2023 ANZP GRAND FINAL

Well down to Mystics. Great win. Game was over end of the third quarter. There was no way Nawai cau cau and Temu were going to win a one on one jumping contest with Nweke. Would have been interesting if the nz league had that long shot that they have in the ssn. May have made the game a bit more interesting.
Would be great if they had a best of three series for the final.

To be honest Rob Wright must have played a big part in the Mystics success. He seems to have found his happy place.

Don’t think Wills’ substitutions were very astute. Putting on Hume was not effective. Why take off one of the players of the season in Malesala for someone with a shaky shot.

Quite a few mystics must be in the running for Ferns. Will be interesting to see the selections.

@Kwkiwi Wills knew Malesala was tiring and making errors. Her shooting was fine, 17/21 in the end but they felt like they came at critical moments. She also had some turnovers as well.

I think Hume’s future is at WA. Her shot is too unreliable. If Crampton retires from the team, I would give her a crack at WA, knowing you still have MRB and Nathan there to push forward if needed.

Now I think about it @mcleod, if you lose a Centre and Peta is your back-up, you’re a little stuck. She might not make the five all together.

No offence to the Stars defence circle, but they are not Australia or Jamaica.
Make no mistake it was a great performance by the Mystics, but some odd selections by Kiri Wills, Temu at GD to start was never going to work.
Grace was outstanding, but for the 2nd year in a row the Stars big names failed to fire. Crampton had a shocker totally outplayed by MSB, Mila R-B all at sea against a Fern in the making Tayla Earle.
Maia was a bit slow to move at times, and often moved the wrong way.