****The OFFICIAL 2013 Mizzou Tigers Basketball Thread****

[Saul Good]

MIZ-SEC

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Run the goddamn offense and stop playing street ball; these idiots thrive on this shit.

[PackerinMo]

Please take the last shot and don't turn it over.

[Spott]

I don't watch many Mizzou basketball games, but every time I see Pressey play he seems like he's trying to make a Magic Johnson no look pass on every possession or he's throwing up bad three's. Sometimes his passes work and he looks great but it seems like he goes over and above when he could just as easily make routine plays.

[duncan_idaho]

I'll take up by 4 at the half in that area.

Challenge when you play at Arkansas is to not get run out of the building by their energy and ability to play off of their crowd early. Successful.

Closing the half with Oriakhi and Brown both out with foul trouble (BTW, Oriakhi's second "foul" is one of the worst calls I've ever seen) and maintaining a lead is big, I think.

Keion Bell is a monster.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Spott

I don't watch many Mizzou basketball games, but every time I see Pressey play he seems like he's trying to make a Magic Johnson no look pass on every possession or he's throwing up bad three's. Sometimes his passes work and he looks great but it seems like he goes over and above when he could just as easily make routine plays.

That's pretty much his scouting report. I've said it before, but he cares more about highlights than wins. People don't think of him as a selfish player because he doesn't jack up 25 shots a game like Tyreke Evans, but he's every bit as bad, he just does it through a different mechanism.

[Saul Good]

I actually think Pressey's playing just fine.

[Mizzou_8541]

Played poorly, IMO, and winning.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

I actually think Pressey's playing just fine.

By what metric? He's a few lucky bounces away from having five turnovers in a half, has routinely taken poor shots, and has, again, played terrible team defense.

[Mizzou_8541]

Originally Posted by Mizzou_8541

Played poorly, IMO, and winning.

Hopefully we can continue to play poorly and win.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

I think I've figured some of our fans our WRT: Pressey. We're like a family whose primary breadwinner is a human trafficker. We need the money to survive, so we overlook the destructiveness of the profession.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

I think I've figured some of our fans our WRT: Pressey. We're like a family whose primary breadwinner is a human trafficker. We need the money to survive, so we overlook the destructiveness of the profession.

That's a much funnier way to call him a double-edged sword. I love it.

It's kind of like Leo Lyons.... Good Phil (like Good Leo) is a stud who can do things for the team no one else can. Bad Phil (Like Bad Leo) makes strings of boneheaded mistakes, jacks bad shots, and gets too involved in 1x1 with his guy.

[Mizzou_8541]

Originally Posted by Mizzou_8541

Hopefully we can continue to play poorly and win.

Not sure why I quoted me own post there. Not sure why I just did it again.

['Hamas' Jenkins]

My biggest fear:

We're down one with 10 seconds left, get a 2-0 fastbreak with Pressey and Bell and as Bell goes up for the dunk Pressey levels him with a steel chair and pulls off his jersey to reveal a Razorback uniform underneath.

[KcMizzou]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

My biggest fear:

We're down one with 10 seconds left, get a 2-0 fastbreak with Pressey and Bell and as Bell goes up for the dunk Pressey levels him with a steel chair and pulls off his jersey to reveal a Razorback uniform underneath.

[PackerinMo]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

By what metric? He's a few lucky bounces away from having five turnovers in a half, has routinely taken poor shots, and has, again, played terrible team defense.

Exactly, there were 4 possesions where he was this close to getting his pocket picked for an easy 2 the other way.