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Texas @ Ole Miss- Wednesday the 29th, 8pm on ESPN2


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Very winnable game that went about as feared. For a team that "can't rebound," Ole Miss regularly worked us in the paint and took advantage of our inability to go to the hole. More physical than us by far. Really could have used Weaver's grit and energy tonight.  

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2 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Beard seems a lot more chill than he was at Texas. 

He’s been that way from the beginning at Ole Miss. You don’t see him chewing ass like in his Tech or Texas days. Looks like he has dropped a good amount of weight too.

I’m sure his PR team has been hard at work.

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8 minutes ago, chemHORN said:

9 for 30 from Tre and Pope combined for 30%  shooting.  If they just combine for 36% we win.  

if RT made his players take good shots we’d be a markedly better team. our offensive possessions are maddening to watch, so often ending up with some sort of off-the-dribble, turn around, fade away jumper. not so much as a word to dissuade our guys from taking these shots, never mind actual accountability for playing smart basketball. i will always love and appreciate RT but this guy is screwing the pooch in a very major way that cannot be ignored or excused.

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Just now, Derka said:

if RT made his players take good shots we’d be a markedly better team. our offensive possessions are maddening to watch, so often ending up with some sort of off-the-dribble, turn around, fade away jumper. not so much as a word to dissuade our guys from taking these shots, never mind actual accountability for playing smart basketball. i will always love and appreciate RT but this guy is screwing the pick in a very major way that cannot be ignored or excused.

If we make the tournament, he's back, no?

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Could a better coach do more with this group? Kent is a piece we just can’t seem to unlock. Is he not good enough to expect more out of him? I think he could be more productive if this staff knew how to use him. The ball movement is stagnant there are a few guys that could be slashing to the bucket but just stand around waiting for Tre. Early in the game one guy was wide open ahead of everyone we don’t pass it to him but then pass it after he is smothered resulting in a poor shot and a turn over.

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5 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

If we make the tournament, he's back, no?

i tend to think so. as always in CBB the pool of viable candidates for a job like this is generally very small. we’re not going to fire RT unless we know we will replace him with a barnes/beard level coach. if he keeps making the tourney and winning games, there’s really not a lot of pressure to fire him. almost none outside of this very forum lol. so yeah, he probably retains his job if we make the tourney, barring a terrible finish to both the regular and postseason. 

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20 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

He’s been that way from the beginning at Ole Miss. You don’t see him chewing ass like in his Tech or Texas days. Looks like he has dropped a good amount of weight too.

I’m sure his PR team has been hard at work.

Beard has a PR guy like Bobby Knight had a PR guy.

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20 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

He’s been that way from the beginning at Ole Miss. You don’t see him chewing ass like in his Tech or Texas days. Looks like he has dropped a good amount of weight too.

I’m sure his PR team has been hard at work.

Did his PR team make him get rid of Psycho Bitch? 

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14 minutes ago, Bottlecap said:

The talent disparity was crazy. We win by 16 with even a decent coach.

We don't have two guards who can score against good teams like the white kid and Brakewhatever.  Pope can light it up against cupcakes but looks like a jag against good teams.  Larry is a non factor on offense.  You have Kaluma, Mark, and Johnson but nothing much at the point.  Shedrick is a hard scrapping jag.  Our talent is average for the SEC.

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5 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

I’m sure the committee will fix that with a second round #10 Texas vs #2 Marquette matchup 

You jest but they’ll do it because they love a good story 

Either that or we are going to face Baylor or Tech in the tournament.

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9 minutes ago, Js1 said:

You jest but they’ll do it because they love a good story 

 

Yeah, no sarcasm at all in my post.

Idk if lunardi is putting out mock brackets yet but if he were to do one for this week, I fully expect it would have exactly that.

 

edit: eh. He has ou as the 10 next to Marquette. We’re in a play in for a 12 seed (as of yesterday morning).

feels like that should be reversed 

 

 

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48 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Rodney needed this one. 

I don't think he really needed it.  It was chalked up as a loss. It would have been a nice win but what he really needs are the next 2.  lose one of those and it can start to look dicey.

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6 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Larry is just as bad. Can’t shoot or finish so his drives to the basket don’t get to the rim and don’t create open looks. They just let him go. 

Hell in that case none of them look good in this inconsistent offense and I don't like to talk about the players.  We have guys that can just make tough shots.  We have no offense to get the shooters easy shots which has been consistently said. I prefer not to single out individual players, as it’s “clear”where the issues lies and its not with the players.  Some of these players just look different since coming to Texas and I wonder why.  Someone mentioned prior that “it feels reminiscent of last year, though with a different set of players.” What remains to be the common denominator? 

 

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Just now, JustAFan said:

Hell in that case none of them look good in this inconsistent offense and I don't like to talk about the players.  We have guys that can just make tough shots.  We have no offense to get the shooters easy shots which has been consistently said. I prefer not to single out individual players, as it’s “clear”where the issues lies and its not with the players.  Some of these players just look different since coming to Texas and I wonder why.  Someone mentioned prior that “it feels reminiscent of last year, though with a different set of players.” What remains to be the common denominator? 

 

Agree.

I was wrong to single out Larry, it is not his fault he is not put in a position to succeed. 

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15 hours ago, TejasPedro said:

Could a better coach do more with this group? Kent is a piece we just can’t seem to unlock. Is he not good enough to expect more out of him? I think he could be more productive if this staff knew how to use him. The ball movement is stagnant there are a few guys that could be slashing to the bucket but just stand around waiting for Tre. Early in the game one guy was wide open ahead of everyone we don’t pass it to him but then pass it after he is smothered resulting in a poor shot and a turn over.

Could a better coach do more with this group, would love to know (good question). Kent was a very productive in the coaches offense last year.  The difference is it was a moving and cutting offense. Pope, Larry and Mark very productive in the previous coach offense. Coming to Texas, what the hell.  I’m going to leave that right there because I think we all really know where the problem lies. 

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28 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Agree.

I was wrong to single out Larry, it is not his fault he is not put in a position to succeed. 

I don't know any of the guys personally but I do know they are all playing in this inconsistent offense.  All of the guys has to be put in a position to succeed.  I would like to see our offense allowing the guys to get better shots like Tre, Arthur, Mark and Pope, hell all of them.  I hate some have to take so many tough shots.  

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We play a hero ball offense, not unlike most other college teams. With these kinds of offenses, it's hard to be a top tier team consistently. You go as far as your top talents take you on a good shooting day. Unfortunately, there aren't too many young and elite coaches out there that would leave their current position to come here where basketball may not be a priority, so I think RT gets another year as long as we make it to the dance.

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when Nate Oates was asked last year about his dominant offense, his reply was simple: “the best shots in basketball are, in order: a catch-and-shoot three, a dunk or a layup, and a free throw; that’s all we do.”

it really is that simple, philosophically speaking anyway. those of you who were here when beard was here will remember me often making this comment during game threads: “practice reps”. a guy would get a great look and sink it and i’d simply post “practice reps”.

our guys got so many great looks under beard that were straight up practice reps. the team runs a cohesive set and it ends with a guy taking not just a good shot, but a shot that he has practiced countless times already. a guy comes off a curl, gets a dribble handoff, squares up, and splashes a jumper from the elbow because it’s ingrained in his muscle memory. we did that under beard. didn’t see it for many years prior, haven’t seen it since.if we did that with this team we could be a 4 seed. sigh.

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