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85Bears

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It’s going to take time to gel, a lot of teams struggle and look like crap early on when they have a lot of new faces. Jan’s addressed the lack of SG/wings/slashers, outside scoring threat.
 

DesotoCountyDawg

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All of the guards can shoot but when shots aren’t falling they are all pretty good at driving and getting to the basket as well. That last couple of years we really haven’t seen that or had the players that could do it.
 
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WilCoDawg

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All of the guards can shoot but when shots aren’t falling they are all pretty good at driving and getting to the basket as well. That last couple of years we really haven’t seen that or had the players that could do it.
Yeah, hopefully we won’t have the entire team sucking at making shots at the same time too often. That was brutal.
 
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Seinfeld

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Not gonna lie…I was dog cussing this team at the end of the first half!

Don’t get me wrong, th start of the second half was AMAZING, but we can’t afford to start slow against the Kentucky’s, Auburn’s, Tennesse’s, UTX’s, etc that are coming up on our conference slate…
You weren’t the only one. That first half was one of the worst halves of offensive basketball that I’ve seen in awhile, and Hubbard and FTs were really the only reasons that it got better in the second. Then, while you have to give the team credit for going inside when the perimeter shots weren’t falling, Murphy and Nwoku couldn’t get anything to drop under the basket either.

That said, I have to give the team a lot of credit for finding a way to win against a solid Utah team in spite of a terrible offensive night. I could easily see Utah in the tournament mix
 

DesotoCountyDawg

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You weren’t the only one. That first half was one of the worst halves of offensive basketball that I’ve seen in awhile, and Hubbard and FTs were really the only reasons that it got better in the second. Then, while you have to give the team credit for going inside when the perimeter shots weren’t falling, Murphy and Nwoku couldn’t get anything to drop under the basket either.

That said, I have to give the team a lot of credit for finding a way to win against a solid Utah team in spite of a terrible offensive night. I could easily see Utah in the tournament mix
Utah was picked to be near the bottom of the Big 12 but the Big 12 is very deep in basketball. It’s the best conference in college basketball.
 

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Not gonna lie…I was dog cussing this team at the end of the first half!

Don’t get me wrong, th start of the second half was AMAZING, but we can’t afford to start slow against the Kentucky’s, Auburn’s, Tennesse’s, UTX’s, etc that are coming up on our conference slate…

I'm sure Jans was too.
 

Darryl Steight

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I'm sure Jans was too.
I get the feeling that Jans loved being down big at halftime yesterday. It's a great early test for the team, in a game that didn't matter so much because it's on a neutral court. He obviously isn't going to tell the team that, but sitting Cam for a chunk of the first half tells me he was okay with it. Jans has to sit him early to keep him from getting in foul trouble. He doesn't trust him in the first half to reign in his emotion, so I think we'll see more games this year where we are down early or don't look in sync for stretches (especially defensively) because Mook is stuck on the bench. It makes me nervous, but we are going to have to do it if we want him in the game at the end.

Also Jans knows what being down at half does to Hubbard, especially in a game where the other team is raining 3's while shutting him down. That absolutely flips his baller switch to the ON position.
 

Seinfeld

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Utah was picked to be near the bottom of the Big 12 but the Big 12 is very deep in basketball. It’s the best conference in college basketball.
Wow, I didn’t realize that but I guess it makes sense based on what I saw yesterday. I definitely wouldn’t say that they’ve got a bunch of 5* athletes, but they’ve go guys that know their roles and they play those roles pretty effectively
 
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