Went and watched Grinnell play Monmouth last night. It was interesting and entertaining . . . but not good basketball. Grinnell didn't shoot as many three's as I was expecting and dribble/drive a lot more than I expected. They do platoon in five fresh guys about every 1:30 to 2:00. So while the players are out there, they are flying around and hustling their butts off. They are a swarm of flies when on defense and just hammer the double/triple team traps, which led to 8-10 run out layups when it doesn't work.
First half, Grinnell shot 8-22 from three and led 47-33. Hit first two threes of second half and were up 55-33. Then it all went south. They began committing turnovers, never made another three the rest of the game (0-20 to close), gave up the runouts and were outscored 52-19 to lose 85-74. The 74 points were their lowest output of the season so far. I was hoping for one of their 120-130 point games. Oh well, still fun with carload of guys to go watch. Now I can check that off my bucket list.
edit: maybe it was just that officials crew, but it was very physical and loosely called too. There were at least three times I counted 4 steps on a non-called travel. The one travel that was called was probably 5 steps or more. Also, there was a LOT of body banging. Too the point where both coaches were T'd up during the game and 1-2 players were too.
