Texas women's basketball portal thread

[Travis Richard]

Made a bigger offer to try to keep Jordan 🤞 

[tmataya]

6 hours ago, HookemTexas said:

I don’t see for Crooks fits.  She’s offense and a massive liability on defense

There is absolutely no way Audi Crooks could play defense the way Vic demands. Even flashing from the post would be impossible for her. I don’t see her changing her body for a new coach so forget Crooks. 

[Califashorn75]

I hope it's good news that Preston and Lee haven't announced anything. 

[HookemTexas]

Certainly not as quick on the incoming as football was; but I guess it’s midweek and visitors would probably be closer to the weekend?

[Gerry Hamilton]

3 minutes ago, HookemTexas said:

Certainly not as quick on the incoming as football was; but I guess it’s midweek and visitors would probably be closer to the weekend?

It's a dead period through April 9. 

No basketball portal visitors until April 10

[HookemTexas]

1 hour ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

It's a dead period through April 9. 

No basketball portal visitors until April 10

Ah thanks Gerry.

[ChanmanV]

11 hours ago, Travis Richard said:

Made a bigger offer to try to keep Jordan 🤞 

They better do everything they can to keep her. She's vital to our success next year. She was underappreciated this year because of a little slump offensively midseason but her defense is a cornerstone of our team. If Vic and the staff can help elevate her confidence, I think she can be a superstar on both sides of the ball. She's a coach's dream too culture wise. 

Edited 28 minutes ago by ChanmanV

[dentonhorn]

22 hours ago, harveycmd said:

How serious Carlton is doesn't keep the whole thing from being drama. 

Still don’t get it but whatever. Just a discussion and it will have ups and downs to be so discussed, could be like a movie I guess but more just a discussion.

[ChanmanV]

Crooks is the epitome of what Vic doesn't want on defense. She has never hedged on the pick and roll (she barely leaves the paint on defense) and her feet are way too slow to recover on any play. She would get dominated by a lot of the athletic bigs in the SEC. 

She'll score her share though on offense. Word is she's going to OU which honestly is a perfect fit since they don't put much focus on defense there. 

[ChanmanV]

A silver lining to losing Crump and Carlton (if those 2 are the only real losses) is both did not have the speed and quickness to play the 40 mins of hell defense I know Vic wants to ideally run. The defensive drop off from sitting Lee/Booker is huge and unless Crump was making a lot of baskets which she only did in a handful of games. Carlton was better because she had experience in the system so she knew where to be but her lack of quickness caused most of the fouls she committed. There were games where Sidberry's quickness was much more effective and at the same time Carlton's strength worked in other games. So it was nice we had 3 options at PF depending on the matchup but each had weaknesses. So if we can find SG/PFs in the portal that match Vic's system a little better, it could be an improvement. 

Crittenden and Bjorn will be good fits once they get some games under their belt and I think Etute is equally as physical as Carlton but with quicker feet. 

Edited 14 minutes ago by ChanmanV