The postseason is the only season that counts.
Looks like we could be pulling things together at the right time. 

Are the Monarchs getting a little swagger back? 


Well I know I'm fired up.
Are we big and bad again?
Can we talk our trash again?
I guess the real question is, can we back it up?

Good Luck Fellas.


sorry if this post doesnt make much sense, I'm on two hrs of sleep and ive been staring at code for the last four hours. 

Whatever happens, I just want to say good luck to all the teams.  Its a been a long season,(not long enough).  For all the seniors wrapping up the regular season, I know its been a long four years that has gone by way too quickly.  Enjoy it while you can.  And again, good luck to all the teams, players, and coaches.  I hope everybody comes out and plays hard tomorrow. 












except CNU. I hope they lose.   

Quote from: captj on February 11, 2006, 10:11:59 AM
Gullett -

Do you play poker?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...


By the way Narch, I thought it was funny. 

Would you rather be lucky or good?

Maybe Berg wants to play another sport at GC.  huh?  A little football?  Maybe squash? 

I think Narc summed up the way I feel about this weekend.

Averett at NCWesleyan –  AU out plays NCW.

Greensboro at SU -  SU drops another one.

Greensboro at CNU – CNU rebounds and beats GC.

Ferrum at NCWesleyan – Is this really a question?

(Please Note the following predictions are for trash talking only: )

Methodist at CNU – This is the story of Long long drive, and a team with little Confidence... that rolls in and steals one.  (right?)

Methodist at Shenandoah – MC 2-and-ohMy for the weekend. SU Ohmy and 2

Whats that sound?.......Is that the wheels falling off?

No,  A little Ducttape here, the right motivation there, the season could still be bright...well, brightER.  The guys just need to pull together.  Right now MethCo needs to understand everyone has fun when they're winning, but its hard to win when you're not having fun.  Watch great teams.  Watch the faces of their players.  They're going hard, they're confidant, and they're having a good time.  I don't think thats happening right now. (not that I can see the faces) But from what I understand nobodys dishing out fun, everyone's on a different page.  (where are you?  "I'm in the glossary, where are you?"  What? I'm still in the preface). 

And I can understand it a little, High at the Start, get worked by a few teams, lose a few guys, theres some insider issues there, but the rest of the conf is only going to see Last Year's Champs, and theyre going to try to make them This Years Chumps.  Anyways, it's time for bed, I got class in the morning.

Mville is just a tough team for MC. This is where D. Smith needs to earn his COTY award.  Speaking of COTY, too early to start talking POTY?  ROTY, GOTY, (Gym of the year) (Game of the year maybe?).

Quote from: narch on January 21, 2006, 09:56:17 PM

monday should be an interesting matchup of two hurting teams

...Interesting...I hope its interesting. 

I assume by "toughest" places to play we're talking about fans.  So here's my take on it:

As much as I hate to say it...toughest place to play over the past four years was CNU.  There's a lot of history there, the fans pretend to understand basketball, they get loud for every game...and they get on you, of course playing a solid team doesn't make it any easier.  I still remember looking up at the scoreboard with about 8min left in the game my So. year after Seth said, "We might score 100 this game."...........We didnt score again for the rest of the game.  Nice Seth. 

Last year, GC was tough, a good amount of people in a small gym=loud.  We had that whole bad blood thing between the two teams.  Everyone was talking about how great GC was going to be...again.  The team really responded to the crowd, but if I remember at  the conf tourny, the fans get bored pretty easily when things don't go their way.   (For the record, GC stole our saying.  Green Gold, You Know...Except they say, Greensboro, You know....weak GC...weak.)

SU hasnt had great fans since my fr year.  They seemed kind of fair weather.  They have like three cheerleaders who kinda...dont do much...its less than impressive. 

AU has a small(for the size of the gym) but VERY loud cheering section that sits directly behind the bench and yells...all game...about nothing...and everything.  Winning? yelling.  Losing? yelling.  Timeout? yelling.  freethrow? yelling, After the game? It could have been confused for yelling but it was actually crying. 

When NCW was good, they had good fans.  They would usually pick one or two guys, and stay on them the whole game.  Last year they kinda gave up early. 

FC...  I never want to play there.  Worst. Place. Ever.  Long Ride.  No Town. They had one fan, who was at every game, he left when his son transferred.  When their team runs out, it sounds like someone is trying to start the slow clap. 

As for MC... the first three years  Our fans were pretty weak.  Our cheerleaders didn't lead cheers.  I've seen fans actually cheer the other team, because of a blocked shot, or a dunk.  Weak.  During an SU game, where we were playing for a conf championship, it was a two point game with less than 5min left and you could hear a pin drop.  Last year was better, but it was still kinda random.  One thing our fans lack is basketball IQ.  It might have something to do with the fact that we have very few homegames.  Maybe its just because I'm from Gainesville that I'm so critical of our fans, but maybe its because they really aren't that great. 




all misspellings in this post were intentional.

A close one at the half:

MC 23
AU 22

I'm going safe.

MC pulls it together and beats AU

CNU over NCW

GC over Ferrum

At Spring Hill, at Mobile... Here's to hoping the Monarchs take the win % from a 28 to a 44. 

You figured me out.

If you want the board to be alive, just say something bad about wisconsin...

Ballgame - I think we're arguing about different things here, but I like to argue, so I'll continue.

Quote from: ballgame on December 07, 2005, 03:52:02 PM
Isoar, physical play ain't basketball.....

Quote from: ballgame on December 07, 2005, 06:31:55 PM

I don't recall saying that basketball "is not" a physical game....

Quote from: ballgame on December 07, 2005, 05:50:30 PM

You say physical play is basketball....what do you mean.....hand checking is OK.....forearm shivers are OK......

how many times do you see players delivering a forearm shiver?  And how many times did an official witness the shiver and not call it?  If that's what is going on then you have every right to complain about the refs. 
if you want to know what I mean by physical play, check out wisconsin, Bo knows physical D. 
As far as the kids getting hurt- My point was that a kid accidentally getting poked in the face, or smacked on the head, well that's gonna happen.  And yes, when it happens, a ref should call it.  But contact going to the hole? Someone setting a solid screen? Or a little bumping in the paint? "lettem play." 

Physical play takes a toll on the body.  Its part of the strategy, you beat your opponent down and by the end of the game they're too tired to handle your run. 

Most people get hurt, as a result of being tired.  They get bumped, they're not moving as fast, they can't protect themselves, and then they fall, or roll an ankle.  It's the same reason boxers tend to go down at the end of the rounds; the punches aren't any harder, the protection is just worse. 

As I said earlier sometimes people are going to get smacked, but that's always going to happen, regardless of the way the refs call the game.  At the end of a physical game, they're too just too tired to handle it. 

Sloppy games with bad o and worse d where lose balls are rampant and kids are running around the court in dust clouds are probably where kids get hurt the most.  But its hard to "clean" those up.

Hand checking is no good by the way.   


HoopsHops - I've been trying to figure out the Karma thing myself.