I attended the game last night

[KingBarkus]

My thoughts:


1. I parked at Harrah's (free) and walked up to the arena. There might have been 10k there as I arrived near halftime of the UM/Auburn game.
UM has the silliest Bear mascot walking around looking completely ridiculous. With its goofy, mouth opened look and belly paunch, it looks like something an elementary school would use as a mascot. Get back to the drawing board, rebels.

2. I could tell in the first 5 minutes we were in trouble. UGA was taking it to us, but either threw the ball away or closely missed shots. Those shots were not missed in the second half.

3. Defensively, we were horrible. Sid was caught looking at his man allowing a UGA guard 30 feet from the basket to beat his man (Smith) and dunk. We are completely undisciplined in defensive techniques. With 5 minutes left in the game, we had zero steals and zero blocked shots. All night long UGA got what they wanted offensively. The back breaker occurred during the second half run when we had cut the lead to 5, crowd into it, UGA shoots and misses, but Moutrie allows his man to grab the offensive board and score. Game over.

4. MSU crowd was there (second most to UK).

5. Sidney is a coach killer. Little things like having a different warm-up jacket than everyone else to bigger things like strolling around the court and poor defensive play.

6. Stans just stood and watched with the occasional clap. You think with our season on the line, he would be more animated.

7. Bost. Horrible. When your stars don't show up, you lose.

8. Moultrie. If this guy is a high NBA draft pick, I'll never be an NBA scout. He was outplayed in arguably the most important game of the year. He gets frustrated easily which leads to dumb fouls. He continues to bring the ball down where smaller defenders either steal it or strip it. He is slow to make moves in the paint. If he can't grab offensive rebounds, he is not productive. His dumb foul 35 feet from the basket when we were making a run was a boneheaded play.

9. I think we got maxed out performances out of Steele and Lewis. I have no problem with their play. Again, when your stars don't show, game over. Hood gives 100% but the injury and being a true freshman wore him down. He made mistakes but the guy is mentally shot and physically beat down.

10. I'm done with Stans. We are headed for a bigtime make over, and is a good time to bring in new blood. I'm mad as hell, I admit. When I think of the money Stans has made, our postseason results, and now this mess, I hope Stricklin ends it.

Bonus: I would rank the dance teams of the 4 clubs:

UGA - Wow. Few in numbers but made up in quality.
Auburn
MSU - Men's basketball shorts? No.
UM

 

[dawgstudent]

he follows the dribbler entirely leaving the screener wide open forcing our defense to shift and Sidney guarding the closest man to him. How you can't coach him to guard it correctly and hedge and then hustle back to his man is beyond me? If he doesn't do it right, he sits.

 

[maroonmania]

------3. Defensively, we were horrible. Sid was caught looking at his man allowing a UGA guard 30 feet from the basket to beat his man (Smith) and dunk. We are completely undisciplined in defensive techniques. With 5 minutes left in the game, we had zero steals and zero blocked shots. All night long UGA got what they wanted offensively. The back breaker occurred during the second half run when we had cut the lead to 5, crowd into it, UGA shoots and misses, but Moutrie allows his man to grab the offensive board and score. Game over.------------

Sid was NOT caught looking at his man. Sid saw exactly what happened with Smith's man and quickly turned away PURPOSELY looking at his own man to avoid having to expend the energy to run down the lane and defend the wide open path to the basket. It was laziness at its finest.

 

[benatmsu]

His dumb foul 35 feet from the basket when we were making a run was a boneheaded play.

This is where I gave up... not only was it dumb because it was 35 ft. from the goal, but the shot clock was running down. Play the man for 3 or 4 more seconds and force a bad shot... no need to get all out of control bumping the guy. And the little tantrum he threw after the call was beyond ridiculous. I understand getting upset at close calls, but damn dude your knee was a foot up the guy's ***. Admit you fouled him and move on.

To me, that's the 2nd biggest knock on Moultrie (after his tendency to disappear in big games). When things aren't going his way he throws a ***** fit and it makes matters worse.

 

[maroonmania]

and its like when the foul didn't get called at first he kept bumping the GA guy out there more and more like he was determined to get the foul.

 

[MrHooch]

he follows the dribbler entirely leaving the screener wide open forcing our defense to shift and Sidney guarding the closest man to him. How you can't coach him to guard it correctly and hedge and then hustle back to his man is beyond me? If he doesn't do it right, he sits.

There's your answer right there. The only time that boy hustles is to get to the front of the line at the buffet. I swear if we hung a box of doughnuts underneath the basket Sidney would be unstoppable...

 

[Dawgnapper]

<font size="2">...cracked me up. That's a defensive "technique" you don't see very often. And with good reason!</font>

 

[Dawgnapper]

<font size="2">Agree with your assessment of Moultrie. I just don't see it either.</font>

 

[KingBarkus]

and its like when the foul didn't get called at first he kept bumping the GA guy out there more and more like he was determined to get the foul.

Completely agree. The ref actually gave him a break by not calling the foul after 1, 2, and 3 bumps. I was dumbfounded. The shot clock was winding down, too.

People, our basketball IQ is in the short yellow bus category.

 

[mstateglfr]

while his man screens one of our defenders and the other team gets an uncontested 3pt shot as a result.

Speaking of not playing the screen correctly, did anyone see Lewis' botch late in the game? He hedged great, but his man slid down towards the paint and Lewis was left 15' away and wasnt able to recover in time.
How is it that so many other teams consistently defend the screen well but we **** all over ourselves?

 

[idog]

My thoughts:


1. I parked at Harrah's (free) and walked up to the arena. There might have been 10k there as I arrived near halftime of the UM/Auburn game.
UM has the silliest Bear mascot walking around looking completely ridiculous. With its goofy, mouth opened look and belly paunch, it looks like something an elementary school would use as a mascot. Get back to the drawing board, rebels.

2. I could tell in the first 5 minutes we were in trouble. UGA was taking it to us, but either threw the ball away or closely missed shots. Those shots were not missed in the second half.

3. Defensively, we were horrible. Sid was caught looking at his man allowing a UGA guard 30 feet from the basket to beat his man (Smith) and dunk. We are completely undisciplined in defensive techniques. With 5 minutes left in the game, we had zero steals and zero blocked shots. All night long UGA got what they wanted offensively. The back breaker occurred during the second half run when we had cut the lead to 5, crowd into it, UGA shoots and misses, but Moutrie allows his man to grab the offensive board and score. Game over.

4. MSU crowd was there (second most to UK).

5. Sidney is a coach killer. Little things like having a different warm-up jacket than everyone else to bigger things like strolling around the court and poor defensive play.

6. Stans just stood and watched with the occasional clap. You think with our season on the line, he would be more animated.

7. Bost. Horrible. When your stars don't show up, you lose.

8. Moultrie. If this guy is a high NBA draft pick, I'll never be an NBA scout. He was outplayed in arguably the most important game of the year. He gets frustrated easily which leads to dumb fouls. He continues to bring the ball down where smaller defenders either steal it or strip it. He is slow to make moves in the paint. If he can't grab offensive rebounds, he is not productive. His dumb foul 35 feet from the basket when we were making a run was a boneheaded play.

9. I think we got maxed out performances out of Steele and Lewis. I have no problem with their play. Again, when your stars don't show, game over. Hood gives 100% but the injury and being a true freshman wore him down. He made mistakes but the guy is mentally shot and physically beat down.

10. I'm done with Stans. We are headed for a bigtime make over, and is a good time to bring in new blood. I'm mad as hell, I admit. When I think of the money Stans has made, our postseason results, and now this mess, I hope Stricklin ends it.

Bonus: I would rank the dance teams of the 4 clubs:

UGA - Wow. Few in numbers but made up in quality.
Auburn
MSU - Men's basketball shorts? No.
UM

BUT, i think everything bad about this team starts withhim being on it. he is a cancer.

 

[Dawghouse]

Not that it makes it any better for a player to quit but I've wondered if Moultrie hasn't just been going through he motions once the dumpster fire started. I think he gave up several weeks ago. I can't blame him. It's either that or the fact that teams were able to double and triple team him because Sid was rarely a threat, maybe both. This team has been a disaster since the days of Gordon. Just like the last few years of Sherrill when the inmates were running the asylum.<div>
</div><div>Regardless of what happened, it all falls on the coach and Stans has proven he doesn't have the ability to manage personalities.
<div>
</div><div>IT'S TIME. Clean house and start from scratch. We have a helluva class coming in for a new coach to build on.</div> </div>

 

[dawgstudent]

that's the way they are coached to defend apparently.

And the worst/best screen of the night was Wendell's (bless him b/c he actually played well last night) on the inbounds play where he tries to run the Oklahoma drill on the defender.

 

[lanceharbor7]

When playing solid team defense with all 5 players giving max effort (which typically Stans coach teams have done until recently) the team can be in every game. When just one player doesn't do his part (Sidney), the defense breaks down and good teams get easy baskets. The other four players giving good effort will only do so for so long, especially when there are no repercussions for the weak link giving no effort. Why are they going to work so hard when one player is not and there are no consequences? Then the other four players start slacking and it all goes to ****. And you have MSU basketball with Renardo Sidney: job killer and diabetes patient.

 

[jackstefano]

Effing bring it without being a complete douche. Most of you need lots of practice.