***Official Texas postgame thread***
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We don't have a vocal, veteran leader or a consistent "get it done" scorer. (On some teams, those are the same player, but sometimes multiple players share the roles).
They have a lot of losses including home ones to Radford, Providence, and VCU. Going to be interesting what the committee does with them. Losses have to count for something too. It is pretty interesting that if RPI was still used they would be pretty much out at 53 right now. The NET rankings seem to have just as much flaws as RPI.
VCU is #37 in the NET and will make the tourney. Providence and Radford aren't good losses, that's true. But it's apparent wins are much more important than losses to the committee. Who you beat means more. And they have some of the best wins in the country to be honest. And not sure how you can possibly say the NET is flawed when we aren't even a full year into it.
Mentioned earlier but also don't have a lock-down defender, dominant post player or general sharp shooter.
A few guys that can get to the hoop and be streaky from 3 but I'm not sure if anyone's game really compliments the others.
I am really sorry you feel so hurt. I am surprised that you speak in total anonymity and yet still get riled when someone disagrees with you. You are fine criticizing our coach - and our players and disagreeing with their strategy and their play. But what is wrong with people disagreeing with you? I am baffled. If you are complaining because people get personal, I am totally in agreement with you, but again, plenty of posters get pretty personal with SP.
As of today, probably not. IU has a few high-end wins working in its favor. Marquette, Louisville, MSU (twice). Can't afford another loss, only Illinois and Rutgers remain in regular season.
Some games I question the chemistry, other times, it looks encouraging. Occasionally, those bi-poles occur within the same game.
The OU game looked like that.
Looked like they weren't even speaking to each other for a half, then looked like they enjoyed basketball for the 2nd half.
Today they might as well have all stayed in Ames.
Wonder if it's a chicken-or-egg situation. Do teammates get along swimmingly when things are clicking, but are arm's-length when it's rough? Orare the positive-chemistry stretches what improves the game-play?
I don't like to make blanket assessments comparing teams with no connection to each other, but it reminds me of 14-15.
Iowa State would be favored by 12-13 on a neutral. Would anyone want to lay that number right now?
Texas will be in ahead of Oklahoma and TCU. They are a 8/9 seed right. They are going to be in with one more and it’s not going to be close.
I don't know all of the details of the 14-15 team but they definitely seemed to basically wilt when the opponent muddled things up.
This team...not sure if they're like that but they're definitely not a very resilient bunch, and imo there's multiple players that try to do too much when the ball gets to them, which makes very little happen.
And I'm not saying it's an actual 'hero-ball' thing, they may just be trying to make a play. But that turns into terrible shots and the defense not having to react hardly at all.
5/12 upset is common enough, so it's a possibility, I don't think this team is vulnerable to it, from a wagering standpoint. For about the past 3 weeks or a month, this looks like a 2-and-out squad.
People concerned about team chemistry need to not put too much stock in the four or five minutes of video per game they make their assumptions from. There might be issues with the team meshing, but what you see on tv is not an indicator of it.
At first I thought it was another example that no one was paying attention to what was going on around them - like they didn't even know he was down on the ground
Were you drunk for 10 years or not born? We're not even close to those years. Luckily we've been good enough to be ******** about a 20 win season. C'Mon
