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Post by ahmadrand on Mar 8, 2024 19:00:21 GMT -6
This alleged camera smashing incident sounds familiar. Didn't we go through this a few or more years ago with Detroit Mercy? Historians, refresh my memory. Last year
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Post by buppie05 on Mar 8, 2024 20:14:42 GMT -6
Alright, which one of you yahoos was wearing the #24 hoody and razzing the GB team shooting free throws lol. My buddy who is a GB fan sent me a video. I thought it was great.
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Post by Petes on Mar 9, 2024 3:27:28 GMT -6
Maybe you both need to stop staying up past your bedtimes. đ crying like old Sunny was last night The only reason he even got a ride was because he was with a childhood friend of mine. Iâd have loved to leave him in Green Bay the way he acts entitled 24/7 đ Childhood friend but wouldnât turn around 20 minutes to save him an Uber b**** a$$. So donât call him a Childhood friend because you ainât sh*t to him or anyone of us.
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Post by Cactus Panther on Mar 9, 2024 10:03:01 GMT -6
The only report of the game on JS Online is from it's partner, Green Bay Press Gazette. I cannot imagine they would do that if Madison or Marquette would happen to play in GB for a regular season game, let alone a postseason one. Rosiak and Hogg are in Phoenix covering the Brewers, but that has not stopped them before. D'Amato reported on the Detroit Mercy first round game, not sure where he was. Anyway, here is the report, which is void of a lot of storylines.
UW-Milwaukee, star BJ Freeman, get last word in rivalry with win over UWGB in Horizon League quarterfinal Scott Venci Green Bay Press-Gazette
GREEN BAY â There was plenty of chirping before, during or after all three games the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay menâs basketball team played against in-state rival UW-Milwaukee this season.
In the end, it was the Panthers who got the last word.
UWM beat UWGB 95-84 in a Horizon League tournament quarterfinal Thursday at the Kress Center, beating the Phoenix here much the way it did to end the regular season last week in Milwaukee.
The Panthers dominated inside against a Phoenix defense that had no answers, outscoring UWGB 54-36 in the paint and treating the crowd of 2,394 to what looked like a dunk contest at times.
UWGB had not allowed 90 or more points all season until UWM did it in back-to-back games.
âYou saw weaknesses that we have to address going into next year,â UWGB coach Sundance Wicks said. âWe are going to have to defend the basketball at a higher level. As much as I donât like talking about what is forward right now or what we need to do, that is something we have to become better at. I thought we had really good team defense, but when we get stretched out and we have individual basketball players in one-on-one situations and they isolate us and pick on us a little bit, we are going to have to become better individual defenders.
âYou have to guard your yard. Itâs one thing to play the game of basketball on the offensive side, but you have to defend your position as well.â
UWM, UWGB stars Freeman, Reynolds finally face off The game featured the first meeting between UWM standout guard BJ Freeman and UWGB star guard Noah Reynolds after Freeman missed the first game and Reynolds the second.
Reynolds returned after missing the last four games with a high ankle sprain, and despite not being 100%, he scored a team-high 27 points and had 6 assists and 3 rebounds in 34 minutes while shooting 11-for-20.
The only problem for UWGB was Freeman was even better.
He scored a game-high 32 points in 36 minutes and shot 10-for-18 while adding 8 rebounds and 5 assists.
Freeman has not been shy about talking during the series this season, but he backed it up.
âI missed the first game, and I heard them chirping a lot (in the second game), couple of people,â said Freeman, whose team will play Northern Kentucky in a Horizon semifinal Monday at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis. âSo, I knew next time we were going to play them I was going to take this game extra personal. Thatâs what it was.â
UWM led by as many as nine points in the first half but was up only 39-35 at halftime, putting UWGB in position to win with a good final 20 minutes.
It certainly started that way after the break, with the Phoenix scoring the first eight points after ending the first half with four straight.
The 12-0 spurt gave UWGB a 43-39 lead, and even when the Phoenix fell behind again, sophomore guard Preston Ruedinger buried a 3-pointer to tie the score at 54 with 12 minutes, 46 seconds remaining.
That was the last great moment of UWGBâs season.
UWM responded by scoring 13 straight points. It started with a layup and 3-pointer from Freeman, followed with a dunk from Langston Wilson, another layup from Freeman, another dunk from Faizon Fields and two free throws from Freeman.
Just like that, it was 67-54 with 9:50 left.
It was the start of a 21-4 run in which the Panthers shot 8-for-12 while forcing the Phoenix to miss seven of eight attempts.
UWGB got back to within 10 several times and finally cut its deficit to single digits with 55 seconds remaining, but it was far too late at that point.
âGreat college basketball game, great for the state,â UWM coach Bart Lundy said. âThey came out in the second half and really threw a couple punches at us. We called a timeout, and I thought our guys really responded.
âIt was great to see BJ and Reynolds on the floor together at the same time. I know Reynolds was not 100%, and I thought he got tired as the game went on, as you can imagine he would coming off injury. But it was great to see both of them. ⌠Just proud of our guys, proud of the journey we have been on.â
UWGB exceeds expectations despite slide There is a good chance at the beginning of the season that Phoenix fans would have taken 18 wins in Wicksâ first year in Green Bay, considering it went 3-29 last season, won 16 combined games the previous three and was picked to finish last in the 11-team Horizon.
The campaign was an overall success, but losing Reynolds to injury for the last couple of weeks led to a 1-5 slide to end the season.
A team that was on pace for the best single-season turnaround in Division I history not long ago must instead settle for one of the best.
Wicks had to fight back tears when speaking afterward. They had been flowing in the locker room for 20 minutes by that time.
âYou are going to see these tears, they are real,â he said. âYou know, life is funny. You can do it all right and still not get the reward. Thatâs the message. They didnât have one off-court issue this year. Not one. Not one call after 10 p.m. that wasnât just a normal dude calling about basketball stuff. Not one call from the police. Not one call from campus security. Not one call from housing about any of our guys doing anything off the floor.
âProbably the first time in my entire 20 years of coaching that has ever happened.â
Wicks wrote on the board that the starting point when he was hired last March was 3-29. All the way across the board he wrote 18-14.
âA year ago, if weâd actually sit here and say you could put a team together at Green Bay and go from 3-29 to 18-14, you would have either been laughed off the stage (or they) would have called you a crazy lunatic,â Wicks said. âOr you might have been called a miracle worker. This team is nothing short of miraculous.
âI told them my favorite part wasnât the fact that it was 3-29 to 18-14. It was everything in between. The ride these guys took us on, and that this program will continue to go on, is strictly because of the foundation these guys laid.â
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 9, 2024 10:23:42 GMT -6
Looking back through the records, B.J. passed the great Clay Tucker (89 points) for the most collective points ever by a Panther in league tournament games with 110, which means that he reached it early in the second half. As CP alludes to, it would have been great to have that type of information or a shoutout to Faizon in a LOCAL account of the game!
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 9, 2024 11:28:56 GMT -6
A Green Bay team crap the bed in the postseasonâŚwhere have I seen that before? Green Bay is now 14-21 in the HLT since '03. We are 26-15.
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Post by ahmadrand on Mar 9, 2024 11:44:55 GMT -6
A Green Bay team crap the bed in the postseasonâŚwhere have I seen that before? Green Bay is now 14-21 in the HLT since '03. We are 26-15. Feels good knowing I helped with that
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 9, 2024 11:50:14 GMT -6
Green Bay is now 14-21 in the HLT since '03. We are 26-15. Feels good knowing I helped with that I only wish that you had around another year or two. Guys, can you imagine us with Faison AND Ahmad?!
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Post by milwsport on Mar 9, 2024 12:03:45 GMT -6
Yah but if BJ wasnât on the team Pratt or EJ would average 28 a game and lead the nation in scoring huh? I swear some of you see critques of BJ and must think you have to take up for him. Its clear he brings it in spurts. If he wants to be a pro he needs to bring it on both ends all the time. He did tonight and we saw the results of that. Focused with the ball, not loose with the rock no turnovers and not bailing the defense out with bad shots. He doesnt need to be a lockdown defender but with his size he can be a good positional defender in this league. FYI when BJ was out Pratt was scoring at a high rate. BJ is our best player PERIOD. In this day of transfers perhaps it's not a great idea for fans to attack their best players. Just saying.
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Post by milwsport on Mar 9, 2024 12:08:40 GMT -6
Wow Lundy really tore into Green Bay. "Bush league" "Our assistant coaches are professional" "I had to call the League Commissioner" "They used three ineligible players last year" (and still only won three games LOL)
This I-43 rivals stuff is back in a big way.
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Post by PantherU on Mar 9, 2024 12:15:18 GMT -6
Letâs all move on to NKU. We have more important stuff to worry about than this GB game.
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Post by reginaldkdwight on Mar 9, 2024 12:16:46 GMT -6
Letâs all move on to NKU. We have more important stuff to worry about than this GB game. Im just wondering when the PeteS GhostofPBJ wrestling match is?
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Post by ghostofpbj on Mar 9, 2024 12:18:59 GMT -6
Letâs all move on to NKU. We have more important stuff to worry about than this GB game. Im just wondering when the PeteS GhostofPBJ wrestling match is? You pay for the ring. Iâll make sure Iâm available
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Post by reginaldkdwight on Mar 9, 2024 12:19:57 GMT -6
Im just wondering when the PeteS GhostofPBJ wrestling match is? You pay for the ring. Iâll make sure Iâm available Yeah ill make sure to come from the rafters with a bat like sting
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Post by ghostofpbj on Mar 9, 2024 12:23:41 GMT -6
You pay for the ring. Iâll make sure Iâm available Yeah ill make sure to come from the rafters with a bat like sting Didnât realize it would be at Panther Arena. Even better
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