Texas vs TCU

txlandagent

txlandagent

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TCU is a terrible basketball team. We're depleted and a little disjointed, but I don't see any scenario where we don't pounce on the Frogs early and lead it all the way to our second conference win. :bevo:6pm tip.
Hook Em.:hookem:
 
Not feeling real positive about Cleare in a lineup. Zero hustle. Afraid to go up and challenge drives. Not going up for rebounds. Weak passes. 1-4 from the paint. Getting pushed around. Lame.
 
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Texas is not a good team without Ridley. Frogs up 10 and it doesn't look good at all. Plenty of time to turn it around though. Interior defense and offense is horrible without Ridley.
 
first half: 7 of 9 from the charity stripe is solid. 11of 12 FGs made in the paint...Interior offense is actually also solid. 1 of 9 from the arc is appaling. Shaka ran the Havoc pretty well and mixed in some zone. Frogs are having issues with tempo.
 
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Painful to watch....Maybe 12 wins this year tops, if we can beat KSU up there and TCU in Austin.
 
First loss to TCU since 1995. We are 0-3 against TCU, Texas Tech and Texas A&M. Hopefully we can pick up wins on TCU and Tech in Austin.
 
3-21 from beyond the arc. Wheeeeee!

Ridley would have made a massive difference. Like a 20-point swing. There's no chance TCU controls the boards, unlike tonight against the likes of Lammert and Ibeh. Cleare needs to get more looks as well.

As lazy as TCU's ball control was, we should have pulled that out.
 
Cleare was horrible with most of the looks he got. We won't stay within twenty or possibly thirty points of Kansas or blow u. Probably won't stay within twenty of Baylor and Cyclones.
 
Walking Boss said:
I meant we have zero post offense.
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And not much above zero on low post defense. I think our near 7 footer Ibeh got one or two blocks and maybe 6-8 rebounds and 3 slam dunks. He is a foul making machine. And strangely let a number of uncontested shooters go up or by him for easy looks. Ibeh would play no more than 5 minutes for tcu. Their three starting front line are all better athletes and shooters than Ibeh. We could use either of those guys to replace Ibeh and be a better team immediately.

I was at the game and focused on the perimeter offense and our post play on defense. First observation is that tcu didn't give us many open shots from the outside. They were quick to defend the outside, because, I think, they did not fear any interior offense from Ibeh or Cleare.

Taylor was off tonight and tcu was playing him very tough, which left Felix open for slashing to the hoop and he did that successfully. I think Felix should have had the play at the end of the game drawn up for him instead of Taylor because tcu covered Taylor pretty well, forcing him to shoot a 12 footer, which isn't his best shot.

Finally, the difference was one point which was the weird "administrative technical" called on Texas before the game started which tcu shot and made for a 1 zip lead BEFORE the game clock started. If anyone knows what that was about, please tell me.
 
caryhorn said:
the game started which tcu shot and made for a 1 zip lead BEFORE the game clock started. If anyone knows what that was about, please tell me.
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Texas submitted an illegal lineup to the scorers table - they had Holland listed as a starter but he didn't even travel with the team. Very bizarre that that happened...and rather unpoetically coincidental that we lost by that much.
 
txlandagent said:
My thoughts exactly. just friggin "wheeeeeeee" it up and pray it clanks in. You can tell the difference between a 4 star and a 5 star level freshman on nights like this.
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When Ridley went down, I said we'd only win 4 Big XII games. This was suppose to be one of the 4....now we're down to 3 more wins for the rest of the Big XII season. (fyi: Too bad we weren't 4-21 from beyond the arc...we'd have won....how's that for pathetic!)
 
Walking Boss said:
Cleare was horrible with most of the looks he got
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Seeing it in person it was even worse. Cleare struggles big time on offense, no question. He lacks a quick first step, and needs to develop some explosiveness to the hoop.
 
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Well, 56 Bells, we got that extra win back against ISU. Turns out it is pretty difficult to predict what this team is going to do from night to night.
 
Sangre Naranjada said:
Well, 56 Bells, we got that extra win back against ISU. Turns out it is pretty difficult to predict what this team is going to do from night to night.
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Yeppers, we sure did.....thought we'd blown the game when the ref didn't call the foul when Taylor took the last shot in regulation. They made up for it in the overtime, however....thank goodness!!!!
With the loss of Ridley, the thing I'm seeing is the freshmen don't know the importance of possessions. When they try the "3" too early in the shot clock, they don't realize that a miss sets up an easy transition basket at the other end.
Last night, Iowa State made an 11-0 run thanks to our taking 2 quick 3-point shots and not getting back in transition quickly. If they go in, it's a game-changer, if they don't, it's a game-changer the other way. But that's what you put up with with freshmen. Shaka was much more involved in player substitutions than he's been previously...so that helped. And the team gave great effort and kept pushing the envelope....hurrah!
Here's hoping their 3-point percentages can hover around 39%-44% for the remainder of the season. That's the only way we'll win more games than I anticipate.
 
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