Solid match-up on a super freshly cool night. Yeah I said it. The game started with plenty of energy and each team traded baskets at both ends.  As the speed and tempo picked up B*B conceded some easy points against some well drilled fast breaks. Goes to show to importance of busting back to help defend our end. Kudos to Damien who kept us in touch, doing the dirty work in the paint and using his size to out hustle his man.
With Pierre out due to illness Will had a …

It’s always great to see a young team come together.
Playing a smaller opponent, the Div 2 Team started strong and never relinquished their lead.  Near-perfect shooting from mid-range was balanced by some lacklustre inside play; there’s always something to improve on, so it’s kind of nice to see what we can do better this earl in the season.
All players ran the court extremely well.  Rohan, Robert and Rieuk again had a feast by continously cutting through the middle, while newcomer Las made an immediate impact by dominating rebounds and muscling …

I’ll set the scene; having driven up to Sydney to deliver books and toys for our newest BIG BANGS member Prani (congrats again) to send to Nepal, we had only arrived back in Canberra some 45 minutes before the game.
Not ideal preparation for the first game back.
I had the added responsibility of balancing the available talent on to 2 teams, and in this league only a maximum of 2 players can play in both leagues during the same season.
With that in mind we ended up suiting 6 players for each …

FILCOM has started again! This time we have two teams, Div1 and Div2. What we are looking to implement is a weekly summary of how each team is going. I will keep you updated of the Div1 team and Pierre will cover Div2. You will note the way our team has been split to cover each division – there was a need to balance team dynamics and as far as the results of the first week – all should be happy with how we started (in terms of teams playing …