Beat The Hell Outta OU

[Moooooo]

I'd be curious as to how many of the turnovers were travelling calls and charging calls.

The charging/blocking calls today against both teams really had me confused. I think I was wrong on every single one, except the illegal picks against OU.

 

[BabHorn]

two stand out to me: an outlet by Imani to a streaking Ariel who was not expecting it and had it bounce off her hip and OU recovered and a pass by Empress that bounced off Brooke's head as she hustled to a spot in the corner. That one went out of bounds. I wonder if they track those kind of TOs.

 

[BabHorn]

Mine was almost as good but thanks for filling in some of the detail.

You got the chance to do Wednesday's as I will be out of town on a business conference and unable to do it.

Thank goodness I will be back from Waco in time to go to the game itself.

 

[racerx5908]

Empress but I don't know why

At the post-game fan club someone asked about the technical foul. Smiling coach Mays said, "Well, why don't we have the one involved come here and explain it?"

Empress was trying to hide behind a taller player and came out. She said that she told the referee, "OH COME ON!". My wife swore she stamped her foot hard on the court when she did that.

Then Mays left her off the hook but said that they would "work on that".

 

[JoeDallas]

So many things were great in this game. I haven't looked at any stats, but clearly Empress was fantastic. I do not cringe at all anymore when she puts up a three. I don't recall her getting many charge calls. Lashann and Ariel were also great. And the way we kept our cool as they made their run in the fourth quarter was really fine. Imani's blocks and rebounds were the core of our win. Her being a senior - I don't want to think about it. I don't know why their posts made so many points. They had good moves, but it was not hard, at least from my chair in the living room, to figure out what they were going to do. It seems like a problem of Imani and Kelsey just not anticipating and moving their feet quickly enough to keep themselves between the player and the basket. IMO, it is not drilled into lots of players heads enough, not just those two, to absolutely not let the offensive player have the baseline. If you do, you are just standing beside them as they go around you, And the turnovers are frustrating, but seem mainly like a product of how fast we try to go. That is one of our trademarks, and the turnovers seem to come with it.

 

[56 Bells]

Nope I believe she's a Jr and was also originally committed to the Longhorns before switching to aggy and then transferring to OU.

Dang...seems like she should be 30 years old by now! Did she sit out a year or more?

 

[WCBBNUT]

... And the turnovers are frustrating, but seem mainly like a product of how fast we try to go. That is one of our trademarks, and the turnovers seem to come with it.

Agreed. So many of the turnovers seemed to be caused by our trying to speed the game up faster than we should or at least faster than we are capable of... Especially the passes to the backs of people's heads.

 

[DFW_Horn]

Agreed. So many of the turnovers seemed to be caused by our trying to speed the game up faster than we should or at least faster than we are capable of... Especially the passes to the backs of people's heads.

Coach Aston agrees...after today's game, re: turnovers:
"You would think that we don't talk about it, but we do," Texas coach Karen Aston said. "Some of them are from our (fast) style of play, but some are completely unforced. They don't make good decisions sometimes."

Aston said that she and her players are often in too big of a rush.

"I need to calm down," Aston said. "I want to hurry up and score. We have recruited a lot of good basketball players and they all want to make a play. That's not a terrible thing. We need to teach them."

 

[WCBBNUT]

I liked that they honored Sherri Coale before the game. Maybe because we won, but I enjoyed hearing Karen talk about the "friendly rivalry" and the respect between these two programs. Can't imagine ever saying the same thing about Baylor.

 

[Rexy]

I recorded the game and watched it last night and have to say that the Oklahoma players felt really wronged by the referees. They were really pissed off that more fouls were not called on us, especially Imani. Turns out that Texas had 4 more fouls called on them, 24 to OU's 20 and we had 3 players with 4 fouls, while OU had 1 player foul out and 1 other with four fouls. Be that as it may, the OU players were really steamed and made no bones about it with their actions and words. I expect Texas to be pounded at OU and I expect it to be a really rough and tumble game up there. Hopefully there will be fair refs.

 

[BabHorn]

I recorded the game and watched it last night and have to say that the Oklahoma players felt really wronged by the referees. They were really pissed off that more fouls were not called on us, especially Imani. Turns out that Texas had 4 more fouls called on them, 24 to OU's 20 and we had 3 players with 4 fouls, while OU had 1 player foul out and 1 other with four fouls. Be that as it may, the OU players were really steamed and made no bones about it with their actions and words. I expect Texas to be pounded at OU and I expect it to be a really rough and tumble game up there. Hopefully there will be fair refs.

You think their players are steamed, their fans are livid that Imani got away with so many fouls. Or so they claim. Personally, I think the refs are calling fouls on Kelsey when it should be on the opposing player.

 

[Rexy]

Right! I read their fan boards first and then re watched the game. I think it's going to be a very rough environment up there. And I agree with you that they call fouls on Kelsey unnecessarily. Also Imani did get her body on some of the players during some of her blocks, but if the refs aren't going to call it ......

 

[CavalryRoadie]

Perception is reality, I suppose.

OU fans are looking for any explanation, however implausible, that "proves" their team was robbed. They're having a bit of bother being too loud about it, however, due to UT honoring their coach.

Friendly rivalry? Yeah, right.

 

[WCBBNUT]

I would imagine what is friendly between schools, coaches and players doesn't necessarily translate to fans.

Re: fouls - sort of how we felt about the Baylor game. It's all part of the sport.

 

[Dr. D]

I doubt that Coale will tell them to push the limits on being rough. That can backfire. Besides, "physical" is not OU's game. Texas usually thrives on physicality. I would worry much more about having another 25 turnovers in an away game. We could have opened up more space if we hadn't given them extra opportunities. OU will not be as bad shooting the three in their own gym as they were in Austin; and we need to tighten up the post defense.

 

[CavalryRoadie]

I would imagine what is friendly between schools, coaches and players doesn't necessarily translate to fans.

Re: fouls - sort of how we felt about the Baylor game. It's all part of the sport.

"Fans", short for "Fanatics". We get pissed when the calls don't go our way, but ignore/forget the calls we get.

 

[TagHorns]

Coach Aston agrees...after today's game, re: turnovers:
"You would think that we don't talk about it, but we do," Texas coach Karen Aston said. "Some of them are from our (fast) style of play, but some are completely unforced. They don't make good decisions sometimes."

Aston said that she and her players are often in too big of a rush.

"I need to calm down," Aston said. "I want to hurry up and score. We have recruited a lot of good basketball players and they all want to make a play. That's not a terrible thing. We need to teach them."

I agree with us having so many turnovers because we want to rush, it causes the girls to travel. I think we traveled more in this game that we have in the last two or three years. At least it was a W. Not the prettiest but a W. I thought with this team we would have had a larger point spread. Especially after holding Little the entire first half. I'm thinking most of her points were panic drive ins that we fouled her on, FT's. Then again, she has had a dismal season compared to last years.