Re: "junior varsity" post of 2-25-06. That reply is really directed at your post of that date. Your insightful narrow minded observation that the Grizz "choked"
without any thought of any other circumstances that might have occurred to account for the grizz sub-par performance. The tone of the post obviously  brings into question your lineage and the manner of your up-bringing. You arent
college educated are you? Have a nice day.

Now for the rest of the story: Choke? Hardly. Manchester didnt beat Franklin, the flu got them. They were fortunate to get past Anderson, who played us tougher than Manchester. Roberson was sick with the flu the day we played Anderson.
She was taking two pure aspirin every two hours, and taking tylenol to get the
fever down, and drank 3 gallons of gatorade during the tournament to stay hydrated. She lead all scorers with 21 points. Another  starter was using an inhaler, and Merlich was recovering. Anderson took enough out of the Grizz to
enable manchester to have a chance. Still, they won by only two points.
The Grizz were guilty of taking two teams to lightly, lost by only two at Michigan
to the #4 team in the nation, Hope, and lost to a well-coached,mediocre team
while 3 starters were suffering from the flu. They only lost one game while they were playing their best. They lost two games to over-confidence, and lost  the
last to the flu. Roberson IS the best PLAYER in the conference. Check the stats.
Jumps center,and wins,usually takes a girl 6'2" to outjump her. Plays point, and is one of the better point guards in the conference. The consumate team player.
When we were routing Bluffton, she told coach to put the bench players in instead of trying to go for tournament mvp. We are going to miss "robo" a truly
talented and gifted basketball player in all phases of the game. Her only weakness? To unselfish. If she were more into her stats instead of team play
she would put up some awesome numbers. Enough said. Good-bye.

After getting fouled across the arms going up for a lay-in on a drive to the basket and getting knocked to the floor, the player asked why that wasnt a foul. She was told by the down official, you have to "draw contact." Can some one help me understand this. I really hate getting on the officials.

Serious deficiency at point guard. Lacks speed and all the other attributes it takes to be a true point. Very immobile center, cant defend, or doesnt want to.
Opponents scoring comes from inside, in the paint. This team seems to play to the level of its competition, rather than coming out of the gate and burying them at the outset. Lacks a killer instinct. Most games this year they havnt been ready to play at he outset, and have had to come from behind. Maybe two years of being unanamous pick to win conference has spoiled them. They have been pushed by a lot of lesser teams all year long. I see a lot of the players making a lot of fundamental mistakes. #3 and #44 can carry them to
conference win. They should have gone unbeaten, but the Mount caught them napping.