- January 30th, 2022, 12:36 am
#639200
My thoughts:
1. I agree with Rog above, a 4K sell-out is not & never will be impressive. Also, where were the students? The paid sections were practically/almost full, the student sections weren't even close. we;'ve also had games where it was just the opposite, but the LU fan base needs to fix this.
2. In every game, the Boys have these inexplicable periods of stupid, sloppy play. Typically, as noted above, in each half. Tonight's 2nd half occurrence was around the crucial 6-7 minute range and it broke our back. The ballhandling, butter-fingers, passing, shot selection, etc. all goes to poop.
3. Probably the most frustrating thing to me about our boys is that sometimes it's almost as if they all get scared to take a shot. I know that they live on the one-more-pass-eat-the-shot-clock mentality, but if you're wide open with a good look- TAKE THE SHOT.
4. Along the take the shot theme, Kyle Rode needs to put his role player mentality aside more often and take over the game offensively. The boy can play and tonight he had a good hand. We needed him to step up more tonight. Until recently, IMO, he was the most guilty of passing up the open shot way too much. Also, sometimes when McThree is in a slump, he just needs to start jacking it up more. We needed that tonight around the 5 minute mark, especially since he had a harder rtime driving with their size and aggressiveness. We, also, don't need him on the bench down 8 or 9 with less than a minute left.
5. They were a very big and aggressive team. I don't understand why Preston and Abii didn't play more. I thought both played well and we needed them out there more. I really liked the frontcourt of Preston, Robinson and Rode. I thought they played well together and handled JSU's bigs pretty good. I'm, also, not Abbii's biggest fan cause I think he's really sloppy with the ball, but I thought he changed the flow of the game some as I'm not sure they were able to handle his size and speed ala Myo. I know that there's more players than minutes, but tonight Preston (16) and Abii (30) needed to be out there more. I knoe McKay loves small ball, but sometimes you just have to play the big boys.
6. More than anything JSU just shot lights out. It was almost unbelievable how well they shot. It seemed like they hit almost all of their wide open 3's. To me, this was biggest difference after not having someone other than McThree step up.
7. Someone on the Twitters compared this game t the first Lipscomb game, and other than us being the ASUN Champs, it was. I think when we play them again we'll beat them, although it'll be another fairly close game. I just hope the rematch is in the Lil'Arena and not Jacksonville, AL. So I hope they lose at least 2 more times.
8. It's better to lose now than later. It's also better to lose to them, NET wise, than any other of our conference mates.
Thunderstruck. 
Jax St is really good:...... 2nd best 3 pt shooting team in the country with a ton of experience as well as size and athleticism.
- By AATL