re: 2015-16 Men's & Women's BB I WBB vs. Syracuse - L 72-80

Auburn is 7-5 right now, we have held 10+ point leads in 10/12 games

Takes an expert level 2nd half team to blow that many double digit leads


ETA Apology on previous page. Sorry guyz

Auburn beat Tennessee at home 83-77. Kareem Canty and Brice Johnson (two guards) shot a combined 10-17 from the three, and that was 30 of their combined 40 pts for the game which led the Tigers. Going to be interesting if they can follow up such shooting in consecutive SEC games against a physical solid defense.

Tennessee shot 3-28 (!!!) from the 3-pt line, but otherwise shot 27-51 (52.9%) inside it, and out-rebounded AU 48-37, but a lot of that was due to AU collapsing into the paint and forcing UT to shoot from the perimeter, which UT accepted too lustily. Otherwise UT was in position to win that game. Hopefully with our length we'll do a better job of penetrating and passing into the paint.

If Auburn tries to play that defense against us, we should be familiar with it after playing some teams earlier in the OOC that utilize zone Ds heavily. IMO USC will have more depth than AU tonight so we can handle fouls, but I hope the fouls don't come in machine-gun like fashion like they did against Memphis...

Both AU and UT barely average more ppg than their opponents have and are out-rebounded on average by their opponents. I think our defense will be the best on the floor and we'll win the rebounding and free-throw shooting battles tonight. Auburn has already had 8 foul-outs thus far this season (USC only has 1, and it came just in their last game in that foul-fest of a joke), and with their issues on depth it wouldn't surprise me if they add to that tonight.

We need both Lithuanians to start the game focused and with effort, and the team as a whole to start with energy and intensity. Hopefully Chat can provide upwards of 40 minutes of the 20 minutes of production he provided in the last game. I think Carrera will come very focused to have a good game tonight: I hope he doesn't let his emotions get the better of him and pick up some foolish fouls. USC has a big advantage with it's veteran experience from it's seniors, but they need to be on their A-games tonight, and not get out of control...

I think it will be a close, very physical contest but one which USC pulls away in the 2nd half as Auburn wears down and loses players to the bench....

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If Auburn tries to play that defense against us, we should be familiar with it after playing some teams earlier in the OOC that utilize zone Ds heavily.

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Auburn plays almost exclusively man defense. We don't "focuse on the paint" as you say. Tennessee was shooting solid 3 opportunities just couldn't hit. They got the rebound though so that wasn't what cost them

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IMO USC will have more depth than AU tonight so we can handle fouls, but I hope the fouls don't come in machine-gun like fashion like they did against Memphis...

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You should hope they come frequent and often. Auburn only has ~6 scholarship players available for this game.

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I think our defense will be the best on the floor and we'll win the rebounding and free-throw shooting battles tonigh

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Auburn shoots like 50% from FT. Forrest Gump could win that battle.
Rebounding we are hit or miss. We should lose it most games but the gap is usually determined by our teams effort & concentration

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-Auburn will start hot and get up 10+ points in 1st half

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That would be interesting. We've only not led at half once... and that's when we were tied with Memphis after they hit a buzzer 3.

I don't want it to happen, but it would be interesting to see what would happen.

With that said I keep thinking about you saying how bad of a rebounding team AU is, which is good for us since that's one of our strengths.

I watched the AU-UT game. Part of me is worried about how good they were at the 3. The other part of me is thinking, "good. No one can rely on the 3 for forever. Maybe they'll be too confident into it and shoot an unwise amount of 3s." As they say, teams don't live by the 3, they die by it.

We have held double digit leads in the first half i n 10/12 games. Getting then blowing double digit leads is what we do #CloseGames=MoreExcitement

Auburn has some post weapons, both Harris and Bowers have some 20+ point games. They just are inconsistent and no idea what they will provide.

Our 3pt game from Canty and Brown are pretty reliable and can alter games. Hopefully it is on tonight and a good game

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The only issue I really had with the game was that there were multiple times when we were up by 10-13 and AU went cold and we had a real chance to blow the doors off the game but could never seem to do it. Whether it was missing a shot or turning the ball back over after an AU turnover.

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Agreed. The team had an opportunity to run Auburn out, and send all those Auburn students back to metro Atlanta. But they never seemed to capitalize on it.

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With that said, it was our first conference game, on the road, and if the worst thing is, "well we were only up by as much as 5 in the 2nd half"... I'll take that any day.

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100% this. With as much trouble as the program has had since Odom left, and as often as we've struggled with Auburn in particular, perspective is definitely important.

Good win on the road. Now, kill Vandy on Saturday.

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... and UT isn't as good as they were a few years ago. But both are on the road and despite UT's 'down' years we still only ended that long streak they had against us last year.

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... and then UT crushes UF tonight. It was never even close.

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