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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
The road record is troubling, no doubt. But playing at neutral sites is a little different than playing on the road. Missouri's neutral site record is respectable (3-1, with wins against quality VCU and Illinois teams).
They've also been playing well in most of those road losses. The early blowouts to Ole Miss and Florida have not continued.
Pressey's play will indeed be the key, though. I think Missouri could end up being a lot like Florida a season ago... the 7 seed that No. 2 wants to see in its bracket.
The two things that travel best in college hoops are defense and an ability to score inside/at the FT stripe (the two are one). Missouri has the latter. They have flashed the former (like we saw during the key run that blew this game out).
I do like that this team is less dependent on 3-point shooting
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There is no question to me that this team is very talented.
Frankly it is about defensive effort. I think you (or somebody else but I think it was you) referenced that replying to something I posted a few days ago and you are right as far as that being the cause for our issues. They are capable of D'g people up they just don't most of the time. They got after it tonight. They got after it the last half of the 2nd half against Florida at home in particular. Unfortunately much of the rest of the season they haven't brought it so it's hard to be optimistic about them bringing it consistently here on out.
Pressey needs to play within himself and do a better job playing through contact on both ends of the floor IMO.