At Louisiana (2/11)

[HoopsFan]

Wow. 16-24 in the second half for them. Hard to overcome 67% shooting. I didn't see or hear anything right after halftime, except "This is tune in" and ESPN+ just said "unable to stream game, try later"

Oh well, I guess I didn't miss much.

[hammb]

My feed did not break until I turned it off with like 7:00 to play. Brutal game.

[footballguy51]

Our offense appears to be centered on driving and kicking out to the open 3. The problem is that we aren't hitting the 3. Honestly, the team needs to be practicing the 3 and free throws before and after practice. Spurgin is lucky to hit iron right now on those shots. It says something that our best shooter was PJ Edwards.

[hammb]

Our offense appears to be centered on driving and kicking out to the open 3. The problem is that we aren't hitting the 3. Honestly, the team needs to be practicing the 3 and free throws before and after practice. Spurgin is lucky to hit iron right now on those shots. It says something that our best shooter was PJ Edwards.

The three point line has really gotten ugly for this team. I know I've lamented it since the beginning. Simon kept saying he thought we had good shooters that just weren't making shots. I've had people on here tell me we have good shooters that just aren't making shots. But at some point if they're good shooters they need to start making some shots.

It's just offensively either. Because we trap so much teams that get out of the traps are creating a ton of wide open 3 point looks as well.

We currently rank 319th in the country shooting 3s at 31%. Defensively we're 331st in the country allowing our opponents to shoot 36%. THat number is actually allowing 39.5% in conference play...agh!

We lead the MAC in making and taking FTs, but we're 10th in percentage. I'd like to see a guy like Hill closer to 80%, and Agee closer to 70%, but neither of them are and they make up about half of our nightly free throw attempts.

This offense has the makings of something good. Hill can get where ever he wants on the floor and he's really gotten better as the year goes on of finding the right pass when the doubles come. Agee has been tremendous in the middle this year, and even I have been surprised at how good his basketball IQ is at making good passes when he's doubled, etc. But all those kickouts and good passes are meaningless when the guys you're kicking too can not make shots. In conference play Thomas and Humphries are combining for over 9 3pa per game (THomas over 6!) with both of them shooting under 30%. Those are the guys that are supposed to be our shooters...they're the ones getting so many of the kickout looks. They're almost all wide open catch and shoot opportunities and they simply can't make them right now.

[footballguy51]

Our offense appears to be centered on driving and kicking out to the open 3. The problem is that we aren't hitting the 3. Honestly, the team needs to be practicing the 3 and free throws before and after practice. Spurgin is lucky to hit iron right now on those shots. It says something that our best shooter was PJ Edwards.

The three point line has really gotten ugly for this team. I know I've lamented it since the beginning. Simon kept saying he thought we had good shooters that just weren't making shots. I've had people on here tell me we have good shooters that just aren't making shots. But at some point if they're good shooters they need to start making some shots.

It's just offensively either. Because we trap so much teams that get out of the traps are creating a ton of wide open 3 point looks as well.

We currently rank 319th in the country shooting 3s at 31%. Defensively we're 331st in the country allowing our opponents to shoot 36%. THat number is actually allowing 39.5% in conference play...agh!

We lead the MAC in making and taking FTs, but we're 10th in percentage. I'd like to see a guy like Hill closer to 80%, and Agee closer to 70%, but neither of them are and they make up about half of our nightly free throw attempts.

This offense has the makings of something good. Hill can get where ever he wants on the floor and he's really gotten better as the year goes on of finding the right pass when the doubles come. Agee has been tremendous in the middle this year, and even I have been surprised at how good his basketball IQ is at making good passes when he's doubled, etc. But all those kickouts and good passes are meaningless when the guys you're kicking too can not make shots. In conference play Thomas and Humphries are combining for over 9 3pa per game (THomas over 6!) with both of them shooting under 30%. Those are the guys that are supposed to be our shooters...they're the ones getting so many of the kickout looks. They're almost all wide open catch and shoot opportunities and they simply can't make them right now.

As frustrating as it is, I can also see that if we start making these shots with any sort of decent frequency then we will be dangerous! Also, props have to go out because the players continue to run this offense. So, they believe it will work and they haven't given up or gotten frustrated.

[hammb]

Our offense appears to be centered on driving and kicking out to the open 3. The problem is that we aren't hitting the 3. Honestly, the team needs to be practicing the 3 and free throws before and after practice. Spurgin is lucky to hit iron right now on those shots. It says something that our best shooter was PJ Edwards.

The three point line has really gotten ugly for this team. I know I've lamented it since the beginning. Simon kept saying he thought we had good shooters that just weren't making shots. I've had people on here tell me we have good shooters that just aren't making shots. But at some point if they're good shooters they need to start making some shots.

It's just offensively either. Because we trap so much teams that get out of the traps are creating a ton of wide open 3 point looks as well.

We currently rank 319th in the country shooting 3s at 31%. Defensively we're 331st in the country allowing our opponents to shoot 36%. THat number is actually allowing 39.5% in conference play...agh!

We lead the MAC in making and taking FTs, but we're 10th in percentage. I'd like to see a guy like Hill closer to 80%, and Agee closer to 70%, but neither of them are and they make up about half of our nightly free throw attempts.

This offense has the makings of something good. Hill can get where ever he wants on the floor and he's really gotten better as the year goes on of finding the right pass when the doubles come. Agee has been tremendous in the middle this year, and even I have been surprised at how good his basketball IQ is at making good passes when he's doubled, etc. But all those kickouts and good passes are meaningless when the guys you're kicking too can not make shots. In conference play Thomas and Humphries are combining for over 9 3pa per game (THomas over 6!) with both of them shooting under 30%. Those are the guys that are supposed to be our shooters...they're the ones getting so many of the kickout looks. They're almost all wide open catch and shoot opportunities and they simply can't make them right now.

As frustrating as it is, I can also see that if we start making these shots with any sort of decent frequency then we will be dangerous! Also, props have to go out because the players continue to run this offense. So, they believe it will work and they haven't given up or gotten frustrated.

Yes, props that we continue making the right passes even though we can't make the shots at a high enough clip. I'm with you though in finding it tough to really complain about the offensive philosophy when it's generating so many good looks. I suppose you could ask some of those guys to drive instead of settling for the open shots, but are they likely to be better in that? Seems that an open catch & shoot 3 should be one of the easier shots available.

I don't think this team has the shooting (or defense) to be the one that breaks our tourney drought, but you're 100% right that if they show up in Cleveland and the backdrop just works for them they certainly could. We haven't struggled getting good looks at the basket against pretty much any defense. If they start hitting the open shots they'll be dangerous.

[Redwingtom]

I lost the radio and espn+ feeds. The only thing I have is the stat feed. Wow, thanks, Disney. $16.99 and I get this crap!
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HoopsFan

I watch ESPN+ all the time for BG games and the German Bundesliga. Once EVERY SINGLE GAME, the feed goes out and I have to open a new window...although today, it's a blessing.

It's VERY rare for mine to completely crap out. Probably more to do with your provider or strength/speed of your connection. I have Comcast with almost their fastest connection speed. But I did notice that this game seemed to be quite a but jumpy and I noticed the audio was not matching the video exactly when a ball hit the rim. That gym also looked really dark...not sure if was just the lighting, but that looked like a nice arena so I doubt that. So maybe the issues were with the production from the gamesite??

As far as the game, after the first few minutes, our guys just looked like they'd rather be somewhere else. Louisiana looked like they were playing for something, and we didn't.

[Redwingtom]

Our offense appears to be centered on driving and kicking out to the open 3. The problem is that we aren't hitting the 3. Honestly, the team needs to be practicing the 3 and free throws before and after practice. Spurgin is lucky to hit iron right now on those shots. It says something that our best shooter was PJ Edwards.

Let's not forget that Spurgin as 1-20 from 3 last year. This is still a bit new for him.