Anyone Notice that Rider Beat Miss State?

by StillCatwoman on Nov 14, 2009 10:14 AM EST Comment 3 comments

I don't actually even know who Rider is or where they hail from, but I do know they are on our schedule here quickly and they beat #19 Miss St. 88-74 last night. They shot 51% from the field, 62% from the 3, making ten 3's and only turned the ball over 6 times in the game. Did anyone see this game?

They were ahead at the half and led the rest of the game. Miss. State's stats look decent to me; they shot 42% field and 37% for ten threes; 12 turnovers. Varnardo played almost the whole game, doing his thing with 7 blocked shots... So who is Rider and are they really that good? Or is this a reminder about the importance of shot selection on the 3?

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Seems like Stansbury has a real problem child...

in power forward Kodi Augustus. Apparently he thinks he should also be the coach. Look at these quotes:

“I looked at, and I only played 15 minutes the whole game," Augustus said. "Yeah, I’m p——d, but, I mean, like I said I can’t do nothing about it. I played all those minutes in the exhibition games and then you play me for 15 minutes. Wow.
"It’s true. I don’t got nothing to hide. I mean, you seen it. I’m mad, yeah, we lost."

“There was undersized center Mike Ringgold who went up-and-under Varnado all night to the tune of 21 points on 10-of-19 shooting.
Although Augustus had an opinion on that matter as well, when, at time, Varnado was switched off of Ringold.
"I thought we was up, I thought we was up defensively," Augustus said. "I mean, Ringgold he’s just an unorthodox player and made some reverses on us, but I mean let Jarvis keep (expletive) guarding him.
"I mean, he’s subbing him, and taking him out and let him keep guarding him."

by MTCAT on Nov 15, 2009 2:33 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Actually the shooting stat is deceptive

They actually shot pretty poorly. If you remove Varnado who shot 8/8 (probably all tip ins or dunks) the shooting percentage drops down to 33% (18/54) Combine that shooting with being outrebounded by 2 and I think that explains the loss pretty effectively.

by WCATFAN666 on Nov 16, 2009 12:28 PM EST reply actions 0 recs