Wow no game thread for the Florida game?

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Apathy has set in.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

If we can just stay in the game with them I will be very happy. Florida is very good and athletic.

So far we are playing well, which is a departure from recent games. Probably because Ready is in there from the start.

 

[coach66]

If we can get some shots to drop maybe.

Cold

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

They are way too athletic for us to win unless we go crazy from 3.

We are doing much better that I thought we would be, honestly.

Florida kinda looks like I think we can if our guys mature a bit.

 

[eckie1]

We have had success in the paint....

Cold

So, naturally, we 3-pt-brick our way to a halftime deficit. Even kicked it out when we had good chances at high % points in the paint.

Defense and rebounding look pretty good so far, for the most part.

If we can hit 3s in the 2nd half, we probably run away if all else stays the same. Might even win if we abandon the perimeter altogether. But the brick laying is a guaranteed loss.

 

[ShrubDog]

Not one defense chant from the crowd, 17ing pathetic.

 

[57stratdawg]

Our shot chart is ugly.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

1-18 from 3, wow

 

[ALdawg.sixpack]

Say what you want about style of play, we get the worse end of calls every game.

Florida just committed their first foul of second half 12 minutes in...

And we have a few phantom calls against us every single game.

 

[KingBarkus]

I wonder if there have been 3 games in the hundreds of games played where a foul was not called on a team in 12 minutes.

 

[coach66]

Should have won this game by 10.

Nm

 

[eckie1]

I agree completely....

Nm

The only way we could feasibly lose today was by doing exactly what we did: bricking 3s all day long. FTs were awful, too.

FL was not on their game today and Benjamins let them off the hook. They were who we thought they were!1!1!1!!

 

[KurtRambis4]

Which is a shame

because the pieces are there, minus a couple of players.

Bandwagon.

 

[hailstate19]

Our fan base is a bunch bandwagon fans. We have Terrible fan base that's more concerned about a non conference baseball game agents a terrible opponent then a b-ball game vs a ranked opponent. That's Pretty Sorry if you ask me

 

[RocketDawg]

Our fan base is a bunch bandwagon fans. We have Terrible fan base that's more concerned about a non conference baseball game agents a terrible opponent then a b-ball game vs a ranked opponent. That's Pretty Sorry if you ask me

Not necessarily. Maybe they just like baseball more than they do basketball.

 

[msugolf]

I agree with you. We are either the hardest, or at least bottom 3, school to win at due to our support.

Also, It's easier to be accepted in the south if you hate basketball, especially if you're a "southern gentleman." And an even bigger bonus if you like college baseball more.

 

[hailstate19]

MSU has some of the dumbest fans ever. The hump was essentially empty today.. pretty much a ******* embarrassment considering that basketball is on the rise and the young guys need support. Instead the PA announcer asked fans in the upper deck to come to the lower deck because it was so empty. That is sorry as **** and some of you so called miss state fans are a bunch of clowns

 

[Shamoan]

Watching us play isn't entertaining. It's frustrating. Sports are about entertainment and we are now 12th of 14 teams in a ****** basketball league losing 6 of our last 7. No thanks. The season is over and most fans know that.

 

[FlotownDawg]

Basketball is on the rise? Could've fooled me. Currently 12th in a 14 team mediocre league. By the way, this looks like it will be the second straight season where we will finish below what we were projected to in preseason rankings. Recruiting looks great on paper, but means nothing if you don't get the results. The "We're young" excuse doesn't hold much water anymore. We've played almost a full season. Should be getting better but it looks like we've hit a wall.

 

[hailstate19]

What a sorry as **** attitude. This is exactly why our fan base is crap. We have been in pretty much every game. Bunch of ***** *** fair weather fans...

 

[hailstate19]

Hell yeah it's on the rise. Howlands got it going in the right direction. We will probably finish with a winning record for the first time since stans..

 

[hailstate19]

We nearly upset Florida and we were shooting terrible from 3. Yeah it's a loss but I think we will finish strong and get us a bye in th SEC tournament

 

[Shamoan]

As a technicality, after ray, there was only one way to go, and that was up.

 

[Shamoan]

look bud, it's not like we are fans of Alabama football or duke/unc/kentucky basketball. We are freaking state fans. We might be the least fair-weather fans of all time. for us to be ***** *** fair-weather fans, would require us to experience some semblance of sustained success over the not so distant past. we are basically fans of the team that the Harlem globe trotters always beat mixed in with a few past fandom successes that now seem a lifetime ago. It's the same old story this season and we have earned the right to go in our default mode which has laregely been apathy for the better part of a decade.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Living about 8 hours from Starkville this was my first game back in the Hump in several years. My wife and I were so excited to get back for a game but it wasn't much like I remembered.

1. I tried everywhere to buy lower level seats for the game today and they were just not available. I guess our fans don't know how to use StubHub? It's like they buy the season tickets then just throw them in the garbage. There were hundreds and hundreds of empty seats in the lower bowl and literally zero available online. I finally bought upper deck for my family then moved down low midway through the first half.

2. The students are into the game and do a good job of standing and yelling the whole time. Why in the hell are they not behind the visitors' basket in the second half? Florida was shooting crucial free throws late in the game and the folks behind their basket were just looking at their phones.

3. Florida had complete control of our crowd. A couple of times we tied the game late or made a big shot and the crowd got up and into the game, but as soon as Florida scored everyone sat back down and waited for something to happen. We've forgotten how to act at a basketball game.

Cohen has got to do something about the Hump. It's really dated, and the seating arrangement is very very bad. Also, if you want anything other than a hotdog, popcorn, or nachos you are SOL. I've seen better concessions offerings at high school games.

We can (and need to) do better.

 

[KurtRambis4]

YEah we

suck! Next year will probably be even worse!

 

[Seinfeld]

There's no doubt that this season has been somewhat disappointing, but I just think that you've gotta give Howland a complete pass this year. One upperclassman on the entire team, and if we're all being honest with ourselves, a lot of fans wouldn't have minded a bit if the only senior that we have hadn't come back this year. So it's not like we've got Timmy Bowers out there, but we've seen in the prior 5-6 games how much the team misses that kind of leadership when Ready's out. Then, when you look at the complete rotation and find 7 true freshmen and a couple others(Holman and Stapleton) who essentially didn't even play last year, I mean... I just don't know what some people expected.

So I say all this to say, I am one of the first on this board to argue with people that want to claim that what we're currently watching is so much better than the Stansbury years, but Howland gets two more years from no matter what. I think we'll see a pretty significant jump next year, and then I expect 2018/2019 to be amazing. When you think about it, true freshmen rarely played any significant minutes on any of our better squads from the last 20 years, and these guys just need some time to grow.