Mizzou Basketball

[Saul Good]

MIZ-ZOU

[KcMizzou]

Originally Posted by frazod

What the **** is a "kenpom"? Sounds gay.

It's a way for a desperate beaker to say, "This still says we're better than you!!!"

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Braincase

Not in the least. Anytime a major college program gets called for only 6 personal fouls in a game, it is absolutely ****ing amazing. That just doesn't happen at the D-1 level. Show me another game this year where a top 25 team only has 6 team PFs this year.

I have been a coach of youth basketball, and if my team ended with 6 total fouls, I would've have been asking some pretty serious questions about their level of effort and aggression. Every player gets 5 fouls. If you're only playing 8 players deep, that's still 40 fouls to give in a game. You can go up to 32 fouls and still not lose a player.

6 fouls?

Wow.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

When a team is shooting 35% against you (I think it was actually 34% at half), you're a lazy shithead if you don't put them on the line so they can try to find their stroke.

My recollection was that a coach will always tell a team that's struggling from the field to try to force the issue and draw fouls so they can get to the stripe and prove to themselves that there's not a lid on the hoop.

Evidently that's all wrong. OSU wasn't shooting for shit, so MU should've put them on the stripe.

I have to be honest, that has to be one of the single dumbest things I've ever seen on this board. **** me that's reeruned. Out rebound a bigger team, tie them in O-rebounds, put 5 guys in double-figures and spend the last 15% of the game with your bench emptied and your starters resting and evidently you should've tried harder.

Beakers fans are right - they're not shitheads at all; just misunderstood.

[KcMizzou]

Kim English @Englishscope24
Great win for us vs #OklaSt. So pleased w/ our defense and ball movement. It's February, and you kno what's after February. Get better daily

Marcus Denmon @MizzouMonster12
Good win number 24, Bouta grab sumthn to eat,

And then...

Ricardo Ratliffe @Kismyts_Son10
I want some Red Lobster!!!

Hell yeah. I love me some Red Lobster. (not kidding)

[KC_Connection]

MU beat OSU like a good team should beat a bad team at home. Don't understand what there was to argue about after that one.

[Braincase]

Originally Posted by KcMizzou

FYP... He's (a KU fan) suggesting that Mizzou got some serious home cookin' in order to win this game.

This game that we could easily have won by 40, if we wanted to.

Thanks for putting words in my mouth... seems to be a trend.

All I said is that it is amazing. I said nothing about officiating, I said nothing about home cookin'.

I also asked if anyone else could spot another top level program that had limited the calls against them as Mizzou has. I'll poke around a little bit later today.

If you want to make assumptions about the point I was making, feel free to so, it's your prerogative. Perception becomes reality.

I do think if you look around, you'll find a team getting 6 fouls total called against it is quite an achievement, like shooting over 60% from 3 point range, or a team averaging over 85% from the charity stripe.

[DeezNutz]

Originally Posted by Braincase

Not in the least. Anytime a major college program gets called for only 6 personal fouls in a game, it is absolutely ****ing amazing. That just doesn't happen at the D-1 level. Show me another game this year where a top 25 team only has 6 team PFs this year.

I have been a coach of youth basketball, and if my team ended with 6 total fouls, I would've have been asking some pretty serious questions about their level of effort and aggression. Every player gets 5 fouls. If you're only playing 8 players deep, that's still 40 fouls to give in a game. You can go up to 32 fouls and still not lose a player.

6 fouls?

Wow.

Through the first half and for about the first five minutes of the second, this was the best defensive effort that Mizzou has shown all year; they played suffocating, smart, aggressive D by switching, moving their feet well, and boxing out.

It's too bad you didn't get a chance to see it.

[Braincase]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Through the first half and for about the first five minutes of the second, this was the best defensive effort that Mizzou has shown all year; they played suffocating, smart, aggressive D by switching, moving their feet well, and boxing out.

It's too bad you didn't get a chance to see it.

I didn't see it. My wife and I have both been pretty busy, she's had some grant proposal deadlines and I've had some new courses to learn. Combine that with three busy kids, and an evening a home with the family is something special. Watching a Mizzou/OSU basketball game wasn't very high on the priority list for us as a family.

I'm much more interested in Lawrence High Freshman Girls versus Olathe North, or Lawrence-St. John's 5th Grade Boys versus Nativity these days as well. There's only so many hours in the week.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by Braincase

I didn't see it. My wife and I have both been pretty busy, she's had some grant proposal deadlines and I've had some new courses to learn. Combine that with three busy kids, and an evening a home with the family is something special. Watching a Mizzou/OSU basketball game wasn't very high on the priority list for us as a family.

I'm much more interested in Lawrence High Freshman Girls versus Olathe North, or Lawrence-St. John's 5th Grade Boys versus Nativity these days as well. There's only so many hours in the week.

Don't let that stop you from checking the box score and spouting off to those of us who watched the game that this was either poor effort by Mizzou or poor officiating.

I would think that, as a coach, you would see a low foul total in a blowout win as a sign of great effort. After all, fouls tend to occur when players lazily reach instead of moving their feet to get into proper defensive position or try to block a shot after being outworked for post position or by going over the back on a rebound for which they failed to box out.

That's just me though. Maybe a scrappier team would have built more than a 35 point lead before clearing the bench with 6:00 left.

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Don't let that stop you from checking the box score and spouting off to those of us who watched the game that this was either poor effort by Mizzou or poor officiating.

I would think that, as a coach, you would see a low foul total in a blowout win as a sign of great effort. After all, fouls tend to occur when players lazily reach instead of moving their feet to get into proper defensive position or try to block a shot after being outworked for post position or by going over the back on a rebound for which they failed to box out.

That's just me though. Maybe a scrappier team would have built more than a 35 point lead before clearing the bench with 6:00 left.

Did Alden grease some palms after the game again?

[slapnutz_4]

Originally Posted by DeezNutz

Through the first half and for about the first five minutes of the second, this was the best defensive effort that Mizzou has shown all year; they played suffocating, smart, aggressive D by switching, moving their feet well, and boxing out.

It's too bad you didn't get a chance to see it.

this is so true.... and the lead of the improved d is flip.... the last 2 games he has played have been his two best defensive games that i can remember.... he is now auctually moving his feet and getting in front of the player instead of letting him go by and poking around and trying to knock the ball out

[luv]

Originally Posted by O.city

Can we just play the KU MU game this Saturday and forget the rest of the regular season, go to Sprint and play again for the tourney title?

Isn't that next Saturday?

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by KILLER_CLOWN

Did Alden grease some palms after the game again?

Of course he did. We've got SEC money now. Why else do you think we have gone 5-0 in football and 24-2 in basketball since we announced the move (besides the SEC speed, of course)?

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Of course he did. We've got SEC money now. Why else do you think we have gone 5-0 in football and 24-2 in basketball since we announced the move (besides the SEC speed, of course)?

Cheatin' Tigers!

[Saul Good]

We're the hottest football\basketball program in the country, and we owe it all to dumping the Big XII on its ass.