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99jc

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While LSU and Ole Miss have the potential to be top-25 teams, there isn't an SEC West team that can be called a lock for the NCAA tournament. Mississippi State will be fortunate to get into the NIT. The Bulldogs lost the best all-around player in the league (Jamont Gordon), one of the league's top big men (Charles Rhodes) and a 3-point specialist (Ben Hansbrough). The only hope for Arkansas, whose leading scorer (Stefan Welsh) averaged 5.3 points per game last season, getting into postseason play may be the College Basketball Invitational, which - unlike the NIT - will invite teams with losing records.</p>

The SEC East certainly is stronger. Tennessee has legitimate Final Four potential. I think Florida will be much improved and could go as far as the Sweet 16. But that division doesn't have anyone else that could be considered an NCAA lock.</p>

You could make the argument that with all that mediocrity, wins will be easier to come by and that some sleeper(s) will emerge from the pack. But losing non-conference games to low and mid-majors is going to drag down the SEC's ranking in the all-important RPI. Going 10-6 in league play won't mean as much as it usually does, and it may not guarantee an SEC team an NCAA bid.</p>
 
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alabamadog

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Don't forget Mercer is now champions of the state of Alabama, beating Bama and Auburn. Wait, they haven't beat the best team, UAB.
 
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RonnyAtmosphere

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...watching Jamont Gordon act like a retarded *** during State basketball games is not something I'm going to miss.

Everybody can predict State's ensuing basketball mediocrity due to the loss of Jamont Gordon all they want; all I know is my game-time cussing fits are about to decrease substantially now that the idiot Jamont Gordon is gone.
 
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captaindawg

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Jamont could play any position except center and did while he was here. He even said that PG wasn't his natural position but he played it anyway and led us to back to back Western titles and two post season appearances. Does anyone really think that we are better by losing him from this team this year?</p>
 
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TheMAROONandWHITE

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[list type=decimal] [*]captaindawg wrote: [/list] _________________________________________________
Jamont could play any position except center and did while he was here. He even said that PG wasn't his natural position but he played it anyway and led us to back to back Western titles and two post season appearances. Does anyone really think that we are better by losing him from this team this year?
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after watching the game last night, i do. they played much better as a unit. they were smooth and efficient. this team will be better than any team with jamont gordon on it.
 
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patdog

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He could be frustrating to watch sometimes, but overall he was one of the best players we've ever had.
 
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fishwater99

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captaindawg[/b]]

Jamont could play any position except center and did while he was here. He even said that PG wasn't his natural position</p>
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Ding Ding...

Imagine if we had Bost at PG and J-Money at small forward, too bad "The Recruiter" could figure that out...
 
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BlindDawg

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Imagine if we had Bost at PG and J-Money at small forward, too bad "The Recruiter" could figure that out...
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Yeah too bad Bost couldn't graduate a year earlier so he could have played with Jamont. Jamont left on his own; Stans did not run him off. I'm sure if Jamont and Bost would have been on the same team, Stans would've figured something out.

Note to self: Be careful when you wish for basketball season to come, cause with it comes fishwater and coach's dubmass ****.
 
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fishwater99

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Imagine if we had Bost at PG and J-Money at small forward, too bad "The Recruiter" could figure that out...
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Yeah too bad Bost couldn't graduate a year earlier so he could have played with Jamont. Jamont left on his own; Stans did not run him off. I'm sure if Jamont and Bost would have been on the same team, Stans would've figured something out.
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You must be blind, deaf, and dumb...
My point was, if Stans had a PG (insert any PG's name here) then JG could have played his true position the 3.
He failed to recruit one the whole time J-money was at MSU..

dumbuku...
 
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skydawg1

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Jul 31, 2007
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You need to work on making your points more clearer. I almost posted exactly what Blind posted.

I'm glad you didn't mean what you typed because that was some stupid *** **** right there.

Imagine if we had Bost at PG and J-Money at small forward, too bad "The Recruiter" could figure that out...
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8dog

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in thinking Hans or Richard Delk could play point in the SEC. If he had been right, one of them would still be here.

He also expected to have Ervin through Jamont's junior year.
 
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MSUCostanza

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We have the dumbest fans in America, who also have a knack for eating their own like no other.

For evidence of both, just read the two main message boards.
 
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BlindDawg said:
Imagine if we had Bost at PG and J-Money at small forward, too bad "The Recruiter" could figure that out...
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Yeah too bad Bost couldn't graduate a year earlier so he could have played with Jamont. Jamont left on his own; Stans did not run him off. I'm sure if Jamont and Bost would have been on the same team, Stans would've figured something out.

<span style="font-weight: bold;">Note to self: Be careful when you wish for basketball season to come, cause with it comes fishwater and coach's dubmass ****.</span>
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Those two spread their dumb around all year long. They don't just save it all for basketball season
 
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captaindawg

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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"> The reason that Jamont was the PG while he was here was because he was the best option.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> Hansbrough and Delk were both brought in to play the point and were not able to beat out Gordon.</span>
 
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Seinfeld

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At least I hope they're not. However, it's not exactly a ground breaking revelation to propose that a team may be just as good or possibly better off without a talented player. The Memphis Grizzlies, a team that has struggled to compete for the life of the franchise to due to the lack of a strong post presence every year, passed on getting Zach Randolph this summer for practically nothing. Randolph is putting up 21 pts and 13 rebounds this season so why did the Grizz pass? Because he's known to be a team chemistry killer.

Jamont Gordon was one of the most talented players that MSU has ever had, but he never led us to anything further than the 2nd round of the NCAA tourney and the program has had riffs in it for as long as he's been here. I don't think that was all his fault but I do think that the locker room has been split for at least the last two seasons.

There is absolutely no reason for an MSU fan to hate Jamont Gordon, but I also don't think it's crazy to think that we may be better without him. Had we landed Hopson and kept Hansbrough, I'd be willing to bet that we'd be better this year than we were last season.
 
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