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VinyVango

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  1. Max is just a black hole today on both ends of the court.

    He simply doesn’t have the ball handling and passing skills of a PG and his defense is poor… but when he is on the court the opposing D has to respect him which opens the floor even when he is not hitting shots
  2. Nice lead with good offense but need to prevent the easy layups a bit better on defense and avoid relaxing too much on that end

    Abmas with another one of his career worse offensive days so far … and would prefer getting someone else some minutes beside Horton

    But definitely an A grade so far

  3. With Disu's knee and Cunningham's thumb, we are basically a 6 man rotation that adds some 7th man minutes for Onyema.  If we'd been able to get a couple other scholarship guys in for a few serious developmental minutes in prior games, we might have a little more to lean on.  As it stands, Shedrick will need to be very good and Hunter and/or Horton will likely need a solid scoring game for us to prevail against OU.  I am more confident in Shedrick (unless his back problems flare up) than Hunter and Horton.  Abmas needs to play under control and look to pass rather than throw up the off-balance, half court shit if they choose to take him out of the game with double teams and press defense.  He went from amazing to wtf when Disu went down in the last game.  A lot of that was because Baylor decided to take him out and our offense devolved to him forcing up bad shots in the final 1/4 of the game.

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  4. It felt like we got out of our offense and starting forcing one on one stuff about the time Disu last came into play game. Lotta rushed poor shots by guys that should know better after disu’s injury and really bad weakside rotation and covering the rolling pick man when we aggressively hedged the ball handler …

    I doubt Terry told them to ease off. They panicked when Disu went out (despite doing okay without him for long stretches) and played lazier / sloppier 2 dumber ball on both ends the second half …

    Refs also seemed to get whistle happy on one end of the court

  5. Sometimes it's impossible to pinpoint if a player has been coached up and is simply fucking up and/or not following the plan, or whether the player is confused/doesn't know how to do something right due to subpar coaching.  What is evident with this team is that it has shown the ability to play great some games and play embarrassingly poor basket ball during other games.  Sometimes the team looks like a sweet 16 team and others it looks like a first round NIT loser over the course of the same game.  The inconsistency represents a significant weaknesses in confidence, focus, conditioning, reacting on the fly, play-calling, fundamentals, etc... all of which suggest shortcomings by the coaching staff in scheming, motivation, substitution patterns, and practice repetition.   Every coach has his weaknesses.  Perhaps this team would be a few wins better if Terry's assistants were stronger at things he is not that great at.  Perhaps he is a bell curve coach at best.  

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