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Tuesday, Dec. 18th, 8 pm, SECN

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aka's daughter is an honors student at Mercer.....maybe he can ask her to give us insight as to their team......
 
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Mercer is tall, with foreigners 7', 2 at 6'11", 6'10"... Serbia, Brazil, Poland. Top scorers avg = 13.5, 12.2, 11.6, 10.1.
So, could be interesting?
 

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Mercer is 4-6 and lost by 4 at NC State
 

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Mercer is tall, with foreigners 7', 2 at 6'11", 6'10"... Serbia, Brazil, Poland. Top scorers avg = 13.5, 12.2, 11.6, 10.1.
So, could be interesting?

Looks like the perfect opportunity for a smaller, quicker, more athletic team to be in constant motion on offense to try to come up with good, clean looks at the basket, as opposed to trying to shoot over the trees after taking 25+ seconds off the clock.
 

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Gonna be a tough game. We have had a lot of good practices apparently this week. Chase Johnson is fully cleared......but

Bassett has a hyperextended knee........and Ballard has a concussion
 

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Gonna be a tough game. We have had a lot of good practices apparently this week. Chase Johnson is fully cleared......but

Bassett has a hyperextended knee........and Ballard has a concussion

But what about White ... is White okay ? ... as long as White ain't compromised.
(Just kidding. Want to see us play winning ball with an inside presence = scoring.
 

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Gonna be a tough game. We have had a lot of good practices apparently this week. Chase Johnson is fully cleared......but

Bassett has a hyperextended knee........and Ballard has a concussion

Reminds me of our football team under Mike Kent...injuries piled up.
 

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Defensively, UF ranks sixth nationally after holding two of the best offenses in the country, West Virginia and Michigan State, to 31 and 24 points below their respective per-game averages
 

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Defensively, UF ranks sixth nationally after holding two of the best offenses in the country, West Virginia and Michigan State, to 31 and 24 points below their respective per-game averages

I like the effort on defense from an obviously offensively challenged team; but one would have to think that a focus on FT shooting (we've been shooting barely over 50% in most games) would have tremendous dividends for the team.

There really is no good reason why guys like Hudson or Allen are averaging 1 of 2 FT attempts when they get to the line. I can somewhat understand that from a big; but not for a perimeter player.
 

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Florida takes on Mercer tonight at 8 PM on the SECN. We have a lot of injuries popping up, but supposedly Hudson has been amazing in practices. Hopefully this is true and he can add some needed scoring off the bench
 

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Injuries? what kinda coaching is that; teach our guys to injure them guys.I'll watch it all and I'll be hoping hard.
 

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Injuries? what kinda coaching is that; teach our guys to injure them guys.I'll watch it all and I'll be hoping hard.
What's freaking hilarious is that Chase Johnson was fully cleared to play tonight....is missing the game with an illness. We are down

Gak
Chase
Ballard
Bassett
 

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Chase Johnson is exasperating to all. He physically fails to get on the court, then what use could he be in an actual game? As for Gak, the knee is a tricky part, but look how far off his surgeons, therapists are with his recovery?
John Egbunu got the same results. Time to contract with surgeons elsewhere. UF has athletes' careers ending before they start.??
 

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Florida is up 10-4 at the under 16 timeout. Hudson had a nice drive and layup, took a charge, but missed 2 open 3pters. Locke has hit 2 3pters. Stone played less than 2 min with crappybplay and got replaced by Keyontae
 

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White needs to see that Locke gets the shooting experience to become our 3-pt scorer. Other slackers can catch up with him. Hudson's gotta come out of his induced coma and contribute according to his past performance. Allen too.
 

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Florida is up 12-7 at the under 12 timeout. More bad offense (not making wide open looks). Hudson now 1-5. Nembhard missed 2 open 3pers and well
 

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We have thrown enough bricks this year to make a good start "Building The Wall". Certainly playing Mercer we can loosen up, make some shots and gain some confidence.
 

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