MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

mattgrubb · January 06, 2007, 05:21:02 PM

George Debaby has the voice of an angel, he is the best play by play guy in the gsac

scots up 46-41 in with 14 min to go

coachwgh · January 07, 2007, 08:45:07 AM

Once again I will say that all of you that anticipate or speculate that Maryville will not be as good are wrong. You could give Randy Lambert 5 one armed eskimos and he would still win 20 games.

Once again the Panthers played their rear ends off and once again it didn't matter. Their is a difference between working hard and working smart. Unfortunately for us the working hard is inconsistent without working smart.

Their was confusion somewhere along the way with Fisk's departure from the conference and the hiring of a new coach so we are not on their schedule thus we won't be playing them today. Maryville will have their hands full after a very draining game yesterday and then a game in the Lion's den today. If I wasn't exhausted I would love to drive and see it.

Spencer Beaty · January 07, 2007, 12:30:17 PM

Big win for the scots over lagrainge and they have another one coming today against peidmont. This gets the scots off to a good start in the gsac.

old_lion · January 07, 2007, 01:48:55 PM

Quote from: coachwgh on January 07, 2007, 08:45:07 AM
Once again I will say that all of you that anticipate or speculate that Maryville will not be as good are wrong. You could give Randy Lambert 5 one armed eskimos and he would still win 20 games.

Once again the Panthers played their rear ends off and once again it didn't matter. Their is a difference between working hard and working smart. Unfortunately for us the working hard is inconsistent without working smart.

Their was confusion somewhere along the way with Fisk's departure from the conference and the hiring of a new coach so we are not on their schedule thus we won't be playing them today. Maryville will have their hands full after a very draining game yesterday and then a game in the Lion's den today. If I wasn't exhausted I would love to drive and see it.

Good effort yesterday, Coach Haynes. When you cut it to one, with about 5 minutes to go, I thought you had a shot at them.

Good point about Coach Lambert. He is a very good coach, now reaping the benefits of a very successful program he has spent years building.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, he has a lot more than just "5 eskimos" that are all two handed and pretty good. The biggest advantage he has over the rest of us is that he has 5 decent, to very good, post players and none of the rest of us can come close to that. And his team is well-coached enough that they are just going to keep pounding it in to them. To be able to alternate Golden and Blair at the "five" ... what a luxery ... boy, am I envious.

Spencer Beaty · January 07, 2007, 11:04:51 PM

Another big win for the scots today. This game was closer against a good peidmont team but the scots pulled it out in the end. Scots by 3.

GSAC Killer · January 08, 2007, 08:16:45 AM

Watts I agree with you Debaby is the best play by play man in the game!!

Hey a big congrats to the Scots!! TWO BIG WINS on the road.. They are now 5-0 to start the break all coming on the road.. I know Coach Lambert and his staff must be super exicited about this great start to the new year.. Bo had another great performance at Piedmont.. He had a one like that when we played together my senior year!!
Keep up the good work Scots!!!

old_lion · January 08, 2007, 10:49:19 AM

Quote from: GSAC Killer on January 08, 2007, 08:16:45 AM
Watts I agree with you Debaby is the best play by play man in the game!!

Hey a big congrats to the Scots!! TWO BIG WINS on the road.. They are now 5-0 to start the break all coming on the road.. I know Coach Lambert and his staff must be super exicited about this great start to the new year.. Bo had another great performance at Piedmont.. He had a one like that when we played together my senior year!!
Keep up the good work Scots!!!

He sure did! A lot of that "stuff" he was throwing up (off-balance, fading away) looked like bad shots ... except for the fact that 12 out of 17 of them went in! Great performance.

Bo loves our gym ... in 3 games at our place, he is averaging 27. In the 2 we have played at MC, he is averaging 9. Obviously, he should have stayed in Ga, and gone to school at Piedmont.

But outside shooting wasn't the problem, we matched MC's 11 3s with 11 of our own. Unfortunately, as I predicted, MC just had too much inside. Their plethera of big men combined for 43 points and 24 rebounds.

http://www.piedmont.edu/athletics/mbasketball/06-07stats/pcm12.htm

GSAC Killer · January 08, 2007, 12:07:45 PM

Old Lion who was covering Bo? I know he shot exceptionally well but what type of defense were you guys playing??

LaGrange and piedmont continue to be 0 for life against Da Ville..

old_lion · January 08, 2007, 12:51:44 PM

Quote from: GSAC Killer on January 08, 2007, 12:07:45 PM
Old Lion who was covering Bo? I know he shot exceptionally well but what type of defense were you guys playing??

No one really ... but several guys gave it a try.

Seriously, I really don't think our guys were doing that bad of a job on him ... it was just one of those days when everything he threw up was going in. And as I said, a lot of those shots looked like "bad shots" ... off balance, falling away, with guys all over him ... the type of shots that you think to yourself, "Well if you can play good enough D, to make him take that type of shot ... and they still go in ... What are you gonna do?"

I believe we played mostly man to man ... but we also went with some traps, and full court pressure, which opened things up a bit. Our pressure worked some and we got a few easy buckets off it ... But as you know, against pressure, a well-coached team is going to not panic, move the ball, and find the open man. No one has ever said MC is not a well-coached team.

I thought we actually played pretty well ... kudos to Murvul.

mattgrubb · January 08, 2007, 01:02:58 PM

well unfortunately if everything falls one night it means nothing will fall another night, it is kind of like a law of physics, equal and opposite reaction.

But anyway, great job scots, 2 wins in one weekend, record moves up to 10-4 and your fans can dig their MC pride out of their closets and start wearing it around again. I am most impressed with Bobby's performance, good job big man. 20 pts and 9 boards. Although Baldwin had 19 and 7, bobby only played 27 minutes to Baldwin's 35. And it looks like Green had 11 pts and 4 assists, pretty good game but definitely over shadowed by Bobo's 33. and by the way, Bo makes tough shots, thats what he does.

old_lion · January 08, 2007, 01:26:35 PM

Quote from: mattgrubb on January 08, 2007, 01:02:58 PM
well unfortunately if everything falls one night it means nothing will fall another night, it is kind of like a law of physics, equal and opposite reaction.

by the way, Bo makes tough shots, thats what he does.

http://www.maryvillecollege.edu/athletics/stats/CombinedStats1-7-07M.pdf

I hear you, Matt.

I checked the #s ... even after the 12 for 17 night, Bo is shooting only 37% from the field ... very "un-Bo-like" ... seems to me, that's very low for a guy whose main "claim to fame" is that he is a shooter ...

Thanks a pants load for saving it up for us, Bo!

Seriously, nice game.

mattgrubb · January 08, 2007, 05:02:44 PM

Bobo's shooting percentage will rise and should be around 41% by the end of the season. This is not bad, 45% would be about what you expect from a perimeter shooter that gets a lot of shots. I think Baldwin made a strong case for all gsac this weekend. I think head to head match ups are a good way to determine who is better and i will say that Baldwin held his own, but bobby is still the most dominant player in the gsac when he wants to be. That is when Bobo is not exploding. good basketball games are what we are looking for of course and we like it best when there are good games that maryville wins.

ohyeah · January 08, 2007, 11:39:12 PM

If Bradley Blair learns to stay out of foul trouble, he would also have better numbers then Baldwin.

Man, what I would have given to play 35 minutes in a game.

mattgrubb · January 09, 2007, 03:44:46 PM

35 minutes, isn't that two games, in thirty five minutes of play i averaged 34 points, 6 boards, and 6 assists
and yes that assist count is accurate

coachwgh · January 10, 2007, 08:22:24 AM

It is one thing to lose games but to be replaced on grubby's message pic is a new low. At least I was replaced by a definite classic in the making. The Panthers have the Bearcats coming to town this weekend and at times the Rust Bearcats could probably be confused with the Cincinnati Bearcats. I think people look at us and say those Panthers are pretty athletic and fairly quick but we don't hold a candle to Rust. Physics can't explain some of the shots they made last year in Holly Springs. The last time they came to LaGrange we had to play in the county rec center because there was no power on campus due to an ice storm. Hopefully Mariotti will pull us through this one. The Panthers need a win!!!