Texas-OU, Game 1

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Texas (11-5, 0-2) hosts # 15 (AP)/14 (USA) OU (12-3, 2-0) this Sunday at 12: 30 pm. Texas is tied with three other teams for last place. OU is tied with three others for first place. Coach G is 2-4 against Coach Coale. The teams have split in 2007-08 and 2009-10 with each winning at the other’s home court. OU took both games in 2008-09. Horns will be looking to snap that 0-3 home losing streak to OU while the Sooners want to run it to 4-0.

Sooners have three players averaging double figures in conference play: Danielle Robinson (# 13, 5-9 Sr. G), 16.0 ppg—tied for 11th in league play; Aaryn Ellenberg (# 3, 5-7 Fr. G), 13.0 ppg, and Whitney Hand (# 25, 6-1 RS Soph. G), 13.0 ppg, both tied for 17th in league play. Those three have started both Big 12 games to date along with Joanna McFarland (# 53, 6-3 Soph. F/C, 3.0 ppg) and Carlee Roethlisberger (# 10, 6-1 Sr. F, 2.0 ppg). Off the bench, Morgan Hook (# 22, 6-10 Fr. G) averages 9.5 ppg. Jasmine Hartman (# 45, 5-10 Jr. G, 0.5 ppg) is the other player that is averaging double figure minutes in conference play. All seven have started at some point with Hand moving back into the starting lineup after her return from injury. Hook (4-9, 44.4%) and Hand (4-10, 40.0%) have been the main threats from BTA in Big 12 play for the Sooners. Ellenberg (39-86, 45.3% season) and Lauren Willis (# 14, 5-11 Sr. G; 16-33, 48.5% season) have also been outstanding from BTA in preconference play.

Roethlisberger is the top rebounder for OU in league play at 6.0 rpg. McFarland, Hook, and Hand are contributing 4.5 rpg each while Ellenberg adds 4.0 rpg. OU is the 3rd best rebounding team in conference play. Robinson and Hand average 2.5 assists per game while Ellenberg and Roethlisberger are at 2.0 apg. McFarland leads the team with an average of 1.0 blocks per game. Robinson is tied for 1st in league play with an average of 4.0 steals per game. Ellenberg swipes 2.0 spg while Hand adds 1.5 spg. Robinson has gotten to the FT line the most, going 8-11 (727%) in two games while Ellenberg is 4-4. McFarland is also perfect at 2-2.

Along with the top seven, four others have gotten into both conference games for an average of six minutes or less. One has gotten into one Big 12 game and one has not played yet in conference. That’s a total of 13 players on the roster with seven getting the major minutes.

Horns also have three players in double figure scoring in conference play: Chassidy at 23.5 ppg (2nd in the league); Ashleigh 17.5 ppg (8th in the league); and Yvonne 13.0 ppg (tied for 17th in the league). The other Texas starters are Kat (6.5 ppg) and Ashley (4.0 ppg). Kristen adds 7.0 ppg off the bench. The other three players that have gotten into both league games are Chelsea (2.5 ppg), Tiffany (0.0 ppg) and Anne Marie (2.0 ppg). In league play, Chassidy has hit 6-16 (37.5%) 3s while Yvonne is 2-4, 50.0% and Chelsea is at 1-1, 100.0%. From the FT line, three Horns are perfect: Ashleigh (2-2), Kristen (4-4) and Kat (2-2). Chassidy almost joined them, going 9-10, 90.0%). Kat leads the team in rebounding with an average of 8.5 rpg, good for a tie for 5th in league play. Ashleigh is at 7.5 rpg, Chassidy at 6.0 rpg and Ashley at 5.0 rpg. Off the bench, Kristen is averaging 4.5 rpg while Anne Marie adds 3.5 in an average of 7.5 mpg. Kat’s 3.0 assists per game tops the Horns and is tied for 9th in the league. Even with playing time limited by foul trouble, Ashley has eight blocks to lead the team and rank second in the league. Chassidy’s 1.5 steals are tops with Kat’s 1.0 spg second.

Horns have 11 players on the roster. Nine have played in the league games. The five starters plus Kristen and Tiffany are averaging at least 10 mpg. Chelsea and Anne Marie are averaging 7 and 7.5 mpg, respectively. Chassidy, Ashleigh, Yvonne, and Kat are all averaging over 34 mpg.

OU has played twelve players in league games although only seven are averaging double digits in minutes played per game. Their rotation is a pretty tight seven players. Texas has used nine of the eleven players in conference games. Texas also has a tight rotation of seven players to date in the two games played. Fatigue should not be a problem for either team as both will use between 9 (UT) and 11 (OU) players.Projected Starting Lineups:
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Texas OU
Kat (6-2) Roethlisberger (6-1)
Ashley (6-4) McFarland (6-3)
Ashleigh (5-8) Robinson (5-9)
Chassidy (5-10) Hand (6-1)
Yvonne (5-7) Ellenberg (5-7)
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The game within a game to watch here: Chassidy vs Hand. Which one will be able to slow down the other while getting her pts? Chass is third in rebounding with 6.0 rpg and Hand is tied for second at 4.5 rpg. Chassidy is 6-16 from BTA for 37.5% while Hand is at 40% on 4-10 from BTA. Roethlisberger will have her hands full with Kat. Kat will have to work on boxing our Roethlisberger, who leads OU in rebounding in league play. Ashley should find that some of the moves she used against Griner will work against OU. Robinson and Ellenberger will put a lot of pressure on Ashleigh and Yvonne with their speed and ability to score. Ellenberg, Hook, Willis, and Hand are outstanding 3pt shooters for OU. Horns need to know where they are and get a hand in their face. Robinson and Roethlisberger also will shoot the 3 although not as well as the other four. Hartman is a 67% shooter from BTA but has only taken 3 shots all season.

ouhoops.com discussion of how KSt played them on D and how others might do the same.

Big 12 stats. Texas is 0-2 and OU 2-0. Big 12 rankings are in parentheses. A tie with other teams is denoted by a (t)


TEAM STATISTICS Texas OU
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SCORING................. 152 122
Points per game....... 76.0 (3) 61.0 (t-7)
Scoring margin........ -10.0 (9) +13.5 (t-2)
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 60-148 45-119
Field goal pct........ .405 (5) .378 (9)
FGs made per game .... 30.0 22.5
FGs Att. per game .... 74.0 59.5
FGs Att. per minute... 1.85 1.49
2 POINT FG-ATT........... 49-116 34-86
2-point FG pct........ .422 .395
2-pt FG made per game. 24.5 17.0
2-pt FG Att. per game. 58.0 43.0
3 POINT FG-ATT........... 11-32 11-33
3-point FG pct........ .344 (6) .333 (7)
3-pt FG made per game. 5.5 (t-4) 5.5 (t-4)
3-pt FG Att. per game. 16.0 16.5
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 21-33 (9) 21-32 (7)
Free throw pct........ .636 .656
F-Throws made per game 10.5 10.5
F-Throws Att. per game 16.5 16.0
REBOUNDS................ 92 83
Rebounds per game..... 46.0 (1) 41.5 (3)
Rebounding margin..... -2.0 (9) +3.0 (5)
ASSISTS................. 20 23
Assists per game...... 10.0 (t-8) 11.5 (t-5)
TURNOVERS............... 24 30
Turnovers per game.... 12.0 (7) 15.0 (3)
Turnover margin....... -2.0 +4.00
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.8 (5) 0.8 (7)
STEALS.................. 9 19
Steals per game....... 4.5 (t-10) 9.5 (3)
BLOCKS.................. 9 6
Blocks per game....... 4.5 (2) 3.0 (t-9)
ATTENDANCE.............. 6517 (5) 5142 (7)
Home games-Avg/Game... 1-6517 1-5142


SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total
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Texas............... 63 81 8 - 152
OU.................. 52 70 - 122

Ave. Score by Half: 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total
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Texas............... 31.5 40.5 4.0 - 76.0
OU.................. 26.0 35.0 - 61.0

These are two teams that strongly resemble each other. The post is not a big scoring threat for them. They depend on their backcourt to score, by either shooting 3s or penetrating and finishing or passing to an open shooter when the D collapses. Horns are playing a bit faster in Big 12 play than OU is, which surprised me. With Robinson and Ellenberg starting, I figured that OU would be running even more than Texas. At least in the first two conference games, that has not been the case. In 3s and FTs, both teams are virtually identical in mades, attempts, and percentage. OU has an edge in forcing TOs and in getting steals. Texas counters with making fewer TOs and in having more blocks. Look for a tough, physical defensive game. Whether it’s in the high 70s or low 60s will depend on how the teams are finishing inside. If Ashley stays out of foul trouble, that will cause OU problems penetrating and allow Texas to stay with their players on the perimeter. My impression of OU this season is that they love to run, but the score per game and the shots per minute don’t really support that. Texas runs more and more effectively. If the Horns can control the boards, they will be able to score on the break. I like the match up of the posts in Texas’ favor. The guards may turn into a wash with the post scoring deciding the game. As usually, I won’t bet anything on this.
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Four turnovers in the first half against Baylor. Five in the first 5 minutes tonight. SIGH!
 
Hope we come back the 2nd half, and play much better.Especially AT, she looks a mess. It seem like when shes not shooting well.She just give up on the rest of her game. I would sit her sum, when she is acting like a baby.She a veteran, and needs to perform like one
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We are a bad team. This is ugly to watch. Sometimes I wonder if Gail is ever calling plays or if Texas just runs around. Ugly.
 
Kind of hard to watch this turnover prone team. I would have thought the upper classmen guards would protect the ball better. When you have more turnovers than assists as a guard, you should be sitting. The commentators are right that there are no leaders on this team to hold the players responsible for executing the plays on the court.
 
Kat is the only one that wants to win. Leave the Nash sisters in and put all the freshman in the game and we will win!!!

This is soooo frustrating. Go to the hole all every possesion Nash sisters and lets win this game.
 
OUs bigs are out. Lets go to the hole on every possession. Take it to the rack LONGHORNS!!!
 
This is what's sooo frustrating. Gayle should be in the game right now killing them in the paint. But O, she's our REBOUND specialists. WTWorld is wrong with the picture. So now our guards have to be agressive.

And just as I say that AT shoots a jumper and misses. AARRGGHH
 
And what happens, our freshman, Chassidy takes it straight to the rack. YEAH!!!
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I love Chassidy. She wants to win. You can see her determination. Good minutes from Kristen as well. Go Horns!
 
Wwwhhhhyyyyyy is AT still shooting and missing 3s? She just cost us the game.
 
And Ashley is non-existent and can't hit a free throw. And we have 30 turnovers a game. But there's always the next one-in College Station. Expecting a huge turaround there.
 
Why is Chassidy sitting so much the first half and why is AT not sitting some durning the game.Chassidy was sitting alot before her third foul.
 
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Your mama musta hit you a LOT with a belt...damn, you are negative...

We should have beat this O-Who Team like ugly step-children w/ free throws made and turnovers down...way down....

I think the offense/defense switch w/ Kristen and AG happened too late....and Kristen should be given a green light to shoot 3's...she still holds Plano West's record for 3's if I am not mistaken...and, yeah, going inside against the OU bigs was a good idea, shoulda happened more...

AT didn't have a good game, but I thought Yvonne was really awful...she just tries to do too much, all on her own....for a Junior, she didn't make very good decisions...

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BBV it was actually lighted cigarettes, not a belt. Now you know.

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I'm as negative as you are delusional when it comes to the product we're seeing on the basketball court. I am critical of what we're paying to see because it's not good. Texas can and should do better.

But that's okay. We're both trolling around on a fan forum, which exists primarily to give fans a platform to voice their opinions, perspectives, beliefs and criticisms. And shockingly, not everyone agrees with what you post, or I post. That's sort of the point.

Who knows, maybe next year will be the turning point and the program will turn around and we'll all hold hands, sing Kum by ya (or the Eyes of Texas) and remember the old days when we sucked.

It's why each and every year, I (and perhaps you) renew my season tickets, pay my Longhorn Foundation dues, and think, "maybe, just maybe, this will be the year."
 
Wow, what an awful start to conference play. What are we going to do without Kat next year? She is such a pure shooter and such a gritty player. Chassidy was electric in the last few minutes. Too bad she had a tough first half. We had a hard time adjusting to OU's defense. Good effort, but the turnovers and poor shooting did us in.
 
Wow. This was one of the sloppiest games of basketball I ever watched. Both teams, were making numerous unforced errors, throwing passes way over teammate's heads and missing barely-contested layups. The refs got more block/charge calls wrong than they got right (Roethlisberger throwing herself backwards when Ashley Gayle pinned her deep on the low block and simply made a 90º turn to face the backboard was one of the dumbest charging calls that I've ever seen, but overall it was bad both ways), and even waved trainers and medical staff back to the bench when a player was down and in obvious pain. Yes, Chassidy got up, limped around a bit, and ended up fine, but that was several seconds later.

I'm impressed by the way Coach G handled the officiating. It was a very obvious and noticeable difference between her non-reactions and occasional question vs Sherri's constant and dramatic disagreement with nearly every single call, even several obvious ones. With as long as she's been coaching OU, you'd think she would no longer be surprised at her team getting called for multiple moving screens nearly every game. Their offense often revolves around pushing the envelope with regards to the screening rules (remember Leah Rush nearly paralyzing Nina Norman), and there is no possible way Coale doesn't know this. In fact, there's almost no way it could be so consistent across so many different players if she doesn't coach it. But whenever it draws a whistle, she always looks like the ref was out of his/her mind.

This is definitely not like the OU teams of the past 7 years. Back to at least 2002 I don't think OU has been this weak. They only have 3 legit D1 starters on the roster. Robinson is an all-around great PG and I can't wait for her to graduate, Ellensburg is exceptionally quick, and Hand has managed overcome some injury troubles as well as horrible shooting form to become a good offensive wing player. But that's it. I'm impressed that they are having a good season, but I was surprised watching them play. They just aren't all that talented.

As for us, we have more problem than just the fact that we, as difficult as these things were to do, managed to match OU in blown layups and even outdo them in wildly inaccurate passes. They have a pair of very quick guards, one of whom is always looking to gamble for the steal, so it's to be expected if they force a few more turnovers than average. But many of our turnovers were simply inexplicable mistakes that OU just sat back and watched us make.

But we ran about the worst possible offense that we could have, and this one has to go on the coaching staff. Until the final 5 minutes, just about all we ever did was set an on-ball screen for the PG while the other 3 players stood and watched. Not at all a good idea against a team with no post presence and with a pair of PGs who both are having a very tough time while being guarded by a pair of quicker PGs. We never let Kat or Chas bring the ball up even though they would have been able to do so against much less on-ball pressure, nor did we let Kat or Kristen, both of whom can play PF in a pinch, post up against players who are poor post defenders.

Finally, once we got down by 11, we changed our offense to a penetrate-and-kick style. We got most of our buckets down the stretch in our comeback when several players in a row would drive, draw a defender, and pass back out, until finally the D got disorganized enough from all the back-and-forth reacting that somebody was able to make a quick drive that beat the help D to the spot. And then - inexplicably - we completely abandoned this during OT and went back to our old ineffective NBA-isolation-style game plan.

I also think our team might need some lessons about executing pull-up jumpers. The point is that attacking the rim can set up a much more open jump shot (and one from closer range) than you would have had if you had just pulled up and shot without attacking first. Sometimes it looks like we just make up our minds "I will dribble right/left once/twice, then pull up and shoot the J", and then we take said shot even though the dribbling failed to shake the defender and she's still right in our face. Granted, some of this was Chassidy late in the game when it was the right move b/c we were running out of time to erase a deficit, and most of those went it, but overall, I'd rather see her use her ability to shake a defender more and use her ability to elevate over a smaller defender and shoot a contested shot less. I won't complain too much b/c she's scoring a lot and was on fire late in this game, but relying on that move too much is what got a lot of us annoyed with Arriaran and others.
 
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