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Post by shooting the J on Feb 27, 2015 16:23:49 GMT -6
Oakland (16-14, 11-4) @ Green Bay (22-7, 11-4) When: Saturday, 1:00 Where: The Resch Center, Green Bay Radio: WNFL 92.1 FM 1440 AM Promotion: Keifer Sykes Bobblehead
Senior Day!!
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Post by shooting the J on Feb 28, 2015 9:29:02 GMT -6
Get this win today, and secure the #2 seed. Also, a win keeps GB'S RPI high, so they can get a winnable seed in the big dance in case we win the HL tourney.
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Post by fightphoe93 on Feb 28, 2015 9:56:35 GMT -6
I'll be at the game today.
It would be nice to see Sykes build on his last performance. A bigger key is to have a couple more guys get hot going into the tourney. If you can get 3 guys to become confident and hot on offense, they'll have a legit shot at running the gauntlet. Talk is cheap though, as we haven't seen that kind of consistency on offense in a number of weeks.
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Post by markus31x on Feb 28, 2015 10:00:54 GMT -6
Getting way ahead of myself, especially considering how we have played lately, but a win gives us a 2 seed and a potential rematch with Oakland in the semi's. I like that match up rather than Cleveland State. I also think CSU has a decent shot to knock off Valpo in the semi's and set up a championship game at the Resch.
*Oakland holds tiebreaker with Cleveland as they split against each other. Oakland went 1-1 vs Valp, while CSU got swept.
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Post by HenryMuto on Feb 28, 2015 12:30:38 GMT -6
I doubt we even beat Detroit to be honest with you. We went from getting the #1 seed to falling all the way to the #4 seed. There is 1 team we don't match up well against and it's Valpo. Almost zero chance we make it the finals.
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Post by stillaphoenixphan on Feb 28, 2015 15:29:41 GMT -6
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Post by shooting the J on Feb 28, 2015 16:28:32 GMT -6
Dominant performance. This team is alive and well. 18-19 from the free throw line. Crisp offense. Shot blocking inside. Looks like the tournament is going to be wild. A 20 point win against a hot rising team. Big loud crowd today. Lots of fun.
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Post by fightphoe93 on Feb 28, 2015 21:52:59 GMT -6
Tremendous game today.
The seniors, Mays and Sykes in particular were great. Frances had a very good game and showed that he can be a scoring centerpiece in the coming years. We'll need him to be as strong as he was today to help get through the tourney.
The only negatives would be Love's decline in scoring and the fact that Oakland helped the Phoenix ALOT by missing a ton of free throws. But overall, this was a great game for the Phoenix, one that definitely gets my hopes a little bit higher than they had been.
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Post by knightlyfe920 on Mar 1, 2015 0:19:45 GMT -6
Did anyone else have a problem with Wardle not putting Humphrey back in with a 20 point lead and four minutes left. Nothing says thank you for being a hard worker and good teammate for four years than getting pulled after two minutes on senior day. Pretty embarrassing if you ask me.
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Post by shooting the J on Mar 1, 2015 7:45:34 GMT -6
Did anyone else have a problem with Wardle not putting Humphrey back in with a 20 point lead and four minutes left. Nothing says thank you for being a hard worker and good teammate for four years than getting pulled after two minutes on senior day. Pretty embarrassing if you ask me. Nope, no problem at all. He started Humphrey, and did it in a game with huge implications. Many coaches wouldn't have.
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Post by fightphoe93 on Mar 1, 2015 9:25:26 GMT -6
The Humphrey thing crossed my mind, but as ShootingtheJ said, he was at least rewarded with a start, so it's not worth too much concern and angst.
I think another reason he didn't empty the bench until the very last minute, is that the Phoenix had some astoundingly poor play at times this year in trying to protect big leads. He kept the hot guys in right until the end, and that seemed to prevent another late game collapse.
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Post by markus31x on Mar 1, 2015 12:27:13 GMT -6
Did anyone else have a problem with Wardle not putting Humphrey back in with a 20 point lead and four minutes left. Nothing says thank you for being a hard worker and good teammate for four years than getting pulled after two minutes on senior day. Pretty embarrassing if you ask me. If anything, I had a problem with him starting him. This isn't youth athletics, its the NCAA, with large $ amounts at stake for universities. He is not D1 caliber and that is clear anytime he gets into a game. I thought it was really nice for Wardle to give him the start, but there is no way in hell I would of done that.
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Post by knightlyfe920 on Mar 1, 2015 13:36:43 GMT -6
Did anyone else have a problem with Wardle not putting Humphrey back in with a 20 point lead and four minutes left. Nothing says thank you for being a hard worker and good teammate for four years than getting pulled after two minutes on senior day. Pretty embarrassing if you ask me. If anything, I had a problem with him starting him. This isn't youth athletics, its the NCAA, with large $ amounts at stake for universities. He is not D1 caliber and that is clear anytime he gets into a game. I thought it was really nice for Wardle to give him the start, but there is no way in hell I would of done that. If that was you or your kid, you would be wondering why in the hell you or your kid wasn't playing. I don't get the lack of empathy from you people. Yeah it was a big game and he's probably not a better fit in the lineup than Love, but what is really the harm in playing the guy. There is none. You are all so critical of Humphrey getting his day in the spotlight, but would be the first to throw Lowe into the fire so he can dribble the ball off of his face or whatever dumb $hit he does regularly. The bottom line is one player getting a few extra minutes is not going to cost a team a game, period. Wardle is classless. Then to have the nerve to tell the rest of the reserves to go in to dribble out the clock with 30 seconds left is disrespectful when you have a 20 point lead with 3 minutes left and the other team has already started putting their reserves in as well. I'm also tired of the "this isn't youth athletics" bs. No, its not you're correct, but that doesn't mean that all humility should be left out of the game either. There's being a coach and there's being a human. Wardle can't seem to comprehend the idea that he should be a mentor and positive figure for these guys at the same time as acting as coach. He has to be the coldest "coach" I've seen in sports. No he doesn't have to coddle these guys, they are adults, but he has to show them some respect. Berating your players to the point where half of your team leaves the program should say something about the type of character (or lack thereof) he possesses. I'm not just targeting you Markus31x, most of the people on this board have the same mentality as you too, and it is tiresome. I appreciate those of you who actually take an ethical approach when it comes to this stuff.
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Post by shooting the J on Mar 1, 2015 13:58:01 GMT -6
If anything, I had a problem with him starting him. This isn't youth athletics, its the NCAA, with large $ amounts at stake for universities. He is not D1 caliber and that is clear anytime he gets into a game. I thought it was really nice for Wardle to give him the start, but there is no way in hell I would of done that. If that was you or your kid, you would be wondering why in the hell you or your kid wasn't playing. I don't get the lack of empathy from you people. Yeah it was a big game and he's probably not a better fit in the lineup than Love, but what is really the harm in playing the guy. There is none. You are all so critical of Humphrey getting his day in the spotlight, but would be the first to throw Lowe into the fire so he can dribble the ball off of his face or whatever dumb $hit he does regularly. The bottom line is one player getting a few extra minutes is not going to cost a team a game, period. Wardle is classless. Then to have the nerve to tell the rest of the reserves to go in to dribble out the clock with 30 seconds left is disrespectful when you have a 20 point lead with 3 minutes left and the other team has already started putting their reserves in as well. I'm also tired of the "this isn't youth athletics" bs. No, its not you're correct, but that doesn't mean that all humility should be left out of the game either. There's being a coach and there's being a human. Wardle can't seem to comprehend the idea that he should be a mentor and positive figure for these guys at the same time as acting as coach. He has to be the coldest "coach" I've seen in sports. No he doesn't have to coddle these guys, they are adults, but he has to show them some respect. Berating your players to the point where half of your team leaves the program should say something about the type of character (or lack thereof) he possesses. I'm not just targeting you Markus31x, most of the people on this board have the same mentality as you too, and it is tiresome. I appreciate those of you who actually take an ethical approach when it comes to this stuff. Your posts don't seem to follow any line of intellectual thought. You say in one sentence that Lowe, a statistically productive player, shouldn't pay a minute, but then in the next minute say the player who is last in the rotation Should play endlessly because who you play doesn't matter. Which is it? For someone like you to say Wardle is classless is way out of bounds. Coach started a little used senior because he has class. You throw around uneducated opinions because you have little class. Your act is getting old.
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Post by markus31x on Mar 1, 2015 14:20:17 GMT -6
When it comes down to it Wardle wins games and that's all I care about. JUST WIN. He has been the closest to getting us back to the tournament since Bennett and I think he can get us there. If he doesn't, so be it, we move on in a few years. Also, it's not easy getting a top end coach to come/stay in Green Bay, so I'm not sure what you want/expect. We have the worst location and the 2nd lowest basketball budget in the conference. www.bbstate.com/info/teams-hoopsbudget/_/HL
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