ABL Awards Predictions

We haven't had one of these for a while so here goes.

Men:

Woollacott: M. Ng

All Star 5:
Matthews
M. Ng
Scanlon
Oakley
Rychart

U/21: M. Ng

Most Improved: Breheny (hard to compare to last year tho - how do we know he has improved?) else Spud

Defensive Player: Cooper

Coach: Any of the top 5 teams coaches at this stage. (Personally I think it should be decided after the GF, see last year: Simons should've got it)

Women:

Halls: Marino

All Star 5:
Marino
Ranford
Browne
Woosnam
Beatty

U/21: Romeo

Most Improved: ??

Defensive Player: Beatty

Coach: Weeks

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Isaac
Years ago

I think Cooper might have a crack at the medal and All Star Five, but lack of strong competition might cost him if anything - just hasn't needed to play big minutes regularly.

Ng, Breheny and Spud would have to be easy frontrunners for MIP? Any other competition?

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India Foxtrot
Years ago

I think Matthews probably stands out a bit more than Cooper. A lot of Cooper's work (on defense especially) is crucial to the team but maybe goes a bit unnoticed by refs?

Forgot about Ng for MIP - he could sweep the lot! Opportunity has a lot to do with MIP. Breheny and Ng had very few opportunities last year so it is hard to compare. Spud probably had the most opportunities last year and has definitely improved a lot from what I've seen and going by what the stats say.

Last year Breheny had 2.5 mpg, Ng 8.5 mpg and Spud 19.6 mpg.

Maybe give Spud MIP and Breheny and Ng can share the "Why the hell didn't I get more minutes last year?" award?

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Isaac
Years ago

Going by the Index of Success on the Central ABL site, the top players are:

Cooper
Oakley
Breheny
Matthews
Spadavecchia
Pilkington
M.Ng
Hambour
Mapunda
Dodman

Rychart would place second or third if you extrapolated from his seven games (most of the rest have played 12). Dodman would move up a couple of spots if he'd also played 12 games.

Top scorers are:

Rychart
Scanlon
M.Ng
Watson
Oakley

Top rebounders are:

Oakley
Rychart
Pilkington
Breheny
Truslove

Top in assists are:

D.Ng
Sutton
Spadavecchia
Matthews
Zorich

FWIW, Cooper is averaging 7.7 blocks per 48 minutes.

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Hooops Biych
Years ago

Schueller for Coach of the Year!

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Leopard 74
Years ago

India M.Ng is 22

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Too early to tell
Years ago

Here's mine:

Wollocott: Oakley(Maybe Rychart if he comes home strong without missing any more games)

All Star 5: C- Cooper, F-Oakley, F-Rychart, G-M.Ng, G-Mathews.(Sutton, Mapunda, Spud, Burdon, Zorich worth mentioning)

u21: Marcus Ng(Dodman, Fildes worth mentioning)

Defensive player: Cooper

Most Improved: Mapunda, Spud, Breheney, McKenzie all have taken massive steps this year.

6th man: Mcdonald-taylor

Coach of year: with still 6 games to go a bit hard but between Flynn, Sapwell, Simons, Sheuller.

Underacheiver award:
Lalic, actually lets put the whole Southern tigers team in here!

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Year of the Brave
Years ago

According to CABL site:

Marcus Ng
DOB 10/12/1985

This makes him about 21 years and six months (I think!)... does this exclude him as he is actually 21 not UNDER 21???

As far as I can tell, the U21 award is only out of the following players (this is not the entire list but the top candidates in my mind in no particular order)

Spud
Dodman
Lalic
Egel
Molitor
Rowe
J. Kies
Craddock
L. Burdon
Fildes

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Dennis Denuto
Years ago

Spadavecchia for the Frank Angove Medal!!

Is the medal just the highest polling u21 in the Woollacott Medal?

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Anonymous
Years ago

dont the refs get awards too

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