TIGERS Slide Show With five transfers and four freshmen, there are too many new parts to fit into place. The first half of last night's 91-54 victory over Alcorn State served as one more reminder of his continued need for patience. The 14th-ranked Tigers missed their first nine shots and continued misfiring throughout a dreadful 20 minutes that saw them shoot 23.1 percent from the floor. They clung to a seven-point lead at halftime. That against a Braves team coming off a 10-22 season and picked to finish eighth in the Southwestern Athletic Conference this season. "We did miss some bunnies, we missed a lot of chippies, and then it's how you let that affect your game," Haith said. "I thought that's what I saw. When things don't go well, you have a little adversity. We weren't as connected, as tight, as we need to be in terms of lifting one another up and playing harder on the defensive end." Missouri got it together after intermission, scoring 61 points and shooting nearly 59 percent from the field while stifling Alcorn State at the other end. The Braves shot 30.6 percent in the game, and the more physical Tigers outrebounded them 56-40. Point guard Phil Pressey led the way with 21 points, two shy of his career high. He had four during a 26-8 charge out of the locker room that took the tension out of an announced crowd of 8,013 at Mizzou Arena. But the real star of that early