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Griz - Weber game
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LivingstonNative
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FIVE WINS in a row and we cap it off with a win on Weber’s turf ! I’ll take it
GoldStandardGriz
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Probably shouldn't bother me as much as it does, but it does. Can we please spell our guys' names correctly? It's Bannan, not Bannon..
marooncoloredglasses
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I know they're all contributing, but Moody's clutch shooting has turned this season around for the Griz.
mtgrizrule
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PeauxRouge said:
Nope, just my observations from coaching and lots of video review over the years. I honestly like his intangibles. Ironic, I wanted to see him at 15 minutes per game. Exactly what he played against Weber State.
Alaska Griz
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Dischon Thomas has become an efficient player, and really smooth outside shooter. First season in awhile the Griz have been able to outshoot most of the conference in threes, at least it seems. Needed, of course. If they could start working alley oops into their mindset, especially on drives, the opportunity is there alot, but it's been mostly ignored. Just something that always stands out.
LivingstonNative
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MikeyGriz said:
Sorry! I use Siri when I’m watching the game and sometimes Siri doesn’t know what the hell is going on in name spelling. I usually don’t go back and correct the spelling, because I’m into the game.
marooncoloredglasses said:
I’m not on the wagon as much about Moody. He’s capable of great things but at times he forces shots, plays out of control and seems to forget he has teammates. He forced some shots when he easily could’ve dished to the open man. He tries to do to much …. At times.
Sure, Moody throws up an ill-advised shot every once in awhile, but I want a guy in our team who’s not afraid to take the big shot. :thumb:
Great team shooting performance overall, but I thought Oke and Vazquez really stood out. Solid contributions.
Bannan just needs to keep drawing the attention of the two players who are usually guarding him. It usually gives somebody an open look.
Go Griz, beat the Kittens!
Great team shooting performance overall, but I thought Oke and Vazquez really stood out. Solid contributions.
Bannan just needs to keep drawing the attention of the two players who are usually guarding him. It usually gives somebody an open look.
Go Griz, beat the Kittens!
mtgrizrule
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MikeyGriz said:
Tough decision. I'd go more with Oke. He's a better offensive rebounder than Anderson. He gets the team more extra possessions than Anderson. He has more offensive upside than Anderson. Anderson at times finds holes in the defense from well timed cuts for dunks. If oke could learn this, he'd be a bigger contributor.
mtgrizrule said:
To me, it seemed like earlier in the season Oke was struggling to figure out where he should position himself on the court, where his teammates were going to be, where passes might be coming from, and so on. At times he also had trouble handling passes or shooting in traffic.
In other words, he was just struggling to make the transition to a higher level of competition.
But boy, in the last few games, he really seems to finally be putting things together, physically and mentally. He's hustling on loose balls, he's scored under the basket, he's blocked out well when it comes to rebounding, he's positioned himself well on defense. Last night's block on Weber's big man was a thing of beauty.
All that said, we're going to need Mac as well here at the end of the season, particularly when it comes to needing muscle in the middle during the grind of the tourney.
grizzlyjournal
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+1 :thumb:grizonbob said:
Happy for Oke..
Not sure the coaches have the luxury of team depth to do this, but you think they might consider saving Mac's playing minutes until the griz commit their 6th or 7th foul, instead of choosing to play him early in the half and risk putting the opponents at the free throw line for 1 and 1 opportunities with 15 minutes still left to go...
Go Griz!
Not sure the coaches have the luxury of team depth to do this, but you think they might consider saving Mac's playing minutes until the griz commit their 6th or 7th foul, instead of choosing to play him early in the half and risk putting the opponents at the free throw line for 1 and 1 opportunities with 15 minutes still left to go...
Go Griz!
Good story in yesterday's paper about the new motion offense the Griz installed the night before the Weber State game:
Montana Grizzlies pull out stomach-churning win at Weber State
Frank Gogola
The Montana men's basketball team made yet another case to be called "The Cardiac Griz" on Saturday night.
The Griz were riding high as they built a 16-point lead at Weber State going up 58-42 with 8:37 remaining. They then took a nosedive as their lead was cut to three points on multiple occasions in the closing minutes.
Despite that turbulence, Montana made plays down the stretch and came back into the station with a 74-69 victory. It marked the fifth consecutive win for the Griz, who improved to 8-6 in Big Sky play and remained in fourth place.
"My stomach hurts. That was an emotional rollercoaster," Montana coach Travis DeCuire said in his postgame radio interview. "We knew that you could build leads on this team and when you got a guy like Dillon Jones, they're going to make runs, you got to survive the runs.
"The biggest thing for us we've been saying "all as one" for a few weeks now. We hung in there, we stuck together through the mistakes, through the turnovers, through the missed shots, the breakdowns defensively. We just kept playing through it, we believed and trusted one another and we found a way to win a game."
Montana tied its season high with 14 made 3-pointers on 25 attempts. The Grizzlies' 56% shooting from deep is their second-best mark this season. Their 74 points are the most they've scored since their Jan. 14 win over Idaho State, 84-55.
The strong shooting night was helped by UM's implementation of a new motion offense during practice Friday. The focus on less dribbling and more passing in order to take more shots off the catch and less off the bounce helped lead to 18 assists on 27 made field goals.
Aanen Moody scored a game-high 23 points, extending the Griz lead to 70-64 when he made his fifth 3-pointer, from the right wing with 1:40 to play. He later made both 1-and-1 free throws for a 72-67 lead with 13.8 seconds left on a night in which he eclipsed 1,000 career points.
The motion offense also helped open up jump shots for forward Dischon Thomas. He knocked down four of his five 3-point attempts while totaling 14 points, which included throwing down a dunk for a 67-61 lead with 2:01 remaining.
It marked the fifth consecutive win by single digits for Montana after a 19-point loss at Sacramento State, which led to an hour-long locker room meeting. Before that, they were 1-5 in Big Sky games decided by single digits.
The Grizzlies' winning streak had started two weeks earlier after they spent a Friday working on screens to better get their bigs involved after the loss at Sacramento State. This time, the alteration led to Josh Bannan and Brandon Whitney playing one-on-one less.
Bannan had six assists against eight turnovers while grabbing 11 rebounds and scoring two points. Whitney came alive scoring in the second half to help the Griz build their 16-point lead on his way to 18 points on 8-of-10 shooting. They had led 34-22 in the first half but settled for a 37-31 halftime lead.
"There was a thin line from confidence and breaking down a few weeks back just because the way we were losing and there were games we knew we earned in the first 30 minutes," DeCuire said. "How to stick together, hang together and finalize games, and you can't do it if you don't trust one another but more importantly if you don't believe in one another.
"We had to have a powwow that brought us together. Sometimes you got to fight before you hug, which is what we did. Now, we're a unit. Once we became a unit, we play better basketball, we execute better but more importantly we fight better."
In their previous meeting, the Griz and Wildcats were in a back-and-forth affair throughout the second half. Then Weber stole a UM inbound pass and knocked down a 3-pointer with one second left to escape with the win.
In the rematch, UM's lead was cut to 67-64 with 1:55 remaining when Jones made his first 3-pointer after starting 0-of-4 shooting from deep while scoring a team-high 21 points. He converted an and-1 to cut the Griz lead to 70-67 with 1:16 left and made two of three free throws to trim the lead to 72-69 with 7.8 seconds left.
Griz guard Josh Vazquez knocked down both free throws after that to seal the win. He also had a block on a fast break layup attempt with 56 seconds left.
The Griz head into the final two weekends of the Big Sky season in fourth place in the Big Sky standings at 8-6. Weber State is third at 8-5, Montana State is second at 11-3 and Eastern Washington is first at 13-0.
The Griz are off until they play at Montana State on Saturday. They lost 67-64 on Jan. 21 in Missoula. The Cats' only loss since then was a 10-point defeat against Weber State.
"I think that took a lot of wind out of our sails," DeCuire said of the loss to MSU. "Once again, it's a game at home we felt we played well enough to win, we earned the win, it got away, however it did. So, we'll have confidence going in.
"Now, they're really good at home. There's as dangerous as anyone. They know how to win. They're well-coached. So, we got to go in and play right, we got to play better than we played tonight to win that game. But it's another opportunity we look forward to."
Montana Grizzlies pull out stomach-churning win at Weber State
Frank Gogola
The Montana men's basketball team made yet another case to be called "The Cardiac Griz" on Saturday night.
The Griz were riding high as they built a 16-point lead at Weber State going up 58-42 with 8:37 remaining. They then took a nosedive as their lead was cut to three points on multiple occasions in the closing minutes.
Despite that turbulence, Montana made plays down the stretch and came back into the station with a 74-69 victory. It marked the fifth consecutive win for the Griz, who improved to 8-6 in Big Sky play and remained in fourth place.
"My stomach hurts. That was an emotional rollercoaster," Montana coach Travis DeCuire said in his postgame radio interview. "We knew that you could build leads on this team and when you got a guy like Dillon Jones, they're going to make runs, you got to survive the runs.
"The biggest thing for us we've been saying "all as one" for a few weeks now. We hung in there, we stuck together through the mistakes, through the turnovers, through the missed shots, the breakdowns defensively. We just kept playing through it, we believed and trusted one another and we found a way to win a game."
Montana tied its season high with 14 made 3-pointers on 25 attempts. The Grizzlies' 56% shooting from deep is their second-best mark this season. Their 74 points are the most they've scored since their Jan. 14 win over Idaho State, 84-55.
The strong shooting night was helped by UM's implementation of a new motion offense during practice Friday. The focus on less dribbling and more passing in order to take more shots off the catch and less off the bounce helped lead to 18 assists on 27 made field goals.
Aanen Moody scored a game-high 23 points, extending the Griz lead to 70-64 when he made his fifth 3-pointer, from the right wing with 1:40 to play. He later made both 1-and-1 free throws for a 72-67 lead with 13.8 seconds left on a night in which he eclipsed 1,000 career points.
The motion offense also helped open up jump shots for forward Dischon Thomas. He knocked down four of his five 3-point attempts while totaling 14 points, which included throwing down a dunk for a 67-61 lead with 2:01 remaining.
It marked the fifth consecutive win by single digits for Montana after a 19-point loss at Sacramento State, which led to an hour-long locker room meeting. Before that, they were 1-5 in Big Sky games decided by single digits.
The Grizzlies' winning streak had started two weeks earlier after they spent a Friday working on screens to better get their bigs involved after the loss at Sacramento State. This time, the alteration led to Josh Bannan and Brandon Whitney playing one-on-one less.
Bannan had six assists against eight turnovers while grabbing 11 rebounds and scoring two points. Whitney came alive scoring in the second half to help the Griz build their 16-point lead on his way to 18 points on 8-of-10 shooting. They had led 34-22 in the first half but settled for a 37-31 halftime lead.
"There was a thin line from confidence and breaking down a few weeks back just because the way we were losing and there were games we knew we earned in the first 30 minutes," DeCuire said. "How to stick together, hang together and finalize games, and you can't do it if you don't trust one another but more importantly if you don't believe in one another.
"We had to have a powwow that brought us together. Sometimes you got to fight before you hug, which is what we did. Now, we're a unit. Once we became a unit, we play better basketball, we execute better but more importantly we fight better."
In their previous meeting, the Griz and Wildcats were in a back-and-forth affair throughout the second half. Then Weber stole a UM inbound pass and knocked down a 3-pointer with one second left to escape with the win.
In the rematch, UM's lead was cut to 67-64 with 1:55 remaining when Jones made his first 3-pointer after starting 0-of-4 shooting from deep while scoring a team-high 21 points. He converted an and-1 to cut the Griz lead to 70-67 with 1:16 left and made two of three free throws to trim the lead to 72-69 with 7.8 seconds left.
Griz guard Josh Vazquez knocked down both free throws after that to seal the win. He also had a block on a fast break layup attempt with 56 seconds left.
The Griz head into the final two weekends of the Big Sky season in fourth place in the Big Sky standings at 8-6. Weber State is third at 8-5, Montana State is second at 11-3 and Eastern Washington is first at 13-0.
The Griz are off until they play at Montana State on Saturday. They lost 67-64 on Jan. 21 in Missoula. The Cats' only loss since then was a 10-point defeat against Weber State.
"I think that took a lot of wind out of our sails," DeCuire said of the loss to MSU. "Once again, it's a game at home we felt we played well enough to win, we earned the win, it got away, however it did. So, we'll have confidence going in.
"Now, they're really good at home. There's as dangerous as anyone. They know how to win. They're well-coached. So, we got to go in and play right, we got to play better than we played tonight to win that game. But it's another opportunity we look forward to."
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