Jan 6 - Official MSU vs #17 Texas A&M Basketball Thread - Welcome Stansbury back

[msstate7]

Good Lord. Tell us your Real thoughts.*

I'm at my breaking point. I've attended/listened/watched every game of these seniors' career and its excruciating

[Liverpooldawg]

We just don't know how to win. They played well on defense but on offense we are just not good. It is what it is. It will be better next year, eventually.

[defiantdog]

Howland's using this team as warm up for next year. Knocking off the cobwebs.

[djaymsu5]

Probably the worst game Texas A&M will play all year and we still can't even sneak out a win at home! The best this team looked was in the first half when Malik and Q were both on the floor at the same time. Q is as clutch as they come that kid can play.

[preachermatt83]

The jealousy Sword and Ready have toward Weatherspoon and Newman is very sad.

1) Don't try to make a highlight drunk and miss the ally..Sword
2) I've never seen anyone try to split two guys after holding the ball three seconds with 10 secs on the clock. We didn't even get a shot off in the final possession. Horrible. Just horrible.

This

[CadaverDawg]

I feel like we showed a lot of fight tonight. Hope they don't get too discouraged over the L. A&M is a good team, & if we play that hard in every game, we'll have a decent Conference record IMO.

[Liverpooldawg]

Probably the worst game Texas A&M will play all year and we still can't even sneak out a win at home! The best this team looked was in the first half when Malik and Q were both on the floor at the same time. Q is as clutch as they come that kid can play.

Yes. They are really the only two we have that are capable of playing at a high level. They aren't there yet, but you can see it with them.

[HaggardDawg]

If Ready has the ball in transition and has Malik and Sword open on the wings, he goes to Sword every time. Ready's attitude is terrible. If I notice it from watching on tv, I can't imagine what it's like within the team.

[msstate7]

I say screw it and play Howland's style (man-to-man) the rest of the year with Malik, Q, and Holman starting. We aren't going to postseason anyway. Hopefully Malik comes back, but if not Q and Holman will know how to play Howland's defense

[msstate7]

I feel like we showed a lot of fight tonight. Hope they don't get too discouraged over the L. A&M is a good team, & if we play that hard in every game, we'll have a decent Conference record IMO.

Don't you talk sensible while I'm melting down here haha

[CarolinaDawgs]

If you shoot 12% higher than the other team it has to be almost impossible to lose...

[MarketingBully]

We just don't know how to win. They played well on defense but on offense we are just not good. It is what it is. It will be better next year, eventually.

This is asinine. We are a great shooting team. We are second in the league next to A&M shooting the ball. Only problem was we played down to A&M early and allowed this to be a game. We didn't even get the ball into Ware's hands in the first half and he was shut out in the first half. We just settled for crappy threes. We played offensively like we did against Southern instead of running out offense getting it down to Ware and letting him work or pass it out for a better wide open three. Instead, we just shot threes. This is a broken record though in the Southern game, UMKC, and now this one.

[msstate7]

If you shoot 12% higher than the other team it has to be almost impossible to lose...

Not when you give up 67 offensive rebounds

[maroonmania]

If you shoot 12% higher than the other team it has to be almost impossible to lose...

Unless you give the opposition a minimum of 3 shots on every trip down the floor.

[HancockCountyDog]

Until Howland makes this Newman's team instead of Sword's team, we won't move forward.

[Red Sox Dawg]

Don't even get a freakin' shot. Howland should have called a timeout and we could have held the ball out top and take a 3 to win it.

We were out of timeouts.

[starkvegasdawg]

Blowing that 9 point lead at the end of the half really looming large.

[msstate7]

Blowing that 9 point lead at the end of the half really looming large.

That back-to-back possessions crap show by Thomas really didn't help... Jacking up a 3 and fouling a 3 point shot

[CadaverDawg]

Until Howland makes this Newman's team instead of Sword's team, we won't move forward.

Yup. Ready is a cancer...you can tell. Maybe I'm wrong, but he comes across as the ring leader of the "gotta quit letting these Freshmen take our spotlight" club.

[HailState39110]

SEC Network just showed a stat that we lead the nation at 0-4 in games decided by 5 points or less . At least we are consistent at choking down the stretch