Gameday
Miss. State vs Alabama (7:00 pm, Starkville..Humphrey Coliseum)
Aliyah Matharu and Madison Hayes added to the starting lineup
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Gameday
Miss. State vs Alabama (7:00 pm, Starkville..Humphrey Coliseum)
Aliyah Matharu and Madison Hayes added to the starting lineup
The girls already look a lot more lively than they did last game. And the game just started.
Jackson not in the starting lineup but coming off bench scoring was interesting.
Madison Hayes is a special player. Her passing is smooth.
Halftime
Miss State 44
Alama 33
Rickea Jackson 9 pts
Jessika Carter has been sitting a good bit of the first half with fouls. Aliyah Matharu has been sitting with fouls as well. Freshman Madison Hayes is playing well. Yemiyah Morris playing well off of the bench.
Alabama with 7 made 3 pointers in the fiest half (7-20...3 pt).
We made a mistake with our coaching hire. This isn't MSU Women's basketball.
Well...
We look so disorganized. Not sure who is going to shoot or who should. Bad chemistry on this team too.Quote:
Originally Posted by mparkerfd20
We have lost our will and hustle to win at a high level.
This team is going to go from 8-2 to 8-5. You can pretty much mark it down.
Wiggins has played well.
If that happens we go from a top 5-10 team to unranked in half a year. Ouch.
Going to give up 80+ points to Bama. No help defense, no rebounding.
It's like a different team came out in the 2nd half. Are they out of shape and can't play an entire game?Quote:
Originally Posted by R2Dawg
and 3-4 in the conference.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
Down 4 with 2.5 minutes and Jackson just dribbles it to the other team???? We are just not a good women's team and they haven't beaten a good team all year. We are going to lose this by double digits.
We don't deserve to win
Our WBB dominance is over I hate to say it but stick a fork in us.
It was MSU women's basketball last year. This is the same team Vic had that was lazy, wouldn't rebound or play defense. Sometimes I wonder if it really wasn't that hard for Vic to leave because this team had a lot of issues last year too. I don't blame Nikki for most of it at this point. She inherited these lazy players.Quote:
Originally Posted by mparkerfd20
Whats Nikki's buyout? **Quote:
Originally Posted by R2Dawg
We are just a middle of the pack SEC team this year and we aren't going to beat many of the better teams in the SEC. We will be lucky to have a winning SEC record.
I can?t figure if Vic knew after last year that this group was going to be a bunch of ?me? lazy players and got our while the getting was good or if this Coach is just that poor of an offense x & o?s coach.
Agree with this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg2003
The gravy days are likely over for this program. Attrition is gonna kill us.Quote:
Originally Posted by mparkerfd20
Queen V and Big T were just very special players. We don't have any players on this team that are at that level. We have a lot of pretty good players but nobody that take a game over when we are playing a good team.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainObvious
If it's the same team Vic had last year, why were we 27-6 last year, 13-3 in sec, and going to be a 2 or 3 seed last year in the tourney vs what is happening this year, where we may not even make the tourney? We suck right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg2003
Yep....I can?t believe I was once excited about MSU WBB... those days are gone.
Final
Miss. State 78
Alabama. 86
Rickea Jackson 15 pts
Myah Taylor 15 pts, 6 assists ,2 to, 3 stls
Notes....
Miss. State gave up a 11 point halftime lead. 19 piont swing in score (from up 11 to losing by 8) after halftime. Alabama with 11..3 pointers (11-30) in the game. They out rebounded Miss. State 44 to 33, including 16 offensie rebounds to Miss. State's 10. Also, Alabama...getting to the free throw line, converting...17-21 (81%). Miss. State...7-10 (70%)
Disagree, talent ain't the problem. Most talented team in MSU history from a plain talent standpoint. Team play, hustle and attitude is a problem though.Quote:
Originally Posted by maroonmania
Don't know but I don't think it matters, she has a Rick Ray contract at least - 5 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketDawg
We are not the most talented team from a talent standpoint unless you go 100% by ratings.
Having T was the equivalent of having Shaq and we surrounded her with proper role players.
This roster is still talented but incredibly flawed with how the pieces fit together and much like a lot of recent men’s teams they really lacked natural basketball instincts/smarts
Nikki played for Pat Summit and is supposedly all about some Pat. Well; Pat would have gone knee deep in some ass before, during, and after this game. Pat is probably wouldn?t won?t her name anywhere near this program.
This actually reminds me of Stans downfall - he used to really focus on receuiting a lot of tough hard nosed players with a little offensive talent sprinkled in.
Then he started chasing talent and ignoring traits like toughness and basketball smarts thinking he could coach them up. In the end he took too many of that types and it killed our identity and it killed his career here.
I see a lot out of this roster. A lot of individual talent but no cohesion, toughness, leadership and will to win.
Good coaches with good talent win games. And this isn't a young team. Sorry defense, poor effort rebounding, out of control offense, no toughness, no coaching.
Save me the excuses.
She inherited a top 15 team that added a McDonald's All-American and returned plenty of talent, and we've regressed in every area. No hustle, no grit, no toughness. That's coaching.
Ratings is all there is and this is most talented in history. 3 McDonalds AA and lots of top 100 players. I don't but much into recruiting ratings. I'll take a lower rated good talent but with good attitude, work ethic, leadership, discipline any day over a 5 star attitude.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irondawg
Vic had starters playing in a NC game that would be practice squad on this team from a talent standpoint but they had heart, fight and will to win.
We play like victims. Too much pouting, sulking on the floor. I'll stop there but you don't succeed in anything with that mindset. Vic was the opposite. You think it is bad now wait till the Vic influence remnant is gone.
That Alabama team was just flat better. Last year and this year.
If you can’t be a top team with 3 McD’s AA players- you’re in trouble. She won’t ever have more talent than she has now. I said the same exact thing about JoVester.
Ratings don’t mean talent at this level. I’m watching the games and we don’t have a quickness advantage at spots like we used to. We don’t have a size advantage like we used to and we don’t have an intangible advantage we used to.
Of the teams we’ve played who’s two players would you take Taylor and Mingo Young over? How many pf you’ve seen us play would you take Cooks over? That’s 3/5 of our team.
Right now we have to figure out how to build around jackson, Matharu, Carter and Hayes on offense. We are simply lost on that end now for a variety of reasons but a lot of it is most of those players don’t understand spacing.
I don’t know if I’ve seen a scorer as talented as Jackson have such terrible court awareness. She’s simply lost on the court most of the time and almost all her shots are forced.
On defense we are a nightmare because our guards are too small to fight through screens and our bigs aren’t good defenders. We are asking to get abused in man to man. At this long of pit Morris I’m the middle
of a zone and hope she can rebound and alter shots. That or we’ve got to commit to pressing more and hope to force mistakes
Talent or no talent I am talking about how a player affects a game. Alabama was getting layup after layup in the second half. Big T would have put that crap into the seats. VV was just a scorer much moreso than anyone on this team right now. When we are depending on Myah Taylor to try and drive the lane and score in crunch time then we just don't have what we need offensively.Quote:
Originally Posted by R2Dawg