Josh Gray's importance to this team

At the pg position you can not have that many turnovers and bad plays. for all the good things he does there are about two times as many bad things.

He is about as streaky as a player I've seen.

Gray could have 10 assists and 1 turnover and the mouthbreathers on this board would shite all over him for the turnover.

We all know he's got the ability, he just has to make better decisions. He also has to take care of the ball more !

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At the pg position you can not have that many turnovers and bad plays. for all the good things he does there are about two times as many bad things.

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The bad things can be coached into remission. He did several things that can't be coached; he WAS able to drive at times into the teeth of that defense (although he also got stuffed too, but then Mickey also got dunked on. shite happens against teams like Kentucky).

Still think the biggest thing is the "it" factor. Again, Kentucky had beaten down our frontline, and was in the process of pulling away; I think they were up by 13 at that point. Gray made the 3 and a couple other plays, including the pass to Quarterman (including his teammate in the process), got us back in the game and woke up the crowd.

You need a guy on the team who has "it". It would be preferable that he control himself a little better and not play us OUT of games, but that can be learned. You can't coach a guy to play you back into games, he either has it or he doesn't.

Are you guys watching the same game. I will give you that, yes, he played very good at times and he definitely hit the big 3 to swing the momentum.

However, he also went through a stretch at multiple times during the game where he is was out of control and not leading this team at all. His defense was horrible during the same stretches. It is like he goes through a zone of "streetball" where he thinks he is the only one on the court. At one point, LSU was up by 4 and the center just hit the lucky 2 from the top of the key with 4 min or so left in the game. Gray gets the ball and goes and shoots a 3 from the top of the key without any type of offense being run and off the dribble. A 4 pt lead at that point and he should be calming things down, instead he throws up a brick 3 without burning any clock!!!

He is learning, but my problem is that Jones should see this as well and put Patterson back in the game to calm Gray down. Hell the last 7 min or so it looked like A&M all over again with Gray trying to do it all and not doing much of anything but helping the other team.

He has the talent and he is getting better but he does need to be reeled in at times. The announcer saw it and was saying the same thing during those stretches.

I just don't get why when he and jalyn are in together Jones doesn't shift him to the 2 and let jalyn handle the ball. Let Josh do what he does better naturally and score.

Josh Gray's importance to this team is minutes. Anyone with a pulse, who can do something - anything - well, is needed.

You clearly a) don't understsnd basketball or b) don't watch it ever. We didn't score a basket the last 7:30 of the game. He took an open 3 off the dribble when we had nothing else going on...and it wasn't a fricking brick at all. Also, he played lights out defense so get that shite out

How? Because he got blocked 3 or 4 times? Against the number 1 shot blocking team in the nation. I just don't see how Patterson or Tim weren't as big as a liability as him last night.