Hoops

Premier League Round 2

Wow. The blue and gold hate is hilarious. Can't even accept that a 19 year old kid who drops 40 at about 60% including 7 3's at 50% could possibly be POTW. What is wrong with these people. Its not like he gets a grand or goes into the running to take home a car at season end. He gets a BSA facebook post and then hate. Get a grip people, he has talent and when on is great to watch. That should be enough, shouldnt it?

But other people had double doubles!!!!!!

Maybe scoring a lot of points and arguably playing better than everyone else earns you best player.

I know, it's a flawed system. We really need to reward the mediocre.

Score the most points and you win best player, seems to be how it works???

How many of those double doubles included 40 points?

2 turnovers in 35 minutes does not help your case...

Harris POTR - Really...There were players out there that made double doubles. He also had 2 TO's which is nearly as many "assists" he had. I think we can all ready through this.

Brian Moultrie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft5JueX7IBo

Highlights from the west/southern game.
Both west imports did well in first game out

Harris had game of the round

Mays can definitely get higher. I've seen both him and Brine get higher last year at southern

Purely talking about Starlings dunk, I think only Mays can get higher!!!

Anyone see Wests new imports? Any good?

Starling and Dowdell do fit, even though it was mentioned they were too similar to work.
McVeigh still finding his place in that front court but once he does it is a very exciting front court.
Mays and Deng are formiddable but Deng seems allergic to the keyway most of the time.

Shit. Fair call. Harris had a game for sure.

Rios had 15 off the bench. That’s an impact player.

Anything to win a totle hey???

What are we all here for again?

Why is someone's personal life that much of an interest to you? You sound like a bunch of gossipy old women. Would rather be discussing the quality of the basketball getting played than the quality of the person playing it. But that's just me i guess. Typical Adelaide shit, nothing better to talk about.

Yeah Dowdell has worked out well for North. He's a good fit with Starling. Not sure about Rios back at Forestville though. Barely notice he's there. No impact whatsoever.

What BS is North saying??

All I am reading is that they had his signature but for some reason screwed up the contract. No one does with a player the calibre of Mays unless they had concerns.

Anyway the way Dowdell has started they must be pleased with the outcome

Forestville, how much denial are you in???? Anything to win title hey.

But the bs that North might have to say definitely would be coming from the fine folks down South. Ah well good luck to Forestville, they've made their choices and hopefully things go well for them and Mays doesn't have as many "issues" as people are saying and if he did have problems i hope he's sorted them out. He looked the goods in his first game back judging by the highlights. I guess we'll all see as the season goes on.

Back to round 2 results though... thoughts??

Not from Southern talking about Mays, but ask around why North screwed up his contract and the rest wouldn't go near him. Strange that a 6 9 athletic beast wouldn't be signed except by the most unscrupulous guy in the business. Not a case of regret or sour grapes, the guy has some serious problems that can't be discussed on this forum. But will be interested to hear what the fine upstanding folks at Wayville have to say, not just a matter of bending the rules for Johnson, if anything happens be it all on Andy's head!

Maybe some people should be looking harder at the players within their own club and what they're doing instead of concerning themselves with others. Maybe if they did that their team would be doing better. I'm not a fan of Forestville but it seems like some clubs can't take a little competition.

Lot of talking about Mays so called "issues" but not much describing of what it actually is . Guess there's a fair few from down South Jealous the eagles are 2-0 #undefeated

So are you saying it’s true anon?

Deano's clearly mad his team is crashing and burning without much talent there

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones..

Are you suggesting ASADA might be interested

Wah

Andy will do anything to win title, DJ debacle last year was a disgrace but signing Mays just shows what he values. Mays doing something spectacular not limited to on court stuff, there's a reason why 5 clubs refused to sign him because of his off court antics despite his talent.

Mays always a chance to do something spectacular.

There's a couple of guys with 'potential' to produce some fantastic dunks this season! Going to be exciting!

Yes I have and yes athletic but would have to be great

I have seen him.

What does the round have to do with Starling's dunk being ridiculously entertaining? I hope Barkley shows us something better, but that's just 'potential' at this stage.

Calling dunk of the year in the second round!!! You obviously haven’t seen kentrell Barkley from the mount play yet!

Yep, that was crazy. Most probably the dunk of the year.

Go to North’s Facebook page and look at Starlings dunk. His head is almost rim high!!

Sabres are short so the 3 game is a good option if they are having a good night. They know they are undermanned and inexperienced. It is mostly made up of youth league and players who are relatively new to this level. No comparison to North obviously with their talent and maturity and North would understand that. They too have been in the same situation as Sturt. Stop making this a thing with Sturt and getting excited at perceived fall of a club that is just not true. It’s ridiculous and there is more to be concerned about at other clubs.

Sturt played really well against North but when the Rockets got out of second gear they had no answers. The Sabres live and die from the 3.

Kyle De Wit had 16 assists! Anyone remember anyone else doing as well?

Both bearcat imports look the goods. Once their less experienced key players (ciggas, rennie, johnson) get into groove and used to playing 20+ minutes of physical basketball they will be contenders

Sturt with culture issues, stemming from the appointment of an immature captain. Won't be making finals anytime soon.


Agree Mays makes F'ville heavy favourites. Thats a very scary starting 5 with a few very good roles players coming off the bench.

Eastern somehow kept it close with Norwood? What happened over there? Norwood look to have no depth outside of Matty Long off the bench. Might struggle vs the teams with big frontlines (North F'ville Gambier?)

Dunk of the year by Starling!

Dunk of the year by Starling!

Well that was a good game from Sturt with all the chatter about them they went down by 15 at the end of the 4th but kept within reach until the end of the 3rd. With pretty much a youth league team and a couple of seniors and budget import that’s a good result. Any other suprises ? Are Sturt’s so called woes they are not concerned about nothing compared to others.

Forestville now heavy title favourites.

Mays in for Forestville.

Norwood eastern highest scoring game of the round.

Is it time for BSA to review the age grouping of Basketball? Has BSA ever done a survey on the reasons why junior players leave basketball to play other sports?

Was speaking to a 14 year olds parent today who's child (a div1 Player) was giving up basketball to play U16 football! The child had told his parents that he wasn't comfortable playing against 17 year olds and would rather play football against kids of his own age!

At what point does one think it's ridiculous having a 16 year old play under 23s, when they would have been under 18 for the entire season of under 18s???