Derka

the same chris beard who engineered the best defense in the history of kenpom during his third year at basketball powerhouse texas tech. go ahead and find every coach whose first 8 years of his head coaching career are comparable to the first 8 years of chris beard’s. spoiler alert: you’re going to end with a “who’s who” of college basketball coaches. there is no deifying of chris beard. he is a great college basketball coach and one of the elite defensive coaches in all of basketball. there is only acknowledging this or denying it.

kaluma looking good tonight.

much better defense this half which is leading to easy looks on offense.

so we can trash chris beard during his second game of the season, just not RT. yep, that checks out.

yes.

and for the record, quinn looked great early this season, and nobody here ever said otherwise. however- after he got hit/hurt he has cratered into a shell of the player he was early on, which is the same thing that happened the last time he got hit/hurt. he has absolutely been a different player since then, and while it’s possible that he could still get back to the way he was playing early on, that process should never have taken this long to begin with. he’s holding our entire offense back and making things incredibly easy on opposing defenses. we can’t afford to lose again, and i’m sorry, but we *will* lose again if he does not do a 180 from where he currently is between now and as early as tomorrow morning.

he’s been a bottom 2-3 player on our starting offense for huge portions of the last two years. people keep coming to this thread and saying stuff like, “quinn took us ti the playoffs”, and “quinn has us at 7-1”, and it’s like, no he didn’t/doesn’t. he is literally surrounded by better, more impactful players every single time our offense has huddled the last two seasons. that’s what makes his fan club so ridiculous. he is objectively not one of the better players on our offense and yet he’s supposedly leading this team to everything good that’s accomplished while being responsible for none of our shortcomings. people fall in love with a highly rated QB and lose all objectivity. when quinn is gone and we get to compare arch to quinn at the same stage of their respective careers it’s going to become crystal clear just how badly QE has underperformed, especially considering that he has everything a QB could need to thrive. we can’t even get this guy to be consistently good, never mind thriving. we’re going to look back at 2024 as the year we wasted a title contending roster on a QB who has not played well, has no confidence, turns the ball over, and is afraid to get hit.

two RB injuries just before the season started changed that. CJ Baxter is the best RB in the sec, and an RB of him, blue, wisner, and gipson is still pretty stacked, even if it’s not bijan, roschon, brooks, robinson levels of insanity.

Tre with 12 at the half. he is just so silky. i’m struggling to compare him to anyone we’ve had recently, other than a taller, more athletic, and more disciplined j’covan brown. Tre moves like he was born to do this. gonna enjoy his one year here.

37-34 with 2:00 left in the 1H. embarrassing.

i cannot wrap my head around how you can sit next to rick barnes and chris beard for so many years, as wildly successful as they’ve been, and just totally fail to grasp what it was about those guys that has made them so successful everywhere they’ve been. it all starts with discipline, and i will never understand how RT just lets his team play street ball and make one stupid decision after another with no changes or consequences.

it’s currently 27-24 against houston christian with 7 minutes left in the 1H.

man we just do not have that trademark discipline that we had under beard and barnes. we’re stacking up shitty possessions on both ends of the court. we just ole on defense and give up a wide open layup (HCU now 5 of their last 6) and then we go down and brick a three five seconds into the shot clock. im gonna say it, because its so obvious, and there’s just no point in acting like its not: we are so fucked as long as RT is here. this team has zero identity and is not held to the standard that we deserve at Texas. RT has spent years working next to some of the best HC’s in college hoops and he simply is not capable of running a program the way they did. not even close.

25-21 Texas nearing the u8.

kent drains another three. 25-16 Texas.

good look in transition from Tre leads to a weaver dunk. 🤘🏼

18-14 at the u12 TO, kent at the line when we come back.

kent nails the catch and shoot three. offense looking much better after a sloppy start.

kaluma for three

11-9 at the u16 TO. were 3-4 from deep but the rest is ugly.

kaluma for three, we’re 3-3 from deep.

HCU forcing TOs and getting fast breaks. don’t like it.

w3aver! we’ve given up two easy dunks to start the game smh.

the espn+ link didn’t work for me but the secn+ link below it is working.

Tre starts us off swishing a corner three.