Texas Basketball 2024-25

[Braff Zacklin 13662]

However the RT experiment goes, I'll take him in a heartbeat over Shaka.

Good for Coach Smart that he and Marquette have been ranked for the past three seasons and thrown up a lot of big wins. He did not/could not do that here. He had several years and every opportunity.

In his one full season on the Forty, RT eclipsed anything Shaka was able to do, and he did it with a team that he mostly cobbled together with spare parts plucked from the portal.

[tx 3 putt 77422]

 

[Gut Wagon 8087]

On 11/23/2024 at 9:39 AM, Braff Zacklin said:

However the RT experiment goes, I'll take him in a heartbeat over Shaka.

Good for Coach Smart that he and Marquette have been ranked for the past three seasons and thrown up a lot of big wins. He did not/could not do that here. He had several years and every opportunity.

In his one full season on the Forty, RT eclipsed anything Shaka was able to do, and he did it with a team that he mostly cobbled together with spare parts plucked from the portal.

Even If Shaka becomes John Wooden at Marquette or someplace else, that still doesn't mean Texas was wrong to send him packing. He failed spectacularly in Austin and has only himself to blame. We of course can blame him AND Patterson AND Fenves.

None of this makes a direct case for Terry, but he's done a far better job for us than the fraud ever did. 
 

 

[realgreggym 837]

3 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

Even If Shaka becomes John Wooden at Marquette or someplace else, that still doesn't mean Texas was wrong to send him packing. He failed spectacularly in Austin and has only himself to blame. We of course can blame him AND Patterson AND Fenves.

None of this makes a direct case for Terry, but he's done a far better job for us than the fraud ever did. 
 

 

Don't you mean Al McGuire at Marquette?😁

[jimmyjazz 46130]

Shaka is a puzzler for sure.  Far more success at VCU and Marquette than at UT.  The B12 is a partial explanation, but in the end that David (v Goliath) underdog ball just couldn't transfer (or wouldn't transfer).

[Js1 85574]

5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Shaka is a puzzler for sure.  Far more success at VCU and Marquette than at UT.  The B12 is a partial explanation, but in the end that David (v Goliath) underdog ball just couldn't transfer (or wouldn't transfer).

The most obvious aspect pf his failure was that he refused to play HAVOC at UT because he didn't think he could get NBA talent from the HS ranks to come play it.  

[jimmyjazz 46130]

Just now, Js1 said:

The most obvious aspect pf his failure was that he refused to play HAVOC at UT because he didn't think he could get NBA talent from the HS ranks to come play it.  

Yeah, that's why I said "or wouldn't" transfer.  I don't think Havoc is only suited for underdog programs.  Beard showed it's possible to take high level recruits and fit them into a system that demands a certain amount of selflessness and then succeed.

[Gut Wagon 8087]

2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yeah, that's why I said "or wouldn't" transfer.  I don't think Havoc is only suited for underdog programs.  Beard showed it's possible to take high level recruits and fit them into a system that demands a certain amount of selflessness and then succeed.

Love him or not (I lean strongly to the latter), Kelvin Sampson continues to get some pretty elite guys to play solid D. He might not be running "Havoc," but his time at UH suggests his formula isn't attractive only to spunky developmental guys. 

[Js1 85574]

Tells me Shaka didn't want to try (and fail), instead just opting to fail by doing something radically different from what made him the hottest coaching prospect in CBB. 

[Derka 6359]

didn’t see this one coming:

 

[Derka 6359]

his efg% is a whopping .678. however his FT% is an even more impressive .100.

Edited Monday at 08:41 PM by Derka

[KingBobo81 540]

Some not great news about Jayson Kent from Gerry...

 

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Jayson Kent's injury status ...
OTF was informed that forward Jayson Kent's wrist injury is going to keep him out for a while. There is the possibility of a medical redshirt depending on how long he is out. 

This is a significant loss for the Horns. Kent is a key floor spacer, is terrific without the ball and was a player that impacts winning in multiple ways with plenty of experience. 

 

[MotownHorn 1795]

19 minutes ago, KingBobo81 said:

Some not great news about Jayson Kent from Gerry...

 

 

That sucks 

[Degenerate Gardner 4085]

Fuckity fuck. I’m choosing to hope Kent isn’t out the whole year. 

 

We would so be paper thin in the front court If not for Kaluma’s late signing. Shedrick, Onyema, Vinson, and a freshman coming off injury in Codie might have been the death of me.

Edited yesterday at 12:11 AM by Degenerate Gardner

[HtownHorn 14779]

Get Pryor some time there as well, but yeah, this is horrible news for Texas.

[Rickylovesweed 14541]

I don't know why we haven't picked up full-court pressure more. 

While Onyema isn't great he's a perfect 5 for that style of play. We have the guards to do it too. With less size now, I wonder if we do pick up full-court pressure more. 

[Derka 6359]

 

Something that gets talked about a decent amount around here is the fact that playing (and beating the shit out of) a bunch of cupcakes will be good for our net rating. for me, i’d rather play a brutal ooc schedule and actually give my team a bunch of experience against sweet 16 caliber teams. i could not give fewer shits about NET rating if it means scheduling the entire SWAC in ooc.

NET doesn’t help you win in march, being battle tested does. as i watch all of these great matchups here during thanksgiving week i am reminded of how much i megaloathe scheduling cupcakes and the fact that it really doesn’t help our team get any better or more prepared for the tourney. scheduling top tier opponents is best for the team and best for the fans. i hate our schedule. bah humbug.

[Derka 6359]

currently watching duke and kansas as Texas awaits its super important matchup against delaware state. the average kenpom ranking of our ooc opponents to this point is 243. 243!!! 

the varsity doesn’t get better by playing against the JV; 6A teams don’t get prepared for the playoffs by playing against jim ned and idalou; and our players and team aren’t getting prepared for tourney success by playing against the sisters of the poor. 

the majority of this board (and college hoops fans in general) has made it clear that all they care about is tourney results. with that being the case i’m surprised that there isn’t any outrage about our pussy ass ooc schedule. the games are boring and the team doesn’t face adversity. i’m very much against this practice.

[Pancho 44995]

I think a lot of us have been yelling about the schedule for years. I know I have. 

Not sure why we can’t get in one of those tournaments being played in a hotel ballroom in the Bahamas. that would have been much better than Syracuse and St. Joes. I don’t’ know what RT’s philosophy is on scheduling as we got UConn.

It also sucks to go 14-1, 13-2 in a mediocre to shitty non-con then proceed to go 8-10 or 7-11 in conference play. 

[Rickylovesweed 14541]

23 minutes ago, Derka said:

 

Something that gets talked about a decent amount around here is the fact that playing (and beating the shit out of) a bunch of cupcakes will be good for our net rating. for me, i’d rather play a brutal ooc schedule and actually give my team a bunch of experience against sweet 16 caliber teams. i could not give fewer shits about NET rating if it means scheduling the entire SWAC in ooc.

NET doesn’t help you win in march, being battle tested does. as i watch all of these great matchups here during thanksgiving week i am reminded of how much i megaloathe scheduling cupcakes and the fact that it really doesn’t help our team get any better or more prepared for the tourney. scheduling top tier opponents is best for the team and best for the fans. i hate our schedule. bah humbug.

I'm not saying you're wrong but NET does matter in the sense that a higher seed would hypothetically mean an easier opponent in the earlier rounds.

Our best run in a long time is when we were a 2 seed. We need to keep trying to get these high seeds. 

 

[KingBobo81 540]

 
Something that gets talked about a decent amount around here is the fact that playing (and beating the shit out of) a bunch of cupcakes will be good for our net rating. for me, i’d rather play a brutal ooc schedule and actually give my team a bunch of experience against sweet 16 caliber teams. i could not give fewer shits about NET rating if it means scheduling the entire SWAC in ooc.
NET doesn’t help you win in march, being battle tested does. as i watch all of these great matchups here during thanksgiving week i am reminded of how much i megaloathe scheduling cupcakes and the fact that it really doesn’t help our team get any better or more prepared for the tourney. scheduling top tier opponents is best for the team and best for the fans. i hate our schedule. bah humbug.

Agree with all of this - I wrote a similar draft about this after some great Maui games yesterday but decided not to post since it has been discussed at length here.

The huge number of home garbage games we play are largely worthless for fans and the team, but I guess because the computer likes it and it helps with seeding, there is no reason not to do it. I wish in seasons we weren’t playing in Maui or a similar tournament, we’d schedule a little more aggressively.

[Pancho 44995]

Well it’s just an assumption that we are scheduling like this because the computers like it. Until RT comes out and tells us why we aren’t playing tougher opponents in non-con, it’s just a guess.

 

It could very well be RT doesn’t want to schedule tough non-con games because he needs/wants his record to look good at the end of the season in order to keep his job. Shitty to say, but it’s a possibility. 

[Rickylovesweed 14541]

All I know is that scheduling this way is working. 

We are currently #30 in NET without a great win. If we beat @NC State or UCONN we are likely going to be sitting pretty based on just the non-conference schedule. Assuming we keep blowing these bad teams out at home. 

NET really rewards beating these bad teams by large margins. Texas A&M stepped up their non-conference schedule this year playing UH, @ UCF, Ohio State, and Oregon already and will likely be outside of the top 50 of NET tomorrow. Hate the system not how we are rigging it. 

[Catdaddyhorn 3447]

Beard was the master of these shit schedules. He created an entire tournament out of thin are for the expressed purpose of playing a shit schedule. I don't think we've played in one of those really great preseason tournaments since the season that Andrew Jones was diagnosed with leukemia. It was the Phil Knight tourney.