we finally got some winter weather so im back to having some time, this week at least.
lsu+3.. this basically the same as the uga gm in my eyes. better team catching points thanx to A@M compiling a decent little record mostly on the backs of scrubs.. im just not a buyer in this team, they dont do anything particularly well, their defensive numbers ok but i think that comes from playing a schedule that hasnt including a lot of tough gms..
i guess there is one major difference and that is AM did beat lsu at lsu a month ago. couple ways to look at that, i mostly just choose to write it off as lsu being the inconsistent pain in the asses they are. after a slow start the tigers owned AM the rest of the 1st half and went in with a 40-32 lead. the next 10 minutes after half lsu increases it to a 11 point lead with around 10 minutes left , from that point forward tigers manage just 8 points the rest of the gm and manage to get clipped by 3 in a gm they controlled for 30 minutes..how they managed that or why it happened i couldnt tell ya, their inconsistent guards played like shit which isnt all together unusual.
the biggest difference now is these last 3 gms the freshman patterson has started supplanting gray at the point and that shit couldnt come soon enough. not only can gray not shoot he also a turnover machine. the difference has been pretty clear as tigers beat bama handily, gave uk everything they wanted, and maybe most importantly went and handed a ass whipping to the vols in the kind of gm they been dropping all yr because of there lack of a pg worth a fukk. pattersons assist rate may not be great yet but ill tell ya what has happened these last 3 gms, the right guys been touching the ball, that would be mickey who prob one of best 4s in the country, hornsby who has played better at the 2 since gray hit the pine, and their other big martin. patterson actually has the best offensive rating on the team. as this has happened quarterman has actually been getting a lot of assist and more involved. whatever the case may be the important thing is gray isnt gonna be in gms long enough to screw up the offense..
ive said all year i thought lsu could be scary good if they could get any kind of consistency from their guards, of coarse that mantra had begun to switch to "lsu is a pg away", turns out that pg may have already been there, or it addition by subtraction. either way the team i love to ride but always worry about is one road win at AM away from making me a full fledged believer again. imo the gap between these teams is significant if they both play their A games, AM doesnt have a answer for mickey and martin down low and while their guards have some size they not shooters, mickey had 7 blocks the 1st meeting but what AM did well was the guards penetrated and when mickey came over they dropped it off for the only easy buckets they got. id like to say the main culprit in that situation was gray as well but i dont know that for a fact. bottom line is house on the wing the only guy AM has that scares you on the perimeter to space the floor, tigers held AM to 41% shooting from inside the arc and there was room to impove.. on the other end with patterson in the lineup lsu has 3 guys that are at least servicable shooters that have to be respected (3s been dropping at much better clip of late), so now if you choose to pack in a zone to stop the bigs tigers have the answer they were lacking at times throughout the year..
ol piss started it earlier this month, uga continued it. now AM is gonna get exposed here against the tigers, if not their next gm at scary, then again at ark. i honestly feel like AM is very similar to tcu except they were able to hide longer in the sec with a lot of weaker teams.
looks like a decent card so will post more as i play them. as always look forward to hearing what everyone else is thinking., questions bout any other gms, ect ect, you know the drill..
lsu+3.. this basically the same as the uga gm in my eyes. better team catching points thanx to A@M compiling a decent little record mostly on the backs of scrubs.. im just not a buyer in this team, they dont do anything particularly well, their defensive numbers ok but i think that comes from playing a schedule that hasnt including a lot of tough gms..
i guess there is one major difference and that is AM did beat lsu at lsu a month ago. couple ways to look at that, i mostly just choose to write it off as lsu being the inconsistent pain in the asses they are. after a slow start the tigers owned AM the rest of the 1st half and went in with a 40-32 lead. the next 10 minutes after half lsu increases it to a 11 point lead with around 10 minutes left , from that point forward tigers manage just 8 points the rest of the gm and manage to get clipped by 3 in a gm they controlled for 30 minutes..how they managed that or why it happened i couldnt tell ya, their inconsistent guards played like shit which isnt all together unusual.
the biggest difference now is these last 3 gms the freshman patterson has started supplanting gray at the point and that shit couldnt come soon enough. not only can gray not shoot he also a turnover machine. the difference has been pretty clear as tigers beat bama handily, gave uk everything they wanted, and maybe most importantly went and handed a ass whipping to the vols in the kind of gm they been dropping all yr because of there lack of a pg worth a fukk. pattersons assist rate may not be great yet but ill tell ya what has happened these last 3 gms, the right guys been touching the ball, that would be mickey who prob one of best 4s in the country, hornsby who has played better at the 2 since gray hit the pine, and their other big martin. patterson actually has the best offensive rating on the team. as this has happened quarterman has actually been getting a lot of assist and more involved. whatever the case may be the important thing is gray isnt gonna be in gms long enough to screw up the offense..
ive said all year i thought lsu could be scary good if they could get any kind of consistency from their guards, of coarse that mantra had begun to switch to "lsu is a pg away", turns out that pg may have already been there, or it addition by subtraction. either way the team i love to ride but always worry about is one road win at AM away from making me a full fledged believer again. imo the gap between these teams is significant if they both play their A games, AM doesnt have a answer for mickey and martin down low and while their guards have some size they not shooters, mickey had 7 blocks the 1st meeting but what AM did well was the guards penetrated and when mickey came over they dropped it off for the only easy buckets they got. id like to say the main culprit in that situation was gray as well but i dont know that for a fact. bottom line is house on the wing the only guy AM has that scares you on the perimeter to space the floor, tigers held AM to 41% shooting from inside the arc and there was room to impove.. on the other end with patterson in the lineup lsu has 3 guys that are at least servicable shooters that have to be respected (3s been dropping at much better clip of late), so now if you choose to pack in a zone to stop the bigs tigers have the answer they were lacking at times throughout the year..
ol piss started it earlier this month, uga continued it. now AM is gonna get exposed here against the tigers, if not their next gm at scary, then again at ark. i honestly feel like AM is very similar to tcu except they were able to hide longer in the sec with a lot of weaker teams.
looks like a decent card so will post more as i play them. as always look forward to hearing what everyone else is thinking., questions bout any other gms, ect ect, you know the drill..
