MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[arena]

What is the source of the Hope's players back injury?

[hoopdreams]

He attempted to carry a poor attitude around with him the entire season.  By all accounts, he moved quite well against Alma.  Possibly stiffened up on the long bus ride? Or.....

[Flying Dutch Fan]

He attempted to carry a poor attitude around with him the entire season.  By all accounts, he moved quite well against Alma.  Possibly stiffened up on the long bus ride? Or.....

That (and most of your recent posts) are really below the belt and uncalled for. Your player has moved on perhaps you need to let it all go and move on as well.

[arena]

He attempted to carry a poor attitude around with him the entire season.  By all accounts, he moved quite well against Alma.  Possibly stiffened up on the long bus ride? Or.....

That's really below the belt and uncalled for. Your player has moved on perhaps you need to let it all go and move on as well.

So, how did he injure his back?

[hoopdreams]

1.  His attitude- poor, was brought to light, by him, in a press article.  And I was not the only person to discuss it. 
2.  He played great against alma and showed Zero signs of a bad back on Thursday
3.  The 3+ hour bus ride could have caused his back to tighten
4. If you're referring to my all star squad, I said the guys you hate to play against but love to have on your team.  You can't really argue with my choices.  Good thing I didn't name the coaching staff.  Should I have called it the all-arrogant, sometimes dirty, always cocky team, hate to get beaten by but love to win with team?
5.  Did coach Neil choose to play him in the second half against Alma because he didn't want to lose at home to the lowly Scots?  Did he sell his soul for a W? And didn't use him today because he didn't need to?

Sorry to ruffle your feathers but based on my +11 K this week, surely now to take a major hit, I must not be too far off base.  If the players in question can be disrespectful to their teammates and mentor, get in fights, get drunk-legally or not, they can handle some critiquing...if they even read this silly board

[Flying Dutch Fan]

He attempted to carry a poor attitude around with him the entire season.  By all accounts, he moved quite well against Alma.  Possibly stiffened up on the long bus ride? Or.....

That's really below the belt and uncalled for. Your player has moved on perhaps you need to let it all go and move on as well.

So, how did he injure his back?

Don't know for sure but its been a chronic issue for him for several years and continues to be.

[Pat Coleman]

He attempted to carry a poor attitude around with him the entire season.  By all accounts, he moved quite well against Alma.  Possibly stiffened up on the long bus ride? Or.....

That (and most of your recent posts) are really below the belt and uncalled for. Your player has moved on perhaps you need to let it all go and move on as well.

Come on ... not your place to tell another poster what to post, FDF. I know I've said that around here before.

[sac]

1.  His attitude- poor, was brought to light, by him, in a press article.  And I was not the only person to discuss it. 
2.  He played great against alma and showed Zero signs of a bad back on Thursday
3.  The 3+ hour bus ride could have caused his back to tighten
4. If you're referring to my all star squad, I said the guys you hate to play against but love to have on your team.  You can't really argue with my choices.  Good thing I didn't name the coaching staff.  Should I have called it the all-arrogant, sometimes dirty, always cocky team, hate to get beaten by but love to win with team?
5.  Did coach Neil choose to play him in the second half against Alma because he didn't want to lose at home to the lowly Scots?  Did he sell his soul for a W? And didn't use him today because he didn't need to?

Sorry to ruffle your feathers but based on my +11 K this week, surely now to take a major hit, I must not be too far off base.  If the players in question can be disrespectful to their teammates and mentor, get in fights, get drunk-legally or not, they can handle some critiquing...if they even read this silly board

Hope's best win of the year and this is what you write?

[sac]

Offense for Albion might be the bigger issue, since the roster changes they've scored 53, 49, 82, 54.  The 82 came against Case Western who plays a high pace, no defense game.

Calvin might hold the Brits under 45 if they don't call the dogs off too early.

My evil genius plan nearly worked. 

Well on Wednesday night the Britons should easily hit 100 in a cake-walk.

[sac]

Hope 81 Adrian 72
no boxscores?

Benson 18ish, Overway 18ish, Seiler 15ish.......Barnes maybe 25, Lewis 15+ I don't remember it all.  Hope was pretty good on the boards as well, esp Benson.  Snuggerud picked up 2 quick fouls in the first half, I really don't know why he didn't play much in the 2nd half.

Saw something I've never seen before in a D3 game.  A player walk out on his team in the middle of a game.  That's just what Brandon Romaine did today, unless there was some injury that I'm not aware of when he was subbed for with about 5 minutes remaining in the first half he walked past the bench and straight to the locker room.  I caught the very end of it as a player in sweats chased after him followed by Adrian's assistant coach.  Romaine was not on the bench in the second half.

Adrian nearly imploded as a team in the first half as the frustrations of getting thoroughly whipped by probably Hope's best effort of the season took its toll.  By the end of the half I caught players pointing at each other and combined with the above Romaine incident (if it was an incident) I really thought the Bulldogs were probably done for.

Mark White probably gave a nice halftime talk which centered around having pride, playing with the guys we have, stuff like that.  Whatever it was, the Bulldogs played a great second half and resembled the team I saw back in November much more than the one I saw Thursday and in the first half.  Mark White may have his team back after tonight.   If you really ask me, Romaine didn't fit well.  It will be interesting if he's back Wednesday or not.  Maybe hoopdreams can look into that since he likes to over-dramatize things, seems right up your alley.

From Hope's point of view it was a little more of the jekyl and hyde kind of up and down games we've seen this year.  The were absolutely terrific in the first 15 minutes of this game.  The second half was almost a complete defensive breakdown (forced by great Adrian play) and not being smart with the ball a few times too many down the stretch.  Thankfully Hope had their FT eyes today which they have sometimes not had.

Brock Benson was terrific today and overall probably the difference in the game, Ben Gardner played some great minutes including much of the second half.  With under 5 to go a lead dwindling Hope stuck  3 Fr. out there quit a few times, the official signal they aren't Fr. anymore.


Some very positive signs from the Dutchmen today, by no means have they reached the summit but this was a good win on the road vs a good team.  Now its about finding a 40 minute effort.

[sac]

Well as of 9:52 pm  Brandon Romaine is no longer on the Adrian roster.  That was fun!

They've also added Nathan Stepney and Amer Gaston-Rashid.  Stepney played some, looking very tentative.

[Knightmare]

All "A-hole" team from recent memory... The guys you hate to play against and hate to have your team play but love to have in your foxhole
PG- DVS
SG- D. Griffin
Wing- B. Schnyders
4- K. Kazen
5- Snuggs

I could easily come up with a few reserves too ...

Maybe you're too young to remember, but there's no way you can keep Nate Burgess out of the starting lineup. Should be team captain in fact.

Amen to that!  I was at Calvin the same time as Burgess and it was actually quite entertaining and enlightening to watch him play defense off the ball and out of view of the refs watchful eyes.  LOTS of subtle jersey tugs, bumps and just little things to get under the skin of his opponent.  He was a tenacious defender and actually underrated as an offensive role player.  Plus who can ever forget the tip-in he had in the NCAA's against Franklin Marshall (I believe that was the opponent).  That tip-in was unbelievable for a 6 foot guard in a crowd of big men to win the game, can still be seen on the Calvin 2000 national championship video on their website...worth watching again and may have helped spur them on in the tournament.

He would no doubt be the captain of that team.  He also did it in a much more business like manner than a few of the seemingly arrogant rah-rah type guys on that list.

[oldknight]

Well as of 9:52 pm  Brandon Romaine is no longer on the Adrian roster.  That was fun!

Included in his final stat line was a total of 4 points on 2-12 from the floor in 20 minutes of PT. Guess MIAA defenses were more than he could handle. Brandon, we hardly knew ye.

[realist]

All "A-hole" team from recent memory... The guys you hate to play against and hate to have your team play but love to have in your foxhole
PG- DVS
SG- D. Griffin
Wing- B. Schnyders
4- K. Kazen
5- Snuggs

I could easily come up with a few reserves too ...

Maybe you're too young to remember, but there's no way you can keep Nate Burgess out of the starting lineup. Should be team captain in fact.

Amen to that!  I was at Calvin the same time as Burgess and it was actually quite entertaining and enlightening to watch him play defense off the ball and out of view of the refs watchful eyes.  LOTS of subtle jersey tugs, bumps and just little things to get under the skin of his opponent.  He was a tenacious defender and actually underrated as an offensive role player.  Plus who can ever forget the tip-in he had in the NCAA's against Franklin Marshall (I believe that was the opponent).  That tip-in was unbelievable for a 6 foot guard in a crowd of big men to win the game, can still be seen on the Calvin 2000 national championship video on their website...worth watching again and may have helped spur them on in the tournament.

He would no doubt be the captain of that team.  He also did it in a much more business like manner than a few of the seemingly arrogant rah-rah type guys on that list.

The team was Franklin from Indiana.
It was Foltice that scored the last second basket against Franklin and Marshall in the semi-fianl down in Salem.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Well as of 9:52 pm  Brandon Romaine is no longer on the Adrian roster.  That was fun!

They've also added Nathan Stepney and Amer Gaston-Rashid.  Stepney played some, looking very tentative.

That has to be some kind if record. To remove a guy from the roster any faster would require an eraser or some whiteout.