***Official 2022-2023 Missouri Tigers Men's Basketball***

[dlphg9]

Expecting big things boys!

Missouri got rid of crappy CM and the board went out and got one of the top coaches according to some in Cleveland State's Dennis Gates.

In 2 days he has 2 recruits

Top JUCO player 6' 10" Mohamed Diarra
Transport portal DeAndre Gholston who avg 15 pts at Milwaukee over the past 2 years

Very excited!

[dlphg9]

This D can be really good. Theyve been making teams work their asses off just to get a shot off before the shot clock expires.

[DJ's left nut]

They're lucky to be in this game, let alone leading it, after getting their asses kicked as badly as they did on the boards in the first half.

And yeah, they're a little short, but they're not weak. This is a physically strong lineup - they shouldn't be getting bullied like that. That's an execution/effort problem.

[DJ's left nut]

Really liked seeing Gholston step up when Brown was still trying to find his footing to start the half. They need that secondary scoring in a big way for just these sorts of moments.

It'll keep Brown from getting a little to anxious when he's out of sorts. If he feels like he's all they've got, he'll jack up ill-advised shots even when he's missing. So if we can get that consistent secondary scoring it'll make things easier for everyone.

[DJ's left nut]

Ugly win, but a win all the same.

Man, they just cannot get beat around the rim like that.

[dlphg9]

Good lord out rebounded 46 to 27 and allowed 15 offensive rebounds. If this team could rebound just a little better and at the very least stop teams from getting so many offensive boards, then this could very well be a top 10 team.

[Pepe Silvia]

Had a feeling Vandy would play good today but got the win. This is why it will be tough to get 10 -11 conference wins, that’s my goal for this team.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Good lord out rebounded 46 to 27 and allowed 15 offensive rebounds. If this team could rebound just a little better and at the very least stop teams from getting so many offensive boards, then this could very well be a top 10 team.

We don't have a true center.

We're gonna be bad at rebounding. We just can't be THAT bad.

So many of those offensive boards weren't an issue of guys being bigger/stronger than we were. We just didn't have anyone there boxing out at all. And on several our technique was bad; no read off the rim at all so balls were just ricocheting over any of our guys because they weren't reading the miss to try to position themselves.

They can definitely improve in the area even if it will always be a bit of a weakness.

[dlphg9]

****ing just jacking up 3's.

And ****ing D'Moi Hodge with a ****ing monster dunk!

They're 1/14 now from 3 and just keep looking to shoot it.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

****ing just jacking up 3's.

And ****ing D'Moi Hodge with a ****ing monster dunk!

They're 1/14 now from 3 and just keep looking to shoot it.

Hodge seems content to shoot them right out of it.

It's a Clarence Gilbert game. Make, miss - don't matter, he's shooting.

Now the upshot with Gilbert was that on occasion he'd be absolutely unconscious and flat steal you a game. But then he'd be 1/11 from deep and still jack up a transition 3 to get to 1/12...

Just is what it is with guys like that. Sometimes you can only throw your hands up, say "well you take with the good with the bad" and hope he got it out of his system...

[Pepe Silvia]

Opponents are starting to shoot white hot again and now Mizzou has gone ice cold. Not good.

[DJ's left nut]

I've seen a lot of big comebacks in college basketball, some succeed and some fail.

The ones that fail seemingly always come down to a single possession in the middle of a hard run where someone takes an ill advised shot that misses or a wide-ass open shot that misses.

And then the opponent answers and the air is let out of the balloon.

Mizzou battled that sucker down to 49-53 with the ball in their hands and Hodge puts up a challenged 3 that gets blocked. Then after a predictable Aggie offensive board, Mizzou fouls, A&M makes 'em both and Mizzou immediately turns the ball over, fouls again and puts them right back on the line for 2 more.

From getting blocked on a possession that could've made it a 1 point game to down 8 in about 90 seconds of gameplay.

As soon as that shot got blocked I thought "****, is THAT the play where the air came out of the balloon?"

90 seconds later, it sure as hell felt like it.

Damn.

[Pepe Silvia]

Ever since A&M hired Gillespie years ago they have dominated this series.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I've seen a lot of big comebacks in college basketball, some succeed and some fail.

The ones that fail seemingly always come down to a single possession in the middle of a hard run where someone takes an ill advised shot that misses or a wide-ass open shot that misses.

And then the opponent answers and the air is let out of the balloon.

Mizzou battled that sucker down to 49-53 with the ball in their hands and Hodge puts up a challenged 3 that gets blocked. Then after a predictable Aggie offensive board, Mizzou fouls, A&M makes 'em both and Mizzou immediately turns the ball over, fouls again and puts them right back on the line for 2 more.

From getting blocked on a possession that could've made it a 1 point game to down 8 in about 90 seconds of gameplay.

As soon as that shot got blocked I thought "****, is THAT the play where the air came out of the balloon?"

90 seconds later, it sure as hell felt like it.

Damn.

I saw them get it down to 4, went to assist a crying kid and came back to a 14 or 15 point game. Was like ****

[bsp4444]

Didn't get to see much of this one, but what I saw was more domination at the boards by the other team. Tigers are really poor at rebounding. And last night gave up way too many easy dunks underneath.

[duncan_idaho]

Last night shined a light at what the Tigers are NOT good at this year: Creating in the half court. Specifically, they really only have one player who is capable/willing to create off the bounce in the half court (Kobe Brown) and teams that have a big that can match up with him physically can limit that.

Gholston has some ability to do that but is limited.

To Dennis Gates' credit, he did line up a player who can do that, but the guy isn't playing for whatever reason he isn't playing.