Concerns entering conference season

[Jay Bee]

MU's turnover rate is (rounded up) 20%. The MU players with a turnover rate of greater than 20% this season:
Starters:
Haanif 28.4%
Traci 27.5%
Bench:
Matt 34.8%
Sacar 22.8%

Seton Hall turns their opponents quite well.. let's hope for the best in this area, a'inal?

[brandx]

Yup! Our white guys can't jump. The undersized Blue Hose were killing us under the basket.

I never said our white guys can't jump. But 6'11" guys should dominate underneath against 6'5" guys. Pretty simple.

If you are saying that Fischer plays above the rim, I don't know what to say.

[wadesworld]

I never said our white guys can't jump. But 6'11" guys should dominate underneath against 6'5" guys. Pretty simple.

If you are saying that Fischer plays above the rim, I don't know what to say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3IX_EdgjZA

[Dawson Rental]

We love our Spiro. Probably the biggest reason no one ever dared take a shot at Richard Nixon!

Let's see where things go. I agree, we'll know soon enough.

lol

[Dawson Rental]

We'll battle it out for 3rd-5th in the conference.

I wish - no, on second thought, I'm glad - I'm not quite that optimistic.

Battling it out for 5th or 6th, I believe.

[bilsu]

Ignoring a big margin win, which I do not think we will have I suspect Heldt and Anim will not get more than 12 minutes each in Big East play. They simply are not going to play. I also think in most games foul trouble will not be an issue and if it is we probably are not in the game anyways. A team that is able to get Henry and Fischer in foul trouble is going to walk all over Heldt.

[tower912]

1.  Lack of minutes so far for Heldt and Amin.   Foul trouble is coming.  Which segues into....
2.  Who guards the widebody 4's when Henry inevitably gets into foul trouble?
3.  How will Traci hold up against the elite guards in the league?
4.   How will MU handle pressure from good teams when Traci gets into foul trouble?
5.  Who is going to lead when Henry is sitting on the bench in foul trouble?
6.   Defense?   When is Wojo going to get buy-in on the defensive end?
7.  Third rebounder. 
8.  Lack of motion on offense from perimeter players. 

The answer to several of these questions is for JJ, Duane, and Sandy to step up and play like they have been through the league grind before.  The league is really good, there are no off nights, and somebody has to take the lead and show this team how to grind out wins.

The questions aren't answered.    Bad rebounding.  Bad defense.   Traci in foul trouble. (though Haanif played well for a half).   Foul trouble for the bigs leads to getting dominated on the boards.   The upperclassmen did not step up other than sometimes Duane.    Need to get tougher. 

[bilsu]

In the first half we had 17 rebounds and at least 10 of those were by Henry. Basically no one on our team was helping Henry rebound the ball. Foul trouble had nothing to do with it. Our team was much slower to reacting to rebounds than Seton Hall was. All the Seton Hall players had quick hands when it came to going after rebounds. We reacted slowly to live rebounds and I am not sure you can change that. If you look at the fouls Henry had two offensive charges and got a third foul on an offensive rebound by Seton Hall. I do not remembr his other foul. Fischer got two fouls on Seton Hall's offensive rebounds. Neither Fischer of Ellenson foul much when they are playing the initial defense. They get in trouble when we do not snare the rebound and they end up out of defensive position on the put back.