Basketball Live Thread - Mizzou vs. USC in Puerto Rico

The ESPN scoreboard isn’t indicating that it is.

If you get it

putback for USC and Gibson split a pair, then Tiller knocked down a 3.

And now a dunk for USC. 5-3

getting ravaged by second chances again

11-9 USC with 15 left

I’m getting football scores, but I just turned it on. Should I be concerned?

and USC tips in the missed FT, 17-13 Trojans

BOX OUT

apparently

his second on a loose ball at the offensive end

22-19 USC, 8:30 to play

Anderson has made a point to play the “kids” in this tourney…but I think a win is bigger today for the program than the experience (of which there will be plenty more chances). Do you ride the starters right now for perhaps the better shot at the win, or do you stay with the gameplan of playing the freshman and perhaps not give your team the best shot to win?

33-23 with 5:30 to go

…these are the hardest rims I’ve ever heard. Even when you just nick them, they make a horrific metal “CLANG” sound…

…I think “Yeah, I’ll give them that shot” because either it’s 3 feet beyond the line, or the dude couldn’t figure out what else to do with it so he yanked the shot up…and every time I say that, they make it. Luckily I’m about to go to an open house, so I won’t be able to jinx us any more (since the USC lead has gone up about 8 points since I started watching live)…

by Safford

yeah…I dont think it should have counted, but it counts all the same. Ironic that it was one of the first times we scored on the inside since Gibson went to the bench :-)

Isn’t it the 5th place game? Is someone earning a tie that I don’t know about?

but ugh…3 fouls…wow

I kid you not.

Why does St. Louis even bother fielding a team anymore? Any team that makes the Bears offense looks good should be banished from the NFL.

we’re doing a better job of getting inside and getting good looks too, helps that Carroll is knocking down open jumpers.

And Leo hits BOTH free throws!

www.isitchristmas.com

Are you sure?

got to go after Gibson and finally get him out of there for a good 7-10 minutes. Need to clamp down on the defensive end set some stuff up on offense

it’s his day

but they are falling for him all day today…Leo goes to the line to try to tie it

energy finally came up after the early timeout and we are getting the ball to the hole better.

in trying to break the pressure, hopefully that bites them down the stretch

Cunningham for USC….ugh

C’mon….take the lead now

was hoping one of those would go down…then commits the foul on the other end.

before the shot doesn’t mean it’s not a foul when he does shoot it.

And English’s legs are failing him.

ton of confidence in the jump shots today from everyone

It’s gotta be about 5-6, more than we have the rest of the season combined.

I just wont watch games for the first 30 minutes….much easier on the soul evidently :-)

good awareness by Denmon to go right at Gibson and then solid finish after the steal by Lyons

7 point lead now

then bad luck on a block gives USC an easy bucket, nuts

Carroll stares down his man for 8 seconds and then knocks down a 3, then trap in the corner gets a turnover.

Mizzou up 8 at the under 4

player was out of control…Mizzou just needs to work the clock and hit the FT’s they are going to be given.

give him his 5th

they have ice in Puerto Rico? Interesting…

But hey….great 2nd half to give the Tigers…um…4th place.

They are gonna win almost all of their non-con games and might pull off a ranking going into Big 12 play.

What the hell did I miss?

…a) Mike Kelly is soooooooooo much better at basketball than football, and b) nobody excites me more with monotone than MK. It was like an excited drone to his voice when he said “And MISSOURI HAS TIED THIS GAME” with 11 minutes left.

Nice win. It will always feel like we’re yanking up too many 3-pointers, but this team certainly has a lot more potential hot hands to ride. Granted, there won’t be many games where Tiller and Carroll go 6-for-6 from 3-point range and the rest of team goes 1-for-11 (actually, I NEVER thought I’d see that happen), but between Tiller, Denmon, M-Law, Paul, and English, chances are ONE of those players will be a relatively hot hand at any given time. That’s heartening…since we will clearly always be a team that takes a lot of 3’s whether we’re making them or not…

I hope it comes back to your thugs

DeRozan wasn’t touched on the play where he got hurt. If somehow Bowers barely caught him with the knee, and that was the source of his injury, well then it’s a miracle he’s not in Elijah Price territory right now.