If MA starts anyone else over Hall at the 4 spot

[hogsgolfpro]

I am going to lose my mind. Cook better not get the start tonight!

[razorback1829]

I am going to lose my mind. Cook better not get the start tonight!

Hall doesn't play the 4.

[Letsroll1200]

Hall doesn't play the 4.

He can play the 4. He has enough size. Hopefully it's Hall or Gabe starting.

[PonderinHog]

He can play the 4. He has enough size. Hopefully it's Hall or Gabe starting.

Or both.

[SemperHawg]

Did we get any word if Adrio is over the flu yet?

[BannerMountainMan]

He didn't start last game and we blew em out and again it doesn't matter who starts because everybody is going to get the same amount of minutes as they usually do

[FineAsSwine]

Ole Miss is starting 4 guards and a 6'8" post. We could get away with Hall or Gabe in alongside of Gafford. Hall isn't a 4 though and CMA said so himself.

[golfinpig]

I don't understand why Cook is still getting minutes. He's not an offensive threat and he's a turnover waiting to happen.

[daprospecta]

I don't understand why Cook is still getting minutes. He's not an offensive threat and he's a turnover waiting to happen.

He is the biggest guy on the team outside Trey.  Cook is basically a space filler on defense which is needed at times against bigger teams.

[The_Iceman]

If Hall plays the 4, it decimates our depth at the 1-3 spots.

[labb]

Only player with less minutes that Cook is Gabe and the walkons and Gabe only started getting minutes in the last three games or so. Didn't run the numbers but think that Cook has averaged about 7 minutes per game over 25 games..So It is not like he is taking a lot of minutes from anyone. Problem is that the options at that position are not very good.

[Hawg Red]

Doesn't have to be Hall for me, but it does need to be anyone but Cook. Thomas, Bailey, Gabe -- I'll take any of them over Cook. Cook's calling card is solid D and Gabe has usurped him there.

[DiamondHogFan]

He didn't start last game and we blew em out and again it doesn't matter who starts because everybody is going to get the same amount of minutes as they usually do

But...did you watch the first 7 minutes of the last game?  Although...I do see your point.

[sadhogfan]

He is the biggest guy on the team outside Trey.  Cook is basically a space filler on defense which is needed at times against bigger teams.

Dustin Thomas is listed at the same height and 10 pounds heavier. I *think* Cook might be a slightly better defender, while Thomas is a little better offensively. They both seem to be below average athletically.

So basically, a wash. What is frustrating is you can never tell on a given night if you are going to get good (for them) minutes, or what you got with Cook against Vandy, where he was involved in 3 TOs to start off the game.

I think Adrio has more upside (definitely more athleticism), but I think he got lost in rotations when the other two returned, had his confidence shaken, and has never recovered since.

[Dwight_K_Shrute]

The starting line up the last game contributed to the slow/poor start.  As much as I love GO he shouldn't have started.  He's doing a great job growing into his role but still needs some seasoning.  We need as fast and clean a start as possible.  Then bring Gabe in as a whirling dervish of energy that just disrupts the other team.  But that needs to happen after our own flow is established. 

[razorback1829]

The starting line up the last game contributed to the slow/poor start.  As much as I love GO he shouldn't have started.  He's doing a great job growing into his role but still needs some seasoning.  We need as fast and clean a start as possible.  Then bring Gabe in as a whirling dervish of energy that just disrupts the other team.  But that needs to happen after our own flow is established.

Gabe didn't start last game. Cook did.

[Dwight_K_Shrute]

Gabe didn't start last game. Cook did.

Ok that explains it.  Gabe went in pretty early though didn't he?

[labb]

I think he went in after we had the 5th turn over.

[TebowHater]

Ok that explains it.  Gabe went in pretty early though didn't he?

Yep and we started doing better when he did

[TNhawgfan]

Or both.

Genius. The other team will never see it coming

[Dirty]

If Hall doesn't come off the bench to Sub 1-3 then who?