It was horrible. I watched the entire thing.
The meltdown with about seven minutes left, going from three down and a chance to what, a dozen behind? phuking pathetic.
No offensive identity or strategy. Lackadaisical defense. No enthusiasm. An empty house. The announcers yukking it up with some college kid who didn't really seem to know tool or poop about anything and the game was just an afterthought.
It was miserable in every respect. Definitely not the image Auburn should project.
People turn out for the women's games -- even though they got their salad tossed by 31 at Tennessee. When AU puts a competitive product on the court, people will turn out for the men's game, too. Nobody wants to pay to see that pathetic poop, though.
Lebo? Get the phuk out.
Actually, the offensive identity and strategy is about the same as last year...live and die by the three. At one point (when we were still up by 3 or 5), we were 11-31 from three point range. We finished 11-36, and shot 37% overall.
Most frustrating? Lebo's comment after the game...
"Pretty standard for us: Get to the 8-minute mark and we can't finish it out,".
Maybe we should try to score points off some offensive sets that are more reliable than streaky 3 point shooters? But no, same thing ever time down the court, only difference is we didn't hit the threes in the end when it mattered.
But that's what happens when you're living and dying by the three. If you're Duke or Syracuse and you have three guys that all shoot it over 40%, then you can do it. We have one guy that shoots it at 40%, and we have three guys that have taken over 50 threes each and shoot less than 26% doing it.
Here's a stat for Lebo the lost leader of Auburn basketball...
Auburn is #1 in 3 pointers
taken in the SEC (52 more than the next team).
Auburn is #10 in 3-pt % in the SEC (only Florida and LSU shoot it worse than we do, but they are #5 and #11 in attempts, not #1 like us).
Screw it, what's the point of even analyzing this anymore. Same shit, year #5.
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