Texas (+4.5) vs Houston- 8pm on ESPN

[D3zii 3637]

Houston is a good team. And hellacious on the boards . 
 

least we fought 

[GreenspointTexas 9556]

Jerritt Elliott reviewing everything

[ATXbronco 4060]

Good game, Longhorns.  Lots of trying out there tonight.  

[The_Great_Hornsby 3319]

3 shots, gonna need to make 2 and get the board

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 2855]

Stfu Fraschilla

[ztejas 43244]

Tough L. If Tyrese could just run a damn fast break we could have won in regulation. 

[kingkoopa6 8305]

Poop

[hobbes2702 12771]

Just now, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Stfu Fraschilla

No shit

[BigOrange1 6416]

make the first two, miss the third and get the offensive board?

[CashMcCoy 3199]

That one hurts

[Newdoc 3429]

Just now, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

Stfu Fraschilla

Yeah, the dude will die on the hill when he makes a wrong observation. Painful to listen to him perform verbal gymnastics.

[TommysTinyTowels 785]

1 minute ago, ztejas said:

Tough L. If Tyrese could just run a damn fast break we could have won in regulation. 

That was game

[dcar00 14023]

fucking shut up Fran.  Abmas got fouled on the previous drive you fucking dickwad

[Wilcox Cummingtonite 2855]

Sigh

[BigOrange1 6416]

that no call on the offensive push off was a big moment.  

[BigTEAMLittleme 188]

2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Tough L. If Tyrese could just run a damn fast break we could have won in regulation. 

The missed FT‘s were also killer

[kingkoopa6 8305]

2 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

make the first two, miss the third and get the offensive board?

Prolly was better off making all 3 and foul with 3 secs to play with 

[Minute Bull 243]

Are Fran and Sampson meeting up at Oil Can Harry’s after the game?  Sheesh

[dcar00 14023]

oh well...

[ClubWhatever 12085]

Got murdered on the glass.   Not enuf dudes who can own the glass.

[InkaUtexas 25423]

Fuck.

[Knighthawk 284]

The first three minutes of OT showed what this team is about.   Lost and looking for someone to make a play.  

[perfectchaos007 6593]

Vegas got it right again. Texas loses a close one at home

[GreenspointTexas 9556]

Gave away like 6-8 pts on fts in the end 

[The_Great_Hornsby 3319]

Just now, BigOrange1 said:

that no call on the offensive push off was a big moment.  

Hunter passing the ball to the wrong guys when we had a chance for the last shot was the fuck up of the game. Reminds me of another dumbass...

[TommysTinyTowels 785]

Good game. We got punked in the first half and nutted up to take the #4 team to overtime. No shame.

[LTtxfan 48927]

Nice to see Texas play well in 2nd half.  Hope they can build off of this effort 🤘

[dcar00 14023]

we lost that game on the boards.  

[kingkoopa6 8305]

How does Vegas know this 

[Brian Fantana 6654]

Jesus I forgot this game was tonight, I'm sad I missed it, looks like y'all almost pulled it off though

[InkaUtexas 25423]

15 minutes ago, Minute Bull said:

You’re right, he’s amazing. Douche

Honestly? The kid plays for a university. You want to shit on him?

 

[TommysTinyTowels 785]

2 minutes ago, Knighthawk said:

The first three minutes of OT showed what this team is about.   Lost and looking for someone to make a play.  

Houston has wicked perimeter D. Abmas didn’t see the rim the whole game.

[Gut Wagon 8052]

5 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

we lost that game on the boards.  

A common refrain. Our poor roster construction has become more evident as the season's gone on. If Houston played that haphazardly on the road against a physically tougher team, they'd have lost. 

Edited January 30 by Gut Wagon

[Rholl 217]

On to baseball…..Hopefully they move on from Terry asap

[TejasPedro 1849]

The team is getting better at not tossing  up random ass threes or passing wide open shots for ridiculous off balance last second prayer shots. This group shoul be ready to play a complete game in 3 years.

[HookEm 2441]

Houston has the look of a title team to me.  Failing to win could really haunt us.  Houston will likely be a 1 seed. That would have been a nice win come tourney selection time.

[Newdoc 3429]

It’s not roster for the boards differential. It’s basketball IQ and coaching. This has been a constant all season and Texas has the athletes to compete on the glass. Poor fundamentals.

[UTEE97 3428]

Team played hard. We lost because of rebounding and boneheaded play by Hunter.

Edited January 30 by UTEE97

[Hookem2147 20908]

3 minutes ago, Newdoc said:

It’s not roster for the boards differential. It’s basketball IQ and coaching. This has been a constant all season and Texas has the athletes to compete on the glass. Poor fundamentals.

This is a hard-headed take they tell kids in middle school. 

Rebounding is a whole lot more than coaching and basketball IQ.

[BurgleBro 770]

3 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

This is a hard-headed take they tell kids in middle school. 

Rebounding is a whole lot more than coaching and basketball IQ.

[sunset87 240]

Houston does a good job penetrating, causing our bigs to play help defense which frees their rebounders for good position for offensive boards. Plus they’re well coached to crash and be relentless on the boards. Seems like it’s a culture thing for them.

Edited January 30 by sunset87

[ClubWhatever 12085]

14 minutes ago, Newdoc said:

It’s not roster for the boards differential. It’s basketball IQ and coaching. This has been a constant all season and Texas has the athletes to compete on the glass. Poor fundamentals.

It's partly physical.  Disu gets shoved around because he doesn't have a strong base.  Shedrick too, to a lesser extent.  Mitchell was a warrior on the boards but he is giving up height and weight to a lot of guys.   Brock is just too small.  We are physically disadvantaged against a team like Houston or Connecticut.   It limits the ceiling of the team.

[Horn80 6074]

5 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

It's partly physical.  Disu gets shoved around because he doesn't have a strong base.  Shedrick too, to a lesser extent.  Mitchell was a warrior on the boards but he is giving up height and weight to a lot of guys.   Brock is just too small.  We are physically disadvantaged against a team like Houston or Connecticut.   It limits the ceiling of the team.

Makes you wonder why Onyema didn’t get used to see if he be better matchup.  If his size is not used in a game like this what’s his role?

Edited January 30 by Horn80

[MrX 708]

Hunter 42 minutes, 5 points and awful counting numbers otherwise. He has to be better if this team is ever going to do anything. 
 

No meaningful Disu touch on offense at the end. I know he struggled but that’s the best option when it slows down to possession by possession late.  

[CTC2 2729]

What is the difference this year with the offense where Disu was in position to do that moon shot that was so effective last year?  He seems out of position for that playing up for the pick and roll and that shot has all but disappeared. 

[SL Xpress 7504]

Since I feel compelled to shit all over Rodney Terry when we lose games I don't think we should, I'd like to say that he's not absent leadership skills. It doesn't make me want him to be our long term coach any more than I do - which is not at all - but I honestly thought this team was done for after losing 3 out of 4 to Tech, WVA, and UCF. That UCF game in particular just felt like a stick a fork in them kind of game.

I hate the way we play. I hate our defense. I hate our lack of continuity or overall vision. But I'll tell you what. Beating Baylor the way we did, taking out OU in Norman, and now going toe to toe against one of the most relentless effort programs in college basketball at least makes me feel like the team buys into Rodney Terry. I appreciate that. Doesn't make me a fan, but I at least admire the effort from the guy and the effort he's bringing out in these players. 

[CTC2 2729]

1 hour ago, ATXbronco said:

Win a couple of national championships in volleyball and you too can have a wife like that. 

[SL Xpress 7504]

2 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

Win a couple of national championships in volleyball and you too can have a wife like that. 

Elliott's recruiting skills are unmatched. That much is obvious.

[CTC2 2729]

3 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

Since I feel compelled to shit all over Rodney Terry when we lose games I don't think we should, I'd like to say that he's not absent leadership skills. It doesn't make me want him to be our long term coach any more than I do - which is not at all - but I honestly thought this team was done for after losing 3 out of 4 to Tech, WVA, and UCF. That UCF game in particular just felt like a stick a fork in them kind of game.

I hate the way we play. I hate our defense. I hate our lack of continuity or overall vision. But I'll tell you what. Beating Baylor the way we did, taking out OU in Norman, and now going toe to toe against one of the most relentless effort programs in college basketball at least makes me feel like the team buys into Rodney Terry. I appreciate that. Doesn't make me a fan, but I at least admire the effort from the guy and the effort he's bringing out in these players. 

Fair take. Effort was good tonight. But there were several times coming out of time outs at end of regulation and especially near the end of overtime that it looked like we had absolutely no plan on the offensive possession.  In light of the effort by the players it was just maddening.  I don’t underestimate Haith being one of the issues with this team. 

[SL Xpress 7504]

1 minute ago, CTC2 said:

Fair take. Effort was good tonight. But there were several times coming out of time outs at end of regulation and especially near the end of overtime that it looked like we had absolutely no plan on the offensive possession.  In light of the effort by the players it was just maddening.  I don’t underestimate Haith being one of the issues with this team. 

 

There is no assistant hire that's going to fix this program. And by fix, I mean put it in a place where it's competing for national championships. I don't actually think we'll be competing for Sweet 16s, and that should be the minimum. 

That said, I thought Terry was about to completely lose the team. He didn't. That speaks well of him, even if he's still not good enough to be the long term coach at Texas, IMO.