Phil Pressey
Phil is a good player, but needs to recognize that he needs to adjust when going up against a strong defensive team like Florida. He tried too many risky passes which resulted in turnovers and easy points the other direction. Not only that, he's just been dreadful with his jump shot yet continues to shoot it at a healthy rate. He ended the game with 10 turnovers and never made any adjustments to his style of play which was disappointing as Florida's defense just made him look silly. 2/10.
Jabari Brown
Brown had plenty of opportunities, and was at various points one of the few bright spots during this game. He led the team with 16 points, but that's pretty bad when you consider that he took 18 shots. 4/10
Alex Oriakhi
Oriakhi was just awful in this game. Haith seemed to lose his patience with Oriakhi early on which is why Rosburg played so much. For whatever reason, he just decided he didn't want to play any defense and that freed up Florida to pretty much score at will. 1/10
Earnest Ross
Ross was even worse. Ross' defense was so poor that it seemed like Florida scored on every possession in which he was on the floor. 0/10
Keion Bell
Bell probably had the best game of any Tiger scoring 14 points on 6 field goal attempts. He was one of the few players who attacked the goal and was rewarded with a few trips to the line. 7/10
Tony Criswell
Criswell led the team in rebounding with a whopping 5 boards. Other than that, he was pretty poor in all other phases, just like everyone else. 4/10
Stefan Jankovic
Jankovic led the Tigers with 3 steals, but really made little to no impact on this game. 4/10
Overall Thoughts
Florida is a great team. Missouri is not. Even with a healthy Bowers, Florida would have blown Missouri out today. This game shows what a good defensive team can do. Unfortunately, it also showed what a good offensive team can do going up against a poor defensive team. Missouri just looked horrible from the opening tip on defense. Florida didn't even have to break a sweat as they were getting such easy looks in the first 10 minutes and even on one of their rare misses, it seemed like they were able to get the offensive board because this Missouri bunch just didn't seem to bring it. I tried to tell you it wasn't going to be pretty. But this game turned out even worse than what I was expecting. This was complete and utter domination in all phases of the game.
Like I have mentioned in previous games, Missouri still goes through stretches where it draws no fouls on the opposition as Florida wasn't whistled for their first foul of the game until the 9:28 mark, going the first ten minutes without a single foul. This was also the third game in a row in which Pressey has failed to even get to the free throw line. I don't like some of these patterns that have emerged now that the conference season is underway.
Next up: South Carolina on Tuesday. Should be an easy win.
No comments:
Post a Comment