Shannon Seebohm COTY

Zitina Aokuso Sixth Woman of The Year

Robyn Maher Defensive Player of the Year: Steph Talbot

Betty Watson Australian Youth Player of the Year: Shyla Heal

Not a fan of Liz, but she was clearly the MVP this season. It's hard it believe that O'Hea and Blicavs really pinched that many votes from her across the season when she averaged almost a point per minute on 62-FG% and has the defensive impact just from her presence.

Nicholson also unlucky, although I imagine Heal similarly pinched voted from her occasionally.

All WNBL first team:

Cambage
Talbot
George
Ebzery
Nicholson

Where's the info coming from?

All-WNBL Second Team:

Sara Blicavs
Shyla Heal
Tess Madgen
Maddy Rocci
Ezi Magbegor

Liz HAD to have been MVP, so maybe the WNBL is trying to give Liz a pretty blunt message about her behaviour getting in the way.

There should be an award for "dud coach" Molloy would win that hands down.
All the stacked teams he has had and always comes up short.

There should be an award for "dud coach" Molloy would win that hands down.
All the stacked teams he has had and always comes up short.

Zitina Aokuso looks pretty good.

Liz basically missed the game earlier in the season against Sydney with 4 fouls in 8 minutes, so no votes that game. Talbot didn't have a game played with under 20 minutes.

In certain games like recently against Melbourne Liz played really well and had 35 points (off 24 shots), although a player like Bec Cole had 16 points on 7-8 shooting and a bunch of assists, and Sara Blicavs had 18 points on 7-9 shooting and was great defensively. Does Liz get 9 votes that game? I'm not so sure.

Also, Liz was often attacked heavily on defense and stretched out in pick and rolls, the team often leaked points with her on the floor.

I don't think there is some organised conspiracy against Liz here, its just that game by game voting suits a player without much help around them.

Yeah, blame the voting system.
Liz was dominant but had the luxury of sitting a lot due to being on a strong team, and had teammates who played some big games too, so she didn't stand out as much as Talbot did.

MVP votes were
73 Talbot
67 Cambage
65 Nicholson
56 Magbegor
52 Rocci

I'm not super keen on George being the All Star PF (she's a good rebounder but I disagree that she's a good defender), but there's no standout for that spot so I'm ok with the pick. Glad to see Blicavs recognised with a spot on the 2nd team. I haven't been her biggest fan over the journey but she's had a very good season.

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There should be an award for "dud coach" Molloy would win that hands down.
All the stacked teams he has had and always comes up short.


Lol comment so good you had to say it twice


Fully agree, sadly he must be a very good BS talker for boomers board to reappoint him year after year

Within the hour

What I'm saying is people shouldn't let their bias affect their voting. She’s the best player in the league hands down. Talbot leading turnovers in the league, doesn’t strike me as a stat the MVP should have.


Cambage was the biggest player in the league , and also the biggest bad attitude
She has and could still cost teams games because of it
You don’t reward bad attitude no matter how much one player thinks they deserve to have it all

Also wouldn’t have given it to Talbot, yep she was good, but Nicholson was better both ends

Also don’t think Allison was worthy of sixth man

But then not sure who really was
It was a season where every team ran their starters and left their bench to be the sir gators for the most part

Nothing major - I just feel like she's capable of more than she has produced. So it's been good this season to see her playing at a level where Brondello needs to keep a serious eye on her.

Which teams remaining in the finals has an assistant coach who is male, bald and a big sized man.

I'm a bit higher on Blicavs, Luuc. I think she's a classic example of a player who suffered a major injury at exactly the wrong time. Took her a long time to get back to her best (it's the nature of that injury unfortunately), but she's been great this season.

Wish I had left those few words out of my original post because my intent was praise rather than be interpreted as having a go at her. And yes I agree that she seemed ready to hit top gear when she copped that injury.

I think being in a deep team with other weapons has taken some of the reliance off her, and she has been great at staying in attack mode rather than just deferring to those other options - which would be very easy to do in that team.