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Premier League Round 4 Power Rankings

This round:

Southern > Centrals
Sturt < Eastern
South < Woodville
North < Forestville
Norwood < West

Congrats to Tom Daly and Jaz Fejo on round 3 POTR honors. Ironically enough both scored 40 points, same as Harris in round 2 yet no hate towards the decision. Perhaps no one else had those highly important double doubles that round. Good to see scoring a lot of points is still an important criteria for POTR. Great to have players in this league that can put up those numbers.

Thoughts on this weekend's matchups?

Best game night presentation apart from Mount Gambier is Southern easily. South, Norwood and West have improved their night and the others are about on par. Bottom two game nights with not much atmosphere and are basically dull are Sturt and Eastern.

Best game night presentation apart from Mount Gambier is Southern easily. South, Norwood and West have improved their night and the others are about on par. Bottom two game nights with not much atmosphere and are basically dull are Sturt and Eastern.

The presentation, atmosphere and game experience will probably improve again once they move into the new 40million dollar complex which will also increase seating capacity significantly.

What else can you do there apart from looking at a blue lake and smoking meth

In the mount, about 900 or so

Any news as to how the supposed audit at southern is going?

How many people from the general public who have nothing to do with the teams would come to your average game?

Maybe but think you might be underestimating the strength of the Eagles, Rockets, Bearcats and Flames.
Either way some great ball will be played.

Looking forward to Mt Gambier climbing through the power rankings over the next couple of weeks. Richard Hills ability to get the best out of his team is being extremely underrated. They won’t lose too many more games this season.

Don't get carried away with Eastern being a Cinderella or even top 6 team. They had one win that equates to probably 5-6 wins over the past 4 years. Whats different other than the two imports looking decent? The coach will find away of losing with his carry on.

I think you will find the growth is as big as it has been in history. The problem is none of that equates to revenue growth for PL. And PL growth does not equal revenue for juniors.

Just look at the Sotuhern miss right now.

Im from a PL club. Gambier deliver a product that has demand and is quality. The small minded SA people who can only rave about -
Dont spend money on PL, only families watch PL and build your juniors only ( rather than do both ) are why there is no growth in ball in SA.
With all the new stadiums capacities and potential for growth in SA, ALL clubs should be attempting to put on the best product, on and off the court, that they can.
The model of only building juniors ( rather than do both ) has yielded very little growth overall in SA in the past two decades.
PL clubs could learn alot from the Pioneers model, and they dont even have the junior's!!

$18 admission to Icehouse worth every cent.

Presentation, atmosphere and game experience.

Get a movie ticket for the same price if that's more your thing..or watch the free livestream.

or just continue whining...and STAY away.

The league looks really healthy three rounds in, with some real talent showing through in games. Just on the topic of the Pioneers charging $18 for admission, whilst I don’t agree with this inflated price I understand the cost. When you go to a Pioneers game you get the whole package and it’s a great night’s entertainment. The music, promotions etc are first class and extremely professional, it’s a show and worth the price of admission.
PL clubs need to watch closely and bring their game nights up to speed with what works and can pull crowds in. I would like to see how clubs are ranked on their game night presentation, announcer, music, promotions and crowd interaction.

Will take a little bit of time for those Rockets to find chemistry, am sure they will be just fine. BJ is fitting in team wise, Starling and McVeigh will destroy teams together and Dowdell compliments those guys. Dont stress about North, they will be there at the pointy end.
Totally agree with Woodville, poor import recruiting again and only one person is at fault there.
Eagles are just plain scary right now and should be number 1 in the power rankings. Getting Teys clarification changed allowing Mays in has put them levels above most other teams.
Norwood are and will be tough but rely on very few and they will have top be up and about all season.
West look good and balanced but yet to meet a contender. Imports look exciting, core still solid.
Gambier will be right amongst it but still not sure how they will go against the top 2/3. They will win alot of home games i suspect.Sam Daly joining Tom beef them up alot.
Southern lack shooters outside Drmic and size, will see how Deano coaches without the best rostor in the competition. May miss out this year.
Eastern will pinch a few, particularly from the bottom five. No wooden spoon going there this year.
Centrals new import arriving will help but how an import can be brought in this late reflects the culture of the club really, season started almost a month ago guys.
South and Sturt, not much to say but young and average teams that will be fighting to stay out of last at this point.

To be honest the bottom 5 teams will be ranked mainly by the imports. Easterns look good, woodvilles absolutely terrible. Why keep the import that was injured a lot and erratic, is he a 2 but streaky. Everett carried that team in second half. Other one looks ok but underused and is he a good fit. Baffling move by Whitmore again, should have used one spot as a ball handling guard, about the only depth they have is chunky post players. Has to be gone at end of year no matter what his links are to the powers that be.
Apparently Centrals 2nd import touches down this week, why the delay. And their 2nd female import is still playing in Europe, is it a penny pinching exercise to not pay them for full season. Looks like cost the women 1 if not 2 wins. Men's guard is a shooter but hasn't looked for them, only 4 shots against eagles. Locals ridiculously talented athletically but look like they have no idea out there sometimes on both ends.
Mavs could be the Cinderella of season won't make playoffs but looking ok so far.
And looking at results, is the vaunted recruits of McVeigh and Bj upsetting the apple cart at hillcrest. Bj showing his immaturity and thinks he's a shooter and is McVeigh taking top dog role away from Starling. May look good on paper but chemistry could be lacking. Losing to flames with no bigs and arguably having best frontcourt is cause for concern.

End of season looking like

Contenders:
Forestville
North
West

4/5 Gambier/Norwood
6th only just Southern

Daylight

The rest



Top 3 have a great mix of imports + veterans for the club. Both West Imports look super reliable. And they have a bunch of club juniors filling roles for the club. Forestville have come out hot and have stars in every role. Forstville junior Harris taking another massive step. Forestville junior De Wit fitting in superbly as a distributor and defender at PG.
North too will be right around the mark come seasons end. Will be extra dangerous if they get Harding/Marshall back from College. Hard to see these 3 teams not being the top 3.

But Gambier might pop them off. Have not seen a single minute of them but the pedigree is there. And a tough home venue for opposing teams. Norwood to make finals IMO after a nice start but not sure they have championship winning balance. Likewise, depth looks to be a bit of an issue if an injury occurs to one of their core 6.
Southern re-tooled with another set of ex forestville/sturt juniors (how many southern juniors do they have now?) but will just miss out. Johns looking grumpy to start the new season. Has the rent at the hackham mansion not been payed on time? Can "Coach of the year" Nyberg pull out a 4th straight finals appearance at Southern despite not having the clear best roster this year??

I reckon Sturt can turn it around and get some wins here. South looked pretty garbage besides their import big. Woodville should be doing better. Don't know much about Centrals besides what I saw v F'ville. Can they defend and be strong inside? Definitely looks like they can run and attack the paint and might pick up a few surprise wins as the season goes on but lack of experience will hurt them. Eastern turning it around? Lol. Imports look decent but no structure, no culture.

Kids are asking for Molten basketballs and for those who know how many Guthries there are, we're looking at taking out a second mortgage on the house to buy them. I know this question has been asked before but ..... anyone know where the best place is to buy one, two, three, four, five, six (OK, I'm exaggerating now). Thanks.