Maroon vs Maroon Thread

[StarkVegasSteve]

Since no one else has started the thread I will go ahead and start it. Not playing well early. Tolu looks terrified. Side note, is there another team in the country that has a random player career it against us? Guy avg 4 pts on the year has 11 in the first ten minutes tonight.

[civildawg]

Tolu is so soft

[Dawgology]

Not looking great

[civildawg]

Getting blown out in the first half against this sorry team is just so Mississippi state

[StarkVegasSteve]

Nope if we do not turn it around in a major way tonight it is going to force us to win on Saturday or we will need to win a few in the SECT to feel good about our tourney hopes, which unfortunately is exactly what I predicted when we lost to Kentucky.

[civildawg]

Give all the NIL money to Hubbard

[StarkVegasSteve]

Hubbard just gets nuclear for stretches and there is no sign it is coming. Just all of a sudden will rattle of 3 straight triples like it is nothing.

[RockyDog]

Tolu is a SHIT defender. He just gives up the rim to all of these clowns

[RockyDog]

Ballgame

[StarkVegasSteve]

Ballgame

Afraid so. Tolu is so freaking soft so without Hubbard we are screwed. Also they are nuclear from 3

[msstate7]

Just hang in this... they're shooting 75% from 3, but they shoot 26.7% from 3 for the year. They'll go cold... just hand around

[LC Dawg]

They can't miss, Hubbard has foul trouble, and Tolu didn't make the trip. Not good.

[msstate7]

Serious question: has our full court pressure forced one turn over all year? Its certainly set up uncountable open 3s for the opponents.

[HoopsDawg]

Shows sucks. Our perimeter D is terrible. I don't get the strategy.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Serious question: has our full court pressure forced one turn over all year? Its certainly set up uncountable open 3s for the opponents.

No because it is shit. It was shit last year too but teams apparently had no clue how to attack it.

[civildawg]

Down 13 to this sorry ass team is embarrassing. No one on this team can score except Hubbard

[msstate7]

Murphy is a disaster. For every good play he's given up, he's had double negative.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Down 13 at half. This one is over. Everyone can go to bed and know the result with this one.

[Saltydog]

Since no one else has started the thread I will go ahead and start it. Not playing well early. Tolu looks terrified. Side note, is there another team in the country that has a random player career it against us? Guy avg 4 pts on the year has 11 in the first ten minutes tonight.

Look at the positive. We'll likely get a home game in the NIT.

[HaggardDawg]

Not trying to be that guy or make excuses but these refs are completely ass and allowing our guys to get raped while they call every little ticky tac foul against us. Hell their white player drove, picked up his dribble, hopped 6 feet, dribbled again, and got a shot off. No call.

[PGHBulldogBG]

Saturday will determine whether we make the NCAA or NIT. Win and we are in. Lose and we are out. It’s pretty simple. The SEC tournament has proven to mean nothing to the committee, so it doesn’t really matter what happens there unless we somehow pull a crazy miracle and win it.

[CJDAWG85]

Their defensive pressure takes us out of our game. You would think we would know how to handle it since Jans loves defensive pressure.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Not trying to be that guy or make excuses but these refs are completely ass and allowing our guys to get raped while they call every little ticky tac foul against us. Hell their white player drove, picked up his dribble, hopped 6 feet, dribbled again, and got a shot off. No call.

Their post player walks every time he touches it. They also had a player take a handoff at the FT line and took zero dribbles going to the goal.

[msstate7]

After the really nice lsu win that propelled us into being a solid ncaa projected team, we've come out like crap 2 times in a row. This is a description all of our sports (save 2021 baseball)... we just can't handle success.

[HoopsDawg]

Davis and Moore pass up too many open 3s. A&M is packing it in. You have to take the shot.

[msstate7]

Their post player walks every time he touches it. They also had a player take a handoff at the FT line and took zero dribbles going to the goal.

Haha, I've noticed too.

[msstate7]

Davis and Moore pass up too many open 3s. A&M is packing it in. You have to take the shot.

Then get Moore, Davis, and Hubbard on the court together. They're the only ones I want shooting from the perimeter

[msstate7]

Unfortunately for us, we aren't bad... aTm is 9-9 in Q1 and Q2 games. They're 2-4 in Q3 games

[msstate7]

National ranks...
3-pt shooting for aTm 350th
There's 351 teams

[civildawg]

Frick this team man

[HoopsDawg]

National ranks...
3-pt shooting for aTm 350th
There's 351 teams

Seriously? Good gosh

[msstate7]

Seriously? Good gosh

It's hard to be mad at us letttijg them shoot them. They're horrible at it

[msstate7]

Saving Hubbard while down 15 is bold

[StarkVegasSteve]

Frick this team man

Honestly ready to be done with this group outside of Hubbard. We play 1 on 5 on offense every trip down

[civildawg]

Pour it on Aggies

[msstate7]

Look guys, God hates us!

[CaptainObvious]

Will Tolu be playing in Israel or Europe next year or will he be coaching peewee basketball. This is the worst collection of seniors/grad students since Rick Ray roamed the sidelines.

[StarkVegasSteve]

I imagine our bubble will pop on Saturday.

[civildawg]

Is Jan's a good coach? I'm just not convinced he is

[msstate7]

I imagine our bubble will pop on Saturday.

I don't know who would like that more - you or rocky. You've practically been begging for it since the Kentucky game. Maybe it will happen so you can brag about it like C34.

[CaptainObvious]

Unfortunately for us, we aren't bad... aTm is 9-9 in Q1 and Q2 games. They're 2-4 in Q3 games

No. State is bad. Maybe they can all claim gender euphoria and play in the Women's tourney. I hate State basketball.

[msstate7]

Cam has to come out of the game.

[parabrave]

Dang I think the Kentucky game broke them

[CJDAWG85]

They are the 2nd worst 3 point shooting team in D1? They are shooting 73% from 3. This is against the 4th best 3 point defensive team. This is just all about effort. Jans better get his shit together and get them ready to play Saturday.

[LC Dawg]

Are the white with maroon jerseys confusing our guys and causing them to keep throwing the ball to A&M?

[civildawg]

No one on this team besides Hubbard even wants to shoot the ball. I've never seen a basketball team this scared to try to score points

[StarkVegasSteve]

I don't know who would like that more - you or rocky. You've practically been begging for it since the Kentucky game. Maybe it will happen so you can brag about it like C34.

I am the biggest Jans homer on this board. But I saw this coming from a mile away and if my memory serves me correct you called me drunk for even suggesting we could not make the tourney because we were just miles better than the Aggies. I would say I was shocked by your take but you did want to fire Jans after January last year so honestly not a big shock coming from you.

[Saltydog]

Not sure why some here seem surprised. So much for the "defense travels" bullshit. We can't win on the road and I didn't expect us to win this one. Btw, for the Jans schlong slobberers, we haven't improved from last year. This team loses Saturday and we don't make the ncaa's.

[CaptainObvious]

Is Jan's a good coach? I'm just not convinced he is

This ain't Jans coaching. He didn't sign a puss post player, 2 clowns from a Desoto County high school who play like bulls in a ring and have no shooting ability, 2 has-been transfers and a couple of bricklayers.

[CJDAWG85]

They are letting them play super aggressive defensively while calling some cheap and 1s on us.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Not sure why some here seem surprised. So much for the "defense travels" bullshit. We can't win on the road and I didn't expect us to win this one. Btw, for the Jans schlong slobberers, we haven't improved from last year. This team loses Saturday and we don't make the ncaa's.

6-14 on the road under Jans. We are just not a good road team under him. It is that simple. This is the exact reason I was worried. It was not opinion, it was based in the fact that we suck against teams on the road that have a pulse.

[RockyDog]

I am the biggest Jans homer on this board. But I saw this coming from a mile away and if my memory serves me correct you called me drunk for even suggesting we could not make the tourney because we were just miles better than the Aggies. I would say I was shocked by your take but you did want to fire Jans after January last year so honestly not a big shock coming from you.

7 is about as big of a clown as Jans. Just ignore him and maybe he’ll go talk Braves

[CJDAWG85]

This ain't Jans coaching. He didn't sign a puss post player, 2 clowns from a Desoto County high school who play like bulls in a ring and have no shouting ability, 2 has-been transfers and a couple of bricklayers.

It is still his job to have them ready to play.

[civildawg]

This ain't Jans coaching. He didn't sign a puss post player, 2 clowns from a Desoto County high school who play like bulls in a ring and have no shouting ability, 2 has-been transfers and a couple of bricklayers.

Well he should have taken care of that through the transfer portal last year.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Just to put into perspective that if we did not have Hubbard we would have 20 points tonight in 26 minutes.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Same ole Mississippi State. Play like shit for 27 minutes, make it interesting to give fans hope, and then lose by 12

[msstate7]

I am the biggest Jans homer on this board. But I saw this coming from a mile away and if my memory serves me correct you called me drunk for even suggesting we could not make the tourney because we were just miles better than the Aggies. I would say I was shocked by your take but you did want to fire Jans after January last year so honestly not a big shock coming from you.

You picked auburn and aTm losses right? That's awesome... BPI had auburn at 89% and aTm at 60%. The same metric has us a favorite at 74.6%. We will be fine

[msstate7]

Same ole Mississippi State. Play like shit for 27 minutes, make it interesting to give fans hope, and then lose by 12

Losing by 12 is fine. Improve the efficiency of this game... 8 or less would be better

[msudawg1200]

If we score 13 more points in a row we're up 3. Just sayin.

[StarkVegasSteve]

You picked auburn and aTm losses right? That's awesome... BPI had auburn at 89% and aTm at 60%. The same metric has us a favorite at 74.6%. We will be fine

I also have a loss on Saturday.

[HoopsDawg]

Shows you are horrible

[msstate7]

I also have a loss on Saturday.
Let's ban bet

[StarkVegasSteve]

Really wish we could have kept Garcia.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Let's ban bet

If you are implying we ban beer then I sure as hell will not agree to that. How am I supposed to make it through baseball season

[HoopsDawg]

Foul on DJ? What

[parabrave]

down 7 now.

[msstate7]

If you are implying we ban beer then I sure as hell will not agree to that. How am I supposed to make it through baseball season

I won't either haha

[StarkVegasSteve]

down 7 now.

Amazing what happens when you get out of the worlds worst press

[msstate7]

Murphy with 2 top flight passes

[msstate7]

4th foul on tolu.

Early in the season, we played Murphy at the 5. I'd like to see that now

[StarkVegasSteve]

Down 5 with 8 to go….ask any of us if we would have taken that when we were down 20 and we would have emphatically said yes. I still think we probably have wasted all our bullets getting it this close but with Hubbard anything is possible.

They also could get hot again and run us out of the gym.

[msstate7]

Winning this game is what I want, but making the tourney is my bigger goal. So with that in mind, a really close Q1 loss is not gonna hurt us. Just don't let em run away again

[msstate7]

State +5 fouls in 2nd half.

[LC Dawg]

Doug Shows is a ****ing embarrassment.

[civildawg]

Please get hot in the next few minutes Hubbard

[HoopsDawg]

This officiating has been completely one sided

[StarkVegasSteve]

Doug Shows is a ****ing embarrassment.

He has been for decades. Nothing changes. Continually amazes me that when we are the team outside the bubble, then the team that is projected in the field gets all the calls. But if we are the team projected in the field and are playing a team outside the bubble, then we still do not get the calls.

[msstate7]

Sec refs rarely let fouls get this uneven. Surely they'll over correct our way soon

[HoopsDawg]

9 fouls to 3.

[msstate7]

Hubbard shot us back in it, and he's ahootijg us out of it now

[StarkVegasSteve]

Welp…I hate to admit it but it looks like we are going to do exactly what I said we would do. Make it interesting and get people invested only to lose.

[civildawg]

These refs are atrocious

[LC Dawg]

I guess Davis needed a breather but I hope we get him back in after the TO.

[HoopsDawg]

That's not the shot we want DJ! Ballgame

[civildawg]

We just set up a 3 point shot for Jeffries. I mean wtf

[msstate7]

Go zone

[StarkVegasSteve]

93 seconds. We need a 5-0 run to close this out.

[msstate7]

We just set up a 3 point shot for Jeffries. I mean wtf

I don't think that's what we drew up haha

[HoopsDawg]

Couldn't get the board

[civildawg]

That was a terrible shot by Hubbard

[msstate7]

Now the refs won't call a foul

[StarkVegasSteve]

Hubbard kept us in the game early. He cost us the game late.

[msstate7]

Couldn't get the board

Long rebound. Crap

[HoopsDawg]

Hubbard just went ice cold. And officiating has been a joke

[msstate7]

Don't foul!

[HoopsDawg]

Good no call ref. Damn

[msstate7]

Fouls 18-9.

Sec wants another team in the tourney. Hopefully they do the same for us to cement our bid Saturday

[StarkVegasSteve]

If I am Jans I take the fine. Officiating was a complete joke in the second half.

[msstate7]

Road Q1 loss by 6. Much rather a win, but not a killer for our resume at all. Take care of business Saturday to lock it up

[msstate7]

If I am Jans I take the fine. Officiating was a complete joke in the second half.

Once we made a run, the refs held us back as much as they could. Tolu committed a real foul though that hurt us at the 5 min mark

[CJDAWG85]

Only State could be a team in the tournament and play a team on the outside of the bubble and the officials call the fouls in that team’s favor.

[CaptainObvious]

Is Jan's a good coach? I'm just not convinced he is

We had a freshman take 23 shots! 23! He took 19 3 pointers and made 5. He missed his last 7. That cannot happen. We have 5 seniors or grad students who play 20 plus minutes per game. The offense is offensive!

[CJDAWG85]

Rams was hotter down the stretch.

[StarkVegasSteve]

We had a freshman take 23 shots! 23! He took 19 3 pointers and made 5. He missed his last 7. That cannot happen. We have 5 seniors or grad students who play 20 plus minutes per game. The offense is offensive!

Who would you suggest take the shots? Jeffries is a liability on offense, Matthews is a liability on offense, Jones is a liability on the floor, Tolu MIGHT shoot it if he is wide open under the basket, Moore is scared to shoot, Murphy does not need to shoot unless he is under the basket, and Davis sometimes likes to shoot and sometimes does not. That literally leaves just Hubbard.

[HaggardDawg]

The ref called a shooting foul on Hubbard?s last shot with 9.3 seconds left but didn?t give him the FTs. WTH?

[KOdawg1]

About to play our way out of the tournament

[Reunion Dog]

At least Rick Ray?s teams hustled.. I would take Chicken and Wade right now and start them?

[StarkVegasSteve]

At least Rick Ray?s teams hustled.. I would take Chicken and Wade right now and start them?

I would take Sword in a heartbeat. If that kid could have had real coaching for his first 3 years he could have been an NBA player. When Howland came and he got someone who had actually coached the game of basketball, Sword took off his last year.

[Saltydog]

About to play our way out of the tournament

That's why I don't get all the Jans love we see around here. I think he's a solid coach but we have some celebrating him like he's the second coming of John Wooden. Bottom line is this team hasn't improved from last year and we had everyone back yet here we are in the exact same spot we were one year ago.

[msstate7]

That's why I don't get all the Jans love we see around here. I think he's a solid coach but we have some celebrating him like he's the second coming of John Wooden. Bottom line is this team hasn't improved from last year and we had everyone back yet here we are in the exact same spot we were one year ago.

It's almost like this is a great conference that's tough to win in. Tenn, Kentucky, and Florida join us as teams that have lost at aTm. aTm is good vs good teams (10-9 in Q1 Q2 games). They just suck vs bad teams (2-4 in Q3 games)

[Saltydog]

It's almost like this is a great conference that's tough to win in. Tenn, Kentucky, and Florida join us as teams that have lost at aTm. aTm is good vs good teams (10-9 in Q1 Q2 games). They just suck vs bad teams (2-4 in Q3 games)

Sure it's a great conference, no one is saying it isn't. Point is, we had EVERYONE back, plus a possible SEC freshman of the year candidate yet here we are with virtually the same record and one loss away from not making the NCAA. That's not progress and it's disappointing.

[msstate7]

Sure it's a great conference, no one is saying it isn't. Point is, we had EVERYONE back, plus a possible SEC freshman of the year candidate yet here we are with virtually the same record and one loss away from not making the NCAA. That's not progress and it's disappointing.
If we lose Saturday, sure. If we win though, it will be 2 straight NCAA tournies. We've done this 3 times in our history.

ETA... I'm not sure we'd be eliminated with a loss Saturday, but we'd certainly have to win a couple in Nashville

[Goldendawg]

It's almost like this is a great conference that's tough to win in. Tenn, Kentucky, and Florida join us as teams that have lost at aTm. aTm is good vs good teams (10-9 in Q1 Q2 games). They just suck vs bad teams (2-4 in Q3 games)

Our so-called "D" first made their 3 point shooters look like they were first team NBA in the first half. Thought D traveled. Lose to SC and we on back on the bubble. Our win streak was against teams worse than us. We struggle against teams with equal type talent, especially Tolu.

[msstate7]

Our so-called "D" first made their 3 point shooters look like they were first team NBA in the first half. Thought D traveled. Lose to SC and we on back on the bubble. Our win streak was against teams worse than us. We struggle against teams with equal type talent, especially Tolu.

Tenn, auburn, Washington st, and NW are projected in the tourney. We have beat good teams.

And aTm's 70% from 3 in the 1st half was a total fluke. They're 350th out of 351 teams in 3-pt shooting

[CJDAWG85]

How many SEC basketball games this season has a team had less than 10 fouls for an entire game?

[msstate7]

From everything I've saw, we were projected to finish 7th in the sec preseason. We're tied for 7th, and we're currently projected to be in the tourney. I'm not seeing how this is a disappointing season

[msstate7]

How many SEC basketball games this season has a team had less than 10 fouls for an entire game?

No idea, but I found this interesting...

Entering our game last night from February 1st, aTm has avg'd 16.9 fouls a game (sample is 8 games).

[HoopsDawg]

From everything I've saw, we were projected to finish 7th in the sec preseason. We're tied for 7th, and we're currently projected to be in the tourney. I'm not seeing how this is a disappointing season

It's not. It was disappointing we came out so flat after the horrible start vs AU. And we've now lost 3 in a row when you hope you're playing your best ball.

This team still has the ability to make a run if we get in the tournament with a lucky draw.

[msstate7]

It's not. It was disappointing we came out so flat after the horrible start vs AU. And we've now lost 3 in a row when you hope you're playing your best ball.

This team still has the ability to make a run if we get in the tournament with a lucky draw.
Besides the obvious southern game, the Bama home loss and the first half of the Auburn games are my biggest disappointments. I still think we shoulda beat Bama at home. .