The Tigers built a 28-24 lead by halftime and won the Saturday game at UMM, 63-48. We took care of business in the second half, 35-24. The success was vs. county rival Hancock, the Owls. We made 25 of 65 shots from the field for 38 percent. Three in our ranks scored in double figures, led by Jackson Loge: 15 points on six of 15 shooting. Brandon Jergenson and Toby Gonnerman each scored 13. Brandon was five of 13, Toby five of eight.
Other point-scorers for the Tigers were Tyler Berlinger 8, Thomas Tiernan 7, Durgin Decker 5 and Cole Wente 2. The Tigers were not burning the nets from 3-point range. Here it was Jergenson leading with his three makes, but as a team we were four of 27, 15 percent. Decker had one make.
We went to the freethrow line 15 times and made nine. Loge was three of five in freethrows, Gonnerman three of three. Berlinger made both his freethrow shots and Tiernan made one. The Tigers collected 27 rebounds of which 14 were offensive. Loge led with eleven boards, four offensive.
Jergenson had five of the team total 16 assists. Berlinger had four of the team total nine steals. Our turnover total was seven. Loge blocked two shots. The Tigers remain unbeaten at 11-0.
Berlinger gave a push with his role off the bench. The kmrs-kkok summary shares that this Tiger "constantly disrupted the Owls' offensive flow with deflections and tie-ups. His contributions were timely."
The Tigers leaned on defense a lot. This was underscored with 22 turnovers forced. Meanwhile we only committed seven turnovers ourselves.
The game's high scorer was Hancock Owl Hudson Ver Steeg with 20 points. Ver Steeg was "on" from long range with five 3's. Fellow Owl Matt Thompson put in 12 points and grabbed eleven rebounds. Zach Koehl had five assists. Hancock came out of the weekend 5-3.
The macro world
When will people start noticing, I mean really noticing, the inflation rate, officially at seven percent? Realistically it may be much higher. People are so distracted by their politics. We here in Stevens County are in red Trump country, to an extent that I find hard to understand.
Subscribing to Trump these days is an all-in thing: you choose not to find middle ground with Democrats on anything, you absolutely denounce Democrats. You look to your fearless leader, Trump, who obviously did something criminal when he called the Georgia secretary of state. Nothing happens. The news media has become like a circus sideshow with all the revelations clearly showing that the Republican Party is ignorant and criminal. Shall we call the media a cottage industry now?
Shouldn't there be consequences for some of the wrongdoing? It all gets hung out to dry, ad nauseam, but nothing happens. And we all get up in the morning for another day of it.
The media cacophony drones on.
I'm trying to push away from the table, as it were. For a time I was taken in by a lot of the news and analysis. But finally you must ask: are there any real consequences? If there are none, then maybe we can start to talk about biased reporting: reporting on the premise that surely this behavior is inappropriate. If it's inappropriate, we need the levers of justice. If not, it's just media noise.
Merrick Garland looks to be in suspended animation. That's my opinion. But in America, we look to the justice system. Its actions or lack of same will write the record for history.
At present, IMHO it is such a losing proposition to think that good will prevail over evil, that our justice system would do what it has historically done. Perhaps we are too accustomed to seeing the Judeo-Christian ethic prevail in America.
Perhaps many of us are saying "just give it more time." However, it won't be long before the campaigns for the mid-terms begin. There is such a strong consensus now that the Republicans will win back the House.
The ex-president hovers out there like he thinks he still wields the power of the presidency. And such power he has over his flock, mesmerizing, intimidating, scary. So many people are under his thumb who clearly have too much intelligence to be doing that sort of thing. The weeks roll on. The cable news programs chug onward, as if waving furiously at us to try to get our attention. So much wrongdoing seems plain as the nose on your face. Nothing happens. Can't people work on weekends?
Is Matt Gaetz guilty of child sex trafficking, or isn't he?
When will inflation finally get your attention? Why haven't you all been paying more attention to how our financial system has been operating? "The Fed" answers to no one. President Biden cannot control the Federal Reserve. He can try to influence those people, but that's all. There is corruption within the Federal Reserve itself, but no system of accountability there.
And yet so many of you think all we need to live happily ever after is to get Trump back in the presidency. Trump's followers show cult-like traits in spades. If you feel insulted by this, you should know you're in the company of people in high office like Lindsay Graham. Again this week he has been talking nonsense. Senator Graham needs a full-fledged deprogramming.
Never in a million years would yours truly succumb to the power of a cult. And yet, sadly, I'm just an anonymous person living in Flyoverland. Graham is a U.S. senator who can get quoted in the national media at any time. Me? I'm just writing on this "Morris of Course" blog. And I do it proudly. It is all I have the power to do. Heaven help us all.
Graham is from South Carolina. How did that state come out in the Civil War?
For a long time I had a little "Kamala" sticker on the back of my car, from when she was seeking the Democratic nomination. Recently I covered it up with gray tape, as I feared my car could get vandalized.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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