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 Posted: 03/06/16 10:41 am ::: |
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| I was watching Oregon St vs Washington, so I missed this game. Hopefully, I can watch it later. Judging from the boxscore, it looks like playing without a real PG and C finally caught of with SEQ.
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| Posted: 03/06/16 1:31 pm ::: |
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WNBL Preliminary Final tips off in just over 3 hours from the time of this post, and the WNBL are having another attempt at a YouTube webcast from Townsville.
Hopefully they've found some extra bandwidth and it works better than last weekend's effort. The fact that they're promoting the link gives me some hope that things will be better.
SEQ Stars @ Townsville Fire
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townsville were ready to get it done! |
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| Posted: 03/12/16 6:22 am ::: |
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| Top-notch broadcast for this one. Tied at 18 after one quarter and it's almost exclusively Batkovic vs. Laney thus far...
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| Posted: 03/12/16 7:08 am ::: |
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| Cayla George (Francis) has been horrible in this game. You can better put her on the bench because she is a liability on both ends today.
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| Posted: 03/12/16 7:45 am ::: |
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That was a disastrous 4th quarter for Perth: one basket at the 7:53 mark and then 15 straight misses to finish the game...
Townsville 73, Perth 57
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| Posted: 03/12/16 7:46 am ::: |
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Huge game by Opals captain Nat Burton, 3pts 1reb for the game.
Kept Suzy Batkovic to just 25pts 9reb.
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| Posted: 03/12/16 8:58 am ::: |
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Opals captain? Do you know something we don't, TheSponge? Wait ... are you Brendan Joyce? 
Very un-Lynx-like game. I didn't feel the usual intensity from them, aside from Betnijah, who was keeping us in it almost single-handedly in the early stages.
Townsville switched up their D to leave Mijovic guarded by 3s most of the night and we did nothing to exploit it.
Playoff experience definitely came into play too I thought. Lynx hit the panic button way too early once the Fire hit the lead in the 4th. We really chucked up some crap.
And yes the less said about Burton's game the better. She had an absolute stinker.
Perth 57 (Whitcomb 20 & 5, Laney 19 & 14, Lavey 8 & 7)
Townsville 73 (Batkovic 25 & 9, Cocks 15, 8 & 5, Novosel 9, George 8 & 12, Gallagher 8 & 5)
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| Posted: 03/17/16 10:04 am ::: |
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No criticism of the WNBL intended ... the top players are very good, very skilled and have worked hard to get where they are.
But I think the all-star list shows just how strong the WNBA really is.
Leilani Mitchell (Adelaide Lightning): Decent WNBA player, probably best suited as a backup PG for a good team
Sami Whitcomb (Perth Lynx): Will be 28 in July, averaged 13 ppg as a senior at Washington, undrafted, got cut by the Sky in training camp.
Katie-Rae Ebzery (Sydney Uni Flames): A 26-year-old who I know nothing about. Has never played outside Australia.
Kelsey Griffin (Bendigo Spirit): Nice rotation player in WNBA.
Suzy Batkovic (Townsville Fire): The MVP and certainly would be a major contributor and likely a starter in the WNBA. But I can't ever see her even in the discussion for MVP, and an unlikely all-star at this point in her career.
Again, the point here isn't to criticize the WNBL, but to point out just how good the WNBA is compared to other pro leagues.
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| Posted: 03/17/16 11:01 pm ::: |
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WNBL Grand Final Game 2 - Townsville Fire vs Perth Lynx
... tips off in Townsville at 7pm local time (that is 5 hours from the time of this post).
Townsville are overwhelming favourites to win game 2 and take the title tonight.
Fire: $1.15
Lynx: $5.25
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| Posted: 03/18/16 6:49 am ::: |
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Townsville 80 (Novosel 18 & 5, Batkovic 16 & 16, Murray 16, George 13, Cocks 13)
Perth 70 (Laney 16 & 5, Mijovic 16 & 5, Whitcomb 15 & 10, Lavey 10 & 8 )
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Finals MVP: Micaela Cocks
Similar to game 1 in a lot of ways. Townsville looked the better team for the first half but without really translating it to the scoreboard, Perth made a good run in the 3rd to take the lead and the momentum, and then Townsville shut down Perth in the 4th.
4th quarter of game 1 was 28-7
4th quarter tonight was 23-9
They've got a very good team up in Townsville. That's back-to-back WNBL titles for them.
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I think you're probably being kind to Suzy too, calling her a likely WNBA starter. Competent post players thrive here because it is not a "big" league. It's a place where tweeners un-tween, which is why Griffin, Bishop & Hodges do so well here compared to at the top level.