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Pretty depressing loss. It's like we have a losing disease when we play big conference schools in both major sports. The coaching staff deserves plenty of responsibility for this loss.
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I live nearby and will be heading over there after dinner. Don't really know either team very well, other than our retturnees from last season. Time to get into basketball.
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Only ten beers?
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Didn't Bean run a 10.3 at State? I recall seeing some of that speed in his HS finale.
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Damn, the whole season I thought that Woolridge was a Sophomore and had more time to develop his game. Sure hope he sticks around regardless
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I like our schedule, and am optimistic about beating Berkeley. Some school in their conference pops up occasionally, but for the most part, I don't have much respect for their conference as far as big boys go. Hope to make that game.
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Naw. I've already shifted into MG hibernation mode for the next five months. Other than the spring game of course.
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You certainly can get away with a couple of major contributors around six feet or so, but it's still a big man's game unless you've got a bunch of Currys throwing up threes out there. Oh well, we had a nice early run, and we'll see if Grant can bring in what we need.
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We don't match up well with them. At least we probably don't have to worry about losing our coach. I think.
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And I was going to bet on LSU in The Dance. Dodged a bullet.
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7 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:
How in the world do they propose to pay for this plan? That is the question they all, Harris, Warren, AOC, Booker, etc..., avoid at all costs.
The only feasible way, would be to rob everyone down to at least the lowest level millionaires, and when that doesn't cover the bills, they would basically have to shutdown the military and close the criminal justice system. Of course the remaining balance would be paid for by simply printing money, or so says Ocasio.
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She says we'll all be dead in 11.9 years anyway, so there's really not much need to just worry about the children. We're supposedly all going down. 😢
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Biggest collapse that I can recall.
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4 hours ago, UNTLifer said:
Press the three point line and sag on Z. Simmons and you beat us. I love Woolridge but being a point with his size, he has to drive a draw contact. Zero FT’s from him is not good.
That, in a nutshell. Our opponents have us scouted out pretty well at this point of the season, and they're doing a good job of exploiting our weaknesses. No easy answers.
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9 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:
I really don't understand Rice. They have the funds to invest in athletics... they just don't. They don't necessarily need athletics to be their "front porch" since their academics are renowned, but they appear to be almost letting athletics rot on the vine.
This school was in the SWC!! Now, outside of baseball (and now women's b-ball?), they're a bottom-dwelling, also-ran in C-USA.
If they wanted to, they could build one of the nicest IPF's in the country. Instead... something is better than nothing, I suppose.A lot of it probably has to do with the fact that many of their old glory day boosters from the 50's and early 60's have passed on. The new power brokers don't quite have the enthusiasm that the older guys had of even keeping the program going. At least that's what I've been told by someone close to the program.
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Hard to win with probably two of our three most important players out. Get healthy.
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2 hours ago, BillySee58 said:
Two straight years we look bad offensively all season, never really get it together, and falter down the stretch once we start getting exposed and have almost no bench production. The season isn’t over, but Mccasland can’t hide the truth of this season behind our win total.
I get that Duffy is hurt (which we already knew he was injury prone), but in two years the only bench player who has brought consistent scoring is Gibson who has now been forced to start, leaving us with almost zero bench scoring. Why is that? Because we’re not deep. Why are we not deep? Because we have used a lot of scholarships on guys who give us nothing.
Wise and Mohamed are redshirting. Tikhonenko has played zero conference games in 2 seasons under scholarship. Alcindor came in with no scholarship offers and picked up more fouls than points this year, and Mccasland doesn’t even trust him with essentially no bench. Mccasland is showing that he sees Alcindor as unplayable.
So right there you’re down to just 9 scholarship players. Of those 9, one of them is spent on a former walk on who is a 5’10” shooter but is shooting barely over 20% from three in conference. Another is spent on a player in Duffy missing time for his fourth different injury in two seasons. Another is spent on a 6’4” forward (Jahmiah Simmons) whose shooting splits in conference play were 34.6%/0%/31.3% before he was injured. 0-7 from three and 5-16 from the free throw line on conference play.
That leaves six players. One of those is Tope Arikawe who has a -7 offensive box plus/minus, which is the second lowest only to walk on John Weger. Then lastly, we have Roosevelt Smart who seemingly hasn’t recovered from his preseason injury, and is almost single-handedly sinking us in these losses.
Smart is a combined 4-32 (12.5%!!!) in our last three losses. Our single-season school record holder for points in a season has a shooting percentage that looks like a pitcher’s batting average in these huge conference games. The truth is, he has been a bad basketball player this season and we don’t have any other options because of our lack of depth.
The good news is that if this is the worst that it gets, that’s not so bad. The problem is this is the second straight year, and we only have two scholarships left and we have quite a bit to replace in Miller and Duffy, plus we need to add some quality size. I really don’t think Mccasland can just stick with the status quo this offseason. He has to make some tough decisions, really make good use of the scholarships instead of spending it on guys who don’t play, and get the guys we have right (mainly Smart).
I don’t know how much can be done before the season is over but the offense can’t look this bad and our bench can’t still be this shallow next year.
Yes, there have been some great teams that have gotten by without much size, but when you have a team that regularly has four or five guards on the floor, when those guards are six "twoish" or less, things can get pretty difficult on both ends of the floor. Hopefully we can get healthy quickly and come up with some answers.
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1 hour ago, Philip Ferguson said:
How did the men's baseball team do tonight?
I think they're getting ready to start Little League.
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How many threes from Smart go in and out according to our radio guys? Seems like half.
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35 minutes ago, Wag Tag said:
Wooly is so special. In watching the OD game I found it interesting that the analysis of Wooly is if he could develop an outside shot he would have potential at the pro level. GMG
Yes, he is special, but as a PG he needs to bump his FT percentage up by 25% plus. He's good at attacking the bucket, and getting to the line and hitting should be a big part of his game.
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4 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:
Did I read the stats correctly? We a were 1-2 from the line for the entire game?
Yep. Didn't see it, but definitely something wrong there.
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4 minutes ago, RiseUNT said:
So we can't win conference?
Sure. We can still win the NCAA tourney too.😂
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Probably the nail in the coffin for any NIT hopes. Got to have a great February going into the USA tourney for a lot of reasons.
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1 hour ago, GangGreen said:
Okay....what if it was an albino squirrel?
A Roadrunner probably would have been acceptable.
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RIP Hayden Fry
in Mean Green Football
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He was friends with my parents and I met him a few times. Rip.