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pulled Pittman in the first 3 minutes!!!

He came out, made two baskets and set the tone for the game. Duke doesn't have anyone that can go toe-to-toe with this big guy inside.

If Pittman had missed two left hooks and sucked it up, then pull him. HE DID NOT DO THIS, HE CAME TO PLAY.

Unfortunately, Rick pulls him at the midst of Texas setting the pace, instead of making it a guard game (which of course, Duke will destroy us).

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Barnes has out-coached himself all year. Another shining example of that.

Wasn't it Darrell Royal that coined the phrase "dance with the one that brung ya"??
 
Seriously? The team you guys have been badmouthing all year as having no shooting, no point guard, no heart, and they're a rimmed-out 3 from possibly knocking off Duke, and you want to complain about the coaching.
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barnes didnt have a good year. the final play was classic. he doesnt do anything to get connor out of his funk all year long, and he then sets up one meaningless 3 point play for him at hte end of the game
 
I honestly don't understand some of you posters on this board. It was not Rick Barnes' fault. I mean, how do you coach Gary Johnson to miss shots that he usually makes. Or how about Damion missing a putback he usually makes. It was just bad bounces. We had every opportunity to win, but we just couldn't execute. The free throws sucked. Count how many 1 and 1s we missed. Do you honestly think that Coach Barnes does not have our guys shooting free throws during practice? If anything, I would give credit to Duke for watching game film because apparently Minnesota didn't know it was dangerous to leave AJ open. You could hear it on the TV screen anytime AJ even got a step on a guy, you would hear ABRAHMS! Balbay's has got to get more confidence in his shots. Most notably, you can see two guys guarding Ward, one guy smothering AJ, and then no one on Balbay on the three point line. If he was even a threat, we would've won. We needed people to step up tonight. Ward did his damndest, but it was just wasn't enough.
 
Horse manure, Rick didn't lose this one. If the ball bounces right for us at the end, it at the very least is going ot. I can't wait for next year. Found us a point guard that can handle the rock. We'll miss AJ, but we have some guys coming that can play right from the outset of the season. No disgrace in losing this game. What? Duke had to drive across the street to get to the game. Some of these tournament sites with teams assigned to those sites makes the men's tournament nearly as biased as the women's is.
 
Also,

Rick should have put Pittman back into the game.

The refs should have called over the back on Singler on the tip in

AJ should not have taken that runner

Damion should have made the chippy after the rebound bounced to him

Gary shouldn't have pushed off trying to grab the ball

Atchely should have done a better job blocking out on the freethrow grabbed by Duke to seal the game

I'm sure there are more...but all and all a good showing.
 
Some repititions I saw tonight...

James called on charges
Johnson called on touch fouls
Mason attempted passes into the paint/lanes/traffic
Unwise handling of the ball in dribble/transition penetration
and so on...
missed free throws

And then we end up tied at 69. Amazing.

I would have started Ward and played him most of the game.
I would have played Chapman early and often.
I would have told everyone on the team... you're open, you shoot. Ready, shoot, aim.

It was a good effort. I don't feel like challenging the coaching. I wish the team had become deft at the 6th sense of handling the ball at all times. Duke kept "showing how it's done."

I kept thinking... so this is how people feel playing Texas in football. We own the game. We own them. For the most part. Tonight I felt that difference... playing Duke, in North Carolina... Like playing Texas in football, in this state.

This game was all mental, and we weren't mentally in it. To beat the refs, or the Duke team.
 
You people are ******* funny...if any of you sat near me in the FEC you'd probably annoy the holy **** out of me, but fortunately for me the keyboard is as close as most of you get to a UT game...
 
I personally think Rick has done a great job this year. Losing talent early finally caught up to the program for this year and I think he did a hell of a job to squeeze everything he possibly could of out this group. Tonight I was sitting there thinking how amazing it was that with so many holes on the team that we got as far as we did.
 
Great post horndig it. The officials and players lost this game for us. People want to blame Barnes for us losing but give him no credit for keeping this team in the game.
 
...missed all those free throws, which would have been the difference in winning vs. losing the game. Damn Rick Barnes for not shooting worth a **** on his free throws. Sonofabitch!
 
yeah, as on old timer who sat through some pretty crappy bball at Gregory, I am not ready to trade Barnes. For any shortcomings he may have, he has built a magnificent program here.
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So how is it some of you great basketball minds lost out to Barnes for the UT coaching job? Oh, I forgot...you were only eight.













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yes. 11 years of the best basketball we've ever seen

the reality is that our past 11 years, judged cumulatively, are better than probably 97% of D1 programs in America. it is a very short list of schools who have had more success than us over the past 11 years.
 
How about this: we did not have the offensive talent to get it done this year, period. This team had real limitations. No amount of coaching or strategizing was going to make it a great team. Some good bounces or calls help here and there but our talent level was going to get us in the end. No way we were going to string together 2-3 or more wins in this tourney.
 
This is not bashing but a serious question:

I have noticed that almost all of our players go for the block when the other team has the ball down low. Allowing, at least in the Duke game what seemed like a large number of offensive rebounds. I also noticed the Duke players trying to take the charge vs. the block.

Is this a coaching thing? Do we coach to block the shot and scramble for the board? Does Duke coach for the charge and an organized attempt for the Defensive Board? Is this more of a coaching thing or a personnel thing?
 
Duke definitely coaches the charge. Barnes does not, and I applaud him for it. The willingness of college refs to reward slow, unskilled defenders who just get in the way and fall over rather than make a play on the ball is hands down the worst thing about college basketball. There is a major "soccer flop" element to the way Duke and many other teams practice taking charges with the proper form to draw the call. Because the refs reward flopping, the lane is clogged, it's very difficult to get to the rim off the dribble, and most games are decided solely by 3-point shooting and rebounding. Barnes coaches aggressive man-to-man defense that goes for steals and blocked shots rather than just coaching his guys to get in the way and then fall over with perfect "hey look at me, I'm taking a charge!" form. Exaggerating a flop should be an automatic technical foul. There's a "point of emphasis" that might actually help the game. Or they could just continue to watch hawkishly for guys palming the ball or not standing up perfectly straight with their arms folded across their chest as they set a pick. Because those calls really make the game so much better.

Our guys weren't very good on defense this year, but Barnes's teams usually are excellent defensively without taking a lot of charges. Not only does this make for better basketball, it is also a great service to his players, who are taught how to really play defense in a way that might actually translate to the pros rather than a gimmick flop-based system designed to trick crappy college refs into throwing their hand up on the back of their head and dancing a jig down to the other side of the court. Royal Ivey, for one, owes his millions to Rick's defensive coaching. T.J. and Gibson also made huge strides defensively while they were here.

As for our Duke game, the refs stole if from us with the phantom foul call on the rebound under our basket when it was tied. Duke missed, Dogus got the ball, a second or two passed, then the trail ref who was on the other side of mid court realizes "holy crap, Texas has the ball with a chance to take the lead!" and blows his whistle. They take the lead on free throws, and it's over. Thanks zebra. The awfulness of college referees knows no bounds.
 
related question. Did you see us jump every time Duke did a pump fake? I mean those guys must have to do 100 pump fakes a day or something, because they had our guys jumping in the air every time. We were lucky we didn't get more fouls called on all of our jumping in the air.
 
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