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Post by reginaldkdwight on Feb 23, 2024 22:08:52 GMT -6
Freeman getting put on a few posters late in the game. Ball watching that final putback was brutal. Also rolling ham out over Davis is certainly a choice.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Feb 23, 2024 22:28:20 GMT -6
BJ is a pretty good rebounder. Yet, when we need it the most Lovelace goes right over him to go up by 4. Ughh
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Post by ghostofpbj on Feb 23, 2024 22:38:18 GMT -6
Freeman getting put on a few posters late in the game. Ball watching that final putback was brutal. Also rolling ham out over Davis is certainly a choice. Ball watching. Yep. Had no clue Lovelace was flying in behind him.
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Post by ghostofpbj on Feb 23, 2024 22:39:59 GMT -6
Let’s meet these guys in Indy in a few weeks. As WSU learned against us and we learned against CSU last year, it’s very difficult to beat a team three times in a season. Are you sure we even get there at this moment? We’ll have to win a super tough road game to have the opportunity to even get there.
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Post by Duct_Tape_Pounce on Feb 23, 2024 23:00:23 GMT -6
Let’s meet these guys in Indy in a few weeks. As WSU learned against us and we learned against CSU last year, it’s very difficult to beat a team three times in a season. Are you sure we even get there at this moment? We’ll have to win a super tough road game to have the opportunity to even get there. It’s not a sure thing if we were a 1 seed. It’s going to be tougher as a 6-8 seed, but I’m not throwing in the towel. I want to see YSU again in Indy. And I’m sure the team does too.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 23, 2024 23:00:24 GMT -6
Didn’t even get a shot off… Never underestimate the impact of time and score awareness. Obviously, we need to get off a shot in these situations.
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Post by ghostofpbj on Feb 23, 2024 23:16:47 GMT -6
Are you sure we even get there at this moment? We’ll have to win a super tough road game to have the opportunity to even get there. It’s not a sure thing if we were a 1 seed. It’s going to be tougher as a 6-8 seed, but I’m not throwing in the towel. I want to see YSU again in Indy. And I’m sure the team does too. Not looking good for our Indy chances. Can’t lose these ones
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 23, 2024 23:19:46 GMT -6
It’s not a sure thing if we were a 1 seed. It’s going to be tougher as a 6-8 seed, but I’m not throwing in the towel. I want to see YSU again in Indy. And I’m sure the team does too. Not looking good for our Indy chances. Can’t lose these ones This is what happens when you don't pay attention to the fundamentals. The game should have been won in regulation. That would have taken the OT craziness out of the equation. Once again, this was on us.
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Post by reginaldkdwight on Feb 24, 2024 0:09:09 GMT -6
Freeman getting put on a few posters late in the game. Ball watching that final putback was brutal. Also rolling ham out over Davis is certainly a choice. Ball watching. Yep. Had no clue Lovelace was flying in behind him. The difference between an actual solid rebounder like franklin and freeman was evident tonight Franklin goes hard for the ball even if its not right to him and bodies up on guys BJ will get boards but I mean someone has too.
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Post by TBone on Feb 24, 2024 1:54:34 GMT -6
BJ certainly missed a box out there.
At the same time, he's a big reason we weren't down 20+ at halftime. He's also a big reason the Youngstown bigs fouled out, as his drives and dishes got them moving rather than being able to stay stationary in the restricted area and swat everything. Throw in the fact he played the most minutes of everyone on our team, doubled up his average for assists and blocks with 8 and 2 respectively along with roughly hitting his other stats, and I'm willing to cut the dude some slack.
It's pretty surprising (and sad) to me, that people want to nitpick a single play without considering all the other positives he brought to the game.
We don't sniff overtime without his contributions. But yeah, dwell on the fact he got dunked on while trying to draw a charge and didn't box out once in OT. No one else on the team made one mistake the whole game!
For the record, three of our players went a combined 7-31 from the floor which is good for 23%. The "best" of those players shot a smooth 27% from the field while the worst shot a cool (or should I say icy) 14%.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Feb 24, 2024 6:26:06 GMT -6
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Post by reginaldkdwight on Feb 24, 2024 10:25:37 GMT -6
I’d love to know what coach said the game ain’t fair.
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Post by Cactus Panther on Feb 24, 2024 10:33:40 GMT -6
A Brown Deer graduate burned UWM with high-flying dunks in Panthers' overtime loss Curt Hogg Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Once again, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found itself in overtime against Youngstown State.
Once again, the Panthers found themselves equally unable to convert on offense and get stops on the other end.
The Penguins opened the extra period by scoring on their first eight possessions, putting the Panthers in a hole they couldn’t overcome en route to a 84-80 loss Friday night at Panther Arena.
"It's all toughness," Panthers head coach Bart Lundy said. "It's all toughness. When we're tough, we're good. When we're not good enough, we just slip into the not-tough mode. We just don't have the margins to do that."
There were bits of Friday night where the Panthers displayed the requisite toughness Lundy was looking for.
Then once overtime arrived, the Panthers simply couldn’t get a stop.
Milwaukee erased a 14-point halftime deficit and forced overtime on Faizon Fields’ game-tying basket with 14 seconds to play. They played connected on defense and shared the ball well on offense.
The Penguins, who scored 20 points and started off on a 10-2 run in overtime against the Panthers at Youngstown State earlier this month, did not have a single possession without scoring for the entire five-minute period until turning the ball over on an inbounds pass with 5.6 seconds to play.
Brown Deer High graduate John Lovelace silenced the crowd with an emphatic dunk plus a foul in transition, then broke the Panthers backs for good with a putback slam with 31 seconds left right after Milwaukee had clawed back to within two points. In all, Lovelace had three dunks in overtime.
The Panthers missed a pair of looks from three with just under 20 seconds to play that would have cut the deficit to one and the Penguins’ DJ Burns hit a pair of free throws to push the lead to six with 10 seconds to play to ice the contest.
In the two overtimes against the Panthers this year, the Penguins shot 12 of 18 from the field and made 13 free throws.
The loss dropped Milwaukee to 9-8 in Horizon League play and into a tie for sixth place with Cleveland State.
BJ Freeman scored 22 points to lead the Panthers but shot just 6 of 18 from the field. Kentrell Pullian and Fields each had 13 points.
Milwaukee trailed, 39-25, at the half after shooting a trepidatious 22.9% (8 for 35) from the field. The Panthers, despite their constant effort, could not crack the interior defense of the Penguins, which was anchored by 7-foot-3 center Gabe Dynes.
"22.9%," Lundy said. "We can say we missed shots. But that's all toughness. 20 offensive rebounds allowed. That's all toughness. 52 points in the paint, a season-high. That's all toughness. That's what it is. That's what it is for this team.
"I think they're getting it. But the sooner we realize that, the better chance we have in this tournament coming up."
What is leading to the Panthers having bouts of not being tough enough in Lundy's eyes?
"It's a few things," he said. "One is chemistry. We're quick to get upset with each other and then you go from rowing in the same direction to not and it can happen in a single play. Some of it is focus. There's some guys that lose focus pretty quickly...
"We just get caught up in the little, little things that don't matter – a lot."
A 15-2 run early in the second half not only got the Panthers back in the game but gave them a lead at 47-45. The two sides would go back and forth the rest of the way with seven lead changes over the final 10 minutes.
Milwaukee remained aggressive on offense with its drives to the rim and got both Dynes and backup center Imanuel Zorgvol fouled out during regulation.
But the player that entered the game only after both had fouled out was the one who ultimately burned the Panthers: Lovelace.
It was not the first time this year that a local product burned Milwaukee on its home floor, either; Pewaukee graduate Jack Gohlke of Oakland hit 8 threes and scored 27 points in a double OT loss for the Panthers on January 27.
Lovelace, who attended Wauwatosa East before transferring into Brown Deer later in his high school career after a stop at a prep school in Missouri, scored 15 points, a road career-high, in only 19 minutes.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 24, 2024 10:46:21 GMT -6
Almost overjoyed to hear this from Lundy. He is absolutely correct. Toughness, shooting and time-and-score awareness are our Kryptonite.
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Feb 24, 2024 11:20:44 GMT -6
I’d love to know what coach said the game ain’t fair. My bet would be Michael Cooper.
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