re: *2023-24 ARKANSAS RAZORBACK BASKETBALL SEASON THREAD*

36 bench points

Watching muss press conference. Hunter hasnt given me the game ball for 100th win.

"I guess hes been occupied of late"

If Ellis is finally getting his shite figured out, we're going to be a problem.

There's a reason Muss keeps putting him out there. I'm thinking he's badass in practice and we saw a bit of it tonight.

It looked like duke switched from a 2-2-1 press to slow down the tempo to a 1-2-1-1 diamond press trapping as soon as possible instead of trying to force the ball to a corner for a trap.

I'm this scenario the guards have to handle the pressure and dribble thru to break it or allow a trap and curl a guard to the middle to be able to brake it with the bounce and a pass.

The guards were trying to break the press with lateral passes which actually aided the press in this case. This confused and frustrated the guards.

There isn't many teams who use the diamond press anymore or use it in the way they did last night.

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There isn't many teams who use the diamond press anymore or use it in the way they did last night.

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Definitely what shook them. And 1 of the bigs sitting in the corner not coming out to mid court when it got tight was hurting things as well.

Think it was a look they hadn't seen or practiced. Something Muss can easily address.

tight B-hole situation but Ellis finally attacked with the dribble and Devo came in and knew what to do.

Respect Muss for giving Blocker that chance and then making the call to switch to Devo.

Devo still missed a FT of course. Just to keep things interesting.

If this team can figure out the FTs and keep that level of team defense, we should win 12 conference games.

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If this team can figure out the FTs and keep that level of team defense, we should win 12 conference games.

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Thank God Duke was equally as enthusiastic about missing free throws as we were lol. There were like 25 missed FT's in the game last night or something like that.

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Devo should shoot a litte bit better that 61%, but he's only shot 18. Small sample size. He's not going to shoot 90% but he's been over 70% pretty comfortably in the other 3 seasons he's played.

Outside of that none of our guards have really bad FT%, it's just no one has been great. Battle should be our best, but he's below what he's capable of right now, hitting around 80%.

Outside of that, our guards and Brazile are all a bunch of 70-75%

Point is, no one is really that bad, it's just we don't have the auto free throw guy you'd like to have out there in those situations

OP Updated. SEC & ACC split the challenge at 7-7.

2023 Bottom Line
Record: 5-3
SEC Record:
RPI: 127
NET 21
SOS: 96
Home Record: 4-1
Road Record:
Neutral Record 1-2
Streak 1 Win
Home Streak 1 Win
Road Streak
Last 10
vs. Quad Group 1: 1-2
vs. Quad Group 2: 1-0
vs. Quad Group 3: 1-1
vs. Quad Group 4: 2-0
Team FG %: 45%
Team FT %: 69%
Team 3 PT %: 34%
Team Pts Per Game: 80.6
Team Pts Given Up Per Game: 75.2

The Top Hogs
Scorers: Mark (18.4), Battle (15.8), Brazile (11.1)
FT %: Battle (80%), Brazile & Ellis (75%), Blocker (73%), Mark (71%)
3 Pt %: Brazile (44%), Battle (42%), Mark (40%)
FG %: Mitchell (66%), Mark (55%), Lawson (51%), Blocker (50%), Brazile (49%)
Rebounds: Brazile (66), Lawson (35), Davis (34)
Blocks: Brazile (15), Lawson (13)

SEC Standings
Ole Miss 6-0
South Carolina 6-0
Kentucky 6-1
Miss State 6-1
Auburn 5-1
Missouri 6-2
aTm 6-2
Alabama 5-2
Arkansas 5-3
Florida 4-3
Georgia 4-3
LSU 4-3
Tennessee 4-3
Vanderbilt 3-4

Wish we had a game this weekend

School record 23 rebounds for Saylor. Scott was fantastic too.