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Just now, KingBobo81 said:

Anybody want my pair of tix for tonight for free? Indeed Club, a few rows behind Texas bench (not in student section). I don’t want to deal with driving.

Most people don't want to deal with watching 

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Most people don't want to deal with watching 

Reminds me of being a Padres fan in the 80s and my grandmother telling me the joke of a thief stealing everything from her car but leaving his pair of Padres tickets on the dash. That’s the stage Texas basketball is in.
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1 hour ago, KingBobo81 said:


Reminds me of being a Padres fan in the 80s and my grandmother telling me the joke of a thief stealing everything from her car but leaving his pair of Padres tickets on the dash. That’s the stage Texas basketball is in. emoji31.png

Graig Nettles, Craig Lefferts and Carmelo Martinez weep.  Eric Show and Alan Wiggins would, if they could. 

Too soon?

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ESPN has Texas in the should be in category at 88%.  Does provide a caveat that they need some impressive wins since they are 1-6 against top 50 bpi teams. Missouri win counts as top 50 but that was far from impressive.  

Georgia 54%, Missouri 52%, Arkansas 39%, Oklahoma 39% and Vanderbilt 24% have work to do. 

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23 hours ago, KingBobo81 said:

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Anybody want my pair of tix for tonight for free? Indeed Club, a few rows behind Texas bench (not in student section). I don’t want to deal with driving.

Let me call you back.  I got a guy on the other line who wants to buy a set of white walls

14 minutes ago, dogbreath said:

ESPN has Texas in the should be in category at 88%.  Does provide a caveat that they need some impressive wins since they are 1-6 against top 50 bpi teams. Missouri win counts as top 50 but that was far from impressive.  

Georgia 54%, Missouri 52%, Arkansas 39%, Oklahoma 39% and Vanderbilt 24% have work to do. 

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1 hour ago, dogbreath said:

ESPN has Texas in the should be in category at 88%.  Does provide a caveat that they need some impressive wins since they are 1-6 against top 50 bpi teams

Feels like we need 6-1 or 5-2 against the "non-ranked group" of LSU, arky (x2), Vandy, SoCar, Georgia, OU.  That gets us to 7/8 SEC wins. 7 may get us in, 8 would guarantee it with the strength of the SEC. 

IF we take care of business against the non-ranked group, we don't really need a win against the "ranked group" (aggy, Ole Miss, Alabama, Kentucky, MSST), but would increase our margin for error if we stumble against the non-ranked group. 

Feels like for every additional loss to the non-ranked group, we need to pick up a ranked win.   Can RT and co take care of business against LSU, arky, Vandy, SoCar, Georgia and OU and pick up another ranked win to seal the deal?

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6 minutes ago, HookEm said:

If we win those 6 games, we are in 100%.  8-10 easily gets you in from the SEC this year.  7-11 might get you in depending on the specific wins and losses.

I agree. IF we go 6-1 in those games, we are in. But will we win 6 of those 7? Who the fuck knows 

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Thank you @TheCorralUT for willing us to last night’s WIN over a ranked and well-coached Missouri team. YOU are the difference maker!

Need ALL of you on Saturday (1:30 pm) back in The Mood, as you can make an unbelievable impact against Texas A&M. 

#HookEm  🤘🏾

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11 hours ago, dogbreath said:

ESPN has Texas in the should be in category at 88%.  Does provide a caveat that they need some impressive wins since they are 1-6 against top 50 bpi teams. Missouri win counts as top 50 but that was far from impressive.  

Georgia 54%, Missouri 52%, Arkansas 39%, Oklahoma 39% and Vanderbilt 24% have work to do. 

Arkansas is done. They haven't won a SEC game and lost their best player for the year a couple days ago.

Both those games are must wins for us now. 

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a comment i’ve already made on the team that was reinforced to me last night- this team has no play makers and limited IQ.

i went to the game last night with a buddy whose seats are behind the basket, and it drove me crazy how many open passing lanes our players didn’t see- both guards and otherwise.

im watching the game from the “all 22” pov and im constantly seeing that a)shedrick is wide open on/near the block, b)pope never ever notices this, and c)shedrick himself is clearly unaware that he is actually wide open for a one handed post entry pass as his eyes never even look towards pope, nor does he ever call for the ball. i watch this happen, and then i watch one guy dribble the ball for 15 seconds while no one moves, followed by a bad shot. all night, repeatedly. shit was bleak. really hard to watch considering this is without a doubt a second weekend level roster. 

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someone here was talking about this team being the best shooting team ever at Texas. it’s not, but it’s still one of the better shooting teams we’ve ever had. 2005 was the best shooting team in the last couple decades- paulino, boobie, and abrams all shot 39% or better from deep, while LA and PJ were pretty lethal inside the 3 point line; 2010 had crazy offensive fire power which i mentioned in my previous post; 2011 had JB, Joseph, and Hamilton all shooting 39% or better from deep with gary johnson as a good mid range shooter.

this year’s team has lots of scoring talent but takes a ton of stupid shots and ensures a ton of empty possessions. i can’t even imagine what Tre would look like if he had a coach who didn’t give him carte blanche to shoot any terrible shot he wants. this team is adept at scoring and has some guys shot can really shoot, but our shot selection and inconsistency will keep us from approaching our offensive potential. 

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a comment i’ve already made on the team that was reinforced to me last night- this team has no play makers and limited IQ.
i went to the game last night with a buddy whose seats are behind the basket, and it drove me crazy how many open passing lanes our players didn’t see- both guards and otherwise.
im watching the game from the “all 22” pov and im constantly seeing that a)shedrick is wide open on/near the block, b)pope never ever notices this, and c)shedrick himself is clearly unaware that he is actually wide open for a one handed post entry pass as his eyes never even look towards pope, nor does he ever call for the ball. i watch this happen, and then i watch one guy dribble the ball for 15 seconds while no one moves, followed by a bad shot. all night, repeatedly. shit was bleak. really hard to watch considering this is without a doubt a second weekend level roster. 

Counterpoint: I don’t want Shedrick to get the ball down there. Assuming he catches the pass, half the time it gets stripped and he takes sooooo long to make a move.
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54 minutes ago, Derka said:

this team has no play makers

actually larry isn’t bad. i wish he’d get more minutes at the point. our starting five should probably be 

larry 

pope

johnson

kaluma

kent

 

weaver, mark, pryor, onyema to round out to rotation. 

 

 

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actually larry isn’t bad. i wish he’d get more minutes at the point. our starting five should probably be 
larry 
pope
johnson
kaluma
kent
 
weaver, mark, pryor, onyema to round out to rotation. 
 
 

That’s funny cause a buddy (who isn’t a Texas fan) and I were watching the last game and he asked what the Larry kid did well…I honestly couldn’t think of anything
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Two things that drive me crazy about Larry - 1) he hops around like a rabbit when he has the ball and occasionally commits a stupid turnover from being off balance because of it; 2) constantly putting his hands behind his back on defense as some sort of mechanism to show the ref he isn’t fouling.

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46 minutes ago, HookEm said:


Counterpoint: I don’t want Shedrick to get the ball down there. Assuming he catches the pass, half the time it gets stripped and he takes sooooo long to make a move.

Even if he catches the ball there's still a 50/50 chance that in the effort to retrieve said pass he throws off his equilibrium and ultimately falls to the floor while losing the ball out of bounds. 

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11 minutes ago, Horns RD Standard said:


That’s funny cause a buddy (who isn’t a Texas fan) and I were watching the last game and he asked what the Larry kid did well…I honestly couldn’t think of anything

88.6% from the line and 3.8 assist to 1.9 turnovers. That’s all I got 

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22 minutes ago, Horns RD Standard said:


That’s funny cause a buddy (who isn’t a Texas fan) and I were watching the last game and he asked what the Larry kid did well…I honestly couldn’t think of anything

i think he has the best natural vision on the team. AAMOF our best three man lineup features larry at the point:

 

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13 hours ago, Derka said:

someone here was talking about this team being the best shooting team ever at Texas. it’s not, but it’s still one of the better shooting teams we’ve ever had. 2005 was the best shooting team in the last couple decades- paulino, boobie, and abrams all shot 39% or better from deep, while LA and PJ were pretty lethal inside the 3 point line; 2010 had crazy offensive fire power which i mentioned in my previous post; 2011 had JB, Joseph, and Hamilton all shooting 39% or better from deep with gary johnson as a good mid range shooter.

Those teams were all great shooting teams, and the top players were probably better shooters than the 2025 team. I'm not really going to argue that this team is better, but they are definitely in the conversation.  As a TEAM goes, this is the most efficient shooting team we have had in the last 30 years.  

  • 2004-2005 - 0.388 3P%, 0.456 FG%, 0.697 FT%, 0.524 eFG%, 0.558 TS%
  • 2005-2006 - 0.372 3P%, 0.455 FG%, 0.727 FT%, 0.524 eFG%, 0.559 TS%
  • 2009-2010 - 0.345 3P%, 0.466 FG%, 0.633 FT%, 0.511 eFG%, 0.536 TS%
  • 2010-2011 - 0.376 3P%, 0.455 FG%, 0.654 FT%, 0.502 eFG%, 0.534 TS% 
  • 2024-2025 - 0.373 3P%, 0.483 FG%, 0.748 FT%, 0.550 eFG%, 0.586 TS%

Of course, the numbers will likely get worse as we move through conference. But for how ugly this team plays offense, somehow the efficiency is as good as we have ever had.  And we turn the ball over less than any other UT team except the 2008 Elite Eight team.

I struggle to understand why we aren't better.  Our defense isn't bad.  I think if we were an elite rebounding team, we would have 2-3 more wins.  Seems like our opponent getting offensive rebounds is what dooms us.

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Another thing... It feels like this team has more guys who can score 30 points than most other teams we have had.  Pope, Johnson, Kaluma, Mark, and Kent have all scored 30+ in their career. Shedrick has scored 27.  But then they will also disappear and score 6 points in a game. There is no consistency.  Everyone is playing "my turn / your turn" basketball. 

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1 hour ago, HookEm said:

Another thing... It feels like this team has more guys who can score 30 points than most other teams we have had.  Pope, Johnson, Kaluma, Mark, and Kent have all scored 30+ in their career. Shedrick has scored 27.  But then they will also disappear and score 6 points in a game. There is no consistency.  Everyone is playing "my turn / your turn" basketball. 

Our “offense “ forces the individual to create his own shot. We take a lot of bad shots. Seems by design. 

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Bobby:

 

There is a concerted effort behind the scenes to get people to the Moody on Saturday for the Texas-Texas A&M basketball game.

The Horns want the Moody to be rocking. So if you have a chance to get to the game, try to make it happen.

It’s a 1:30pm tip on Saturday. The Aggies are ranked No. 13 in the country.

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6 hours ago, HookEm said:

I agree. But then you look at our efficiency and somehow it is pretty good despite taking what feels like bad shots.

Shhhhhh....

 

.....dont telll anyone, but it's college basketball. All the teams seem like they suck for prolonged periods of time. 

 

 

Our main issue is we're weak as fuck in the paint and cant consistently rebound for shit. 

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i saw something that said that our losses to auburn and tennessee did more for our NET rating than any of ooc wins. if that’s true then we can throw out the one excuse we had for making such a joke of a schedule.

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On 1/22/2025 at 10:10 AM, Js1 said:

Feels like we need 6-1 or 5-2 against the "non-ranked group" of LSU, arky (x2), Vandy, SoCar, Georgia, OU.  That gets us to 7/8 SEC wins. 7 may get us in, 8 would guarantee it with the strength of the SEC. 

IF we take care of business against the non-ranked group, we don't really need a win against the "ranked group" (aggy, Ole Miss, Alabama, Kentucky, MSST), but would increase our margin for error if we stumble against the non-ranked group. 

Feels like for every additional loss to the non-ranked group, we need to pick up a ranked win.   Can RT and co take care of business against LSU, arky, Vandy, SoCar, Georgia and OU and pick up another ranked win to seal the deal?

I agree with your analysis overall. I think it's almost certain we lose 1 or 2 of the "should" win games, though. Which means we probably have to win 1 or 2 of the "shouldn't" win games to make the tournament.

It's gonna be interesting. Feels like the season could go any which way from here on out while RTs job hangs in the balance.

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i feel like we were in a similar position to start conference play last year. I believe we started off 1-3 with a miracle win at CIncy so we probably should've started off 0-4. While I'm like many of you and dont view Rodney as a coach commensurate with the quality of bball we should expect at UT, one quality that I do like about him is he's not going to give up his job easily. He's fully aware that he's fortunate as fuck to have this job and will proceed accordingly. I'm certain that these guys will fight for him down the stretch and improve over the course of the season as all of RT's teams seem to have done over the past couple of years he's been at the helm. 

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On 1/24/2025 at 8:06 AM, Catdaddyhorn said:

i feel like we were in a similar position to start conference play last year. I believe we started off 1-3 with a miracle win at CIncy so we probably should've started off 0-4. While I'm like many of you and dont view Rodney as a coach commensurate with the quality of bball we should expect at UT, one quality that I do like about him is he's not going to give up his job easily. He's fully aware that he's fortunate as fuck to have this job and will proceed accordingly. I'm certain that these guys will fight for him down the stretch and improve over the course of the season as all of RT's teams seem to have done over the past couple of years he's been at the helm. 

This theory is about to be tested. Texas needs to be at least competitive today against ATM and Wednesday at Ole Miss. Terry cannot afford a blowout to either opponent. Either situation would be on par with his embarrassing shit last year whining about horns down after letting fucking UCF embarrass Texas at home. 

The fallout from him pulling that shit became a problem for Terry with a number of folks helping out with the program. Getting blown out by Beard or a second time, at home this time, to the fucking aggjes, will be a problem. 

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1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

This theory is about to be tested. Texas needs to be at least competitive today against ATM and Wednesday at Ole Miss. Terry cannot afford a blowout to either opponent. Either situation would be on par with his embarrassing shit last year whining about horns down after letting fucking UCF embarrass Texas at home. 

The fallout from him pulling that shit became a problem for Terry with a number of folks helping out with the program. Getting blown out by Beard or a second time, at home this time, to the fucking aggjes, will be a problem. 

Do you ever post about Texas basketball on any subject other than something concerning a coach potentially being fired? 

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