MBBALL Griz vs Stanford recap

[5280Griz]

The Griz lost their road opener at Stanford yesterday 91-68. The Griz held their own in many statistical categories against an ACC opponent but ultimately giving up 20 turnovers was too much of a hurdle to surmount.

Stanford held the lead from the beginning of the game, jumping out to a quick 9-0 lead and not giving the lead up until the final whistle.

Stanford scored 27 points off of the 20 Griz turnovers whereas the Griz were only able to get 5 turnovers from Stanford. Coach Travis DeCuire shared his frustration with the turnovers stating "20 turnovers, we just didn't get enough shots. You're never going to beat anyone giving up that many attempts. We have to clean up our offense and figure out some things with our backcourt play in games like this."

Big Sky Conference MVP preseason favorite Money Williams had a slow first half with 0 points but got going in the second half scoring 19 points.

The game was still within hand with 8 minutes remaining with the score 69-57 but Stanford went on a 12-0 run that made the score more lopsided than it could have been.

Stanford’s freshman Ebuka Okorie had an amazing game for the Cardinal, scoring 29 points with 21 of them coming in the second half.

The Griz shooting percentage was similar to Stanford but the turnovers created a big difference in shot attempts that Montana was not able to overcome.

The Griz will look to get back in the win column with another high major road game at UNLV on Tuesday. UNLV lost their first game to UT Martin and blew out Chattanooga to have a 1-1 record going into their game against the 2-1 Griz.

 

[CleanHOUSE]

Same story Griz would shoot about 33% from outside if the other team waited at thier end of the court for Griz to take shot. Also, slow pace of play and playing hard on D gets mistaken for good D. Good players get theirs against the Griz, Griz not actaully locking anyone down or creating smothering turnovers to set up fast breaks if they don't have a physical advantage over them.
Its fine though looks like a solid team built to win by being more physical and grinding out 70pts and holding opponent in 60s which should be good for top 3 against BSC comp.
Every years just wish for a team that had some upset potential...maybe they can deputize EWU to play the NCAA game for them if Griz win BigSky.

 

[oldrunner]

The Griz will look to get back in the win column with another high major road game at UNLV on Tuesday. UNLV lost their first game to UT Martin and blew out Chattanooga to have a 1-1 record going into their game against the 2-1 Griz.

UNLV is certainly not a high major. They are a good mid major program, but a long way from being a high major program. These are not the Jerry Tarkanian days any longer, haven't been for a long time.

 

[5280Griz]

UNLV is certainly not a high major. They are a good mid major program, but a long way from being a high major program. These are not the Jerry Tarkanian days any longer, haven't been for a long time.

I was using high major as in a multi-bid conference which the Mountain West had 4 last year and 6 the year prior. I understand a lot of people consider high major to only be ACC, Big 12, SEC, Big 10 and Big East.