Quick thoughts on the hoops game tonight (LSU wins 76-67)

It looked like based on the crowd and activity in the "game thread" not a lot of folks got to catch the game so I'll give you a few of my thoughts:

Mickey was a beast, he's so smooth out on the court. Tall, long athletic, can hit the J, drive to the lane, and post-up. He's an all-SEC 1st teamer no doubt in my mind. Had a double-double before the half ended and carried our offense.

Martin has been awesome this year, but sometimes his head isn't in the game like tonight. He plays a ton of minutes though he may have been tired in the back end of the game.

Despite back-to-back strong defensive performances, it's still a pretty big area of concern. Tonight we couldn't guard anyone, and the lanes were open all night to drive.

It's a bad sign when the other teams almost out gains you offensive rebounds to defensive rebounds. rebounds is all about hustle, and we had zero of that tonight

let's hope the gray injury isn't too bad. he went to the locker room in the 1st half and did not even return to the bench. he's definitely are smoothest guard to handle the rock and create opportunities…I would hope he's back at 100% by SEC play, we should be okay before then

I think we probably lose to 80% of SEC teams tonight….I'm hoping it was due to the 9-day break but we were just lethargic the entire game

let's also hope Hornsby stays hot from 3 like tonight…we need him to be a 45% 3-point shooter in league play.

with all that being said, we got the W against a gritty, decent talented Sam Houston St. game…we really really need to win our next 4 games to finish 11-1 before league play….this would put us in a prime position with our current resume to go 11-7 in the league and make the tournament