2021 - Week 5

 A’s vs. Saints A

Saints 64 defeat Reds 51.

Sam Warren top scores again with 24 and …  no recap.

B’s vs. Saints B

The only undefeated Reds team went into Saturday like they do every week, looking to grab boards, hit bodies and get out on the break.

It all started well, Noah getting out ahead and finishing, but the Reds couldn’t seem to stop the Saints from scoring. As usual, the Reds 3rd quarter was lacklustre and Saints started hitting 3’s where even their crap guy made the scorers work. 

Reds left a last minute run about 30 minutes late and ended up frustrated and empty. They’ll need to get some plays to beat man, and get hands to shooters in the future if they don’t want to end up like last year. A game they’d rather forget, hard to tell who was best on or just least bad. 65-39 loss.

C’s vs. Titans BC

Well, that was a hard one.

It’s hard to fault the performance of the Titans. Strong offensive game from Morgan, where his physical style of game was well matched to such a physical opposition.

Matt Sallis, a deadly man from the perimeter, was laying them down.

This is a good game to learn from. To learn about coordinating a structured defence and not forcing that hard shot. Ultimately, putting in the good fight.

We’ll get 'em next time. Loss 44 to 75.

D’s vs. Adelaide Allstars

This week against the All Stars again the D’s got off to a quick start again to go up 7-0 and then 9-2, before the All Stars evened the scores at 9-9. Simon Miller then pushed the D’s ahead with a fast break layup right at the 1st quarter buzzer. In the second quarter the All Star’s #9 got going making shots from 3 and also leading their fast break attack. The D’s kept in touch with shots from Lunny and Miller again in the final seconds of the half to come back to 22-24. 

In the second half, loose defence by the D’s against their #9 just gave him too many open shots from 3 point range. Meanwhile, Jimmy was doing damage of his own in the 4th quarter, hitting a pair of 3’s in the opening minutes to keep scores level at 37-37. The final minutes were played with a lot of passion, with the D’s called for 4 fouls in a row before Manners was fouled out with 2 minutes to go. Scores were tied until an unlikely 3 from their scoreless #6 with 48 seconds remaining. The D’s missed on their next trip down the floor and so had to foul. The All Stars hit the free throws and pushed the game out of reach. The D’s lost 45-40 in the end. Jimmy starred with 18 points (including four 3’s), Lunny had 8 and Bish had 7.

Reds 40 lose to Allstars 45.

E’s vs. Top Heavy

This week the E team came up against Top Heavy. This was always going to be a tough matchup going up against a multiple time league MVP and his band of cohorts but we were within striking distance for most of the game.

With the possibility of only having 5 players, we were lucky enough to snag Ollie Fox from the waiver wire to make up our team. Unfortunately for Ollie, after playing a very good game, he copped an unintentional elbow to the face which I am sure he will be feeling for much of this week. 

The Reds had a well rounded team effort with everyone putting points and fouls on the board. Jon with 3, G man with 4, Simon with 5 (and a 3 pointer!), Daniele with 6, Ollie with 9 and Hendo shooting lights out from 3 with 14 points. Hendo hit 2 3's in consecutive plays to bring us within 3 points of pulling off a surprising win towards the end of the game.

Unfortunately it wasn't to be as we fell short 41-49. Thanks to Nele for the post game beers.