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  1. I thought Culver's success had a lot to do with Texas playing a lot with 4 guards. Texas has had success against two defensive teams and they have attacked the basket better than all season. It will be interesting to see what happens when a conference team packs the lane to prevent the drive. Osetkowski had his best game by far. Roach's body language off the ball on offense does not look good, but that was a hell of a tip-in.
  2. If Smart and Texas were deceptive about Roach being sick, the question of "why" deserves an answer. Roach has been sat for other non-disclosed behavioral issues, why go the sick route for the P game? What benefit does Shaka get from putting out this deception? Why not just say Roach is sitting for undisclosed reasons due to behavior?
  3. This sounds like a Penders move. Oh wait, did Shaka call/text the player at night too? I understand your thought process, but a new coach dealing with new players can be construed a number of ways. If your examples are all from that season, then it is hard for me to believe that there is a pattern here. But in the end the argument is irrelevant to me, all coaches play mind games and/or use motivation tactics. The relevance is that whatever Shaka is using is not working. I'm in the camp that he definitely has to go.
  4. To me there is no bigger factor for Shaka's ineffectiveness than Coleman. Coleman was the guard that he coveted and coached in world championship. He was the guy who was supposed to have an inherent understanding of the game that Shaka wanted. He has looked like shit all year. And this leaves testament to the theory stated earlier that Shaka doesn't know what he wants. And if that's the case he's got to go.
  5. Attending the game is much worse as the full level of ineptitude is so broadly apparent. DO aggressively backs down the defender then timidly takes the shot to open the game. WTF. Providence easily traps the stupid weave in the first half and there is no adjustment by Texas in the second half. Since the weave doesn't work then it's just one on one shit basketball. Watch Providence and there is a pick in the lane and Hayes can't defend the easy 10 foot jump shot. Texas was as bad on defense this game as they were on offense. Providence had a high number of unforced turnovers to keep Texas in the game. Even the floor slaps were discordant. Fans blaming the refs and not the coaches. Texas basketball is Koyaanisqatsi. Highlight of the night for me was shaking TJ Ford's hand. Ballers from SW Houston.
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    Shoes

    A band that deserves more than what it got.
  7. How little respect is there for Texas basketball? Driving down from Dallas, I listen to the wrap up of the Lake Travis playoff game and then twelve minutes of commercials on 104.9 before they break away to the basketball game. First thing I heard was that Roach was being subbed in, no idea of how many minutes into the game. Nothing says we don't give a shit about you when the flagship station runs commercials instead of the game.
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    Playlist help

    Started working from home and trying not to be a hermit started attending a circuit class. The music played is 80's new wave and dance. It's paint by numbers, so I want to give the teacher a cd of some good music that won't offend the other participants. Here is what I've got so far in no particular order. Rock Lobster - B52s Pata Pata 2000 - Miriam Makeba We Don't Need That Fascist Groove Thang - Heaven 17 Soulful Strut - Young Holt Unlimited El Watusi - Ray Baretto Town Called Malice - Jam Superman - Kinks This is Radio Clash - Clash The Passenger - Iggy Pop Atomic - Blondie Death on Two Legs - Queen Sugar on my Tongue - Talking Heads Funny How Time Slips Away - Al Green/Lyle Lovett Juarez - Flaco Jiminez Sexy Coffee Pot - Tony Alvon & The Bel Airs Rocks Off - Rolling Stones Last Night - Mar-Keys Don't wanna bump with no big fat woman - Joe Tex
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    Pete Shelley

  10. Have to say kudos to the coaching staff for trying something different with the dribble hand offs on the perimeter. Not sure how effective it was, but it did make Purdue move on defense. I wish the all of the guards played as hard as Ramey does. He created a extra ball possession by working hard and creating a turnover. Too many times Texas just ball watches and the other team gets what should be a 50/50 ball. I see DO and Febres do it repeatedly. Hepa needs to give a class on how to feed the post as he is the only one who does it adequately. Coleman and Roach played better this game, but why did it take so long to double team Edwards. That's a coaching faux-pas. Don't care about starters, but do like seeing finishers when it's Hepa with 23 and DO 17; and Hayes with 26 and Sims with 14. Good win. Radford and VCU have given the blueprint in defending Texas. We complain about all the three point shots, but any decent coach is going to pack the lane and make Texas beat them from outside. I think Texas needs to press and run. Their half court offense is not good enough and no consistent outside shooting it's too easy to defend. Press and run and play 11 players. Add in Hamm and Liddell to the regular nine playing and go.
  11. The complete lack of confidence by Roach and Osetkowski was startling. Box score only shows 3 TO's by DO, but someone must have hedged the numbers, because he had four in a row in a key stretch of the game. When it's the two seniors who are the better players on the team and have no confidence, then you've got to look in the coach's direction. Sims, Hayes and Coleman did ok last night, but VCU got offensive rebounds every time that Sims and Hayes went for a block. I like the way Hepa on offense is always in attack stance, but he needs to improve his footspeed on defense and coaches need to line him up on someone who is as slow as he is. Ramey had such confidence in his shot and game at the beginning of the year and against decent defensive teams like Arkansas. I wonder if the coaching staff has coached that out of him. Will have to see if he has bounce-back games. What this team needs is someone with the character of TJ Ford who will tell the coaches to back off. Shaka should be gone at the end of the year, but buyouts may keep him on the floor.
  12. Is that because DO will be gone?
  13. What a horrible coaching job last night. The lack of communication between players and players and coaches was shocking. New strategy to fix this team is to get DO and Sims in foul trouble early, so Hepa and Hayes (the guys with basketball IQ) play more minutes. Ramey should already move Febres to spot minutes. I'll give Coleman a pass from last night, but him being foul friendly was very similar to last year. Long will help there to close out games. Lineup should be Coleman, Ramey, Roach, Hepa and Hayes. Use DO, Sims, Long, Febres as backups. No more 39 minutes for DO. No more 5 minutes for Hepa. No more standing around the perimeter watching guys get trapped. Play the 5 smartest players and damn the consequences. If Shaka runs off Hepa for lack of playing time, then he needs to be fired immediately.
  14. The team needs to run, because their half court offense is largely ineffective. Too many times DO popped when he should have rolled. Player has to read what the defense is doing and EIU was playing the pop. They did do a decent job of moving the ball around for three pointers. The addition of Long and Ramey will help Coleman. I like the possibilities of guys catching the ball and attacking. Coleman did that with a nice assist. And I especially liked that DO wasn't trying to initiate offense on the perimeter. Will get a better microscope when they play Arkansas and with Roach back.
  15. I'm not looking for any team tendencies tonight, but want to see what type of players the new faces are and see what growth there is from the old faces.
  16. Any news on the aggie scrimmage?
  17. Any details on closed scrimmage loss to LSU? 67-62 score with LSU down by 4 at half per LSU boards. And no Roach correct.
  18. I tend to think of songs standing on its own ground, but this one kicks me in the gut and reminds me of the movie. " frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>
  19. So the disappearance of the 6-8 Germans while spending time in a foreign country is not going to raise any questions from their relatives? And they are not going to involve the German government to find out what happened to their boys?
  20. I agree that I’d rather have Coleman as leader but they showed those timeouts in crucial moments last year with DO talking to the team like he was a coach or captain.
  21. So the question on the table was whether he is fat and lazy. Losing 20 lbs may not counter the first part but does the second part in my opinion.
  22. Are you talking full, 3/4 or half? Who protects the rim when there is a breakdown? I agree at times and depending on the opponent. On offense, I'd like to see solid picks and effective rolls and not the half-hearted crap from last year. This goes for off the ball screens too. Do this and we'll have better spacing. We should have better ball security with three point guards, but that's never been a point of emphasis with Shaka. The key will be the last three minutes of the game and can we score when the game gets ugly. Better FT shooting will go a long way here and some effective bigs may sit out. Hepa could be instrumental here if he is an effective FT shooter. Use the nonconference to get better and build a rhythm because conference teams will have scouted all the weaknesses and tendencies and Texas better be ready.
  23. And thanks to all who sent the updates.
  24. Damn CT for an over the rainbow fan you sure did take a shit on DO. If reports are true that he did lose 20 pounds in the offseason, maybe he's gained some maturity and discipline while losing the lbs. I didn't like what I saw of his basketball IQ last season, but maybe he can learn not to bite on every fake and learn to play positional defensive. Regardless of the criticisms, he did average 13 and 7 last year. I think his range is only about 18 feet and he shouldn't take threes unless he has worked on his range. Having lost lbs at least makes him not fat and if he's worked on his game then that would make him not lazy.
  25. Juliet Naked - Would have been better if Linklater directed it. Has Linklater directed a Hornby novel, before? Margin Call - watched to commemorate the ten year anniversary of the recession and this is still a great movie. Standouts all, but especially Irons. Loved that he picked up the lion doll when talking to Moore.
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