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Post by mcdadenets50 on Feb 11, 2018 8:47:00 GMT -6
Believable.
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Post by Cactus Panther on Feb 11, 2018 9:18:22 GMT -6
At least the special correspondent did not refer to MKE as "the Pink Panthers."
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 11, 2018 12:19:44 GMT -6
The Purple Knights? Is this the Land of Make-Believe?
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Post by GoPanthersGo23 on Feb 11, 2018 13:16:31 GMT -6
Very nice win, but the last 3 minutes or so were painful to watch.
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Post by Pantherholic on Feb 11, 2018 17:41:21 GMT -6
4-11 from the line, including missing most of them down the stretch when we could have put the game away. And Nze didn't account for any of them! |
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Post by nickpanther on Feb 11, 2018 18:26:13 GMT -6
The Purple Knights? Is this the Land of Make-Believe? Yeah, and Mr Rogers wrote the article. |
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Post by BBFran on Feb 11, 2018 22:32:44 GMT -6
There's no such thing as a bad road win.
I was very busy professionally this week and had no time to watch either game, but anyone should happily take a split against the two league leaders on the road, no matter the path to getting there. It's a shame that horrific 1-4 trip against the bottom of a terrible league sunk any hope we had to contend.
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Post by PantherU on Feb 12, 2018 17:55:08 GMT -6
free throws are killing us! How many times have we said that through the years? It will be etched in Pounce Panther's headstone. Yeah where the hell did that come from? A great win that turned into a bad win. No win on the road against the #1 team in the standings is a bad win. I don't care if we finished the game with Bryce Nze punching the Raider mascot in the head. It's a good win and a Raider is not a dog. |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 12, 2018 18:53:24 GMT -6
I picture The Purple Knight as a Groverized version of the Valpo mascot.
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Post by FTA1982 on Feb 12, 2018 19:07:57 GMT -6
Good point. Bad was a BAD choice of words. Ugly win is better. I think I was having a "bad taste" about the win and just put bad win.
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Post by DunneDeal on Feb 13, 2018 8:20:02 GMT -6
I've always been the "A W is a W" guy. But, I don't like the fact that we struggle AGAIN with Free Throws.
This league the last few years has shown that teams will foul you, and if we can't close out a game with makes, then it makes it harder to win.
I can name a few games off my head that we shoot even slighty better we win. Montana St/@gb/@nku to name a few. Also we miss the front end of 1 and 1 and there is no stat to see how many times we havent gotten the bonus but it adds up in the close games.
So it's another thing to work on, but it doesnt seem to mattert who, Jeter, Jordan or Baldwin, we seem miss way to many
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Post by steveisback on Feb 13, 2018 8:32:33 GMT -6
Getting flashback to Nathan Schramayer and Jutiki Smith shooting free throws.....
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 13, 2018 12:04:52 GMT -6
I've always been the "A W is a W" guy. But, I don't like the fact that we struggle AGAIN with Free Throws. This league the last few years has shown that teams will foul you, and if we can't close out a game with makes, then it makes it harder to win. I can name a few games off my head that we shoot even slighty better we win. Montana St/@gb/@nku to name a few. Also we miss the front end of 1 and 1 and there is no stat to see how many times we havent gotten the bonus but it adds up in the close games. So it's another thing to work on, but it doesnt seem to mattert who, Jeter, Jordan or Baldwin, we seem miss way to many Oh, it goes back much further than that. Perhaps it was nerves, but our free-throw shooting in the 2004 and '05 championship games was abysmal, effectively costing us the title in 2004. The last time we shot free throws well was in 2015-16, when we were fifth in the country. Before that, maybe the early 90s? |
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Post by BBFran on Feb 13, 2018 13:48:59 GMT -6
Free throw shooting percentage is mostly influenced by the natural skill of the players at making free throws. Coaching has less influence -- except insofar as it involves recruiting players who are skilled at it.
I checked back to 2002. In Pearl's four years we averaged 165th in the nation in free throw shooting. In Jeter's 11, we averaged a nearly identical 167th, but that was heavily influenced by the fact that his last three years featured teams that were by FAR our best free throw shooting teams in the modern era, finishing 59th ('13-'14), 41st ('15) and a superb 5th ('16).
With his firing our free throw shooting (not unlike our attendance and our record) fell off the table to an abysmal 298th last year and, currently, 333rd this year. I will let others determine whether that is correlation or causation.
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Post by Cactus Panther on Feb 13, 2018 16:46:09 GMT -6
Hopefully it takes PB a lot less than 8 years to recruit good free throw shooters.
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