MBB: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[cardinalfanrochelle]

             

The Way I See It,

My Muskies are in a little bit of trouble. Saturday's game against Edgewood was a game they should have won. I do not take anything away from Edgewood as they clearly earned it, but it was a game that shouldn't have even been close. It was a 6-4 matchup for 17 minutes of the game (the amount of time that Matt Rogers played).

He clearly decided he was going to play for Edgewood on Saturday. From the moment he made his first touch of the basketball on Saturday, you could tell he was on a different mission than the rest of the team. He was out there to try and accumulate his stats after having sat out the team's previous game. Between the handful of bad shots and 4 turnovers (0 assists) in 17 minutes, it was dreadful. But none of that compares to what he did after hitting one of his 2 field goals. After hitting a 3 pointer late in the game, he held both hands in the air with 3 fingers up and stared at the Edgewood bench for about 3 full seconds.

I would like to see the scoring differential between the minutes Rogers played and the minutes he sat the bench. As a fan, it was very frustrating walking away from that game having witnessed all of this. He is too talented of a player to let this kind of stuff happen. I hope for Lakeland's sake, he gets his act together both on AND off the court.
The Way,
                 Any time you want some information on or about Matt Rogers I would be happy to sit down talk with you. I am at most of the Muskies games and would be available to talk. Just look for a fan wearing last years warmup jacket the Nike  navy & white, you can't miss me I'm 6'1  and about 250 and usually quiet (I don't yell too much)by the way you can call me Al.........

[The Way]

The Way I See It,

No need to sit down and talk as i only state things 'the way i see it'. I know probably more than you think I do about the Lakeland team, players, and coaches. I hope your son (i am assuming this is the case) does rather well in a Lakeland uniform, both for his sake and the team's sake. I am not just basing this off of what was clearly evident in Saturday's game. As i said, i know quite a lot about the team, both on and off the floor. I also know why he and several other players were not in uniform last Wednesday night. I have nothing against Rogers or any of the other Lakeland players. I will still cheer as loud as the next Muskie fan when i am at the games. I only stated things 'the way i saw them'.

[WLCALUM83]

Props to Marian's Titus Redmond for surpassing the 1,000 point mark for his playing career!-(-per NathCon web site. ) 8)

[luv d3hoops]

WHO IS THE SPARTINS STAR PLAYER I THINK IT IS A EVEN SPREAD. WELTON IS PASSING THE BALL AND GETTING HELP DOWN LOW

[WLCALUM83]

Let me clarify- I thought it was Welton--given from what little I've seen he was getting the most recognition in print-as far as individual player performance.

[WLCALUM83]

Early final:  Lakeland 104, Northland Baptist 65. Rout!!!

[WLCALUM83]

Final:  Edgewood 70, Concordia-Chicago 54:  (Eagles went on a scoring run late in 2nd half to seal it.)

[WLCALUM83]

Final:  Benedictine 72, WLC 71:  (Eagles offensive rebound and put-back with 2.4 seconds left was the difference.) 

[WLCALUM83]

Two more NathCon 1/10/07 finals:

Aurora 90, Dominican 66.

Marian 74, Rockford College 55.

[libero]

Boy, Marian is making a move. I haven't seen them play. I have always liked Redmond, who else do they have?

[WLCALUM83]

Jordan Van Ess and J. Holewinski have assisted Redmond as far as providing additional scoring punch in the starting line-up thus far. Bestor's been a 3-point shooting threat off the bench. Several players have been averaging anything from 4 to 6 rebounds a game, to this point.

[WLCALUM83]

1/11-13/07 NathCon projections:

1/11:  Concordia-WI over Maranatha

1/12:  Aurora over Clarke

1/13:  Dominican over Concordia-Chicago (Cougars' Gray out for season--torn ACL)
           Benedictine over Maranatha (Eagle roll continues).
          Concordia-WI over Marian (too close to call-CUW gets the nod because it's a home game for the Falcons).
           Edgewood over Rockford (even more so if Regents' McCracken can't play).
           Lakeland over WLC (huge road test for the Warriors here.)

[Greek Tragedy]

Conference records so far...

Aurora 5-1
Edgewood 5-1

Benedictine 4-1

Wisconsin Lutheran 4-2
Lakeland 4-2

Marian 3-2

Dominican 2-3
Concordia (WI) 2-3

Rockford 1-5

Concorida (IL) 1-6

Maranatha 0-5

[WLCALUM83]

Final:  Concordia, WI 91, Maranatha 76.

(Crusaders had it down to 11 a couple of times in 2nd half, but could get no closer.)

[Greek Tragedy]

So, what's up with Dominican?  Everyone and their mother thought they'd contend and possibly win the title this year.  Apparently, so far, that isn't the case.  I'd hate to say I was right (up until now), so I won't! lol