Hi all
So here we go, an attempt to keep the wonderful blog running
while Palk tells all of Europe how awesome our Club is.
We have just 2 minor round games to go. Don’t forget about the Players’ Player event
Saturday week, 31 August. Love to see
you all there - please RSVP! It’s at The
Seven Stars from 6.30, voting to start at 7.00pm. As Palk says “This is always the best event of
the year so make sure to make it out”
I am not going to try to recreate the ladders into this
thing, they’re on Facebook - they get updated every Monday night. Just add
yourself to the group. https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/142686532586762/
If you’re not on FB or can’t join the group, then email me
& I’ll send them to you.
In brief though, the divisions are as follows:
A/B Grade - Exciting news that the A’s have leapfrogged Gateway
with a superior percentage, & the B’s jumping Saints A into 3rd by
beating them on Saturday. Oops, gave
away the game report…
C/D Grade – The C’s are still top
NE1 Grade – Would appear the D’s are in 3rd &
E’s in 5th as part of a SPOC B sandwich, but think this is the wrong
way around based on results.
NE2 Grade – No change, F’s top, G’s in 5th
Lady Reds – No change, Lady Reds still in 3rd
To the reports:
A’s – Reader’s Digest version written by Reggie – awaiting full
report
Apparently this was potentially a danger game if the boys
didn’t approach the game with the right attitude. Down on numbers and losing Phil to a nasty
ankle injury, but the Reds started strongly against the Corner and blew the
game out early, up 47-13 (or so) at the half.
They missed a lot of shots they should have finished but still won 70-30(ish).
B’s – by Hillusion *
The B's turned up coachless and in a state of disarray with
no scorer to be seen. The first half is one the B's would rather forget only
managing to score effectively once they changed from man to zone D, down 14-28
at the break. Second half the B's hit the "shooting end" and everyone
raised up to the challenge of the coach's role. The players stated talking,
rebounding had never been more one sided and reds starting hitting their shots.
Hillusion with 4/5 threes in quick succession, Darcy hitting shots inside and
out and everyone scrambling on any loose ball. Reds hit the lead at 33-31 a
17-3 run. After that reds got as much as a 10 point lead and held off for a 6
point win. Ace 18, Hillusion 15, Beast with 9 for a 51-45 win 37-17 second
half.
Editor’s note – Bill kept interrupting me on Saturday at
Cedar to tell me that his A’s lost to our B’s.
Bill was pissed. Reggie was
happy.
C’s – written by G
This week the C’s were up against Holdfast B. These guys are
as good as they are groomed. Not very. Last time we struggled early on, playing
down to their level before blowing them out in the second half. This time we
wanted to get out to a good start. We managed to do that and take control early
and maintain throughout. We were up 24-11 at half-time and ran away winners
56-19. G had 30, Tom 13, Hendo 6.
D’s – written by Reggie
The Reds went out for the grudge match against Saints B
knowing that a win would go a long way to helping their quest for a Top 4
finish. It was a good first half, a tough
contest early, the teams trading baskets en route to a small deficit,
21-19. Kirkham hit a couple of treys
& had 8 for the half, Jono with 5. Our
D wasn’t too bad, but we let them get a few easy cuts inside & cheap buckets. We didn’t get the ball inside as often as we
should (again), relying on a lot of outside shots which unfortunately weren’t
dropping this week. It was much the same
in the second, although we gave off too many looping passes and didn’t hold on
to the ball – SPOC picking our pockets & passes for easy layups. In the 2nd half there were some
good highlights, Pritch hitting a nice floater, Wildy active (but picked up 4
fouls for his troubles), Lunny finished a nice feed from Jono, Krantz continued
to fight inside; but the margin got too much in the end and we went down
45-35. Kirkham finished with 11, Jono 9,
Krantz 7.
E’s – written by Reggie
According to text messages on Saturday**, Bubner held
Garfoot to 0 points. Without wanting to
spoil a good story with facts, Oakden had in fact advised they couldn’t field a
team & forfeited.
F’s – written by Bad Bad Leroy Browne
The F's were without Udit this week and shortly into the
game we lost Phil to a calf injury. We're hoping Phil has a speedy recovery and
he's back on deck for finals.
We got off to a slow start against the Ballers and it didn't
get any better from there. Missed shots, poor passing, stupid turnovers and
general bad basketball were the order of the day as we went about playing our
worst half of basketball for the season. Good shots weren't dropping and we
were put off by the slow pace of the Ballers' offence while doing everything
wrong in our own offensive half. We were slow and ball movement was terrible
and even good shots were missing. I have nothing nice to say about the first
half. Also we hit 1/8 from the free throw line.
We lost the first half by three points and went straight
into the second playing the same useless basketball we did in the first. It
took Stu hitting a sweet triple to get us fired up and back into it. After a
timeout we moved to a man and removed their ability to hold up the game in
offence. The faster paced game suited us better and the shots started dropping.
Stupid passes and other dumb shit still threatened our chances of an undefeated
season as did number 23 on their team who got 10 for the half. Both teams got
into foul trouble and luckily their best player only hit one of his two
attempts then they lost a player for the last minute, leaving them with four.
Jay got fouled near the end and dropped one to give us the lead by one point.
All in all some terrible basketball with bugger all good things to say about
the game apart from some good intensity from Road Train running 40 minutes and
some effective man defence in the second half. Brad got 9, Jay 7 for a 22-21
victory. We are going to need to play much better than we did if we are going
to take the flag.
G’s – written by Hitman
After a tough month of games, the six-man G-Force looked to
get their season back on track against SPOC
D, who had 13 surnames on the scoresheet, but only seven players who
suited up. The game was tight from the
opening tip-off, SPOC playing their usual shoot-and-crash-the-boards offence,
slowly accumulating baskets, but at the other end Reid continued to find gaps
in the SPOC defence to answer. Some strong running in the middle of the first
half gave the Reds a small lead, and only a SPOC bucket on the buzzer cut the
Reds’ half-time margin to one, 14-13. It
was clear from the first half that SPOC only had two reliable shooters, and we
planned to shut them down in the second half.
A good start by to the half by G-Force, with some excellent ball
movement for clean looks resulting in buckets, pushed the lead out to 5. The defensive pressure on SPOC made it
difficult for them to get up a shot let alone score, although it only took a
momentary lapse for their best shooter to hit a 3 late in the game to give them
a slight chance. However the range of
offensive options available to G-Force soon pushed the lead back out to 5, and
some steady play late in the game against SPOC’s desperate pressure preserved
the margin, G-Force winning 30-25. Reid
lead all scorers with 14 points, Brendan added 8 and Sam had 6.
Lady Reds – sorry I don’t have a game report for this – unfortunately
can see from the ladder was a loss to Unley A, but based on % looks close.
* sounds like a new fragrance – I’ll bet it has a girly
looking bottle though
** with one Alex Bubner
Sime’s Super Selections - Week 14
3rd - Nathan Graham -
D's
2nd - Reid Amos – G’s
1st - Darcy Aistrope -
B's
Week 15
| Team | Date | Opposition | Time | Stadium | Court |
| A | Aug 24 | Gateway A | 3.30 | Powerhouse | 2 |
| B | Aug 24 | Brighton A | 1.50 | Powerhouse | 1 |
| C | Aug 24 | The Corner A | 5.10 | Powerhouse | 2 |
| D | Aug 24 | Taperoo A | 2.40 | Cedar | 1 |
| E | Aug 24 | Knightsbridge B | 3.30 | Cedar | 1 |
| F | Aug 24 | Golden Grove A | 1.50 | Cedar | 2 |
| G | Aug 24 | Spicer A | 4.20 | Cedar | 2 |
| LR | Aug 24 | Adelaide A | 1.50 | Powerhouse | 2 |
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