{"id":17330,"date":"2020-10-05T15:31:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T05:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.draftcentral.com.au\/?p=17330"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T05:31:11","slug":"wnbl-player-spotlight-melbourne-boomers-maddie-garrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wnbl-player-spotlight-melbourne-boomers-maddie-garrick\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBL Player Spotlight – Melbourne Boomers – Maddie Garrick"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE fifth side we now look at for Draft Central<\/em>\u2019s Player Spotlight series is last season\u2019s semi-finalists, the Melbourne Boomers, who after bowing out in a hard-fought series to the eventual champions, the University of Canberra Capitals, will look to go one step further next season in WNBL21.<\/p>\n

Kicking off the Boomers\u2019 core five for the week, is Shepparton-born co-captain Maddie Garrick<\/strong>, who is still recovering from the surgery and re-stabilisation of her left ankle in the preparations for her sixth season at the club.<\/p>\n

Head coach Guy Molloy <\/em><\/strong>provided a clearer insight into how far off Garrick is to fully recovering from her surgery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still restricting her workload, but I would say she\u2019s ahead of schedule,\u201d Molloy said. \u201cI think that we have a draft or tentative date somewhere in November to begin play, and when Maddie had her surgery done, that was the conservative return date for her anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Molloy also noted that his coaching staff and trainers still have time to work with Garrick in the later stages of her ankle rehabilitation, which has meant a lot of quarter-court work and half-court work for the 28-year-old. Nevertheless, Molloy has a strong feeling that if the season is to begin in the middle stages of November, Garrick will be ready to suit up by then.<\/p>\n

In terms of play last season, Garrick was able to provide her side with decent figures throughout the campaign, putting up 11.1 points per contest alongside a clip of 37.4 per cent from the field. Garrick also facilitated the ball and made the extra effort on numerous possessions, as she also averaged four and a half rebounds per game and over two assists to add to her season stat-line.<\/p>\n

While Garrick rarely put up numbers in droves, a 26-point performance against the Sydney Uni Flames at the mid-way point of last season suggested that she does have the ability to turn up her production if need be, especially from deep as she knocked down six three-pointers in that contest alone. This trait could become more visible next season as Molloy sees a more prominent role for Garrick in the immediate future, given the absences of imports like Lindsay Allen<\/strong> and Sophie Cunningham<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the ball will go into her hands a lot more just because we don\u2019t have Lindsay and Sophie and we\u2019ve got to find ways to replace those numbers, so I think Maddie will become an important part in that,\u201d Molloy indicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo Maddie\u2019s credit, she\u2019s remained true and faithful to the club in her role,\u201d said the Boomers head coach. \u201cWe\u2019ve kind of kept Maddie back a little bit as a support player in some respects, so she\u2019s been terrific with that role and remained a true team player, so I think she\u2019s earned it if we step her up to a more prominent role next season.”<\/p>\n

As the dominos started to fall in the club\u2019s bid to re-sign their core group, Garrick\u2019s name was the first to make the headlines. Evident in the club\u2019s announcement<\/a>, she has the obvious objective of taking her side past the semis for next season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to building on from an exceptional season for the club last season (with a hint of unfinished business). I am looking forward to getting back to work more than ever after everything that\u2019s happened in the world over the past months,\u201d Garrick said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI absolutely love playing for this club \u2013 the fans, the environment, the professionalism and also the culture that we have created amongst the team. These are just a few central reasons as to why I\u2019ll be returning to the club for my 6th season, as well as continuing on in the role as co-captain,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Not only will it be exciting to watch the Boomers co-captain set her sights on a serious title run, but also seeing that mindset translate to the rest of the team will provide for an entertaining brand of basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE fifth side we now look at for Draft Central\u2019s Player Spotlight series is last season\u2019s semi-finalists, the Melbourne Boomers, who after bowing out in a hard-fought series to the eventual champions, the University of Canberra Capitals, will look to go one step further next season in WNBL21. Kicking off the Boomers\u2019 core five for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":17333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2810,2871,11],"tags":[561,196,30,590,2007,2110,1972],"class_list":["post-17330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-melbourne-boomers","category-news","category-wnbl","tag-guy-molloy","tag-lindsay-allen","tag-maddie-garrick","tag-melbourne-boomers","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sydney-uni-flames","tag-wnbl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}