OVER the weekend, the National Basketball League (NBL)1 North Women\u2019s league held its best of three grand final series. The result took just two games to decide, with the Logan Thunder claiming two tense victories to walk away 2021 champions. Both games were decided by four points or less, and could have gone either way, but the Thunder proved too clutch for their Southern Districts Spartan opponents. Now that the dust has settled on an exciting weekend of basketball, let\u2019s take a look at the key stats, to try and determine where each game was won.<\/p>\n
FG%<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n GAME ONE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Southern Districts Spartans \u2013 44.78% GAME TWO<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Logan Thunder \u2013 31.15% Despite the loss, the Spartans actually won this category convincingly in game one, making three more shots on two less attempts. Typically, this category plays a huge role in the result of a game, but Friday night proved that this is not always the case, with the victors\u2019 ability to find their way to the free throw line arguably the key. Game two saw the two sides separated by very little, but this checks out given the game was decided by just two points.<\/p>\n 3PT%<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n GAME ONE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Southern Districts Spartans \u2013 36.36% GAME TWO<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Southern Districts Spartans \u2013 17.65% Much like the previous category, the Spartans were able to perform better here in the first game, but were not able to convert this into a match win. This was once again likely due to the amount of Thunder points that came from drawing contact and converting at the free throw line. Game two saw the shots from behind the arc have an effect on the result, with the Thunder\u2019s more efficient shooting guiding them to a series-clinching win.<\/p>\n REBOUNDS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n GAME ONE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Southern Districts Spartans \u2013 38 GAME TWO<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Southern Districts Spartans \u2013 51 The Thunder controlled the boards in their four-point game one victory, led by Mikaela Ruef, <\/strong>who pulled down a massive 22 on her own. 12 of the team\u2019s rebounds were also offensive, which was seven more than their opponents, so the second chance points were prominent for the winning side. The second match saw the Spartans fight back to win this category, but fell just short of tying the series.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Image Credit: Stephen Schulz Photography<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OVER the weekend, the National Basketball League (NBL)1 North Women\u2019s league held its best of three grand final series. The result took just two games to decide, with the Logan Thunder claiming two tense victories to walk away 2021 champions. Both games were decided by four points or less, and could have gone either way, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":23759,"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":[903,5070,2871],"tags":[3498,2000,1184,5759,3692],"class_list":["post-23758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nbl1","category-nbl1-north-nbl1-womens","category-news","tag-logan-thunder","tag-mikaela-ruef","tag-nbl1","tag-nbl1-north-women","tag-southern-districts-spartans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758","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\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23764,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23758\/revisions\/23764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLogan Thunder \u2013 39.13%<\/p>\n
\nSouthern Districts Spartans \u2013 30.88%<\/p>\n
\nLogan Thunder \u2013 30%<\/p>\n
\nLogan Thunder \u2013 27.27%<\/p>\n
\nLogan Thunder \u2013 45<\/p>\n
\nLogan Thunder \u2013 42<\/p>\n