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Griz Vs Santa Clara

Blakney could have been a piece today. It looked like he was in street clothes. Anyone know the story? Shoulder still hurting?
 
IdaGriz01 said:
Sport said:
Different day, same result, Griz can’t hit their ass with both hands. I’m getting very frustrated with “Travis ball”. Wide open 3’s and minimal results. I think their 3 for 20 or something close to that. It all boils down no inside game to speak of outside Bannon. The Griz can recruit all the guards but when it comes to creating some kind of interior game both defensively and offensively they will be a second tier team even in the BSC.
I have been a Travis fan from day one but I’m beginning to feel maybe he’s not the answer. I’m just very frustrated.
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Shooting has picked up, but so has that for Santa Clara. The Broncos can pretty much score at will when they get the ball inside. At times the Griz can keep them outside, but any breakdown ... it's all over. Give them credit, the Griz are playing hard, but it just seems like they are over-matched physically.

Side issue (over/under): How many Griz players will foul out? I'm guessing three.
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But I thought we were built to win with an elite Defense? Our scoring D is top 40 in country....When we play good teams they score about 80 and out perform their season average....and if they have a go to guy he usually gets his and then some...this has been happening for a few years now.
 
GrizBall said:
Blakney could have been a piece today. It looked like he was in street clothes. Anyone know the story? Shoulder still hurting?
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I listened to the radio broadcast. Riley Corcoran briefly mentioned that Blakney was out with a hand or wrist injury.
 
grizzlyjournal said:
GrizBall said:
Blakney could have been a piece today. It looked like he was in street clothes. Anyone know the story? Shoulder still hurting?
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I listened to the radio broadcast. Riley Corcoran briefly mentioned that Blakney was out with a hand or wrist injury.
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Kenpom, Torvik and NET rankings don't lie, especially now that it's this far into the season. Griz are what they are, a middle of the pack BSC team that will have to hope for a miracle run through the tourney in Boise to be followed by a 15 or 16 seed vs. Duke or Gonzaga or UCLA and a 87-37 ass kicking contest in the Big Dance.

Not sure if there's a team in the conference that can realistically be given a shot to do any damage in March Madness. I thought Weber St. might have the team this year, but they've been a mild disappointment so far.
 
fanofzoo said:
Does anyone think this year is like the movie "Groundhog Day".
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LOL. Yes, definitely. And Blakney is the metaphorical groundhog. He was supposed to be the big we needed but his injury status so far has kept him out or ineffective. Rebounding, rim protection, post scoring--the lack in these areas is glaring. The inability to recruit and keep quality bigs has been the Achilles Heel for this program--and I don't see anybody in the pipeline to fix it.

One interim solution might be a blistering three-point attack, our own version of the Splash Brothers. But we don't have that either. So: More Groundhog Days.

But one point of optimism: The size differential is not going to be so great once we get back to conference. It's only when we step outside to play the bigger programs that this size issue looms...large.
 
CopperGold14 said:
Kenpom, Torvik and NET rankings don't lie, especially now that it's this far into the season. Griz are what they are, a middle of the pack BSC team that will have to hope for a miracle run through the tourney in Boise to be followed by a 15 or 16 seed vs. Duke or Gonzaga or UCLA and a 87-37 ass kicking contest in the Big Dance.

Not sure if there's a team in the conference that can realistically be given a shot to do any damage in March Madness. I thought Weber St. might have the team this year, but they've been a mild disappointment so far.
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Same goes for Sagarin. The Griz is exactly in the middle of the Big Sky (#6 of 11) and sit at #225 (out of 358) overall. They're a bit below UC Davis (Big West in BBall) and ahead of Cleveland State (Horizon).

The Big Sky is in about its usual position, #21 of 33 ... meaning no at-large shot for anyone unless things change drastically. Weber is the highest rated, at 132. That puts them a bit behind Boston College and ahead of Marshall and Yale (BFD).
 
Mousegriz said:
Travis' Griz and big guys..........oil and vinegar.
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Well, that's my favorite salad dressing. :lol:

Funny isn't it? Does UM need a new coach/recruiter just to go after and develop some quality bigs? We're never going to get the top tier, but right now we can't seem to get diddly-squat. Irony: Tinks could look a big recruit in the eye and say, "You'll have a chance to be our main man inside." Credibility.
 
The Santa Clara game was the first I have watched. I do not agree that we got homered by the refs. To me, our players do not play sound fundamental individual defense. They reach way too often and commit silly fouls. It is one thing to play good team defense, and to play aggressively on defense as we do. But when we can not play individual defense while guarding an opposing player without committing a silly foul, leading to a huge discrepancy in the number of free throws taken, it is very hard to win games. Individual defense is a combination of good mechanics, which can be taught, and desire to be a great defender. One of the two, or both seem to be missing.
 
LaJollaGriz said:
The Santa Clara game was the first I have watched. I do not agree that we got homered by the refs. To me, our players do not play sound fundamental individual defense. They reach way too often and commit silly fouls. It is one thing to play good team defense, and to play aggressively on defense as we do. But when we can not play individual defense while guarding an opposing player without committing a silly foul, leading to a huge discrepancy in the number of free throws taken, it is very hard to win games. Individual defense is a combination of good mechanics, which can be taught, and desire to be a great defender. One of the two, or both seem to be missing.
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Have to agree on the foul discrepancy. I couldn't get the stream to work at first, so I followed through the stats and text play-by play. I saw the big difference in fouls and thought the Griz might be getting homered.

But then I got the stream going, and began to change my mind. There may have been a slight homer bias, but many of the Griz fouls were easy calls ... off-balance lunges, desperate grabs from behind, and so on. And the UM big(s) were over-matched inside and got caught out of position too often ... another lunging, slapping foul.

The Griz played amazing (and good) defense coming out of half-time. They managed to tie the score. Great! But that requires intense concentration, commitment, and energy. When they ran out of gas after about 6 min or so, the Broncos simply pulled away. The quick poke that disrupted a drive at 3-4 min into the run was suddenly a split second slow ... foul called.

I got too caught up in the action, so I lost track of Griz substitutions. The only way to sustain the kind of effort the Griz showed early in the second half is to rotate guys off the bench so they stay fresh. That did not happen, or at best not enough.
 
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