Game 11 - Grand Canyon

[BCPanther]

Its going to be matchups for who gets the minutes behind Phyfe. Colorado and GCU had true centers for Dahl to play against. When we get into league play and see less big guys, it'll be Betz. All comes down to who we're trying to guard. Both guys will have games where they play 15-18 minutes and games where they don't play at all.

I shudder to think what would happen if Dahl tried to guard Da Silva or Childs the same way I'd cringe at Betz trying to guard Robbins or Krutwig.

[Mudrafan]

That was a big time win. Not so much for who we beat, but how well we played in a tough environment on short rest and coming off a huge win with travel in between. That was a big boy W...a very mature, mentally tough, well executed commando raid! Big things in store for this team!

Colorado was and WVU would have been. Grand Canyon is getting punked by everyone so not so much

[Mudrafan]

Would like to see the Freshmen get a little run down the stretch here.

They haven’t played all preseason. It’s been one of my pet peeves. He’s rode the starters hard. Not sure why other than it appears he really looked to be trying to stack wins. I think the WVU loss will haunt unless we win the tournament or go with < 4 losses in the league

[Mudrafan]

No chance IMO. He will have many chances in valley play. He offers a lot to this team in a backup role this year.

Why would he play more in valley games than preseason games? That makes little sense

[Mudrafan]

I mean, we beat a team, at home, that beat one MVC team and was close with another. The only other team to really blow out GCU is SDSU and they're pretty fantastic this year. Good things this year! Keep it up!

Umm. No. They’ve been blown out repeatedly this year. When you go down to Davenport university you know it’s not your year

[06panther10]

Mudra has really enjoyed our 10-1 start.

[sevelev711]

So, do the teams we beat winning more games affect our [Kenpom and Barttorvik] ranking?

Not particularly. In fact it's actually the opposite, winning or losing doesn't matter in these, relativel to other ways of measuring a team. Without getting into it too much, these are about how efficient your team is, or even more layman's terms, how well does your team play? It really doesn't even matter who you play as long as you play them well.

So when I say records don't matter, it's true, but since you're more likely to be more efficient (ie play better) in a win vs a loss, it tends to balance out.

getting back to the original point, no, opponent record doesn't matter. All that matters is that whoever we play, we play them well, relative to who they are. We were rewarded more for drubbing GCU then we were scrapping by Colorado because, according to the formula, we just played better in that game.

[unipanther2154]

Why would he play more in valley games than preseason games? That makes little sense

Matchups bud, matchups.

[Leatherhelmet]

I don’t think Da Silva or Childs could guard Dahl at this point.

[BCPanther]

I don’t think Da Silva or Childs could guard Dahl at this point.

You're missing it. If Dahl scores 8 but gives up 16, we come out benind. You build for defense.

[UNIChippewa]

Mudra has really enjoyed our 10-1 start.

Mudra is more or less on record as writing that he knows more about basketball than the coaching staff.

I have to imagine he's feeling pretty jealous right now.

[domedays]

Congratulations to AJ Green for being named Missouri Valley player of the week. 45 points and 48% shooting for the Colorado and Grand Canyon games. Pretty impressive.

[Big Cats]

AJ Green needs to shoot less.

[CyCarp]

AJ also named College Sports Madness High Major Conference Player of the Week. Not real sure what that is, but it sounds good.

[BCPanther]

AJ Green needs to shoot less.

I desperately, desperately hope this is sarcasm....