Things I saw that I liked:
Fewer silly turnovers and passes than the last few years. Point guard play has improved drastically here and you definitely see a better "flow" with the game. Not as many
parts of the game.
We were pretty good at hitting FTs, I like that.
We were pretty good at rebouding
Hurt made a 3!
We won!
Things I saw I didn't like:
While we had fewer
moments, we still made several ill advised throws and passes.
Hurt needs to be a better defender. We didn't have to worry too much this game cause Mizzou is hot garbage but he get himself in poor position a lot.
Budke is the most tuckiest of a tuck wet dream player ever. I can do without that.
Other observations:
Pretty quiet and subdued crowd, to be expected with two teams that both fan bases don't expect much of and one of them crushed the other.
Mizzou is awful, so many turnovers and poor play and lack of poise. We look much more, much much more like a legit D1 team than they did.
Traffic was awful trying to even get near between construction, game traffic, rush hour traffic, and what appeared to be a movie premier about the World Series at Municipal Auditorium. Not that I didn't expect it to be bad, but it was pretty bad even with my rather low expectations.
Will be interesting to see how tomorrow goes. Even if they win I wouldn't get my hopes that high up, but you got to give oscar credit this team isn't quite the dumpster fire many of us expected/hoped for.
