Another terrible night from 3 pt distance, but our D and board work got us the W.

I've been saying it for weeks...get Absom ion the game. I don't know if he starts, although I believe he should. He is so much better than RJ. RJ is solid, but he plays defensively on offense. Plays with his head down. Absom is just relaxed and sees the whole court. He also can do things from ft line in, which RJ cannot. He needs many more minutes and is a key going forward for us.

Once again our depth at guard shows A couple guys have been slumping a bit and then bam they are back. Really nice games from Tyrin, who some folks were really slamming a couple days ago and Leffew. We took care of the ball...Somto had four tos cause we gave him the ball in bad spots, but the guards took care of it. DeShayne was so so. He really needs to up his intensity and not coast at times.

Somto had a huge game in the 2nd half with some great blocks and got a couple terrible calls against him, He also knocked down big fts.

Silas was the main reason we won. He absolutely shut down Fears who has been on a roll. Along with great board work and scoring he making 8-9 from the stripe he is our leader.

If you had to pick one to keep- I would take bobo bc he is proven commodity

@CKJohnson wanted a post, so I got you!

Here’s my thoughts:
1) how bout them hoop dawgs!!! So good to see the Steg alive and well! So good to be beating good teams!
2) we have the size and athleticism that will give us a chance every freaking night. We happy some athletic horses.
3) when your two main guys (Silas and Asa) are unselfish and committed to playing relentless D and rebounding, it sets a beautiful culture. Culture appears to be through the roof.
4) we seem to be absolutely primed to make the tourney
5) Somto completely changed the game on D tonight. He basically closed the game out on D, awesome!
7) I am concerned about the offense. We are averaging about 7 assists per game in sec play. Thats not a lot at all. It often feels like our best play is to throw it up at the rim and go get it. We made 20 more free throws than Oklahoma tonight. We made 14 more free throws than Kentucky. Can we keep getting a whistle like that? We shot less free throws than Ole Miss in our road game and we only put up 51 points total.
8) at the same time we shot the three ball poorly in both of our sec home games and STILL got two HUGE W’s so maybe we can figure it out?!?! Or maybe we can just win a bunch with defense and rebounding.
9) Leffew kinda salted the Kentucky game away with a floater off the glass and he kinda closed it tonight on offense with 2-3 buckets. Great to see!

Hoop dawgs forever! Go Dawgs!