State hangs on to beat USM 60-54

[PCHSDawg]

If anyone wants some good news.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Is USM any good?

 

[patdog]

Is USM any good?

They won the Sunbelt last year, but lost in the 1st round of their conference tournament & in 1st round of NIT.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Is USM any good?

They have zero wins this season.*

 

[SouthFarmchicken]

If anyone wants some good news.

We have a player in Hubbard. Most already knew we did but he had a crappy shooting night and led us in scoring.

 

[Seinfeld]

38% from the field and 54% from FT. A win’s a win, but picking up right where we left off I see

 

[onewoof]

We have a player in Hubbard. Most already knew we did but he had a crappy shooting night and led us in scoring.

Hubbard is enjoyable to watch play

 

[dawgstudent]

Mississippi State holds off Southern Miss, 60-54, in exhibition game
https://on3.com/teams/mississippi-s...te-holds-off-southern-miss-in-exhibition-game

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

38% from the field and 54% from FT. A win’s a win, but picking up right where we left off I see

We played without 3 starters.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

We played without 3 starters.

So our subs suck as bad as last year's starters. Great.

 

[MSUDC11-2.0]

So our subs suck as bad as last year's starters. Great.

We made the NCAA Tournament last year.

 

[BirdPuppy]

38% from 3 compared to our 26% last year. Looks like Taylor (top shooter) and Myers both didn’t play as well. I have nothing to go off of but the stat sheet and Portugal, but 3-pt shooting has drastically improved.

 

[patdog]

We played without 3 starters.

I know about Tolu. Why were we missing 2 other starters?

 

[BonzoGoesToCollege]

We played without 3 starters.

If I'm not mistaken, 4 of the 5 projected starters played. Jeffries, Moore, Matthews, and Davis all played. Those 4 and Smith are the projected starting 5 as far as I know. Taylor and Murphy didn't play. Hope nothing is wrong with Taylor. I went to the open practice a couple of weeks ago and he's got a really nice shot. We're gonna have to win with lock down D and rebounding until Smith gets back. This team is deep.

 

[The Peeper]

We played without 3 starters.

Everybody we had last year was terrible from the FT line

 

[BirdPuppy]

If I'm not mistaken, 4 of the 5 projected starters played. Jeffries, Moore, Matthews, and Davis all played. Those 4 and Smith are the projected starting 5 as far as I know. Taylor and Murphy didn't play. Hope nothing is wrong with Taylor. I went to the open practice a couple of weeks ago and he's got a really nice shot. We're gonna have to win with lock down D and rebounding until Smith gets back. This team is deep.

Taylor was out “due to a personal matter”. Assuming he’s fine.

 

[Dawgg]

38% from the field and 54% from FT. A win’s a win, but picking up right where we left off I see

I will never understand how good basketball players can be so bad at free throws.

 

[onewoof]

I will never understand how good basketball players can be so bad at free throws.

Weed will do that to you

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Everybody we had last year was terrible from the FT line

I'll disagree with that. For me, 70% is average. Shak, Davis and Stevenson were 77%. Not stellar, but above average for sure. They took about 150 free throws between them.

Matthews and Reid were both in the high 60s, close to 70%. Average, not terrible. Combined for about 120 shots, mostly by Cam.

Murphy and Jones were both under 65%. Below average in my eyes. But they only took 24 between them.

Tolu, DJ and McNair were all in the high 50%. Now we are into terrible range.

Our problem was distribution, We shot 655 free throws as a team and Tolu took nearly 40% of them. DJ took about 10% of them. So two of our worst shooters had the highest volume. I'm not suggesting we try to reduce Tolu's trips to the line. That's a big part of his game. He has to be better from the line, and I'm sure he knows that. But the assertion that everyone was terrible seems a bit extreme.

 

[GloryDawg]

I have a feeling baseball is going to suck. I just hope basketball don't go over the cliff.