MSU-Sac State game

[Gidal Kaiser]

http://bobcatblog.bozemandailychronicle.com/?p=11231 Post NAU/pre SSU blog. Short, sweet and done before gametime. I'll post thoughts here throughout contest.

[Helcat72]

I've never seen such inept shooting....and that includes layups. Where have all the basketball players gone that we used to get? these guys are fairly athletic but they can't throw it in the ocean! 28-21 at the half getting out rebounded 23-15. shooting something like 9 for 27. Most of the time not even getting shots....either turn it over or throw up something like I might do in a horse game!

[Gidal Kaiser]

28-21, Sac State at halftime.
MSU SAC
Field goals 9-27 33.3% 9-26 34.6%
3-point FGs 1-8 12.5% 4-11 36.4%
Free throws 2-3 66.7% 6-7 85.7%
Reb (O-D) 14 (3-11) 22 (6-16)
Turnovers 4 6
Last FG 1st-00:55 1st-01:57
Large lead none 9 (1st-01:14)

Blount with 8, Egwuonwu with 4. Mikh Mckinney has 14, and MSU's gameplan is either get it into high/mid-post and feed to cutting guard or just loft up 3. At least the mid-post dump off is a relatively new twist. I don't understand why Biglow isn't playing point guard all the time & playing off guard most of the time.

[Helcat72]

11 minutes to go...43-33...what happened to shooting? does everyone just learn to dribble jump and dunk? Getting to the basket doesn't do any good if you can't even hit the rim!

Coleman thinks he's a 3 pt shooter but he can't even hit 50% in pre-game! 7:32 to go and we have 36 points!

2:00 to go minutes to go....57-49 shooting 3"s the last 10 minutes. 4-23

[MSU01]

Going to be one hell of a bad season if MSU can't even win a game or two early on to counteract the annual February crapfest! MSU women open up conference play tomorrow at the Brick, go and watch them if you want to see some good team basketball!!

[CatfaninGA]

My church league coach can coach better than Huse. Time for a change and why wait?

[BelgradeBobcat]

Better go watch them against NW Indian College (whoever that is). It might be the only opportunity to see a win the rest of this season.

[Helcat72]

60-54 less than a minute...Blount hits 2-3 FT gets the backtap and Bigelow hits a three! Then they squander a possession or two with no idea what to do!

Final 62-57 Bigelow hits a three just before the buzzer

[BelgradeBobcat]

Does Huse make it to the end of the season or will he get a 2 month paid vacation like Adras and O'Brien did last season?

[Old Skool Cat]

32% shooting form the field (20 of 62) and 24% from behind the arc (6-25). SSU shoots 41% and 39% respectively. We're basically running a four guard offense, and none of these guys can shoot. Honestly, this crap gets old. Each season we the fans are sold a bill of goods on the incoming recruiting class, being told that the program is bringing premier shooters. This is either horses@!^, or these guys just forget how to shoot once they get to Bozeman. I can't ever imagine Fields letting Huse go in the middle of the season, but he definitely needs to be let go once this season is over. He can't recruit, guys do not prosper and grow as players in his system, and it looks like mass chaos when our guys are on the floor. There doesn't seem to be any flow for the offense; I'm not sure what the offense is. MSU is becoming the laughing stock of the conference with regards to men's basketball.

[Gidal Kaiser]

Yeah, this is my Pulitzer prize winning gamer ...
Close again, and still no cigar.
Antonio Biglow hit a 3-pointer with 58 seconds to play in Sacramento against Sacramento State, but the Hornets closed the game by hitting five-of-six free throws in the final 41 ticks for a 62-57 Big Sky Conference victory. MSU (2-7, 0-2) got another 3-pointer from Biglow with three seconds left, but shot 6-for-25 from downtown overall and hit five of them in the final 4:17 of the contest.
Mikh McKinney’s 21 points led Sacramento State (6-3, 1-0); the Hornets got 19 points from Konner Veteto and 11 from John Dickson as Brian Katz’s squad answered every time MSU pulled within single digits.
The Bobcats’ first and only 3-pointer for most of the contest – sunk by Marcus Colbert with 7:42 to play in the first period for an 18-17 deficit – was quickly turned into a five-point lead as McKinney hit a free throw, then a 3-pointer after the Hornets snared the offensive rebound.
Sacramento State’s lead ballooned to 14 points (39-25) on a John Dickson 3-pointer before the visiting team cut it to five on Xavier Blount’s two free throws at the 6:20 mark. Flavien Davis’ layup gave MSU a 48-43 deficit one minute later, but it was the last field goal the Bobcat attempted from inside the arc until there was 27 seconds left and the deficit was 59-54.
Blount’s 15 points led MSU again, and Egwuonwu added 10 points and seven rebounds.
The Bobcats are off until Dec. 29, when they host Northwest Indian College, which won the 2011-2012 national American Indian Higher Education Consortium tournament.

[John K]

I don't even know what to say anymore, that hasn't already been said a thousand times. The MBB program is teetering on the edge of becoming completely irrelevant. Huse brings in guys who are supposed to be great shooters, but then they can't throw it in the ocean once they arrive at MSU, and I don't even remember the last time we had a really good big man. Then every year after the season ends, half of the returning players end up leaving the program before the next season begins, so Huse has to bring in a whole bunch of new players yet again. I don't expect them to win the BSC every year, but it shouldn't be too much to ask of them to consistently be among the top 3 or 4 teams in the BSC. They should make the tourney every season, and win at least one game most seasons, and maybe make an appearance in the title game once every few years. I don't believe those are unreasonable expectations, but the program is a long ways off from meeting even those very modest goals.