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  1. of course he did. he set wildly new standards for fan attendance and give-a-shit, and he brought with him his standard for effort on the court at all times. before he got himself fired his team was playing like U of H defensively, just wildly aggressive and stifling defense with maximum effort. his first team here, while not as talented, also met that demanded level of effort, and in the process became greater than the sum of their parts. you being mad at him doesn’t change what he brought to this program.
  2. we’re missing a bunch of shots but i think we need to play fast like this more often. i love when we play at pace like this.
  3. the abmas play? no. that’s what they used to call a player control foul (not sure why they never say that anymore). he bowled him over like earl campbell. left his feet and bowed him in the chest with his forearm. doesn’t matter if abmas was sliding.
  4. the opening few possessions we’ve played within the offense but we’ve played fast and aggressive. it’s been a good start despite a couple of wvu blocks.
  5. that’s such an easy call, what is the coach so incensed about?
  6. what a start to the half. our guys are in the mood today. pun intended.
  7. nah seriously, i don’t remember the last time we played a half like that. i’m guessing somewhere between 2009-2011. that was an unbelievable half of highlight reel basketball.
  8. there is a standard at Texas that has been set by rick barnes and chris beard, and shaka smart and now rodney terry have proven themselves incapable of reaching that standard. at great programs little shit like that matters. plays like that don’t happen in winning programs. not in february, in the back half of conference play. and in the rare instance when they do happen, the HC pops a blood vessel in his forehead as he invites a player or two to have a seat on the bench. this team is talented, and beyond that, they seem to slowly but surely be jelling. they simply are being let down by their coaches. and i know that’s not breaking news, but that play right there just hit me in the chest. i thought we were better than that. lack of effort like that is just inexcusable. it’s a really bad sign. it’s a big reason this team is so mercurial. so yeah, i’ll issue a mea culpa on the way i expressed my anger, on the verbiage i used. i’m not out on this team. i will always support these players and root for them to win. that’s why you don’t see me trashing players like so many do in every single game thread. i support and root for the players. that play just really bothered me, and reinforced to me that our ceiling is lower than it should be. that’s upsetting and frustrating to me.
  9. hey by all means keep obsessing over this while our team puts on a highlight reel. you’re so not upset! lol
  10. the no.1 play on sports sportscenter tonight should just be our 1H highlight reel.
  11. a)i declared it before any of these highlight plays happened (the game was 4-2) and b)i absolutely stand by what i said. i am out on believing that this team will be anything but a disappointment. and it’s not the players’ fault. as i said, there are singular plays where a team shows you who they are, and that lack of effort and competency would never ever ever happen under beard, or barnes, or probably even tom goddamn penders. that type of pathetic effort and competency is why we lost to this shitty team already this year. i’m still going to watch the games and enjoy the wins, but i am done believing that this coaching staff is anything other than incompetent, and every team they coach will be completely hamstrung because of it.
  12. lol you’re so upset. you’re making my point for me.
  13. it’s hilarious how you melt down over my posts over and over and over like clockwork and then continue to convince yourself that it’s me who does that and not you. it would be sad if it wasn’t so funny. this is like an old BMW game right now.
  14. i’m bringing this over from the game thread. i’m done with this team. and i don’t blame the players at all. but this team isn’t going anywhere as long as this coaching staff is in charge. x/post- (on this play disu got a dunk, ended up out of bounds, screamed at his teammates to get back on D, then sprinted down the court, passing all of his teammates in the process, and ended up being the first guy back on defense, just in time to watch wvu get an easy dunk) there are singular plays where a team shows you crystal clear what their identity is, and this was one of those plays. how do you look at this photo and reconcile that dylan disu ended up passing up every single one of this teammates getting back on defense, not to mention that wvu got an easy dunk out of it. who gives a shit if he was actually with the photographers or a full three feet closer to the court? this complete lack of effort and competence from our team is bullshit. i’m out on this team. this coaching staff has undone every single bit of what their predecessors built. i cannot abide by that lack of effort. period.
  15. my brother in christ, there is ZERO excuse for disu to beat all of his teammates down the court from that position. there are singular plays where a team shows you crystal clear what their identity is, and this was one of those plays. how do you look at this photo and reconcile that dylan disu ended up passing up every single one of this teammates getting back on defense, not to mention that wvu got an easy dunk out of it. who gives a shit if he was actually with the photographers or a full three feet closer to the court? this complete lack of effort and competence from our team is bullshit. i’m out on this team. this coaching staff has undone every single bit of what their predecessors built. i cannot abide by that lack of effort. period.
  16. again, i don’t give a shit what the score is right now. that shit was unbelievable. to have a guy fly to the basket, dunk the ball, end up out of bounds with the photographers, have him look up and scream at his team to get back on defense, and then haul ass himself, passing all of his teammates as he flies down the court just in time to get a front row seat to a wide open wvu dunk…fuck. that. i haven’t been this pissed since shaka was here. we can win by 100 today and i will still be pissed. that is indefensible horseshit. that tells me everything i need to know about this team under RT. fuck this.
  17. so, disu gets a dunk, ends up out of bounds, and then somehow ends up running past his entire team and is the first one back on defense as wvu gets an easy dunk. that’s that shaka smart bullshit. it’s february. this is a veteran team. that shit is inexcusable. just fucking terrible.
  18. in my mind his downfall is linked to his almost dying in the ring. he hasn’t been the same fighter since then.
  19. big takeaway from the kenpom charts: cover your eyes when wvu has the ball.
  20. well despite this team being deemed unpredictable, i’ll try anyway, because this is how i see it: wins: wvu, osu losses: @ houston, @ ku, @ baylor, @ ttu questionable: ksu, ou the only one of those that i feel somewhat iffy about is calling baylor an automatic loss because their defense is garbage, but then i ask myself just how many more road wins we can expect in this league. for me the ou game and the k state are tough to predict, but for the rest of our schedule, i’d be very surprised if the results didn’t pan out the way i expect them to.
  21. this fucking shmuck paul reed…
  22. luka went off vs NYK, it was awesome. yeah, they were shorthanded, but he just took that as an excuse to totally dominate with an added level of flair. exhibit A:
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