MUTigers.com Blog: Ontario All-Stars
8/29/2008 12:00:00 AM | Chat
MUTigers.com Blog: Ontario All-StarsFollow all of the action from the Mizzou Men's Basketball Team's opening game of their Canadian Tour. On Saturday, the Tigers play the Ontario All-Stars. Action begins at 4:30 p.m. CDT. You can also get more information on the Tigers' Canadian Tour. |
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| Mizzou Basketball: Hello from Niagara Falls, Ontario. The Tigers had an hour shoot-around this morning and we are back at the hotel. The team is eating its pre-game meal and we will depart the hotel at 3 p.m. CT (4 p.m. here in Ontario). We'll get back to you at appx 4:30 p.m. CT just before the start of today's game. |
| Mizzou Basketball: If you are following along and have any question, feel free to ask away and be sure to cheer on the Tiger Football squad as they open the season tonight vs. Illinois at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis |
| Mizzou Basketball: Hey Scott, just got our internet up and running. It looks like Zaire Taylor, J.T. Tiller, Leo Lyons, DeMarre Carroll and Matt Lawrence |
| Scott (Albuquerque): Who are the anticipated starters today? |
| Faye Tiller (Marietta): Where do I go to watch on the internet |
| Mizzou Basketball: Miguel will have a chance to play at the point for the Tigers this year. He does have a couple of veterans in front of him, but he'll be a nice change-of-pace player |
| Dustin Johnson (Senath, MO): What role will Miguel Paul play this year? |
| Mizzou Basketball: Getting ready to tip-off against the Niagara All-Stars. They are made up of some American college players from Buffalo, Niagara and a few other D-I colleges |
| Mizzou Basketball: Couple missed shots each way in the early going. |
| Mizzou Basketball: 2-0, Mizzou with 8:52 ... JT Tiller with a 15-foot jumper |
| Mizzou Basketball: Back to back steals by Zaire Taylor, but the Tigers can't convert. Taylor turned 22 today, happy Birthday Zaire. |
| Mizzou Basketball: The Niagara All-Stars don't have a great deal of size and Mizzou is owning the boards. Carroll at the line shooting two ... first shot rims out. Second shot good, 3-0 Mizzou, 7:45 left. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tigers force their fourth turnover, but miss an open trey. |
| Mizzou Basketball: 5-0 Mizzou on a lay-up by J.T. Tiller with 6:45 left |
| Mizzou Basketball: Mizzou forcing a number of turnovers, but are cold from the field. They are getting good looks, so the rust will wear off |
| Mizzou Basketball: J.T. with a trey from the wing, 8-0 Tigers and now the sixth Niagara All-Stars turnover |
| Mizzou Basketball: Lyons with a deep trey ... it was just a matter of time ... 11-0 MU, 5:10 to go in the first |
| Mizzou Basketball: Hoop and the harm for DeMarre Carroll, missed free throw. 13-0, 5:00 left |
| Mizzou Basketball: Turnover / steal by Taylor. Lyons with the bucket, 15-0 |
| Mizzou Basketball: Niagara gets its first bucket, but Taylor flys down the court for a lay-up. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Taylor with another steal, leaves it for Carroll who flushes it down with one hand ... 19-2, MU. Timeout Niagara |
| Mizzou Basketball: Subs for MU: Ramsey, Safford, English, Denmon, Paul enter the game. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Little nerves for the new guys, a quick turnover and now a foul on Denmon. |
| Mizzou Basketball: pair of free throws for Niagara make it 19-4, but Safford drills a trey now 22-4, 2:56 left |
| Mizzou Basketball: Kimmie English with a triple following a Niagara bucket, 25-6, 2:31. The Tiger speed really hurting the All-Stars. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Ramsey commits the foul on the shot, two free throws for the All-Stars. First shot good, second shot good. 25-8 |
| Mizzou Basketball: Offensive foul on Paul ... nerves for the new guys, but they'll settle in. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Kimmie rips another trey on a feed from Denmon and now Miguel Paul returns the favor by taking a charge of his own ... 28-8 Tigers, 1:15 left in the first |
| Mizzou Basketball: Nifty lay-up off a back-door cut by the All-Stars, 28-10 under :20 left. ... Safford with the steal, and outlet to Ramsey. Dunk, 30-10, MU |
| Mizzou Basketball: Niagara makes a couple of late free throws, 30-12 end of the first period. |
| Brian(Springfield): how are things going? score? |
| Mizzou Basketball: Brian, the team looks good. Some nerves with the new guys, but that's why we are hear today. Shooting it well from the outside so far. |
| Mizzou Basketball: start the second half. Niagara gets a bucket, but Laurence Bowers scores on a follow in his first action. |
| Andrew (Columbia): wow sounded like a great 1st half. Were we that impressive, or were they just really bad? |
| Mizzou Basketball: The competition will get better each day, but the guys did look good. Played well together. |
| Mizzou Basketball: 36-19 MU now after buckets by Tiller and Bowers. Working a mixture of guys in. Steve Moore and Mike Jr. in the game. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Matt Lawrence with a trey from the deep corner. 39-19, MU. 7:19 left in the second quarter. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tiller with the run-out on a feed from Matt Lawrence. Hits the runner, fouled. Misses the free throw, 41-19 |
| Mizzou Basketball: Nice trey by the All-Stars. They are playing hard, but this is a tough style to play against. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tiller with another lay-up. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Laurence Bowers with a 14-footer on the feed from Lawrence. 45-22, 5:29 in the 2nd. Subs for MU ... Lyons and Carroll back in |
| Mizzou Basketball: Lyons misses a jumper and Niagara comes back with t he hoop. Denmon forces the issue and draws a foul. He'll shoot a pair |
| Mizzou Basketball: Hits em both, 47-24. |
| Mizzou Basketball: nice alley-oop from Paul to Lyons. 49-26 |
| Mizzou Basketball: Carroll gets a jumper, but a foul on Taylor stops the action. Niagara calls a timeout, their 2nd ... again, this is a tuff style to play against. |
| Kevin(KC): How is the attendance? |
| Mizzou Basketball: Not too bad. Have some Tiger fans in the house. The guys were excited to see that. |
| Shaq (Columbia): we are that good!! |
| Mom (Staten Island: Happy Birthday "Z" |
| Mizzou Basketball: Zaire said thanks! :) |
| Mizzou Basketball: He also said to send $. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Trey out of the time out by Niagara. Well-designed play. 51-29, 3:52 left in the second quarter. |
| Mizzou Basketball: 51-31, MU after a quick lay-up by Niagara off a missed pass. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Carroll forces a jump ball. Stays with Niagara. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Mizzou forces an over and back. Great D by Denmon. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Paul rips a trey on the feed from Zaire. 54-31, MU ... 2:40 left in the 2nd quarter. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Paul is feeling it. Another trey from the corner. 57-33. Timeout Mizzou. |
| Denton, TX: Are they playing 10 min quarters? |
| Mizzou Basketball: Yep Paul ... 10 minute quarters. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Another steal by Mizzou. No stats kept by Brocks, so we'll tally them after the game back at the hotel. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Denmon with a trey, 60-33, 1:18 left in the half. |
| (Lakeland, FL): Way to go Miguel... |
| girlfriend (columbia): keep up the good work miguel! |
| Mizzou Basketball: Niagara splits a pair at the line. 60-34, 1:08 left |
| Mizzou Basketball: Nice tip in by Ramsey off the miss from Safford. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tigers holding for the last shot of the half |
| Mizzou Basketball: Can't get the shot down. 62-36 at the half. |
| Dean (DFW): How many treys have they hit today? Do you know what % they are shooting from downtown? |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tigers are 9-of-16 from three in the first half. |
| Andrew (Columbia): Half? Are they playin 4 quarters? |
| Mizzou Basketball: Yep, four 10 minute halfs. 15 minute break at halftime. |
| Lakeland, FL: Looking good guys... Keep it up next half.. |
| jambo(little rock): your impressions of the freshmen? |
| Mizzou Basketball: Jambo, they started out rusty and of course there were some nerve, but they settled in and shot it well. Kimmie and Paul both had a pair of treys. Denmon does a little bit of eveything. They play much faster. They were recruited to play this style. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Second half about to start in five minutes. We'll be delayed on the blog early on to get some pictures for the website, so bear with us. |
| KLew (Columbia): Fine work on the blog! (Tell the guys to hurry up so you can get to the Canadian Arch Rivalry watch party!) |
| Mizzou Basketball: KLew - Will do. The tourney organizers scheduled a maid of the mist tour for tonight. Coach A squashed that in a hurry. We are watching football, no doubt. The team is excited for that game tonight. |
| Charlie B -Columbia: Thanks for the blog. Good work. Look forward to the season. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Thanks Charlie! |
| Mizzou Basketball: sorry about that delay, getting some pictures ... bad pictures. 78-44, MU. English hit a trey, as did Lawrence, but it's clear the Tigers are slowing it down and working on set plays. |
| Mike (San Fran): I love this blog! Keep up the great work! |
| (Lakeland, FL)..: Yes, absolutely loving the BLOG... Great Job.. |
| tony(orlando): good job on the Blog bro |
| Mizzou Basketball: Thanks guys, this is fun to watch. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Another steal for the Tigers and a run-out for English. 80-48, 4:02 left in the 3rd. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Follow by Safford. |
| Mizzou Basketball: 84-50 after a bucket by Safford ... now a trey by Niagara. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tigers come right back to get a lay-up from Zaire. Great no-look feed from Safford. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Niagara trys and alley-oop, but the Big Fella, Steve Moore stops it. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Now a trey from Kimmie, 89-56, 1:42 left in the 3rd. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Just found out a couple of guys are here from Europe for the Niagara All-Stars. An older group. Time out Niagara. |
| Borat: Taylor sounds quick of hand. How's he looking overall |
| Mizzou Basketball: Zaire has been active on Defense. Had five steals in the first half and is good in traffic off the bounce. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Great follow by Safford off the miss from Mike, Jr. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Mike, Jr. doesn't miss this time. Triple from the wing. 94-56, :56 left. |
| Borat (Mexico): Are they using the new 3 point line? |
| Mizzou Basketball: They are using the FIBA line, which is 20-feet, 6 inches. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Free throws coming for Niagara ... missed the first, second is good. :50 left. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Very young group in the game for the Tigers to finish the third quarter. 94-57 heading into the fourth period. |
| Dustin (Senath): English is doing pretty good...is he our backup SF? |
| Mizzou Basketball: Dustin, Kim is more of a shooting guard. He's going to take a lot of pressure off Matty. A shooter always loves another shooter, they'll play off each other well. |
| Dustin Johnson (Senath, MO): How is the D looking, I know from what I've read its looked good, but is everyone working their butts off and hustling. |
| Mizzou Basketball: They have looked good. Forced a number of points off turnover. Again, this group is faster than in years past, but they are young, so it'll take time to gel. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Starting the fourth quarter. Niagara gets a hoop at the end of the shot clock. |
| jambo(little rock): thanks. is Bowers as quick as Ramsey? |
| Mizzou Basketball: Laurence isn't quite a quick, but he's long. 6-foot-11 wing span. He has the ability to just hang in the air. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Five newcomers in the game ... bucket Tigers, Paul on the runner. |
| Mizzou Basketball: 96-59 MU, 8:00 left. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tigers running lots of set stuff. Great PT for the new guys... great learning experience against some 25, 26-year olds. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Rip by Denmon, flush by Safford. Really like Marcus' toughness on D. |
| MP3FAN (columbia): yay for mizzou!! im so proud of the freshmen. |
| Mizzou Basketball: 98-63, 7:13 left in the game. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Safford puts the Tigers over the century mark with a trey, 101-63. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tigers get the rebound off the miss. Ball never hits the floor. Outlet to Denmon at half court who lobs to Safford for the lay-in. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Nice triple by Niagara, 103-66 MU, 6:14 left |
| Mizzou Basketball: Only upper classman to play in the 4th period is Mike, Jr. Great PT for the new guys. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tigers make some subs. Lawrence, Tiller, Lyons, Carroll in. Paul stays in to run the point. |
| Mizzou Basketball: 5:25 left, 103-70 MU |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tigers score inside on a lay-up from Carroll. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Steal by Lawrence, quick outlet down t he floor to Carroll who gets hacked on the lay-up attempt. Shoots 2. Misses both. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Block by Lyons and a run-out lay-up by Paul. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Mercer University just walked in. They will play after us. |
| Mizzou Basketball: 110-73, MU 3:45 left on a Matt Lawrence trey. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Lyons fouled on an alley-oop attempt. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Shooting two, misses first. Makes second. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tigers show some pressure for the first time in the second half and immediately force a TO |
| Mizzou Basketball: Carroll then gets a hoop and the foul. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Makes the free throw, 114-75, 2:40 left. |
| Mizzou Basketball: More pressure, another steal. Lay-up DeMarre. 116-75 |
| Mizzou Basketball: Taylor checks back in for Paul. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Final 2:00 of the game... Bucket Niagara. |
| Mizzou Basketball: 116-77, 1:30 left. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Turnover Tigers, 1:21 left. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Steal for Mizzou, DeMarre with a 1-handed flush. 118-77 with 1:03 left. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Foul by Taylor, Niagara All-Stars shooting two. First is good, second is good 118-79 |
| Mizzou Basketball: Safford off on a jumper, but a trap by Lawrence and Carroll forces a TO. 30 seconds left. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Taylor with a nifty drive and hoop. 120-80, 10 seconds left. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Tigers holding, final score, 120-80. We'll have stats after we get back to the hotel. |
| Mizzou Basketball: Thank you all for viewing. Again, we'll tally stats on the bus ride back to the hotel and have them on the site later today. |
| Dustin (Senath): Alright...One Tiger game down, one more to go...Many Thanks! |
| Ed (Denton, TX): Thanks for all the game info! |
| Cavephish: thanks! |
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