Missouri starter out for UF's game

[Bryan85]

Andy Katz ‏@ESPNAndyKatz
Missouri coach Frank Haith says Laurence Bowers (knee) definitely won't play against Florida Saturday.

[InstiGATOR1]

They had a thread about this on a UMo board this morning saying he was probably out. It certainly hurts them that he is out for sure.

[ReggieNelson]

sweet

[gogators73]

Good. I don't feel sorry for anyone with our injury bug this year.

[kygator]

I feel bad for him. I don't feel bad for the team. They'll just have to adjust like any other team that has a player temporarily injured.

[GatorLurker]

I take no joy in players being hurt and I wanted to see him play in person. Drat. I guess I'm going against the grain in this thread.

[ufgator4ever]

Thay will still be tough. No tears.

[HALLGATOR]

He is averaging almost 17 points and 7 rebounds a game. No doubt they will miss him.

[REM08]

He's a big loss. Yall are 13.5 pt favs and I can't imagine that line was made to reflect this loss.

[lean_gator]

Game over

[ETGator1]

They are going big with their starting lineup, but I think it will make it easier for us to press them and create turnovers.

[themistocles]

Missouri, with Bowers, used primarily a 5-man rotation with a couple of moderately used backups in Webster-Chan and Jankovic.

Following his injury, they WISELY expanded their rotation rather than shrinking it as most coaches foolishly do.

One might think that loss would hurt them, but I don't really think that is true, because they already appear to have adapted well in their two games (loss to Ole Miss, victory over Georgia).

They have a very good coach, and I don't really think it will hurt them much at all.