Two points nearly seven minutes in. Fugly.

Quick update...$100 got me drink swrvice, but not the game on screen.

Watching on cel in middle of sportsbook.

Go Bobcats! Really liking the development of laster and culver. Fun team to watch!

Giving the other team second and third chances at points comes back to haunt us again.

Not sure what happened at the end? A little scrapping in the handshake line?

Oh well. Finish strong against Buffalo and Miami.

Blowing another double digit lead yet again. Biggest positive I saw is that Laster needs to be starting going forward.

We slipped back into the same bad habit of losing focus midway through the 2nd half. Kent State simply tried putting a little pressure on Jaaron, which we failed to easily exploit. Any number of players could have helped Jaaron and when pressured, merely dish the ball inside to Jason or Kenny for an easy basket.

There is nothing complex about this, and yet we reverted back to an old bad habit. Simply put, we play the way we played the last 4 games and the sky is the limit for how our season ends. We play the way we did in the 2nd half tonight (and for too many games this year) and our season could be one and done in the MAC tournament.

Laster sat with 2 fouls in the first half, and sat again when he got his 3rd and 4th.

Every hot hand picked up a foul that benched them tonight.

A million things went wrong in addition to horrible shooting and we lost by 3 on the road. It was sucky and Uber frustrating, but file it away and come back to finish strong this week.

I posted this very early in the season and I saw it again tonight "Saul Ball" going to be awesome when you're stroking it, but going to rip your heart out too--especially the stretch in tough games vs physical teams. I think one of my posts was, 'where do you go for a bucket late?" Those last few possessions were really bad with Simmons forcing stuff tonight. It clearly looked like panic mode and he knew he had limited options with/without Tony C.
Then add to that finesse ball drying up when things got tight (what was it, like 13-37 in 2H from the field); they shot something like 27 FT in the 2H while we shot like 5-7; and I think Rob C. said their last 15 points were all going to the hole, in the paint or at the FT line).

Feels like you're playing on the clouds the first 3/4 of the game, then in quick sand when things get tight and buckets get tough down the stretch. We've seen it all season long. With still a potential #2 or #3 seed it's worked out fine to this point, but I think the last part of games in Cleveland with this type of ball going to be awfully nerve wracking. Hope the perimeter stuff is working on the way to buzzer at the Q.

Just got home from the game.

I love the old gym with the fancy entrance and the band that plays different songs providing live music vs crap over the speakers.

Game lost by three very poor turnovers. Simmons 2 and Laster 1. Simmons takes his time coming up the floor and gets a 10 seconds--are you kidding me? Then he throws a little league pass that is intercepted cleanly by a guy with a full head of steam going the other way for an easy two or did it result in an and one? Laster jumps to shoot then changes his mind and tries to dribble for the travel and there went the lead.

Laster reminds me a bit of TJ Hall with good knees. The best line up today looked to me was when the Cats fought back from a deficit in the first half with Laster, Taylor and Culver. While Culver is far from a finished product on offense his defense tonight was very good. He was always looking to help and knocked two or three balls away from a driver. We didn't see him in the second half. Block could have used a few more minutes on the bench. Speaking of Taylor, he would have had the biggest basket of his OU career with the tip in to take it back to four but his team didn't prevail, lucky for the Cats on that play as Block was signaling for a timeout which the ref gave him after the tip in.

Dartis & KK may as well just fire threes because they look lost with the mid-range stuff.

+1

27 games in...and we're still dealing with it. 13 pt lead in 2H...poof! 19-8 run allowed to end game. An all too familiar story with this team. Leading up to an inevitable heartbreaking game in Cleveland in two weeks. How many points in the 2H does Ohio need to be up for anyone to feel safe? 20? 25? 30? It's a serious question.

13 points is nothing in this day and age. It hardly qualifies as a big comeback anymore. It's a medium bump in the ebb and flow of the game.