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  1. That was just a terrible game by Texas. And also a terrible game by Tennessee, which is why we only lost by 4. If we played them 10 times, I think we only win 2-3 times. Really bad matchup.

    I thought Mitchell and Brock both played great defense on Knecht, holding him to 5-18 shooting. And for as bad as our 3 point defense has been all year, it was nice seeing bad brick after bad brick from Tennessee from 3.

    Ultimately the turnovers and second chance points killed us. And we still had a chance at the end. Ooof. Disappointing. I feel bad for Disu to go out like that after he had such an amazing Big12 tourney and first round last year.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    what does any of this have to do with the first two years of each HC’s tenure?

    I was responding to the fact that RT took over the #3 KenPom team and simply illustrating that it doesn't mean that team was guaranteed to make the Final Four. 

    Obviously RT inherited a better team than Barnes did.  But did he inherit a better situation?  The team was in disarray for a month after Beard's arrest.  The wheels could have easily fallen off.  Rice... freaking RICE took us to OT the day it all went down.  I give RT a ton of credit for righting the ship.  

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  3. It is so poetic that the game tonight is against Barnes.  Tennessee has a much better team. They are ranked ahead of us in just about every single stat. If UT pulls this out, it is going to be funny AF.

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  4. Counterpoint: Once Barnes had the #1 team in the country in mid-January and then lost 8 of 14 and was 1 and done in the tourney. That was a better team than we had last year.

    I dare say that 2010 would have had a better ending if Barnes had given the reigns to RT in mid January and took a sabbatical. He ground that team into the dirt.

    We have no way of knowing what would have happened with last year’s team if Beard had remained at the helm. He probably would have done as well or better than RT, but it isn’t a guarantee.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

    See also: Johnson, Chris

    I think he is a player you want to keep and develop.  He was a national top-50 player coming out of high school.  If he sticks around, I wouldn't be surprised if he was a contributor next year.

  6. He is athletic and someone I thought might end up getting minutes by the end of his career. But really, we will be able to find better players through the portal. Best for everyone for him to move on to somewhere he can get minutes.

  7. Yes, I agree. I think Westbrook is his best comp.  He is going to be unstoppable if he can add 10-15 pounds of muscle, gets more confident with his 3-ball and gets his free throws up into the mid 80s.

  8. 29 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

    The moment Chendall hit the court, he ended a several-minute scoring drought and provided a defensive boost.

    This is exactly why he is coming off the bench.  Would you rather have a second lineup with Horton, Brock and Shedrick?  That group is slow footed AF. 

    Weaver provides a great spark to the second unit, and it isn't really needed on the first unit with Dillon Mitchell out there.  He still doubled Horton's minutes and was in the closing group. 

    I can't understand why people can't see that the composition of the different lineups matters tremendously, and Weaver is better in the 2nd unit (also going against the other team's second unit).

  9. Man this dude balled out yesterday.  Has me wondering about his maximum upside.  At 6-3, he has NBA point guard size.  And he definitely has enough athleticism to play at that level.  

    Most of his efficiency stats are up this year, despite playing better competition.  Last year he was a 40% shooter from 3 on reasonable volume.  In conference last year, he shot 45% from 3 on 2.7 attempts per game.

    I think the game will slow down for him over the next year and he is going to be really, really good.  

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  10. Let me just repeat that CSU was ranked higher than us on KenPom prior to the game. 

    And CSU just beat the ever loving shit out of Virginia.  I mean, beat them so bad that it may actually set their program back by a few years.  And Virginia was the 3rd ranked team in... wait for it... the ACC.  NC State finished 10th in the ACC for reference.

    The Virginia game was in hand for the entire 2nd half.  If CSU wasn't rested, that is on them.  They could have pulled their starters with 15 minutes to go in that game.

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  11. Part of Disu's frustration was caused by the fact that their bigs were lowering their shoulders and offensive fouling constantly.  Then he gets called for ticky tack fouls and is sent to the bench. He could never get in a rhythm either inside or from the perimeter.  

    We won, so nobody it talking about it much, but I thought the game was called in a way that favored CSU bigtime.  The ending foul disparity didn't look so bad because of all the intentional fouls at the end.

    Tennessee is going to be an even more physical matchup, unfortunately.

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  12. This year to date:

    • Overall - #25
    • AdjO - #27
    • AdjD - #39

    Chris Beard (2022):

    • Overall - #15
    • AdjO - #26
    • AdjD - #14

    Shaka Smart (2016-2021):

    • Overall - #43
    • AdjO - #77
    • AdjD - #26

    Rick Barnes (1999-2015):

    • Overall - #25
    • AdjO - #38
    • AdjD - #39
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  13. Beard absolutely didn’t overachieve in his first year here. He won a single tournament game. Woo hoo. Throw a parade.

    He deserves credit for reloading with some players who had already won 1st Team All Conference honors in Carr (Big 10), Allen (PAC 10), Tre Mitchell (A10). But he also lost a lot of talent when he got here. And ultimately won a single tourney game.

    I expected more out of that group honestly. And it looked like we were on our way in 22-23.

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  14. I am not the biggest Horton fan, but I really like bringing Weaver off the bench. His energy really brings a spark and helped us with the 25-3 run. Rice gave a similar spark last year off the bench. Weaver is in the closing 5 and that is what matters.

    Also Horton had a pretty good game. His 7 rebounds were big. Played good defense too. In the end Weaver got double his minutes which is about right.

    This was the fewest points CSU has scored in THREE years. They aren’t scrubs. At one point they were ranked 13th. You could make a case that they should have been an 8/9 seed.

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  15. It is much more tiring to play good defense than good offense. I also suspected that some of Barnes' players were simply worn out and it impacted their free throw shooting. You can especially see it at the end of the games when players leave them short.

  16. BTW, on the subject of free throw shooting, this is the best free throw shooting team we have had since at least 1997, maybe ever.  And not by a little bit, by two whole percentage points.  Previous best was 73.6% with Durant.  This year... 75.7%.

    The 2010 Barnes team shot 63.3%. Holy hell. 

  17. 48 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    for me that’s one of his strategies where sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but you can understand why he believes in it as a strategy

    I don't HATE the strategy, but one of the critical elements of that strategy is that you MUST MUST MUST have good free throw shooters.  And far too often we would be a very poor free throw shooting team.  Now I have this data courtesy of my new KenPom subscription...

    UT's Free Throw rank under Barnes:

    • 00 - 264
    • 01 - 269
    • 02 - 177
    • 03 - 77  (Final 4)
    • 04 - 190
    • 05 - 142
    • 06 - 57 (Elite 8 )
    • 07 - 36 (Durant)
    • 08 - 189
    • 09 - 246
    • 10 - 326 
    • 11 - 282
    • 12 - 47
    • 13 - 270
    • 14 - 272
    • 15 - 70

    There are some REAL stinkers in there. And it really hindered some of those teams.

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