State vs Jawja Game thread

[Coach34]

Do we keep playing well- or do the Sr's go full-fledged stingy and make it all about them in their last game?

They seem to have bought in the last 4 weeks- hope we continue

[Harrydawg]

Our frosh have to be red hot for us to have any chance

[msstate7]

If we can somehow pull it out, South Carolina will probably be without carrera tomorrow

[Harrydawg]

I hope Malik goes off the rest of the season and goes pro! Cause he won't be back in Starkville next year regardless, book it.

[DudyDawg]

Are we watching malik Newmans last college basketball game? Maybe....

[msstate7]

Are we watching malik Newmans last college basketball game? Maybe....

If so, it's sad he can't even crack the starting 5

[TheRef]

Are we watching malik Newmans last college basketball game? Maybe....

From what I've heard....this won't be the last game for Malik. Pretty reputable source too.

[Bucky Dog]

Are we wearing our Daisy Duke shorts?!

[CadaverDawg]

SEC officiating is ****ing garbage.

[Coach34]

I hope Malik goes off the rest of the season and goes pro! Cause he won't be back in Starkville next year regardless, book it.

He's softened that stance a little. Europe is not all that appealling

[DudyDawg]

From what I've heard....this won't be the last game for Malik. Pretty reputable source too.

I think that's best for all parties

[msstate7]

Gotta rebound that zuppardo

[Coach34]

I think that's best for all parties

Malik is slowly coming to grips that he is not NBA bound nor ready yet. He spent alot of time blaming everyone but himself. Now its sinking in that he needs to get stronger to finish better around the basket and a more consistent shot. He knows he has no chance of getting drafted and doesnt want to end up in Europe.

Chances of him coming back are pretty good now

[msstate7]

Quit fouling

[msstate7]

Ware can't do anything vs Georgia

[Coach34]

We have come out ready to play. Solid start

[Coach34]

Ware can't do anything vs Georgia

They are stronger and have more length. The Guards gonna have to win this one

[msstate7]

And here they go... If ware can't play with these boys, we gonna lose

[Bucky Dog]

Inside out is killing us 12-0 run

[preachermatt83]

We are not going to be able to keep double teaming there big underneath. We are giving them to many open looks.

[preachermatt83]

Inside out is killing us 12-0 run

Bc of the double team.

[JohnnyQuid]

Q MIA thus far. **** playing on a court over ice

[msstate7]

Bc of the double team.

We have to... Maten is too good. Anyone still complaining about maten over ware for all sec? Maten is better

[CarolinaDawgs]

Gavin played way above his talent level for a solid 15 game stretch. Where he been lately though....

[preachermatt83]

We have to... Maten is too good. Anyone still complaining about maten over ware for all sec? Maten is better

If we do they are going to best us by 15. They are having wide open looks every play.

[msstate7]

Maten >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ware

[CarolinaDawgs]

Here comes our patented shitty end to the half

[Bucky Dog]

We are going to have to go to zone defense. We can't keep up with them. And we are now pressing on O.

[MarketingBully]

Sword's last game and good riddance....

[JohnnyQuid]

q is really off

[CadaverDawg]

Id have rather played Kentucky. We just dont matchup with UGA. This may get ugly.

[chef dixon]

Maten >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ware

Yep. I don't care about numbers. You can tell just by watching. The AA teams are correct

[HoopsDawg]

man some of these guys are painful to watch.

[JohnnyQuid]

Maten >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ware

no shit. lol

[msstate7]

Damn! That's a big foul

[Bucky Dog]

BS foul call there!!!

[preachermatt83]

Zuppardo is just not very good.

[MarketingBully]

Wow, and the shitty refs raise their ugly heads.

[CarolinaDawgs]

****ing stupid call that we don't get...

[JohnnyQuid]

What a horseshit call lol u don't call that in a scrum at end of half. and late as ****

[msstate7]

Zuppardo is just not very good.

You're giving him way too much credit.

[CarolinaDawgs]

man MOST* of these guys are painful to watch.

Fixed it for ya

[Dawg61]

Spoon and Ware both playing like shit. Daniels is nowhere to be found.

[Bucky Dog]

Spoon and Ware both playing like shit. Daniels is nowhere to be found.

You can throw Malik into the mix as well.

[RougeDawg]

We are in decent position to win. Not the greatest but we can't keep allowing these wide open shots.

[HoopsDawg]

Fixed it for ya

Yeah, I'm trying to be nice. I thought our veterans would come to play tonight, but it aint happening. Our 4 spot has absolutely killed us all year. Ray just never could sign a 4 man.

[Dawg61]

Yeah, I'm trying to be nice. I thought our veterans would come to play tonight, but it aint happening. Our 4 spot has absolutely killed us all year. Ray just never could sign a 4 man.

Probably shouldn't have kicked Black off the team.

[GTHOM]

The NCAA seriously has to fix the refs in college basketball, and even football that foul and the end of the half is gonna do nothing but help UGA make the big dance

[Coach34]

Sword's last game and good riddance....

Seriously? He does stupid shit- but he has played his ass off for us. I don't like the way they treated Malik- but damn dude- Sword plays hard

[HoopsDawg]

Ware just never shows up. We have to play him b/c he's our only big that can rebound but damn.

[msstate7]

Maten taking it up strong for a 3 point play... Ware outside shooting 3. Jeez

[HoopsDawg]

Maten taking it up strong for a 3 point play... Ware outside shooting 3. Jeez

You just can't leave Frazier. How do we not know that?

[HoopsDawg]

Seriously? He does stupid shit- but he has played his ass off for us. I don't like the way they treated Malik- but damn dude- Sword plays hard

Sword's the only one that showed up tonight. He's playing his ass off.

[msstate7]

You just can't leave Frazier. How do we not know that?

Esp after he dropped 108 on us last year... You said earlier today that we aren't a smart football team. Our basketball team makes our football team look like Rhodes scholars

[HoopsDawg]

Esp after he dropped 108 on us last year... You said earlier today that we aren't a smart football team. Our basketball team makes our football team look like Rhodes scholars

It's ridiculous. Overplay the guy and make him drive. He doesn't do this against anyone else so regularly.

[Coach34]

You just can't leave Frazier. How do we not know that?

It's Rick Ray's fault

[msstate7]

Q at the 4 right now

[Bucky Dog]

We've quit

[msstate7]

You know what... Screw it! I'm glad this chapter of miss state basketball is over. No reason to get upset over this loss... We're being put out of our misery. Bring on '16-'17

[maroonmania]

Time to move on to baseball.

[HoopsDawg]

Q at the 4 right now

Good b/c Z and Daniels aren't giving us anything.

[HoopsDawg]

You know what... Screw it! I'm glad this chapter of miss state basketball is over. No reason to get upset over this loss... We're being put out of our misery. Bring on '16-'17

Yep.

[maroonmania]

Ware, Weatherspoon, Daniels and Newman with a combined 8 points.

[HoopsDawg]

In no shape or form is Malik ready for pro basketball.

[msstate7]

Malik is terrible at the 1... Sorry, he just is

[MarketingBully]

You know what... Screw it! I'm glad this chapter of miss state basketball is over. No reason to get upset over this loss... We're being put out of our misery. Bring on '16-'17

Amen. We will be replacing Sword with Mario Kegler, Tyson Carter, and Eli Wright. All players 10x more talented then Sword and they won't average 5-6 TOs a game either.

[TheRef]

If there was a Meltdown Thread for the SEC Basketball Tournament, we just made it....just saying.

[MarketingBully]

These seniors will go down as the biggest losers in 30+ years of our basketball history. Every player we bring in next year will be better then everyone we replace by a factor of 5. You seniors played hard never smart and gave it your all. Now let Howland bring in his players and take us to heights we haven't seen since the late nineties.

[BayouDawg]

I know Georgia is a bad matchup for us but it's not like they're amazing. Surely they have weaknesses we could exploit. 2 games against them and we've let them lure us into a half court grind it out game both times. Really thought we could find ways to get out in transition more and get some early offense. That's our only chance of beating a big physical team is to push the pace and make their bigs run

[Coach34]

Tonight is a good example of why IJ needs to go. Frazier is the same height and IJ can't even think about guarding him.

[Coach34]

These seniors will go down as the biggest losers in 30+ years of our basketball history. Every player we bring in next year will be better then everyone we replace by a factor of 5. You seniors played hard never smart and gave it your all. Now let Howland bring in his players and take us to heights we haven't seen since the late nineties.

we won't be much better next year cause we will be young as hell. A winning record will be a good year

[HoopsDawg]

Tonight is a good example of why IJ needs to go. Frazier is the same height and IJ can't even think about guarding him.

Man, I hope he does. I'm just tired of watching all these Stansbury and Ray players.

[msstate7]

I know Georgia is a bad matchup for us but it's not like they're amazing. Surely they have weaknesses we could exploit. 2 games against them and we've let them lure us into a half court grind it out game both times. Really thought we could find ways to get out in transition more and get some early offense. That's our only chance of beating a big physical team is to push the pace and make their bigs run
Frazier and maten are better than anybody we have... Q is close, but a year away from that level. Chicken could be if he didn't turn it over so much

[HoopsDawg]

we won't be much better next year cause we will be young as hell. A winning record will be a good year

Yeah, we are going to be ridiculously young. Spoon and Stapleton will be the vets. I hope Howland can find a steady graduate transfer. The European trip should help though.

[msstate7]

we won't be much better next year cause we will be young as hell. A winning record will be a good year

A winning record sounds pretty good about now... Think I was a teenager our last winning season and I'm in my late 30s**

[msstate7]

Tonight is a good example of why IJ needs to go. Frazier is the same height and IJ can't even think about guarding him.

To be fair, jj is all sec and avgs 16.4 points 4.8 rebs 4.3 assists. He's good

[msstate7]

Q being a no show tonight hasn't helped.

[BayouDawg]

Tonight is a good example of why IJ needs to go. Frazier is the same height and IJ can't even think about guarding him.
Yep having a good defensive point guard can make a world of difference for a defense. If you can lock down another teams point guard it takes that teams offense completely out of rhythm

[Coach34]

To be fair, jj is all sec and avgs 16.4 points 4.8 rebs 4.3 assists. He's good

yeah but if Ready stayed on him- he'd score 35

[Bucky Dog]

Newman!

[Bucky Dog]

So you're saying we've got a chance?!

[HoopsDawg]

story of the 4 spot, we play great D for 35 seconds and our 4 man can't catch a rebound right in his hands. Then Fred thinks he is Steph Curry and throws up a brick from 24 feet.

[Goldendawg]

Hope this run lasts, but we have no frontcourt to match them.

[Liverpooldawg]

we won't be much better next year cause we will be young as hell. A winning record will be a good year

I agree, sort of. I think we will be better. The talent level will be astronomically better. It will be young but do not underestimate the gap in talent. We have two really talented but very young guys this year. We have probably two or three more had they had any coaching at all prior to this year that might have been at least decent by now. We START recovering from self imposed basketball suicide next year.

[HoopsDawg]

damn, such a clean look for Malik.

[HoopsDawg]

Good move to go full court pressure if we can keep it up for the last 7 minutes. We can't play half court against these guys.

[Goldendawg]

Don't look now, but Seniors leading this srun.

[msstate7]

Sigh

[HoopsDawg]

Don't look now, but Seniors leading this srun.

Really bad job by Ready to not pull it back and then an awful pass by Sword. He's been forcing that pass for 4 years and there's no upside to it.

[HoopsDawg]

what an awful foul call on Sword. WTF

[Bucky Dog]

WTF?? He threw his elbow into Sword and it's a foul on Sword?

[msstate7]

damn sword

[Goldendawg]

Sword, a walk! Turnovers are killing us tonight, from upper classmen.

[archdog]

Sword's last game and good riddance....

Don't see this. Sorry.

[BayouDawg]

Good to see some fight. That 12-0 run Georgia went on in the first half is looming large. I don't know what happened to our offense during hat run. We completely quit attacking the rim and settled for lazy jumpers. That's looking to be the difference right now

[MarketingBully]

Sword should be the same player as Obassahan. He is as strong and as tall. He has absolutely no basketball IQ and turns it over way too much though. He is good but will make crucial errors for every two things right he does. This gives you the close losses we had. We will be a much better team without him on it.

[msugolf]

Don't see this. Sorry.
Sword has so many TOs in a game and does so much stupid stuff that it negates his good plays. He's had that same damn travel called on him about 2,000 times in his 4 years here.

[msstate7]

Need a basket

[Goldendawg]

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

[msstate7]

Ware totally overmatched

[HoopsDawg]

Pretty amazing we have had the NBA prospect on the bench for most of this game.

[msstate7]

Way to close out your career ware

[HoopsDawg]

damn, did Spoon got to Cheetah's last night?

[Bucky Dog]

I think our legs were tired down the stretch. 5 straight chances to score and we are forcing it now.

[Goldendawg]

No, die by the Sword.

[HoopsDawg]

welp, only 2 more years till we have a good team again.

[Political Hack]

I really hate to see some of our guys play like this in what looks to be their last game. They played hard throughout their careers. Wish they could end it on a happier note.

[state66]

Where has Malik been? Last game of the season and Malik just doesnt have any drive. Beginning to believe the kids a bust man and I am a big Malik supporter.

[msstate7]

damn, did Spoon got to Cheetah's last night?

Q and ware combined 6 points

[msugolf]

Way to close out your career ware
Our only chance down the stretch was to shoot the 3 and we abandoned it to work our offense through Ware and sword driving. Just a microcosm of the last 4 years of WTF moments wrapped up in the last 5 minutes

[Goldendawg]

Nothing from Ware either game against Ga.

[MarketingBully]

We will be graduating a ton of the losers. I think you fans thinking we will suck next year will be pleasantly surprised. I think we challenge for the NIT/NCAA next year. Also, a lot of the SEC teams will be much weaker as well.

[Goldendawg]

Can't believe I stayed up for this and actually had hope. Oh, well, life of a State fan.

[MarketingBully]

We will literally have 4 guys 6'10" or higher. I think we have only one this year.

[msstate7]

Nothing from Ware either game against Ga.

In the 2 games... Ware 8 points. Maten 45.

[BayouDawg]

Ware played scared tonight. Fading away like he thinks hes Dirk all of a sudden

[HoopsDawg]

We will literally have 4 guys 6'10" or higher. I think we have only one this year.

Need Holman to make a big jump. Otherwise, we will need Keglar to play the stretch 4.

[Liverpooldawg]

I really hate to see some of our guys play like this in what looks to be their last game. They played hard throughout their careers. Wish they could end it on a happier note.

They did, but playing hard ain't everything.

[BayouDawg]

it kind of worries me that we had no answer for a mark fox coached team in 2 tries. I'm hoping it's just because it's a bad matchup and we didn't have the horses to exploit their weaknesses. I really think Howland is one of the best X's and O's coach in the conference if not the best. It just kind of stings that Fox beat us with the same gameplan twice

[BeardoMSU]

It just kind of stings that Fox beat us with the same gameplan twice

But we had the same level of talent and depth....

[MarketingBully]

it kind of worries me that we had no answer for a mark fox coached team in 2 tries. I'm hoping it's just because it's a bad matchup and we didn't have the horses to exploit their weaknesses. I really think Howland is one of the best X's and O's coach in the conference if not the best. It just kind of stings that Fox beat us with the same gameplan twice

Really? I'm not that worried about it. You play with what you got. And our best player tonight was a turnover machine and as hard as he played for every two good plays he made he made a WTF play. It's hard to recover from that.

[Liverpooldawg]

If they can walk and chew gum at the same time that will be an enormous improvement. That's not a diss on Ware. He has basically been by himself inside for his whole career. It's hard to say exactly how good he is because of that.

[Liverpooldawg]

But we had the same level of talent and depth....

Exactly

[BayouDawg]

But we had the same level of talent and depth....

Didn't have the depth or talent of USCe, Vandy, or A&M yet we drew up very good game plans in those games. I just thought we could come up with a gameplan to speed Georgia up and make them play faster than they want to. But I think it has more to do with the matchup. We would have to get hot from outside and get a lot of transition points to beat a big team like Georgia.

[BayouDawg]

Really? I'm not that worried about it. You play with what you got. And our best player tonight was a turnover machine and as hard as he played for every two good plays he made he made a WTF play. It's hard to recover from that.

Yea I agree. I think I was too optimistic going into the game that we could get them in transition and take them out of their game. I should have known better because that would have taken ready stopping Frazier on the dribble and ware not playing very soft.

[tcdog70]

Frazier has owned IJ. He has big numbers when He plays Us. Ware can't handle their Big Man and then Ware plays scared. Yes Chicken had some bad plays down the stretch, but He kept us in the game. Nobody else would step up but Fred and Chicken was trying to make a play. Chicken got fouled a couple of times at the end but the dickhead Refs swallowed their whistle. They had been calling the fouls and Chicken thought he could get to the free throw line. Georgia is a bad matchup for Us, Daniels, JZ and Hollman aren't much help against their big guys. And Ready can't handle Frazier. So it was a miracle we cut it to 4 with a chance to win, just no one would step up and make a play.