thetruthhurtsyou wrote:haha...shanleys gonna have some sophomore power next year. looking forward to the upsets
squeak63 wrote:i think bhs will have a good chance to be back at the top next year... for 1. new coach=new work ethic 2. they will have a lot of talent and senior leadership back next year which will help them with a smooth transition to a new coach.I think their key players are sara feeney who in my opinion needs to realize that she can't win a game by herself and should get her teammates who have a lot of talent involved...the teammates who she needs to get involved are sigl, buechler, sturlaugson, the assels, and maybe some other girls who step up. Sigl is going to be a good post presence and will take a lot of pressure off of their guards. Buechler can bring the ball up the court and make things happen from the ouside and she can get to the basket and score. Sturlaugson will also be bringing the ball up and isn't much of a scorer except for 3's. The assels are girls wo can play multiple positions on the floor and generally play good defense. As for the girls who will step up only time will tell who that is going to be.
squeak63 wrote:if you ask me buechler should have even maybe been a starter... especially at the end of the season... in my mind they needed the scoring threat from the 1. gaurd position which buechler could bring.... to show that she is a scorer and i know its jv but she scored 25 points in one half of a jv game once this year
Eminence wrote:squeak63 wrote:if you ask me buechler should have even maybe been a starter... especially at the end of the season... in my mind they needed the scoring threat from the 1. gaurd position which buechler could bring.... to show that she is a scorer and i know its jv but she scored 25 points in one half of a jv game once this year
balla45 wrote:Eminence wrote:squeak63 wrote:if you ask me buechler should have even maybe been a starter... especially at the end of the season... in my mind they needed the scoring threat from the 1. gaurd position which buechler could bring.... to show that she is a scorer and i know its jv but she scored 25 points in one half of a jv game once this year
Sturlaugson is better than Buechler. She was on JV for a reason. You cannot go by JV points because a lot of the younger talent are playing just Varsity. I did not see her excel on the Varsity. She has trouble seeing the floor and put her up against Mandan (Collins). She didn't do better than Sarah or Kaitlyn S.
He was using jv stats to show her ability to score. I personally think she is "offensively" better than Sturlaugson, just my opinion, and honestly, how many guards aren't going to get eaten alive by Collins?
flyguy wrote:1.Mandan
2. Jamestown(Dale is real real good,does it all)
3.Fargo South
4.Century
5.BHS
Ol_Husky wrote:Predictions for 08-09 (I think it’ll be a dogfight for the top four WDA spots – and another battle for spots 5-7)
Mandan (14-2 in WDA): Perhaps the best basketball coach in the state (either boys or girls), returning two top players (Collins and Jensen), with a “program” second to none, makes this team the pre-season WDA favorite. Coach Amundson gets more out of his non-stars (players 3-10) than any other coach by focusing on defense first and making opponents pay for mistakes (almost 30 points a game off turnovers in 07-08).
Century (13-3 in WDA): Buck, Peterson, and Sorenson will likely combine for 35-40 points a game. Coach Metz will reload in the guard spots (with Vanderpan, Jossart, and Gordon?), expand his bench, and field a very formidable team.
Jamestown (13-3 in WDA): Dale and Ramlo will likely combine for 35+ points a game. Coach Botner will need to bring up some guard play from last year’s JV (a 12-7 team), find a shooter to replace Shuchard, and grow some depth in the bench.
Bismarck (11-5 in WDA): S. Feeney, Sigl, Sturlaugson, Buechler, and L. Assel are the likely starters. This is still a solid team, but the loss of A. Feeney, Gilbertson, Reimnitz, and S. Schmidt will hurt them inside, outside, and defensively. Even with the departure of Coach Meier, the talent level of this team will put them in contention for another run at state next year.
Dickinson (7-9 in WDA): Herauf and Uttech are solid on the inside, but Coach Jung will have lots of shoes to fill outside of 18’. If he can contain the turnovers and find a couple of credible shooters he can solidify the middle spot in a tough conference.
Minot (5-11 in WDA): Feland, Hansen, and Kraft are the leading returners on this team. The new coach will have to muster some perimeter offense to make up for the loss of the snipers (V. Poole and Luetzen are gone). The big question is: will we see something other than a 2-3 zone defense from Minot this year?
Turtle Mountain (5-11 in WDA): Parisien, Golus, and LaRocque lead this team. If they can tighten up the defense they could challenge Dickinson for the 5 spot. Editorial comment: a Turtle Mountain stat sheet on the WDA page(s) would help these kids get a little more recognition.
Williston (4-12 in WDA): This team is led by Hagen, Kain, Nice, and Torgerson. Even though they had a big loss in Njos, this will be a better overall team than last year. But Coach Austreim will need to cut down on the turnovers and pick up the rebounding numbers to improve on last year’s record.
St. Mary’s (0-16 in WDA): Tescher, Christiansen, and Kuntz are the leading returners. Coach Finck will have to find some additional horsepower from his 08 JV squad – and they went 1-17.
I expect the top four here (Mandan, Century, Jamestown, Bismarck) and South to hold down the top 5 class A rankings for most of the year; they may shuffle a spot or two from week to week, but those are “the contenders”.
Eminence wrote:balla45 wrote:Eminence wrote:squeak63 wrote:if you ask me buechler should have even maybe been a starter... especially at the end of the season... in my mind they needed the scoring threat from the 1. gaurd position which buechler could bring.... to show that she is a scorer and i know its jv but she scored 25 points in one half of a jv game once this year
Sturlaugson is better than Buechler. She was on JV for a reason. You cannot go by JV points because a lot of the younger talent are playing just Varsity. I did not see her excel on the Varsity. She has trouble seeing the floor and put her up against Mandan (Collins). She didn't do better than Sarah or Kaitlyn S.
He was using jv stats to show her ability to score. I personally think she is "offensively" better than Sturlaugson, just my opinion, and honestly, how many guards aren't going to get eaten alive by Collins?
That is true. I don't see any guards coming even close to Collins. I understand the point about being able to score but my point was that even though you may score 25 on JV, you are not competing against the best Sophmores or Juniors. Alot of teams are playing Freshman, Sophmores and Juniors solely on their Varsity teams and while she may be able to score 25 on JV, how many did she score on Varsity? 4.38 points per game. Sturlaugson averaged 5.91 Buechler had 13 total assist while Sturlaugson had 63 total assist which goes back to my point. Sturlaugson sees the floor better than Buechler. Buechler had 29 turnovers and Sturlaugson had 25 turnovers. Buechler had more turnovers for the year than she had assist. Who would either one have started over????
Eminence wrote:flyguy wrote:1.Mandan
2. Jamestown(Dale is real real good,does it all)
3.Fargo South
4.Century
5.BHS
Dale didn't do it all cause they didn't make it to state. Therefore, Century should be rated above Jamestown because Century only lost a total of 2 players. They still have their 3 main players back.
grlsbballfan wrote:Eminence wrote:flyguy wrote:1.Mandan
2. Jamestown(Dale is real real good,does it all)
3.Fargo South
4.Century
5.BHS
Dale didn't do it all cause they didn't make it to state. Therefore, Century should be rated above Jamestown because Century only lost a total of 2 players. They still have their 3 main players back.
I dont agree with having century or jamestown in the number two spot. The bruins are going to be one or two at state.They lose two players and have some very talented guards returning, with some force in the paint as posts.I beleive century will place higher than jamestown being the bluejays only have dale returning.You have to consider the braves the number one spot, but i think there run is going to stop at six.
quote="Ol_Husky"]South’s loss of Anstadt and Stroup to graduation is significant; these two kept them in the game against the better teams. Even with some exciting youngsters coming up, I’d still rank the 07-08 South team above the line-up I expect to see in 08-09.
The good news for South is that the EDC, overall, loses a lot to graduation; Shanley goes from “contender” to “lucky to break .500” and Red River loses 4 of their top 5 scorers.
Devils Lake and GF Central appear to be the new challengers in the EDC, battling South and Red River for the top four spots in the EDC.
I expect South to go 13-3 (maybe even 14-2) in the EDC and go into the state tournament as the EDC #1 seed.
Given all that, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a WDA sweep in the first day of the state tournament. Yup. There’s that much difference in the two conferences in 08-09. Even though both Bismarck and Mandan lose a lot of firepower to graduation these were both teams that were an honest 8 or 9 deep – not much drop off from the starting 5. And Century and Jamestown have pretty much all their big guns coming back. It could be a tough Thursday at the 2009 state tourney for the EDC.[/quote
Ol_Husky wrote:South’s loss of Anstadt and Stroup to graduation is significant; these two kept them in the game against the better teams. Even with some exciting youngsters coming up, I’d still rank the 07-08 South team above the line-up I expect to see in 08-09.
EastGuruWannabe wrote:Ol_Husky wrote:South’s loss of Anstadt and Stroup to graduation is significant; these two kept them in the game against the better teams. Even with some exciting youngsters coming up, I’d still rank the 07-08 South team above the line-up I expect to see in 08-09.
Are you kidding? South was good because of their guards, not their post players. Stroup was a great athlete, but not a great basketball player, and Anstadt was adequate as a post. South's backcourt trio of Burck, Roehrich, and Haring are about as good as it gets, and they will all be back next year. Add to that Ali Fisher who is a dead-eye from 3 point land and next year's team will be way better than this years. South was good when their press was working, not playing the game with their posts. I don't mean to take anything away from their posts, they gave what they had, but the strength of the Bruins is returning in the form of their guards. They will have adequate posts next year: Weatherspoon and Lee will fill in where Anstadt and Stroup left off. The soph post they moved up at the end of the year may be pretty good too. Their record may not inidicate they will be better next year (obviously hard to improve on 16-0) but that will be because the rest of the league top to bottom will be better. GFC, DL, WF, RR all will field good teams. Shanley will be OK. North will be not quite OK. Wahp and VC will be bad.
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