OTF Premium Three takeaways from Texas grinding out an 84-75 win over South Carolina

[Bevohorns]

Think swain comes back milers interview made it clear that swain can still improve more 

[harveycmd]

If you want big improvement next season, better hope for a point guard. Casual basketball fans understand the game about as much they understand thermonuclear dynamics. Like goobers talking about Luka as some kind of savior. Reminds me of one of my favorite film lines from Revenge. "They're no doubt expecting a common, reliable stud, which he ain't."

[Fan of the Game]

1 minute ago, harveycmd said:

If you want big improvement next season, better hope for a point guard. Casual basketball fans understand the game about as much they understand thermonuclear dynamics. Like goobers talking about Luka as some kind of savior. Reminds me of one of my favorite film lines from Revenge. "They're no doubt expecting a common, reliable stud, which he ain't."

We know who we are Harvey, just having fun talking about it. But, we do know enough to know that a good Point Guard changes lives. 🙂

[Bevohorns]

14 minutes ago, harveycmd said:

If you want big improvement next season, better hope for a point guard. Casual basketball fans understand the game about as much they understand thermonuclear dynamics. Like goobers talking about Luka as some kind of savior. Reminds me of one of my favorite film lines from Revenge. "They're no doubt expecting a common, reliable stud, which he ain't."

I have a feeling PG is the first think we are looking at in the portal 

[ChanmanV]

Jeff you've pretty much summarized how the team has consistently played in the SEC schedule and what we should expect the rest of the year. It's matchup dependent to an extent but this team lives and dies by Swain shooting efficiently and Mark not having an off night.  Matas will be in foul trouble (minus a bad game plan by the opponent not to attack him) every game and Pope will be invisible 50% of the time. We just got to hope that these hot nights by Pope or Heide pop up at the right times. 

That said, we look like we're tournament bound which is more than I could say a month ago which speaks to the job Miller has been doing of late. 

[Jordan91]

5 hours ago, MJW2327 said:

We need to stop letting the other team's best player go off - Meechie Johnson scored a career high 35 pts and was getting way too many and-1s at the rim. Reminiscent of the Miss St. game where Josh Hubbard went off for 38 points, the only difference being we lost that game (and Ja'Kobi Gillespie going off for 34 when we got destroyed @ TN). I think the issue of letting the other team's best player throw together a highlight film against us would have been harder to conceal had we lost that game but it needs fixing because it's become a pretty standard playbook for a team like SC to be competitive against us.

That’s the one thing I haven’t seen from Coach Miller. Make somebody else beat you. I am sure he has his reasons but I haven’t seen that yet. 

[Jordan91]

5 hours ago, Robbin Antono said:

If we can get Wicher, Matas, (ans Swain hopefully) back, we should be good for tournament next year.

Wilcher has looked better but he is not the shooter with length Texas needs, and he  is not a guard that can get downhill. Would be great coming off the bench. 

Edited Wednesday at 06:30 PM by Jordan91

[harveycmd]

If you want big improvement next season, better hope for a point guard. Casual basketball fans understand the game about as much they understand thermonuclear dynamics. Like goobers talking about Luka as some kind of savior. Reminds me of one of my favorite film lines from Revenge. "They're no doubt expecting a common, reliable stud, which he ain't."

[harveycmd]

7 hours ago, LonghornFan4Ever said:

They're 5-5 in SEC play now with 8 games to go.  Looking at their remaining schedule, I think a tourney bid (without having to participate in the play-in game) is a lock if they can win their next 3 games (Mississippi, @ Missouri, LSU) and they win at least one of their last 5 games.  Texas would finish the regular season 9-9 in SEC play if that scenario pans out.  A win at home against OU is the most likely of those last 5 games, but this team has shown they tend to play up and down to the competition, so I could see them getting an upset @ Georgia or @ A&M.  I don't see them beating a red hot UF team at the Moody or winning @ Arkansas, but you never know.  That's why they play the games.

I don't think you guys understand. Kobe told Mikey he was better. He was. I don't think you can get more than that. You tell MJ you're better than him. And you are. I don't know what to say other than "Amen, brother." Nash sucks. Dirk sucks more than anyone. 

[TexasTom]

12 hours ago, MJW2327 said:

We need to stop letting the other team's best player go off - Meechie Johnson scored a career high 35 pts and was getting way too many and-1s at the rim. Reminiscent of the Miss St. game where Josh Hubbard went off for 38 points, the only difference being we lost that game (and Ja'Kobi Gillespie going off for 34 when we got destroyed @ TN). I think the issue of letting the other team's best player throw together a highlight film against us would have been harder to conceal had we lost that game but it needs fixing because it's become a pretty standard playbook for a team like SC to be competitive against us.

You nailed it -- all three of those players have something in common.  We cannot defend a really quick, strong, mobile guard.  Well, maybe if we played Chendall Weaver the whole game.

[Jordan91]

3 hours ago, harveycmd said:

If you want big improvement next season, better hope for a point guard. Casual basketball fans understand the game about as much they understand thermonuclear dynamics. Like goobers talking about Luka as some kind of savior. Reminds me of one of my favorite film lines from Revenge. "They're no doubt expecting a common, reliable stud, which he ain't."

How did we get to the NBA on this thread? Basketball is constantly changing. Luka, Joker have virtually no athleticism at all. They have perfected the high release point. And even though basketball is constantly changing the only thing that remains the same is Kobe is not better than MJ and if he did say that he took it back. This was 2022. 
 

Kobe Bryant Claimed He’d Never Say He Was Better Than Michael Jordan

“I will never say I am better than Michael. In all honesty, he taught me so many things, by observation, and also through conversation,” Kobe said in an interview. “It’s a bit of an unbalanced comparison too, because when he came to Chicago, he was able to do things individually that I didn’t have the freedom to do, coming to Los Angeles. I came in playing a support role for Shaquille, which was very hard for my personality to do. That would be like asking Michael to do the same thing. Our careers tracked on different paths, but I would never ever say that, just because I learned so much from him.”

Edited Thursday at 03:40 AM by Jordan91

[harveycmd]

On 2/4/2026 at 9:39 PM, Jordan91 said:

How did we get to the NBA on this thread? Basketball is constantly changing. Luka, Joker have virtually no athleticism at all. They have perfected the high release point. And even though basketball is constantly changing the only thing that remains the same is Kobe is not better than MJ and if he did say that he took it back. This was 2022. 
 

Kobe Bryant Claimed He’d Never Say He Was Better Than Michael Jordan

“I will never say I am better than Michael. In all honesty, he taught me so many things, by observation, and also through conversation,” Kobe said in an interview. “It’s a bit of an unbalanced comparison too, because when he came to Chicago, he was able to do things individually that I didn’t have the freedom to do, coming to Los Angeles. I came in playing a support role for Shaquille, which was very hard for my personality to do. That would be like asking Michael to do the same thing. Our careers tracked on different paths, but I would never ever say that, just because I learned so much from him.”

True as far as it goes. Kobe never said publicly he was better than Michael. He almost certainly wasn't when you talk about the peak. Kobe did tell him he could kick his ass when he was 20 years old. I don't know of anything else similar. The thing is that there have been probably 40-50 players more physically gifted than Kobe as basketball players in the history of the world. There might be two or three that were actually better than him at his best. There weren't any who were tougher or worked harder. There weren't any more technically skilled.

Edited 1 hour ago by harveycmd