Florida game thread

[msstate7]

We gonna pull the upset today?

[preachermatt83]

I will be surprised if we keep it within 25

[Dawgology]

I like to pretend this game isn't happening today.

[preachermatt83]

I like to pretend this game isn't happening today.

Great idea. I'm gonna try too.

[Liverpooldawg]

I'm at the game. It looks like it's going to be our usual pitiful crowd. 20 minutes till tip and there are barely any students here. The rest of it isn't much better. Hopefully it will fill in.

[Dawg61]

Playing well so far, Herard is a different player without the mask. 14-7 State rn

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Why do we have so much trouble inbounding balls?

[preachermatt83]

Holman always acts surprised to get the ball.

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Holman always acts surprised to get the ball.

He thinks he is a perimeter player....

[preachermatt83]

Stapleton has to learn to stop getting silly reach in fouls.

[Dawg61]

Atrocious shooting for us this half, we should be winning but we are down 8 instead

[preachermatt83]

Stapleton has got to learn to pass the stupid ball. Selfish.

[MarketingBully]

Can this season end already? How the hell do you go 0-12 from three and 2-7 from the free throw line. That leads to an L every time. Just stupid basketball. Florida playing their worst game in which an average team would be up on them by 10 we find ourselves down by 8 at halftime. Howland saying "we are close" is bullshit.

[MarketingBully]

Atrocious shooting for us this half, we should be winning but we are down 8 instead

Any team would have been up on Florida by 15. We missed six WIDE OPEN three point shots because we rushed them and jacked them up instead of shoot them.

[Goldendawg]

2 for 7 from the line and about 0 for 15 for 3's. Add in the lack of D and intensity and and we score 24 and are down by 8 on our own court. They do not know how to play as a team in so many areas. Quit settling for the 3 when you can't throw it in the ocean!

[Bothrops]

Have we hit a single 3?

[LC Dawg]

We make so many bad decisions. Our shot selection has been bad today. We don't even work for good shots on some possessions, we just take a bad shot early in the clock.

[Liverpooldawg]

Can this season end already? How the hell do you go 0-12 from three and 2-7 from the free throw line. That leads to an L every time. Just stupid basketball. Florida playing their worst game in which an average team would be up on them by 10 we find ourselves down by 8 at halftime. Howland saying "we are close" is bullshit.
We ain't playing that bad on the defensive end. We are getting good shots but they aren't going in. If the shots start falling and we keep playing defense we ain't out of this one yet.

[MarketingBully]

Have we hit a single 3?

Nope 0-12. Apparently those extra practices really helped our players*****

[MarketingBully]

We ain't playing that bad on the defensive end. We are getting good shots but they aren't going in. If the shots start falls by and we keep playing defense we ain't out of this one yet.

Exactly, this should be a 20 point blow out the way Florida is playing. They need to collect themselves and shoot the three not jack them up. We are not shooting the shots like we normally do from three.

[MarketingBully]

This is the same shit different game. No way Florida should be up 8 at halftime the way they are playing. Just makes me sick.

[msstate7]

This is the same shit different game. No way Florida should be up 8 at halftime the way they are playing. Just makes me sick.

We just aren't very good. I think we will be much better next season though

[civildawg]

I love Msu basketball but I'm so, so tired of watching us lose. I really hope we improve as much as everyone thinks next year

[MarketingBully]

How the hell do you go 0-13 from the 3 point line (most of which were wide open) when you shoot 37% as a team for the season. Only MSU would do that.

[preachermatt83]

q really needs to stop shooting 3s

[MarketingBully]

Cut it to 3 then they get it back out to 8 because Q falls down and leaves his man wide open. How many times has that happened this year?

[msstate7]

Cut it to 3 then they get it back out to 8 because Q falls down and leaves his man wide open. How many times has that happened this year?

Q has to get better defensively by next season

[CadaverDawg]

This is not enjoyable to watch. We show glimpses of really good play on O, but teams do whatever they want to do against our D.

[Goldendawg]

NM

[msstate7]

Good grief... 2 shots to tie it and we get 2 terrible shots with 1 off a TO. Terrible

[preachermatt83]

Last two possessions have been garbage.

[preachermatt83]

Q has to get better defensively by next season

U got that right

[msstate7]

And of course, q misses another 1 to lose it.

8-20 (1-8 from 3) shooting

[Bothrops]

I don't think our guys want it. That is all.

[smootness]

And of course, q misses another 1 to lose it.

8-20 (1-8 from 3) shooting

The issue was the decision to shoot the 3 instead of taking the free 2. Q played well today overall. Two bad possessions with the game on the line lost it for us. Still, a positive game overall.

[LC Dawg]

We have to learn how to finish games. Hopefully that comes with experience.

[msstate7]

The issue was the decision to shoot the 3 instead of taking the free 2. Q played well today overall. Two bad possessions with the game on the line lost it for us. Still, a positive game overall.

I'm looking at live stats and listening to bits and pieces on radio, but Richard Williams and Jim have been pretty critical of Q's shot selection. 8-20 and 1-8 from 3 isn't that great

[MarketingBully]

2-23 from 3 and 6-13 from the free throw line will lose you games every time. We should have been blown out and would have by any other team. Florida gets blown out by any other team in the SEC but us even Missouri beats Florida today. I'm sick of Howland's "we're close" bull shit. Hey Howland, practice shooting threes and you win this game. Shoot 20% from 3 and you win this game going away. What do these **** sticks do in practice? That shooting was embarrassing.

[MarketingBully]

The issue was the decision to shoot the 3 instead of taking the free 2. Q played well today overall. Two bad possessions with the game on the line lost it for us. Still, a positive game overall.

This wasn't a positive game.

[msstate7]

This wasn't a positive game.

I disagree. Florida is dang good

[hailstate17]

I'm not a basketball expert but I just don't see it with a lot of these guys. I don't see near the amount of talent everybody was hyping up. I know they're going to be better next year, but I don't know how much better. Also, I feel like they're either to dumb or just refuse to do what howland draws up. There is no way we came out of that timeout with that play in mind.

[MarketingBully]

We have to learn how to finish games. Hopefully that comes with experience.

Finish games? We have to learn to be more consistent shooting wise. When you get a chance to hit an open shot, bury it. They gave us about 12-13 open threes. You have to bury those shots. You don't rush them you get your body set and bury it. We shoot our average today and we blow out Florida. Florida played their worst game today. They were wounded and we let them off the hook. We are finding new ways to lose. Going 2-23 from the three point line gets you beat no matter who you play.

[MarketingBully]

I disagree. Florida is dang good

Florida will lose to South Carolina and Kentucky down the stretch. That was the worst game they have played all year. They lost their big man and because we don't have a competent big man we couldn't take advantage. Florida will flounder down the stretch.

[MarketingBully]

I'm not a basketball expert but I just don't see it with a lot of these guys. I don't see near the amount of talent everybody was hyping up. I know they're going to be better next year, but I don't know how much better. Also, I feel like they're either to dumb or just refuse to do what howland draws up. There is no way we came out of that timeout with that play in mind.

Since starting 3-1, we have regressed something awful.

[hailstate17]

That's my point, we have no big men, we don't really have a guard that can get to the rim at will. What we have are shooters. Shooters who can't shoot

[MarketingBully]

Ole Miss will beat the shit out of us on Tuesday if we play like this. That is why I say this game isn't a positive.

[LC Dawg]

Finish games? We have to learn to be more consistent shooting wise. When you get a chance to hit an open shot, bury it. They gave us about 12-13 open threes. You have to bury those shots. You don't rush them you get your body set and bury it. We shoot our average today and we blow out Florida. Florida played their worst game today. They were wounded and we let them off the hook. We are finding new ways to lose. Going 2-23 from the three point line gets you beat no matter who you play.
Florida didn't play well but they know how to finish. As bad as we played we still had a shot at the end and we didn't make it happen.

[msstate7]

Ole Miss will beat the shit out of us on Tuesday if we play like this. That is why I say this game isn't a positive.

We aren't good. Since I finally accepted this, I'm much more chill. Hopefully we improve a lot next season, but we're likely to lose to everyone we play the rest of the year but lsu

[smootness]

This wasn't a positive game.

Yeah it was.

[smootness]

Ole Miss will beat the shit out of us on Tuesday if we play like this. That is why I say this game isn't a positive.

No they won't. Florida > Ole Miss

[MarketingBully]

No they won't. Florida > Ole Miss

I don't think you understand how important their big man was to them. Both South Carolina and Kentucky will beat Florida this week. Florida played a shit game. If they had brought their A game, this is a 20-30 point loss. You shouldn't be in a game at all when you shoot 2-23 from the 3 point line.

[civildawg]

People are making way too many excuses for this team. Yeah they are young but throw that out the window this late in the year.

[msugolf]

If I'm howland I'd seriously hit the grad transfer waiver wire. Otherwise I'm afraid next years results are going to be only slightly better, which isn't saying much at this point.

[AROB44]

Well....I guess it's just time to fire Howland. Didn't take but into year 2 for the bitching to get going.

[MarketingBully]

If I'm howland I'd seriously hit the grad transfer waiver wire. Otherwise I'm afraid next years results are going to be only slightly better, which isn't saying much at this point.

He should have done that this year. We had several options but struck out. Would have been huge if we had gotten a big man grad transfer. Herard's rawness has killed us this year in the post.

[civildawg]

Nobody has said shit about howland. GTFO with that bull crap

[MarketingBully]

Well....I guess it's just time to fire Howland. Didn't take but into year 2 for the bitching to get going.

Any coach will get bitched at if fans don't see improvement and no one has ever said to fire Howland. He has done a poor job of coaching this team though. This team has regressed something awful from the 3-1 start in the SEC. we are now 5-9 and in 12th place in the SEC. No matter how you look at it, that is hugely disappointing.

[msstate7]

I figured we'd be much better this year than we are. I also thought auburn would be much better than they've been. Pearl has recruited great, but he's 14-35 in the sec his 3 seasons and getting blasted by aTm at the moment. I hope howland can do what it doesn't appear pearl can... win at an sec west school.

[smootness]

I don't think you understand how important their big man was to them. Both South Carolina and Kentucky will beat Florida this week. Florida played a shit game. If they had brought their A game, this is a 20-30 point loss. You shouldn't be in a game at all when you shoot 2-23 from the 3 point line.

Played good D.

Some of our fans want us to compete even when we don't shoot well, and others view it as a sign we suck when we compete even when not shooting well.

[smootness]

We're going to be fine. This team is gonna be really freaking good this year.

Least experienced team in the nation. That doesn't change just because you're later in the year.

[msstate7]

Just saw the last 3 by Q... wow. Why not take the easy lay up?

[Dawg61]

Someone remind me why Q shouldn't have the surgery again?