Happily impressed with the MBB performance tonight

Good team win. Different players stood out like Tillman for example but over all the whole team played well. 

I need to see a lot more before I get excited but there are things there. Barefield growing as a playmaker. JB as an initiator and attack guard. Tillman has all around potential. Better defense I think but mizzou was awful?

Well balanced scoring.  Fans like to look for the superstar standouts, and the loss of Kuz does hurt, but you can still do a lot with good defense and teamwork, if its done well.   Think of Wichita State.

A team still needs a couple guys who can create shots on their own.  Barefield and Collette may make it work this year.

I’ll try to temper expectations a little bit. They say that a team is never as bad as its worst loss and never as good as its best win. Obviously we haven’t lost yet, but this is by far our best win (so far). I doubt we are quite this good. I thought rebounding would be a concern this year, and I think that is the case – we still got outrebounded by Mizzou despite having many more opportunities (thanks to Mizzou’s awful shooting percentage).

So you don’t think I’m a total downer, I loved how we got control of our turnovers. Turnovers have always been LK’s Achilles heel and have held us back in past seasons. If we can keep turnovers low, we could be a tournament team.

They were even better tonight against Ole Miss. Justin Bibbins had a huge game with 23 points. Utah looks better than they were last year.