UWGB - Choke!

[admin]

It happened again, UWGB is out in their first game of the Horizon League Tourny. This time Poor Mans Coach K lost the game for his team with a technical late in the contest with his team only down by a few points.

www.greenbaypressgazette.com/sports/archive/sports_20105350.shtml

“I’m allowed to greet and talk to my team (during a timeout),” Kowalczyk said. “I’m allowed to go on the floor. As that happened, all I said was, ‘That was a violation.’ That’s it. No swear words. A very good official made tremendously bad judgment.

“In my opinion, he didn’t know it was a timeout. He thought I was on the court complaining, which is bad team refereeing if they don’t talk about it.”

Sorry Coach K, you are once again misleading the public. Everyone along the court heard you swear constantly at the refs when you got the technical. Nice try.

…Kowalczyk didn’t win the Horizon League’s coach of the year award announced last week – that went to UW-Milwaukee’s Bruce Pearl – but the UWGB coach did get Jay Bilas’ vote. In a column on ESPN.com in which Bilas picked coaches of the year in every Division I conference, the ESPN analyst wrote: “While Bruce Pearl has done a great job, Kowalczyk has built the Green Bay program into a challenger to Pearl’s program. Wisconsin-Milwaukee may win the (NCAA Tournament) bid, but Wisconsin-Green Bay has had a very good season as a challenger.”

This also appears in the Press Gazette article, which I find to be quite hilarious. No coach deserves the honor when his team bombs out in the second half of the season, and that coach ends their NCAA and NIT chances with a technical to cost their most important game of the year.

A second UWGB article:
www.greenbaypressgazette.com/sports/archive/sports_20107935.shtml

Later,
UWMfreak

[mcdadenets50]

Freak, thanks for the post about GB. I already emailed Havel on his failure to list "NBA draft pick" Mendiburu as a player the Phoenix have to replace

By the way, it's poor man's coach k - no capitals earned ;D

[Hack]

www.greenbaypressgazette.com/sports/archive/sports_20115724.shtml



STFU Tod!

[pnthr30]

I almost feel bad for the players.............but not at all for Tod.

[Hack]

Just because it's a timeout doesn't give you the right to berate an official from half-court.

But as long as he has Demovsky as his PR agent, he nor the Phoenix will never have to admit they lost the game on their own accord.

[admin]

Definitely some problems in Green Bay. They have developed a great tradition of bombing out in the second half of the season and getting defeated in their first tourny games.

Time for UWGB to look at their own problems rather than putting the blame on a ref.

-UWMfreak

[Kroener3535]

even the GB media who seems to love poor mans coach k I think is even a little agitated with the collapse....for me i just do not think he is a good coach...he adopted a veteran front court....three seniors this year...it will be real interesting for them next year

[mikeb]

that moron bilas tried to say earlier in the year kowalski should be the horizon coach of the year for bringing them into second place