Texas at Vandy, women's hoops thread!

[Califashorn75]

Still a butt kicking. 86-70 Vandy. 

[TexasMDcoach]

Any word on Harmon sitting second half ? Just poor play?

Edited 12 hours ago by TexasMDcoach

[Califashorn75]

31 minutes ago, TexasMDcoach said:

Any word on Harmon sitting second half ? Just poor play?

She was playing horribly getting her butt kicked by Galvan. 

[Jordan91]

Love that they win but I am not a fan of the style of play. 

[ChanmanV]

I'm disappointed in that performance. I don't think Vic and the coaching staff did a good job preparing the team for the game. We made some adjustments at half to spread it out and go inside to success but starting the game we had bad matchups on defense. Putting Rory on Blakes and Lee on Galvan didn't make sense to be me and they took advantage. It would have been better to put Lee on Blakes and Rory on Galvan give then the size and quickness matching up much better. We stayed that way much longer than we should. Later Preston and Maddie guarding the 2 stars with Sidberry playing PF was better in the second half but the damage had already been done. 

Also the refs were vastly favoring Vandy. They had 3x the FT we had which was ridiculous. 

Blakes and Galvan are special players but we didn't play like Texas today. We never really recovered from their first punch out of the gate. The attention to detail on defense and the focus on offense was not there at all in the 1st half. Way too many open shots and missed bunnies which is very unlike us. 

Rory looked tired today. It's been a tough schedule the last 2 weeks so just chalk it up to a bad game. We can beat them in a rematch on a neutral site.

[LonghornFan4Ever]

Coach Schaefer and the women's basketball program are basically in the same spot that football is with Coach Sark and softball was with Coach White before he won it all last year.  They seem so close, but there's something that might be holding them back from reaching the top of the mountain.  Schaefer has a lot of talent coming in from high school and international recruiting over the next few years, so you would think he will get it done at some point.

It seems like he's open to recruiting players that can shoot the three at a good percentage, so that will help space the floor and allow his frontcourt more room to operate.  As for the remainder of this season, hopefully a loss like this a turning point that propels this team for another deep tourney run.  How this team responds in Knoxville on Sunday will tell us about the ceiling of this team this season.

[LonghornFan4Ever]

 

[ChanmanV]

3 hours ago, Califashorn75 said:

She was playing horribly getting her butt kicked by Galvan. 

She wasn't guarding Galvan outside of a few switches. It was Lee getting juked by her and Blakes owning Rory. Just weird we matched up like that. 

[ChanmanV]

4 hours ago, TexasMDcoach said:

Any word on Harmon sitting second half ? Just poor play?

She had a bad matchup and she didn't look like she had the normal Rory energy tonight. It's been a long 2 weeks of tough games so it might have caught up to her given how much she put into the other games. She'll be back with vengeance if we face them again.

[Gerry Hamilton]

6 hours ago, LonghornFan4Ever said:

 

Amazing ... love it! 

This is the NIL "team" battle many coaches face today IMO

[B2inATX]

Wow, Vic did not hold back in his post-game presser. Basically said the NIL money makes the players soft. 

[Califashorn75]

Oldacre missed a bunch of easy shots too. She needs to jump! 

[LonghornLegends]

3 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Amazing ... love it! 

This is the NIL "team" battle many coaches face today IMO

I'll say this, I LOVE all the ACCOUNTABILITY and LOVE VIC. Flood should watch this and see what that looks like lol. But seriously he is spitting FACTS, one of the reasons I hated NIL starting. Everything starts at give an inch and they take a mile, which now you have more divas in all college sports than ever before.

[HookemTexas]

This reminds me of a certain Texas baseball coach, just spitting facts and owning it, but you can tell he cares about the kids and representing the university and he's passionate.  Great coach.

[pinkman_90]

3 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

Amazing ... love it! 

This is the NIL "team" battle many coaches face today IMO

Meh that’s a cop out.  Toughness and heart probably didn’t crack the top 10 of reasons they lost.  Horrendous defensive gameplan was far and away #1.