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Gut Wagon

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  1. Their bombing ability and quickness on D are hard for us to deal with. We need to get into the bonus asap and keep pounding the boards. Another dose of Preston might also be useful.
  2. Shay needs to get it together.
  3. Jones and Preston are stepping up huge.
  4. Coach's old Kiwi accent seems to be bubbling up a bit more than before. I take that to mean we're about to leave every 2025 opponent gobsmacked.
  5. Our 2024 season had a lot to do with their pessimism. They're accustomed to not competing for the league title, but to see evil tu immediately be successful and then sign the No. 1 class was simply more than they could bear. At the moment they're not even sure they'll win their spring game.
  6. Not sure that rim needs protecting.
  7. Latimer strikes me as a slightly smaller, slower D'onta Foreman. Can't find a 40 time. Not a ton of wiggle, but a tackle shedder and strong north-south runner. Also has pretty good hands. Overall, looks like a solid red zone guy who's also big enough for effective pass pro. I'd call that a clear take in a multi-RB class.
  8. Given the obvious draw of the almighty dollar, it's impressive that even a program with deep pockets could hold a roster together after the season we just had and the talent we return. How much of that came down to straight NIL vs. relationships, team culture and/or the appeal of Austin itself? The answer undoubtedly varies from player to player. I'll assume nobody turned down ridiculously more money from elsewhere, but it speaks even better of our program and its trajectory if they did. Just a great effort by everyone involved.
  9. Fair points. Weaver's edge is his utterly fearless play late in games. I trust him more than anyone else to get his hands on a crucial loose ball, keep a rebound alive or draw a charge. He's this team's Silas Bolden, and I sense the other guys feed off that.
  10. I think Weaver's status will determine how this season plays out. That kid regularly makes momentum-shifting plays out of nothing. With the scoring difficulties we often face, it's going to take a fair bit of his magic to get us safely into March.
  11. Lots of grit on display here tonight. Mizzou will be puzzled at this loss, but Texas has simply outplayed them overall. I'm as hard on this bunch as anyone, but kudos tonight.
  12. Ouch. Break out the peach baskets.
  13. Next year I'd gladly trade two inches of Taylor's height for an extra dose of athleticism in her replacement. She can only dominate when she's the tallest player on the court, and even then it's usually a struggle. In that sense, she's much like a female Shedrick. Nothing personal against either player, just reality. It's the No. 1 roster issue both the women and men face this season.
  14. Kent looks like Tarzan, plays like Jane. Unless Jane is Madison Booker, in which case he doesn't play like Jane, either.
  15. Kent is not a basketball player. He's a big guy on a basketball court.
  16. I'm not sure to which guy this is a greater insult.
  17. A year from now I hope the conversation will be, "Townsend is a beast. Might be hard to keep several other guys from hitting the portal, but whatever."
  18. Gaston's final line hardly reflected the full game. She got a lot of her points in garbage time. Despite poor shooting and lackluster D in the second half, we never were seriously threatened. Nice to see Booker start hot, though she cooled off later. All in all, a decent bounceback from Sunday.
  19. Yes. Arguably good enough to have single-handedly altered our CFP path. Hate to even bring it up, but Luckie caught that third-and-long pass on Stockton's first drive against us. Was he inbounds? If so, barely...but on review, he got credit for the catch. Had he not, who knows what might have happened in that second half? That guy also tackled Barron on his late INT, when otherwise we had a decent path to a winning pick-6. Had Luckie not made both those plays, we might well have started the playoffs with a quarterfinals game against ND. 🤨
  20. Thank you, Jordan Pope. You were overwhelmingly the difference in winning and losing here tonight. What else is in the take-home lesson? 1. Shedrick tries but just isn't good enough to be an effective starter. Sadly, that has to be his role on this roster. Kent was a perimeter screener of no other discernible value tonight. 2. Johnson and Kaluma might need to split a bottle of NyQuil before our next tipoff. Too frantic under duress for much of the night. But at least both had flurries of key points. 3. This is one of the worst passing teams we've had. Stagnant halfcourt motion and unimaginative OOB sets only worsen the issue. All that, plus our bigs' difficulties scoring around the rim, adds up to sporadic flow and puts extra pressure on our guards to create decent shots for themselves. Abridged version of the above: Against all odds, we survived. Really nice for the men and women both to win in Norman this year.
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