SAABL ROUND 8

    DATES

•     Midseason Pub Crawl: BOOKED FOR THE 4TH of OCTOBER  (Sunday of Long Weekend)
•     Mid-December beach day at Glenelg (Specific date TBA)
•     Player's Player x Club Lunch 14th of November 
•     End of the Month Drinks @ the Stars 26th of Sept 6pm

SAABL DIVISION 1

A's

ROUND 8 by Brandon

Reds vs SPOC 50-54 

It was a tidier performance from the A's this week with much better ball movement and team play. We started the game off well jumping out to a 7 point lead. Selfy was attacking the ring with Dario and B hitting their mid-range jumpers to keep Saints at bay. Liam 'the wise' Golding spoke before the game about simply going out there and enjoying ourselves after a couple of bad performances by the team and it worked. The key for the Reds is sustaining a 2-half effort and not letting it get away from us if things start to go the other way. Seriously, every single team in this division is so even every single week is a tight game. We maintained our lead for most of the 2nd half but Saints grabbed the lead off a couple offensive rebounds whch turned into a 3. Pretty typical if you ask me - 75% of those guys have the potential to be complete hacks who throw bull shit at the ring and cross their fingers for an O board. Now that my little whinge is over - we pulled back the lead but Saints were able to hit a couple more timely 3s after a couple of Dario iso buckets to get them across the line. It's as simple as that in this div, it's make or miss and the games suddenly over. It was as much better performance this nevertheless - and hopefully we can carry this type of basketball into our next couple of games.

 

Points: Dario 17, Jono 13

         

SAABL DIVISION 2/3

B's

ROUND 6 By Mike

Reds vs RAVTASS 36-46

The B’s have hit a bit of a slump this season and the game wasn’t great. But I watched Star Wars in the morning so I will intertwine the two. We are of course the evil empire and far more interesting than the rebel opposition.

The empire is attacking the rebel fleet as Darth Vader captures the princess and almost thwarts any chance of the rebellion has by capturing the plans beamed out at the end of rogue 1. Reds hit an early lead through fast breaks and Noah being strong with the force.

Luke barely knew his parents, growing up with his aunt and uncle in a desert helping his uncle’s farm until a chance encounter with 2 droids at the markets leads him to meet Ben Kanobe (Obi Wan), who would lead him through an adventure and lead to Obi wan sacrificing himself and granting his power to Luke. The Ravens continued to change defences but they were unsuccessful at stopping the Reds as there were a lot of mismatches. Eventually a few players from Ravtass forfeited their court time to better match up against the Reds and play a man. The reds hadn’t really played against a man before, and with storm trooper like accuracy, didn’t have much luck hitting anything from anywhere.

Luke Meets Yoda, doesn’t listen properly, falls for a trap and loses a hand and finds out Darth Vader is his father. The centre of The Ravtass defence was high and long jumping Luke, despite having to sacrifice his offensive game which was abysmal, he summed up 9 or so blocks for the game, really keeping the reds out of the paint where they score the best. Tim, Mike and Noah managed to find some baskets here and there, but we otherwise struggled to finish off the rebel alliance.

Despite Hahn Solo being captured most of the game by our defence, we forgot occasionally to close out on Princess Leia who befriended the Ewok’s and ran amok in the forest of not paying attention defence.

The emperor had some solid ideas but sadly they struggled to follow through as he fouled out of the game when trying to do a little too much too late rather than spreading the workload across the trilogy of the game.  

Reds down by 10 in a game they’d rather forget, much like Episode 1,2 &3.

Points: Tim 11, Noah 10  

 SAABL DIVISION 4/5

C's

ROUND 6

Reds vs Top Heavy 49-43

Big match-up for Team Red against Top Heavy – a mob that had scored 74 the week before (a blistering score for the lockdown defence of Division 4/5).

We came out early with some nice ball movement getting easy scores for John, Morgan and Sam K. Lachy C and Sam H came off the bench, made some nice cuts and the team went on a rapid 12-0 run. This was capped off by the Reds collecting a number of charges against the beefcake on Top Heavy. Some poor defence to finish the half allowed Top Heavy to get back into the game – only down 2 at the break.

The second half was similar to the first with Morgan and Sam H finding holes in the sieve that was the Top Heavy defence. The boys continued with the soft touch of a St Peters Reverend around the rim and put this one beyond reach with one of our best performances of the year. Reds win 49-43 with even contributions across the scoreboard.

Points: Morgan 10, Crawf 9