Texas vs am Game

Jusme828 you have a brief post on supporting as best we can but it hit the nail on the head. I will support our ladies but I was disappointed in the effort last night especially with the fan support at the game who did their best to support them. Coach G will have great teams but it will probably have to be with her recruits. I still think the ladies will make a greater effort next time and fight back and win a big one at CS.
 
Oh well! Once again the veterans did not show up.Actually the 2nd half of the game she should have changed that lineup. If we are going to be successful from here on out. She must play the players that are fighting. The veterans are not. Put them on the bench next to you Coach G. Like you said in your interview after the game. This league is not for sissies. And look like we have a lot of them. I was so disappointed in the effort last nite.Please start Font,Anderson and Gayle,Nash and whoever out of the rest of them that are playing good. But I do agree with a lot of post on here. She will not really have great success until she gets all of her recruits in the system.
 
GG certainly needs to get a team filled with her recruits. Right now she has 3 talented freshmen who are playing pretty well but none of the 3 are difference makers. She needs a couple of bonafide studs in this years class and I hope Bone is one. If she comes on board then the stage will be set to add other top tier recruits and in a couple of years the Lady Horns will be able to go toe to toe with OU, BU, A&M, etc.

Right now, GG has a very short stick when playing top 10 teams like that.
 
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Can someone explain this theory that we won't really get it together until Coach G has only her recruits on the team? Possibly true, but I'm not sure I see the reasoning. I don't know what the problem is. The most parsimonious explanation is that our talent level is just not quite as high as OU, BU, and A&M. When our big shooters (e.g., Raven and Erika) have slumps, that takes away a lot of offense. I like the two big Ashleys, but everyone knows they are not great scorers and not a lot of offense is going to come from them. I loved the Tennessee game and thought we looked great, but beating Tennessee may not have been quite the coup we thought it was at the time, since they have gone on to be beaten a few others times by lower ranked teams. (Ole Miss would have beaten them tonight if they hadn't choked.)

It does seem like something psychological is going on, that we lose confidence or get scared or something. I don't know anything about our players' personalities or about the dynamics of the team, so I wouldn't make a guess about the team's psychology. Hopefully we'll make a comeback in the second half of conference play like we did last year. I enjoy our freshmen, like everyone else, and can't wait to see what Cokie and Flores bring (and Tayler and Kelsey, if they'll come).
 
Let me say it...the talent that we have on the team is not what it was thought to be when that highly touted class was signed. Coach G will have to bring in more talented players to turn this program around. I think that Gayle, Font and Anderson are a good start. I think all three of them have the potential to be game changers. Reed will be a game changer and it sounds like Hill would be as well. I am not counting on Bone coming to Texas.
 
I'm not sure I can concur with the statement that the talent is not there...the talent exists. It just does not seem to consistently mesh with the other talent in place.

For whatever reasons, some of the talent seems to go brain-dead in key situations. In other areas of the talent pool, we have players who are hindered by injuries not generally discussed in public.

There is a culmination of issues that has created a storm in the past month. After Tennessee, I thought this team was the real deal. It still has the *potential* to be the real deal, but it needs to get together in a hurry.

As a side note, I cannot help but to think that you could almost substitute Texas for the team being discussed in the article earlier this week about Pat Summitt going for #1000...she expressed LOTS of frustration about an underperforming Tennessee team and the changes that were going to be made...
 
I don't really agree with you, jusme828. Coach C's and G's styles of play are not really very different. They both are champions of pressure defense and of the running game. Jody was a pioneer of the transition game and of the press. Nancy Lieberman wrote a neat piece on the ESPN website about Jody when she retired, talking about her leadership in this style of basketball. To me, the main differences are that Coach G uses more defenses (Jody lived or died with man to man), traps more, and has better in-bound plays under our basket than Jody.

There are only five players left from Jody's day -- Raven, Lindsey, Erika, Carla, and Earnie. Isn't that all? Niqky and Crystal are gone. They have all had Coach G for about as long now as they had Jody. I don't see those five playing in some fundamentally different way than the other players. We just haven't played very well or confidently lately. Hope that changes.
 
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