Some random thoughts from last nights game

Posted on: January 5, 2017 at 10:01:57 CT

I’m not sure I understand the overwhelming negativity. I thought that was without question the second best game we played this year, and without question the second most entertaining game we played this year. That was an actual legit opponent and there were portions of the game that we played with passion, that we had some success, and it was reasonably entertaining. We aren’t any good this year, so most likely any time we play a legit opponent we will lose. But at least there where portions of the game last night where it also looked like we were a legit team even if we couldn’t sustain it.

SEC network announcers are painfully clueless and simply regurgitate whatever bullet points we feed to them. I thought surely we were past hearing the excuses and the notion that we were still on the right path rebuilding from a tough inherited situation.

Sucks to see the depths we will go to fabricate attendance numbers.

Kim should not agree to participate in those Mic’ed up segments. They never paint him in a good light.

Looks like Hughes may be entirely ruined, I can’t recall someone falling so fast and to such a degree. He went from go to guy to someone who literally brings nothing to the table in a matter of games.

I don’t understand how Geist does it, but he is consistently effective. Russell Woods too. Both of them are playing above their heads simply by playing harder than everyone else.

Possibly the most amazing development of this amazingly terrible season is how entirely undefined our roles and rotations are at this point. We had a jump start with additional practices and extra exhibition games, and we enter SEC play with the most tumultuous minutes rotation possibly in D1 history. Other than Puryear and Woods, every single player on our team has an entirely different role and expectation than he did like 3 games ago. It would be fascinating to hear the staff walk through a detailed explanation of their approach in terms of game to game what role and rotations they use. Its almost like it is entirely random, or based primarily on point in time attempts to convince certain individuals to not transfer.

I really feel for Puryear, its very similar to Kelly Thames post-injury. He wants to be the go to guy that leads the school he loves to success, he is simply surrounded by guys who can’t do it and he isn’t quite good enough to carry them to that level in the same situation Thames was faced with. Kelly’s last three years at MU he battled so hard on terrible teams and he simply couldn’t physically lift them up to success. Puryear has made some pretty considerable improvements in both rebounding and defense, and he brings it every night despite always losing. I do hope at some future point he gets to experience some measure of basketball success.