Basketball Open Thread

"Looking for TWO FOR TWO....and Does!!"

Why the highlighter yellow uniforms?  Aren't they our "big game" home uniforms?

Horford's been good.

I hope that when McGary gets back he can actually maintain possession of the basketball.  It'd put him a solid step ahead of any other big we've got.

Shooting is off, obviously, but the main issue I see is not protecting the ball down low. Lots of strips when Morgan/Horford/Bielfeldt just don't squeeze the ball, and lots of lost opportunities because of it.

The longer this goes on the more uneasy I'm feeling about their ability to turn it on. This might just turn into one of those games where we can't do anything right.

Our 3 big men have a combined 0 good hands.

Basketball's version of Akron/UConn. Lowering our collective expectations by the second....

Fire Meyer.
Fire Anyone!!!!!!!!'

/s

...what if Yogi Berra were the color-guy for this game: Basketball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
 

ice cold right now

You know it's a sloppy game when the first shot of the night is a 20ft+ jumper by Jon Horford.

I haven't been able to watch either of the exhibition games, so this is my first exposure to the basketball team. They look completely lost out there without Trey. Already reached the point of chucking up 3s for offense and doing it pretty terribly. 

Frustrating when we're facing an opponent with no interior presence to speak of and we so seldom attack the basket.  

by 25 points.  Yikes.

  

I'm at the Amway center watching the magic smack the Celtics around. right now I despise all things Boston...

Come on give me SOMETHING to be happy about in this godforsaken sports season

The opponent is only shooting 33% and we aren't getting out on the break. With our defense playing fairly well we should be running a hell of a lot more than we are, considering how poor the jump shooting is tonight.

Run around screaming and panic?

That if you do synch up the MGoBlue Audio with the stream, it's pretty hilarious watching the halftime interviews.  The 12 year old student reporter looks NOTHING like the audio reporter interview sounds.

I'm at the Amway center watching the magic smack the Celtics around. right now I despise all things Boston...

right now.  Hopefully, the "right now" part is extremely temporary and they were just kidding.  'Cause this looks pretty awful.

I'm not sure who would win a shooting contest right now.  A blind man, spun around 20 times and given a basketball or the teams first half's performance.  I'm off to the bar to forget the games on so I can get the text's from all my Sparty and Buckeye fans if this ends badly.

Not enough penetration or movement on offense - shooting % always drops when you aren't creating easy shots.  Not making free throws, bigs turning it over.

Shouldn't complain much about defense considering the score, but always frustrated when our inside guys concede baskets to smaller players because they stand flat-footed with their hands up instead of trying to block a shot.  I know it keeps fouls down, but you shouldn't have to foul to block or disrupt someone half a foot shorter than you, either.  Horford especially has way too much shot blocking ability to so often let a guy drive right at him and lay it right up over top of him.

I also think we hedge a little too often, and can't believe how many teams bail us out by so rarely passing to the guy who rolls to the basket undefended.  But this has been a complaint of mine for years, and we went to the title game last year so what do I know...

Is Borges calling the offense tonight?

"If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer."

Awesome. Our basketball team sucks too.