MBB: Great South Athletic Conference

old_lion · January 15, 2007, 02:02:52 AM

Quote from: Rikki_Tikki_Tavi on January 14, 2007, 12:17:29 PM
Old_lion your boys looked solid last night. They sure didnt let the size advantage bother them at all. They are great ball movers and they never settled for a shot, they continued to move the ball around to find the open man. Baldwin was a beast as he went for 32, 22 came in the first half. But the Lions just seemed to have wanted it more. Kudos to Coach Glenn for a great game plan that was devised for the game and his troops executed it perfectly!! Good luck to the Lions, they play a tough schedule and are much better than a 7-7 squad. Good luck today against the Monarchs.

Thanks for the kind words.

We felt that was quite an accomplishment to come into your place and escape with a "W". You guys certainly have a fine team ... that's a big, talented front-line. And IMHO, you have as good a pair of guards as I've seen all year.

That's a first class operation you guys have ... are you sure that's a DIII program?

Good luck the rest of the season.

scottiedoug · January 15, 2007, 11:50:04 AM

Did anyone guard Hairston at Cooper Athletic Center Saturday? Maybe he moves up on the all-gsac lists, and Jake Baldwin seems to have been prettty effective over the weekend. Scots have a tough couple of weeks coming up!

mattgrubb · January 15, 2007, 02:53:39 PM

well the grubby one was profound as always. I am best described by my new saying, "i kick game like daniel larusso" and this is referring to my prediction that HC would have a long bus ride home. I was correct, I am sure it was a long disappointing ride home, but not b/c they got hammered. they played great and hairston was BALLIN. I felt they deserved a W, but it is hard to climb over the top when you have only one 1 game. anyway the hawks and hairston impressed the grubby one.

narch · January 15, 2007, 02:58:13 PM

Quote from: old_lion on January 15, 2007, 02:02:52 AMThat's a couple of fine looking kids you have there. They must have been blessed with the same good fortune that mine were ... an attractive mom.

i'm kind of like coach glenn when it comes to the ladies...clearly an overachiever

old_lion · January 15, 2007, 04:23:18 PM

Quote from: narch on January 15, 2007, 02:58:13 PM
Quote from: old_lion on January 15, 2007, 02:02:52 AMThat's a couple of fine looking kids you have there. They must have been blessed with the same good fortune that mine were ... an attractive mom.

i'm kind of like coach glenn when it comes to the ladies...clearly an overachiever

Well said, sir! That makes three of us ... It must be our charming personalities ... 8)

Spencer Beaty · January 15, 2007, 06:03:49 PM

Well Grubby one, I sat with you at the game and I wasnt very impressed with the hawks. I thought we played very bad as a team. Where was bobby and bradely. When we need a big game from them one of them shows up. That did not seem to be the case. On another note, big game for MC as Fisk comes to town. Anyone know their record?

Spencer Beaty · January 15, 2007, 10:46:43 PM

I hope we get to play Fisk on Wednesday. I hear that they might not show up to play us in light of them leaving the GSAC. I dont know that is just a rumor but who knows?

mattgrubb · January 16, 2007, 08:44:32 AM

Well Spencer Beaty
I am scheduled to go watch Hanover/Transy in Lexington on Wed. so i probably won't be there, but i know you will keep the scots locked down

coachwgh · January 16, 2007, 09:25:44 AM

Seemed like a pretty good weekend in the GSAC. The trend continued with competitive MC-HC games, Piedmont got a very nice win over CNU and a split on one of the toughest weekend trips you could make this time of year, and the Panthers got back on the winning foot. But like everyone knows it doesn't get any easier. We have Oglethorpe coming to town Wednesday night and Piedmont on Saturday. Fans you might want to take your motion sickness pills. The NCAA is reviewing a rule that could go into effect as quickly as today that all games played at Al Mariotti cannot contain any possessions of zone defense.

GSAC Killer · January 16, 2007, 11:56:14 AM

Well GSAC 1st Team after the first look at conference games are:
Bo Mason
Bobby Golden
Cole Hairston
Jake Baldwin
Demetrius Render

GSAC Player of the year: Pick the player whos team wins the Conference Championship..
Players to consider for 1st team as well: Jake Green, Robbie Lawrence, and Bradley Blair with the possibility of Alex Bowers or Quinn Bradley..

The Scots looked bad on Saturday but we usually have trouble against the Hawks..

old_lion · January 16, 2007, 01:40:14 PM

Quote from: GSAC Killer on January 16, 2007, 11:56:14 AM
Well GSAC 1st Team after the first look at conference games are:
Bo Mason
Bobby Golden
Cole Hairston
Jake Baldwin
Demetrius Render

GSAC Player of the year: Pick the player whos team wins the Conference Championship..
Players to consider for 1st team as well: Jake Green, Robbie Lawrence, and Bradley Blair with the possibility of Alex Bowers or Quinn Bradley..

Damn, Killer! You and I have a lot in common ...
* We both understand/appreciate the value of a "true PG".
* We are both roguishly good-looking.

* And we both are shameless promoters of "our own guys".
(Remember, just cause we're biased, doesn't mean we are wrong!)

All BS aside, a few comments on your picks ...
* I think the 1st 7 guys you mentioned s/b locks for either 1st or 2nd team all-GSAC. Too soon to say which ...
* I like Blair, Bowers, and Bradley, as well ... especially Bowers ... but I'd have to put Adams and Maddox ahead of them at this point.
* And don't forget Whitlock ... he is this year's Brent Walker ... a warrior ... underrated, overlooked, and absolutely essential to his team.

Re GSAC POTY ...
If Baldwin continues anything close to his current pace, he has to be a lock. Consider the substantial lead he has over the 2nd place guy in 4 key statistical categories. (And remember, it's a team game. He has unselfish guys around him ... getting him the ball, in the right place, at the right time.)
* Scoring: 24.3 to 19.3
* Rebounding: 9.3 to 7.8
* FG%: .601 to .529 (That's huge.)
* Irreplaceable Quotient: (on a 10 point scale) 9.9 to 9.0 (OK, I made that one up.)

http://www.greatsouth.org/stats/GSAC_MBB/confldrs.htm

And finally, a case for Adams ... He and Mason are very similar players. They are both well-rounded combo guards with very similar numbers. I don't believe it is reasonable to say one guy is in the GSAC's top 5 players, and the other guy is not in the top 10.

## Player GP-GS Min FG% 3PT% FT% R/G A/G STL BLK PTS/G
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03 Mason, Bo........... 15-14 30.9 .366 .373 .921 2.7 4.5 24 0 14.6
21 Adams, Mike........ 15-15 29.7 .430 .322 .733 4.0 2.1 11 0 14.6

mattgrubb · January 16, 2007, 02:07:03 PM

i still think POY should take some intangibles into play not just numbers and therefore i agree with the killer, a POY should lead his team to victory. So let's keep playing this thing out b/c the games have been awesome so far.

And a side note, I will take Hairston on my team any day.

scottiedoug · January 16, 2007, 02:09:15 PM

Randy Lambert likes Hairston for best player and Coach Duckworth said very nice things about Bradley Blair and Bobby Golden. See:

http://www.thedailytimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070114/SPORTS/701140321&SearchID=73269250375802

mattgrubb · January 16, 2007, 03:13:13 PM

"I know this, Cole Hairston is the best player in the league in my book," Lambert said. "I wondered coming in if we could guard him and obviously we couldn't." There is the quote from the always incredibly well written article by Marcus Fitzsimmons. If that is not an argument for POY i don't know what is. Therefore i withdraw all previous posts regarding POY and stand behind this one.

The Grubby One

old_lion · January 16, 2007, 03:16:20 PM

Quote from: scottiedoug on January 16, 2007, 02:09:15 PM
Randy Lambert likes Hairston for best player and Coach Duckworth said very nice things about Bradley Blair and Bobby Golden. See:

http://www.thedailytimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070114/SPORTS/701140321&SearchID=73269250375802

Coach Lambert:
"I know this, Cole Hairston is the best player in the league in my book," Lambert said. "I wondered coming in if we could guard him and obviously we couldn't."

And I'm sure that's how he sincerely felt right after Cole almost pulled off the unthinkable ... virtually single handedly defeating Murvul at Murvul. Wow! Great game, Cole!

Coach Duckworth:
"This is my 14th year on the collegiate level and I don't know if I've ever seen a better combination of low post play than with Golden and (Bradley) Blair in my college coaching career.

I agree completely. I think having the two-headed, 500 lb, Golden/Bradley monster in the middle, with 10 fouls to use, may be the single most sgnificant factor in Murvul's success over the last view years. At the very least, it's the one factor that the rest of the GSAC can't match.