Rayjon Tucker and Deondre Burns were both unavailable for the Pine Bluff game. That left us with only nine scholarship players available, which was enough, as it turned out. However, who knows if two more sets of fresh legs down the stretch might have made a difference. And when both the missing players serve the same basic function (perimeter shooters), it hurts doubly. Add to that the fact that Ryan Pippins, another perimeter player, ended up with four fouls, and we had two other players with four fouls, and it is easy to see how close we came to being in real trouble. Three little fouls in the wrong places, and we would have been down to six available scholarship players.
Pine Bluff played well, and might have ended up with a win regardless; but it is also true that Walker's failure to fill out his roster may have cost us the game. It is at least a possibility, and one that easily could have been avoided if we had at least fleshed out our roster with graduate transfers of some sort. This one is on you, Coach.
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