D'Moi Hodge, Mizzou guard, makes wild circus shot to beat buzzer vs. Alabama
D’Moi Hodge is fresh off a 26-point performance against Tennessee in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals Friday and he’s already off to a hot start against Alabama Saturday.
Hodge has 7 points and 4 rebounds, including perhaps the most absurd shot of the SEC Tournament this season. With 2 seconds left on the shot clock, Hodge chased down an inbounds pass, corralled it, turned around in one motion and drained a circus shot just before the buzzer.
Words don’t do it justice. Check it out below:
D’MOI HODGE
HOW IN THE WORLD pic.twitter.com/1yyAnXI9mk
— Mark Kim (@MarkJKim_) March 11, 2023
Luck? Absolutely not.
And before you scream luck, consider this: Missouri does this kind of stuff all the time. The Tigers beat Tennessee earlier in the season with a last second buzzer beater from 50 feet. They did similarly earlier in the season against UCF. And, surprisingly enough, they practice for situations just like this.
Head coach Dennis Gates has clearly thought of everything. According to Kobe Brown, Gates sets up crazy situations in practice so they are prepared for everything.
Kobe Brown yesterday on Dennis Gates preparing plays like that one:
“All we do is work on different situations. So it’s no situation we haven’t seen yet. Coach has some crazy situations he comes up with that we do in practice. It helps make games like this a lot easier.” https://t.co/fRRapnXm8F
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_ATH) March 11, 2023
Making crazy, improbable shots is just what Missouri does. Let’s see if their exciting playstyle is enough to knock off Alabama in the 2nd half. The Crimson Tide leads 31-29 exiting the halftime break.
Someone needs to tell Dykes that he and Brandon Miller should get a room.
Miller’s been travelling all over the court today, but it’s Bama and SEC officiating and we know the SEC loves them some Bama so… what can ya do?
Lose by 11
We aren’t beating many teams shooting it the way we did today, regardless of officiating. Definitely not good for Mizzou to play back to back days. We just didn’t seem sharp and didn’t seem to have the high gear we are accustomed to.
Why do losing teams always bring up officiating?
13 fouls to 13 fouls. Bama’s length clearly bothered the small Tigers. That was the difference. Bama shot very poorly too.
Agree Alabama didn’t shoot well either. At one point the teams combined were 7 of 36 behind the arc. Bama shot a bit better in the second half, and they are much more equipped to play an inside game with their size. Oh, and they have a guy named Miller.
@LOTO: I agree, we didn’t shoot very well at all, missed a ton of chip shots which made things easy on Bama. I’m not overly disappointed losing based on the way we played, I’m just disappointed in playing the way we played.
Not to mention Kobe wasn’t the same after he got knee’d in the head in the 1st half. He’s going to have one heck of a headache tomorrow if not already, but him not being right was quite noticeable the rest of the game.
When you are in the groove, you are in the groove.