Ava

[TadQueasy]

Heard a rumor that their PG went down with another knee injury. Hope to hear that was fake news.

 

[mgpantherman]

Heard from a good source it not good but don’t know the extent

 

[Razzy417]

They played without her today and beat Marshfield which was kind of surprising since Ava’s bench has rarely played this yr and they had to use that to fill in for the injured girl. Hopefully it’s not a serious injury but we’ll see. They will need her in order to make a deep state run

 

[TadQueasy]

Ava 20 Mtn Grove 18 in OT. What in the holy heck happened here? Injury or no injury this is a crazy score.

 

[Razzy417]

It was 15-15 at the end of regulation and that was only because Mountain Grove hit a game tying 3 as time was running out.

Obviously Mountain Grove had a good defensive strategy to slow down Ava's two best scorers (triangle and two), with one of the Gastineau girls hurt, and to slow it down in general.

This game is Exhibit A when presenting a case for a shot clock in high school games.

 

[mgpantherman]

It was 15-15 at the end of regulation and that was only because Mountain Grove hit a game tying 3 as time was running out.

Obviously Mountain Grove had a good defensive strategy to slow down Ava's two best scorers (triangle and two), with one of the Gastineau girls hurt, and to slow it down in general.

This game is Exhibit A when presenting a case for a shot clock in high school games.

That’s funny Razzy were you at the game? I don’t argue the shot clock thing…..but if you were at the game you would mention the fact there best scorer finished with 10pts….a very smooth jump shot from about 7ft from the basket and wide open 3 after she came off about 7 screens that took 2min to develope and that was the 1st qtr…..then she got 3 in the 2nd on a layup plus 1…..and 2 free throws in overtime……but let not forget the 5 quarters of missed scoring opportunities where 12-14 of her shots didn’t fall…..I say it was bad scoring night all around….great defense on groves part….and outside of the 3 to go to OT those 18pts came off layups and free throws

 

[TadQueasy]

So did Grove delay and hold the ball?

 

[Razzy417]

That’s funny Razzy were you at the game? I don’t argue the shot clock thing…..but if you were at the game you would mention the fact there best scorer finished with 10pts….a very smooth jump shot from about 7ft from the basket and wide open 3 after she came off about 7 screens that took 2min to develope and that was the 1st qtr…..then she got 3 in the 2nd on a layup plus 1…..and 2 free throws in overtime……but let not forget the 5 quarters of missed scoring opportunities where 12-14 of her shots didn’t fall…..I say it was bad scoring night all around….great defense on groves part….and outside of the 3 to go to OT those 18pts came off layups and free throws

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to debate or disagree with, sounds like we largely agree. Any time there's a game that low scoring it's a combination of one or both teams slowing it down and missing a lot of shots or just not getting shots off due to unforced turnovers.

I will say that Ava isn't a team that stalls, they try to get points in transition, and while I wasn't at the game I know people who were and was told how the game unfolded. MG did indeed slow the pace down, often taking a minute or so off the clock before trying to score, and gave themselves a chance to win a game against a state ranked opponent. Kudos to them