, Coffey 5
Cole, Tobin, Batkovic 4
McPhee, Nurse 3
Snell, Talbot, Nicholson, Seekamp, Mitchell, George 2

Adelaide won’t be competing next year so they will all be looking for a new WNBL team, no money to back them.

Canberra to win the GF against the Boomers.

St Blicavs and Clydesdale aren’t having their best season in Adelaide. IMO.

If Adelaide can’t get a team together, you have to wonder is St. Blicavs and Clydesdale want to return????

Canberra to smash Perth who’s game plan doesn’t hold up in finals. Boomers to beat up Adelaide who are too reliant on Coffey.

Rangers finished 5th without Blicavs for most of the season. They weren’t predicted to make finals so obviously they need more talent to be Top 4.

Well last season 1st place (Perth) got swept by 4th, but largely due to the league completely screwing us over by making us play in Canberra on a Friday, then in Townsville on the Sunday to end the regular season, and then rewarding us for top spot by making us travel to Melbourne on the Wednesday for the first semi final, followed by the terrific "home court advantage" of flying back for game 2 in Perth 2 nights later.

No excuses this year with a perfectly even schedule in the final round, and a good break before the first playoff game.

“”Looked like a bit of a disconnect between the Rangers coach and the players? The Rangers have a good squad but can't get it done for some reason.


Strange that Pederson was retiring, and she gets taken out with 50 sec to go, when the game was over. Surely you leave a retiring star in the game? or sub her out during play so the crowd can cheer her off? Not taken out in a time-out


Probably another game of not running the bench.””




Story of rangers life the last few years
Look at Pizzey and Rowe and even Antoniado who gave this season a miss sat at the end of That rangers bench for years, add to that Roberts this year and the rest of roster who were not in the rotation of the usual 6 or 7 players, and you will get a group of very “disconnected” players by seasons end

Quite a few teams are the same though, they simply don’t develop their bench players, but Canberra are a great example of why you should
Their current bench were starters for the first half of the season, sure it was due to his better players being injured or on reduced minutes due to recovery fitness, but look at them now,, they run so deep and what experience his bench now carry

Coaches like Anderson and Molloy could do with taking a leaf out of his book IMO

Doubt though you will see Anderson back at Rangers again or even WNBL

Smith will be drafted, play wnba then play wnbl in the off season.

I don't think naturalised players are here in problematic quantities just yet. They raise the standard of the league and there are still plenty of spots for aussies. In Perth's case having Steindl & Schwagmeyer means we can have a competitive team at a more affordable price, since relocating a couple of extra Opals squad-calibre players over to Perth would not be cheap.
Unfortunately WA just doesn't produce many top players for some reason. Men or women. (and then historically when one does come along we have stuffed it up and lost them, like with Garbin, and before her Cox, which I hope would no longer happen under the Lynx regime).

Cross out the L & put in A as far as Alana Smith is concerned.Brondello would swoop on her as soon as she finishes at Stanford.

It was interesting during the telecast tonight that Jenny Screen was mentioning the amount of Aussie naturalised American players in WNBL teams and the need for the teams to develop their own Aussie players like the women mentioned in the above posts.

Fair enough. I reckon he's pretty good.

And if Smith decides to play WNBL she'll be a meaningful contributor straight away, unlike the 3 mentioned, who had very little impact in their rookie seasons. She's already good, and improving by the year.

Mckays game won't transfer to wnbl well imo. Maybe a DP for Perth.

Smith, Froling and Mangakahia(if leaves early) may make a first year impact like a Aokuso, Magbegor or Rocci.


DPs or 12th option deep off the bench on some teams....
Maley -
Woods -
Brewster -
Dennis -
Nakkasoglu -
West -
O'Neill -

You get a lot of blocks when you are allowed to foul. It was the lack of intensity in the third that lost the lynx the game but the the lopsided foul count and lack of consistency in the calls didn't help. I have been frustrated with the refs all season, there is no such thing as a home call with copes and the diconzas even in the SBL, they go out of their way not to call for the home team.

You would assume right Luuuc. Interesting to see the parents of Megan McKay checking up on her after the game.They played together at St Marys.Wonder if any WNBL team is intersted in recruiting her after she finishes college this year.

Was there any news about Nicholson on the telecast? Broken nose I assume?

Definitely not the biggest budget.
Regardless, that was just a team that outplayed their superior opponent for 3 quarters and then stopped doing what got them the lead. The Lynx went totally passive. Should have won it comfortably.
Credit to Adelaide for fighting on of course. Us slowing down wouldn't have mattered so much if they hadn't started finding good scoring avenues.
I can't remember the last time I saw the Lynx get blocked that many times.

We are going to alot of players get booted next season, simply not wnbl level.

Unfortunately for Ash Grant, Molloy recruited Magbegor and probably got told by Brondello to develop her for the Opals and he is developing Purcell for the NZ national team that he coaches. She should try to get back into the above mentioned big budget Lynx roster as Andy Stewart,if he keeps his job,has developrd her from junior ranks.

Biggest budget. Don't think so.

Overtime!

Maddie Garrick getting into the Lifeline spirit, knocking down 6 threes in the win. Dandenong fought hard but got $0 donated to the cause.

Geez poor Bendigo how'd they lose yet again. All that OT hoodoo, will it carry over next season? If only Wehrung could continue her hot hand from first half. Went ice cold after that. Still, pushed Canberra to get big games from their stars just before finals. Rivals will like that.

Another cruel loss for Bendigo! Wehrung had 24 in the first half, finished with 30.

Spirit down to 6 players, with Tomlinson, Wild & Whittle all fouled out.

OT2

Spirit leading the Caps 47-38 at half time.
Seems poised for yet another team to take Bendigo to OT and inflict a painful defeat.

Forgot to mention that Perth vs Adelaide is the TV game.
There is nothing listed as being live streamed.

adelaide now has article about mad march - clipsal, adelaide cup etc and talks about looking at queens b'day holiday to may.

just for s.a. ? - will make classics / nunawading interesting.