For such a good win that it was on Thursday, today is an equally, if not worse, loss. May still get a top 4 seed to stay out of Thursday but the chances don't look great.
Rather than say something silly, I'm just going to log out and wish you all a GREAT night.
Get em next time.
@thunnellvision I'm with you. I am not puttin up with this for a while. Good luck everyone.
Dawgs shoot 14-29 from inside the arc... and a horrendous 5-29 outside of it.
When your team's not hitting from deep, you have to adjust on the fly. This team's never been known for making those kinds of adjustments, and the end result was one of those where the rest of the team watches Domask and Jones take more than half the shots.
When that happens, instead of the balanced attack we got in the first game, it turns into results like this.
"We’ve made them look like the Globetrotters today."
And we were the Washington Generals, minus their 54 year old guard..he was a good shooter with that two-handed set shot.
@insaluki Already guilty myself, but I’ll stop it right here and do the same. This was a huge bloody turd and not worth any further stress-posting efforts.
--Insert something witty here--
It will be forever etched in history that USI’s first home win as a D1 program came against a disgraceful performance against our Salukis.
Our best player looks two step too slow against an OVC team that still has a few players that would struggle to make a Division 1 roster.
Our new toy PG is making passes straight to the chest of defenders.
Trent Brown - supposedly a great perimeter shooter - and Foster Wonders - supposedly an elite perimeter shooter - can’t throw it in the ocean.
We don’t stop the ball on defense. Nor do we move the ball on offense. Pass, drive, kick out, pass, drive, kick out.
We missed Ebube in this game. Which scares me to death that we missed a redshirt freshman, (regardless of his individual talent level.)
just an atrocious loss. That sound was the fair-weathers in the community and the Dawg Pound moving on to the next shiny thing.
Hmmm....not the result we wanted. Just a bad night, or something else? Reis: "One to forget?" Mullins: "Yep"
It just feels like this game happens 5-6 times a year. Lance and Marcus don’t know how to adjust when their shot isn’t falling, and the other guys don’t have the confidence to pick them up.
I don’t see that changing. I don’t see anything different than another slightly better than average team. I don’t know if anybody here watches Drake. They’re athletic all over. They just look like they’re in another conference. The Ebube and Muila injuries are killers, too. Having stretches getting killed on the boards. I feel like I’m watching the same team every year.
Bow Em
We have some of the most bi-polar fans in all of college basketball! Terrible loss, we played really bad! We aren't going to beat anyone shooting 17% from 3 and 32% for the game. However, we played great our 1st game and then beat what will turn out to be a very good Oklahoma State team Thursday. Acting like this is the worst Saluki team since Allan Van Winkle isn't accurate. Sometimes you just have to take the good with the bad. We will come back from this. The season isn't over. Bad day, let's get better!@thunnellvision I'm with you. I am not puttin up with this for a while. Good luck everyone.
It was a really bad scheduling sequence for a variety of reasons, but with a veteran team and theoretically some depth, no excuse to be this flat. Such a downer.
Two straight shaky offensive performances after the hot opener is a source of high concern, based on the track record in recent years. Johnson has not had many good stretches running the show. They need to find answers, quickly.
BM: "didn't prepare them...came out flat...not much energy guarding the ball...gotta play with energy the whole 40 minutes...they're a good team - they hit some tough shots"
BM sounded real down - didn't much want to talk to Reis.
Watson: give USI credit...they have really good guards...this is what happens sometimes in basketball...Wichita just lost to Alcorn..Colorado lost to Grambling, etc.
We have some of the most bi-polar fans in all of college basketball! Terrible loss, we played really bad! We aren't going to beat anyone shooting 17% from 3 and 32% for the game. However, we played great our 1st game and then beat what will turn out to be a very good Oklahoma State team Thursday. Acting like this is the worst Saluki team since Allan Van Winkle isn't accurate. Sometimes you just have to take the good with the bad. We will come back from this. The season isn't over. Bad day, let's get better!@thunnellvision I'm with you. I am not puttin up with this for a while. Good luck everyone.
Nobody's saying this team's in the same neighborhood as those Van Winkle disasters... but I think we're all just so, SO tired of these .500 seasons that end in St. Louis with another quarterfinal or semifinal loss, and no postseason (again).
Losses like today just keep that pattern going. You can't follow up a huge road win over a Power 5 team with an effort like today's and expect us to see anything different right now.
SIU came into this season with essentially two bigs.
Clarence Rupert, who can play the 5 but is more suited to the four and Scottie Ebube, who has promise but has the misfortune of getting hurt and would undoubtedly have struggles any freshman will have.
Hornecker apparently needed a redshirt and even when healthy JD Muila is not a guy who should be playing minutes that matter for a D1 team.
Domask is also out of position at the 4.
While the frontcourt was not the biggest issue today it has been a longstanding problem where SIU being weak in the front has led to the backcourt having to carry a lot of the load and when they have an off night like tonight it spells disaster.
These are my humble observations. This team is really not much different from last year. Again, we have no one besides Jones and Domask able to be significant shot makers. Again, no inside presence. Maybe that will get better when players return from injury. However, Mulia is not a scorer and Ebube is really an unknown. Again, the team is not very athletic. Johnson and Newton are not really offensive players. The team has no one to replace Coupet. In fact, this team may sorely miss Verplancken and Filewich. Very discouraging.
