re: MBB : Early conference play opinion

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Baker is soft and can’t rebound

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I agree, he does have some skills offensively, but Nichols showed the second game of the season how to defend him. If doubled as soon as he gets the ball he absolutely panics. And he was billed a good 3-point shooter coming in....he has not been here.

McMahon it seems is gonna ride it out with him though so I think we're just gonna have to hope he gets better.

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Reed has not lived up to his billing and lags in real time.

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Ward has finally started to develop into the player he was billed, I agree....Reed though we see definite flashes, is still lagging.

As for the rebounding and toughness (IMHO they go hand in hand) my concern from day 1 was this was a huge weakness and something I didn't see improving as it was intrinsic.

However, out of the blue the game in College station and the games that followed until this past one, we seemed to have found something there and were actually beating all our opponents on the board and playing with toughness.

That did not happen Saturday.