MBB: USA South Conference

[captj]

narch –

No way, man.  I'm still taking 300-level classes.  I guess that if your 101-level ideas escape me it's because I've learned (or failed to) at a lousy public school.

Here's my point.  You selected three of several players that play the two post positions and combined their stats from one game in an attempt to ascertain the strength of those positions.  But why those three and not all?  Why leave out McEvoy and Dragen?  Unless Dragen's definitively a three, which he might be, but I always saw Thomas as your three. 

Here's what I see from the stats of that one game –

Williams, Radmanovich, McBryde, Moore, and McEvoy as a group played 77 minutes, just about right for the two positions.  So let's look at THEIR combined stats, not just three of them.  41 points, 19 rebounds, or 50% and 40% of the team's totals respectively.  From a scoring perspective you've got to be thrilled that your "concern" positions are scoring so much.  Rebounding is a very different story.  The two post players should (in my opinion) clear at least 60% of the boards.

But this is just one game, and unfortunately, we can't do the same thing for the season since these five guys have only combined for 26% of the team's total minutes, not 40%.  What THAT means to me is that the Monarchs have gone light (or speed) for most of the games and that the two positions might still be a concern.  Maybe Coach Smith should go ahead and pull the trigger on playing the bigger guys more since it seemed to work against Thomas More.

[cnufan]

Ya captj you must be bored and a sure sign there is no men's bball game till Sat!! Guess you wont be making it to tonight's women's game!!

[captj]

When one of the women throw one down I'll start going to those games.

[captj]

And beeside, narch chalungd my hoops nawlidg.

[narch]

captj - i guess i "singled" those three out because i wanted to point out a positive development in their play over the weekend and hoped for continued development and production from them (which is basically what i said in the original post) - i think they hold a real key to the monarchs success, and if mc can get 38 pts and 14 rebs (or more) from them, i think they'll win a lot of games - and you are correct, radmanovich is a 4...his game is more that of a 3, so i tend to forget he's a pf

[captj]

Prediction on the AppSt game narch?

[captj]

Curry should be a good test for the Captains this Saturday.  They had a decent (15-11) year last year but have only played two games (1-1) this year.  They play two tough ones this week before coming here.  Springfield and Trinity (Conn.) should have them softened a little bit for us, and the trip from Mass. will be tough on them too.  But if they can at least split those two games they should ride in here feeling pretty full of themselves.  Overall, they seem like a great team to be playing at this point in our young team's development, but I frankly wish that the game was in their gym.  Sure, I'd miss seeing a game, but we could use the road-toughening.  We should have more time to prepare for them than they will for us, so I'll predict a win based on that and the fact that we'll be in the Friendly Freeman.

[cnu85]

Davon Barton is back and will practice today!!

[cnufan]

Well duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.

[captj]

Curry lost to Springfield tonight and their next opponent (Trinity, CT) just beat a very good Western Conn. team tonight, so it's looking like they will be coming into Newport News either very fired up to get back on the winning track (or) very down on themselves.  I hope they come in and give us everything they've got.

[narch]

Prediction on the AppSt game narch?

asu 78 - mc 57

[captj]

I think your guys will do better than that. Less than 15 point delta.

[narch]

i'd like a less than 15 point loss...really, i'd like a win, but i'm a realist - asu has a phenom at pg...he's 5'8" but averaging 25.3 ppg/4.3 rpg on the season and shooting over 46% from 3...he'll be a tough match-up for any of our guards, but i'd bet lee gets him for a good portion of the game - if there was going to be an upset, it would be for this reason...app is young - they have 4 frosh in the regular rotation- those 4 are pretty good, though, from what i can tell - they are a small d1, but they'd be a pretty big d3 - center is 6'9"/225 and his back up is 6'8"/250, pf is 6'7"/230, sf is 6'5"/215...we'll see - if nothing else, it will be a great way to prepare mc for m'ville on sunday (a game which, sadly, i have to miss  )

[captj]

I think they'll do well, narch.  I checked out AppSt on their website and it seems like they're not just young, but that they are a perimeter-strong team like yours is.  You never know, especially when teams match up well strength-to-strength.

[captj]

I just checked tonight's slate of games and see that SoVA plays Averett.  I guess they just can't get enough of USASAC teams.  They'll do no better tonight, even if Averett doesn't have Boor back yet.  I sure hope he makes it back by conference time.  I always liked his game because of his intensity.