Griz Out Scored in 6 of 9 games

Sportin' Life · Post by **Sportin' Life** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:03 am

GavinDonos wrote:Yeah, it was an average, very good. However, it was an average of third quarter scoring. Unfortunately your theory plops into the toilet when one realizes that there is only one third quarter per game. Unfortunately for the Griz, they don't even come close to averaging 10 points per the other three quarters.

Lets ditch the numerical formulas and get straight to the real deal. The Griz are going to lose (probably in a blowout) because:

A. They just aren't as talented as the Cats. Not at one position. The Cats are faster, stronger, more skilled and just plain meaner across the board.

B. Thanks to the mindset of Kramer, the Cats don't buy into the Griz mystique like the rest of the conference still does. We know they're a tissue-paper tiger, extremely soft and ready to be shredded. This has been the case for years.

C. The Griz will be without their biggest weapon, dumb luck, as the Cats will play mistake-free ball on Saturday, thus eliminating luck from the equation.

Sure, C is a wildcard hypothetical, but A and B are firmly grounded in the present reality.

Excuse me

:::blows milk out of Sportin' nose:::

Okay, I'm alright. He he.

I will have to remember to bump this after the game.

Aside to Gavin.....tabasco makes the crow quite palatable.

DriftCat · Post by **DriftCat** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:12 am

Sportin' Life wrote:
GavinDonos wrote:Yeah, it was an average, very good. However, it was an average of third quarter scoring. Unfortunately your theory plops into the toilet when one realizes that there is only one third quarter per game. Unfortunately for the Griz, they don't even come close to averaging 10 points per the other three quarters.

Lets ditch the numerical formulas and get straight to the real deal. The Griz are going to lose (probably in a blowout) because:

A. They just aren't as talented as the Cats. Not at one position. The Cats are faster, stronger, more skilled and just plain meaner across the board.

B. Thanks to the mindset of Kramer, the Cats don't buy into the Griz mystique like the rest of the conference still does. We know they're a tissue-paper tiger, extremely soft and ready to be shredded. This has been the case for years.

C. The Griz will be without their biggest weapon, dumb luck, as the Cats will play mistake-free ball on Saturday, thus eliminating luck from the equation.

Sure, C is a wildcard hypothetical, but A and B are firmly grounded in the present reality.

Excuse me

:::blows milk out of Sportin' nose:::

Okay, I'm alright. He he.

I will have to remember to bump this after the game.

Aside to Gavin.....tabasco makes the crow quite palatable.

Sounds like you speak from experience. Everything Gavin has said is true and I look forward to hearing from you at about 4:30 on Saturday.

GavinDonos · Post by **GavinDonos** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:12 am

Hey, my goal this week is to give you gris fans a nice taste of your own medicine.

Glad you liked it, now you can relate to what we put up with all year long.

Grizlaw · Post by **Grizlaw** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:13 am

GavinDonos wrote:Yeah, it was an average, very good. However, it was an average of third quarter scoring. Unfortunately your theory plops into the toilet when one realizes that there is only one third quarter per game. Unfortunately for the Griz, they don't even come close to averaging 10 points per the other three quarters.

Correct; they don't average 10 points for the other three quarters. They only average just over 30 per game (which, incidentally, is only about eleven more per game than the Cats average), which means the Griz, in fact, average only just over 7.5 per quarter. So if my point had been that the Griz average 40 per game, then you're right -- it would "plop into the toilet."

That wasn't my point, though. My point was that, when someone else pointed out that the Griz average just over ten points per third quarter, you mocked that as not being a particularly good stat. My point is that averaging over ten points in any quarter is a good stat, not a bad one.

(And of course, all of this should be couched in my agreement with the sentiment expressed by several others that this is, in fact, one of the dumbest threads in the history of the internet. Everything I've written here has been written pretty much for lack of having anything better to do at this moment.)

As to the rest of your post -- we'll find out tomorrow, but based on what I've seen this season, I think you'll be sorely disappointed.

GavinDonos · Post by **GavinDonos** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:19 am

Grizlaw wrote:My point was that, when someone else pointed out that the Griz average just over ten points per third quarter, you mocked that as not being a particularly good stat. My point is that averaging over ten points in any quarter is a good stat, not a bad one.

The data was presented in a way that emphasized the third quarter as being the Griz climax where they put the other team away. In that sense, I made my assertion that a 10 point putaway punch isn't really that fearsome.

But yes, I agree with you. 10 pts/ qtr or 40 ppg is very impressive... But how is that relevant to either team we'll be seeing on Sat? This thread is dumb!

Grizlaw · Post by **Grizlaw** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:54 am

GavinDonos wrote: But how is that relevant to either team we'll be seeing on Sat? This thread is dumb!

Yeah...I think this thread is a sign that both sides are running out of things to talk smack about.

Can't we just start the game now??

GrizinWashington · Post by **GrizinWashington** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:10 pm

but A and B are firmly grounded in the present reality.

However you, my friend, are clearly not.

Weltercat · Post by **Weltercat** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:56 pm

I love the stat but it doesn’t mean a thing.

I hate the fiz as bad as anyone and their fans never fail to make me want to puke. With that said I respect their program very much. They may not have the best athletes in the BSC by any stretch but they do get it done.

Their team can look flat for half a game or so but when the chips are down they make it happen. They always seem to make the game winning drive or the three and out stop in those crucial situations. That is the mark of a good team.

They are very very good at exploiting any weakness a team has which seem to be exaggerated in stinkville.

Any team that has ever won a game in stinkville has had to play 60 minutes and get a few breaks as well. We cannot just out athlete them on offense and defense. If we loose the field position battle (which almost everyone does in stinkville) by a wide margin our better athletes will be nullified.

griz-lover · Post by **griz-lover** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 5:56 pm

At least the Griz scored in every game....yuk..yuk..yuk

Eastcoastgriz · Post by **Eastcoastgriz** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:02 am

Weltercat wrote:

Any team that has ever won a game in stinkville has had to play 60 minutes and get a few breaks as well. We cannot just out athlete them on offense and defense. If we loose the field position battle (which almost everyone does in stinkville) by a wide margin our better athletes will be nullified.

Like thats even possible!

bobcatmaniac · Post by **bobcatmaniac** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:17 am

griz-lover wrote:At least the Griz scored in every game....yuk..yuk..yuk

Man, you are hysterical! Great sense of humor, BRAVO. Keep up the good work, you too may be funny someday

Hell's Bells · Post by **Hell's Bells** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:30 am

griz-lover wrote:At least the Griz scored in every game....yuk..yuk..yuk

ummm friend...the family pet hampster does not count