Lions heading to Starkville

[roaringsince96]

Glad we have Blackmon. Guess it is hard find guards that can shoot. We don’t have any players that can score other than Blackmon. Maybe we were just scared to death. State was without 2 starters and they didn’t look very good. Good thing they playing us tonight. When they would go on a 5 minute scoring drought we would match their scoring drought and add a couple of minutes. We need to order some smaller rims. If we practice shooting to a smaller target, the real target will look huge. Hard not to score 50 points in a game. We did go 50% from the free throw line, we made one free throw. Doesn’t look like our bigs are ready for the big time. Chatman played well, no surprise there. He and Blackmon get some help and we will be decent. Couple of players need to earn those scholarships.

[unafied]

I've had a wicked cold (not COVID), so I was drifting in and out of consciousness while watching. Honestly it felt like one of our football games lately. Let the other team jump out to a big lead, settle in and play them pretty even for the middle 2/3 of the game, before superior depth and talent put it away. I think State will be in the top half of the SEC, so it's not the worst loss ever.

Jamari Blackmon will probably go down as one of our all-time most UNDER-appreciated players. Maybe he's not a superstar, but he's really good, and he has stuck it out while watching some of the dudes he came in with transfer.