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Tip o' the cap to Kim English, kid reminds me more of Rickie Paulding every game. He'll be leading our tourney runs as a JR and Sr.
How Lyons put together the linescore he did is beyond me. He played like ass. He was horrid in every facet of the game. He made one nice little reverse layup (after being fouled roughly 213 times on the way to the hoop) and otherwise played ole' defense and made me curse his family. Same story with Lawrence, another awful game with a respectable line score. Carroll, on the other hand, had a mediocre line but a great game. Exhibit A when explaining to folks that the box-score doesn't tell the entire story.
Finally, to the folks that were trying to give the refs a pass by saying Mizzou's defense was what was really hurting them, just exactly how did you expect them to man up? Every single time they bothered playing defense, they where whistled. There's no way for them to play pressure defense if all that's going to do is get Marquette to the line. They're not a help defense team that can deal with that by having guys come in late to clean up.
From a purely technical standpoint, it was absolutely impossible for them to play defense with their system and how that game was called. Granted, dipshit things like failing to box out and really remarkably stupid fouls like the one Lyons pulled on the breakaway didn't do them any favors, but that happens; they're still college kids. Ultimately they were up shits creek with the system they run once the refs got whistle-happy. I can't hold that against 'em.
Huge credit to these guys for keeping their heads up and plugging along when things were looking rough.
P.S. **** you Buzz Williams. Die of ass cancer.
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