So two things jumped out to me, and unfortunately they're not athletic or team advantages, however they might help the Ladies a little bit.
As discussed, the elevation is 5000 feet, here in Missoula, we're used to 3000+ and in Nashville it's 500 feet. Also the game is at 8:30 MST - so 10:30 for Vandy. So the Ladies are going to be playing at an elevation a little more comfortable to them and at a time slot they're familiar with.
So two things jumped out to me, and unfortunately they're not athletic or team advantages, however they might help the Ladies a little bit.
As discussed, the elevation is 5000 feet, here in Missoula, we're used to 3000+ and in Nashville it's 500 feet. Also the game is at 8:30 MST - so 10:30 for Vandy. So the Ladies are going to be playing at an elevation a little more comfortable to them and at a time slot they're familiar with.
Good points. I do think the elevatiion could have some effect, and Vandy being a young team likely hasn't developed as much depth as the LG. They also play an up tempo style. Let's hope some fatigue hits them in the 2nd half.
One other advantage not mentioned is the crowd. They draw nicely there and the underdog role Montana is in means the crowd will be pulling for them to upset Vandy. Comments in the Nashville media indicated not many Vandy fans would be making the trip. I have a hunch they are already planning a trip to the Spokane Regional. Let's hope the LG can wreak a little havoc in those plans.
How long has their coach been there? If it is the same as a few years ago the Griz should be more prepared to handle their trap. I remember that the Griz had a lot of trouble handling their defense and made a lot of turnovers against Vandy in Seattle.
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How long has their coach been there? If it is the same as a few years ago the Griz should be more prepared to handle their trap. I remember that the Griz had a lot of trouble handling their defense and made a lot of turnovers against Vandy in Seattle.
She has been there several years now and was the Coach last time the LG played them. They have an excellent defense, but hopefully their youth will get them thinking more about the glamour of the NCAA's and less about the LG.
Same coach, but Robin said on the news that they are a completely different team than the last time we played them. I assume there will be some similarities, but he didn't sound like the game prep from the last time would help this time.
Same coach, but Robin said on the news that they are a completely different team than the last time we played them. I assume there will be some similarities, but he didn't sound like the game prep from the last time would help this time.
At this time of year each team does what they do best. It really comes down to execution. The LG have seen traps, and are going to see some on Saturday, but they need to execute, and I think they will. The best part about this time imo is the LG are not reliant on one player hitting shots. When the LG played Vandy last time Katie Edwards was the only outside threat and her back was an issue, so Vandy really could collpase of Tyler inside.
I remember that the Griz had a lot of trouble handling their defense and made a lot of turnovers against Vandy in Seattle.
I remember Vanderbilt's HC saying after that game that they switched types of defenses rather constantly throughout the game. A real smart strategem to do. One time zone the next time man then back to zone, back and forth, time after time, etc. Caused a lot of confusion. Sometimes left the LG ball handler having to throw the ball half the length of the court to complete a mere pass and maintain team possession; really led to a number of unnecessary turn overs. The LG were too much concerned setting up their offensive positions without being focused on getting the ball into a half court offense to begin with. They just left their point guard out to dry without any help whatsoever. Great at times if they still had a Brooklyn Lorenzen handling it, but Monaco was a converted small forward/shooting guard type to a PG that year. Hardly any help from her fellow team mates at any time.
The LG should have really apologized to Vanderbilt for that game. You hit the Big Time Tournament you better show up. Hardly any team preparation and resiliency to adjust to the temper of the game whatsoever. A real lack of team chemistry. Of course, after Julian Keller sustained a broken nose near the end of the regular season it seemed like it was an uphill battle after that anyways.
I remember that the Griz had a lot of trouble handling their defense and made a lot of turnovers against Vandy in Seattle.
I remember Vanderbilt's HC saying after that game that they switched types of defenses rather constantly throughout the game. A real smart strategem to do. One time zone the next time man then back to zone, back and forth, time after time, etc. Caused a lot of confusion. Sometimes left the LG ball handler having to throw the ball half the length of the court to complete a mere pass and maintain team possession; really led to a number of unnecessary turn overs. The LG were too much concerned setting up their offensive positions without being focused on getting the ball into a half court offense to begin with. They just left their point guard out to dry without any help whatsoever. Great at times if they still had a Brooklyn Lorenzen handling it, but Monaco was a converted small forward/shooting guard type to a PG that year. Hardly any help from her fellow team mates at any time.
The LG should have really apologized to Vanderbilt for that game. You hit the Big Time Tournament you better show up. Hardly any team preparation and resiliency to adjust to the temper of the game whatsoever. A real lack of team chemistry. Of course, after Julian Keller sustained a broken nose near the end of the regular season it seemed like it was an uphill battle after that anyways.
No preparation? I think this was a case of the better team winning, period. To say Selvig never prepared his team is a real cheapshot. I watched a couple of those practices before the team left, and it really was a case of the LG being in a mismatch. I am sure you would agree Ken Bone did a fine job with the PSU men, but if they get blown out by Kansas is that coaching all of a sudden?
Why do you always think I am speaking of the HC, strictly speaking? Sorry, turkey, I call it as I see it. Too f---ing bad bozo. Throw you temper tantrum and name dropping somewhere else. It don't mean shit to a tree. A 5' 10" player guarding a 6' 3" player and the latter only scores six points for the entire game. Give me a break.
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Why do you always think I am speaking of the HC, strictly speaking? Sorry, turkey, I call it as I see it. Too f---ing bad bozo. Throw you temper tantrum and name dropping somewhere else. It don't mean shit to a tree. A 5' 10" player guarding a 6' 3" player and the latter only scores six points for the entire game. Give me a break.
Are you stupid or just drunk? Ken Bone is a Coach used as an example you moron. Go tend your sheep.
Where is the verification that you have even left the State of California to begin with, Grizbacker1!? Or should I just call you Californicatorville? You been to a couple practises? Sounds like that is all there is for your 'so-called' expert opinionatively delivered ultimatum. Drop a few names and you're the 'Big Dog' in these here parts; and you're not even emanating from Missoula to begin with. Your chest pounding, not mine. Just your word for it,...not persuasive enough. Besides which, it still happened as it happened and I call it as I see it, so there. your Robin Selvig ain't no Gawd and for all intents and purposes, never will be. You can always assuage your hurt little vanity by saying that..."the better team won..." etc., etc., etc. But still it took place, a total lack of appreciation for showing up in the first place. And on whose part? And it still happenstantially turns out that a better coach showed up as well,... so be it. As the better team won, so too, did the better coach, evidentally, Melanie Balcomb, win. Not too much different than Jim Tressel of Youngstown State outcoaching the entire coaching staff of Mick Dennehy back in 1999, and outsmarting the entire contingency of Griz fans, myself included, as well.
If the players on the team don't care, it don't matter diddity what the coaching staff says and does. They tanked the game by uninspired and lethargic play; Monaco scored the first six points and that wasn't and isn't the case of the go-to player gone to, even after Vanderbilt committed three turn-overs to begin the game and the Griz up 6 - 0. The LG bellied up on their own account. The only inspired play came from the bench after the game was already decided. Most of the starters acted like they just wanted to get out of there even before the game began. Not impressed. Regardless of whose fault, if culpability is the desired word, there just wasn't the attitude that for whatever reason or whomever the LG were playing for, the desire to do so wasn't there. So much for the Grizzly Athletic Association and the Booster Club with their 'power politics.'
Where is the verification that you have even left the State of California to begin with, Grizbacker1!? Or should I just call you Californicatorville? You been to a couple practises? Sounds like that is all there is for your 'so-called' expert opinionatively delivered ultimatum. Drop a few names and you're the 'Big Dog' in these here parts; and you're not even emanating from Missoula to begin with. Your chest pounding, not mine. Just your word for it,...not persuasive enough. Besides which, it still happened as it happened and I call it as I see it, so there. your Robin Selvig ain't no Gawd and for all intents and purposes, never will be. You can always assuage your hurt little vanity by saying that..."the better team won..." etc., etc., etc. But still it took place, a total lack of appreciation for showing up in the first place. And on whose part? And it still happenstantially turns out that a better coach showed up as well,... so be it. As the better team won, so too, did the better coach, evidentally, Melanie Balcomb, win. Not too much different than Jim Tressel of Youngstown State outcoaching the entire coaching staff of Mick Dennehy back in 1999, and outsmarting the entire contingency of Griz fans, myself included, as well.
If the players on the team don't care, it don't matter diddity what the coaching staff says and does. They tanked the game by uninspired and lethargic play; Monaco scored the first six points and that wasn't and isn't the case of the go-to player gone to, even after Vanderbilt committed three turn-overs to begin the game and the Griz up 6 - 0. The LG bellied up on their own account. The only inspired play came from the bench after the game was already decided. Most of the starters acted like they just wanted to get out of there even before the game began. Not impressed. Regardless of whose fault, if culpability is the desired word, there just wasn't the attitude that for whatever reason or whomever the LG were playing for, the desire to do so wasn't there. So much for the Grizzly Athletic Association and the Booster Club with their 'power politics.'
Who gives a f--- about some K. Bone?
You take yourself way to serious. Did yo come up with Californicator all by yourself ? Gee, going to a practice is now namedropping? By the way numbnuts, the practices I was referring to were the same year the LG played Vandy in the game you said there was no game plan, yet that wasn't the coaches job. Why don't you stick to screwing sheep, or do you bore them to death too?
Where is the verification that you have even left the State of California to begin with, Grizbacker1!? Or should I just call you Californicatorville? You been to a couple practises? Sounds like that is all there is for your 'so-called' expert opinionatively delivered ultimatum. Drop a few names and you're the 'Big Dog' in these here parts; and you're not even emanating from Missoula to begin with. Your chest pounding, not mine. Just your word for it,...not persuasive enough. Besides which, it still happened as it happened and I call it as I see it, so there. your Robin Selvig ain't no Gawd and for all intents and purposes, never will be. You can always assuage your hurt little vanity by saying that..."the better team won..." etc., etc., etc. But still it took place, a total lack of appreciation for showing up in the first place. And on whose part? And it still happenstantially turns out that a better coach showed up as well,... so be it. As the better team won, so too, did the better coach, evidentally, Melanie Balcomb, win. Not too much different than Jim Tressel of Youngstown State outcoaching the entire coaching staff of Mick Dennehy back in 1999, and outsmarting the entire contingency of Griz fans, myself included, as well.
If the players on the team don't care, it don't matter diddity what the coaching staff says and does. They tanked the game by uninspired and lethargic play; Monaco scored the first six points and that wasn't and isn't the case of the go-to player gone to, even after Vanderbilt committed three turn-overs to begin the game and the Griz up 6 - 0. The LG bellied up on their own account. The only inspired play came from the bench after the game was already decided. Most of the starters acted like they just wanted to get out of there even before the game began. Not impressed. Regardless of whose fault, if culpability is the desired word, there just wasn't the attitude that for whatever reason or whomever the LG were playing for, the desire to do so wasn't there. So much for the Grizzly Athletic Association and the Booster Club with their 'power politics.'
Who gives a f--- about some K. Bone?
You take yourself way to serious.
You should talk. Why don't you crawl back into your 'coctail curcuit' of the 'Ugly American?' The best you can do is some accusation of some perversion of some sexual innuendo thrown out as you go down with one foot in the grave. That's really pathetic. If you have anything to redeem yourself with other that expostulating from behind your own drunken stupor (as you've testified in some of your past postings on why mispellings take place, etc., etc., etc.)-casting forth about the drunkenness of others as one can speak from experience quite handily, as I can seemingly infer from your utterances--you'd notice that there wasn't much of any of the 'actual' game scouted out and elucidated upon on your part. Did you attend or go by mere reputation?...read a newspaper clipping somewhere? Hollie Tyler in the preceeding game played against Weber State scored a career high of 29 points on some of the most ungodly array of shooting I had ever seen in nearly thirty years. She gave a clinic that night. The very next game, what?....nothing. The same like happened against Louisiana Tech the preceeding year. The go-to player (second all-time scorer) on the team gets two passes in a row down under the basket for an easy layup to draw a foul both times and she sloughs the ball over to Julian K. for an impossible shot, no foul, no basket, which led to being behind 8 - 0 to start the game. A game that could have been handily won if mental mistakes didn't take place. Is it the coaching in error or the student-athlete? You'd think after four years in the same program some amount of learning about the finesse of the sport would have sunk in after a while. At least to being somewhat consistent and disciplined in place of coming up with some hair-brained idea to outsmart someone by being cagy and deceptive.
Talk about the game as it really took place. Don't cloud the issue with your ranting personal references as if some shouting match decides who wins or not. The bigger the insult doesn't necessarily win the case. That's just a low-life way of doing things. No better that cannon fodder for the epithet upon your gravestone.
"Here lies a Dumb Shit"
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Where is the verification that you have even left the State of California to begin with, Grizbacker1!? Or should I just call you Californicatorville? You been to a couple practises? Sounds like that is all there is for your 'so-called' expert opinionatively delivered ultimatum. Drop a few names and you're the 'Big Dog' in these here parts; and you're not even emanating from Missoula to begin with. Your chest pounding, not mine. Just your word for it,...not persuasive enough. Besides which, it still happened as it happened and I call it as I see it, so there. your Robin Selvig ain't no Gawd and for all intents and purposes, never will be. You can always assuage your hurt little vanity by saying that..."the better team won..." etc., etc., etc. But still it took place, a total lack of appreciation for showing up in the first place. And on whose part? And it still happenstantially turns out that a better coach showed up as well,... so be it. As the better team won, so too, did the better coach, evidentally, Melanie Balcomb, win. Not too much different than Jim Tressel of Youngstown State outcoaching the entire coaching staff of Mick Dennehy back in 1999, and outsmarting the entire contingency of Griz fans, myself included, as well.
If the players on the team don't care, it don't matter diddity what the coaching staff says and does. They tanked the game by uninspired and lethargic play; Monaco scored the first six points and that wasn't and isn't the case of the go-to player gone to, even after Vanderbilt committed three turn-overs to begin the game and the Griz up 6 - 0. The LG bellied up on their own account. The only inspired play came from the bench after the game was already decided. Most of the starters acted like they just wanted to get out of there even before the game began. Not impressed. Regardless of whose fault, if culpability is the desired word, there just wasn't the attitude that for whatever reason or whomever the LG were playing for, the desire to do so wasn't there. So much for the Grizzly Athletic Association and the Booster Club with their 'power politics.'
Who gives a f--- about some K. Bone?
You take yourself way to serious.
You should talk. Why don't you crawl back into your 'coctail curcuit' of the 'Ugly American?' The best you can do is some accusation of some perversion of some sexual innuendo thrown out as you go down with one foot in the grave. That's really pathetic. If you have anything to redeem yourself with other that expostulating from behind your own drunken stupor (as you've testified in some of your past postings on why mispellings take place, etc., etc., etc.)-casting forth about the drunkenness of others as one can speak from experience quite handily--you'd notice that there wasn't much of any of the 'actual' game scouted out and elucidated upon on your part. Did you attend or go by mere reputation?...read a newspaper clipping somewhere? Hollie Tyler in the preceeding game played against Weber State scored a career high of 29 points on some of the most ungodly array of shooting I had ever seen in nearly thirty years. She gave a clinic that night. The very next game, what?....nothing. The same like happened against Louisiana Tech the preceeding year. The go-to player (second all-time scorer) on the team gets two passes in a row down under the basket for an easy layup to draw a foul both times and she sloughs the ball over to Julian K. for an impossible shot, no foul, no basket, which led to being behind 8 - 0 to start the game. A game that could have been handily won if mental mistakes didn't take place. Is it the coaching in error or the student-athlete? You'd think after four years in the same program some amount of learning about the finesse of the sport would have sunk in after a while.
Talk about the game as it really took place. Don't cloud the issue with your ranting personal references as if some shouting match decides who wins or not. The bigger the insult doesn't necessarily win the case. That's just a low-life way of doing things. No better that cannon fodder for the epithet upon your gravestone.
"Here lies a Dumb Shit"
Have your Mommy read your posts back to you. It is pretty evident you started the name calling dipshit. You are a bore, always have been, always will be.
So what if I started it bozo!!!! You solicited it and you earned it by relaying to me how to treat you and what to think of you as. I'll gladly finish it if need be. Your ilk burns my temper to such a degree that it won't matter as long as I am the one left standing. To the victor goes the spoils. If you think you can win such an argument by insinuating guilt on my part, sorry, four-fold reflection, no regrets!!! That's just some of that good o' Christian upbringing that has inculcated such an attitude over the years with Western civilization, if you want to call it that, that is. Not necessarily on your own part, need to say, but it permeates western society to such a degree that it is as if programmed obsolescence is the name of the game.
As H. G. Wells once stated in his Outline of History, the ordinary man following the simpliest method...unto his own cu-de-sac.
So what if I started it bozo!!!! You solicited it and you earned it by relaying to me how to treat you and what to think of you as. I'll gladly finish it if need be. Your ilk burns my temper to such a degree that it won't matter as long as I am the one left standing. To the victor goes the spoils. If you think you can win such an argument by insinuating guilt on my part, sorry, four-fold reflection, no regrets!!! That's just some of that good o' Christian upbringing that has inculcated such an attitude over the years with Western civilization, if you want to call it that, that is. Not necessarily on your own part, need to say, but it permeates western society to such a degree that it is as if programmed obsolescence is the name of the game.
As H. G. Wells once stated in his Outline of History, the ordinary man following the simpliest method...unto his own cu-de-sac.
You really should get some professional help. The fact a message board can get to like this is pretty sad. You really do need help. What a loser you are.
This was a pretty good thread that Re/Max started until the Wyoming mental midget started letting the booze do his talking for him. Back to the thread.
The Pit
This is an incredible venue. NM is usually in the top 15 nationally in attendance so the LG will likely get a lot of support from the home crowd since they are the underdog. The LG need to get off to a good start against Vandy, handle their traps, and hit some shots. Hopefully Tam, Brittany, Sara, and Dvera can handle that big gal from Vandy.
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