Who is best high school basketball?

Anonymous  
Years ago

The senior ko draws are a joke. The term 2 / 3 winter season should be made into a proper season with a premiership ladder. For finals, maybe have all schools divided into two pools. The top 4 teams from East or West (in theory but not specifically that way) play of in Conference semi's , then conference finals and then finals, (like the NBA) or the top 2 teams from both sides play off in finals crossovers or something.

Also on the best school topic, has anyone actually sen the shields with school names printed on them? Cabra is down at least 1/3 of all names and was in the final in way over half of them.

Its about a history, and continuing dominance if you want to know the better school. What school can give you a Dynasty of performance? Unley can too. Mercedes used to be great, haha like the celtics, now they are in the basement. But you go look at the shields of the champions and you will read the names. If you see the same school repeated back to back, they defended the title. Or you look at all the shields together and see that Cabra won 4 out of the 6 Knockout basketball titles in 2001. This year they most likely can do the same, looking at the draws. I hope unley will have many teams in there.

If you think the senior ko draws are a joke, you are not the only one. So many people think the same, but sassa's funding isnt great and they dont really care about producing the greatest competition. If they did, they would take the advice of all the schools to see how they can make it better, not simpler.

They have just turned the yr 9/10 and yr 8 knockout into a joke by holding the finals all on one day. 9/10 on a thursday, yr 8 on a friday. The games will be shorter and standard of the games will drop by the end of the day as fatigue sets in. It will require depth in teams, but is still not the best way of producing high quality competition.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

im suggesting it should be replaced. the saturday morning comp becomes the season where teams 'qualify' for KO finals.

this system would allow more 'better' teams to win than the current system. Also, the only way the best teams are found if everyone plays everyone, but the season is not long enough and cannot be extended much more because it will interfere with other sports seasons beginning or ending in autumn/spring. Because of this 2 conferences / pools would be necessary.

Also schools can make requests to play certain schools and this can be taken into consideration. Either way, the organisation need to put more thought into it if just to produce a more equitable system, let alone a better one.

this way schools are required to have all their players for the majority of games, not just pick and choose who plays when. Schools then have to step in between club and state associations to say that they cannot ban a player from playing school basketball because they have state/long weekend coming up. let the player decide, instead of threatening that they will be cut, because if they cut a player from state because they played school basketball the state associations are doing our state a disservice because they will no longer be selecting the best possible team for nationals.

decisions to cut players from this have been overturned in the past where the school has supported the player.

Also, all schools who wish to compete in KO will now have to compete in saturday morning sport if they wish to compete for the KO title. This can only bring in better teams and increase the quality of games where better players are then required to play for their school.

LETS BRING BACK THE PASSION FOR SCHOOL BASKETBALL!!

My school is better than yours!

Peace.

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