re: Game thread MU loses 74-72OT

That ref screwed Anderson quite a bit tonight. It was nice to see him get put on his arse.

Too much standing around. Guys not getting moving to get open.

One thing I seen was several open players at the post wide open and not getting the ball. They are missing those open guys and taking shots to quick instead os working the clock with a good lead.

One good thing was we didn't see the weave very much. Or at least the never ending version they like to run.

anybody else think we go 2-0 early in conference play?

The ball does need to go inside out. That can be done via pass to the post or drive and kick.
Most of the guys on this team will make a move to score for themselves. There were about 8 times that a player drove the lane, and should of kicked it out to a wide open shooter. But instead took a tough contested shot. It's not just 1 guy. I saw J3, Clark, MGC, Isabel all do this more than once.
Assists and scoring will go up significantly when this happens.

I seen a few kick outs and then missed shots from the corners. Problem with kick outs or relying on the inside out game is you have to have a dead eye shooter. If you miss a majority of those kick out shots, the other teams notices it as well and becomes non effective if you don't make the shots. I seen OSU do this to Mizzou towards the end of the second half. They made most of those shots and it opened up the lane for them. For us, it didn't. We didn't sink the shots like they did. Just what I observed last night. OSU was also pushing Mizzous offense out to the top of the lane. Sometimes almost to the half court line.

I watched either Clark or Shamburg dribble right past an open passing lane to Rosberg who was basically by himself wide open between him and the basket. Then OSU locked down the lane. I seen it again with some other players who had post down low. I see guys get the ball on the base line with a wide open route to the rim and they opt for a jump shot. Lob passes that should have never happened. It erodes the any momentum from a missed shot or turn over.

I also seen a lot of elbow forearm shots to our players backs that didn't get called. This was a very physical game down low. The refs tried to let them play but for some reason in the second half, the refs decided to see a lot of things the OSU way including those elbows. Mizzou was doing to them they were doing to Mizzou. Refs should have just let it play out. Rosberg couldn't buy a charge foul from the refs either and there were a couple that should have been.


I was most disappointed at the team not taking their time with a lead starting the second half. They could have made it harder on OSU by just running the clock and keeping OSU in their defense longer. This teams passing also sucks big time. Not fast and crisp like you would like. Good way to make their defense work harder without working your offense to hard.