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Post by Duct_Tape_Pounce on Feb 11, 2023 21:49:23 GMT -6
I am a bit late to respond, but it was a nice comeback win. This is where our depth (even without Markeith and Keon) came in handy. Oakland got a little Jimmy Collins’d in the game with a six man rotation who likely tired out. 50 points in the first half, 25 points in the second half, and 2 in OT seem to indicate that.
But there were certainly some players who stepped up tonight without Markeith and with BJ having a relatively subpar game. Angelo Stuart made a few big shots, as did JT. But VBJ was the player of the game. He brought energy and finished on his shots. The Panthers don’t win without him tonight.
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Post by TBone on Feb 11, 2023 22:10:56 GMT -6
Oakland can't continue to hit 3-point shots at a 70% clip....can they? Oakland hit seven three-pointers in the first half in ten attempts. They hit three more in the second half and overtime out of 20 attempts, a 15% rate, and finished 10-30 for an overall rate of 33.3%. Milwaukee hit a total of seven three-pointers, but the seventh was the game-winner. Dunno how much of the second half shooting performance was Oakland regressing to the mean and how much was the Panthers turning up their defense when they needed to. I'll take the W any way. I think it was more of a regression to the mean in the second half. They were ice cold at the end of the game. I was afraid to say anything for fear of jinxing it, but they were missing some good, open looks in the late part of the second half. |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 11, 2023 22:38:53 GMT -6
Oakland hit seven three-pointers in the first half in ten attempts. They hit three more in the second half and overtime out of 20 attempts, a 15% rate, and finished 10-30 for an overall rate of 33.3%. Milwaukee hit a total of seven three-pointers, but the seventh was the game-winner. Dunno how much of the second half shooting performance was Oakland regressing to the mean and how much was the Panthers turning up their defense when they needed to. I'll take the W any way. I think it was more of a regression to the mean in the second half. They were ice cold at the end of the game. I was afraid to say anything for fear of jinxing it, but they were missing some good, open looks in the late part of the second half. Regression to the mean and comparatively limited depth. Oakland played six guys the whole night, who got really tired as the game progressed. Clearly, this is the advantage Bart is cultivating by playing 11 or 12 guys per night. |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 11, 2023 22:45:08 GMT -6
18th win folks! 2 more gets us to 20! This is the 14th time in 40 years of D-1 men's basketball that the Panthers have posted as many as 18 wins, tying the mark set by the 1990-91 team that was led by the incomparable Von McDade, who was third in the nation in scoring. Terrific memories! |
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Post by Duct_Tape_Pounce on Feb 11, 2023 23:01:54 GMT -6
Nice to see the crowd finally give energy tonight. I'll take 1,804 after the GB debacle. There must have been virtually 0 no shows if the announced crowd was under 2000 tonight. |
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Post by Pounce Needs Pals on Feb 11, 2023 23:51:10 GMT -6
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Post by tyrunner0097 on Feb 12, 2023 7:52:02 GMT -6
Irrelevant with the win, but BJ didn't necessarily need to shoot a 3 at the end of regulation. Looking at the replay, Rand was wide open for a layup, with just under 2 seconds left. Wonder if BJ would've given a quick enough pass to Rand for him to get a good layup.
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Post by Cactus Panther on Feb 12, 2023 8:09:31 GMT -6
Vin Baker Jr.'s breakout game leads UWM to thrilling comeback win over Oakland
Curt Hogg
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Déjà vu was not lacking at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena on Saturday night, with callbacks spanning both a few days and a few decades.
Milwaukee found itself in the same situation as it did just five days prior against Green Bay, up by three and playing defense in the waning seconds.
Panthers head coach Bart Lundy said in the wake of the loss to the Phoenix on Monday that he wished he would have told his team to foul. It would have sent Green Bay to the line for two shots rather than getting a chance to tie with a three, which they hit to send the game to overtime.
On Saturday at the Panther Arena, Milwaukee (18-8, 12-4 Horizon League) again led by three needing a stop to close out the win. The Panthers, this time not presented with a clear opportunity to foul, didn’t.
Same process. Different result.
A three at the buzzer by the Golden Grizzlies’ Trey Townsend was no good, allowing the Panthers to claw out an 80-77 overtime win.
“They’ve got the ball coming in with 22 seconds left,” Lundy said. “That’s just too much time. And then their guard, Jalen Moore, he’s made a ton of baskets and he’s made them at the end of games, and been four-point plays. He’s unbelievable at getting fouled at the wrong time and making the three… I just felt like if we go into this thing and we’re gonna foul with 22 seconds, we’re gonna do it at the wrong time.
“Luckily he missed.”
Then, there was a callback to a different era of basketball on State Street and Vel Phillips Avenue/Fourth Street in Milwaukee – though on the other side of the street from where the Panthers took the floor Saturday – as someone named Vin Baker took over the game with his athleticism for the home team.
This time it was Vin Baker Jr., the son of the former Bucks star and current assistant coach, who single-handedly swung the game in Milwaukee's favor.
Baker, a lightly-used reserve much of the season who averaged just 6.4 minutes per game coming in, tied his career high with 16 points and poured in basket after basket near the rim during a comeback effort after the Panthers found themselves unable to cut into Oakland's double-digit lead most of the night.
The fact that the Panthers even found themselves in a foul-or-don’t-foul situation Saturday was remarkable. UWM led for just over one minute during regulation, trailing by double digits the majority of the game, as Oakland (11-16, 9-7) rained in a parade of threes and generally broke down a Panthers defense missing its best perimeter defender, Markeith Browning.
Milwaukee forward Vin Baker Jr. (11) scores during the second half of their game against Oakland on Saturday February 11, 2023 at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena in Milwaukee, Wis.
Lundy said after the game Browning's ankle injury, which he suffered in a win against Detroit Mercy on Thursday, was "pretty severe" and the optimistic end of his timetable to return would be "a couple weeks".
Milwaukee trailed by 10 at halftime as the Grizzlies shot 70% from three, 58.1% from the field overall and hit all seven of their free throws. That lead grew as large as 12 early in the second half and was 11 with 10 minutes remaining.
But BJ Freeman, one of four Panthers to score in double figures with 15 points, hit a three to jumpstart the comeback.
Baker scored seven straight points for Milwaukee and had nine overall in the final eight minutes, 49 seconds as the Panthers closed on an 18-7 run to force overtime.
“There was an emphasis on stopping BJ tonight,” Baker said. “A lot of the guys were doubling him on some of the plays and I saw in their zone there were a lot of gaps that I could attack. Just where I can use my athleticism and my passing ability to get in the middle and create for my teammates or for myself.”
That athleticism was on full display with the play of the game by Baker as he entered a play near the rim from the weak side and rose up for a block that might as well have doubled as a volleyball kill with just over five minutes to play in the second half. The ball came down to Freeman, who went coast-to-coast for a layup that drew Milwaukee within one for the first time since Oakland led, 5-4.
“Vin’s block was unbelievable,” Lundy said. “One of the assistants, he turned around because he saw the play and saw he missed a play. He turned around mad and then heard the crowd go wild. That’s how good the block was and how good he recovered because it wasn’t even his man.”
More bounciness came to the Panthers’ aid minutes later when Ahmad Rand tied the contest with an alley-oop from Justin Thomas with 1:30 to play in the second half. Rand tied Baker for the team lead with 16 points and Thomas added 13.
A Baker layup opened the scoring for the Panthers in overtime, then Freeman, who struggled shooting most of the game, canned a go-ahead three with 2:22 left.
Those would be the final points for either side the rest of the way. After closing regulation with six consecutive stops on defense to shut out the Grizzlies over the final 4:38, the Panthers strung together five stops in the final 3:30.
“It’s just execution and locking in,” Baker said. “Basketball is a game of runs and our team knows that so we just emphasize our response. Just staying together and fighting through adversity.”
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Post by Cactus Panther on Feb 12, 2023 8:15:11 GMT -6
+/-
Best: Baker, Jr +19, Freeman +7, Rand +6
Worst: Jamison -9, Miszkiewicz -6
By the way, I believe the +/-'s that I state after each game represent a true +/-, not to be confused with the complicated Box Plus Minus (BPM) being discussed in another thread. The true +/- is simply a calculation of the difference in the score when the player enters the game and subtracting it from the score when the player exits the game. The true +/- is not a predictor for anything. It represents actual results, albeit affected by circumstances beyond a player's control. One game is a small sample size. Cumulative season totals are more telling.
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Post by panther on Feb 12, 2023 8:16:49 GMT -6
................................. Very happy to see #11 get the minutes. Playing 25 mins he took advantage of , that got him into a rhythm and payed dividends. |
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Post by Cactus Panther on Feb 12, 2023 8:42:25 GMT -6
Nice to see the crowd finally give energy tonight. I'll take 1,804 after the GB debacle. The video production was the best of the season. I have said it before and I now say it again - Wayne Larivee is so much better with an analyst. He was at his Panther best tonight, and Tucker was good too. The overall audio seemed to be set better. I could hear the crowd a little more than usual in the tense waning moments - way to go everyone! I have been critical of the video production before. I want to compliment the effort for this game. |
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Post by SRT4driver on Feb 12, 2023 10:18:26 GMT -6
Irrelevant with the win, but BJ didn't necessarily need to shoot a 3 at the end of regulation. Looking at the replay, Rand was wide open for a layup, with just under 2 seconds left. Wonder if BJ would've given a quick enough pass to Rand for him to get a good layup. That has been a bad habit this season for our guards, happening way too much. It's bad enough Rand and Bol only get part-time minutes, despite shooting 60-80 FG% when they do touch the ball in the post. We need to get better at finding them when they are wide open for a gimme. |
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Post by ghostofdylan on Feb 12, 2023 10:21:53 GMT -6
I had a great conversation with Vin last night at Goolsby's. It's so much fun to see the youthful exuberance spill out of him. As a tribute, I want everyone to complete this line "VIN BAKERRRRRR ..."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2023 10:27:48 GMT -6
"JUNE-YA"
Great game last night. Can win the HLT?
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Post by Duct_Tape_Pounce on Feb 12, 2023 10:43:30 GMT -6
JUNE-YAH!
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