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guy44 · 02-05-2005, 11:32 AM

I'm a Grinnell student, and was at the game against Beloit. Our style is generally called Run and Gun, the idea being that we want to shoot a three-point shot every dozen or so seconds. We play full-court press, hard as we can, like every one of our players is on speed. Then we substitute in a new group of 5 players every 30 seconds to keep our team fresh.

We just aren't as good this year, as our best players graduated last year. However, against Beloit, we had the additional problem of TV timeouts - every now and then they had these really long timeouts to allow ESPN2 to run commercials. This gave the Beloit a lot of extra time to rest, which really hurts us. Usually the other team is exhausted by the last quarter.

Our style of play was actually devised by a statistics student some time back. He figured that this all offense, three-pointer oriented game would be the most productive style of play. Only at a school which really, really focuses on academics like Grinnell would pattern our basketball team's strategy after a statistics student's findings. Heh, actually, our chant when we lose is "It's allright, it's ok, we'll be your boss one day."

Our school is very small, only 1400 or so students, so it is a lot of fun seeing the whole country get a chance to see us play. I'm glad you guys liked it.

02-05-2005, 11:32 AM	#4 (permalink)
guy44 Somnabulist Location: corner of No and Where	I'm a Grinnell student, and was at the game against Beloit. Our style is generally called Run and Gun, the idea being that we want to shoot a three-point shot every dozen or so seconds. We play full-court press, hard as we can, like every one of our players is on speed. Then we substitute in a new group of 5 players every 30 seconds to keep our team fresh. We just aren't as good this year, as our best players graduated last year. However, against Beloit, we had the additional problem of TV timeouts - every now and then they had these really long timeouts to allow ESPN2 to run commercials. This gave the Beloit a lot of extra time to rest, which really hurts us. Usually the other team is exhausted by the last quarter. Our style of play was actually devised by a statistics student some time back. He figured that this all offense, three-pointer oriented game would be the most productive style of play. Only at a school which really, really focuses on academics like Grinnell would pattern our basketball team's strategy after a statistics student's findings. Heh, actually, our chant when we lose is "It's allright, it's ok, we'll be your boss one day." Our school is very small, only 1400 or so students, so it is a lot of fun seeing the whole country get a chance to see us play. I'm glad you guys liked it. __________________ "You have reached Ritual Sacrifice. For goats press one, or say 'goats.'" Last edited by guy44; 02-05-2005 at 11:39 AM..