Basketball On The Internet.

*FLASHBACKS, my irregular "lucky dip" where I just reach into my drawers of old Australian basketball stuff and transcribe whatever I find for you.

LOCAL basketball in SA was accompanied by a weekly program called Hang Time. I couldn't get the actual copy up but this is how it looked (after cut and paste) and with the April 6-7 round evolving into the April 13-14 round. Doesn't make sense? You'll see what I mean...

 

BankSA State League      –     Australian Basketball League
Central Conference.    April 6-7, 2002   Hang Time,   Vol.5 No.1

Let’s get started!

Season 2002 of the renamed Australian Basketball League tips-off this weekend with a sea of exciting new faces ready to launch a hot pursuit of the BankSA League SA state championship title.

Yes, that sure is a mouthful but that’s what the 11 men’s and women’s clubs will chase this year.

Sadly, financial constraints has forced out the Riverland despite five years of steady on-court progress that not only produced Woollacott and Frank Angove Medallists but the most enjoyable road trip of the competition.

Alas, the Raiders are in limbo in 2002 as the new season gets under-way, every men’s team significantly improved and the heir to Sturt’s 2001 champion well hidden.

Adelaide Southern regains one-time Wollacott Medallist Greg Olbrich, Central has signed Serbian centre Damir Jelic, Eastern has NBL duo Jacob Holmes and Neil Mottram (Perth), Noarlunga has recruited import Sean Houston, North gains NBL stalwarts Mike McKay and Tim Brenton, Norwood looks set to secure American Sylvester Garnell, South has five-time Woollacott Medallist Mark Davis and star centre Simon Kent back, Sturt brings back a dominant champion-ship team, West is in hot pursuit of Mark Nash and Woodville has Paul Rees suiting up.

Read that paragraph again if you want to know why local basketball fans are jumping for the start of this season.

And who says the women have been idle?

Forestville was a worthy champion in 2001 but will have a long list of challengers for its crown.

Suzy Batkovic joins West, Laura Summerton and Jessica Mahony will bolster Sturt, Alison O’Dwyer will lift South – and that’s just the interstate WNBL contingent!

Our season review starts Page 8 if you want to get uptodate fast.

In the meantime, enjoy the action and apologies if tonight’s teams are not quite as published. Some clubs forgot to tell us!!

Contents

2 – This Week’s Round   7 – BankSA League Ladders 2001
2 – Home Venues   8 -  Season Preview
3 – Round 1 Preview   9 – Season Preview continued
4 – Previews continued 10 – NBA Wrap
5 – Previews Concludes 12 – Coming Up
6 – Weekend’s Teams 12 – NBL Update                   ‘HT’ PAGE 1

 

BankSA State League – This Week
In the ABL Central Conference

Round 2

Saturday, April 13
6.30 & 8.30pm – North Adelaide at Noarlunga City
6.30 & 8.30pm – Adelaide Southern at Norwood
6.30 & 8.30pm – Woodville at Eastern
6.30 & 8.30pm – West Adelaide at Sturt
6.30 & 8.30pm – Forestville at Central District

Sunday, April 14
1.00 & 3.00pm – Woodville at South Adelaide
(*Women’s games played first)

Home Venues
Adelaide Southern – Noarlunga Leisure Centre, David Witton Drive,
Noarlunga Centre. Ph: 83841144
Central District – STARPLEX, Alexander Ave, Evanston. Ph: 85220622
Eastern – Mt Barker Recreation Centre, Howard Lane, Mt Barker.
   Ph: 83910222
Forestville – Wayville Sports Centre, 142 Rose Tce, Wayville. Ph: 83217908
Noarlunga City – Morphett Vale Stadium, Wilfred Taylor Res,
   States Rd, Morphett Vale. Ph: 83262008
North Adelaide – Hillcrest Stadium, 483 North East Rd, Hillcrest
   Ph: 83691212
Norwood – MARS Sports Centre, 43 Lower Portrush Rd, Marden
Ph: 83635736
South Adelaide – Marion Stadium, Norfolk Rd, Marion.
Ph: 82965832
Sturt – Pasadena Sports Centre, Daws Rd, Pasadena. Ph: 83744818
West Adelaide – Port Adelaide Recreation Centre, 50 St Vincent St
Port Adelaide. Ph: 83411416
Woodville – Clipsal Powerhouse, 44a Crittenden Rd, Findon.
   Ph: 83473888   

 

HT’ PAGE 2

 

Suns draw a tough home
opener against champion

BankSA League – Round 1 Previews

Adelaide Southern v Sturt
Adelaide Southern launches its BankSA League basketball assault with the toughest assignment of the weekend – stopping Sturt at Noarlunga Leisure Centre.

The Sabres won the men’s championship last year, dropping only two games from 24 and boast a superb outfit quarterbacked by former dual-NBL championship winner Paul Bauer.

They bring size, speed, experience and confidence to the NLC against a Suns team freely tipped to be on the move in 2002.

Sturt, however, represents the biggest of challenges, the Sabres also giving their women a huge injection with the additions of AIS stars Laura Summerton and Jessica Mahony.

Scott Croll’s Southern men have made significant gains in the off-season with Greg Olbrich and Tom Need back in the line-up. But it would be premature to expect an upset so soon.

A tighter finish than expected may be on the cards though, with Sturt starters Oscar Forman, Matt Illman and Jason Williams possibly still on 36ers’ duty.

Robert Turner’s Suns women will need Heidi Veal, Rebecca Redden, Leanne Trewartha and Sally Mostert at their best and Catie Claessen teaming well with Kylie Evans to slow Sturt.

The Sabres’ size alone with cause Adelaide problems, Tammy Hoare, Monique Bowley, Summerton sure to dominate the glass.

Central District v Noarlunga City

Big Centrals pivot Damir Jelic has not yet been cleared so will not be pitting his 208cm size and Yugoslav experience against Noarlunga’s new import Sean Houston at Starplex.

American Houston, advertised as 204cm and wearing size 19 shoes, is ready to carry the Tigers from their all-time low 10th-placed finish of 2001, all the way back up into playoff contention.

Standing in the way with their sights also firmly on a top six visit this year are the Lions, with Mike Harris (who may still be out with a knee injury), Cam McKinnon, Stu Campbell, Will Banton and Co. ready to build on the terrific steps the club took last year.

Central’s 7-15 win-loss record after a winless 2000 season was a positive jump and it has recruited well in Jelic who eventually will take up a lot of keyway space.

Noarlunga last year struggled as never before but still has Ben Hodges to knock down shots and a solid support cast.

This game will be big and worthy of a huge crowd to fire up the Lions from the tip-off.

Central’s women also have a shot at a strong opening salvo against a Noarlunga side which will be minus 201cm centre Tracey Braithwaite, playing professionally in China.

With Braithwaite out and Trina Roberts not playing, the Tigers’ frontline is nowhere near as imposing as it was last year and brings Noarlunga back to the pack.

Whether Julie Anderson’s young Lions have the nouse to take advantage however, is debatable and former Noarlunga forward Kylie Schouten could be vital in how much damage Central can do.

Schouten definitely will be “up” to play her former club.

Continued Page 4

‘HT’ PAGE 3

 

Flames ‘sweep’ bid to hit a
hurdle against new South

Previews Continued from Page 3

South Adelaide v Norwood

Norwood will expect to sweep South in its season-openers but former Adelaide 36ers champions Mark Davis and Al Green have some surprises in store.

Davis will make his ABL return with the Panthers to exert pressure on the Flames’ frontcourt while Green, as coach of South’s women, knows he has a team this year to make it to the finals party.

Last year in the corresponding fixture, South ended Norwood’s three-year Central Conference winning streak and with Rebecca Dudic and Kate Smith to support Terry-Jo Draper and Irene Sourlatzis, Trudie Hopgood’s Flames will get a hot reception.

Jae Kingi may even don the Panthers bodysuit, throwing great pressure on new Norwood recruit Vikki Kelson.

Norwood’s men look too deep for South, 208cm centre Shane Mobbs keen to make his Flames debut one to remember.

Norwood also is hoping to suit 204cm American Sylvester Garnell while South, part from regaining favourite son Davis, also recovers 204cm Simon Kent from college in the US, Scott Byrt (Sturt) and Dan Riches (Mildura).

This double should be one of the weekend’s best.

Woodville v North Adelaide

Woodville could not have asked for a tougher opening double header than this bout with North … and the Warriors wouldn’t want it any other way.

The Rockets, who missed the top six by a game last year, have former Woodville junior and one-time ABA guard/forward Tim Brenton in their 2002 team, along with NBL championship winner Mike McKay.

Add Steve Denton, Adam Todd, Nathan Hawkes, Dallas Quigley and the Groves boys and North has a team which most assuredly is playoff-bound.

From Woodville, Brenton went to the AIS, then played with North while also hitting the NBL hardwood with Adelaide 36ers.

He furthered his NBL career at Hobart where he also played on a Conference-winning team alongside NBL luminaries such as Mark Nash (Sixers) and Darren Smith (Titans).

McKay has won ABA championships at West and played with Mildura last year in the South Conference after a distinguished NBL career with West, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra and Wollongong.

Woodville’s recruitment of Justin Wilkey proved a huge boon with the forward joining North’s Adam Todd as joint winners of the Metro League MVP award.

Wilkey, Scott Whitmore and Paul Vandenbergh will anchor the Warriors attack in what promises to be the men’s game of the season’s opening weekend – a fitting start at basketball’s Clipsal Powerhouse headquarters.

North’s women, with Belinda Wilson, Tania Dhu, a super-charged Rachel Keller off her first WNBL season and with boom recruit Jenni Screen, look to have too much skill and depth to be unduly troubled by Woodville.

The Warriors will need to play controlled ball to minimise North’s possessions and if they can keep the tempo slow, might hang around long enough to cause the Rockets some alarm.

Forestville v West Adelaide

West finished second, Forestville third in 2002 so their tip-off against each other at Wayville on Sunday should be one of the big games of the BankSA League men’s basketball opening round.

Continued Page 5       ‘HT’ PAGE 4

 

Eagles-Bearcats tipped as
weekend’s stop double

Previews Concluded from Page 4

In fact, few would dispute the West-Forestville series will be the double-header of the weekend, given the Bearcats beat Forestville in the women’s Metro League final in February and the Eagles will be playing their first match as reigning ABA Central Conference champions.

The fitness of West centre Blake Truslove, who broke his arm at a 36ers practice in February, will be pivotal, his duel with Jason Farman a big one.

How Daniel Cioffi fires and Jason Baylis’ Bearcats debut also will be followed with keen interest, West needing to shut down Jason Dix to undermine Forestville’s offensive confidence.

Very little separated these teams last year and both will be anxious to start their season with a win, several challengers ready to seize on any slip by teams regularly bound for the top six.

West’s women have recruited strongly to cover the loss of forwards Sarah Nobbs and Hannah Sporn, Opals centre Suzy Batkovic (Townsville) the biggest coup but the return of Sam Woosnam (Austria) and Jane Symons (Suns) ensuring a very deep Bearcat frontline.

Kamala Lamshed is back to lead from the front and her head-to-head with Lightning teammate and Forestville playmaker Rachael Flanagan is sure to be a fascinating sidelight.

Erin Phillips won the Metro League MVP and topscorer awards and will pit her bullish power against the quickness of relentless Eagles guard Tamara Haase.

This game promises to be the women’s match of the round, West coming from 12 down at halftime to beat Forestville in the Metro decider and full of confidence from that result.

The Eagles, however, will be boosted by Flanagan and athletic Mildura forward Lisa Robinson but will need all that and their homecourt edge to see off Batkovic and Co.

 

Graf to stay, Maher the tip for Caps

Former Opals coach Tom Maher is tipped to take over as coach of the Canberra Capitals Women’s NBL champion for one season while Carrie Graf takes a 12-month sabbatical.

Graf’s new three-year deal includes a single season sabbatical for upcoming WNBL season and will see Graf return to the head coach position for the start of the 2003/04 WNBL season.

Canberra is advertising nationally for an interim head coach for the upcoming season but Maher, sacked by the WNBA’s Washington, is the hot tip.

Graf was delighted with the outcome and the flexibility the deal allowed her.

“Coaching twelve months of the year in the two best women’s basketball leagues in the world takes a lot of energy,” she said on the eve of her return to the WNBA.

“This break allows me to recharge the batteries and contribute in other areas.

“The Capitals’ program will go from strength to strength and it’s something I want to be a part of for a long time to come. One of my goals is to continue to work with One Basketball Canberra and push forward the benchmarks in women’s basketball in Australia.

“We need to keep basketball at the forefront of the Australian sporting public’s minds.”

‘HT’ PAGE 5

 

Mavs buzzing as Jacob back
to build on 2001’s gains

ABL 2002 SEASON PREVIEW

THE Eastern Mavericks are buzzing about their top six chances in this year’s BankSA League State basketball championship, having signed Adelaide 36ers and national junior star Jacob Holmes and Perth Wildcats back-up centre Neil Mottram.

The other player the Mavs will be looking to for big things this year will be hot-shooting forward Brad Davis.

New coach Richard Hill, another Hills resident, takes up the task of delivering back-to-back playoff appearances after Paul Barton last year steered the Mavs to the finals for the first time in club history.

Barton has switched to this year’s women’s team which again is full of promise despite a couple of key player losses.

Zippy guard Leah Cannon has been lost to a US college scholarship at Oklahoma and her playmaker sorely will be missed.

Off guard Laura Hurley, who joined last year from South, has continued her travels and will be with West this season. But most of the roster which gave the top six a shake last year and which will be considerably tougher under Barton’s firmer guidance, is back for a double Mavericks assault at the summit.

North Adelaide and Norwood have substantially improved their men’s teams, the Rockets scoring two huge coups with Mike McKay and Tim Brenton. 

McKay, an NBL championship-winner with Adelaide 36ers joins from rival ABA South Conference club Mildura and will provide much-needed scoring punch for a North side which last year finished one game out of the six.

Back from temporary retirement, Brenton brings a wealth of experience and savvy from NBL stints with the 36ers and Hobart and ABA experience with Woodville and Hobart.

His long shooting and slick passing made him a big hit with North in the 90s and his return offsets the loss of Justin Wilkey to Woodville.

Norwood has hardly been idle and 208cm centre Shane Mobbs from Mount Gambier’s ABA South Conference team is sure to be a major asset, as will import Sylvester Garnell.

Exciting West Adelaide forward Jarrod Younie will further bolster the Flames’ frontline as they look to go beyond last year’s semi-final departure.

Norwood’s women have a new player-coach in Trudie Hopgood and the younger Flames also have recruited the Central Conference’s leading women’s player, guard Vikki Kelson.

Kelson joins from Adelaide Southern where she won a record three consecutive Halls Medals as the State’s leading women’s player. But she will have her work cut out, the Flames losing a multitude of experience with the losses to retirement of championship stars Vicki Daldy, Melissa Carlson and Peta Jaunutis.

North figures to again be amid the thick of the playoff action, the recruitment of tenacious Adelaide Lightning guard Jennifer Screen and the additional WNBL experience gathered by Rachel Keller in the season past sure to again have Dean Kinsman’s Rockets challenging for the pinnacle.

Forestville’s women were in cruise mode as they made it back to the Metro League grand final but have had substantial losses in championship starting guards Monica Bello (Italy) and Narelle Lindsay (Sydney).

Michelle Tucker returns from pregnancy which kept her sidelined through the championship season and Lisa Robinson crosses from Mildura.

Dix back as Eagles reload for
shot at the Central summit

ABL SEASON PREVIEW

Forestville’s men still have 2001 Woollacott Medallist Jason Dix in super form, Dix sharing the Metro League MVP accolade.

They also have snared North guard Brad Sullivan and regain Shaun Jennings from a year on the sidelines with injury.

Mark Davis – the biggest name in South Adelaide history – will be back to lead the Panthers. Davis, who won five Woollacott Medals with South, led the club to two champion-ships and was a stalwart of the Adelaide 36ers, will bring his muscular 200cm body to the Panthers’ aid after they plummeted to 11th in last year’s 12-team competition.

The question is, will he be enough? Simon Kent also will help as will Dan Riches and Scott Byrt so expect South to move up a few rungs.

Sturt brings back its reigning champion with its main core – players such as Paul Bauer, Jason Williams, Oscar Forman, Matt Illman – intact.

Sturt’s women look to be the big improvers, picking up AIS stars Laura Summerton and Jessica Mahony to bolster last year’s quarter-finalist which already boasts Tammy Hoare and Monique Bowley.

South also should improve with the return mid-season of Amy Charlick and the significant additions of forward Rebecca Dudic from Adelaide Southern and centre Kate Smith of Woodville.

Smith was recruited to play WNBL by Dandenong and will greatly improve the Panthers’ frontcourt.

What has size 19 shoes and threatens to tear up the BankSA League men’s basketball season? The answer isn’t what, but who? Namely, new Noarlunga City Tigers import Sean Houston, an American big man expected to make a 204cm contribution to the storied franchise that fell on hard times last season.

The once-feared southern swing of NCT and Adelaide Southern became the coastal coast as the Tigers finished 10th and the Suns 12th last year.

Justin Clayton crosses from the Suns to Noarlunga and the Tigers should prove far more competitive this season. But so too will Scott Croll’s Suns who regain 1995 Woollacott Medallist Greg Olbrich from retirement, exciting Norwood guard/forward Toby Schaftenaar and forward Tom Need from South. This will be a team on the move.

The women’s front does not look promising for either Noarlunga or Southern. The Tigers have lost Trina Roberts to retirement and All*Star centre Tracey Braithwaite will miss the season’s first month while she plays as an import in China.

Adelaide has lost triple-Halls Medallist Vikki Kelson to Norwood and fellow starters Jane Symons (West) and Rebecca Dudic (South). Emily Edwards (nee Dwyer) crosses to Noarlunga.

In fact, coach Robert Turner has only Heidi Veal and Sally Mostert left from the Suns' spectacular 2000 team which made history by reaching the playoffs and took the lion’s share of the ABA’s awards.

Southern regains well-travelled Jeanne Motteram who started at the club before going to Noarlunga, Forestville, Riverland and Flinders Uni. It also picks up veteran UK centre Jo Draper.

Central Districts’ men emerged from the shadows last year and will challenge for a playoff berth after signing 208cm centre Damir Jelic. The Serbian centre is bound to have a big impact on the Lions who left the doldrums and moved up to ninth with a 7-15 win-loss mark.

 

Lakers back in business as
Shaq throws out Tim’s shot

NBA WRAP

LOS ANGELES: At the conclusion of eight days that asked them for quite a bit more, a Sabbath-to-Sabbath pilgrimage that began in Sacramento and concluded when Shaquille O'Neal redirected San Antonio's last shot, the Lakers were uncertain of where it left them.

And not curious, particularly.

The Lakers defeated the Spurs, 96-95, Sunday at Staples Center, where they scored the last seven points—five by Derek Fisher, the last two from the free-throw line with 15.9 seconds left.

Tim Duncan's turnaround 12-footer with not quite six seconds remaining was blocked by O'Neal, whose right hand came off the ball and grazed Duncan's wrist.

The clock wound down as Duncan slapped his hands together, begging for a foul call, and as Kobe Bryant gathered the ball as it fell several feet short of the rim.

A week earlier, it was Chris Webber, on his knees, his fists on the floor in Sacramento. Two days earlier, it was Scottie Pippen, shaking his head, wondering where his shot went, and where it had left the Portland Trail Blazers.

And so Duncan demanded a judgment that would not come, mourned a shot that did not fall, his eighth miss in nine fourth-quarter attempts.

The Spurs surely called it robbery. The Lakers, one in particular, thought it justice.

"That's all ball," O'Neal said with playground attitude. "I was getting beat on all day and I didn't make a face. I didn't say a thing. If it was a foul, they owed me that. After 10 years of getting beat up, of taking all that, they owed me."

It is perfect logic to O'Neal, who got the ball, got the wrist, got the victory, and got most of what he wanted from Sunday to Sunday.

The Lakers won emotional, hard games against the Kings, Trail Blazers and Spurs—much of the core of the approaching Western Conference playoffs—and stand two losses behind the Kings in the Pacific Division.

In winning their 11th in a row at Staples Center, the Lakers also have won five of six games since they lost two in a row in Texas, the second there by 18 points to the Spurs. That set up an Easter afternoon with NBC in town and a national TV audience.

Kobe Bryant scored 31 points, but needed 24 shots. He missed all four fourth-quarter attempts, the last while being fouled without a call under the basket by Duncan, which fit again into O'Neal's logic.

O'Neal scored 24 points. While he missed 11 of 19 shots, he made eight of nine free throws. And Duncan scored 26 points, 16 in the third, two in the fourth.

But it was Robert Horry who filled in between O'Neal and Bryant, who defended Duncan as well as a power forward can and scored a season-high 23 points, eight in a fourth quarter that saw the Lakers make only five field goals. He had eight rebounds, a team-high four assists, and two blocks.

When the Spurs led by 10 early in the fourth quarter, Horry made a 3-pointer as Duncan rushed him from the lane. When the Spurs led by seven three possessions later, Horry made another, again as Duncan was trapped too deep.

"I had to shoot it because I wanted to shoot it," said Horry, rarely burdened by conscience in matters of offence.

"I am going to test my gun if it is firing right and keep shooting it.” 

He held the Lakers close, and the Spurs, losers of three in a row, did not score after Steve Smith's 3-pointer gave them a 95-89 lead.
 

 

Starplex a winner for Central
as it strives to climb in 2002

ABL Preview

Mike Harris, Stuart Campbell and Cameron McKinnon enjoyed strong seasons and there is no doubt the switch to Starplex at Gawler as Central’s new home made a big difference to the club and how it was viewed generally by the SA basketball community.

Starplex is a winner and Central looks like following suit, its only substantial loss forward Andrew Webber. Julie Anderson takes over as coach of the Lions women who went without a win in 2001.

Losing Monica Ritz to Adelaide Southern and Vanessa Kinghorn to Woodville has not helped but Central has made a big pick-up in Kylie Schouten, a versatile defensive forward who played on a Noarlunga championship team and was a key starter for Adelaide Southern before heading overseas.

State champion in 2000, Woodville has an exciting new coach, two top recruits and its sights set firmly on making it a men’s “clean sweep” in SA this year.

Woodville’s administration showed extraordinary foresight in becoming the first BankSA League and ABL club to appoint a woman, Tracy York, as coach of its men. York, a highly successful and well-credentialled coach responded by steering Woodville to the Metro League championship in February.

One of the Warriors’ two key recruits – 194cm guard/forward Justin Wilkey of North – showed just how well he was enjoying his move by finishing as a joint-winner of the Metro League’s MVP award.

And Woodville’s second big name to join the team this year is 36ers dual-championship centre Paul Rees.

On the down side of the ledger, Woodville has lost stalwart Craig Gilbert and part-time player/assistant Steve Holder to retirement and their input with surely and sorely be missed.

But with NBL-experienced Paul Vandenbergh, Scott Whitmore, Ben Todd, Jason Bray, Cameron Wilson and Nathan Baggott all back, Woodville will be thick in the hunt for the crown.

Woodville’s women will struggle with their twin towers of Christie Simpson (retired) and Kate Smith (South) both gone and guard Vanessa Kinghorn (Central) the main recruit.

West Adelaide’s men will be looking to go one better in 2002 but the club’s women have been substantially boosted by the recruitment of Opals and Townsville star centre Suzy Batkovic.

The talented 192cm centre was instrumental in AIS winning the 1999 WNBL championship and Sydney claiming the 2001 crown and she was on fire for the Townsville Fire to win an Opals berth.

West already is looking the part, coming off a Metro League title success in which 2001 rookie Erin Phillips led the league in pointscoring and took the MVP accolade.

She blossomed last year in the absence of playmaker Kamala Lamshed. And Lamshed, fresh from her success as the WNBL’s Rookie of the Year this season, also returns to bolster Phil Smyth’s confident team.

It doesn’t end there. Bustling forward Sam Woosnam, who has been tearing it up in Europe for the past two years, also returns to the line-up as has Jane Symons (nee Nobbs) from Adelaide Southern.

The Bearcats have lost Sarah Nobbs to Melbourne and Hannah Sporn has left the club to reside in the Riverland.

Blake Truslove’s return and the recruitment of Jason Baylis to counter the loss of Jarrod Younie suggests another strong season. Baylis, a 194cm forward who spent last season in the ABA South Conference with Mount Gambier after starting his career at South Adelaide, is sure to be a major asset.                         

COMING UP IN THE BankSA STATE LEAGUE
ABL CENTRAL CONFERENCE

Round 3

Saturday, April 20
6.30 & 8.30pm – Adelaide Southern at North Adelaide
6.30 & 8.30pm – Sturt at Noarlunga City
6.30 & 8.30pm – Norwood at Woodville
6.30 & 8.30pm – Central District at West Adelaide
6.30 & 8.30pm – South Adelaide at Eastern

Round 4

Sunday, April 21
1.00 & 3.00pm – Eastern at Adelaide Southern
1.00 & 3.00pm – Forestville at Sturt
*2.30 & 4.30pm – North Adelaide at Woodville
(*Postponed from Round 1 due to NBL Semi-Finals)

Round 5

Saturday, April 27
6.30 & 8.30pm – South Adelaide at Central District
6.30 & 8.30pm – Noarlunga City at Norwood
6.30 & 8.30pm – Sturt at Eastern
6.30 & 8.30pm – Adelaide Southern at West Adelaide
Sunday, April 28
1.00 & 3.00pm – Norwood at North Adelaide
3.00 & 5.00pm – Woodville at Forestville

NBL Update
VICTORIA Titans forward Jamahl Mosley being named the NBL Best Sixth Man.

Mosley received 55 out of a possible 90 votes to win the award narrowly over West Sydney veteran Bruce Bolden (53 votes) and Melbourne Tigers forward Steven Hoare (23).

Over 33 games, which include the quarter-finals against  Melbourne, Mosley has averaged 12 points and 6.9 rebounds in 23 minutes per contest.

A tough defensive presence, Mosley helped Victoria finish the regular season in first place with a 21-9 win-loss record.    

 

TOMORROW: Latest updates, including a key signing in Perth.