*****FINAL FOUR TIME - Game Thread*****

[ZaytovenCat]

we play better with Herro in the game

Yep. Him simply moving constantly helps the offense. When he’s out then we just have everyone standing around making us very easy to guard.

 

[I bleed big blue]

Getting lost at moment. Its halftime. Lets regroup. Make some adjustments. Stop all 3's in 2nd half. Get back to feeding post. Get it established again. Then few kickouts. Few reposts. Few 3's. Looked gassed a lil. Get out this gym cats.

 

[fisherscat]

Had a chance to create separation and didn’t. Looking like a tight, grind it out game. Gotta hope the young Cats stay poised

 

[MarkPftw]

Why is RT constantly cacatching the ball 20 feet from the basket?

THIS ! ^^^^^^ Good question.

 

[ubtrapper_rivals103836]

If I was Pearl, I'd be tickled pink to only be down 5 at half. Should've been down 20!!!

 

[Blue_2_the_bone_rivals]

Usually we do but he sucked the last couple minutes he was in

Because he missed a couple shots? He’s the only one who feeds the post from the wing. He does so much to influence the game besides his scoring, it’s obvious.

 

[oldsports_]

Bruce giving his David vs Goliath speech, Us against the world, rah rah rah

 

[NavyKat]

Hagan's fails to block out and they get a put back dunk, damn that shouldn't happen.

That was Keldon’s man.

 

[Stonewall12]

Did Tyler quit the team ??? Damn Cal , strange time to bury him ... I think he needed a blow to mentally refocus but **** — hasn’t he earned the right to play thru a tough stretch ?

He have two fouls?

 

[wromanp7]

Baker with 2 fouls (including the one on the 3 shot) in, what, 3 minutes?

 

[TortElvisII]

Flop flop flop

 

[ala_kat2]

Just think how we’d be without PJ in this game.
When Herro is missing shots and K Johnson is not scoring, we struggle mightily on offense.
I thought this game would be more up and down and faster paced, but we virtually played stall ball the last 7 minutes of the first half.

 

[Bigblueamyou]

Nick came in and screwed up twiced,I doubt you see much of him.

 

[UKNothinButNet]

Amazing that some of you are more than eager to point out a mistake by Hagans but he makes a three and not a peep. Unbelievable that some are so entrenched that they refuse to give credit and yes it’s obvious.

There’s a whole lot more to running the team than standing on the perimeter and making a three every once and a while. He’s already got 3-4 turnovers.

 

[Levibooty]

I don't think Hagans can lead the offense to attack with the big guys inside. I'm not convinced he can pass the ball effectively to do such.

 

[AnthonyDavisMVP]

If anyone questioned the importance of Herro, the end of this half is all the proof you need.

Herro was super medium when he was in. Herro has nothing to do with it right now, we need someone who can stay in front of Harper.

 

[KyCatFan1]

The second half we need to go inside every time. Force them to double the post or we score or get fouled. Need to take advantage of their foul trouble. Don't shoot the 3's unless you are wide open or they are packing the defense in. Also get back in transition better because they are trying to score fast here lately.

 

[DCFseattle]

20 minutes

 

[blubo]

KJ is a no show.

Andy kennedy on sec ch was saying how great kj has been playing. lol

 

[CatPhight_rivals65113]

Not exploiting the advantage in the paint...

Auburn has 5 offensive boards...

 

[ck-2]

We should be bringing the ball right down the floor and posting Reid or PJ. Instead we dribble., dribble,, dribble. . And then in the last five seconds we do whatever.
Tony Bennett..... I mean Cal must like to just grind these games out.
We had them on the ropes with foul trouble but decided to shoot jumpers.

 

[wccat]

We worry about if PJ would play but yet we for some reason think we should jack up 3s. Don't understand what Cal is seeing.

 

[jameslee32]

Couple of observations - KJ needs to pull his head out of his ***. He is exasperating right now. Offense needs to go inside every possession. Double comes then pass out. Too much dribbling out high with no movement.

But 7 rebounds, 2 assists.

 

[MaryJane6]

THIS ! ^^^^^^ Good question.

This! Why aren't we feeding him the ball down low more. And why are we settling for jump shots. We rarely take 13 threes in a half.

 

[Stonewall12]

We are fine. Herro is the key to getting the ball inside. We got this

Amazing he is the only player who passes inside

Cal has never said one word about that either

 

[Aike]

Herro played 38 minutes vs. Wofford and 37 vs. Houston. He keys our defense when we’re going against good guards and he obviously is one of our offensive keys.

The game is being played at our pace. We survived Herro being out. We are favored by 4.5 and up 5 at the half. It’s all good. We got this.

 

[The_Catfather]

We need to attack the basket, but it's clear a big part of Auburn's gameplan is to flop when there's the slightest bit of contact. And it's working. If they keep calling that **** we're in big trouble.

 

[TortElvisII]

Flop flop flop

 

[RoyKent]

Baker single handidly cost us 6 points in about 20 seconds. He can’t play in the second half.

 

[MojoYamamoto]

Inability to hit the three in today's game makes it hard to put teams away. We have missed four or five wide open looks.

This is true. We had a stretch there where we were up around ten and missed 4 or 5 wide open 3s. Two by Herro. 1 pr 2 by Quickly and 1 by Johnson.

 

[Cindog28]

Whew.

 

[i11ogica1]

Somebody stop that dude from driving to the goal every possession! Geeze

Thats tough when hes allowed to throw a hook on every drive

 

[Xception]

There’s a whole lot more to running the team than standing on the perimeter and making a three every once and a while. He’s already got 3-4 turnovers.

He’s the pg and will have more errors than a guard running around screens and occasionally shooting but you missed the point or maybe you dodged it. Again you only want to see his mistakes

 

[Blue_2_the_bone_rivals]

Herro was super medium when he was in. Herro has nothing to do with it right now, we need someone who can stay in front of Harper.

He goes out and the ball never goes to the post. Coincidence?

 

[MarkPftw]

I'm kinda glad they got the lead down to 2 (5 now)..surely we won't play stall ball with just a 5 point lead and a whole half to go.

 

[katwest]

That was Keldon’s man.

It's anybody's man at that point, point is they are standing around watching.

 

[ubtrapper_rivals103836]

Because he missed a couple shots? He’s the only one who feeds the post from the wing. He does so much to influence the game besides his scoring, it’s obvious.

You're right he does. I was just aggravated with him on a couple of possessions.

 

[sam_o]

We are just a different team without Tyler on the floor

 

[ConRay9]

The 4 point play changed the momentum a bit. Gotta stop settling for jumpers and keep pounding it inside. There’s absolutely no reason to take a jumper against this team unless one of our bigs passes out of a double team. They don’t have the size to hang. Still feel good.

 

[RyenPenelopeUK]

Are there no UK commentators JHC. So tired of hearing how much we suck and hearing the excited for the other team. Lol