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Griz VS Mississippi Valley State

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GrizBBIsKing

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Griz playing MVSU tonight. MSVSU lost every game they played so far (at least those that count). This includes a 76 to 25 loss to Washington State. Their loss to James Madison was only competitive game losing by only 8 points. Other than the loss to WSU, their other losses were by 24 points and 41 points.

MVSU is now in their fifth game of their 10 game road trip (although 1 of those games is considered neutral court). There is a chance this team could lose all 10 of these games.

How do MVSU players as students study or handle school. From Nov. 14th to 22nd they travel from Arizona State to Washington State to Oklahoma to Montana and then to Arkansas State with only 4 days off. 8 - 9 days away from classes. Can't be easy.

Plus the travel cannot be easy for playing basketball. Very little practice Time. I remember Tinkle's first season at Montana as a head coach. Griz were on the road for several games. Big complaint was not being able to get practice time. It did affect how the team performed.

Griz should win this unless MVSU hired the energizer bunny since their last loss.
 
Was the awesome dunk by Vassey or Johnson? I l thought Johnson.

Tall, muscular ref played at Long Beach. Graduated in '91.
 
PlayerRep said:
Was the awesome dunk by Vassey or Johnson? I l thought Johnson.

Tall, muscular ref played at Long Beach. Graduated in '91.
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It was Banny, Johnson got rimchecked when he tried to jam.
 
Nice dunk by Vanny..Vanny has not really imperessed me so far. He might be good to get in and
give a spark now and then.

What I did see for the first time was someone (AJ) pushing the ball up the floor FAST. AJ is VERY quick
i would love the Griz getting more fast break points this year in transition.
 
WashGriz said:
Nice dunk by Vanny..Vanny has not really imperessed me so far. He might be good to get in and
give a spark now and then.

What I did see for the first time was someone (AJ) pushing the ball up the floor FAST. AJ is VERY quick
i would love the Griz getting more fast break points this year in transition.
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Uh, his name is Vassy Banny :thumb:
 
two things i'm looking for from this pre-season:

--a strong defensive profile. to see montana reclaim its position among the top fg percentage defensive teams. to do that, they have to allow in the mid to high 30's. against c.s.u. they allowed 52%; last two games, in the high 30's. but then we gave up more points to mvsu in the first half than washington state did the entire game, so is it a matter of our defense improving or the competition weakening? duke, washington and fresno state will tell.
--to play complete games. we lost a lot of close games last year, simply because we couldn't put together two solid halves of basketball. last night more of the same: a great first half, but tie game second half. i want to see this team treat each half as a separate game, and win it--decisively.

and what's up with shawn stockton? if you're gonna blow off a redshirt year, don't you expect him to contribute down the road? but if you expect him to contribute down the road, don't you want to get him some minutes early, especially in lopsided pre-season games? i guess on this one i'll have to go with what a football player once told me when i asked him his major, "ah, i dunno. coach knows."
 
citygriz said:
two things i'm looking for from this pre-season:

--a strong defensive profile. to see montana reclaim its position among the top fg percentage defensive teams. to do that, they have to allow in the mid to high 30's. against c.s.u. they allowed 52%; last two games, in the high 30's. but then we gave up more points to mvsu in the first half than washington state did the entire game, so is it a matter of our defense improving or the competition weakening? duke, washington and fresno state will tell.
--to play complete games. we lost a lot of close games last year, simply because we couldn't put together two solid halves of basketball. last night more of the same: a great first half, but tie game second half. i want to see this team treat each half as a separate game, and win it--decisively.

and what's up with shawn stockton? if you're gonna blow off a redshirt year, don't you expect him to contribute down the road? but if you expect him to contribute down the road, don't you want to get him some minutes early, especially in lopsided pre-season games? i guess on this one i'll have to go with what a football player once told me when i asked him his major, "ah, i dunno. coach knows."
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stockton has gotten minutes. See city the way this works, if you play well when you get opps, you get more minutes. too bad you never played any sports, you might know how it works. Stockton seems to get it, why can't you? :roll:
 
City says.

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and what's up with shawn stockton? if you're gonna blow off a redshirt year, don't you expect him to contribute down the road? but if you expect him to contribute down the road, don't you want to get him some minutes early, especially in lopsided pre-season games? i guess on this one i'll have to go with what a football player once told me when i asked him his major, "ah, i dunno. coach knows."citygriz
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I agree with City.. I saw the starting line up in at the end of the game and we were up by 20...that was the perfect time to get minutes for guys like Stockton and most of all Selving ! The more time we
can give Selving the better...he needs minutes to mature.
 
Stockton played in the first half--before M. Taylor. Isn't that early enough. He played well.

Thanks for correction who made the awesome dunk.
 
I appreciated Tinkle's comments in the paper today:

“We said we don't need to worry about having to make baskets to impress the staff,” Tinkle said. “It was never a selfish situation, it was just a deal where guys felt like they had to get some things going to help the team. We just said, ‘Hey, let's put the focus on the defense and everything else will come easy.' ”
 
Grizbacker1 said:
citygriz said:
two things i'm looking for from this pre-season:

--a strong defensive profile. to see montana reclaim its position among the top fg percentage defensive teams. to do that, they have to allow in the mid to high 30's. against c.s.u. they allowed 52%; last two games, in the high 30's. but then we gave up more points to mvsu in the first half than washington state did the entire game, so is it a matter of our defense improving or the competition weakening? duke, washington and fresno state will tell.
--to play complete games. we lost a lot of close games last year, simply because we couldn't put together two solid halves of basketball. last night more of the same: a great first half, but tie game second half. i want to see this team treat each half as a separate game, and win it--decisively.

and what's up with shawn stockton? if you're gonna blow off a redshirt year, don't you expect him to contribute down the road? but if you expect him to contribute down the road, don't you want to get him some minutes early, especially in lopsided pre-season games? i guess on this one i'll have to go with what a football player once told me when i asked him his major, "ah, i dunno. coach knows."
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stockton has gotten minutes. See city the way this works, if you play well when you get opps, you get more minutes. too bad you never played any sports, you might know how it works. Stockton seems to get it, why can't you? :roll:
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It's been inheritantly obvious that you never played any sports at all GB1 and being the team manager doesn't count either.
 
i have reason to think that gb1 did in fact play football, was actually pretty good at it, but obviously took too many blows to the head.
 
citygriz said:
i have reason to think that gb1 did in fact play football, was actually pretty good at it, but obviously took too many blows to the head.
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I could add to that but, I think you hit it pretty good. ( No pun intended)
 
Sugar Bear 16 said:
It's been inheritantly obvious that you never played any sports at all GB1 and being the team manager doesn't count either.
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And it's inherently obvious that you didn't attend high school.
 
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