WBB: Landmark Conference

[augie]

i was at Scranton this weekend and i saw them play against Drew and Merchant Marine. He has some great freshmen but he sticks to much to his seniors. His freshmen are way to good to sit on the bench and then to top it of he has two great 2nd year players sitting on the bench when they should start over some seniors but i heard that friends are always first! politics as usual that stinks some teams would die for players like these kids #31 is a hell of a point guard i would have her starting over his #5 and #23what a great player she is.I was their for both games and i think #5 played 24 minutes and had 8 points and #31 was in their for 6 minutes and has 2 steals 3 points dishes the ball very well way better then #5 but he stuck with her but then again the guy won 744 games but my theory is if you have a better player do not let politics get in the way and that is what i heard from some Scranton fans that is just not right.

[ronk]

Augie,
   You're right: he's won 744 more games than you or me.

[augie]

Well lets see what happens at Catholic and Goucher this weekend????It is a scary thought when you do not have a post presents or a point guard??

[ronk]

  Catholic should be a good test; they're playing better than I thought without Brianna Peterson. As for the Royals' point guard, I have her playing much better than your evaluation; she's not the reason for their struggles.
  Goucher has just won 2 in a row on the road; Moravian/Scranton will be a good test 4 them.

[TheNextLevel]

I noticed  Peterson wasn't on the roster. Why isn't she playing this year?

[ronk]

  Nobody I've talked with knows the reason.

[ronk]

  Catholic was a good test for the Lady Royals jumping out to a 13-2 lead, but a tighter defense, resulting in 9 steals in the 2nd half allowed Scranton to prevail, Contributions from everybody- Megan with double double despite a nasty collision with player and floor.  She and Sara held out of next game in addition to KC and Courtney already on injured list but Royals jumped out to 17-2 lead on Goucher on strength of 3 3-pointers from Katie C
  Coach Strong implemented a 2-person screen offensively, something the team could use against good teams in the future with shutdown defenders.
  Kudos to Colleen for all the floor burns over the weekend, showing the importance of defensive aggressiveness.
  Messiah next up for the ladies. They won easily last year at their place, but despite only losing 1 top player, they haven't done as well this year to date. Hoping that our walking wounded will recover by then.

[saratoga]

Just announced: Messiah at Scranton game is postponed...no makeup date.
I'm assuming this is due to snowfall in the Harrisburg area as only a few inches are projected for the Electric City.

[ronk]

  Going to be tough to make up; looks like only 2 days before Leb Val game or 2 days before conference playoff semifinal for Messiah.

[augie]

Well i was doing some research and came up with this two all Americans on Scranton in their senior year Taryn Melody and Allison Matt averaged 25.9 and 27.6 minutes per game a hell of a lot better players then Collen Mc clane which gets 24.8 a game i just do not understand why and by the way who only averages 5 points and 4 turnovers a game. For this team to excel they have to get a point guard to go far this year they will not get it done with this point guard he has now.One other quote a good coach with the teams he has had would have won 5 a good coach would have won 3 but in spite of him they won one National title!!!!!He still has one timeout left from Springfield!

[ronk]

   The stats that I see have Colleen's TOs at 2 pg not 4; no one on the team has a better assist/TO ratio than Colleen's @ 1.5. Combine that with the steals, tie-ups and 79 free throw % and Colleen has to get the majority of the playing time. Katie C has made a major contribution and Christina has improved significantly this year and all 3 will be needed as we enter crunch time.

[augie]

Ronk sorry about being off by 2 that is not the point.The point is that two all Americans had as much playing time as she has when they should have had more i guess when you are good friends with the parents it does not matter how good you are or in her case how bad you are you still get 25 minutes a game which is on called for.The freshmen are to talented to be sitting and not getting more minutes then her.Like i said he still has a timeout left and since we are talking about timeouts did you ever notice his timeouts turn into turnovers 97% of the time.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

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[kate]

Hi Ronk!  I coming on the Landmark site cause i thought you'd have more of a chance to read the post.  We drove down this morning from icy Easton (after checking the DVC & DeSales websites), only to find that the game was POSTPONED until tomorrow at noon  - Hopefully Gordon will be able to cover that one.  At least i saw the team practicing - laughs all around, although i'm very happy to be home safe & sound.  Honestly the lengths we go to for these teams we love! 

[ronk]

Kate,
  They probably held a practice just for your benefit so that the trip wouldn't be in vain.