Most teams are bad on the road. That's not unusual or alarming.
The blowing the big leads IS a bit alarming. That's a very poor trend.
This trend in road games is really bugging me
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Most teams are bad on the road. That's not unusual or alarming.
The blowing the big leads IS a bit alarming. That's a very poor trend.
Yep we needed to make them hit jump shots and stop switching our ******* bigs onto Harmon
This team built a 23 point lead for 2/3 of the game. Plenty good to beat an 0-8 team with no life for 30 minutes.
Choke job all around, coaching staff included. How we had Lipsey continue to handle the ball after he clearly wasn’t right and then had Jones and Lipsey out there together when we needed to score. TJ just got outcoached by Mark freaking Adams.
TJ deserves all of the credit for what he’s done but it’s the second Big 12 road game in a row where he **** the bed with key lineups, lack of adjustments, and zero ability to figure out how to get out of a prolonged funk.
Could have used him during all those offensive rebounds we gave up on missed free throws.
Not to say this isn't a really disturbing trend, because it is. But the flip side is that we've had some deficits at home too (early against Baylor and Texas) and roared back to win somewhat comfortably - the mirror image of these Okie State and Texas Tech games. If you looked at any of these final scores without knowing how the game played out, you probably wouldn't be surprised by any of them.
So maybe it's just that we're a team of runs and droughts that come and go at different times.
Not anyone healthy. We have seen anyone who is good enough to play point on this team on the court. Lipsey is the best option. Holmes is serviceable. Everyone else would be a total disaster. He will be the starting PG until he graduates probably.
Usually defense travels, but for some reason it hasn't been for this team. We probably will win out at home, or lose 1 at most but on the road I have 0 confidence with this group.
Everybody looked tired the last few minutes of regulation. All our shots were short. Hope that doesn't mean we're running out of gas like that 2001 team. Just hit a wall in both tourneys.
This team is Jekyll and Hyde on the road. Sometimes both show up in the same game. Des Moines will slip away but we will still be a threat and a team many will not want to see in March.
To be fair it absolutely put us in a tailspin when the refs all of a sudden wouldn't let us play defense after the 2nd TV timeout in second half. Same refs all of a sudden decided to officiate completely different than they had the first 28 minutes of the game.
STOP STOP STOP. This mindset and your constantly moving the goalposts back has got to stop.
We scratched and clawed our way to 1st place in the conference despite the fact that TJ is incapable of making 2nd half adjustments. And then we piss away a 24 point lead to the last place team and you drop this turd of an expectation about being lucky to make the tournament.
TJ showed his weaknesses tonight. Our team straight up looked lost. If you keep up this “lucky to make the tournament” mindset that’s all we will ever have. 3 days ago we were talking about a potential 1 or 2 seed. Now we’re lucky to make the tournament? C’mon dude.
That certainly didn’t help but don’t pretend we didn’t stop taking care of the ball and running offense too.
So hard to watch. Free throws or a layup for 14 straight minutes. I suppose going to a zone, they would have hit 5 three pointers in a row. I don't know.... there is just so many things to say about this game. First, the second half turnovers. Lipsey surprisingly with a bad stretch. Then the offense in the second half... like Missouri all game pressuring, Okie State the second half, and now this game the second half. Don't let us pass, run our stuff, and cut so easily and you can stop us. I KNOW one must be careful reacting after a game like this....but after 3 of the last losses, I'll be surprised if we finish better than 10-8.
This is becoming a real issue. Love BRE & the idea behind it, but wow it is EXTREMELY noticeable when he is on the court, & not in a good way. Jazz can't come back soon enough. Keep Rob to 5-10 mins a game MAYBE if he's contributing something - otherwise the big rotation needs to be Osun, Tre, & Jazz. I'd rather see Hasan in there but he must have pissed TJ off at some point.
then Tech started body-checking on defense away from the ball & the officials allowed them to do so. Pushed our sets further from the basket & we settled for too many jump shots & didn't attack the basket enough to match what they did.
