What does our basketball team need to do to improve?

[MarketingBully]

Move our feet on defense. We are losing a lot of games at the free throw line because we don't move our feet and we reach too much with our hands. Did a great job of moving our feet last night in the first half. Second half was bad and they killed us at the line.

I would put emphasis on defense and rebounding the rest of the way. Earn your minutes that way. Eli Wright is doing a great job here so expect his minutes to continue to climb.

It doesn't matter. South Carolina used their hands more then any team I have ever seen and they were only called for 15 fouls to our 27. Their post guy mugs people and should have fouled out in the first half. Instead, he is able to play and scores 17. Last night we did drive to the basket to contact in the second half and no fouls were called to the tune of a 31-9 free throw shooting discrepancy Georgia had over us. Teams that have high foul counts every other game are consistently getting record low foul counts against us. It's complete shit. I'd say we need to shoot more wide open threes this year instead of driving to the basket for a contested layup. Those defenses are fouling but nothing is called so there is no free throw shooting. Teams like Alabama and South Carolina foul. That is the nature of how they play defense. Alabama was able to shoot 35+ free throws against us in a 9 point game. Georgia 31 in a 7 point game. We have been called for fouls on legal screens where we don't move, blocking fouls where the offensive player pushes off, been called for fouls when we have played great defense.

I think when Hess gets out of our conference it will be a great thing. He was already kicked out of the ACC. We also have Prima Donna refs like Valentine and Greene. Then we have that asshat that reffed both the Tennessee game in Starkville and the Auburn game at Auburn. Face it, we have the worst refs in the country and this shit needs to be fixed.