MBB: Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference

ScotsFan · February 28, 2006, 12:06:06 PM

I highly doubt that WittenbErg is taking LEC lightly. If anyone knows how important guard play is, it's Wittenberg. Wooster has arguably one of the deepest backcourts in the country, and don't even come close to matching up down low with Witt's bigs down low. But, they were somehow able to pull out 2 of 3 from Wittenberg this season. That being said, Witt's last game vs. Wooster was also by far their best defensive effort, especially on the perimeter. Of course, it seems as if every time Witt hooks up with Wooster, they bring their A+++ game. If Witt can somehow bring that same intensity (maybe hypnotize their players into believing LEC's unis are Black & Old Gold), I doubt we will be seeing an upset. But, Witt does have a tendency to play down to the level of their opponent. If they let LEC stick around long enough, you never know what might happen?

thebiggjoker · February 28, 2006, 12:54:43 PM

Don't count Lake Erie out. Reggie Richardon has played on every level of college basketball. Whenever he needs to take over a game, he does. The man can handle the ball like no other. Defense wins championships and Lake Erie is a defensive minded team. Lake Erie also also has one of the deepest benches in the ECAC and definitely the AMCC. Lake Erie canwin in any situation: Come from behind victories, grinding it out, or just beating up on their opponents; Lake Erie does it all.

cantbestopped · February 28, 2006, 01:35:05 PM

BOKNOWSBALL- you can not use the Behrend game as a measuring stick for Lake Erie's season, the game meant absolutely nothing to Lake Erie (they already locked up the number one seed in the conference tourney)
Scotsfan- Are you really telling us that Wittenberg plays down to the level of their competition at any situation, this is the NCAA tourney if they can't bring out their A+++++++ game in the tournament, why play at all? Plus LE is no slouch (and I'm not a LE fan) AMCC fan yes, but LE has played a pretty tough out of conference schedule and not done that bad.
thebigjoker- come on fam, did we really needed the head of the Richardson fan club to make a post before the game? We are all saying he's a great player, and by the way HS, Junior College, and D3 are not every level of basketball. NAIA, D2, D1 would have something to say about it. But I am rooting for the storm, to bring some respect to the AMCC and i think win or lose they are going to do just that. But dont forget while they can do "Come from behind victories, grinding it out, or just beating up on their opponents; Lake Erie does it all. " they also lose by a ton, blow huge leads, and lose their composure as well, so yeah i guess they do "DO IT ALL"

thebiggjoker · February 28, 2006, 03:59:46 PM

First of all, I have to say that I am NOT "head of the Richardson fan club". I know Reggie, and I respect his game. He is a solid player and HAS played on other levels of college basketball. Richardson played briefly for a D1 school and could've started for any D2 or NAIA team that he wanted to. Personally, I am a fan of Jajcen Harris and Rob Williams because of their leadership. Williams is a vocal and demonstrative leader on the floor and has fantastic decision making skills. Harris is an unstoppable force beneath the hoop and only takes high percentage shots.

As for Lake Erie losing by tons, where did you get that from? Before the Behrend game, Lake Erie's largest loss was by 13 and its been said that the Behrend game can't be used as a measuring stick because it meant nothing. Lake Erie lost big to a D2 school, they weren't expected to win. The other large loss came from Greensburg, the team that Lake Erie just defeated for the conference championship. Lake Erie played well against two top 20 ranked opponents losing both games by a total of only 7 points.

Yes, Lake Erie has been known to blow huge leads, but their bench is fairly unexperienced in this level of basketball. There are several freshman and other players that do not see much action. Lake Erie has also spent a large portion of the season without Howard Washington, team sharpshooter and ace defender, because of injury.

The Storm have never lost their composure. They play in the AMCC and everyone in the conference knows that we have some of the worst referees ever. AMCC refs have know to make terrible calls and often have to correct each other on the floor. During Lake Erie's one point loss at LaRoche players and fans stormed the floor after a desperation 3 pointer was made. There was still time on the clock and no timeout was called. Thats a technical foul. Lake Erie should have been given two free throws and possesion of the ball. The refs blew that call though just as they blow many others at Lake Erie games.

There is no doubt that Lake Erie is going to give Wittenburg a run for their money. With with Wittenburg's slow paced offense and Lake Erie's tenacious defense, its going to be a good game.

baller3 · February 28, 2006, 05:49:02 PM

i may take some crap from cantbestopped but maybe not, anyhow, as for the post that stated "Harris is an unstoppable force beneath the hoop" i must contend the statement. The "preseason" amcc player of the year didnt quite live up to that comment. i may have only seen him play once this year, at hilbert, but he barely played and didnt contribute and judging by his stats he hardly merits the title of being an unstoppable force, he dropped 6 points from his average and a rebound and a half from last year, possibly letting all the hype go to his head, but hey, i have been wrong before, maybe he will get play like the harris of old and drop 20 and 10........

ScotsFan · February 28, 2006, 06:02:57 PM

Quote from: thebiggjoker on February 28, 2006, 12:54:43 PM

Defense wins championships and Lake Erie is a defensive minded team.

Umm, Wittenberg only leads the nation in scoring defense.

They're also 5th in field-goal percentage defense. So, I'd say Witt is a defensive minded team as well.

thebiggjoker · February 28, 2006, 06:26:27 PM

I never said that Witenberg wasn't a good defensive team. It will be nice to see their defense take on Lake Erie's high tempo high powered offense.

ScotsFan · February 28, 2006, 06:32:16 PM

Somebody, please shake me out of it!!! Maybe I'm coming down with something?! I can't believe I'm making posts in support of Witt???

I don't usually do that sort of thing.

thebiggjoker · February 28, 2006, 06:37:55 PM

I admit that the stats for Harris have dropped this season. One of the major reasons though is the fact that he was sick at the beginning of the season. Also there are many haters in the AMCC. I haven't seen too mant plaers get fould as hard as he does. Also, because of the septh of Lake Erie's bench, Harris isn't depended on as much and doesnt get the kind of quality minutes that he used to. Harris also rebounds a lot more than he gets credit for. The person that keeps stats for his team doesn't do that great of a job at it.

thebiggjoker · February 28, 2006, 06:41:40 PM

I would like to post edits to my last post as I wasn't looking as I was typing. The firsy is the word many in place of mant players in place of plaers and fouled in place of fould all in the second line. In the third line depth in place of septh.

cantbestopped · February 28, 2006, 08:43:44 PM

Unstoppable force

, and thats all i can say about that. Might be a leader but i dont know because i dont play for them. What sickness makes you suck for a whole season, cause i dont ever want to catch that.

pennstghs · February 28, 2006, 09:21:54 PM

scots fan i support you and have taken a similar approach by supporting wooster in saying there is no logical way you guys should have any problem advancing past this weekend. transylvania is a good team but not quite on the wooster level

fyi storm fans its wittenb E rg not wittenburg

we could play the common opponents game and say how in the world did you guys lose to capital?

?? we beat them by 20

cantbestopped · February 28, 2006, 09:57:48 PM

One guy spelled wittenberg wrong, and if ya read his posts he spelled other much easier words wrong as well. Common oppenets don't mean s_h_i_t. That was the second game of the year. And this is division 3 While teams like Cal tech or even medaille might not be on certain teams levels, give our conference champs a little bit of respect, their tough out-of-conference schedule deserves at least that.

thebiggjoker · February 28, 2006, 10:11:43 PM

The Storm lost to Capital at the beginning of the season. It was only their second game. You win some and you lose some. Foul trouble was the name of that game. Wittenberg beat Capital 3 days after Lake Erie played them and gave them a good run for their money.

Harris didn't suck for an entire season. He was illduring the first part of the season and that was all. He stepped it up when necessary but as a leader, he let other people take shots. He plays TEAM basketball. An individual can't win a championship. When Harris is on the floor he makes his teammates better HANDS DOWN. Also because he was such a force, he drew several double teams and decided to pass out of the double to an open teammate.

I dare anyone in D3 ball to challenge Harris in a game of straight up, back to the basket, no help defense hoops and then tell me why hes not unstoppable.

Honestly, this game is going to come down to the play of the guards. Its going to be a great game and I look forward to seeing it. The people in the post are going to dominate both ways and we all know this.

What about the Bethany game? No one from the AMCC but Lake Erie beat them. They gave it to them winning by 15 points. Bethany only had 4 losses and one of them was at the hands of Lake Erie.

I apologize for the mispelling of Wittenberg. I was using the German spelling of the word without checking against the school's actual name.

Gregory Sager · March 01, 2006, 03:02:10 AM

Quote from: thebiggjoker on February 28, 2006, 10:11:43 PMI apologize for the mispelling of Wittenberg. I was using the German spelling of the word without checking against the school's actual name.

The Germans spell it "Wittenberg", too, same as the university in Springfield, OH.

Here's the official website of the city of Wittenberg in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, world-famous as the town where a monk named Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the cathedral on October 31, 1517 and thus launched the Protestant Reformation:

http://www.wittenberg.de/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=84&topmenu=84