Tigers Alabama State. GDT

[edwin drood]

7:00 pm Mizzou Arena
Current line: Mizzou -21

I'd like to see
More Burns, Boateng and Northweather

[Armchair QB]

We should easily cover that.

Another game against a team we won’t learn much from. About the only thing good is hopefully getting some guys’ confidence back up and like Edwin said, hopefully getting a look at some guys who need floor time and may really help us.

[Lightning Rod]

7:00 pm Mizzou Arena
Current line: Mizzou -21

I'd like to see
More Burns, Boateng and Northweather

You could see Burns a bit tonight if it's a blowout, but don't get your hopes up that he will be anything but a bench warmer this year, he has a long to go. Boateng has not shown me he is ready either, some flashes, but mostly meh. If he's going to show something it will probably be against the Alabama States of the world. I expect to see Northweather a bit more tonight if Phillips continues to clog the middle and prevent Mitchell from getting to the bucket. Northweather will camp on the 3 point line where he is most effective.

[Cardinals4Life]

7:00 pm Mizzou Arena
Current line: Mizzou -21

I'd like to see
More Burns, Boateng and Northweather

You could see Burns a bit tonight if it's a blowout, but don't get your hopes up that he will be anything but a bench warmer this year, he has a long to go. Boateng has not shown me he is ready either, some flashes, but mostly meh. If he's going to show something it will probably be against the Alabama States of the world. I expect to see Northweather a bit more tonight if Phillips continues to clog the middle and prevent Mitchell from getting to the bucket. Northweather will camp on the 3 point line where he is most effective.

Agree that Burns is no where near D1 ready. Not even close.

The following guys need to show something too:

Porter (What does he really contribute?) Mack (Figure out when to penetrate and stop chucking 3 balls.) Northweather (Is he anything more than a 3 loint shooter? If so, can we get more consistent?) Phillips Jr., (Can we please be a BIG MAN? And enough of the antics of the court already? More play, lwss talk.) Boateng (Has shown flashes. Can he figure out his role?) Barrett (Needs to be more of a distributor and spell Robinson effectively.)

I think overall, Gates needs to figure out what each guy does best and utilize them to their strengths. Right now it seems like a bunch of guys trying to "get mine" when they finally get court time.

Outside of Mitchell, occasionally Robinson, and Crews, we have little offense.

Lots of questions still and this team needs to gel....and quickly.

[Lightning Rod]

7:00 pm Mizzou Arena
Current line: Mizzou -21

I'd like to see
More Burns, Boateng and Northweather

You could see Burns a bit tonight if it's a blowout, but don't get your hopes up that he will be anything but a bench warmer this year, he has a long to go. Boateng has not shown me he is ready either, some flashes, but mostly meh. If he's going to show something it will probably be against the Alabama States of the world. I expect to see Northweather a bit more tonight if Phillips continues to clog the middle and prevent Mitchell from getting to the bucket. Northweather will camp on the 3 point line where he is most effective.

Agree that Burns is no where near D1 ready. Not even close.

The following guys need to show something too:

Porter (What does he really contribute?) Mack (Figure out when to penetrate and stop chucking 3 balls.) Northweather (Is he anything more than a 3 loint shooter? If so, can we get more consistent?) Phillips Jr., (Can we please be a BIG MAN? And enough of the antics of the court already? More play, lwss talk.) Boateng (Has shown flashes. Can he figure out his role?) Barrett (Needs to be more of a distributor and spell Robinson effectively.)

I think overall, Gates needs to figure out what each guy does best and utilize them to their strengths. Right now it seems like a bunch of guys trying to "get mine" when they finally get court time.

Outside of Mitchell, occasionally Robinson, and Crews, we have little offense.

Lots of questions still and this team needs to gel....and quickly.

I said last year if Crews got a lot of playing time this year we would be in trouble. Every time he does something good he'll do something bad.

[Cardinals4Life]

7:00 pm Mizzou Arena
Current line: Mizzou -21

I'd like to see
More Burns, Boateng and Northweather

You could see Burns a bit tonight if it's a blowout, but don't get your hopes up that he will be anything but a bench warmer this year, he has a long to go. Boateng has not shown me he is ready either, some flashes, but mostly meh. If he's going to show something it will probably be against the Alabama States of the world. I expect to see Northweather a bit more tonight if Phillips continues to clog the middle and prevent Mitchell from getting to the bucket. Northweather will camp on the 3 point line where he is most effective.

Agree that Burns is no where near D1 ready. Not even close.

The following guys need to show something too:

Porter (What does he really contribute?) Mack (Figure out when to penetrate and stop chucking 3 balls.) Northweather (Is he anything more than a 3 loint shooter? If so, can we get more consistent?) Phillips Jr., (Can we please be a BIG MAN? And enough of the antics of the court already? More play, lwss talk.) Boateng (Has shown flashes. Can he figure out his role?) Barrett (Needs to be more of a distributor and spell Robinson effectively.)

I think overall, Gates needs to figure out what each guy does best and utilize them to their strengths. Right now it seems like a bunch of guys trying to "get mine" when they finally get court time.

Outside of Mitchell, occasionally Robinson, and Crews, we have little offense.

Lots of questions still and this team needs to gel....and quickly.

I said last year if Crews got a lot of playing time this year we would be in trouble. Every time he does something good he'll do something bad.

Agree. He needs to know when to shoot it and when not to.

[edwin drood]

Crews on tonight, though. Pulling away.

[Lightning Rod]

Need to stop forcing passes down low to Phillips, and guarding the 3 point line might help. Still trying to figure out Mack and why we recruited him.

[Lightning Rod]

Crews on tonight, though. Pulling away.

The guy can shoot, but athletically he doesn't have it.

[Armchair QB]

Lackluster effort tonight. Our defense is just bad. Not just effort issue on defense, most of our players are just not good defensively. Even Robinson who IS a very good defensive player, is allowing his man to beat him off the dribble. There are no good answers this year.

Pierce would help a lot defensively but I think we all feel we can’t count on him playing.

[Lightning Rod]

Lackluster effort tonight. Our defense is just bad. Not just effort issue on defense, most of our players are just not good defensively. Even Robinson who IS a very good defensive player, is allowing his man to beat him off the dribble. There are no good answers this year.

Pierce would help a lot defensively but I think we all feel we can’t count on him playing.

ASU shoots A LOT of threes AND we refuse to guard them. Defensively we are a mess, but we know Gates will address that issue.

[Lightning Rod]

We need to stop scheduling teams that rank #250, the games are too close, keep scheduling teams around #350 so we can win a few going away. I don't think we win many SEC games, we are bad.

[California Cardinal Fan]

This may be the least impressive team coach Gates has given us, including his second one that showed promise before getting hit with season ending injuries to key players. Watching their consistent difficulty in putting away mid-majors, it's hard to conceive of them playing above .500 ball in the SEC.
Looks like a long, unhappy season.

[1983cougar]

I had moderate expectations for this team but I don't see them winning too many conference games. I have watched a few of the other teams and it looks like as usual the sec will be a very physical conference. I'm not sure if this team can play that style and so far they don't appear to be a great 3 pt shooting team. If Gates can figure out the correct rotation and Pierce and Stone can come back and contribute this can be a tournament team but they have some work to do.

[Red7]

This may be the least impressive team coach Gates has given us, including his second one that showed promise before getting hit with season ending injuries to key players. Watching their consistent difficulty in putting away mid-majors, it's hard to conceive of them playing above .500 ball in the SEC.
Looks like a long, unhappy season.

Gates has never shown the ability to coach through adversity and right the ship.

[icon]

When are folks going to stop dumping on Crews? He's an offensive spark plug. 6-8 from 3 tonight. 4 boards. Without him, there is no offense outside of Mitchell and sometimes Robinson.