Shockers 2nd half surge beats Alabama A&M

by **Snapshot9** » December 14th, 2010, 1:08 am

Shockers, plagued with turnovers, and a sluggish first half was just barely ahead, 38-35 of the Bulldogs at the
break. They came back the 2nd half, turning up the heat defensively, which allowed them to gradually building a lead that would not be relinguished. The Shockers won, 71-49.

Toure Murry had 20 points, and Graham Hatch had 16 points in the win.

Next up for the Shockers is LSU Saturday down south.

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by **DoubleJayAlum** » December 14th, 2010, 8:39 am

Did Durley, the PF/C, really have SEVEN turnovers? Lack of focus or lack of execution?

by **iSASO** » December 14th, 2010, 8:53 am

Both. The 9th place team in the Valley would have performed better against the #345 RPI team in the nation. Murry had 6 turnovers. This team is in big trouble. So many role players but not a one of them will be a candidate for All-MVC anything because none of them are consistent, except for maybe Aaron Ellis who has been close to having back-to-back double-doubles. But who would ever vote for him? No one knows who he is.

If this team doesn't get some focus and consistency they could easily lose the next two non-con games against LSU and Tulsa.

by **DUShock** » December 14th, 2010, 8:55 am

DoubleJayAlum wrote:Did Durley, the PF/C, really have SEVEN turnovers? Lack of focus or lack of execution?

Complete lack of focus, several were sloppy passes or worse. The opposing player simply took the ball out of hands on more than two occasions.

Go Valley!

Go Shocks!!

by **Aargh** » December 14th, 2010, 4:42 pm

At least Durley was efficient.

It only took him 23 minutes to get 7 turnovers.

At one point, AA&M (a 34% shooting team) was hitting over 60% of their shots. They're very good at hitting layups. Durley was playing Swiss defense (uninvolved observer).

Durley got a lot of bench in the second half. Orukpe got 10 minutes and did a lot less damage than Durley. That's damage to WSU - not to AA&M.

Kyles was off. Evidently he realized that because he only took 4 shots. Hatch covered Kyles production.

by **TheShock** » December 14th, 2010, 5:09 pm

Aargh wrote:Kyles was off. Evidently he realized that because he only took 4 shots. Hatch covered Kyles production.

Marshall indicated on the post game show that something might be wrong with Kyles? He told David during the game that he was reverting back to his play the first 2 years. He was allowing #11 (Alabama A&M) to look like Allen Iverson. Whether it was a hand injury (he was grimacing severely at the end of the first half) or an apparent ‘kick to the grapes’ (yes, that can be very painful) during the second half, it was obvious something wasn’t right. At least Valley teams can forget about covering him because David Kyles (from Dallas) has gone south for the winter.