Has Stans turned the corner?

[fishwater99]

Or did our players hot shooting just continue for another game?
I hope we shoot lights out all year and win the SEC, that might be our only chance to make the NCAA with our non-conf. schedule.

Boy was I wrong about Saturday night, I thought we would get our asses handed to us.
Bost is a great addition to our team, Randy has been shooting better, and we are tearing it up from downtown..
Osby seems to be stuck as the 6th man, sucks for him, he will be a great one once he gets used to playing at the college level.

I think we could be off to a 3-0 start in the SEC, it's just crazy how our teams seem to play harder in the SEC vs non-conference.
Looks like Stans has another SEC West banner in his sights, now if he could just find a way to the Sweet 16.
I think we could easily go 9-7 in the SEC, we could get lucky and be 11-5, who knows with this "young" team.
Now if we could just work on those rebounding fundamentals in practice...practice.. you talking about practice...

 

[Thick]

Stans did a good job on the double team of Washington in the post. It worked everytime, but the guys seem to be catching on with the philosphy of playing d, rebounding, and making shots. Bost seems to be getting comfortable with the college game, and this team should get better as the season moves forward. We really need the big guys to step up and help JV out soon.

 

[bonedaddy401]

I think one SEC game is not enough to say we have turned the corner as a team. We need to win big against Bama.

 

[patdog]

as it is that it takes him a couple of months to get a young team (and with all the players leaving the past few years, we're pretty much always a young team) to find itself. I do think it looks like he's finally recruited a group of players that can shoot the ball. I agree with your expectations of somewhere in the 9-7 to 11-5 range for an SEC record this year. And it would probably take 11 wins to have a decent shot at the NCAA tournament. But the Sweet 16 will have to wait for another year.

 

[8dog]

we sure weren't young last year and we were awful.

The difference right now is that Stans is doing what he should've been doing for a long time, letting his athletes run. I've never seen us get the ball out after makes and misses as we did the other night. It created open looks we have trouble getting in the half court offense and it gives Bost some space to work with and break down defenders.

We are fun to watch when we do that.

 

[patdog]

All 3 of whom were true sophomores. And we have no experienced depth at all.

 

[dawgstudent]

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[8dog]

Stewart and Hans played as much as the Delks when they were freshmen. Just because they got their name called out with the lights out for the first time that year doesn't make them young.

Varnado was the defensive player of the year and played like it all year. And our two best players were a junior and a soph. Depth was a problem.

Youth is not why we lost to South Alabama, Miami OH, Southern Illinois or Miami Fl. If we were young last year, then us and almost everyone else is young in most years. We are clearly playing a different style of ball and its keeping us out of half court offense, which gives us fits.

 

[bonedaddy401]

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[fishwater99]

Last year the ball had to go through J-Money and he shot most of the time, we were a one man show.
This year we are playing more as a team and it shows, Bost is night and day vs Jamont. It is nice to have a true point back at MSU.

 

[Columbus Dawg]

Another factor is that we have tightend up our rotation in SEC play. Stans always struggles with this in the non-conference.

Against Arkansas 4 of our 5 starters played 30 minutes or more. Kodi Augustus has gone from playing 27 minutes a game to barely seeing the floor. And we have stopped mass substituting.