QABL - Week 9

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There aren't enough predictions on here so I thought for week 9 I would add my nickel...

Cairns v Logan

Cairns have turned the corner and with Matt Smith back (was he injured or lost?) they now have a formidable line-up. I think Logan are tough as hell though and I think are the best team in the South (I'm waiting for debate on that one) and Thalo is the most complete player in the league. (It's all about the protein) Cairns at home is almost a given though, expect Cook, Williams and Gray to lead the way. Nice job on the boards by Comino last week 2, where is Vale?

Cairns by 6

Wizards v Maroochydore

Cam Trigger is on fire and Dante has stepped up to be a gun. Great game by Davis last week, but Wizards really need some more guys to step up if they are to go all the way. Both games they have lost they have contained Dante and Cam T, expect more from Diesel and Woody. Maroochydore continues their development project, taking longer than expected. Kopittke will dominate this one and celebrate by moving to Cairns. The Clippers should get R*$%#B!S Williamson to suit up while he is back on the Coast

Wizards by 25

Toowoomba v Suns

Game of the round, make or break for the Suns. The Toowoomba Tribe are rolling, and much better for the return of Anthony Tribe. The Suns need Benny Mac or Andrews to step up and support Slim who should return to form this week and have a 'good game man'. Suns win this they keep in touch with the Caps, lose and it's all over. Gurney unstoppable at home should be too much with the support of Glove and the ageless one Grieve.

Mountain Men by 13

Gladstone v Gold Coast

Recent results suggest this one could go either way. The writing was on the wall for the Goannas last year, when a team took it to them they would crumble but the class of Zaremba and Co. proved too good. This year with a few key losses it's been a different story. Gladstone playing better of late but I will give it to the Goannas who will be fired up after all this talk and stick their tongues out and say neh neh neh neh neh as they have too much for the Power. Especially if no Kingma. Nagas rocks, sorta.

Goannas by 9

Mackay v Rocky

Poor Mackay... Zane is shooting over 50% from field and 3 and 93% from the line, is he allowed to take more than 14 shots this week! Rocky will be fired up after going 0 and 2 up north, and although Mackay would want payback for their 50 point loss unless they do something drastic same will happen again. Check out the fine art work on Rasmussen's arm as well as the Athlete's foot up there, 2 major attractions of Mackay. Am I being too harsh if I say I expected more from Weigh?

Rocky by 30

Townsville v Logan

Tough as hell to back up after being in Cairns against a team that has hit some very good form. They are doing it by going deep into their bench too, Rose is really rotating his guys. Broom would want a good performance up there to prove they made the right choice. Thalo to dominate, who will guard him? Call me crazy, I'm picking the Thunder for the upset.

Logan by 7

South West v Toowoomba

The Golden State Warriors of the QABL. Don't know how they are 8-0 with their crew but full power to them. If they were going to be 8-0 I thought it would have been the result of JC setting the world on fire, but Teys and Troy Thompson have been unstoppable. I'm gonna give Troy a trojan horse and see what happens... Toowoomba playing great ball but on the 2nd leg won't have enough legs. May still be recovering from sleeping at Mackay stadium last weekend.

South West by 10

Bundaberg v Gold Coast

Luke Cann is hot, apparently? Ok no he is. The two imports are carrying the show for the Bulls, but if the Goannas can slow them up they will get the chocolates. No Stevens is ok you can run Skepper alot more who is quality, but personally I think they should look at going Aucoin at 3 with Zauner and the Kebab-machine Drewy Waite pounding away inside. Goldy to get both and get back to 5-5 and keep their season alive.

Goannas by 18

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Townsville v Logan

Tough as hell to back up after being in Cairns against a team that has hit some very good form. They are doing it by going deep into their bench too, Rose is really rotating his guys. Broom would want a good performance up there to prove they made the right choice. Thalo to dominate, who will guard him? Call me crazy, I'm picking the Thunder for the upset.

Logan by 7



I think you may have been smoking a bit too much of the wacky weed here. I can't see Logan beating the Heat at all let alone after playing in Cairns the night before. The Heat have gotten onto a bit of a role after heaps of travel to start of the season and i think will win this one by about 15.

Townsville will be the place to be on Saturday night with the women's game as well. A bit of gloss taken off the game by Gold Coast beating the Logan girls last week but I think the Flames will be way to strong anyway. I am picking the Flames by 20+

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I think you may have been smoking a bit too much of the wacky weed here. I can't see Logan beating the Heat at all let alone after playing in Cairns the night before. The Heat have gotten onto a bit of a role after heaps of travel to start of the season and i think will win this one by about 15.

Townsville will be the place to be on Saturday night with the women's game as well. A bit of gloss taken off the game by Gold Coast beating the Logan girls last week but I think the Flames will be way to strong anyway. I am picking the Flames by 20+

I disagree. I have seen Townsville women this year and i dont believe they are not as strong as previous years. I havnt seen logan though, and i hope last weeks loss has them fired up to prove they are legitimate championship contenders. Should be a close one.

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I think you may have been smoking a bit too much of the wacky weed here. I can't see Logan beating the Heat at all let alone after playing in Cairns the night before. The Heat have gotten onto a bit of a role after heaps of travel to start of the season and i think will win this one by about 15.

Townsville will be the place to be on Saturday night with the women's game as well. A bit of gloss taken off the game by Gold Coast beating the Logan girls last week but I think the Flames will be way to strong anyway. I am picking the Flames by 20+


I would love to be there to see tommy ammar defending mick cedar should be a good one, also myerdingaling on chris cedar,

both ammar and broom to have big games to get the thunder up.

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I would love to be there to see tommy ammar defending mick cedar should be a good one, also myerdingaling on chris cedar,

both ammar and broom to have big games to get the thunder up.

Neither are true defensive threats, the Cedars won't be losing any sleep.

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Ammar aint guarding cedar! no one in the league can. The only one who could was aaron grabau and he aint playin. cedar will have his way with a tired logan team whos starters will have to play alot of mins the night b4 and travel 4 hours the day of the game! hardest trip on the calender. If logan have any shot of gettin a W this weekend it will be game 1 in cairns. Though i think matt smith and rowan grey will be too strong aswell as brebner, logans point does not have the footspeed to match it with kerry williams. scott cook will be too smooth aswell.

Game 2. Rob rose has those boys playing very smart especially at the defensive end. he will have a plan to stop thalo who is the head of the beast for logan.

Logan to lose both by double digits. Still cant believe brisbane got the win up in the ville but the Heat are a TOTALLY different machine now from all those weeks ago.

The womens game will be a bigger blowout, the flames have been waiting for a challenge and this game in particular for a long time, they have been cruising through the rounds. They will step up for this game and I dont think the logan women will know what hit them at murray stadium!

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Vale is done for the year... had ankle surgery bout 3 weeks ago I think, same injury that happened during the NBL finals. Was told he was good to go, came back played a couple of games but blew up again. Got a 2nd opinion and surgery it was

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Martin joins Hawks (http://nbl.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=75179)

The Wollongong Hawks roster is beginning to take shape with the announcement of a one-year contract for former Brisbane Bullets development player Rhys Martin.

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“I will fly down between games to train with the team, it will be good to play with a young bunch of guys but I am definitely looking forward to training with Kavossy Franklin and learning a thing or two from him.”

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[Mr bEn]

Wow, that was unexpected. All the best to him.

[Allan Waldron - ALW]

nice work - well done.

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Marlins ready for Thunder (http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/06/13/4551_local-sport-news.html)

RIVALS beware - the Cairns Marlins' confidence is growing.

After a forgettable start to the 2008 Queensland Australian Basketball League season, the Marlins are starting to look ominous on the back of three successive wins.

The defending ABA champions were cursed with a wretched run of injuries at the start of the year but as their players have regained fitness, so have the Marlins regained their confidence.

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well wat a week of controversy it's been, Obama rejected Clinton as his vice president an Wookie got a 3 game suspension.. news doesnt get much bigger in Uzbekistan and yuri had a bit to say about it but here are his odds this week..

Cairns v Logan
winning on a friday nite at Cairns is like a fat hairy homeless guy tryin to pick up a hot model it just aint goin happen.. wait wen did mackay beat them well there is hope... but with bigfish at full strength an gettin a bit of confidence back after a disastrous start.. Logan need thalo an gureckis to earn ther money this weekend.. $20 on Cairns
Cairns 2:1 Logan 5:1

Wiz v Clips
i dont like to kick a horse wen its down or hit a man with glasses unless he really p!sses me off.. $20 on Wiz
Wiz 1:1 Clips 2:1

Neers v Suns
can the suns heat up at the coldest stadium in QLD mayb the world... ther seems to be a few internal problems goin round the league Suns apparently one of them maybe its the weather... gurney to get on top of his boys as he likes to do but Rocky an Jett will both get Dub Dubs an lead their boys to victory by 2.. $10 on Suns
Suns 2:1 Neers 3:1

Power v GC
well as you prob know by now power have been royally screwed by a flawed system that favours whingers but its ok we're moving on.. GC are another side that needs a good laxative to flush out some internal problems they are having... the shoot out is back an so is a power home victory... $50 on Power
Power 2:1 GC 3:1

Mkay v Rocky
i think the QABL has been readin my previews cos he's added his only lit bit of pizzaz this week, stating that "rocky have more grunt than a v8 an jus as much style" a little bit bogan for me but nice i like it QABL guy... it is true tho i saw the last time these two teams played it wasnt pretty 4 mets could be closer at home tho.. $20 on Rocky
Rocky 2:1 Mkay 5:1

Heat v Thunder
last game of the road double of trouble. wil there be a fight in this game wil nobody be put on report if they do... who knows in this day an age, the other day i saw a Fat Emo an a hot blonde chic making out if he can do it anything is possible but not tonite Logan... $20 on Heat
Heat 2:1 Logan 5:1

SW v Neers
to be honest the whole fairytale thing is gettin old, will someone hurry up an beat the pirates...
it wont happen this weekend but it will happen in next 3 weeks thats my prediction.. $33 on SW
SW 2:1 Neers 6:1

Bundy v GC
2nd game after playin the indestructible power the nite before this could be bundys chance to get on the board they are playin better each game an a tired fightin GC maybe jus the ticket...
$2.20 on Bundy
Bundy 4:1 GC 5:1

all bets are obviously in Som if your not sure of the exchange rate dont worry neither does Yuri just make it up an he'll gladly take your Aussie dollars...

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Marlins dominate at home{/URL]
FRIDAY the 13th did not prove unlucky at all for the Cairns Marlins who notched their fourth consecutive Queensland Australian Basketball League win with a 133-97 victory against Logan last night.

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[URL=http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2008/06/14/13924_sport.html]Thunder set to rumble in Townsville (http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/06/14/4591_local-sport-news.html)
THE Townsville Flames are staring down the barrel at their toughest QABL match of the season when they take on second-placed Logan Thunder at SeaFM Stadium tonight.

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Meanwhile, the fourth-placed Townsville Heat will be looking to extend their six-game winning streak when they play fifth-placed Logan in the late game.

Townsville Heat coach Rob Rose said while his team was keen to rack up its seventh win in a row, it was also looking forward to the challenge of taking on the Thunder.

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Bent on another Powerful display (http://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3775606)

BOTH teams have been hot and cold this season, but coach Blair Smith is certain his Yaralla Port City Power Men's basketball team will turn the heat up at Kev Broome Stadium when they go up against Gold Coast tonight. Heading into the game after an impressive 121-83 win against Caloundra last weekend, the coach said if his side put on a similar performance, they would have every chance of taking out this very "winnable" game.

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Girls look to keep winning (http://www.dailymercury.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3775634)

At just 16 years old, Jacqui Zelenka is proving to be one of the stars of the show for the Mackay Meteorettes. With seven consecutive wins under their belt, the Dixon Homes Meteorettes will be looking to extend their winning streak when they take on the Rockhampton Cyclones in round nine of the QABL at Candlestick Park tonight.

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Meanwhile, the 4MK Good Guys Mackay Meteors will be hoping to turn the tables on Rockhampton in tonight's clash.

The last time the teams met, the Meteors were thumped by 50 points.

But Meteors coach Leonard King said his team was feeling positive and had prepared well for tonight's match.

"We had a pretty decent week of training," King said.

Key players Deba George and Zane Meehl are expected to take to the court tonight despite suffering ankle injuries last week.

However, there is still an injury cloud over Grant Kruger, Sam Bartolo and Ryan Carroll.

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Coast Clippers to play hard (http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2008/jun/14/coast-clippers-play-hard/)

A top three spot is a tantalising prospect that Maroochydore Clippers women’s QABL side cannot afford to dwell on in their away match today.

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Does anyone know what the go with the livestats on the QABL site is?

They are either last weeks or the server cannot be found, is there a trick that I am not in on or do they just not work.

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hey for the adam darragh haters,

the man went 8 from 10 3s tonight and finished with 39 points, played awesome,

gold coast by 6 in a tough game goannas up by 23 at one stage, aucoin had 23.

simo - 28 and blair smith had good game.


will be tough for them to back up tomorrow in bundy cuz they only travelled with 7 players.

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Looks like some game in Tba tonight. Gurney with 46 and Jett with 55. Anyone with a match report?

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Ammar aint guarding cedar! no one in the league can. The only one who could was aaron grabau and he aint playin. cedar will have his way with a tired logan team whos starters will have to play alot of mins the night b4 and travel 4 hours the day of the game! hardest trip on the calender. If logan have any shot of gettin a W this weekend it will be game 1 in cairns. Though i think matt smith and rowan grey will be too strong aswell as brebner, logans point does not have the footspeed to match it with kerry williams. scott cook will be too smooth aswell.

Game 2. Rob rose has those boys playing very smart especially at the defensive end. he will have a plan to stop thalo who is the head of the beast for logan.

Logan to lose both by double digits. Still cant believe brisbane got the win up in the ville but the Heat are a TOTALLY different machine now from all those weeks ago.

The womens game will be a bigger blowout, the flames have been waiting for a challenge and this game in particular for a long time, they have been cruising through the rounds. They will step up for this game and I dont think the logan women will know what hit them at murray stadium!

You could not have been on the money any more than what you were. Logan was kept in the game in the first half by Thalo but then the Heat put on what is becoming their trademark big third quarter to blow the game apart. Am a bit worried about the Heat's depth down the end of the season, the starters are playing huge minutes.

In the early game Logan were never in it. Down by about 10 at quarter time and the Flames kept building the lead through suffocating defense. Would be surprised if anybody comes within 20 of them for the rest of the year. The final score line made Logan look a little bit better than they were when Townsville ran the end of there bench for the last 5 minutes or so.

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Does anyone know what the go with the livestats on the QABL site is?

They are either last weeks or the server cannot be found, is there a trick that I am not in on or do they just not work.

The Live Stats are pretty temperamental but I have found that a lot of times the pages are cached so if you get an old game just press Ctrl-F5 to force a reload.

Not every stadium have internet and a lot of times the SportingPulse servers can't cope with the amount of traffic they get so games just drop out.

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Neers get two wins and knock off the undefeated Pirates. Guess the ship has sailed on the ever elusive perfect season.

Bruce Brown with some big plays in OT.

Neers got over the line with a solid team effort.

Neers rollin and 2 cents maybe you should check your odds on next weeks games............how'd the power go...the usual 'L'?

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Maybe someone should give coach/player JC a rule book - it is absolutely painful the way he continuously harrasses the refs - what the!!!!!!!!!!!
Even the South West supporters have had enough......
Play the refs like everyone else on the court - not always right (and ain't that the truth!!-) but that's the game of basketball.

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Neers rollin and 2 cents maybe you should check your odds on next weeks games............how'd the power go...the usual 'L'?

Who cares? He gives us a guaranteed laugh every week, good shit I say. Don't think he takes his tips too seriously either. Onya 2 cents.

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Looks like some game in Tba tonight. Gurney with 46 and Jett with 55. Anyone with a match report?
Gurney absolutely drilled everything in the first half, looked like it was going to be a huge blowout. Suns to their credit kept going to Jett who displayed some serious hops and scored much of the second half points, double & triple-teamed at times. Both players did well to compete with 4 fouls from basically half time. Neers kept to the playbook and converted from the foul line mostly. Suns very shallow off the bench and did well to get within 5 at one point.

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full credit to the mountaineers for their win over the Pirates,
South West struggled.
Three point shooting is great when you're on song, but man when you live by the sword, you sure can die by it as well. Took 39 threes according to live stats and hit just seven!!

Glover impressed me for Toowoomba and Gurney was solid as always. Brown had a couple of huge dunks to rock the backboard and its supports as well.

Loss could be a blessing for the Pirates in the long run and I thought Toowoomba looked pretty good. They play well together and if Brown gets really fit, they'll test anyone.

Coach looking sharp in the suit too!

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Gurney has to be a sure thing for player of the week. Surely this guy is worth an NBL contract... He is better and half the guys that are signed to clubs aleady... Would be a shame to lose him to Home and Away... His talent is on the court and not on the small screen.....as good looking as the bloke is. Him and Wally Jr would make a great combination.

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An unexpected win from the neers, back end of a double header when they seem to run outta legs the night before but stumbled over the line, a back up with a huge, hearty (laughter) win at the hibiscus centre (atrocious home court) to sink the pirate ship for the first time this year.

Now on a 4 game winning streak to take some momentum into some tough games comin up.

Up the neers, spin that!!!!!!

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An unexpected win from the neers, back end of a double header when they seem to run outta legs the night before but stumbled over the line, a back up with a huge, hearty (laughter) win at the hibiscus centre (atrocious home court) to sink the pirate ship for the first time this year.

Now on a 4 game winning streak to take some momentum into some tough games comin up.

Up the neers, spin that!!!!!!

Yeah you are right... good win to the neers. Question: What is wrong with the Hibiscus centre?

Other question? How bad are Toowoomba's women this year?

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What is wromg with the hibiscus centre is the sun coming in the window down one end of the court... Day games shouldn't be allowed to play there. or at least get some curtains on the windows. Trying to play a semi-professional league and teams get sunlight shining in one end of the court... Is a bit of a joke... Is a great improvement on their previous facility but think this needs to be addressed...

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at the hibiscus centre (atrocious home court) to sink the pirate ship for the first time this year.


Nothing wrong with Hibiscus, compared to what South West were previously playing out of.

Worst home court ever had to be Hervey Bay. UGH.

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Neers rollin and 2 cents maybe you should check your odds on next weeks games............how'd the power go...the usual 'L'?[/QUOTE]

good job Neers... its a shame someone had their feelings hurt by Yuri from Uzbekistan i'll let him know not that he cares... if your really interested you can get the weekends results at http://forum.brisbanebasketball.com/images/icons/icon12.gif
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The Hibiscus Centre would be a decent court on a saturday night game. Sunday games are awful. The sun was shining straight onto the ring and backboard. It got to the point where shooting from the right side of the court at the SW bench end was very difficult because the sun would shine on the ring and get even worse. You could hardly see the hoop and going for rebounds proved to be very interesting when trying to grab the ball with your eyes closed because of the blinding sun. They need to do something because even though it is better than runcorn it is still very poor on a sunday game

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Just trolling through the box scores as I do and noticed...

Kelly Wilson 17-23 FG 5-7 3PT 11-14 FT 14 Rbs 50 PTS against Rocky.

Girls league does not get much chat here (granted the depth is not quiet there across all teams), but when a female player goes for 50, wow.

Gotta love Kelly, always been a tough cover.

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Wilson stuns QABL visitors (http://www.dailymercury.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3775697)

Meteorettes star serves up storm for Cylcones visit (http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3775679)

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Just trolling through the box scores as I do and noticed...

Kelly Wilson 17-23 FG 5-7 3PT 11-14 FT 14 Rbs 50 PTS against Rocky.

Girls league does not get much chat here (granted the depth is not quiet there across all teams), but when a female player goes for 50, wow.

Gotta love Kelly, always been a tough cover.

Was present. She honestly couldn't be stopped!

Great effort! Mackay has picked up a great player.

[JB]

Surprised nobody has made mention of Mackay's new player in Miles Pearce (possibly the worst player to throw on a Bullets jersey during the Joey Wright era).

[Mr bEn]

Dave Gurney deservedly takes out POW for Week 9 .....

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Is Miles Pearce no good?