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1 minute ago, Sheep Have Wool said:

Maybe learn to spell his name, then?

Whose name did I misspell? I honestly get names wrong all the time in embarrassing ways, but I don't think I did there, and neither one of those names are super easy.

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Refs and Vegas. 
 

there’s gotta be a way to make games swing our way 

 

What if an anonymous donor just puts like 100 million on Duke to win by more than 10 1/2 will that then make Vegas call the refs to make sure Texas loses by less than 10.5 or win outright ?

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5 minutes ago, Sheep Have Wool said:

 

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Oh man. Thanks for the correction. Yeah, I need to get that right. Like I said, I'm amazing at getting names wrong.

So I nail Vokietaitis and Traore, but screw up Swain. That's on me for sure. 

I was over here double and triple checking, too, lol. 

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1 minute ago, perfectchaos007 said:

15 point loss in the opener. I hope we're able to improve as the season progresses

Did you watch the game? This team is going to win plenty of games.

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3 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

yeah 15-20 point loss was expected.  we competed until about 10min left and the foul shooting and rebounding for duke got us.

We outrebounded them and were 5 short on made FTs (7 short on attempts) 

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Just now, Felix said:

Did you watch the game? This team is going to win plenty of games.

Only the 2nd half. I'm sure we'll win plenty of games, but I'm not sure if it will be good enough to make the tournament. I want to believe we'll improve, but I never know what to expect from Texas basketball.

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1 minute ago, UTexasFight said:

We outrebounded them and were 5 short on made FTs (7 short on attempts) 

they shut off our offensive rebounding in the 2nd half and made a a bunch of FT's in the second half.

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It’s barely November and I feel fully prepared for the Boozer suck fest the rest of the year.  That pussy fuck would be roadkill back in the ACC heyday

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34 minutes ago, Blotto said:

Not to mention the 2005 natl champs in baseball.

I thought about the other sports but I’d only include Cat in the confidence level. 

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Just now, MirrOlure said:

It’s barely November and I feel fully prepared for the Boozer suck fest the rest of the year.  That pussy fuck would be roadkill in the ACC heyday

he was so bad shooting tonight they had to talk about double digit rebounds for 3 GAMES IN A ROW!

it was always going to be a duke fellating fest.  Bilas + Dickie V love Duke and it was a defacto home game.

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3 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

This whole night is just bizarre/surreal.


Just 2.5 hours of felating espn personnel, vitale and Duke 

I mean, what else are they going to do during Football Season?

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5 minutes ago, Pancho said:

15 point loss to the #6 team in the country playing a defacto home game and we aren’t ranked and in the 1st year of a new system.

We were never winning this game. There are definitely some bright sides that I saw that look miles ahead of anything Rodney could have done. There are also tons of things to work on, and Miller tends to develop players as time goes.

 

 

Christ, I hate our fans most of the time

as rough as it was, it did seem we were running an actual offense most of the time.  was hard to get off clean 3's against them.

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15 point loss to the #6 team in the country playing a defacto home game and we aren’t ranked and in the 1st year of a new system.
We were never winning this game. There are definitely some bright sides that I saw that look miles ahead of anything Rodney could have done. There are also tons of things to work on, and Miller tends to develop players as time goes.
 
 
Christ, I hate our fans most of the time

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Yeah, we were never going to win this one. This might as well been called the Dick Vitale and Duke classic. They are just better, but Texas has some guys that will get better as the season goes on.

I had hoped we could be more up tempo and get some easy buckets in transition, but that didn't happen really. 

Defense would overplay and leave shooters wide open did remind me of last year as well as the high number of fouls. I think Duke was already shooting the one plus one by the 15 minute mark of the second half. This team needed some time to get it together, but got Duke as an opener. Now they get four games at home against stiffs before heading off to Hawaii. Should be able to work on things during the home stand.

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37 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Only the 2nd half. I'm sure we'll win plenty of games, but I'm not sure if it will be good enough to make the tournament. I want to believe we'll improve, but I never know what to expect from Texas basketball.

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Showed fight and unlike some previous and more talented Texas teams they didn't wilt like bitches against Duke on the road. 

Shooting has to improve. Swain can get going but we need more. Sucks that Codie and Weaver can't shoot at all. Makes it hard to play them together,  especially with Volk and Traore who also can't shoot. I see a lot of zone looks against this team coming up this season. 

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3 hours ago, Pancho said:

15 point loss to the #6 team in the country playing a defacto home game and we aren’t ranked and in the 1st year of a new system.

We were never winning this game. There are definitely some bright sides that I saw that look miles ahead of anything Rodney could have done. There are also tons of things to work on, and Miller tends to develop players as time goes.

 

I think game threads in general bring out the toxicity. 

I like what I saw. I didn't know what to expect, but whatever it was, this team exceeded it. Now we have a good baseline.

I knew there were going to be parts missing from this roster. I had doubts whether we had enough shooters. I had doubts about how much playmaking is on this team. I had doubts about how good we'd play defensively. And all those are question marks. But I do feel like we have the semblance of a legitimate tournament level frontcourt. I believe we have a legitimate stud for a swingman in Swain. And our backcourt has some length and effort. I wish we had more of true point guard, but as a friend of mine pointed out to me, "is that even a thing any more? Florida won the national championship last year with a game runner. Duke doesn't really have a true point guard this year." I just replied I'm old and I want what I want. 

There probably isn't a team on the schedule with as much length in the backcourt as Duke. We couldn't run transition because the guards had to help rebound defensively. I'm interested to see how the team evolves this year. It's about Miller creating an identity for this team, and establishing what he wants potential incoming players to see so he can upgrade the roster. This was the opening salvo, and as should be expected, mixed results were achieved. 

A little irritated by the coverage. I expected this on some level, but the fellating of Duke and Boozer exceeded my expectations. By a lot. 

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Posted
9 hours ago, Revolution512 said:

But you have to love how much tougher we play and how we attack the glass

Shooting 30% will give us lots of opportunities for rebounds.

16 turnovers with 6 assists will lose every game.

I'm not gonna panic yet but this team looked like they've never played together. It was the first game I watched and I went to sleep when we were up or close in 2H. Have to rewatch to see how we got blown out.

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1 hour ago, Slacks said:

Shooting 30% will give us lots of opportunities for rebounds.

16 turnovers with 6 assists will lose every game.

I'm not gonna panic yet but this team looked like they've never played together. It was the first game I watched and I went to sleep when we were up or close in 2H. Have to rewatch to see how we got blown out.

Texas really held their own for 35 minutes but the superior talent of Duke absolutely took over at the end.  As most people expected. And we won't face many teams with the perimeter defense of Duke - Scheyer is a really good defensive coach. 

You can tell this team hasn't had a chance to learn to play together and chemistry isn't there yet.  The goal is to continue to get better over the course of the non-conf and into SEC play.  

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i can see that most people are pleased with the performance, but i dunno. there were definitely things that looked better than rodney terry’s teams, but that’s a low bar. we can’t shoot and we have no facilitators. that’s the bottom line for me. this looks to me like the type of team that rick barnes used to field that everyone ended up hating so much: size, aggression, rebounding, but no shooting and no floor leader. i’m sure we’ll compete hard, and maybe win a couple of games we shouldn’t, but we will also have some bad losses, and some ugly wins. no shooters and no point guard is really bad combo in 2025.

 

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49 minutes ago, ClubWhatever said:

Career BTA

Heide 45%

Pope 37%

Weaver 35%

Mark 33%

Wilcher 32%

 

only one of those numbers would qualify that guy as a shooter, and that guy (heide) has a career average of 1.6 3pa per game. shooters look like:

aj abrams- 40% on 7 3pa/gm

jordan hamilton- 39% on 6.5 3pa/gm

boobie gibson- 39% on 6.5 3pa/gm

kd- 40% on 6 3pa/gm

 

here are some analogs for the other shooters listed based on 3p% and 3pa:

pope = sir’jabari rice

weaver = julian larry

mark = jase febres

wilcher = tre mitchell 

 

that’s pretty bleak, especially combined with the lack of a pg.

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13 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

This whole night is just bizarre/surreal.


Just 2.5 hours of felating espn personnel, vitale and Duke 

This--I don't watch a lot of college basketball but Bilas and whoever were just totally uninterested in calling the game.  

I get it's Duke, but Texas isn't fucking Samford.  

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if a blind person had the broadcast on they wouldn’t have even known that Texas was in the building. the entire broadcast was dedicated to all things duke. 

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