reed says...

I believe they are wore out,and its katy bar the door....They have played so great.....They can't be faulted be cause they have gave us all they had.

February 9, 2012 at 6:28 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Razorhog says...

It may be time for Coach Anderson to change the travel routine, curfew, etc. No wins on the road?! Something needs to change. Pelfrey could do this.

February 9, 2012 at 6:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

bgray_mcaleergray.com says...

This is a mess...and a glaring lack of fundamentals.

February 9, 2012 at 7:04 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jordan says...

Road warriors we ain't. Man that was the worst Razorback basketball I have ever seen. I guess just young without Powell. How long until football?

Go Hogs.

February 9, 2012 at 7:27 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

rmmr says...

I would like to see MA change the starting lineup, maybe Young and Madden in for Scott and Nobles with Wade at point for a while. Maybe its scott and Nobles that could do better from the bench. Sometimes I feel like their missed layups and brick outside shots, set the tone of the game early. May be time to play with the starting line up a little and see if we start a little different.

February 9, 2012 at 8:09 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

dwp007 says...

Growing pains are painful. Even though talented, freshmen basketball players tend to be all over the map, performance wise. There's nothing new about that.

The similarities to Bobby Petrino's first year are more than a little intriguing, although the basketball team has overachieved - given the youth, injuries and defections. Under the circumstances, I am proud of these guys and believe they will still finish strong.

Mike Anderson built a very respectable team at UAB and a powerful one at Missouri. With a little time and some help through recruiting, he and his staff will figure this thing out.

In the meantime, the "Forty Minutes of Hell" documentary - starring Anderson, in part - should be required viewing by all on Saturday evening.

February 9, 2012 at 8:12 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

rmmr says...

Reed you may be right, for their D has not been there the last 3 or 4 games like it was. Very short roster with shorter talent depth will wear you out at this time of year. Very tough finishing schedule ahead, even the home games. MA will need time to get his style players just like BP had to do and we will compete for championships again in near future.

February 9, 2012 at 8:17 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KFPowers says...

Arkansas is fine. They just ran into a Georgia team that played out of their minds last night. Almost everything Georgia threw up went in the basket. And Arkansas was contesting almost all of those shots especially in the second half.
I've played a lot of basketball and every once in a while you run into a team that just goes off and no matter what you do you are going to get a butt whippin. Well thats all that happened last night.

I do think the hogs could greatly improve by running their offense through Mickelson. Run pick and rolls and constantly feed him in the post where he can find open shooters or cutters. The hogs really need a little inside out offense.

February 9, 2012 at 8:21 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

builderman says...

Except we seem to always catch the team playing their best ball.....what's the common denominator? I know these are young boys but so are the ones on the other side. We might as well save the gas money and mail in the road games.....maybe we can rest up for the home ones. I'm a little tired of the "ah shucks" routine....something is wrong and someone needs to figure it out. I said a while back that this looks just like our teams of the past few years, a couple of games to give us hope and then 4-5 to bring us back to reality. Maybe next year.....maybe.

February 9, 2012 at 8:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KFPowers says...

To me this team looks nothing like the teams of the last few years. Last night was the first game that they really got a butt whippin. Up until this point they have been steadily improving. And actually, in the second half of that game I saw some great play from Wade and Mickelson that I hadn't seen up to this point in the season. So as bad as last night was, I still saw growth. In basketball, in a one game scenario, anything can and does happen. Elite teams can get their asses handed to them by lower tier teams. It happens all the time at every level of basketball.

February 9, 2012 at 9:07 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jordan says...

Go ahead and criticize me but with my street shoes on I could walk the ball up against our press. Anybody that thinks that is because of us being young doesn't know much about bball. Not even one possession/minute of hell. Forty minutes of hell is when your opponent is wondering how in the H are they going to get on the other end. And then it's hard to even see the bucket. Forty minutes of hell got fired when Nolan got fired. Say what you want about NR but we haven't had a coach half as smart as he is/was. MA being a pup I would expect a more ferocious effort from the D side of the ball

Ga paper said, "This is the second worst Ga team since 1960". The reason they looked so good was because of us, not them. I'm a MA fan but I think not only tweaking the starting line up. I think we need to slow down a little. You try to teach a young team to be too fast (with the ball) from the gitgo they lose a little of their BASKETBALL playing ability. Learn to play fundamentally sound basketball FIRST then speed it up. Fundamentally sound and fast is not frantic and crazy. On D they need to be faster. On offensive turn that idle screw a little to the left.

No big criticism of the coaches except the asst on the bench blowing bubbles when we were 23 pts behind makes me crazy.

Go Hogs.

February 9, 2012 at 9:21 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Agingalum says...

SOUND LOGIC JORDAN. GOOD POST.

February 9, 2012 at 9:45 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KFPowers says...

Arkansas leads the SEC in forcing turnovers (17.3)

Arkansas leads the SEC in steals (8.75)

The problem with the team is Not the lack of a full court press.

The main problems with this team are no inside-out offense (which causes bad spacing and bad shot selection) and weak rebounding.

February 9, 2012 at 9:49 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

jordan says...

If you make Ga look like the 80s Lakers your problem is not all offense.

February 9, 2012 at 12:44 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

dwp007 says...

The Razorbacks are in the very first year with a proven coach who got severely short changed on a roster because of academic issues, early departures and injuries. He has returned "team" chemistry to a program desperately in need ot it.

Like it or not, the core of this team is exceedingly young and the bench is depleted. Nonetheless, until last night, at least, the guys have played hard and stayed in the fight.

Mike Anderson's past work at UAB and Missouri speaks for itself. He will get the job done at Arkansas.

February 9, 2012 at 12:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KFPowers says...

Georgia made a lot of layups, but not because they beat the arkansas press. They got a lot of runouts on long rebounds off of bad shots - and they just beat the hogs down the court. Bad shots and bad floor balance led to a lot of layups on the other end.

February 9, 2012 at 1:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

zuko says...

Mike Anderson should have stayed in Missouri and not listened to Nolan Richardson. I believe that Richardson was behind getting Pelphry fired and Rotny Clark felt the same way and couldn't stomach it, so he opted out. I'd venture to say if he was still there, they would be heading for the big show.Pelphry had a lot of things to clean up when he got there, took two years, and when he got done, he got screwed.The current team has a long way to go to develop as a team. T.J Young should grow up and not gloat after he makes a dunk, like the one he did against Georgia, man you would think it tied the game up or something. Nolan Richardson is in the picture and trying to influence the players with his "forty minutes of hell" thing. That worked then an it's not anymore. He had a great bunch of players then and it will be a long time before that mold is used again.

February 9, 2012 at 1:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

KFPowers says...

sucko - you can always root for florida and gonzaga if you love pelphrey and clarke.

February 9, 2012 at 2:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

rlw59 says...

zuko, are you freaking serious? You really think opie is a better coach than MA? I guess nobody in college basketball agrees with you since he couldn't get another head coaching job and had to take an asst job at Florida that his buddy gave him.

And I'm glad Snotnei left, he'd been threatening to leave for the last 3 years even though opie played him all the time. So that was good riddance as far as I'm concerned.

We don't have any players named TJ Young, I assume you mean BJ Young. I will agree I wish our freshmen would grow up and not act like it's the world's biggest surprise EVERYTIME they get a foul called on them. Someone needs to tell them to worry about their playing and leave the reffing to the refs.

You are wrong about MA. He will win and win big at Ark. It won't be this year but 2-3 years from now he will. And if Powell hadn't gone down early with a season-ending injury he would have taken this year's team to NCAAs. So have some patience, better days are ahead.

February 9, 2012 at 2:16 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

DistantHog says...

Builderman asks "what's the common denominator"? Call it .. "home". As Arkansas has done to better teams on its home court, GA did to Arkansas last night. Can't look at all these road games as a single template. Close loss at Alabama. Same result @ UM. Back to back poor games at LSU and GA and I think we're tired (no real bench) and stressed (must win).

As disappointing as it is to admit its time to dream of the NIT vice NCAAs, truth is this team isn't there yet but has great potential and future.

It MUST get a couple bigs however. And to that guy that said put Hunter on the bench. Why? You don't think he can run and fit in this style of play? Be ready to be surprised when this kid dominates next year when he's .. what... 19?

To the guy that said Pelfrey could take this team to the NCAAs? Two dozen programs that needed a head coach passed on him. Why? Because he didn't get a fair shot at UA? No. Don't believe so. He's an assistant coach at this level because he didn't prove himself at the head coach level. Four years is a heck of a 'trial period'.

Go hogs. The future is bright.

February 9, 2012 at 5:50 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

dwp007 says...

ZuckO - I hung with Pelphrey until the very end, but get real, man. If he wasn't suspending someone, they were leaving school early. Team chemistry, the entire duration of his stay, was absolutely horrible.

Mike Anderson is a much better coach. Moreover, the kids that he recruits will compete like there's no tomorrow. They will also graduate.

February 9, 2012 at 5:51 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )