Tuesday, January 6, 2015

South Alabama game - bad times are here again!

"Is your program in the doldrums. Are you unable to beat even the Sunnyvale Nursing Home? Are your players shooting like they were blind? Come on down to Little Rock! Get your team back on track. Enjoy the wonderful hospitality of our patented Non-Defense. We want our visitors to feel at home."

Let's get the good news out of the way first. Roger Woods had a solid 14-12 double/double. James Reid and Ben Dillard both had very good nights on offense. Mareik Isom undoubtedly earned himself more playing time with a wonderful 19 minutes in which he did not miss a shot and pulled down 5 rebounds. We had 14 assists against 8 turnovers.

After that, it stinks! James White just disappeared. J. T. Thomas and Josh Hagins couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. We got hammered 35 to 28 on the boards. And, in what has become a nauseatingly consistent statistic, USA hit 41.2% of their three-point shots, and 47.8% overall.

I guess we have just passed a team resolution that we are not going to play defense any more. Well, that ought to please a lot of our fans. They have been complaining for years that Shields' teams played a boring, defense-first game. We have solved that problem. Defense is totally irrelevant now. EVERYBODY SCORES. Come to the Jack Stephens Center for the circus. Run down the court and shoot. There won't be anybody on the Trojan end of the court that gives you any problems.

One question, though: how does Gus Leeper play 12 minutes without getting a single statistic other than minutes played?

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