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  1. 22 minutes ago, HookEm said:

     

    He experiments with lineups and the team seems to get better as the year goes on.  Most of our players have developed pretty well, even if Hunter can be frustrating.  He isn't an egomaniac and seems like he respects and leverages his assistants (and they are all pretty solid).  

    -the team has regressed since RT put Horton back in the lineup and reduced Weaver's minutes.  

    The main problem we have had is consistency.  At times, the team looks like a Final Four caliber team.  -

    -Nonsense.  You are being fooled by the handful of times we hit the terrible 3s we are taking.  When the shots stop falling for the role players, the team crumbles (see Tech - lasted two halfs, and Baylor, Kansas KSt etc where we could only keep up the lucky shooting for a half.  We don't shoot well often.  We are also so poor at perimeter defense, in games where we shoot out of our minds (Baylor 1st half), we can't break away due to open 3s.

    The blowout win at Tech was extremely impressive in that environment.  The first half of Baylor and K-State were about as good as any Texas team has looked in 20 years. But then some adversity happens, like Disu getting hurt or getting in foul trouble, and the rest of the team fails to pick up the slack.  They are not mentally tough like some of the teams we have had in the past.  But on the flip side, pushing players to the breaking point constantly also has its risks, like the late season collapse by some Barnes teams.  Or the heavy attrition under Beard just about everywhere he goes.

    "Good" is relative anyway.  I think we can agree he hasn't been good enough.  -Average is the word you are looking for

  2. This team has two high level offensive players, the rest are unreliable at best, inept at worst. 
     

    Abmas looks bad some games because we can’t punish teams offensively for over playing him. He is successful in spite of the roster. 
     

    Disu is basically the same, and when he goes out Max is 5 on 1 offensively. 
     

    And RT fucked up putting Horton back in the starting 5. Our best chance for high level wins is to surround Disu and Max with our three best defenders and Brock. 

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  3. 2 hours ago, HookEm said:

    Kind of funny to go back and read this thread from early-April of last year.  The majority of the board had written us off before we had brought in a single player from the portal.  Projections of 5-25 and missing the tournament.

     

    I can agree, but if he doesn't win a game in the tournament are we really spiking the football for a .500 conference record and not missing the tournament?

  4. Desperate people charging the trucks could lead to a security nightmare and some bad decisions by the soldiers?

     

    A port could be easier to control/secure?

  5. 1 hour ago, HtownHorn said:

    What about his recruiting has you worried? He currently has the #9 HS class, pulled in a very good portal class, and convinced Disu, Mitchell, and Hunter to return for another season. Recruiting is the least thing I am worried about with Terry. We lost more talented players last season than we will this season, and will have a bigger group of program guys with multiple seasons returning as opposed to Anamewke and Cunningham as the only surefire guys returning from last year's roster.

    Gerry thinks Texas should move on from Hunter and Mitchell to try to bring in more guys with upside offensively from the portal.

    His roster build this year has been his biggest negative. If Tre Johnson is not outstanding next season, they may miss the tournament. 
     

    Beard built an elite 8 roster in two seasons. RT will be starting over from scratch in his year 2

  6. RT saved this season and will produce the minimum expectation by making the tournament. 
     

    That’s not going to get him fired in year one or two, but is not the expectation most fans have for the program moving forward (especially with the resources UT has). Most fans don’t see a foundation for much improvement next season with the expected personnel losses, but things can change quickly with the portal. Many fear we will be in the same position or worse next year, and nothing accomplished so far has changed that perception.

  7. On 2/18/2024 at 6:59 PM, GoPokes83 said:


    No clue about your fucked up aunt, but I joined the VFW when our local bar went tits up and the VFW canteen was the closest watering hole to my house.

    Do they have BINGO?

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  8. RT has had a nice turnaround from the start of the season to go from out of the tournament to not in the last 4 in. 
     

    Combined with last season, this is a solid start for RT at Texas. If he builds on this, the sky is the limit, if he repeats this the next two seasons, does he get an extension?

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