The Hoopsters NBL1 Central Basketball Show

Bevo and Downtown caught up for a chat with Bella Stratford from the Forestville Eagles to see how she was recovering from her recent knee surgery.

We also discussed what made Bella decide to make the move from the Southern Tigers to the Eagles, the differences between the two clubs how she’s found her first season at her new club and Bella gave us her tip to take out the men’s and women’s NBL1 Central championship.

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Bevo and Downtown caught up for a chat with 2022 NBL1 Central Men's Coach of the Year, Scott Whitmore from the Woodville Warriors and asked him what it meant to receive the award and why it’s been such a successful one for his team.

We also discussed what new recruits Nick Wurm and Dave Humphries have brought to the team this year, the evenness of his team and the amazing final quarter in last week’s semi-final from Jawan Stepney where he scored 19 points against the Panthers to put the Warriors into this year’s Grand Final.

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In what's been an amazing first year of our new NBL1 Central Basketball Show, The Hoopsters, Bevo and Downtown have put together a best bits of the show, it was very hard to put it all into 5.30 minutes, we could've made it a heck of a lot longer but we hope you enjoy looking back on what's been a great season.

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This week Bevo and Downtown wrapped up the second week of men’s and women’s NBL1 Central finals action, we gave our tips for this week’s men’s and women’s preliminary finals and in a special treat for our fans we played a special best bits of our first year of the Hoopsters.

We were also extremely lucky to have three fantastic guests on the phone for a chat including: Jasmin Fejo from the West Adelaide Bearcats, Bella Stratford from the Forestville Eagles and the 2022 Coach of the Year, Scott Whitmore from the Woodville Warriors.

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Allan 'Downtown' Browne planned the perfect stitch up when Forestville Eagle and former Adelaide 36ers player Adam Doyle was a studio guest on our Hoopsters show recently.

Even Bevo was kept in the dark about this one, it was very well played by Downtown and Sarah Doyle (Adam's wife)

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Bevo and Downtown and in-studio guest, Jake Burfitt from the South Adelaide Panthers Basketball Club were very lucky to have Ally Wilson from the Norwood Flames fresh from winning a Bronze Medal in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 3x3 Basketball.

We talked about what it was like to represent her country at the Commonwealth Games, the belief that the Flames have after two great wins over Forestville and the Sturt Sabres in the past two weeks and getting another contract in the WNBL with the Bendigo Spirit.

Link to Full interview on Hoopsters bio.

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Bevo, Downtown and in-studio guest, Jake Burfitt from the South Adelaide Panthers Basketball Club were very lucky to have the 2022 Halls Medallist Mikayla Williams from the Sturt Sabres on the show.

We discussed Mikayla’s amazing season, the evenness of the Sabres side, her background before coming to the NBL1 Central this year and what makes the Sabres so strong defensively.

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Bevo, Downtown and in-studio guest, Jake Burfitt from the South Adelaide Panthers Basketball Club were very lucky to have the 2022 Woollacott Medalist also from the Panthers, Jeremy Smith on the show.

We discussed his amazing season and what it was like to win the medal after coming so close back in 2015 when he finished runner up behind NBL1 Central stalwart, Matt Lycett, how the side came from 19 down against the Forestville Eagles to win by 15 points last week and how he ended up at the Panthers this year.

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This week Bevo and Downtown were joined by another great in-studio guest, Jake Burfitt, a South Adelaide Panthers Basketball Club legend and one of the best special comments people in the NBL1 Central.

We wrapped up the first week of men’s and women’s NBL1 Central finals action and we gave our tips for the second week of finals matches.

We were also extremely lucky to have the 2022 Halls Medallist, Mikayla Williams from the Sturt Sabres, 2022 Woollacott Medallist, Jeremy Smith from the South Adelaide Panthers and Commonwealth Games 3x3 Basketball Bronze Medalist, Ally Wilson from the Norwood Flames.

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Bevo and Downtown were very lucky to have one of the NBL1 Central stars, Ash ‘Splash’ Spencer from the South Adelaide Basketball Club on the show

We previewed South’s big qualifying final with the Sturt Sabres this Saturday night, her big game last week in their close win over the Warriors and how her nursing studies are going.

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