Men's Hoops Returns Home To Take On Mercer (1:00 CSS ESPN3)

[pmull]

This was not a horrible team. Maybe comparible to a mid-level ACC team, with a post game that we could not handle. CAG cannot get rebounds or put backs.

Mercer is not a horrible team but they should not come into Coleman and beat us. Mercer is 7-6 with losses to Ill-Chicago, George Mason, Wake Forest, New Mexico, Denver and Georgia. Prior to beating us their best win was against Florida State. FSU has also lost to South Alabama and not beaten a good team.

Embarassing loss for CAG and our program. Our pay must improve. We are closer to Auburn in the SEC than we are to Kentucky at this point.

[pmull]

This team misses Engstrom. We were 6-0 and going toe-to-toe with a good Cincinnati team when Engstrom was injured. We are 1-4 since. Engstrom was only good for 4 points a game but he was very effective on the defensive end. We miss him and it is showing up in the loss column. Gueye is not getting the job done. I don't know what has happened to Jacobs but he does not look near like the player we saw last year. We have to find a player who can guard a post player. We are getting beat to death under the basket.

Mercer was not a good shoting team but I like the offense they ran. They ran a lot of set plays with pick and rounds that got them open looks. They got the ball into the paint often and kicked it to an open shooter. They shot 33% in the first half but they shot 48% in the second half. They out hustled us too. It seemed like they got every loose ball. They got 16 second chance points to our 6.

Our press is not effective. We only caused 11 turnovers. They beat the press for an easy lay up much more often than we caused a turnover. We seem to get beat down the floor to often.

We are a good free throw shooting team but not yesterday. We were 13-20 for 65%. However, with the game on the line we missed two front ends of 1 and 1. Releford and Cooper each missed one.

We are in for some highs and lows this year. If we shoot well we can beat the best teams in our league. There will be nights when we loss to teams we should beat. We have already lost two games at home. We used to be unbeatable at home.

We have Tulane and Oakland, which are both home games, left to get things turned around before we start SEC play. We can go 9-4 in non-conference play with wins.

[ricky023]

Well I didn't get to see or hear the game. I just thought in my mind that this should have been a tune-up win to go into the SEC play. I am shocked. RTR!

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