2018 SACBA Round 6, SAABL Round 3

Stop eating donuts and get me reports on time damn it!


19/05/18

SACBA Round 6

PAOCBC Gold (3^rd)

defeated by

SPOC F (2^nd)

35-26

A new foe awaited the Gold team when we strode out onto the court this week. SPOCF were their name. We had a suspicion that the game plan for them would be throw up garbage and crash the boards, something that we all have seen before from SPOC teams.

It turned out that they had something new up their sleeve. Something we like to call “put a B grade player into a low grade team”. A reasonably effective tactic, if not quite in keeping with the spirit of the competition.

No comments this week about the reffing, we all know what I am likely to say.

RT nearly started the scoring for the Gold team, with a shot that went up and rolled around a little, before coming to a rest between the backboard and the ring. Some 25 plus years of ball under my belt and that was a first for me. It was perhaps an apt metaphor for the rest of our game.

Palky is fond of the mantra “foul shots win games”. This was particularly true for this game, where we missed 11 and lost by 9. 24 attempts and 10 points isn’t going to win us any awards.

B-Rad high scored with 11.

4 each for RT and Trev.

3 each for Caldy and Flair (first points for the season Flair? Will have to check the stats).

1 for Nele.

Missing from the action this week were Hendo and Mike.

Post game discussion leads us to the conclusion that we need to go on bended knee to Phil Walker. A few more games played to get him to qualify for finals would be handy, we already know he qualifies for post game beers.

Red (6^th)

defeated by

Seeds Uniting A (1^st)

27-51

This week we played the undefeated Seeds A team. They got off to a really quick start breaking out to a 28-6 lead by half time.

Seeds were getting lots of easy looks off of baseline cuts and good ball movement. Meanwhile the E’s were missing easy shots at the rim and Cam was struggling with foul trouble.

It took until the second half again for us to wake up. We exploited their somewhat weak interior defence, out muscling them around the basket, though by then their lead was too great to overcome.

Mike Tye and Max led the scoring with 8 points each.

The team is looking forward to BB and Josh returning to the team in the coming weeks, and hopefully we can get our first win in Central 1 soon!

Other church league results :

White (6^th) 32 def. Burnside A (4^th) 23

Lady Reds (5^th) 12 def. By Kinghtsbridge Baptist (1^st) 31

SAABL Round 3
All write ups courtesy of a certain SAABL volunteer who writes them for the

SAABL Facebook page.

A's (Red 1^st)

defeated

Forestville Eagles (Blue)(Red 4^th)

58-50

The Old Reds jumped out of the gates with a 19-4 start with Jon Foo (16 points) and Lachie Campbell(10 points) dominating the game early.

Once Forestville settled they clawed back deficit through good play from Fergus Dunne (23 points) and Elijah Weiss (17 points).

Selfy had a good second half (13 points) and Reds managed to keep the fast finishing Eagles at bay winning 58-50.

Reds are now 3-0 and top of Conference Red.

B's (Blue 6^th)

defeated by

Forestville Eagles (Yellow)(Blue 5^th)
28-43

Report 1:
At Saints, the first game was PAOCBC (White) and Forestville (Yellow) with both teams looking for their first win.

It was a scrappy low scoring game with a lot of missed shots from both teams. Forestville took the edge with Brad Hayden finding his jumper in the second half scoring 8 straight points.

Forestville had too much run with Connor (12 points) and Jack Dyer (9 points) getting out on the break.

Eagles won 43-28.

Report 2:
A tough week 3 match up against who were also winless.

We again struggled to get anything going in the first half missing plenty of open looks.

Letting our poor shooting get to us in the second half our defensive intensity dropped way below where it needs to be and Forestville got the win easily!

An undermanned B team will need to improve the effort next week as we’re still looking for our first win of the year.

C's (2^nd)

defeated by

RAVSTASS Ravens (3^rd)

41-51

PAOCBC (Reds) v Ravens was a good contest. Ravens got out to an decent half time lead by making open jumpers - Mayom Jook for Ravens was playing well.

Reds changed D in the 2nd half and started to make some shots with Brandon Reynolds (11 points) and Mitch Kirkham (15 points) but Ravens did a great job to keep Reds at arms length.

Jook (13 points) kept making shots Ravens made shots when ever Reds put on a run. Palk and Foo were iiiiiiiiiiice cold. Krantz was a machine on the boards and Lewis started to show good signs.

Good win for RAVSTASS 51-41.

D's (7^th)

defeated by

Spartans (4^th)

55-60

Spartans v PAOCBC (White) 2 was high scoring - Spartans hit 11 threes with Dave Freeman leading the way with 22 points. Selfy filled in for the Whites and had 23. Ned "Manbun Tan Chinos" Young had another great game with 18 points. Spartans got the lead out to 15 and kept PAOCBC at bay winning 60-55.

As always, game times are at

http://oldredsbasketball.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/2018-season-fixtures.html

and are subject to change.




SOCIAL EVENT?!

AAAAAnd this is the first offical annoucement of the next tailgate event.

On July 14^th there are no SACBA games, so we'd love to get those teams out to support the lads at SAABL.

The A's will be playing A-Town Warriors at 3pm, who always have a 30 strong crowd.

We'd love some help drowning them out!

At 2pm the B's will be suiting up against the Red Conference powerhouse The Schvitz,

who look to be one of the top 4 teams in the comp.

The 6^th man makes a difference, so let's get our boys over the line!

The C's then have a tough match at 4pm vs our traditional enemy, SPOC.

Let's go yell at the blues until they cry, yes?

And for double the entertainment, also at 2pm, the D's will be playing against the traitor Tim Moops,

now of Pick 'N' Pop.

This is how we treat traitors, Tim!

So get around it!

Go Reds!

(all those games are at Saints btw)