Auburn went 4-5 on FGs in the last minutes, while Oregon went 1-8.

Gotta shoot well at crunch time!

First thing I see is a Auburn team that is much more active and much more hungry for loose balls, need to fight through screens better, need to rebound. We're going to struggle in the half court. It's way early of course, but a bunch of turnovers already.

It’s going to be hard to win if Auburn gets twice as many shots.

Settle down guys.

Turnovers and defensive rebounding has been bad, other facets have been decent to good, but we won't win games giving up a offensive rebound on half of Auburn's shots, and turning it over every third possession.

Frustrating, so sloppy on offense, very little ball movement, no drives to the rim, Shelstad needs to go to the rim more than he does, doesn't feel like teams really respect him as a driver. Need better free throw shooting, need to box out the shooter on shots, it's just not good enough.

Edit:

Tie game at the half, I am pleased to see us in a game with a top 25 opponent without playing a clean game, we're switching defenses well, we rebounded better as the game continued, shooting is decent. Evans is really working hard down low, need more from Shelstad to really take the game.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by spartan2785

Wow 37-37 at the half. I tuned in late but liked what I saw the last 5 minutes of the half.

12 minutes ago, Dave23 said:

Wow 37-37 at the half. I tuned in late but liked what I saw the last 5 minutes of the half.

Yes, they closed the half well, encouraging to see.

Pettiford is winning the point guard battle, need Jackson to even it out a bit.

Don't love the jacking up 3s game plan this team is very hot and cold from 3.

The Ducks team is shaping up. They look athletic, quick and capable. Dana can shape these guys into a better team.

Auburn presents a formidable but beatable opponent. The remainder of the game should be entertaining and revealing about our Ducks.

Auburn 54-52 @ 14:00

Ball movent is picking up which is good overall but timing is still off. 5 Games in and this team is starting the process of gelling can't wait to see them at the half way mark.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Dave23

Turnovers are just killing us, they aren't even forced, it's just stupid decisions and not being fundamentally sound.

TAKE CARE OF THE BASKETBALL!!!!!!!!

We make so many dumb decisions, passing to guys not open, not being decisive, dribbling too much.

Shelstad looks scared to even attempt to drive the ball, he has to be a threat to go to the hole, he doesn't even make an attempt.

Overall the team looks better. If they can learn how to take care of the ball, they will be fine.

Simpkins was a mess tonight. I know he had 22 points, but you can’t have 7 turnovers in one game from the guard position.

We're a bubble team right now, we don't take care of the basketball, we don't hit free throws, we don't have an extra gear to really up the defensive pressure on good teams. We'll win some games, but we're going to have to improve a lot to compete and win games against good teams.

Shelstad has to play better, he has to be a threat to take the ball to the rim, he got outplayed tonight by Pettiford.

At times we get bogged down trying to get the ball into Bittle on the block, and it just becomes a struggle. Evans was good in the first half, then just kind of disappeared in the second half.

A very frustrating game overall. Can't do anything about it now, need to bounce back and beat SDSU then get a win in the final game.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by spartan2785

A neutral court loss to Auburn won’t hurt at all. Not sure what they need to do to clean up the turnovers, but that part was awful tonight.

On the positive side, we out rebounded a very good team by 13.

Just clean up the turnovers and this will be a very good team.

My, how the worm turned in the final 7 minutes

Sloppy game with 18 turnovers that's the bad new. The good news is this team worked hard tonight and kept it close for most the game against the 21st team in the nation.

If the Ducks get their offensive time right on a few more of those those mistimed passes and those go from turnovers to two points.

Auburn traditionally has some horses. Though this is the first game without Bruce Pearl as coach. 10-1 vs current B1G members in last 11. It was probably a respectable Ducks showing against the No. 21 ranked team.

11-23-22 – 43-42 Northwestern (neutral)

12-18-22 – 71-74 at USC

12-21-22 – 84-61 at Washington

3-16-23 – 83-75 Iowa (NIT)

12-9-23 – 104-76 Indiana (neutral)

12-17-23 – 91-75 USC

12-14-24 – 91-53 Ohio State (neutral)

12-21-24 – 87-69 Purdue

3-28-25 – 78-65 Michigan (neutral)

3-30-25 – 70-65 Michigan St (neutral)

11-24-25 – 87-73 Oregon

11-25-25 vs Michigan

Shelstad and Bittle were not very good in this game. Shelstad especially can't go 4-17 and 1-11 from 3, that's atrocious, he got outplayed by Pettiford big time.

I want to look at this half-full, but I really don't know if this team has an extra gear, I think their stars can play better, but I don't see an extra gear that this team is going to get to, they've played 5 games now and they haven't once played a game that you would say they played better than a B-, at some point that's just who they are, a sloppy team that doesn't have great shooting and doesn't move the ball on offense.

I was saying the opposite last year, I thought that team could be special and I was proven wrong, so hopefully I'm wrong again!😂