MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

[wilburt]

Narch said:

"but i was under the impression that pc was returning MORE of their key players from last season than teams like hc and lc"

Incorrect Narch. Piedmont returned arguably just as many "key players" as Huntingdon, Maryville and FISK did this season.  I guess that was the nuanced implication that you did not get in my earlier comment.

So I say again Narch, returning key players from an 11 win team doesn't mean much to me if 3 of your 4 main GSAC competitors are also returning "key players" or "nucleus" from last season as well.  Particularly since those 3 other teams each won 16 or more games last season, unlike PC!

[Scots06]

The Scots prove a lot of us wrong. With two convincing wins they are back on the map.. I dont know that they were off but myself and some on this message board doubted their road success..
Big weekend from their New Big Three.. Last year it was Ellis,Placeres, and Golden.. Subsitute Mason and Calloway along with Golden.
Good start for the Scots 2-0.
   Lets hope they continue this success it can be a big year if they continue how they played Friday and Saturday..

[mattgrubb]

The scots did have a great weekend, but let's let them get to about 10-0 before we start pronouncing they have proven something or calling them a big three, remember Sid was a 2 time all american and placeres was greased lightning, Bo is a different kind of point guard, but he obviously had an exceptional weekend, I think Monte has been a solid guard all along and now he is just getting his chance to shine, which he deserves, Bobby is a story unto himself which i will address later on in numerous posts.  Anytime the Scots go down to Georgia and beat Coach Zuver and his team it is a good weekend, b/c they are tough to start the season with, good wins Randy, Beaty keep things together

[Scots06]

I disagree with you MGrubb.. Yes Ellis was a two time All American, and Placeres was by far more of a true point guard by definitio then Bo Mason, but if those three which I named as the Big Three continue with these numbers they wont be 10-0 they will be undefeated...
Only concern for me is DEFENSE.. EMory and Ogelthorpe scored almost 80 points...

[mattgrubb]

Scots06
I am not saying they are not the big three, i am saying let's not call them the big 3 YET, there is a ton of potential out of those 3, and they have not accomplished all the things that Ellis and Placeres did, so give them a little time, remember Mason is just a sophomore and Monte has proven he can play, but there will be many nights when he has to carry the team.
big question how did Holiday and JJ play, was anyone at the games, i should be there this weekend to see the home opener

[wilburt]

I miss the brash cockiness of Breakout and Brett about Maryville basketball!  You cautiously optimistic guys from East Tennessee are no fun to banter with this year...

I change my predictions.  I think Maryville will go (25-0) during the regular season but lose to Huntingdon in the GSAC tourney on a last second shot by Allen White!

[old_lion]

Two big wins for the Scots! I don't think either Emory or Oglethorpe are great teams, but they both pretty good.

It's no small task to replace two guys of Ellis' and Placeres' caliber ... but it looks as if Murval is off to a good start in doing it.

[wilburt]

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051122/SPORTS0604/511220356/1038

Above is the link to the article on last night's game with Tennessee State.  Unfortunately TSU beat FISK 72-63.  Great rivalry game for both schools since many of the players on both teams were either high school teammates from Memphis or played against each other in the Memphis High School league.  Over 7,500 people filled the stands for the game at TSU's Gentry Center!  Not a bad effort against a TSU team expected to finish in the middle of  the OVC this year. 

[Coach C]

wilburt -

You are right about the differences in team nuculei, but chemistry is sometimes more important that biology if you know what I mean.  Sometimes what that 9-7 team went though makes that that much better the next year.

C

[mattgrubb]

Coach C, I agree with you
I think that is a point I was trying to make and it will take more than a big 3 to get Lambert back to the sweet 16 and even beyond, b/c that is their goal
Wilburt,
I bet that game was sick and the atmosphere was crazy,
also to answer your request, I bet Bobby Golden could body slam anyone in the gsac except coach Beaty

[wilburt]

Coach C I agree with you on team chemistry, but my point was more towards the "biology" aspect of returning players.

Grubb I am sure the atmosphere was crazy last night at TSU.  All the better preparation for the crowd at Maryville in a few weeks.  I hope this year's FISK team is unlike the team a couple of years ago that could get up to play the D1, D2 schools and Maryville, but had a hard time getting motivated and focused to play their regular season D3 schedule.

Finally, Grubb are you suggesting that Coach Beaty needs to be body slammed, but nobody in the GSAC could do it

[mattgrubb]

No i am suggesting that Bobby Golden is the baddest man in the GSAC and the only man that can contain him is Coach Beaty.  That is my best trash talking to this point
Also, I am upset that i missed the Fisk v Knoxville College game, I would have liked to have seen that, do you know the outcome?

[wilburt]

McGrubb:

Fisk handlily beat Knoxville last Saturday 92-78.  I was at the game in Nashville.  Fisk is (1-1) and next play Millsaps this weekend for our 1st South Region game.

I see that Murvul is now (3-0) with a victory at Centre which is tough to do.  The Scots always reload and appear not to have missed a step this season, despite some naysayers from East Tennessee. 

I hope the Bulldogs are up for the challenge Maryville poses when the GSAC season starts in the first week in January?.  I have been pleased with what I've seen from the Bulldogs so far, although a lot of work still needs to be done.  We have a very quick backcourt and apparently have some new found depth in the frontcourt.  I was surprised to learn that even though we lost to TSU, we outrebounded a much larger TSU team by 5 rebounds.

William

[mattgrubb]

Centre is a great place to grab a W.  it is always nice to beat a SCAC school, that sissy conference.  I would like to see all those SCAC schools come down and grab W's in Maryville and Nashville, granted it is not like playing in front of 6,000 screaming Calvin Knights, but it sure is a tough place to play, both places, I also noticed that Fisk played TSU much closer than D2 Carson Newman did in an exhibition.  good job wilburt you are leading your team in the right direction, oh and by the way you don't happen to know Tony Jones the new assistant at the univeristy of Tennessee do you?  He went to Fisk and played bball there in I believe the early to mid '80s

[mybleedinghands]

does anyone know if lagrange will be doing an internet broadcast or live stats for any of the games in the tournament they are hosting coming up this friday and saturday?