Sorry for the absence Late Report Card

I got what has been going around and haven't opened the labtop since Saturday morning. Its a little late but I wanted to run it anyway:
TENNESSEE REPORT CARD
This was a game that was played out in 38 seconds. That’s when State called a time out trailing Tennessee 73-71. They brought the ball back down court and Chism was fouled by Gordon at the 34 second mark. Chism missed his free throw and Rhodes got the rebound. Gordon brought the ball down court and fed the ball to Benock who was unguarded in the corner. Benock froze with the ball and didn’t take the shot and then traveled with the ball for a turnover. The rest is history. We lost 76-71 because we had no recourse except to foul and they made the free throws. We played really good the first 7-8 minutes of the game and the last 3 minutes except for the final 34 seconds. Somewhere in between, we played pretty mediocre. We did have 3 or 4 players that played some good ball in this game. And Benock played decent defense but was somewhere out in left field on offense. He took no shots, had one offensive rebound, and had two assists and four turnovers.
OFFENSE C
We missed Ben Hanbrough this game. Benock was a star in the Ole Miss game, but failed to show up for offense in this one. Rhodes played a decent game with 15 points on 4 of 9 field goals and 7 of 8 from the charity stripe. He also had 10 rebounds and 5 blocks. But he did turn the ball over 5 times. Gordon and Stewart had decent games on offense. Just not enough in the middle part of the game. After shooting just 34.8% in the first half, we came back in the second half and shot 58.3% for 46.8% for the game. That topped Tennessee , who shot 41.3% for the game. However, they shot the ball 63 times to our 47. One other interesting thing to note is we had 4 players out of 9 that played 30 minutes or more while Tennessee had no players out of 11 that played 30 minutes. In scoring we lost 24 to 20 in the paint,18 to 8 on points on turnovers, and lost the bench points 24 to 11.
DEFENSE B-
Overall I thought our guys played pretty good defense. You already knew that Tennessee had some good 3 point shooters and they proved it this game. Four of their starters hit 10 of 21 for the game. Our worst defense was on second chance points where they had 18 points. We caused them to turn the ball over 13 times, but by the same token, we turned it over 16 times.
ASSIST TO TURNOVER RATIO D
We came out again and reverted to our old ways in that we 10 assists and 16 turnovers. Gordon did have a positive ratio here with 6 assists to 4 turnovers. Rhodes had 1 assist to 5 turnovers and Benock had 2 assists to 4 turnovers, including a game killer at the very end of the game.
REBOUNDING D
We lost the rebounding battle to Tennessee by 10 at 42 to 32. Rhodes as the only starter that had more than 4 rebounds, as he had 10. Our starters had 22 rebounds against 17 for our opponents. But our bench let us down in this category also.
3 POINT SHOOTING B
We beat Tennessee percentage wise in this category 47.6% to 42.9%. However, because of the number of shots they took, they made 2 more 3 pointers than we did. Kudos to Stewart for knocking down the 3 pointers at the end of the game to get us back into contention and brimstone to Benock for not taking a shot the entire game. I suppose Riley must have gotten a bad case of freshman jitters in this game.
FREE THROW SHOOTING C
We ended up making 17 of 29 for 58.6% for the game. Whereas Tennessee was 12 of 18 for 66.7% for the game. But they did make them at the end when it really counted. We have to improve in this area or fall flat on our collective faces in the remainder of the season.
OFFICIATING F
This was the poorest officiating I seen in a game this season. I’m still trying to find out what the Technical foul on Bailey was all about. Touch fouls and no calls were as bad as I have ever witnessed.
OVERALL C-
We lost…All the grading in the world can’t take that away. We had some bright spots and some very dull moments. I think the dull moments were much more vivid that the bright spots.