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The Seattle Times Bob Condotta's take on Musberger comments

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Bob Condotta follows U of Washington Huskies mens BB for The Seattle Times and does a great job. He has a Huskies Hoops blog that he updates nearly daily and is very interesting. It is accessible in The Seattle Times Sports section. Here is his take on Musbergers comments about Standord-Montana discussed in the the other thread:

"I love hearing the analysts try to excuse or mitigate just about any negative. Brent Musburger, for instance, tried to give Stanford somewhat of an out for its 19-point loss at Montana by talking about how tough the Grizzlies are. No real problem with that - Missoula's not an easy place to play. Then Musburger talked about what Trent Johnson had told him, that this same Montana team had played Washington in the NCAA tournament last March and came back to make a run at the Huskies.

What happened was Montana trailed by 19 early in the second half, cut the lead to nine with just over six minutes to play, then watched as UW went on a 9-2 run to put it away before cruising to an 88-77 win.

I'll leave it to you to decide if that really qualifies as a huge comeback.

It is worth pointing out that Montana is now 8-1."
 
ccuwum said:
Bob Condotta follows U of Washington Huskies mens BB for The Seattle Times and does a great job. He has a Huskies Hoops blog that he updates nearly daily and is very interesting. It is accessible in The Seattle Times Sports section. Here is his take on Musbergers comments about Standord-Montana discussed in the the other thread:

"I love hearing the analysts try to excuse or mitigate just about any negative. Brent Musburger, for instance, tried to give Stanford somewhat of an out for its 19-point loss at Montana by talking about how tough the Grizzlies are. No real problem with that - Missoula's not an easy place to play. Then Musburger talked about what Trent Johnson had told him, that this same Montana team had played Washington in the NCAA tournament last March and came back to make a run at the Huskies.

What happened was Montana trailed by 19 early in the second half, cut the lead to nine with just over six minutes to play, then watched as UW went on a 9-2 run to put it away before cruising to an 88-77 win.

I'll leave it to you to decide if that really qualifies as a huge comeback.

It is worth pointing out that Montana is now 8-1."
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Pretty predictable self serving stuff from the "Big City". I guess they forgot how many years of cellar dwellars they had is Seattle. The Griz beat the Huskies with much lesser talent in those days.
 
This is the problem with people outside of Montana (not the ones who came to MT to get an education, or the natives who left the state). They just don't know s**t about what's going on here and they always think they're better than us. Washington has been down for a long time, so I guess they should enjoy their success, but not at the expense of others. Even though I'm not a Griz fan, I'll say that you represented the Big Sky well at the tournament last March. So here's one for you, Condotta. If you ever meet Ryan Leaf, I'm sure you'll have a lot to talk about.

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Well, even I, arguably the world's largest Griz fan, would have to say that stating Montana "made a run at" Washington would be a stretch. UW was never seriously threatend in that game. However, it is in no WAY a stretch to state that Montana played them dead even over the final 36 minutes.
 
I remember reading some of this guys stuff last year. A real piece of, well something anyways. Always nay saying others, never really contributing much value.
 
Montana would bring it within 7, or 8, or 9 and then all of sudden it was a 15 point game again....UW was too much talent wise for the Griz last year but this year is a different story...
 
Swilly3224 said:
Montana would bring it within 7, or 8, or 9 and then all of sudden it was a 15 point game again....UW was too much talent wise for the Griz last year but this year is a different story...
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Agreed. I don't think this team would show up shell-shocked like last years. Are they as good as UW? Almost certainly not. But I wouldn't bet against them, either!
 
UMclassof2002 said:
Swilly3224 said:
Montana would bring it within 7, or 8, or 9 and then all of sudden it was a 15 point game again
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Remember Dhlouhy's dunk from that game?



Awesome
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Do i remember Dlouhy's dunk....

That was so nasty!!! I totally forgot about that!
 
Let's see, it was a #1 seed against a #16 seed, a matchup that inevitably results almost every flippin time in a +30 point victory for the #1 seed...Well #1 this time only won by 11...good job by the Griz!
 
A couple of words for MR. Big Time Newspaper Writer who never is on Sports Reporters or Around the Horn. Todd MacCullogh. A fantasy ride to the sweet sixteen in 98. It's not like the Huskies have been the premier program of the PAC 10.
 
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