Missouri
- Thread starter rivercatinfl
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I know literally nothing about them except they apparently can score a ton and aren't as good on the road.
If they are guard heavy, we may have a problem. My guess is that they drive a lot, and that has been our Achilles heel this year. I also don't believe they are fantastic defensively as has been shown by some of the shootout scores I've seen them involved in. If we could play at least halfway decent defense and hit 10+ threes, I think we could outshoot them and win. Or trade a 2 for 3.
I won't look at their stats, though, until around Friday. Or if someone here posts a preview and does the work for me, I'll definitely read up.
If they are guard heavy, we may have a problem. My guess is that they drive a lot, and that has been our Achilles heel this year. I also don't believe they are fantastic defensively as has been shown by some of the shootout scores I've seen them involved in. If we could play at least halfway decent defense and hit 10+ threes, I think we could outshoot them and win. Or trade a 2 for 3.
I won't look at their stats, though, until around Friday. Or if someone here posts a preview and does the work for me, I'll definitely read up.
The transfer they have from Duke (Mitchell) is NOT a guard. He's a hybrid 3/4.
Biggest problem with UMO is playing them at Mizzou Arena in Columbia. They play so darn good at home.
That always seems to be a trait of Missouri, guard heavy. 4 or 5 out. They did this with Phil Pressey 10 or so years ago when they were last pretty good.
They are 18 and 1 at home. It will be a challenge.
I really don't think we will win this one. Love to be wrong but they are hard to beat at home as others have said.
Amari Williams is a matchup nightmare for Missouri. Oweh has played like a man possessed, Butler is getting healthy and the rotation is getting better. I like our chances in this one.
Hope we get the W. Would be nice to finish above 500 in the SEC. Also always like to be a few teams in the SEC not Kentucky, check that, all teams in the SEC not Kentucky. lol
They are really good at home, in the games I have watched- they will be favored
They ran Bama out the gym at their place.
Our SEC record is similar as far as the loses go. I haven't watched them since early Dec when they beat Kansas. Hopefully OU gives them a tough game tonight
Missouri plays really good at home solid team
There's no way we beat them if they lose tonight. That would be 2 straight losses and they'd be salivating to play us at home coming off a 2 game skid. That would be the 3rd time this year we went on the road and played a team that had lost 2 in a row.
Missouri needs to win tonight.
5th best offensive efficiency
59th best defensive efficiency
That's not a whole lot different than our 6th/57th
They do practically everything well on offense but extremely good shooting team (which could be a nightmare given our D) and they get to the line.........like a lot. 10th in effective FG % and 2nd in Free Throw Rate.
We cannot have the fouls accumulate in this one. If we do there's no shot here. The free throw difference in this one could be massive and I already see posts about the refs incoming lol.
Also very good with turnover % on both sides. Offense they don't turn it over much (15.3%) and on Defense they force quite a bit (20.7%).
The one negative on defense for them is they stink at rebounding on defense. 299th. Sadly that's not really something we do all that well on offense.
59th best defensive efficiency
That's not a whole lot different than our 6th/57th
They do practically everything well on offense but extremely good shooting team (which could be a nightmare given our D) and they get to the line.........like a lot. 10th in effective FG % and 2nd in Free Throw Rate.
We cannot have the fouls accumulate in this one. If we do there's no shot here. The free throw difference in this one could be massive and I already see posts about the refs incoming lol.
Also very good with turnover % on both sides. Offense they don't turn it over much (15.3%) and on Defense they force quite a bit (20.7%).
The one negative on defense for them is they stink at rebounding on defense. 299th. Sadly that's not really something we do all that well on offense.
I just see people talking about Missou being good, nothing about excuses. Nice post
Good luck barking up that tree. That’s the captain of the fickle bandwagon club. One day, angry that Pope isn’t national coach of the year. Next day calling for his head on a cold dish.
He's been awesome for them this year. Such a better player than he was at Duke.
Well Mizzou lost again. That's 3 of 4 Ls, all on the road. Of course this year we play there. They will be as ready as they could be. Seems like most big games the 2nd half of the league season the team we are about to play is comin off a loss.
