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Kent with his second offensive rebound. Can't get a putback, but go, dude.

I'm generally fine with fouling us Payne.

A&M home of the sixth man. On the floor.

I don't think Larry can expect to get that pass through 3 defenders. And once again, Kent can't finish in the paint. He just can't.

Mark trapped himself and then Johnson in the corner after being fed while driving baseline. Just not a good play by Mark.

We're down only 6. We're without two key players, who happen to be our best rebounders. We've come back from being down 22 at one point in the second half. We're playing hellacious d. Then A&M hits a 28 footer on a busted possession.

He didn't fall on the guy with his full body weight. Oh, wait. Wrong game.

If Onyema is allowed to check players like that, look out.

Kent finally gets a rebound, and he gets it slapped off his knee.

Nice work between Onyema and Larry there.

Mark comes in and makes a dumb foul.

Pryor gets in the face of a 3 point shooter, forces the miss, then hits the shot at the other end. Nice sequence.

Since then, we have been in Johnson trying to do it all by himself mode.

Beautiful feed from Pryor to Kent.

Mark not on the floor to start the half. Pryor in. Mark hurt too?

Big thing to take to the locker room. Don't give it to Onyema 12 feet from the basket in the last second of a possession and expect him to make a shot. OK, that was a really bad half of basketball. We were nuked on the boards. 10 offensive rebounds to 2. Couple that with A&M +2 in turnover margin, and A&M had ten more offensive possessions than us. You can't win that way. You usually can't stay in the game that way. Without Kaluma or Weaver, we are pathetic at rebounding, and if that doesn't change, we're going to lose a lot more games and by big margins. Some of A&M's torrid hot shooting was just that, but too much of it was our guys being lax in guarding the arc. Our offense struggled, but it was at least trying to function before we got to the stretch after Pope dribbled off his foot and Codie hesitated after being fed on the baseline. After that we had three straight possessions get wasted by Johnson and Mark trying to do it all by themselves. Terry settled them down after the timeout, but it's too little, too late. I doubt we will see a comeback for a close loss the way we did against Auburn, since I don't see us competing inside at all. I liked some of what I saw from Codie and Pryor. Not all by any means, and I still wonder why Vinson doesn't even get to sniff the floor when Shedrick and Kent are being absolutely overwhelmed inside.

Better defense by him the next two possessions. Went out on shooter. Still managed to cut off the driver and keep the Agroids from getting the offensive rebound. Then went out on the shooter again.

Not a good idea for him to leave the guy open in the corner.

Good idea to get Codie into the game. 17-5 on the boards.

Pope dribbles off his foot.

Greatly disfavoring the team with the limited rotation.

We're only down 4 in a game in which we are being outrebounded 14-5. Without our two leading rebounders (Kaluma and Weaver), we're pitifully weak on the boards. I thought Kent was blasted by Payne on that first drive, but no call. He kind of went up weak the second time.

Larry doing a good job getting into the lane so far. Nice pull up by Pryor. A little late on the pass to Onyema on the next possession Nice inbound play.

Shedrick grabbed around the waist and tripped. No call.

Have either Shedrick or Kent gotten into the air while trying to rebound? They've usually been kind of tied up with Agroids, but I don't think either has gotten off the floor yet.