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citygriz wrote:
c'mon, expecting to see joslyn in a final four at stanford is stretching it a bit. this is their first trip in eleven years, and it's on the strength of an exceptional once-in-a-generation athlete in candice wiggins. if you want to see joslyn in a final four, you should be urging her to go to uconn or tennessee or l.s.u. or even rutgers, where she'd be another out-of-town gunslinger, as at kansas, where not one of their top eight players was from the state showing on their uniform, and not a single kid from kansas played in last night's game.
Your challenging my thought is a stretch. Stanford is in the Final Four and the championship game tonight. So that means that Stanford has the CHANCE to go back to the Final Four again, and has a greater opportunity to go than UM. So, my point was that if she doesn't come here, I would rather watch her play for a team that is in the West. I would never wish to see her go to UCONN or Tennessee. Her opportunities are as great going to Stanford or staying home in Missoula.
terrible women's championship game tonight, unlike the men, who gave us a thrilling epic of a final game. this looked more like a 16 seed against a one seed, where you expected them at any moment to cut away to a more exciting game--and i'm sure many viewers did cut away. actually, stanford looked a little like montana, talented but slow white girls just being out-hustled and out-quicked by superior athletes. stanford hung around but this game was never in doubt, and only tennessee's numerous mistakes kept the score within striking distance.
i've always been a big fan of the women's game but this game tonight won few converts, i'll guarantee you that.
terrible women's championship game tonight, unlike the men, who gave us a thrilling epic of a final game. this looked more like a 16 seed against a one seed, where you expected them at any moment to cut away to a more exciting game--and i'm sure many viewers did cut away. actually, stanford looked a little like montana, talented but slow white girls just being out-hustled and out-quicked by superior athletes. stanford hung around but this game was never in doubt, and only tennessee's numerous mistakes kept the score within striking distance.
i've always been a big fan of the women's game but this game tonight won few converts, i'll guarantee you that.
You can say that again. It was painful to watch. Stanford had two players who looked like they belonged, Wiggins and Pederson. The rest were physcially out matched, plain and simple.
terrible women's championship game tonight, unlike the men, who gave us a thrilling epic of a final game. this looked more like a 16 seed against a one seed, where you expected them at any moment to cut away to a more exciting game--and i'm sure many viewers did cut away. actually, stanford looked a little like montana, talented but slow white girls just being out-hustled and out-quicked by superior athletes. stanford hung around but this game was never in doubt, and only tennessee's numerous mistakes kept the score within striking distance.
i've always been a big fan of the women's game but this game tonight won few converts, i'll guarantee you that.
Ugly game but hard to draw to many conclusions from one game. I think Stanford beat Tenn earlier in the year. They picked a bad time to have a bad game or Tenn really cranked up their game.
Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 798 Location: Somewhere in Montana 2616 eGriz Bucks
billings_poke wrote:
citygriz wrote:
terrible women's championship game tonight, unlike the men, who gave us a thrilling epic of a final game. this looked more like a 16 seed against a one seed, where you expected them at any moment to cut away to a more exciting game--and i'm sure many viewers did cut away. actually, stanford looked a little like montana, talented but slow white girls just being out-hustled and out-quicked by superior athletes. stanford hung around but this game was never in doubt, and only tennessee's numerous mistakes kept the score within striking distance.
i've always been a big fan of the women's game but this game tonight won few converts, i'll guarantee you that.
Ugly game but hard to draw to many conclusions from one game. I think Stanford beat Tenn earlier in the year. They picked a bad time to have a bad game or Tenn really cranked up their game.
They did beat Tennessee early in the year in Palo Alto I believe. It was close but Tennessee got revenge tonight.
Tournament MVP Joslyn Tinkle with a
hook over two defenders.
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NW Blazers Cruise
By Chris Hansen
National Director of Scouting
Posted Mon, 04/28/2008 - 07:02 Led by tournament MVP Joslyn Tinkle the NW Blazers dominated at the Riverside Tournament of Champions.
NW Blazers – 2008 Riverside TOC Champions
AUBURN, Wash. - An MVP caliber weekend from Joslyn Tinkle led the Northwest Blazers to the Riverside TOC Championship and earned the 6-foot-4 forward the MVP award. The Blazers are now 16-0 in the fresh club season after winning the Arizona Elite Spring Classic last weekend.
The Blazers defeated Category 5, the team that knocked off the host team Auburn Riverside, in the final 56-33. The team’s opening game started out a little rough against Premier Elite but a second half run gave them a 17-point margin of victory. In the tournament no team played the Blazers closer than 17 though Y.E.A. was in striking distance, down seven with five minutes to play.
Tournament MVP Joslyn Tinkle with a
hook over two defenders.The Blazers have a little bit of everything despite playing without one of their best wing players, Jordan Sullivan. Sullivan lives in Sidney, Mont., which is about as far east in Montana as you can get without stumbling into North Dakota. The location is also nearly 300 miles from a regional airport in Billings. That accompanied with a Friday night track meet left the Blazers down one.
The Blazer’s perimeter players were still plenty good without Sullivan. Led by the trio of Kellie McCann-Smith, Jazmine Redmon and Danielle Walter the Blazers backcourt looked as solid as any in the tournament and maybe in the west.
McCann-Smith scored the ball well, Redmon flies all over the court challenging any and all ball handlers and Walter’s flare for the highlight play together can be overwhelming for the opposition.
Because Riverside Select lost their opening game to Category 5 the brackets never yielded the showdown between the Blazer’s guards and Riverside’s duo of Nichole Jackson and Mercedes Wetmore.
But let’s not forget what sets this team apart from the rest in the area-- it has Tinkle. At 6-4 she is as mobile as many wings and her touch and ability to finish is nothing short of incredible. There simply aren’t too many players as skilled as this young lady, anywhere. Tinkle is basically unstoppable as Southridge found out in their quarterfinals.
Jazmine Redmon attacks the hoop at
the Riverside TOC.Many teams employ a zone defense to try and slow Tinkle down but you never see her frustrated or pressing to make a play. She and her teammates are very patient and work the ball around to get a good shot. They score the ball well from the perimeter so the Blazers are not one dimensional offensively.
They are not singular geographically either with players from three states. A majority of the players are from Spokane, Wash., while three join the squad from Montana and one player, Hanna Potter, is from Edina, Minn.
So impressive were the Blazers that they not only took home the High School Elite division but their 14U team took home the High School Division championship. This summer the Blazer’s look forward to proving themselves against the top sponsored programs from around the country and having seen many of these teams already this season I can say they are more than capable of competing. The End of the Trail hosted by Oregon City High School, July 6-9, will be their first opportunity as teams from all over the country congregate for what has become the premier event on the west coast.
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