Texas Women’s Basketball 2023-2024: Handing out ass whoopins and lollipops, and we’re all out of lollipops

[Iguana 229]

Rori just continues to amaze me.  What a pleasure to watch. 

[TommysTinyTowels 787]

6 minutes ago, Iguana said:

Rori just continues to amaze me.  What a pleasure to watch. 

Really focused on scoring more this year with the midrange game.

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

Poor UTA. 

[Js1 85336]

3 minutes ago, TommysTinyTowels said:

Really focused on scoring more this year with the midrange game.

What made her so good as a Freshman 

[Js1 85336]

Booker’s passing 😍😍

[TommysTinyTowels 787]

Damn Booker. This is just her third game.

[Js1 85336]

Just now, TommysTinyTowels said:

Damn Booker. This is just her third game.

Booker, Watkins, Hidalgo, Williams, Fulwiley. The 2023 freshman class is balling early. 

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

UTA had some success breaking the press but that's a trap. That 1st half is what happens when you try to run with Texas. 

[TommysTinyTowels 787]

4 for 12 from the line. 33% good gawd.

need to get back on D as well

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

5 minutes ago, TommysTinyTowels said:

4 for 12 from the line. 33% good gawd.

need to get back on D as well

Playing these G5 schools actually gives Texas more issues with the press because they have all these smaller players. 

But it's a losing strategy because trying to run with this Texas team leads to easy baskets off turnovers. 

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

Booker has some insane offensive game. Really talented but everyone already knew that. 

Fair to say Booker will be starting this year. Too good of a player to come off the bench. 

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

Now you see why a lot of people thought Booker was a top 5 recruit. Damn she's good. 

Edited November 15, 2023 by Rickylovesweed

[Js1 85336]

Those were back to back amazing passes by Booker - one to Jones and one to Harmon

UTA shooting 51% - Vic might stroke out. But Texas shooting over 60%

[Js1 85336]

Baylor trying to close it out against #4 Utah - conference would have 2 quality non-conf wins between Utah and Ole Miss. Texas hoping to add to that with UConn next month

[Js1 85336]

62 paint points so far - most under Vic 

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

Just imagine when Texas gets Gaston and Moore back. Only question is who loses minutes? Faye probably? 

[Js1 85336]

Huge win for Baylor. Going to be some more shakeup in the rankings 

[TommysTinyTowels 787]

2 minutes ago, Rickylovesweed said:

Just imagine when Texas gets Gaston and Moore back. Only question is who loses minutes? Faye probably? 

Yeah, I don’t know. Good problem to have I guess. I think Moore will have to earn her place again, she’s been out so long.

Won’t be as worried about foul trouble down low like we have been in the past.

[TommysTinyTowels 787]

4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Huge win for Baylor. Going to be some more shakeup in the rankings 

Feels weird not to hate the Baylor coach.

[Js1 85336]

1 minute ago, TommysTinyTowels said:

Feels weird not to hate the Baylor coach.

Yeah, I really dislike Gerlich and Fennelly and find myself respecting Collen and Baranczyk. They both speak pretty highly of Vic and Texas when we play - unlike the other 2. 

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

Tech seems to have a thing for loud mouth coaches that don't win anything. 

[Js1 85336]

This team is probably looking forward to being off until Sunday after playing Wednesday-Sunday-Tuesday

Edited November 15, 2023 by Js1

[TommysTinyTowels 787]

Codio showing some signs! Nice to see, but I cringe seeing all those knee braces out there.

[Js1 85336]

Just now, TommysTinyTowels said:

Codio showing some signs! Nice to see, but I cringe seeing all those knee braces out there.

You’ll never see this lineup but we could probably have a Maul-Codio-Shaylee-Moore lineup of knee braces lol

[Js1 85336]

Texas wins 110-64

Vic won’t be happy about the defense. LA Tech on Sunday 

[TommysTinyTowels 787]

Got damn this team is deep. Even with all the freshmen in there you could see some serious talent that will be coming up.

Vic has this program rolling. Good times.

[Pato del Muerto 52498]

Booker is the kind of player that championship teams have leading them. 

[LTtxfan 49186]

 

[idigTexas 2288]

Is he going to show Caddyshack during film sessions?

[perfectchaos007 6642]

If we have a slim lead late in games that free throw % is going to cause us issues. Get ready for opponents to Hack-a-Horn

[Js1 85336]

It's early but:

Rori 50% (5-10) - 56.2% last year, so not much of a difference. Her FT shooting as a freshman was exceptional (73.3%) but she's been steadily going downhill 
Booker 67% (2-3)
Muhammad 50% (6-12) - 44% last year, so she's doing better!
Jones 43.8% (7-16) - 67.1% last year, so she's struggling
Holle 16.7% (1-6) - 61.3% last year, so she's REALLY struggling, but was 46.2% the year before
Faye 75% (3-4) - 69.3% last year, so she's doing better
Jak 50% (2-4) - 69.8% last year, so worse

Team is currently missing Gaston (69% last year and 68.3% the year before) and Moore (71.7% last year in limited time and 67.% as a freshman).  Also Shaylee hasn't shot any FTs yet, she was 86.2% last year.

Moral of the story - get the ball in the hands of Booker, Faye or Shaylee late in close games, and maybe Gaston and Moore once they are back. 

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

Getting Gaston back will be big because she's definitely better than Faye. Then we have two legit 5s in Gaston and Jones. 

I'm not sure of Moore's role based on her injury history. Hell of a talent but damn tough to see her stealing minutes from the likes of Booker and Muhammad. 

[TommysTinyTowels 787]

8 hours ago, Js1 said:

It's early but:

Rori 50% (5-10) - 56.2% last year, so not much of a difference. Her FT shooting as a freshman was exceptional (73.3%) but she's been steadily going downhill 
Booker 67% (2-3)
Muhammad 50% (6-12) - 44% last year, so she's doing better!
Jones 43.8% (7-16) - 67.1% last year, so she's struggling
Holle 16.7% (1-6) - 61.3% last year, so she's REALLY struggling, but was 46.2% the year before
Faye 75% (3-4) - 69.3% last year, so she's doing better
Jak 50% (2-4) - 69.8% last year, so worse

Team is currently missing Gaston (69% last year and 68.3% the year before) and Moore (71.7% last year in limited time and 67.% as a freshman).  Also Shaylee hasn't shot any FTs yet, she was 86.2% last year.

Moral of the story - get the ball in the hands of Booker, Faye or Shaylee late in close games, and maybe Gaston and Moore once they are back. 

Thanks for compiling that for us.

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

Sounds like they're close to being back. 

 

[Js1 85336]

Getting both some work before UConn would be great

[Pancho 44800]

Kay state hanging with Iowa

[Pancho 44800]

Kay state up 3 with 30 seconds left

[Js1 85336]

Big 12 might just get another signature win

Ayoka Lee 22 and 12. You let Clark get hers (24) and shut down everyone else. That’s the blueprint with Iowa 

[TommysTinyTowels 787]

Wow, hit one of these and it’s ova

[Pato del Muerto 52498]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Big 12 might just get another signature win

Ayoka Lee 22 and 12. You let Clark get hers (24) and shut down everyone else. That’s the blueprint with Iowa 

24 is shutting her down

[TommysTinyTowels 787]

Great win for K State

[Js1 85336]

Future opponent Arizona St lost to Grambling. Wow

We play ASU on Thursday 

[Pato del Muerto 52498]

Looks like kstate went about 7 minutes without scoring too, in the second half. 

[perfectchaos007 6642]

This is the second year in a row KState has toppled Caitlin Clark and Iowa. Purple kryptonite is strong in Iowa City 

[Js1 85336]

51 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

24 is shutting her down

Ain’t that the truth. 

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

7 hours ago, Js1 said:

Getting both some work before UConn would be great

Azzi Fudd might be out too now. That's looking like a winnable game. 

 

[perfectchaos007 6642]

Fudd lit us up last season but if she’s out we’ll still have to deal with Beuckers who was out all last season. 

Edited November 17, 2023 by perfectchaos007

[Js1 85336]

I know Vic will have a good gameplan defensively.

Defending them is still going to be hard, but we can match up to them height wise at every position but PG.  Muhl has 5 inches on Rori.  We have a small height advantage on 6'1 Griffin (G/F) with Amina at 6'4.  Jones and Faye have an inch on Edwards in the post.

We somehow only lost @ UConn last year, without Rori, by 7.

Faye and Gaston only played a combined 17 minutes. Jak won't play 22 minutes. And obviously no Sonya Morris (21 points, 5-10 from 3)

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

8 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Fudd lit us up last season but if she’s out we’ll still have to deal with Beuckers who was out all last season. 

Definitely but we were also without Rori Harmon against UCONN last year. 

[Rickylovesweed 14316]

Oh boy.