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HookEm

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  1. Hot take here, but Larry is a better player than Weaver. Much better point guard and a better defender. When Weaver comes back, he will eat into Pope and Larry’s minutes and I don’t think that is a good thing. Also Pope and Larry are great FT shooters. Weaver… isn’t. I do love Weaver’s hustle and energy, and the way he hits the boards. But I don’t think we are going to win that much if he is getting 25 mpg. Hate to say it because he is probably my favorite player on the team.
  2. This was a good win. Overall much better defense. I thought Terry did a good job with the rotation. Liked the minutes with Pope and Larry on the floor. Larry seems to be our best point guard and doesn’t need to score. And he was great in defense. I like him getting the extra minutes at the expense of Mark. Mark is a better player, but the team seems to play better with Larry out there. And Pope is probably our best shooter and plays better off the ball. I liked bringing in Pryor for a few minutes. He brought some energy. Same with Onyema.
  3. Tre Johnson knows he can take Grill every time. Shot just hasn’t been falling.
  4. I think Larry has been really good defensively tonight
  5. lol and as I type that he gets a steal and jump ball
  6. The player we really need, and could have gotten, is JT Toppin. Then Shedrick could come off the bench and give us 15 mpg.
  7. When Rodney took over, the program was in a state of chaos. RICE took us to overtime the day Beard got arrested. We barely beat a bad Stanford team, and only beat OU by 1. Then K-State beat us. It was ugly and most fans felt like the season was lost. It is easy to dismiss the year as Rodney winning with "Beard's team", but that team could have easily fallen off a cliff and missed the tournament completely. We closed the year winning 7 of our last 8 (and it could have easily been 11 out of 12 with close losses at Baylor and TCU. We hadn't been past the first weekend in 15 years, and Rodney got us to the Elite 8 (and some bad calls from making the Final Four). We also had two one and done NBA caliber recruits expected to sign. 100 out of 100 Athletic Directors would have given Rodney the job. He went out and earned it. That said, just about everyone I know expected his tenure to play out exactly as it has. We gave him a shot and with his tourney win last year, he delivered more than Shaka did in his six years with the program. But he is never going to be an elite coach. We will grind and struggle to make the tournament every year and occasionally put together a run. But we aren't a program that will be feared. We aren't ever going to be a top 5 team consistently. So for that, he has to go. The days of settling for mediocrity are over.
  8. Vinson played well at the start of the season. That’s another big. But if it was me I wouldn’t start any of them and go small with Kent and Kaluma. If this isn’t the best shooting team we have had, what is?
  9. The thing is, this looks like a poorly constructed roster because of how badly they have been coached. But it is actually a very solidly constructed roster. This might be the best shooting team ever at Texas. And we have great length on the perimeter. We have decent size down low. We have guys who CAN play defense, but they don’t. We have energy guys in Weaver and Kent. We have 3 guys who can score 30+ in Pope, Johnson and Kaluma. Mark probably can as well. But the sum is less than the parts. They don’t play team defense. Or really any defense at all. They are boring ISO ball on offense. They don’t know how to close out games. It is an injustice to have this much talent and be this shitty.
  10. Somebody up thread mentioned that we don’t have a point guard and referenced our poor assist numbers. Consider that both of our point guards are averaging well under their historical assists per game. Jordan Pope - 2024: 3.4, 2025: 1.8 Julian Larry - 2024: 4.8, 2025: 3.8 Our offensive system is garbage. I blame Frank Haith as much as Rodney. What a terrible hire that turned out to be.
  11. It is crazy, because we should have an elite perimeter defensive team. Tramon Mark was a key contributor in Houston's Final Four team and is supposed to be a lock down defender Tre Johnson was supposed to be a plus defender and definitely has the length and aggressiveness to do the job Julian Larry was 2x All-Defense at Indiana State Jayson Kent was All-Defense at Indiana State Weaver and Pope could also be good defenders as they have the necessary size and athleticism to lock people down It seems like the staff has not put a priority on holding this group accountable. A hard ass, hard nosed coach would have this group humming on the defensive side. They are constantly out of position and the defensive fundamentals as a whole seem to be missing. That is pure coaching as defensive lapses have to be checked immediately and consistently or the players, no matter how good they are, will not give their best effort on the defensive end.
  12. No. Something like a 33% chance.
  13. I don't mind the lack of rim protection nearly as much as the turnstile approach to perimeter defense that let's the opponent into the lane with ease.
  14. Updated conference probability distribution based on KenPom game odds: Only 25% chance we finish 6-12 or worse. If we assume a 7-11 record gives us a 50% chance of a tourney bid, and an 8-10 record is 100% a tourney bid, then our tourney chances right now are about 65%.
  15. Found this pic of Kadin Shedrick training in the offseason. Kind of sums it up.
  16. Arthur Kaluma Dillon Mitchell In the end it looks like we made the right call letting Dillon Mitchell go, as it probably helped us get Arthur Kaluma. Kaluma is better in just about every way.
  17. This is a much better roster than last year. But a worse product on the court. We definitely have the pieces to be good, but you can so clearly see how poorly they are coached. This should be a lock down defensive team.
  18. I guess I’ll take the win. But that was frustrating as hell.
  19. Oh look another dumb AF play
  20. Tre made that one but man it was a hard shot.
  21. Oh look another dumb AF play
  22. The team defense is just terrible. And then we take stupid shots. We have no idea how to close out an opponent. Remember under Beard when we would be up by 10 and it was basically game over. That was fun.
  23. As soft as Shedrick is, he plays even dumber.
  24. Also worth noting that Dillon Mitchel is averaging 26.5% from the line. Holy fook. Hunter's efficiency is also coming back down to earth.
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